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During Friday’s press briefing, White House spokesman Josh Earnest addressed the Obama administration’s directive telling public schools to allow transgender students access to bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.
Earnest said that the directive was a product of a formal request issued by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (…
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Donald Trump said in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Friday that his tax rate is “none of your business.”
“It’s none of your business,” he said. “You’ll see it when I release. But I fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible.”
In an interview published Wednesday, he told The Associated Press that he would not release them until an ongoing audit is…
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Ivanka Trump praised her father during a Forbes magazine summit for women in New York on Thursday, saying that she believes Donald Trump has “elevated” political discussion with his honesty.
“He’s honest,” she said. “With him, what you see is what you get – even if you don’t like the topic. I think people respect the fact that he is bold enough. That is something we have…
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In a Friday interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Donald Trump shied away from the debate surrounding whether transgender people should be allowed to use restrooms corresponding to their gender identity.
"I believe it should be states' rights and I think the states should make the decision,” said the presumptive GOP nominee. “They're more capable of making the…
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The Tax Foundation released a report on marijuana legalization and taxes on Thursday, finding that marijuana tax collections in Colorado and Washington far exceeded initial estimates.
Based on that data and sources of additional revenue that could come into play if marijuana is legalized nationally, the Tax Foundation predicts that “a mature marijuana industry could…
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Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued a joint statement on Thursday calling their highly-anticipated meeting “a very positive step toward unification.”
"While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground," said Trump and Ryan. "We will be having additional discussions, but remain…
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We can’t make this stuff up, folks.
There’s now a dating website that helps Americans heading north because of their dislike for Donald Trump find their Canadian soul mate.
“Ever since Donald Trump announced he would run for the Republican Party leadership, Americans have been googling ‘how to move to Canada,’” the Canadian news website CBC writes. “Now, there's a new…
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The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic last year was ruled incompetent to stand trial on Wednesday.
“Colorado 4th Judicial District Judge Gilbert Martinez has deemed accused Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear incompetent to stand trial, court spokesman Rob McCallum said,” reports CNN.
The criminal case against the…
Rates of adult obesity are on the rise across the United States, according to a new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being study based on data gathered from 2008 to 2015.
The national obesity rate reached a new high of 28% in 2015, a statistical spike from 25.5% in 2008.
While rates remain lowest in the West (24.6%), obesity in each region across the country – including the Northeast (26.2%), South (…
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In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) shot down any possibility of being Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick.
Rubio noted that no one on the Trump campaign has approached him to discuss running for Vice President - and that Trump would be "best served by picking someone" who is "enthusiastic" about what he stands for.
"My…
