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Jun 22 2020
News
Shootings Rise in NYC, Perps Set Free Due to Court Backlog
Shootings erupted across New York City over the weekend ahead of the long-awaited second phase of the city’s coronavirus reopening scheduled for Monday.
24 people were shot in the span of as many hours beginning on Saturday, with the court system facing a backlog of cases because of coronavirus closures. The NYPD said suspects arrested on gun-possession charges were being set free
National Review (News)Jun 19 2020
News
Has the U.S. given up on containing the coronavirus?
What’s happening: Anyone closely following news about the state of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. could be forgiven for feeling a sense of whiplash. The two major storylines dominating coverage seem to directly contradict each other.
One narrative shows America behaving like a country that has contained the virus. Every state has lifted at least some of its lockdown restrictions.
Yahoo! The 360Jun 15 2020
News
White House Reporters Hailed as ‘Information Heroes’
A watchdog has hailed the White House press corps as “information heroes” alongside 30 journalists, whistleblowers and media outlets struggling against the odds to get the truth out about the coronavirus pandemic.
Reporters Without Frontiers praised the correspondents for their persistence in grilling U.S. President Donald Trump in a roll of honour that included Li Wenliang, the 34-year
Breitbart NewsJul 12 2022
Perspectives Blog
Is The Daily Wire Fake News?
Is The Daily Wire (Right bias) “fake news?” What constitutes examples of propaganda, fake news, or misinformation is a point of major disagreement among the left and right. Media outlets that favor the political left or right may repeat claims or stories that suit their worldview and agenda. To some, this can constitute “fake news” — especially if they disagree.
Related: Red-to-Blue
Joseph RatliffNov 12 2020
News
U.S. Unemployment Claims Slip but Hold at High Levels
New applications for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, suggesting layoffs were easing despite a surge in coronavirus cases across the country.
Initial claims for jobless benefits, a proxy for layoffs, declined to 709,000 last week from 757,000 a week earlier, the Labor Department said Thursday. While weekly claims have fallen from a peak of near 7 million at the end of March
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 07 2021
News
‘Citadel of democracy’ under siege: A reporter’s view inside the Capitol
For our Christa Case Bryant, Wednesday was her third day on the job as the Monitor’s new congressional correspondent. Here’s how it looked through her eyes.
“Pence has left! Pence has left!” a reporter yells through the Senate Press Gallery to all the journalists pecking away at their keyboards as Congress debates whether to sustain an objection to the Electoral College results.
Christian Science MonitorMay 27 2020
News
U.S. coronavirus deaths top 100,000 as country reopens
The novel coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, according to a Reuters tally on Wednesday, even as the slowdown in deaths encouraged businesses to reopen and Americans to emerge from more than two months of lockdowns.
About 1,400 Americans have died on average each day in May, down from a peak of 2,000 in April, according to the tally of state and county
ReutersMay 26 2020
News
Michigan Gov. Whitmer claims husband's reported boat request was ‘a failed attempt at humor'
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer acknowledged Tuesday that her husband dropped her name while requesting to get their boat in the water ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, though claimed her husband’s comments were a “failed attempt at humor.”
Whitmer’s comments came after her office initially pushed back against the story, saying they’re “not going to make it a practice of addressing
Fox News DigitalDec 29 2020
Opinion
Is it any wonder liberal states are shrinking?
For an entire human lifetime, the state of Illinois has been a laggard in population growth. It has lost eight congressional districts since the 1950s. But new census estimates released last week show that this decade, something very special has happened.
The state, affectionately referred to by many as either the “Deadbeat State” (for its practice of handing out IOUs in place of
Washington ExaminerMay 15 2020
News
Most states still fall short of recommended testing levels
As businesses reopened Friday in more of the U.S., an overwhelming majority of states still fall short of the COVID-19 testing levels that public health experts say are necessary to safely ease lockdowns and avoid another deadly wave of outbreaks, according to an Associated Press analysis.
Rapid, widespread testing is considered essential to tracking and containing the coronavirus. But
Associated Press