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Arizona Lawmaker Under Fire for Anti-Immigrant Remarks Resigns Amid Inquiry Into Old Sex Charges

the two behaviors go together? The former state representative, David Stringer, faced an ethics committee investigation into reports that he was charged with sex crimes in the 1980s.

Trump says hurricane-hit Puerto Rico has received too much aid

Lies about numbers and shows his racism in plain sight!

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President opposes additional disaster aid for territory, saying funds were out of proportion to what mainland states got

Donald Trump told a meeting of Republican lawmakers that hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico had gotten too much rebuilding money compared with mainland states like Florida and Texas, hardening his opposition to further disaster aid for the US island territory.

Trump’s ardent opposition to additional Puerto Rico funding sets up a showdown with House Democrats, who insist that a $13bn to $14bn disaster aid package that’s a top priority for southern Republicans won’t advance without further aid for the island.

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‘People are dying’: Ocasio-Cortez delivers fiery speech on climate inaction –video

Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave an impassioned speech during a committee hearing in response to Republicans push-back on her climate change policy, The Green New Deal. ‘You want to tell people that their desire for clean air and clean water is elitist?’, she yelled. ‘Tell that to the kids in the South Bronx which are suffering from the highest rates of childhood asthma in the country … You’re telling those kids that they are trying to get on a plane to Davos? People are dying!’

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