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Opinion | Michael A. Cohen Omar’s comments activated a long-standing anti-Jewish stereotype: that Diaspora Jews use money to exercise influence and political power.

Opinion | Michael A. Cohen Omar’s comments activated a long-standing anti-Jewish stereotype: that Diaspora Jews use money to exercise influence and political power.

Opinion | Michael A. Cohen Omar’s comments activated a long-standing anti-Jewish stereotype: that Diaspora Jews use money to exercise influence and political power.

Speaker ask for $8.6 billion in the fiscal 2020 budget to fund a wall along the southern border was a non-starter. "President Trump hurt millions of Americans and caused widespread chaos when he recklessly shut down the government to try to get his expensive and ineffective wall, which he promised would be paid for by Mexico," the Democratic leaders said in a statement. "Congress refused to fund his wall and he was forced to admit defeat and reopen the government.

Most of the Democratic presidential candidates are working to distance themselves from socialism, a label that could divide the party.  Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D), Sen. MORE (D-Md.), who are each vying for the Democratic nomination, this weekend embraced capitalism and said they are not democratic socialists.  In doing so, they followed in the footsteps of several other Democratic candidates, including Sen.

The Trump administration — which canceled two large-scale spring war games between the United States and South Korea in an effort to move along nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea — is now grappling with reports that Pyongyang is preparing to launch a missile soon. The reports follow MORE and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's failure to reach an agreement at their summit last month.

MORE intends to request $8.6 billion for his long-promised wall along the border with Mexico when he submits his 2020 congressional budget on Monday, likely igniting another funding standoff with Congress. A senior administration official confirmed the figure, which is expected to be used to build or replace roughly 700 miles of barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Reuters reported early Sunday that

Democrats will make MORE's 2017 tax law a major campaign issue next year, but there is little consensus within the party about what their alternative should look like or if they should even offer one. There’s strong evidence that Democrats won the messaging war over Trump’s tax law in the run-up to last year’s midterm elections, when they argued its provisions disproportionately benefited the wealthy. But with Democratic senators and representatives putting forth proposals that would dramatically increase taxes on the wealthy, Republic

It’s also a recipe for voter fraud. Republicans in the House correctly derided it as a “voter fraud and election theft” bill. But that understates how bad it is. H.R. 1 rolls out the red carpet for election fraud. This is true in multiple respects. A few of the most outrageous provisions in the bill are the following: All of that would be in vain if the H.R. 1 were to become law.

Joe Biden’s team announced this week that they hired the former head of the Latino Victory Fund (LVF), which ran a controversial ad during the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election portraying a white Donald Trump and Ed Gillespie supporter attempting to run down minority children.