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NewsPapers
- - New Attorney General Misleads on Crime Statistics (CBS News)
"CBS News looked at whether violent crime is a rising permanent trend. The CBS News research department went to the source: the FBI uniform crime report."
"Turns out, violent crime peaked in 1991 and was in a steady decline until a small uptick in 2006. Then the trend continued to drop." 02-17
- -01-21 Trump Raised Many First-Time Owner Mortgage Payments (Time.com)
"In one of his very first substantive moves as president, Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that will result in a hike to many first-time homeowners’ mortgage bills.""Trump’s decision to undo the Obama-era rate reduction, thus resulting in an uptick on borrowers’ bills, will have very little effect on wealthier mortgage holders, since the program only applies to those with low incomes, middling credit scores or who have less than a 20% down payment on their homes." 01-17
- -02-11 Editorial: Trump the Salesman-President, Not CEO-President (CBS News)
"Trump’s real strengths lie in promotion and deal-making, D’Antonio said, not in operating complex businesses. He cited the fact that Trump’s more complex ventures, like Trump Airways and casinos in Atlantic City, failed." 02-17
- -02-11 Things with Trump's Name on Them (CBS News)
Provides pictures and short descriptions. 02-17
- -California Strengthens Gun Laws (Time.com)
"Gov. Jerry Brown signed six stringent gun-control measures Friday that will require people to turn in high-capacity magazines and mandate background checks for ammunition sales, as California Democrats seek to strengthen gun laws that are already among the strictest in the nation." 07-16
- -Editorial: Don't Give Up on America (HuffingtonPost.com)
"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered a sobering and bold plea to international leaders on Friday, urging them not to give up on America despite the divisive rhetoric of President Donald Trump." 02-17
- -Editorial: How Trump Differs from European Nationalists (Time.com)
"There is no doubt that President Donald Trump is surfing the same wave as European authoritarian nationalists like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, France’s Marine Le Pen, Turkey’s Recep Erdogan, Austria’s Norbert Hofer or Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski."
"The parallels are many. Yet, during this apparent moment of political convergence, the U.S. is diverging from Europe in one fundamental aspect. While Trump might resemble these European nationalists, he has tied himself to a Republican Party that is quite distinct from the parties they lead." 01-17
- -Editorial: What Does Trump Know About Immigration? (Huffington Post)
"President Donald Trump appears to think building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border will solve unauthorized immigration and other issues at the border. Stats from the last few years tell a completely different story." 01-17
- -Trump Retains Ties to His Businesses (ABC News)
"New documents confirm that President Donald Trump retains a direct tie to his business interests through a revocable trust now being overseen by one of his adult sons and a longtime executive of the Trump Organization."
"Trump's two adult sons and Weisselberg are running the company while Trump is president, but Trump himself still financially benefits from it. Past precedent has been for presidents to sell off their holdings and place the cash into a truly blind trust — not one overseen by a family member — before taking office, even though there's no legal requirement to do so." 02-17
- Editorial: Did Trump Start the Women's March Movement? (Washington Post)
"It matters that the crowd for the Women’s March on Washington was far bigger than that for President Trump’s inauguration. The new president often boasts of having started a great movement. Let it be the one that was born with Saturday’s massive protests."
"If size is important, and apparently to Trump it is, there was no contest. The Metro transit system recorded 1,001,613 trips on the day of the protest, the second-heaviest ridership in history — surpassed only by ridership for President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009. By contrast, just 570,557 trips were taken Friday, when Trump took the oath of office." 01-17
- The Four Groups of Voters and What They Think Now (CBS News)
"A single poll number can’t always answer those puzzles, so here we look deeper at all the groups who support and oppose the Trump administration at its outset: who they are, what they want and - most of all - what might change their minds."
"In this study, people separated themselves into four groups: the strongest of Trump backers (who we’ll call the Believers); those backing him but waiting for him to deliver (the Conditionals); those opposing him for now but waiting to see some results (the Curious) and those who seem immovably, firmly opposed (The Resistors.)" 02-17
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