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Jan 30 2021
News
Pentagon halts plan to give COVID vaccine to alleged 9/11 mastermind, Gitmo detainees
The Pentagon officially hit pause on a plan to offer the COVID-19 vaccine to prisoners held at the US military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“No Guantanamo detainees have been vaccinated. We’re pausing the plan to move forward, as we review force protection protocols. We remain committed to our obligations to keep our troops safe,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a tweet
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Jun 16 2017
News
Donald Trump to Issue Directive Narrowing Obama’s Cuba Opening
Tourist travel and transactions with Cuban military will be curbed, but many normalization steps will be maintained
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Nov 29 2021
Opinion
The Genealogy of Woke Capital
American companies’ embrace of radical ideas appears both sudden and inexplicable. In internal trainings, companies from Disney to Lockheed-Martin ask their employees to “challenge colorblind ideologies” and “deconstruct their white male privilege.” Firms spend vast sums of money on such trainings, on diversity-related speakers, and on maintaining a progressive image. Employees find themselves
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Oct 12 2021
News
Biden Approval Ratings in Decline
Americans are voicing their disapproval of President Joe Biden, nearly nine months after he took office.
In a string of national polls in the last week, an aggregate of 49.2% of voters surveyed disapproved of Biden’s handling of the presidency, while 44.5% approved, according to the FiveThirtyEight polling site. Five of the recent polls registered disapproval of the country’s 46th
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Mar 11 2013
Opinion
The United States' Long-Term Debt Problem Isn't as Bad as You Thought
Most of the projected massive run up in debt over the next quarter century is actually driven by the assumption that future Congresses will enact huge new deficit-increasing tax cuts and spending hikes not by the growth in entitlement spending.
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Aug 10 2021
News
Senate passes $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill
A sweeping, $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package aimed at addressing the maintenance of roads, bridges and broadband easily coasted to passage Tuesday morning after days of debate.
The measure — negotiated by a group of 22 bipartisan lawmakers led by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) — includes $550 billion in new spending, with $110 billion set to be
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Apr 16 2018
News
How Congress’s and Trump’s latest deficit binge paved the way for the next one
By 2022, the U.S. government is projected to spend almost as much money on interest payments for its massive debt as it will on the Pentagon, more than $600 billion every year.
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Sep 01 2018
News
Betsy DeVos says she won't stand in way of schools buying guns
Education Secretary and former Michigan school choice advocate Betsy DeVos suggested she won't stand in the way of local school districts spending federal funds to buy guns to protect themselves and their students.
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Aug 31 2021
Analysis
Stranded in Kabul: A U.S. Resident Runs Out of Options
WASHINGTON — For more than a week, Samiullah “Sammy” Naderi, a U.S. legal permanent resident, waited days and nights with his wife and son outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, hoping to be let in so that they could leave on one of the dozens of daily flights headed to America.
“It’s 50 feet away,” Mr. Naderi, 23, said Sunday night in a short telephone interview, speaking in
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Feb 17 2019
News
Trump’s Attempt to Circumvent Congress Leaves Uneasy Senate Republicans With Hard Choice
Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Republican of West Virginia, spent the last two weeks hammering out a deal on federal spending and border security with colleagues from both parties, reassured by a sense that Congress was finally asserting itself as a civil, stabilizing force.
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