Senate Dems Throw Down Gauntlet for Trump and GOP With Plan to Rebuild America

    With a $1 trillion infrastructure plan unveiled Tuesday, Senate Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are offering President Donald Trump an opportunity to make good on a major campaign promise—without giving away billions to private corporations in the process.   The sweeping proposal (pdf), which proponents claim would create 15 million jobs, focuses on repairing the…

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      'We Agree On So Many Things': Despite Human Rights Abuses, Trump Heaps Praise on Egypt's Al-Sisi

      President Donald Trump is meeting Monday with Egyptian President General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi—who’s overseen a “brutal human rights crackdown”—with the U.S. president telling the autocrat: “You have a great friend and ally in the United States and in me.” Trump’s warm reception for Sisi follows chumminess between the two even before the real estate mogul…

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        Eric Cantor: Moore ‘deserves to lose’

        Former House Majority Leader Eric CantorEric Ivan CantorTrump taps pollster to push back on surveys showing Biden with double-digit lead Bottom Line The Democrats’ strategy conundrum: a ‘movement’ or a coalition? MORE (R-Va.) said on Tuesday that he’s bothered by the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) decision to its reinstate support for GOP Senate candidate and…

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          Trump: ‘Republicans want to fix DACA far more than the Democrats do’

          President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE claimed Saturday that Republican lawmakers are far more eager to address protections for young immigrants than Democrats, accusing them of…

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          Belgium’s spy problem

          Click:cnc machine training Spies flock to Belgium like bees to a honeypot — not least because there’s a low risk of jail time. With 127 diplomatic postings, Brussels hosts the most diplomatic missions in the world, according to the Global Diplomacy Index of the Lowy Institute. The presence of the EU institutions and NATO headquarters…

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