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Russian passenger plane crashes near Moscow; 71 feared dead

By Maria Kiselyova and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian passenger plane crashed near Moscow after take-off on Sunday and the Kremlin said all 71 people on board were feared dead. It was not immediately clear what had caused …

Kentucky Rushes to Remake Medicaid as Other States Prepare to Follow

The state will require many people to work, volunteer or train for a job to qualify for coverage — and to prove it with frequent documentation.…

Black History Month: Loiza—the African heart of Puerto Rico and the arts that portray it

One of the areas of Puerto Rico struggling to survive after the devastation of back-to-back Hurricanes Irma and Mara is the town of Loiza, known as a center of Afro-Puerto Rican history, music, dance, and culture. 

When Irma and Maria …

California cops collaborated with knife-wielding neo-Nazi to go after stabbed antifa protesters

California Highway Patrol officers collaborated with armed neo-Nazis to investigate a violent 2016 clash outside the state capitol in Sacramento between members of the white supremacist Traditionalist Workers Party and the leftist group Anti-Fascism Action, the Guardian reported Friday.…

Trump Declares Schiff Memo That Fox News Told Him About Too Political

Trump, who has never read the Schiff memo, but had people in his White House and Fox News tell him about it, declared it too political for release. Trump tweeted: The Democrats sent a very political and long response memo …

Administration Imposes Sweeping Limits on Federal Actions Against Companies

Consumer advocates say the policy change will crimp enforcement of crucial protections, but defense lawyers contend it gives them a powerful tool to fend off claims of wrongdoing against their clients.…

Documents reveal California law enforcement working with neo-Nazis against anti-fascist groups

In 2016, violence broke out between anti-fascist protestors and neo-Nazis at a Sacramento, California neo-Nazi rally. Ten people were injured, five of them stabbed.

Demonstrators battled with sticks, protest signs and other weapons as the Traditionalist Worker Party group – …

Cliven Bundy has set his sights on a new target

For the first time in nearly two years, Cliven Bundy is a free man.

In January, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro ruled that the 71-year-old scion of the Bundy family — best known for leading an armed 2014 standoff with

Semi-Literate Trump Complains That Democratic Response Memo Is Too Long

The Democrats should send their memo back to the president with a lot of bullet points and flashy graphics if they want him to read it and approve its release. 

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Liberals Wanted Fiscal Stimulus. Conservatives Delivered It.

Left-leaning economists hate the timing and the composition. But the expansionary fiscal policy they sought is on the way.…