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WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is proposing deep cuts in U.S. diplomatic and foreign-aid funding while dramatically increasing defense expenditures, a bid to fundamentally shift the emphasis of U.S. foreign policy that has sparked fierce criticism from lawmakers and international-affairs experts. The White House has proposed a spending cut of 37% to the State Department and U.S….
ght-wing radio host Alex Jones is America’s top conspiracy theorist. He has millions of listeners, but his most powerful one happens to be the president of the United States. DER SPIEGEL takes you inside his media empire in Austin. Matthew Mahon / DER SPIEGEL It’s almost 11 a.m., with three minutes to go before his…
Turns out Black History took more than a month? Ashley Nicole Black investigates. Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Wednesdays at 10:30/ 9:30c on TBS! Show more Show less Source: We’re Still Not There: A Practical Guide to Resistance | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube
President Trump on Thursday signed legislation ending a key Obama administration coal mining rule. The bill quashes the Office of Surface Mining’s Stream Protection Rule, a regulation to protect waterways from coal mining waste that officials finalized in December. The legislation is the second Trump has signed into law ending an Obama-era environmental regulation. On Tuesday, he signed…
Did you know that handsome people can be bad, too? We’ve got just the Paul Ryan to prove it. Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Wednesdays at 10:30/ 9:30c on TBS! Show more Show less Source: Paul Ryan: Portrait in Courage | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube
Congress is making good on their promise to drain the swamp, and the forests, and the wetlands. The House, predictably, passed H.J. 69 and the fight goes to the Senate now, so keep calling your congresspeople. For more info: http://bit.ly/2kxN8Ez Hi, everyone. 0:00 I’m Samantha Bee. 0:02 Welcome to “Full Frontal.” 0:04 We are…
With everything that Republicans want to do — repeal Obamacare, overhaul the tax code — it might seem odd that one of Congress’ very first acts would be to kill an obscure Obama-era regulation that restricts coal companies from dumping mining waste into streams and waterways. But that is indeed what’s going on. In early…
‘Increased error rates’ is the new ‘outage’, according to Bezos’ bit-barn bods Don’t panic … AWS CEO Andy Jassy 28 Feb 2017 at 18:30, Shaun Nichols Amazon Web Services is scrambling to recover from a cockup at its facility in Virginia, US, that is causing its S3 cloud storage to fail. The internet giant has yet…
Last week, the American left rejoiced when the career of alt-right Shitgibbon-In-Chief Milo Yiannopoulos collapsed in on itself like a dying star. It provided a flood of feel-good headlines at a time when we really needed them. The Blaze USA Today USA Today The Washington Post And unlike NaziPunchGate, this story is one we can…
Riot Games has the right to issue Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices for any League of Legends footage that appears without their permission online. But thus far, Riot’s been relatively hesitant to do so. This week, one YouTuber in particular has seen some League of Legends videos go up on the chopping block, and Riot Games has yet…