s the West burns with 87 large active fires in 13 states as of Saturday, the federal government is doing its best to ignore the plight of the elite, overworked and underpaid Hot Shots fighting those fires for base pay of less than $14 an hour, a number President...
Opinion
A Trumpy Wannabe Tries to Spend His Way to Victory in Va.
‘GREAT CANDIDATE’
Unlike Trump himself, Glenn Youngkin is spending dozens of millions of his own fortune to try to pull off an upset in the increasingly blue state.
Eleanor Clift
Updated Jul. 23, 2021 5:22AM ET / Published Jul. 23, 2021...
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