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 Former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized President Donald Trump's plan to pull the United States from a Cold War-era nuclear arms treaty as "unacceptable" and "irresponsible," Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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Ron DeSantis, the Republican, touted his ties to the administration, while Andrew Gillum, the Democrat, called the president a bully.
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastAs the midterm elections approach, racist extremism is coming up for a vote.
More than a dozen Republican candidates this year have flirted with or endorsed white supremacy. They range from trolls, like neo-Nazis using long-shot campaigns as a loudspeaker for hate, to career politicians who've moved toward more open racism after Donald Trump's election. While the most fringe candidates certain to lose, they may succeed in giving a bigger platform to white nationalist thinking and influence over the Republican Party. And while the GOP condemns those fringes, the career politicians who voiced similar views have largely avoided party backlash.
"There are more far-right candidates this year than we've ever seen, frankly," Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, told The Daily Beast. "As to why that is, Trump's obviously the big issue here, right? He ran a campaign that traded in racism and anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, misogynistic rhetoric, and he won. I think in prior election campaigns, people who engaged in those tactics failed."
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New policies to deter illegal immigration include a plan that would ask migrants to choose between their children and longer detention.
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Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who signed the nuclear disarmament treaty President Trump plans to withdraw from, called the move a "mistake."
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Andrew Gillum and Ron DeSantis touched on accusations of racism and corruption before turning to the man who made DeSantis the GOP nominee.
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 Getty/Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastThe United States will pull out of a key nuclear-arms treaty with Russia, President Donald Trump announced Saturday during a post campaign rally gaggle with reporters before boarding Air Force One.
America's withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which the U.S. government has accused Russia of violating with a new nuclear-tipped missile, could signal the start of a dangerous new arms race as the United States and Russia develop and deploy a class of shorter-ranger nukes that the treaty had successfully curtailed for more than 30 years.
President Ronald Reagan and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty in 1987 following six years of tense negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Saudi Arabia's account of the death of Jamal Khashoggi has been "all over the place," President Trump told The Washington Post. His response has likewise changed day by day.
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Hours after a new CNN poll found him trailing by double digits in their race to become the next governor of Florida, Republican Ron DeSantis lept out of the gates to attack Democrat Andrew Gillum in his opening remarks at their first debate.
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President Donald Trump said Washington would withdraw from a landmark Cold War-era treaty that eliminated nuclear missiles from Europe because Russia was violating the pact, triggering a warning of retaliatory measures from Moscow.
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The decision sparked concerns that the administration might pull out of other counter-proliferation pacts, too.
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How four Democratic women in Virginia aim to spark a blue surge.
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 The Trump administration is considering a possible rollback of Obama-era recognitions and protections that broadened the definition of gender, according to a report Sunday.
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 President Trump tweeted on Sunday that border security officials continued their "full efforts ... to stop the onslaught of illegal aliens" attempting to travel to the U.S. southern border via a large migrant caravan — while also describing such caravans as "a disgrace to the Democrat Party."
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Top U.S. lawmakers turned their ire on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday and said they believed he ordered the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, although the Trump administration maintained a more cautious stance.
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The Trump administration is considering a legal definition of gender as immutable and fixed at birth, the most drastic in a series of moves against transgender people.
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President Trump has stepped up his attacks on Latin American migrants, hoping the issue will motivate Republican voters.
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President Donald Trump's pick to fill the job of White House counsel is an indication the White House is preparing for possible post-election legal brawls with Democrats over everything from the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation to possible impeachment if Democrats take over the House of Representatives.
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