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Payday lenders got regulators to rethink rules on how closely to vet borrowers. E-cigarette makers got a delay in federal oversight of many vaping products. Candy makers praised a decision to hold off on more stringent labeling standards. And title insurers declared "victory" for getting changes that benefited them in the tax overhaul. What do all these American special-interest groups have in common? They were among those that booked meetings, retreats and conferences at hotels and golf resorts owned by President Donald Trump. While it's impossible to draw a direct link between where groups seeking to influence the Trump administration hold their events and what they received, one thing is certain: Never before in American history have such groups had the opportunity to hold an event at a property owned by the president, paying for event space, rooms and food with money that ultimately heads into the president's pockets. An Associated Press analysis of the special interests that … [Read more...] about Book Trump? Interest Groups Press Case at His Properties

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBSMiami) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to honor the late conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh by lowering state flags to half-staff. Governor DeSantis began a news conference in West Palm Beach on Friday morning by talking about Limbaugh, who was a Palm Beach resident. “I know they are still figuring out the arrangements, but what we do when there are things of this magnitude, once the date of internment for Rush Limbaugh is announced, we’re going to be lowering the flags to half-staff,” said DeSantis. READ MORE: Local Nobel Prize Winner Hopes COVID Vaccine RNA Technology Can Fight Other Diseases Limbaugh died Feb. 17 at the age of 70, a year after announcing he had Stage Four lung cancer. He was unflinchingly conservative, wildly partisan, bombastically self-promoting and larger than life. He doesn’t, however, appear to fit within the State’s protocol for lowering the State flag. According to the Executive Office of the … [Read more...] about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Flags To Fly At Half Staff For Rush Limbaugh

close Video Kristi Noem on becoming a media villain for defending liberty South Dakota Republican governor joins 'The Ingraham Angle' with reaction to mainstream media attempts to discredit her South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem , who has gained a national profile due to her refusal to order an economic shutdown amid the coronavirus pandemic , spoke at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday in Orlando, Fla. Noem started her career in the South Dakota state legislature before being elected as South Dakota’s only member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2011. She served as the U.S. congresswoman from South Dakota until 2019, when she became the first female Governor of the state. JOIN CPAC 2021 FROM HOME: HOW TO WATCH STREAMING COVERAGE, EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FOX NATION Noem has aligned herself closely with former President Donald Trump and was a top surrogate for his 2020 reelection campaign . … [Read more...] about CPAC speaker Kristi Noem: What to know about the Governor of South Dakota

Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen, wordsmith. Photo: Jabin Botsford/Pool/Getty Images Donald Trump’s impeachment trial lawyers, amid their effort on Friday to recast Trump as a victim of Congress — rather than the president who sent his militant followers to storm the U.S. Capitol and stop the routine confirmation of an election he himself had tried to steal — deployed an evocative new term: “constitutional cancel culture.” Attorney Michael van der Veen introduced it as part of his angry diatribe against the alleged Democrat witch hunt targeting Trump. Then Bruce Castor used it again to dramatize his claim that Trump’s wild remarks on January 6 were protected by the First Amendment and squarely within existing political traditions. This semantic development was probably inevitable. “Cancel culture,” a term originally associated with a sort of loosely organized boycott of offensive people in power, gradually gained use as an invidious description of any incident where people … [Read more...] about What Trump’s Lawyers Mean by ‘Constitutional Cancel Culture’

Presented by The AIDS Institute Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Today is Thursday! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the co-creators. Readers can find us on Twitter @asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe! Total U.S. coronavirus deaths each morning this week: Monday, 498,901; Tuesday, 500,310; Wednesday, 502,660; Thursday, 505,890. Johnson & Johnson's vaccine is effective at preventing moderate and severe cases of COVID-19, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday, paving the way for the shot to potentially be approved for emergency use this week and for shots to be administered to Americans next week. According to the FDA’s analysis, the single-dose vaccine is 66 percent effective, well within the … [Read more...] about The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by The AIDS Institute – Ahead: One-shot vax, easing restrictions, fiscal help