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Jun 08 2021
News
DeSantis cashes in on rising star status with big-money blitz
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses a group of well-heeled Republican Party donors on Thursday, he won’t be on home turf like Naples’ “Millionaires’ Row” or in Indian Creek Island’s “Billionaire Bunker” — he’ll be across the country in San Diego, one of the GOP's few traditional power centers in California.
The appearance is part of an aggressive summertime out-of-state fundraising
Politico
Mar 07 2022
Perspectives Blog
When CNN Goes Back to News
From the CenterThe war in Ukraine has resulted in untold amounts of suffering, misery and death. It has dramatically upended the post-Cold War geopolitical and security infrastructure of the European continent and has remade American domestic politics. It may also lead to CNN becoming a cable news network again. When media entrepreneur Ted Turner founded a cable television network
Dan Schnur
Mar 11 2017
News
No ‘phony’ business: Trump now a believer in government jobs report
President Trump, who as a candidate often criticized the government’s jobs’ reports during the Obama administration as “phony,” became a believer on Friday. The Labor Department, now part of the Trump administration, reported Friday that employers added 235,000 jobs in Mr. Trump’s first full month in office, and the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4.7 percent.
Washington Times
Aug 02 2013
News
Jobs Report Masks Real Problems In U.S. Labor Market
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has said the official U.S. unemployment rate could mask the real problems in the labor market. He got proof of that in Julys jobs report.
HuffPost
Jul 12 2019
News
How to dramatically reduce gun violence in American cities
This week, Americans woke up to familiar headlines: Over the July 4 holiday weekend, six people were killed and 66 were hurt in shootings in Chicago. Eighteen people were shot in St. Louis. Seventeen in Boston. It was another marker of what often feels like an intractable urban gun violence problem in America.
But in his new book Bleeding Out, criminal justice scholar Thomas Abt argues
Vox
Dec 15 2020
News
FDA finds Moderna coronavirus vaccine is effective and safe
The Food and Drug Administration released data showing that Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective.
The FDA's review, which was published on Tuesday, confirmed Moderna’s previous assessment that its vaccine had an efficacy rate of 94.1% in a trial of 30,000 people. It noted that potential side effects of the vaccine include fever, headache, and fatigue but added that those
Washington Examiner
Jul 30 2013
News
Obama Proposes 'Grand Bargain'
President Barack Obama is extending a new proposal to Republicans that he hopes will break the political gridlock on budget negotiations offering to cut corporate tax rates in exchange for job investments.
HuffPost
Feb 09 2014
News
Immigration Impasse Could Rekindle Fight Over Deportations
The House's retreat on immigration may produce an unintended ripple in the form of increased pressure on President Barack Obama to unilaterally stem his record-setting rate of deportations.
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Wall Street Journal (News)
Apr 08 2013
News
FactCheck.org : Gun Rights Group's Aim Is Way Off
A conservative gun rights group is going after three congressmen with A ratings from the National Rifle Association by falsely claiming they support President Obamas gun control agenda.
FactCheck.org
Aug 13 2020
Background
Free speech or censorship? Social media litigation is a hot legal battleground
The now-retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in an opinion on a 2017 First Amendment case, called the cyber age a revolution of historic proportions, noting that “we cannot appreciate yet its full dimensions and vast potential to alter how we think, express ourselves, and define who we want to be.”
Kennedy said cyberspace, and social media in particular, was among the “
American Bar Association