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POTUS: GOP Senators Look Like "Fools" After Skinny Repeal Failure
In his latest tweetstorm, Trump called for the end of the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes, saying it is "very outdated". This is due to the vote happening under "Reconciliation", which is used to pass through matters of the budget with expediency, as it precludes the use of the filibuster and allows for only 20 hours worth of debate. [Full Article...]
Trump tells Republicans to get back on United States healthcare bill
While some conservative pundits attacked their failure to repeal the health care law this spring, scant protests rose up from the right to counter the thousands of Affordable Care Act supporters who appealed to lawmakers for months to maintain much of the law. [Full Article...]
Kerala governor summons CM Pinarayi Vijayan, DGP
Asking Pinarayi to take stringent action against the culprits behind the murder, Singh told him that political violence was unacceptable in a democracy. Sathasivam quoted Pinarayi as saying that law-breakers would be dealt with sternly and that he would meet both state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Kummanam Rajasekharan and the state RSS chief and make a public appeal for peace. [Full Article...]
Came to Bengaluru to save democracy and ourselves: Gujarat Congress MLAs
Irrespective of whether there is any substance to these charges or not, one does wonder about the origin of these practices, or is it Congress' argument that horse-trading is a new political stratagem that has come to fore only after 2014? Hitting back at the BJP, the Congress leader further said , "When there was flood in Banaskantha, my MLAs were there with people but no BJP minister, leader ... [Full Article...]
Israel's Shin Bet investigating embassy guard shootings in Jordan
A Jordanian government official has said the Israeli ambassador and embassy staff would not be allowed back into the country unless Israel took legal action in the case. In the interim, angry Jordanians are calling on King Abdullah II to cancel the 1994 peace agreement with Israel. The Shin Bet will investigate the shooting of two Jordanian civilians by an embassy guard in what an initial invest... [Full Article...]
Police Chiefs Defend 'Respect' After Trump Appears To Endorse Brutality
The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest union of police officers in the country that supported Trump during his campaign, also defended his mindless comments, claiming it was all in humor and suggested the president of the country should not be taken seriously. [Full Article...]
Party democracy, ideology important for progress, says Amit Shah
A sizeable chunk of them voted for the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha election and then again in 2017 UP polls. BJP chief Amit Shah's lunch on Sunday at a booth-level worker who belongs to the Other Backward Castes (OBC) group in Lucknow effectively conveyed the party's continued focus on politically dominant OBCs. [Full Article...]
Ex-Navy doc vows free surgery for transgender military patients
On the left it's 83/8 (!), which is even more lopsided than the Democratic split on gay marriage . And the more that we can do to care for them so that their minds and bodies and spirits are whole and healthy, the stronger our military will be. [Full Article...]