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Oct 14 2020
News
The Fracking Debate
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
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Hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking, is a drilling technique used for extracting oil or natural gas from deep underground.Fracking is a hotly debated environmental and political issue. Advocates insist Abridge NewsApr 13 2020
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Pence Announces 20 Million Anti-Body Coronavirus Tests To Be Made Per Month
Vice President Mike Pence announced on Monday during the White House Coronavirus Task Force that 20 million anti-body tests are now being produced per month, which will likely be a key component to reopening the economy.
“A point that I will ask Dr. Birx to expand on in just a moment is that fact that beyond the new 15-minute tests by Abbott laboratories, beyond what we expect to be, a
The Daily WireApr 13 2020
Analysis
Public Health Authorities Have Failed America at Every Level
President Donald Trump recently slammed the World Health Organization (WHO) for how it has handled the coronavirus pandemic, pointing out that the agency had "literally called every shot wrong." He's right about that. But then, so did officials at every level of government, starting with Trump himself.
If there is any reason for the WHO to exist, it is to alert the world to burgeoning
ReasonJun 08 2021
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Joe Manchin’s hard no on voting bill leaves Democrats seeking new path
For months, Democrats in the US Senate have danced delicately around Joe Manchin, giving him space and holding out hope that the West Virginia Democrat would eventually come around and give his must-win vote to legislation that would amount to the most sweeping voting rights protections in a generation.
That detente effectively ended on Sunday, when Manchin authored an op-ed making it
The GuardianOct 13 2020
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Amy Coney Barrett's First Confirmation Hearing
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Amy Coney Barrett's first confirmation hearing began on Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Barrett compared her legal philosophy to that of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, saying that "courts should Abridge NewsSep 08 2020
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Rochester police leaders retire after suffocation death
Top police leaders in New York’s third-largest city are retiring en masse amid criticism of the city’s handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, the mayor of Rochester said Tuesday.
La’Ron Singletary, the city’s police chief, is among those retiring, as is Deputy Chief Joseph M. Morabito and possibly other senior commanders, Mayor Lovely Warren said.
Warren made the
Associated PressSep 08 2020
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Rochester Police Chief Resigns After Accusations of Cover-Up in Prude Case
The police chief of Rochester, N.Y., and several of his department’s highest ranking officials resigned on Tuesday in the aftermath of the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who suffocated after he had been placed in a hood by city police officers and pinned to the ground.
The resignations of the police chief, La’Ron D. Singletary, the deputy chief, Joseph Morabito, and, according to
New York Times (News)Apr 11 2020
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Why uncertainty about coronavirus breeds opportunity for misinformation
Americans right now face a dual challenge: to protect themselves and others from the new illness COVID-19, which is highly contagious and potentially deadly, as well as from the dangers of misinformation about the virus.
Because so much is still unknown about the disease, disseminating perfectly accurate information about its spread and symptoms has proved challenging for public health
PBS NewsHourJun 07 2021
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Military sexual assault: Time for Congress to intervene?
The military is defined by a hierarchical chain of command. Some inside and outside the ranks wonder if, on the issue of sexual assault, this has become a stumbling block to progress.
When Amy Marsh decided to report a sexual assault at the hands of one of her husband’s colleagues to Air Force officials, she was “very optimistic” that some good would come of it.
“We absolutely
Christian Science MonitorAug 04 2021
Analysis
Biden bends to liberals, gives renters another eviction moratorium
The Biden administration on Tuesday buckled to pressure from liberal House Democrats and announced a limited moratorium on evictions as landlords and tenants flooded courts across the country after a comprehensive federal ban expired over the weekend.
The action will be targeted to areas of the U.S. with the highest rates of COVID-19 infections, covering 80% of the nation’s counties and
Washington Times