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Nov 01 2019
News
The Controversy Surrounding Katie Hill’s Resignation from Congress
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This week, U.S. Representative Katie Hill announced her resignation from Congress. Hill is a freshman congresswoman from California, and one of the few openly bisexual members of Congress. Hill’s resignation comes amid an ethics Abridge News
Aug 31 2019
News
Justice Ginsburg reports she’s ‘very well’ following cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Saturday she’s “alive” and on her way to being “very well” following radiation treatment for cancer.
Ginsburg, 86, made the comments at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington. The event came a little over a week after Ginsburg disclosed that she had completed three weeks of outpatient radiation
Associated Press
Feb 03 2020
News
Closing arguments to begin in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump
House impeachment managers and President Donald Trump's legal team will make their closing arguments Monday as senators prepare to vote on whether to convict or acquit the president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Those two articles of impeachment were approved by the Democratic-controlled House on Dec. 18 after a two-month inquiry into allegations that Trump
USA TODAY
Aug 30 2019
News
A Suburb Believed in Liberal Ideals. Then Came a New Busing Plan.
This suburb, with its high-performing schools, seems a haven of diversity and progressiveness. Signs that trumpet “Stigma-free Town” and “Hate Has No Home Here” hang from lampposts and, after a series of fatal police shootings across the country, “Black Lives Matter” placards popped up on lawns.
But now a strategy to tackle racial inequity in the school district is challenging the town’
New York Times (News)
Jun 06 2015
News
Here's Why All These Political Cattle Calls Matter
Stop us if you've heard this one before — the vast field of GOP presidential hopefuls is gathering in a critical early state this weekend to give speeches, woo voters and court activists. That's what's been happening nearly every weekend since the beginning of the year, with Republican groups, influencers and politicians each hoping to attract top-tier candidates to their event.
With
NPR (Online News)
Dec 10 2016
News
Despite Trump, Is the Clean Energy Future Inevitable?
No matter who's running the government, America's "transition to a clean energy economy is irrevocably underway," the Natural Resources Defense Council asserted in its Accelerating into a Clean Energy Future report this week. Report co-author Ralph Cavanagh added, "The nationwide momentum for pollution-free energy is undeniable and irresistible because clean energy now costs less than dirty
Reason
Feb 26 2013
Opinion
Second Amendment
Given the reference to "a well regulated Militia" and "the security of a free State," the ACLU has long taken the position that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right.
ACLU
Apr 03 2020
News
Report: Experts warn that coronavirus can possibly spread through talking, breathing
Dr. Harvey Fineberg, chairman of a committee with the National Academy of Sciences, says that coronavirus can be also possibly be spread even by talking and breathing.
Ditch the fake news ==> Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It's free! Fineberg is also the former dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.
Fineberg presented the White House with
The Blaze
Sep 29 2018
News
The NAFTA deadline is Sunday. What happens if there’s no deal?
The Trump administration’s self-imposed deadline to bring Canada into a revised North American Free Trade Agreement is Sunday — and there’s a chance negotiators will miss it.
There was a little optimism late Friday, after Reuters reported that Mexico and the US decided to hold off publishing the text of its United States-Mexico bilateral trade deal on Friday — a signal that both weren’t
Vox
Jun 18 2020
News
Congress Targets Social Media Companies for Circulating Chinese Propaganda
The country’s largest social media companies are allowing the Chinese Communist Party to disseminate propaganda to American audiences with little oversight or warning, according to an ongoing congressional investigation into these companies’ failure to police suspect content.
Investigators with the House Foreign Affairs Committee have been pressing Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to
Washington Free Beacon