Month: March 2018

GLOUSTER, Ohio — At first, the experiment didn’t have a name. Right after the election, Erik Hagerman decided he’d take a break from reading about the hoopla of politics. Donald Trump’s victory shook him. Badly. And so Mr. Hagerman developed his own eccentric experiment, one that was part silent protest, part coping mechanism, part extreme self-care plan. He swore that he would avoid learning about anything that happened to America after Nov. 8, 2016. “It was draconian and complete,”…

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That means balancing the concerns of the two sectors so that neither steelworkers nor farmers get a raw deal, he said. Continue reading the main story Navigating among competing domestic and global interests is complicated, though. Two weeks after the administration imposed a tariff on solar panels, China opened an anti-dumping investigation into American exports of sorghum, a grain used in livestock feed. The United States was virtually China’s sole foreign source of sorghum last year, with $1 billion…

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“I would say the political fundamentals which he learned on the streets of Boston, he was still applying in the streets of Michigan for Hillary Clinton in 2016,” said Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, a close friend who was advised by Mr. Campion. “Chuck’s philosophy was that the message should be direct, simple and to the heart of the issue.” Mr. Campion came up in Massachusetts politics as a member of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis’s administration from…

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Noticeably absent in AT&T’s filing was an earlier argument it had made: that the government singled out the company’s deal because of presidential politics. President Trump was a vocal critic of the deal during his presidential campaign, and while in office, he has consistently blamed CNN, a channel owned by Turner and part of Time Warner’s television business, for unfair coverage of his administration. AT&T originally argued to the court that the Justice Department’s suit was a case of…

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Natalie Lewandowski wipes a tear from her eye as she looks at pictures of her sister, Alicia. “Oh, I love this one. It was a tattoo she got that said ‘live the life you love and love the live you live’,” adding it’s a mantra the 25-year-old lived by. “She was so beautiful not just on the outside but on the inside.” Story continues below READ MORE: Toronto man charged in fatal shooting of girlfriend remanded into custody, case…

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U.S. prosecutors want a Canadian who plotted terrorist attacks in New York City for the so-called Islamic State to serve a life sentence due to the “depravity and extraordinary seriousness” of his crimes. A report filed in U.S. district court on Friday ahead of Abdulrahman El-Bahnasawy’s sentencing said a harsh prison term was needed to deter others from plotting attacks against the United States. Story continues below “He worked over the course of months with high-level, Syria-based ISIS members…

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