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Aug 17 2021
News
Is There Racism in the Deed to Your Home?
Last year, to celebrate the centennial of their charming Craftsman home, Kyona and Kenneth Zak repainted it in historically accurate colors — gray, bronze green and copper red. They commissioned beveled-glass windows to complement the original stained glass. And they visited the San Diego County Recorder, to have a line drawn through a sentence in their deed that once would have prohibited Ms
New York Times (News)Jan 08 2016
Opinion
OPINION: Gabrielle Giffords: We can no longer wait for a Congress in the gun lobby's grip to act
The president's executive actions on guns are just common sense.
Guest Writer - LeftJan 10 2022
News
Blinken: Success of Geneva talks hinge on Russia deescalating Ukraine threat
Secretary of State Antony Blinken tamped down expectations for talks between Russia and the US over security guarantees, but said any progress is contingent on President Vladimir Putin defusing the military threat to Ukraine.
“I don’t think we’re going to see any breakthroughs in the coming week,” Blinken said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We’re going to be able to put things on the
New York Post (News)Feb 09 2015
News
Obama Complains About Fox News And Partisan Media
In an interview with Vox’s Ezra Klein, President Obama complained about the partisan nature of old media outlets including MSNBC and Fox News and pointed out the benefits of bypassing them in favor of new media.
Obama blamed partisan news outlets for feeding the political divide in the country.
“The balkanization of the media means that we just don’t have a common place where we
Breitbart NewsJul 06 2020
News
What Would It Mean If the Coronavirus Is Airborne?
COVID-19 is known to be transmitted mainly by respiratory droplets. This is the reasoning behind physical distancing, since it’s hard for those droplets to travel more than a few feet. But scientists are debating whether very small droplets—small enough to float through the air—are common enough and infectious enough to be a serious risk.
The nature of a brand-new virus is that messages
LifehackerAug 11 2021
News
Judge rules Democrats can have only limited access to Trump's financial records
A federal judge in Washington gave a partial victory Wednesday to a House committee in its long-running effort to get financial records from Donald Trump's accounting firm.
But the ruling also gave some ground to the former president by limiting the nature and scope of the records sought.
U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta said the House Oversight and Reform Committee can
NBC News DigitalJan 22 2021
News
Can Biden translate plea for unity from rhetoric to reality?
President Joe Biden emphasized unity at his inaugural address. But as he begins tackling the nation’s many crises, translating that ideal into action may be easier said than done.
“We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal,” President Joe Biden implored from the Capitol steps Wednesday in his inaugural address.
It
Christian Science MonitorMay 13 2021
Data
Jewish Americans in 2020
What does it mean to be Jewish in America? A new Pew Research Center survey finds that many Jewish Americans participate, at least occasionally, both in some traditional religious practices – like going to a synagogue or fasting on Yom Kippur – and in some Jewish cultural activities, like making potato latkes, watching Israeli movies or reading Jewish news online. Among young Jewish adults,
Pew Research CenterNov 24 2021
News
COVID cases break records in Europe, prompting booster shot rethink
Coronavirus infections broke records in parts of Europe on Wednesday, with the continent once again the epicentre of a pandemic that has prompted new curbs on movement and made health experts think again about booster vaccination shots.
Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Hungary all reported new highs in daily infections as winter grips Europe and people gather indoors in
ReutersMay 22 2019
News
‘Wrong on most everything’: GOP smacks down Biden’s bipartisanship
The former vice president’s vow to find common ground with Republicans likely needs a reality check.
Joe Biden is making his bipartisan bona fides a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, boasting recently that he persuaded three Republican senators to support the economic stimulus that helped save the country from catastrophe.
“It was my job to find them. To persuade them to
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