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Julia Conley, staff writer

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Eoin Higgins, staff writer

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"We're seeing the differential impact of climate change unfold before our eyes...

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U.S. President Donald J. Trump (R) and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (L) deliver remarks to members of the news media during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House March 25, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

"Israel has repeatedly displayed a chilling disregard for civilian life and...

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On Cherry-Blossom and Conflict-of Interest Motifs: The Tacky, Willful Selling of America

As we await Mueller's findings, Trump is hustling every greedy dollar he can before - please - prison or impeachment. Hence his Trump Store's new line of crappy cherry-blossom-themed mugs, shirts, soap - all bearing images of the White House and other D.C. buildings bizarrely (and illegally) slapped with “Trump Hotels” and "Trump Washington D.C.," as though America now = the mad huckster. His final, classy act: Partying at Mar-a-Lago's Lincoln dinner, he also stuck a MAGA hat on ole Abe.