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Late last week, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) deadlocked on whether to pursue an investigation into potential Russian financing of the National Rifle Association (NRA). The split 2-2 vote fell along partisan lines, with the FEC’s two Republicans voting against any further inquiry into whether Alexander Torshin, a sanctioned Russian official, and Maria Butina, a convicted Russian agent, grew close to the NRA in order to help direct the group’s 2016 political donations.
FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub castigated her Republican colleagues in an open letter, issued immediately after the vote.
The rate of farm bankruptcies is increasing all over the country.
As Trump digs in his heels on his ongoing trade war with China, farm bankruptcies continue to pile up, according to data compiled by the Farm Bureau and Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action).
Farm bankruptcies across the country have increased by 13% from June 2018 to June 2019, according to the Farm Bureau. Those dates roughly correspond with Trump’s ongoing trade war with China, which began in March 2018 when Trump announced tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods.
The two countries have escalated the trade war since then, with China repeatedly targeting U.S. farm products in retaliation for Trump’s increasing tariffs. In the most recent escalation, Trump threatenedan additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods starting Sept. 1, and China responded by refusing to purchase any U.S. agricultural products.
At a 2016 campaign stop in Iowa, Trump vowed he would “negotiate trade deals to help our farmers, help them export their goods, and make […]
The comments were the latest turn in a controversy that erupted when Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were barred from an Israel trip.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat is guilty of ignorance or “great disloyalty,” intensifying his efforts to drive in a partisan wedge over religion and support for Israel even as he appeared to draw on an anti-Semitic trope.
Mr. Trump did not go into specifics about what he considered to be Jews’ disloyalty, but his language is reminiscent of the anti-Semitic smear that Jews have a “dual loyalty” and are more devoted to Israel than they are to their own countries.
Mr. Trump’s comments were the latest turn in a controversy over religion and politics that erupted last week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, at the president’s urging, barred an official visit to Israel by the first two Muslim women in Congress, Representatives […]
Chinese missiles on display
HONG KONG — The US military is no longer the primary force in Asia, and missiles from China’s rapidly improving military could overwhelm its bases in hours, according to a new report.
Activists take part in a campaign to ban killer robots during an action in Berlin, Germany, on March 21, 2019.
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Human rights advocates renewed their call for a preemptive ban on so-called “killer robots” on Monday as they accused the United States of being among a small number of countries working to halt progress on an international treaty to address the numerous concerns the weapons raise.
The accusation came a day before representatives from dozens of countries gather in Geneva to meet on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, also known as the Inhumane Weapons Convention.
The convention, according to the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, has yet to produce a treaty with teeth. Such a document would effectively ban lethal autonomous weapons systems, as they’re formally known, by requiring “meaningful human control over the use of force.”
“Lives will be taken based on algorithms” without that kind of safeguard, the campaign said in a tweet on Sunday.
The U.S. isn’t the only nation being singled out for being an […]
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