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Nation relieved for now after Trumpcare goes down in flames
July 28, 2017Millions will sleep better tonight, having won a reprieve from the relentless Republican drive to ram through Trumpcare.
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Bipartisan group of lawmakers protests pay cuts for federal workers
July 28, 2017A bipartisan group of ten representatives are protesting proposed pay cuts for federal workers.
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Sanctuary cities, Justice Department in big confrontation
July 27, 2017The nation's "sanctuary cities," plus the states of California and Connecticut, are in a big confrontation with the GOP Trump administration's Justice Department over the fate of the 11 million undocumented people in the U.S.
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Trump’s Foxconn Wisconsin jobs deal doesn’t hold up under scrutiny
July 27, 2017Republican leaders have been priming and pumping the possibility of a serious jobs coup for months.
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The tortured politics behind the Persian Gulf crisis
July 27, 2017The splintering of the powerful Gulf Cooperation Council into warring camps has less to do with disagreements over foreign policy and religion than with internal political and economic developments in the Middle East.
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