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Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onMarch 20, 2019
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At Massport, one of the largest quasi-public agencies — which is best known for running Logan Airport — about 600 workers made $100,000 or more last year.   Opinion | Brianna Wu My industry cannot thrive without competition, but that pressure is disappearing.   President Trump targeted Kellyanne Conway’s husband on Twitter on Tuesday after the attorney repeatedly questioned the president’s mental health.  A court in New York on Tuesday released the documents used by authorities to justify FBI raids in April 2018 on locations associated with President Trump’s former personal lawyer.

Trump renews call to pull arts, PBS funding | TheHill

posted onMarch 19, 2019
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2020 budget proposal calls for eliminating popular programs such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund stations such as PBS and NPR, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Trump had proposed eliminating the programs in his last two budgets as well, suggestions Congress ignored. The 2020 request, which was released in its entirety Monday, calls for scrapping $435 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $126 million from the NEA, leaving both with a few million dollars to manage an orderly shutdown. The overall budget will spend $4.7 trillion

Nunes sues Twitter, users for more than $250M | TheHill

posted onMarch 19, 2019
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Rep. MORE (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee and its former chairman, is suing Twitter and a number of its users for more than $250 million. The lawsuit filed Monday alleges the social media giant censored conservative voices by "shadow-banning" them, which Nunes says potentially impacted the 2018 midterm election results.

Exclusive — President Trump on His Supporters: ‘They’re Smarter and They’re Tougher and They Work Their Asses Off’

posted onMarch 19, 2019
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“They’re smarter and they’re tougher and they work their asses off,” Trump said about his base in response to a question from Senior Breitbart News White House Correspondent Charlie Spiering during an Oval Office interview. “And that’s what came out; they came out of the valleys and the rivers, and they came all over the place. Honestly, you remember. Nobody knew they existed. They’re the real people.

Food Stamp Usage Falls to 37 Million for First Time Since October 2009

posted onMarch 19, 2019
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The most recent USDA data revealed that 37,911,631 people received food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in December 2018, marking the lowest level of overall participation in the nation’s food stamp program in nearly ten years. The last time overall participation in food stamps reached this level was in October 2009, when 37,672,818 people were on the government dole, according to USDA data. Overall food stamp participation had consistently declined since 2013, when the Oba

Hawkins: 'Weapons of War' Were Civilian Guns When 2nd Amend. Ratified

posted onMarch 19, 2019
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This is an important point for many reasons, not the least of which is the decades long contention that AR-15s and other commonly owned semiautomatic firearms are excluded from Second Amendment protections because the left has labeled them “weapons of war.” Suffice it to say, they are not “weapons of war.” Rather, they are semiautomatic rifles that fire one round with each pull of the trigger. On the hand, an M-16 and M4 are designed for warfare and each is equipped with a select fire switch that allows the gun to shoot in full-auto mode.

Donald Trump to General Motors: Close a Plant in China, Not Ohio

posted onMarch 19, 2019
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“Get that big, beautiful plant in Ohio open now,” Trump said. “Close a plant in China or Mexico, where you invested so heavily pre-Trump, but not in the U.S.A. Bring jobs home!” The president also expressed frustration that “talks” between General Motors and the United Auto Workers Union would begin in September or October. “Why wait, start them now!” he wrote. “I want jobs to stay in the U.S.A.