Women’s March Returns To DC, Other Cities

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Women’s March returned to Washington on Saturday and found itself coping with an ideological split and an abbreviated route due to the government shutdown. The original march in 2017, the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, drew hundreds of thousands of people. The exact size of the turnout remains subject to a politically charged debate, but it’s generally regarded as the largest Washington protest since the Vietnam era. Organizer this year submitted a perm...
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Trump, Pelosi feud heats up again

WASHINGTON (AP) — She imperiled his State of the Union address. He denied her a plane to visit troops abroad. The shutdown battle between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is playing out as a surreal game of constitutional brinkmanship, with both flexing their political powers from opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue as […]
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Chef José Andrés will serve free meals daily to furloughed federal workers in Washington

José Andrés' team will open a kitchen and café Wednesday on Pennsylvania Avenue between the US Capitol and the White House to serve free hot meals to federal workers with valid ID.
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Free food for furloughed workers

Chef Jose Andres — a Spanish-American who popularized the tapas concept in America — is no stranger to feeding those in need. He led a team of volunteers that served millions of meals to hungry Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria, and with the current partial government shutdown stretching into its fourth week, the philanthropic chef is at it again. Andres announced he would serve free sandwiches for lunch to furloughed federal employees in each of his Washington, DC, restaurants during the s...
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'We want our pay!' furloughed U.S. workers shout at White House

"Stop the shutdown!" protesters shouted in the bitter cold at the union-organized demonstration that started at the AFL-CIO headquarters and ended in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where they hoisted signs reading "Trump: End the Shutdown" and "Not a strike - we want to work." Some 800,000 federal government employees have been ordered to stay home or work without pay during the shutdown brought on by a standoff between Trump and Democrats in Congress over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to...
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New Year, New Farm Bill: BIO Celebrates Legislation’s Role in Strengthening America’s Bio-based Economy

By Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President; Head, Industrial & Environmental Section, Biotechnology Innovation Organization Special to The Digest As we move closer to celebrating the end of 2018, Congress has given those working in America’s bio-based and agricultural sectors a reason to celebrate early. The 2018 Farm Bill has passed both chambers of Congress, with overwhelming bipartisan support, and is now set to be delivered to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, so it can be signed into law. The roa...
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President Bush and the tricky politics of death

They came to praise and bury Caesar. Well, not exactly Caesar, but for a few years, like Caesar, the most powerful man in the world. George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, is dead and now buried in the soil of his adopted home state of Texas. A political man was given a political funeral, no big surprise. When a musician dies there’s music. A comic’s last rights includes some laughs. So, inevitably, there were politics underscoring Poppa Bush’s funeral. But 41’s sen...
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Trump uses eight-vehicle motorcade to travel 250 yards to greet George W. Bush

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump traversed a wide political chasm Tuesday evening when he personally welcomed George W. Bush, his occasional foil, to Blair House, the presidential guest quarters across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. But the actual distance was just 250 yards – a route Trump and his wife Melania traveled in the […]
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Trump Tries To Block Discovery In Emoluments Case

The Justice Department is trying to prevent state attorneys general from beginning the discovery process against President Donald Trump in one of the pending emoluments lawsuits against him. In a late Nov. 30 filing in the case, DOJ attorneys told a federal court in Maryland that discovery in the case should not proceed until appeals in the case can be heard. U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte had previously declined Trump’s request to dismiss the case and had declined to allow Trump to appea...
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Friends Or Foes? Or Both? Inside The Complex Pelosi-Trump Relationship

WASHINGTON (AP) — They haven’t spoken in days, not since President Donald Trump called to congratulate Nancy Pelosi on Democrats’ election night win. But they don’t really need to. Trump and Pelosi go way back, from the time she first showed up at Trump Tower fundraising for the Democrats long before he would become president or she the House speaker. Two big-name heirs to big-city honchos — Trump and Pelosi each had fathers who were political power players in their home towns — they’ve rubbed e...
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National “Right To Carry” For Self-Defense Needs Your Help – Take Action

Opinion National “Right To Carry” A Handgun For Self-Defense Needs Your Help New York – -(AmmoLand.com)- The Arbalest Quarrel recently published an article, Attention All Law Abiding Gun Owners: National Concealed Handgun Reciprocity is in Jeopardy.” And, this wasn’t the first time we wrote specifically on this critical subject. In February 2018, almost ten months ago, we posted an article discussing 115 H.R. 38, “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.” The article is titled, “It’s Time ...
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Time to put a bullet in the bullet train fiasco

Gov. Jerry Brown’s insane train is still chugging along at a million dollars a minute, soon to become Gov. Gavin Newsom’s crazy train with a new revised price tag $11 billion higher than the last astronomical price estimate published in February. As in 9 months ago. Million, billion, trillion, gazillion, who cares, right? Guys like me are forever bellyaching about deficits, government borrowing and spending and predicting the end of the world, yet, somehow, we stumble from one fiscal year to the...
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This Week: Threat Of A New Indictment Hangs Over White House

With the midterm elections firmly in the rearview, the prospect of an indictment from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is again hanging over the White House. President Trump is reportedly lashing out behind closed doors — and, also, in full view of the entire world. In Thursday’s master class in projection, Trump tweeted that the investigation is “a total mess,” run by “screaming and shouting” people who are “highly conflicted.” Trump falsely said that Mueller, a George W. Bush appointee, “...
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Democrats retake House. Next move: Trump's tax returns

This photo via Donald J. Trump's Twitter account is the closest we've gotten to seeing his tax returns.  That could change, though, now that the House flipped to Democratic control in the midterm election. Even before it was official that Democrats had wrested House control from the GOP in yesterday's midterm elections, Donald J. Trump's taxes were once again a target. Votes were still being counted and, on the West Coast cast, when some on the House tax-writing committee announced that t...
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11 Political TV Shows That Thankfully Aren't Real

Intrigue! Pantsuits! Devilry behind closed doors! The occasional dose of Latin philosophizing! Politics as TV fodder is a tale as old as the late-20th century. Beginning in the '30s with Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Hollywood enjoyed skewering that powerful force on the other side of the country. The stories were all vaguely similar: An idealistic fellow (often a man) would venture to Washington, D.C., only to find himself corrupted by the promise of sweet, sweet power. There was All the King'...
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Weekly Primer: Docs Show Trump Ordered Gov’t To Keep FBI Building Near His Hotel

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson may have inadvertently spilled the beans on the White House’s attempt to help Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke avoid accountability for rule-breaking. On Friday, Carson sent a “fond farewell” email to department staff announcing that Trump administration political appointee Suzanne Israel Tufts — who in her role at HUD replaced the whistleblower who called out Carson’s since-cancelled $31,000 furniture order — would now take over as the Depar...
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Trump Intervened In FBI HQ Project To Protect His Hotel, Democrats Allege

President Trump has been personally involved with the future of the FBI's Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters building, and Democrats say it's an abuse of power to help his hotel up the street. (Image credit: Cliff Owen/AP)
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Dems Want Answers On Trump’s Meddling In FBI Building Plans, A Block From His Hotel

Congressional Democrats are demanding answers about President Donald Trump’s personal intervention to prevent the FBI from re-locating away from its current Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters — therefore preventing a potential wave of commercial development a block away from Trump International Hotel. “New documents provided to the Oversight Committee show that President Trump and top White House officials intervened directly to reverse the long-term plan to relocate the FBI headquarters and pr...
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Trump Closely Involved In Blocking FBI’s Move Out Of Washington, Emails Show

Opening up the FBI's Pennsylvania Avenue location for redevelopment would have created competition for a Trump hotel.
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Nation Park Service on the verge of blocking most White House protests: comments due by MONDAY!

Monday is the end of the comment period for a sweeping National Park Service proposal that will have a dramatic effect on the ability of Americans to protest in sight of their government. Under the proposed new rules, protests around the White House and the National Mall would require permits, protestors would be barred from the sidewalk north of the White House. The proposal also seeks public comment on charging protesters fees for permits to gather. You can and should comment. Here is wh...
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Ivanka Trump Is Back On Brett Kavanaugh's Team After Telling Her Dad To Drop Him

First daughter and special adviser to the president Ivanka Trump is back making convenience moves advising her father behind-the-scenes, this time on what to do about the sexual misconduct allegations against his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.It was just a few weeks ago that Ivanka told her father to "cut bait" and let the embattled nominee loose. But ever the flip-flopper, and with the midterm elections breathing down Republicans' necks, the first daughter is now #TeamKavanaugh.Vanit...
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Officials identify apparent wrong-way driver in fatal crash on the 210 Freeway in La Canada Flintridge

Investigators have identified two people — including the apparent wrong-way driver — who died at the scene of a collision between an SUV and a sedan on a freeway before 2 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9 in La Canada Flintridge. Authorities received multiple reports of a vehicle moving eastbound in the westbound lanes of the 210 freeway at Pennsylvania Avenue at about 1:46 a.m., according to a news release from the California Highway Patrol. Minutes later, the vehicle crashed head-on into another vehicle...
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Kim Kardashian West Met Ivanka Trump To Discuss Criminal Justice Reform

Kim Kardashian West returned to the White Hous e Wednesday to talk about sentencing reform and a clemency case with several Trump administration officials, including Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.Earlier this summer, Kardashian West successfully lobbied President Donald Trump for the sentence commutation of Alice Marie Johnson. Johnson, a 63-year-old grandmother from Tennessee, was sentenced to life in prison for a first-time drug offense.She went back to the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for a lis...
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Troubled Newseum Loses Yet Another Top Exec

“Scott Williams is leaving the struggling Newseum after six years — including the past six months as the journalism museum’s president — to lead the Discovery Park of America in Union City, Tenn. Williams is the latest of a string of senior executives to depart the struggling institution that last August began exploring the sale of its Pennsylvania Avenue building or closing entirely.”
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White nationalists drowned out by counter-protesters in Washington rally

A widely-condemned white nationalist rally in Washington drew fewer than two dozen supporters, and was drowned out by thousands of counter-protesters chanting "Nazis go home" and "No KKK in the USA". Organisers of the "Unite the Right 2" rally had obtained a permit for up to 400 far-right demonstrators to gather outside the White House. The event was intended to mark the first anniversary of a similar rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year when neo-Nazis paraded through the streets and Hea...
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Native Lands: An Interactive Map Reveals the Indigenous Lands on Which Modern Nations Were Built

“Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in the all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, ‘When I grow up I will go there.’”                      —Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness In his post-WWII historical survey, The Story of Map...
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Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Paul Hostetler

by Mike Rhode DC Zinefest 2018 recently had a successful day out at Art Enables on Rhode Island Ave. I met at least six cartoonists who were new to me, and said hi to at least three I already know. (My photos are here). Paul Hostetler, illustrator and cartoonist, answered our usual questions.What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?Every year, for the past 5 years, I self-published a black and white mini-comic, sold pretty much exclusively at shows.  Occasionally, I'll have comics ...
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Anyone want a great deal on a spa day at a luxury T**** hotel? ... Hello? Anyone? MAGA?

A certain high-profile luxury hotel in our nation's capital apparently can't live on stays by eager-to-ingratiate-themselves foreigners alone, so it's doing what lots of hotels do (through, frankly, not that many true luxury hotels): It's offering a discount offer through a travel aggregator website.In this case, it's a deal spotted by Washingtonian magazine's Amanda Whiting on TravelZoo for a "Luxe Spa Day on Pennsylvania Avenue" (big type) in a "Spa by Ivanka Trump" (small type).Gosh, where co...
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Trump Is Obsessed With Renovating ‘Ugliest,’ ‘Terrible’ FBI Building

President Donald Trump has been harboring a simmering hatred of the FBI headquarters in D.C., calling it “one of the ugliest buildings in the city,” according to a Sunday Axios report. “Even the building is terrible,” he said to an unnamed source. “It’s one of the brutalist-type buildings, you know, brutalist architecture. Honestly, I think it’s one of the ugliest buildings in the city.” “This is prime real estate, right on Pennsylvania Avenue,” he reportedly added. “This is a great addres...
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Candlelight vigil in front of White House is part of nationwide protest

A crowd of hundreds of people participated in a national vigil “to demand democracy” and “confront corruption” on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2018. Vigils were organized at locations throughout the U.S. to voice criticism of President Trump for his handling of a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16.
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