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Several countries warn citizens about traveling to the US, amid back-to-back shootings

One country, Mexico, has even threatened to take legal action after eight of its citizens died in El Paso this weekend.

Two Latin American countries have issued travel warnings to its citizens regarding traveling to the United States, following the back-to-back shootings last weekend that claimed the lives of over 30 people.

In a statement announcing the advisory, the foreign ministry of Uruguay cited “growing violence” fueled by “racism and discrimination,” adding that American “authorities are unable to prevent” due to “indiscriminate” gun ownership that has ultimately “taken the lives of over 250 people in the first seven months of the year.”

When in the United States, Uruguay warned its citizens to avoid areas with large concentrations of people like theme parks, shopping centers, art festivals, religious events, food festivals, and any kind of cultural or sporting gathering.

View the complete August 6 article by Rebekah Entralgo on the ThinkProgress website here.

Despite Trump’s rhetoric, his talking points rely heavily on fake news

The following article by Adam Peck was posted on the ThinkProgress website July 18, 2018:

He leans heavily on the journalistic efforts of the very same news outlets he demonizes.

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Let’s not beat around the bush: Donald Trump is a serial liar. Almost everything that spills out of his insecure little mouth or springs forth from his Twitter account is either fabricated, exaggerated, finessed, or truncated. He dismisses as fake any evidence or fact that contradicts his lies. He shares as gospel any cockamamie poll or half-baked rumor that pads his ego. He is a man who operates entirely outside the boundaries of reality, and the problem is only worsening the longer his term drags on.

This is partly because Donald Trump’s media diet is about as healthy as his actual diet. His Fox News obsession is well-documented, but comb through his tweets — particularly the recent ones — and you realize that Fox News might actually be the high watermark. Breitbart, the Washington Examiner, and a parade of nameless sources from which Trump pulls fake numbers out of thin air also feature heavily on his timeline.

Oddly though, when measuring the impact that original reporting has on Donald Trump’s addled brain, the collective efforts of the far-right media fall well short of what the so-called “fake news” has been able to accomplish.

View the complete article on the ThinkProgress website here.

Poll: Far more trust generals than Trump on N. Korea, while two-thirds oppose preemptive strike

The following article by Scott Clement and Philip Rucker was posted on the Washington Post website September 24, 2017:

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally for Sen. Luther Strange in Huntsville, Ala. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Two-thirds of Americans oppose launching a preemptive military strike against North Korea, with a majority trusting the U.S. military to handle the escalating nuclear crisis responsibly but not President Trump, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds.

Roughly three-quarters of the public supports tougher economic sanctions on North Korea in an attempt to persuade it to give up its nuclear weapons, while just about one-third think the United States should offer the isolated country foreign aid or other incentives. Continue reading “Poll: Far more trust generals than Trump on N. Korea, while two-thirds oppose preemptive strike”

s Trump’s rhetorical ricochet on Charlottesville highlights basic truths about the president

The following article by Marc Fisher was posted on the Washington Post website August 15, 2017:

When President Trump’s supporters rail against efforts to rein in his unpredictable, provocative behavior, they often call on White House aides, news reporters and Republicans in Congress to “let Trump be Trump.”

But from Capitol Hill to the American heartland Tuesday night, the question was posed over and over again, “Which Trump?” Continue reading “s Trump’s rhetorical ricochet on Charlottesville highlights basic truths about the president”