Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. [Get On Politics delivered to your inbox.] When President Trump blamed “both sides” for the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Republicans jumped over themselves to denounce his comments. Speaker Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and Senators […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tyga is supposed to be headlining Fresh Island A music festival in Croatia has been evacuated because of a forest fire. Hundreds of people were forced to leave the Fresh Island music festival on Zrce Beach on Monday night, at the beginning of the three-day hip-hop event. The fire
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Image copyright Getty Images Wage growth in the UK rose to 3.6% in the year to May 2019, the highest growth rate since 2008, according to Office for National Statistics figures. Wages have been outpacing inflation since March 2018. A record high of 32.75 million people were in employment up to the end of May,
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When Erika Chou and Tom Naumsuwan opened Wayla, a Thai restaurant with a garden on Forsyth Street about three months ago, they were also preparing a double storefront upstairs for a takeout shop. Little Wayla opened last week, offering an array of home-style dishes. “Tom wanted a place where he could serve the food his
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The Los Angeles Angels all acknowledge they’re still mourning Tyler Skaggs’ death, even if the relentless grind of the baseball schedule doesn’t give them much time to do it. Kevan Smith believes that pain contributes to the passion with which the Angels are climbing the standings without their teammate and friend. Albert Pujols got three
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It was there in 1882, when the Chinese Exclusion Act sought to curb the number of Chinese workers and families entering the United States to find day-labor work, from building railroads to doing laundry. And it was there in the 1840s, when anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment in the United States led to the creation of
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Trevor Noah compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler Monday night after the president defended his racism. On Monday, Trump was asked if he was concerned that some people viewed his tweets telling the four members of the progressive “squad” of Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to where they came from. Trump responded: “It doesn’t concern me
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Dr. Marvin C. Ziskin, an emeritus professor of medical physics at Temple University School of Medicine, agreed. For decades, Dr. Ziskin explored whether such high frequencies could sow illness. Many experiments, he said, support the safety of high-frequency waves. Despite the benign assessment of the medical establishment, Dr. Curry’s flawed reports were amplified by alarmist
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Les Miles sat for more than hour, a Kansas pin on his left lapel and his LSU national championship ring on his right hand, answering wave after wave of often repetitive questions as he closes in on his return to coaching — and the Big 12 — with the long-suffering Jayhawks. The session started with
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President Trump on Monday defended his tweets suggesting that four Democratic members of Congress “go back” to the countries they came from by assailing one, Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, for what he said were remarks she had made about Al Qaeda. “I am watching them, all they do is complain, so all I’m saying
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