GOP megadonors pour money into Trump campaign

President Donald Trump savaged the megadonor class during his 2016 campaign. Now, he’s turning to them to bankroll his 2020 effort. The Trump political machine raked in $108 million for his campaign and the Republican National Committee during the second quarter of the year, and the massive haul was fueled in no small part by […]

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Pete Buttigieg hires black outreach director

Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign has hired a black engagement director to improve the mayor’s standing among African American voters in the Democratic primary. Angela M. Angel, a former state legislator in Maryland, will take charge of the Buttigieg campaign’s outreach to black voters. So far, Buttigieg has sought to do so by touting his Douglass […]

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Indian students wear boxes on their heads during exam to prevent cheating

Click:B28005-42 The Bhagat Pre-University College in Haveri, in India’s southwestern Karnataka state, implemented a trial run of the new measure last Wednesday, according to school management head M.B. Sateesh. ### A staff member photographed the students sitting in neat rows, their heads obscured by cardboard boxes. ### The front of the boxes had been cut […]

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From learning on his feet to policy director

In July, 31-year-old think tank researcher Shai Akabas achieved something that hordes of well-funded lobbyists and power players in Washington often fail to do: He got Congress to take action. Akabas, the director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, released an analysis of what he calls the “X Date,” the day the Treasury […]

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On The Money: Trump dismisses 'phony Emoluments Clause' after Doral criticism | Senate Dems signal support for domestic spending package | House panel to consider vaping tax

Happy Monday and welcome back to On The Money. I’m Sylvan Lane, and here’s your nightly guide to everything affecting your bills, bank account and bottom line. See something I missed? Let me know at [email protected] or tweet me @SylvanLane. And if you like your newsletter, you can subscribe to it here: http://bit.ly/1NxxW2N. Write us […]

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Boeing pilot warned about 'egregious' issue with 737 Max before deadly crashes: report

Messages from 2016 reportedly show that a Boeing pilot working on the 737 Max warned that the new automated system was making the plane hard to control during flight simulations. Reuters reported Friday that the company turned over messages from two employees that suggest the airplane-maker may have misled federal authorities about the safety system. “It’s running rampant in […]

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15 Afghan policemen killed in Taliban attack

Taliban forces on Monday killed at least 15 Afghan police in the Ali Abad district of Kunduz Province, according to The Associated Press. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey The militant group launched the attack on a checkpoint late in the evening, leading to an hours-long firefight that left the officers dead and wounded two others, Ghulam […]

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