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Donald Trump is an American businessman, media personality, and politician who served as the 45th President of the United States from 2017-2021. Known for his real estate empire, reality TV show 'The Apprentice', and controversial political career, Trump remains one of the most polarizing figures in American politics.
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It was impossible to miss female Democrats present at President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday as they all turned out in white. The striking sartorial choice was multilayered, having numerous important reasons behind it. It was designed to honour those who came out in the midterm…
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Donald Trump is known for doing unusual things. Upon becoming the president of the United States, he scrapped policies for LGBT rights and family planning, called German Chancellor Angela Merkel an “excellent salesman” and spent more than 100 consecutive days playing golf. Having proclaimed that he would build a Mexico-funded…
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For more than 150 years, the White House has welcomed sports teams onto its grounds following their victories in major competitive tournaments - the Super Bowl being one of the most famous. Almost immediately after winning this year's game, however, several players with the New England Patriots made it clear…
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This week the American Midwest was gripped with a record freeze as a result of the polar vortex. Every winter, a wide expanse of swirling cold air moves south from the North Pole, creating cold snaps in the United States. However, this year the temperatures are unusually low, plunging far…
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When we experience cold weather, and somebody says boy, we sure could use some global warming right now, their motivation isn't clear. Are they making a lame joke? Do they not understand simple scientific concepts? Or are they deliberately saying something ignorant to get a rise out of people? (Woooo!…
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Over the past couple of years, politics has infiltrated almost every corner of pop culture. It's discussed on sitcoms, brought up by movie stars on the red carpet, and raged about on Twitter by pretty much anybody with a decent amount of notoriety. Most recently, two celebrity worlds collided when…
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In this day and age, it's really hard to be the bigger man, and there's nowhere this applies more than the Wild Wild West social network that is Twitter. Over the past 18 months or so, we've seen the battlegrounds move away from real life and corrosive talk show hosts,…
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The debate over border control between the United States and Mexico has been running hot for years, but the concept of building a wall between the two countries has definitely come more to the forefront since Donald Trump began his campaign for the 2016 presidential election. The ongoing conflict between…
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On its 35th day, the longest government shutdown in United States history has finally come to an end. (For a little while, anyway!). According to officials on Capitol Hill, President Trump and Congressional leaders have reached a agreement to re-open shuttered government agencies for three weeks. This agreement does not…
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Native American activist Nathan Phillips reportedly has a criminal record that includes charges of assault, escape from prison and various alcohol-related crimes. The 64-year-old, whose confrontation with Covington Catholic High School students went viral last week, was charged "with escaping from the Nebraska Penal Complex where he was confined [on] May 3" as a…
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While bringing up Donald Trump in any American circle is enough to send people into a frenzy, across the Atlantic, the British people are just as polarised over the concept of Brexit, where the UK decided to leave the European Union in a highly-debated referendum. It's a contentious topic, one…
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For more than a month now, the US government has been on shutdown thanks to disagreements between Donald Trump and Congress over funding for his wall. Families of government employees are suffering as workers are denied pay, approval for the president has reportedly dropped to measly 40 per cent, and, just…
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Over the past few days, a group of boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky have become a divisive topic of discussion across social media. The teenage students caught the world's attention on Sunday when they were filmed interacting with Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder and Vietnam war…
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Following an incident involving a Native American elder in Washington DC this weekend, a group of teenage boys from Covington Catholic High School have become the subject of mass social media discussion. Thousands of people, including President Donald Trump, have tweeted about the matter, with some condemning and others excusing the…
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In the midterm elections, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) became the youngest woman elected to Congress at age 29. As a proud progressive millennial, she's electrified liberals, who see her as the future of the Democratic party. At the same time, she's terrified Republicans with spooky ideas like universal health care (no!),…
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This morning the 2019 Academy Award nominations were finally announced, and as always, there were some snubs and surprises. Can you believe that movie you liked didn't get any nominations? And can you believe that movie you didn't like or didn't see did? Ugh! So unfair. A few nominations actually…
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During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised that he would be an ally to the LGBTQ community. "Thank you to the LGBT community!" he tweeted in June 2016. "I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs." One month later, he…
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On Sunday, January 20th, a group of pupils from Covington Catholic High School were recorded chanting and jeering while a Native American elder, Nathan Phillips, participated in the Indigenous Peoples March. Initial reports of the incident sparked outrage against the boys, with Nick Sandmann, the boy who smirked while standing face-to-face with…
