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Jun 23 2022
News
Senate passes bipartisan gun legislation, sending measure to House
The Senate passed a bipartisan gun reform bill on Thursday in the wake of a slew of mass shootings in recent months, including the death of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas in late May.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act — negotiated by a group of senators led by Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris Murphy (R-CT) — looks to incentivize states to implement red flag laws. The
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Apr 17 2021
Opinion
Social media again silences The Post for reporting the news
Once more unto the breach.
On Thursday, Facebook decided its users should not be able to share a New York Post article about the property-buying habits of one of the founders of Black Lives Matter.
This is the third time we’ve tangled with social media giants in the past year. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we published a column that suggested the virus could have
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Nov 23 2020
News
Trump Administration Finally Clears Way For Biden Transition To Begin
Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, said the transition between President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden can begin, releasing millions of dollars in funds and clearing the way for a new administration.
“I have dedicated much of my adult life to public service, and I have always strived to do what is right,” Murphy wrote in a letter to
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Feb 08 2015
Opinion
What Brian Williams’ Chopper Whopper Says About Modern News Media
Brian Williams is one of many in the mainstream or traditional or legacy media who have warned about the difficulty of judging the credibility of “new media.” When a story is coming from somewhere “out there,” in the digital universe, with no imprimatur, where’s the institutional backup, where are the researchers, the editors, the fact-checkers, the accountability?
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May 05 2022
Headline Roundup
WHO: Nearly 15 Million Deaths Associated With COVID-19 Pandemic
About 14.9 million excess deaths were directly or indirectly associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, according to a World Health Organization analysis released Thursday.
The WHO’s estimate was almost three times greater than the reported 5.4 million deaths directly attributable to COVID-19 during the first two years of the pandemic. Deaths indirectly associated with the
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Jan 23 2019
Opinion
OPINION: The Trump-Pelosi war just intensified. We’re in for two years of crisis.
There are a few things common to all presidents, whichever party they come from. They all think they get unfair media coverage. They all feel like prisoners of the White House and wish they could just go for a walk by themselves or head down to the corner bar. And they all chafe at the constraints on their power, the fact that despite occupying what appears to be the most powerful office in
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Jan 15 2021
News
Pelosi: Any GOP lawmakers who 'aided and abetted' Capitol rioters should be prosecuted
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Republican members of Congress may face criminal prosecution if they assisted rioters in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Several House Democrats have suggested their GOP colleagues may have aided Capitol rioters by providing them with tours of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 5. Pelosi said the role Republican members may have played in the insurrection "
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Feb 02 2023
News
The Cold Calculus Behind the Shrinking GOP Presidential Field
The last time the Republican National Committee held its winter meeting at the outset of an open presidential race, the state chairs and committee members arrived at the Hotel del Coronado to find three White House hopefuls and then shuttled over to the USS Midway to see a fourth prospect, Mitt Romney, give a speech teasing another run of his own.
Eight years after that gathering near
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Dec 30 2022
News
Biden signs $1.7T spending bill after it’s flown 1,500 miles to St. Croix
The omnibus flies commercial.
As thousands of travelers remained stranded at airports across the country amid a chaotic few days for the airline industry, the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill scored a ticket to St. Croix for President Biden to affix his signature at the tropical villa where he’ll ring in the new year.
The White House told NBC News on Thursday that the more
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Mar 24 2023
Perspectives Blog
Don’t Trust the News Media? That’s Good
This piece was orginally published on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor of Communitcation and Journalism at the University of Maine.
Everyone seems to hate what they call “the media.”
Attacking journalism – even accurate and verified reporting – provides a quick lift for politicians.
It’s not
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