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US midterm elections 2018: Donald Trump predicts hardline immigration agenda will power Republicans to victory; says America will see a 'red wave'
• 7 years agoUS president Donald Trump sharply accused congressional Democrats of allowing open borders and crime to fester, using a White House event on Monday to stoke a fall campaign fight over immigration and the U.S. southern border.
In US midterm season, Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti considers 2020 bid; fears Democrats bringing 'nail clippers to a gunfight'
• 7 years agoAn attorney who has bedeviled US President Donald Trump during the past year over his personal relationships and immigration policies made a presidential pitch of his own to Democratic voters in New Hampshire on Sunday.
US midterm election 2018: Donald Trump acolyte Steve Bannon warns Republicans they will 'get smoked' if they lean on traditional playbook
• 7 years agoDuring a Sunday interview with The Associated Press, the former chief strategist to Trump said he believes the GOP would lose 35 to 40 seats in the House if the election were held today, thereby ceding their majority to Democrats he's convinced will pursue impeachment.
Donald Trump versus news media: Chaotic landscape with blurred lines between journalism, commentary and outright bias
• 7 years agoIn a chaotic media landscape, with traditional guideposts stripped away by technology and new business models, the old lines between journalism and commentary are growing ever fuzzier. As President Donald Trump rewrites the rules of engagement to knock the media off stride, he's found a receptive audience among his supporters for complaints about "fake news" and journalists who are "enemies of the people."
Donald Trump lashes out after newspapers respond to his attacks, claims US Press is 'pushing political agenda' to hurt people
• 7 years agoUS President Donald Trump is lashing out at the press as newspapers nationwide launch a coordinated rebuttal to his attacks against what he calls "fake news."
Journalist shot dead in Mexico ahead of general elections; authorities did not respond to his request for protection
• 7 years agoChan — at least the sixth Mexican journalist to be killed this year — was at a bar when he was attacked by an unknown person.
Hillary Clinton says free press is under 'open assault' in Donald Trump era; tells why she did not hit back harder in 2016
• 7 years ago"We are living through an all-out war on truth, facts and reason," Clinton said at the PEN America World Voices Festival, in Manhattan. "When leaders deny things we can see with our own eyes, like the size of a crowd at the inauguration, when they refuse to accept settled science when it comes to urgent challenges like climate change ... it is the beginning of the end of freedom, and that is not hyperbole. It's what authoritarian regimes through history have done."
Donald Trump unveils much-awaited 'Fake News Awards'; CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post lead the list
• 7 years agoAt loggerheads with much of the US news media since his election, Donald Trump finally doled out his "Fake News Awards" after weeks of speculation
US ISPs respond to the net neutrality protest as they support an 'open internet'
Fp Archives • 8 years agoThere had been about 6 million filings on net neutrality's overturn made to the FCC as of Tuesday night, both supporting and opposing the policy; that had risen to 6.7 million Wednesday afternoon.
After Netflix, Facebook and Google join the net neutrality campaign on 12 July
Ians • 8 years agoThe July 12 campaign is reminiscent of another day in 2012 when the tech industry rebelled against a controversial copyright bill known as SOPA by altering or even blacking out their websites.