By Maegan Vazquez, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), a former GOP presidential nominee who later criticized fellow Republican Donald Trump, delivered his farewell address on the Senate floor Wednesday, stressing the importance of bipartisanship and promising to be “a voice of unity and virtue” after he leaves Washington. “There are […]
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The emerging Trump fealty caucus of the GOP
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 It seems unlikely that President-elect Donald Trump’s various Cabinet picks will be confirmed via recess appointments or without FBI background checks. Both are ideas that Trump and his team have floated to avoid the meddlesome problems involved in actually winning the votes they need – even as […]
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The emerging Trump fealty caucus of the GOP
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 It seems unlikely that President-elect Donald Trump’s various Cabinet picks will be confirmed via recess appointments or without FBI background checks. Both are ideas that Trump and his team have floated to avoid the meddlesome problems involved in actually winning the votes they need – even as […]
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Democrats strongly opposed a Hunter Biden pardon. Now, they back it.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden isn’t the only one to pull a shocking and sudden reversal on pardoning his son Hunter Biden. So too, it seems, has the Democratic base. As the dust settles on a pardon that the president and his White House repeatedly assured would not happen, […]
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Democrats strongly opposed a Hunter Biden pardon. Now, they back it.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden isn’t the only one to pull a shocking and sudden reversal on pardoning his son Hunter Biden. So too, it seems, has the Democratic base. As the dust settles on a pardon that the president and his White House repeatedly assured would not happen, […]
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It’s not just Kash Patel. Many Trump picks have suggested retribution.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Matt Gaetz’s recent withdrawal as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general represented a significant early setback for Trump’s nascent effort to wreck shop in American government – and possibly seek his promised retribution against his political foes and the “enemy within.” But the Florida Republican […]
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It’s not just Kash Patel. Many Trump picks have suggested retribution.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Matt Gaetz’s recent withdrawal as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general represented a significant early setback for Trump’s nascent effort to wreck shop in American government – and possibly seek his promised retribution against his political foes and the “enemy within.” But the Florida Republican […]
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NATO chief urged Trump to see Ukraine aid as ‘a good deal’ for U.S.
By Michael Birnbaum, Ellen Francis, The Washington Post · (c) 2024 BRUSSELS – Seeking to frame robust support for Ukraine as “a good deal” that might appeal to President-elect Donald Trump, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Tuesday said any potential peace deal with Russia should not give U.S. adversaries reason to celebrate, as he outlined […]
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NATO chief urged Trump to see Ukraine aid as ‘a good deal’ for U.S.
By Michael Birnbaum, Ellen Francis, The Washington Post · (c) 2024 BRUSSELS – Seeking to frame robust support for Ukraine as “a good deal” that might appeal to President-elect Donald Trump, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Tuesday said any potential peace deal with Russia should not give U.S. adversaries reason to celebrate, as he outlined […]
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ABQ gets more rental scooter options
Albuquerque residents will soon have more rental scooter options. The city’s Planning Department announced in a news release that rental scooter company Lime will bring 500 bright green scooters and begin installing 52 stations throughout the city this week. Rental scooters made a comeback in September when another rental scooter company, Spin, installed its bright […]