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Trump promises to help Texas, but sought disaster aid cuts
Although the US president has praised first-responders to Hurricane Harvey, his budget will cut future federal cash for people to put their lives back together, says MARK GRUENBERG
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
WHEN it comes to the federal role and federal aid responding to hurricanes and other natural disasters, President Donald Trump says one thing, but his budget — and his chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) — say quite another.
As if that wasn’t enough, there’s another spanner in the works in determining how much money will be available to help future disaster victims: Trump’s Mexican border wall.
With Hurricane Harvey still drowning the Texas Gulf Coast, and threatening Louisiana, too, Trump is praising first responders, Fema and the volunteers who are rushing to aid the tens of thousands of people driven from their homes.
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