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By Matt Davies, Newsday Political⚡Charge There was a lot of news this week, but none bigger than Trump sending in unidentified federal agents to
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Social media is aflutter with declarations of what will happen in 2020. Yesterday, there seemed to be so much chatter about how “of course” Trump would lose. Such as: Look at how
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Once again, we have someone who is angling to be the 3rd party spoiler for this presidential election. Enter Justin Amash. Amash is a 5-term Tea Party Republican who became well known
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The Post Office is in financial dire straits, yes. It is also true that they’ve been under tremendous financial strain before and received help from Congress. So what’s happening now?
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