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BISMARCK, N.D. — Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump unveiled an "America first" energy plan he said would unleash unfettered production of oil, coal, natural gas and other energy sources to push the United States toward energy independence. But the speech, delivered at the annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in ...
Lin-Manuel Miranda says even as politics traffics in "anti-immigrant rhetoric," there is a musical "reminding us that a broke orphan immigrant from the West Indies built our financial system."
... and applause from the audience at the historically black college in the nation's capital. Obama then said "that's a different discussion for another speech." The 54-year-old president tells graduates that most of them were just starting high school when he was first elected to the White ...
COSTA MESA, Calif. — Raucous protesters and supporters of Donald Trump violently confronted each other in California leading to some 20 arrests as the Republican presidential contender brought his campaign to conservative Orange County after sweeping the Northeast GOP primaries.
about that. There was very little in the speech about Chinese assertiveness in East Asia. And I think, Judy, the thing that bothered me the most about this speech, the lack of humility. Donald Trump castigated 35 years of American foreign policy. That includes George H.W. Bush. It includes ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a New Jersey police officer who was demoted after his boss mistakenly believed he was involved in a political campaign can still bring a lawsuit alleging a violation of free speech rights. The 6-2 ruling said Jeffrey Heffernan could file a First ...
For Caroline Temmermand, who spent 2.5 years doing speech therapy at George Washington University’s transgender voice clinic, changing her voice was a question of personal comfort. “After [my family] found out I was transgender, and I started presenting as the person I am, I wanted them to feel ...
... including a major address to the Cuban people. John Yang reports. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I believe in the Cuban people. JOHN YANG: In the final speech of his historic visit, President Obama laid out a future of possibilities, but no guarantees. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I have come here to bury ...
... for his strong belief in freedom of expression for all Cubans. Here are a few times Maldonado has challenged Cuba on the issue of free speech: 1. Painted graffiti on public walls in Havana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7zOxH1-iYw Some of Maldonado's earliest projects began with ...
Video by PBS NewsHour WASHINGTON — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is focusing on Iran as he delivers a highly-anticipated foreign policy speech in Washington. Trump tells a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee: "Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism around the world." Trump has been ...
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