NY Times: Politics
- Google Restricts Huawei’s Access to Android After Trump Order
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 10:25 AMThe move could hamstring the Chinese tech giant if it prevents the firm’s customers from getting the latest versions of services such as Maps and Gmail.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kamala Harris Announces Plan to Close the Gender Pay Gap
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 06:00 AMMs. Harris would force companies with 100 or more employees to show they were paying men and women equally for analogous work, penalizing those that didn’t.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Politics: Trump and Kushner Raised Flags at Deutsche Bank
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 01:41 AMAnti-money-laundering specialists proposed filing “suspicious activity reports” about transactions connected to the president and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump to Open Middle East Peace Drive With Economic Conference
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 02:32 PMThe White House announced on Sunday that it would hold an “economic workshop” in Bahrain on June 25 and 26, the first stage of President Trump’s peace plan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 16-Year-Olds Want a Vote. Fifty Years Ago, So Did 18-Year-Olds.
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 11:26 AMIn 1969, three college students in New Jersey built a network of 10,000 volunteers to lower the voting age. Now, campaigns are sprouting up again.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Robert Mnuchin Would Rather Not Discuss His Client (or His Son)
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 09:36 AMThe treasury secretary’s father, a New York art dealer, paid a record price last week for a work by a living artist. But for whom?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Abortion Fight or Strong Economy? For G.O.P., Cultural Issues Undercut 2020 Message
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 05:00 AMThe longstanding verity that Americans vote with their pocketbook may be tested in the presidential election like never before, as Trump injects cultural and identity issues into the race.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Breaking With Party, G.O.P. Lawmaker Says Trump’s Conduct Reaches ‘Threshold of Impeachment’
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 07:18 PMRepresentative Justin Amash, known as a contrarian, accused the president of engaging in “impeachable conduct.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden Delivers Call for National Unity at Philadelphia Rally
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 03:12 PMMr. Biden trained his eye squarely on the general election as he cast the contest against Mr. Trump as a struggle to maintain American democracy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Politics: The Biggest Stories of the Week
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 01:54 AMIt’s been a busy week in American politics. Here are some of the stories you might have missed.
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- Google Restricts Huawei’s Access to Android After Trump Order
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 08:08 AMThe move could hamstring the Chinese tech giant if it prevents the firm’s customers from getting the latest versions of services such as Maps and Gmail.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - There’s No Boom in Youngstown, but Blue-Collar Workers Are Sticking With Trump
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 05:00 AMThe recovery, which has brought low unemployment and rising wages elsewhere, hasn’t really lifted industrial northeast Ohio. But President Trump has lost little of his support there.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mediator: Social Media Pollution, a Huge Problem in the Last Election, Could Be Worse in 2020
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 07:05 PMAs a candidate, Donald Trump promoted a mystery Twitter account that falsely portrayed a protester as an ISIS terrorist. Nothing stops him from doing it again.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - R.N.C. Accepts Money From Steve Wynn, Mogul Accused of Sexual Misconduct
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 02:35 PMThe billionaire former casino mogul recently gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee, and was spotted at a Trump re-election fund-raiser.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Harry Reid Remembers One Impeachment and Ponders a Second
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 10:00 AMIn an interview, the longtime Democratic leader of the Senate discussed President Trump, his party’s primary and its lack of congressional candidates.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump’s New Favorite Venue: the Rose Garden
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 05:00 AMThe White House Rose Garden has become one of President Trump’s favorite spots for public events, whether it’s making policy announcements or welcoming world leaders.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Voting Is Ending in India. Here’s What’s to Expect.
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 03:05 AMThe world’s biggest election will determine whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi stays in power. Here’s how it happened, and what comes next.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Warns That Rising Border Crossings May Require an Extra $1.4 Billion
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 04:44 PMIn a letter to Congress, the administration said the flow of unaccompanied children at the border has exceeded projections of just weeks ago and may require more money for housing and care.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fact-Checking Joe Biden on the Campaign Trail
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 05:00 AMSince announcing his candidacy, he has defended his decades-long record on criminal justice and climate change, rejected assertions he is a moderate and gone after President Trump. Here’s how his claims stack up.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Administration Flying Migrants Out of Texas to Ease Overcrowding at Border
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 09:00 PMThe Department of Homeland Security has begun flying recent border-crossers and asylum seekers to California in a program that may expand to coastal areas and the Canadian border.
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- Google Restricts Huawei’s Access to Android After Trump Order
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 08:08 AMThe move could hamstring the Chinese tech giant if it prevents the firm’s customers from getting the latest versions of services such as Maps and Gmail.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - E.P.A. Could Make Thousands of Pollution Deaths Vanish by Changing Its Math
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 05:00 AMThe Environmental Protection Agency plans to adopt a new method for projecting the future health risks of air pollution that experts have said is not scientifically sound.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - White House Memo: Trump and the Four-Letter Presidency
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 07:53 PMAt rallies and in interviews, on Twitter and in formal speeches, he relishes the bad-boy language of a shock jock, just one more way of provoking the political establishment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Calls Representative Justin Amash a ‘Loser’ Over Impeachment Talk
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 12:47 PMMr. Amash, a Michigan Republican, found no other members of Congress from his party joining him after he said the president’s behavior met the “threshold for impeachment.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 12:01 PMAnti-money laundering specialists proposed filing “suspicious activity reports” about transactions connected to President Trump and his son-in-law. Bank managers said no.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - President Trump’s Rose Garden Strategy
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 05:00 AMMr. Trump has embraced the Rose Garden as a setting for public events — a literal interpretation of a time-tested strategy for incumbents seeking re-election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As Thousands of Taxi Drivers Were Trapped in Loans, Top Officials Counted the Money
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 03:00 AMThe government profited and looked away as thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in New York were ravaged by exploitative loans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Conservative Group Wants to Bring ‘Brass Knuckles’ Approach to Judicial Fray
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 04:01 PMThe group will be led by a former Senate and White House aide who was a central figure in the confirmations of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What Does It Really Mean to Be 6 Weeks Pregnant?
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 08:26 AMSo-called ‘heartbeat’ legislation restricting abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy has started a conversation about when most women actually learn that they’re pregnant.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Unita Blackwell, 68, Dies; Rights Crusader and Winner of Historic Election
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 07:35 PMA sharecropper’s daughter, she joined the voter-registration fight before becoming the first black woman elected a mayor in Mississippi.
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