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Aug 24 2021
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CIA director meets Taliban leader in highest-level Afghanistan talks yet
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns met in person with top Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar during a low-publicity rendezvous in Kabul on Monday.
Burns, a former diplomat and deputy secretary of state, traveled to the war-torn capital city of Kabul in Afghanistan for undisclosed negotiations with Baradar, according to reports first shared by the Washington Post. While
Washington ExaminerJan 21 2015
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SOTU Fact Check: Gas Prices Are Low Despite Obama's Policies
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Obama claimed that thanks to his administration's policies, "we are as free from the grip of foreign oil as we've been in almost 30 years "
TownhallAug 07 2021
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Vaccine reduces risk of infection even in people who already had Covid-19, the C.D.C. says.
Unvaccinated people who have had Covid-19 may be more than twice as likely to get infected again than those who tested positive and bolstered their natural immunity with a vaccine, according to a small study that assessed the likelihood of reinfection.
The study, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, examined the risk of reinfection during May and June among hundreds of
New York Times (News)Jan 04 2021
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Iran starts 20% uranium enrichment, seizes South Korean ship
Iran began enriching uranium Monday to levels unseen since its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and also seized a South Korean-flagged tanker near the crucial Strait of Hormuz, a double-barreled challenge to the West that further raised Mideast tensions.
Both decisions appeared aimed at increasing Tehran’s leverage in the waning days in office for President Donald Trump, whose
Associated PressDec 07 2020
Analysis
US millennials were grappling with the inequality of a K-shaped economy long before Covid-19
In a speech on Dec. 1, president-elect Biden spoke about the need to “address the structural inequities in our economy that this pandemic has laid bare” and referred to the “K-shaped” economic recovery, where the letter’s two diverging strokes depict two different economic outcomes facing Americans. The haves and the have-nots.
While the recovery from the pandemic may be the first time
QuartzJan 29 2021
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Federal appeals court allows US border officials to swiftly return unaccompanied migrant children under Trump-era policy
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the federal government can quickly return unaccompanied migrant children apprehended at the US-Mexico border under a public health order put in place under former President Donald Trump.
The order from the DC Circuit Court means that the government can again begin to expel children who arrived at the US-Mexico border alone, instead of processing
CNN (Online News)Jan 04 2021
Fact Check
Trump Repeats Debunked Election Claims in Call With Georgia Official
President Trump, in an hourlong telephone call with Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, repeated a number of false and misleading claims about election results in the state that have been circulating on social media. Here’s a fact check.
WHAT MR. TRUMP SAID: “Then it was stuffed with votes. They weren’t in an official voter box, they were in what looked to be suitcases or trunks,
New York Times (News)Nov 05 2020
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Could a recount flip a key battleground? History says don't count on it.
Chances are a recount won't make a difference in a statewide election.
In the past 50 years, few recounts have led to changes in the winners. And in the handful of still-uncalled battleground states, there hasn't been a flip following a recount in at least the last two decades.
The Trump campaign, which has initiated a legal blitz in swing states, has already announced that it
NBC News (Online)Aug 23 2021
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McCarthy faces speakership test on infrastructure vote
The House GOP leader has to decide whether to whip against the bipartisan infrastructure bill or encourage members to vote their conscience.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blessed President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure deal, but with the House majority on the line, Kevin McCarthy is facing a different decision: how harshly to oppose it.
With the House voting this
PoliticoJan 29 2021
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Pelosi says House will take first step toward passing Covid relief next week, with or without GOP
The House will forge ahead next week with the process that would allow Democrats to pass a coronavirus relief bill without Republican support, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
The California Democrat said her chamber will move to pass a budget resolution, the first step toward approving legislation through reconciliation. The process would enable Senate Democrats to approve an aid
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