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Apr 16 2024
Headline Roundup
NPR Suspends Editor After Essay Alleging Progressive Bias
NPR (Lean Left bias) suspended senior editor Uri Berliner for five days without pay, beginning last Friday, after he wrote a Free Press (Center bias) essay claiming an “absence of viewpoint diversity” at NPR.
The Details: NPR’s David Folkenflik first reported the story. In a “final warning” letter, NPR told Berliner he “had failed to secure its approval for outside work for other news
NPR (Online News) The Hill New York Post (News)Jan 05 2021
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The third Democrat on the ticket in Georgia: Political future for Stacey Abrams hinges on runoff results
Stacey Abrams isn't running for either Georgia Senate seat being decided Tuesday, but she might have more riding on the outcome than anyone other than the candidates themselves.
The failed 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate is the top contender to take on the Republican nominee for the governor's mansion in 2022 after helping President-elect Joe Biden turn Georgia blue in 2020, the
Washington ExaminerAug 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 ExaminerDec 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 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 PressJan 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)Aug 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)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)Nov 18 2019
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Trump says he will ‘strongly consider’ testifying in writing in impeachment probe
President Trump said Monday that he will “strongly consider” testifying in writing as part of the impeachment inquiry at the outset of a week in which eight current and former officials are scheduled to publicly testify about his controversial actions regarding Ukraine.
In morning tweets, Trump said he might take up House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on a suggestion she made over the
Washington Post