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Watch Out. Tax Season Is Even More Stressful Than Usual.
With millions of people filing tax returns under a new tax law and after a long government shutdown, this is a challenging year. We offer survival tips and extensive coverage. Via the New York Times...
News Analysis: Presidents Have Declared Dozens of Emergencies, but None Like Trump’s
In invoking emergency powers for an end run around Congress in building his border wall, President Trump violated a norm of presidential self-restraint. Via the New York Times...
Donald Smith, Who Produced ‘The Silent Scream,’ Dies at 94
His controversial anti-abortion documentary, professing to show a fetus expressing pain, became a formidable weapon for abortion opponents. Via the New York Times...
Supreme Court will decide census citizenship question
The Supreme Court will decide by the end of June whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a quick schedule so questionnaires can be printed...
FactChecking Trump’s National Emergency Remarks
In declaring a national emergency at the Southwest border, President Donald Trump strung together a long list of false, misleading and unsupported claims on illegal immigration, drug smuggling, human trafficking, trade deficits and other issues.
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Anti-Muslim Myth Gets A New Twist
Congress didn't "quietly" repeal a law barring Muslims from serving in public office, as social media posts allege. No such law existed in the first place.
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Fact-checking Trump’s announcement of a national emergency
The president's rambling news conference was replete with false and misleading claims--- Analysis from the Washington Post's Fact Checker...
The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Anything to Declare?
California Governor Gavin Newsom said the state will sue President Donald Trump for declaring a national emergency over the border wall.--- Analysis from the Atlantic...
Kirstjen Nielsen is coming to Congress. Democrats can grill her on Trump’s ‘national emergency’ lies.
Trump just declared a national emergency based on falsehoods, but as look would have it, the Homeland Security secretary is coming to Capitol Hill.--- Opinion from the Washington Post's The Plum Line...
Trump announces ‘national emergency’ in bizarre White House appearance
In a rambling, bizarre appearance on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump made an unfocused stream-of-consciousness case for an immigration emergency while also musing at length about a variety of related and unrelated topics.
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Fact Check: Trump’s Rationale for a National Emergency Is Based on False or Misleading Claims
To justify redirecting federal funds to a wall, the president made a litany of assertions about crime, drugs and other issues on the southern border. Nearly all were misleading, exaggerated or false. Via the New York Times...
Trump’s wall words will be used against him
If there were a hall of fame of legal self-owns, there would be a spot of honor for a line Friday from President Donald Trump as he announced that he would...
No One Hates the Immigration Plan More Than Trump’s Base
The immigration strategy President Trump is now pursuing—signing a wall-free spending bill to keep the government open, then trying to build the wall by declaring a national emergency—is remarkable for many reasons, but perhpas most of...
Trump rests national emergency declaration on border ‘invasion.’ Here are the facts
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in order to move forward with his campaign promise of building a border wall with Mexico. Trump didn’t lay out specifics about the declaration during a news conference at the White House. He said he anticipates legal challenges to...
