Friday 22 September 2017

Politics: Roy Moore disrupts U.S. Senate race in Alabama — and prepares for new level of defiance in Washington

 
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Roy Moore disrupts U.S. Senate race in Alabama — and prepares for new level of defiance in Washington
The former state chief justice, who was removed from office twice, believes God's law comes first.
Trump imposes new sanctions on North Korea; Kim says he will 'tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire'
Kim Jong Un on Thursday reacted angrily to Trump's remarks and actions this week, calling the president a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" and Trump's earlier speech at the U.N. "unprecedented rude nonsense."
 
Nikki Haley said 'everyone' at the U.N. was talking about Burma. Everyone but Trump.
The president has yet to publicly address the ethnic violence in the Southeast Asian nation.
 
 
Nikki Haley emerges as interpreter — and megaphone — for Trump
U.N. ambassador's star rises within the White House as Rex Tillerson continues to struggle at State.
 
Administration unlikely to brief senators on Iran deal until after certification decision
If Trump decides Iran is not in compliance, Congress has only 60 days to decide on sanctions.
 
Sanders and Klobuchar book CNN debate with Cassidy and Graham
It's an arrangement that surprised some of Sanders's Democratic colleagues.
 
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Cassidy-Graham bill provision would exempt Alaska, Montana from a cap on Medicaid spending
As GOP leaders urgently sought the support of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the bill's language has come under fresh scrutiny.
 
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Tens of millions of Americans could lose Obamacare tax credits because thousands of Alaskans won't
A reported plan to win one vote could mean an oddly balanced system.
 
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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sure sounds like a 2020 presidential candidate
In an interview in Washington, Schultz said he wasn't talking about politics. But he was.
 
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No moderator, no problem? We're about to find out in an Alabama Senate debate.
When Sen. Luther Strange and challenger Roy Moore meet in Montgomery, there will be no journalist to pose questions or play referee.
 
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Every contact between Trump's team and Russian actors, graphed
There were more than a dozen contacts over the course of the campaign.
 
 
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A fifth of Americans still think that gay relations should be illegal
It wasn't just Roy Moore in 2005.
 
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All about 'regular order' and why it could make or break Republicans' Obamacare repeal
A couple of senators have suggested that they would base their votes on a return to regular order. But what does that term even mean?
 
 
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