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The revival of U.S. manufacturing was one of Donald Trump’s central campaign promises and a key accomplishment of his first term in office.

A series of “insensitive” and racist tweets resurfaced Wednesday from the account of Axios reporter Alexi McCammond, who specializes in covering the 2020 presidential election.

TNT basketball commentator Charles Barkley has officially apologized on Wednesday, for what he is calling a bad “joke” about hitting a female reporter.

A female reporter raised the alarm Wednesday by claiming that TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley told her, “I don’t hit women, but if I did, I would hit you.”

Swing voters who took part in a focus group in Ohio said impeachment is a distraction from the issues they care most about.

NEW YORK (AP) — HBO has ordered two new seasons of its Sunday night news program modeled after the Axios website, which has produced newsmaking interviews with presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner and business leaders Elon Musk and Tim Cook.

Both Axios and ABC News were forced to backpedal after falsely claiming that Serhiy Leshchenko, who they reported to be a current “adviser” to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, informed Zelensky that discussion of Joe Biden and his son’s business dealings was a prerequisite to speak with President Trump.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Axios in a report released Monday that he advised President Donald Trump against withdrawing all military troops from Afghanistan by the 2020 election.

There are currently no nationwide demographic trends that “favor Republicans” in future elections, Axios reports.

A new poll reportedly shows that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is increasingly defining the Democratic Party for white working-class voters — and many do not like the image she presents.

Analysis by Axios and Newswhip found that right-wing media outpaces the left in coverage of the Democrat primaries.

Axios recently reported that consumers should happily accept being kept under surveillance by Big Tech companies, as long as any privacy concerns that might materialize are quelled with quick perks. “I just don’t care what the company knows,” said one consumer, who admits to enjoying “life under the reign of big tech.”

Selling a 3.5 story into an 11 is not journalism; it’s partisan hucksterism.

Appearing Sunday on “Axios on HBO,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) claimed the Republican Party’s policies aimed at bettering rural communities is a “complete bill of bullshit.” 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom: Republicans have “no governing philosophy, no value system that’s interesting, except fear of others — and those others are going to be a majority.”

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said it’s “almost certain” he would not be the first gay man to serve as president of the United States if elected in 2020.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s former chief of staff Josh Holmes, still a top ally of the Kentucky Senator, ripped a rogue subpoena from Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC).

A report in Huffington Post recently revealed the case of Wikipedia editor Ed Sussman, who was paid by media clients such as NBC and Axios to help diminish critical material. Paid editors operating in a similar manner to Sussman have worked on behalf of CNN contributor Hilary Rosen and the CEOs of Reddit and Intel, among other clients.

Facebook, NBC, and Axios all reportedly paid for flattering Wikipedia pages — managing to get negative sections removed, and positive sections added in. Google currently prioritizes information from Wikipedia at the top of search results.

Young Americans are more likely to embrace socialism than past generations, a poll published by Axios on Monday said.

Let me start by conveying a heartfelt message to the one-thousand “journalists” who were laid off on Thursday. I want all of you to know that I feel as awful about you losing your jobs as you would if everyone here at Breitbart News lost their jobs.

Why would Axios, a left-leaning political site that advertises itself as unbiased and fact-driven, publish the audacious lie that “Beto O’Rourke did not live-stream his teeth cleaning on Instagram?”

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before oath under congress that his company does not engage in partisan behavior.

The White House corrected a misstatement made by Larry Kudlow on Monday, noting that a trade truce with China began on December 1.

Axios ran a story on November 27 presenting the NRA as in decline and suffering financially because of it. 

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed the company came extremely close to dying this year following issues with the Model 3 sedan.

A majority of Democrats — 61 percent — describe Republicans as “racist, “bigoted,” and “sexist,” in a Monday-published Axios poll.

Mike Allen, co-founder of Axios, tried to claim that the economy is headed into a recession on the same day the October jobs report delivered spectacular news.

Democrats are poised to double down on investigations of alleged Russian collusion if they take the House in November, according to a spreadsheet reportedly circulating among Republicans.

The headline in Axios on August 8 demanded attention: “Sputnik moment for U.S. military.”  For his part, Virgil paid particularly close attention, since he published a piece with virtually the same headline, for Breitbart News, back on September 16, 2017: “The Threat from China — America’s New ‘Sputnik Moment.’” 

President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump defended the administration’s tough immigration enforcement measures, reminding critics that America was a “country of laws.”

President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump said that she did not believe that the media was “enemy of the people.”

The United States birth rate has been cut in half since the 1950’s, with the country’s fertility expected to remain below replacement level into the next century.

The latest batch of Axios/Survey Monkey polls shows that Democrats are in real danger of losing three U.S. Senate seats, which means they have no chance of capturing that chamber in 2018.

More than two-thirds of Americans, a full 72 percent, believe “traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories,” according to a Axios/SurveyMonkey poll.

NEW YORK — In a letter obtained by Breitbart News, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) confirmed an “extensive outreach campaign to both Democrats and Republicans” when his office put together the official House delegation that attended the U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem.