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Nov 03 2021
News
Minneapolis voters reject measure to replace police department
Voters in Minnesota's largest city have rejected what would have been an unprecedented move to dismantle the police department on Tuesday after calls for reform following the death of George Floyd.
The measure asked voters if they favored amending the city's charter to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a Department of Public Safety. The initiative would have removed
Fox News DigitalJun 07 2021
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Sen. Cruz argues Facebook was censoring COVID-19 content ‘on behalf of the government’
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, argued on "Sunday Morning Futures" that "it now is clear" that Facebook was "utilizing their monopoly position to censor on behalf of the government" regarding information related to COVID-19 and its origins.
Cruz made the comment reacting to Facebook saying on May 26 that it would no longer ban posts suggesting COVID-19 is man-made amid mounting calls from
Fox News DigitalSep 01 2021
News
Purdue Pharma Is Dissolved and Sacklers Pay $4.5 Billion to Settle Opioid Claims
Purdue Pharma, the maker of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, was dissolved on Wednesday in a wide-ranging bankruptcy settlement that will also require the company’s owners, members of the Sackler family, to turn over billions of their fortune to address the deadly opioid epidemic.
But the agreement includes a much-disputed condition: It largely absolves the Sacklers of Purdue
New York Times (News)Apr 23 2024
Headline Roundup
US Preparing to Sanction IDF Unit Linked to Human Rights Abuses
The U.S. is reportedly planning to impose sanctions on the Netzah Yehuda, an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) unit linked to alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank.
The Details: The sanctions stem from the Leahy Laws, which prohibit foreign military or police units from receiving U.S. aid if credible information suggests they have committed gross human rights
CBS News (Online) Forbes Washington ExaminerAug 18 2017
Opinion
What Identity Politics Hath Wrought
There's a whiff of Weimar in the air. During the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), Germany was threatened by Communist revolutionaries and Nazi uprisings. Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau was assassinated, and violent street fighting was commonplace. Then Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.
Michael BaroneMay 16 2017
News
Deep State Leaks Highly Classified Info to Washington Post to Smear President Trump
Current and former U.S. officials, supposedly concerned that President Trump had shared some “highly classified information” with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador to the U.S. last week, leaked that information to the Washington Post in an article published Monday.
Breitbart NewsJul 08 2021
News
Reprimand of judges for social media misconduct warrants updated guidelines, experts say
A local judge in upstate New York resigned in May after a state agency opened an investigation into Facebook posts that allegedly conveyed anti-LGBTQ and anti-Muslim bias and showed favoritism toward law enforcement.
That same month, a domestic relations judge in Alabama was temporarily removed from the bench after state judicial investigators accused her or someone on her behalf of
NBC News DigitalJun 07 2021
News
Supreme Court rules against immigrants with temporary protected status
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously against an illegal, but temporarily protected, immigrant seeking permanent residency in the country.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the court agreed with a circuit court decision that illegal immigrants with temporary protected status are not eligible for green cards, which allow them to remain in the country indefinitely. The decision means
Washington ExaminerAug 31 2021
News
School Investigates Teacher Who Said She Told Students to Pledge Allegiance to Pride Flag
A California school district is investigating one of its teachers for encouraging students to pledge allegiance to the pride flag in place of the American flag, according to a viral video posted by the teacher and a district statement.
Fox News identified the teacher as Kristin Pitzen of Newport-Mesa Unified School District in Orange County. In a video, she shared that she took down the
The Daily SignalJun 05 2021
News
Biden faces challenge with Democrats on infrastructure package
President Biden faces hurdles toward getting consensus among Democrats on an infrastructure package, regardless of if it's bipartisan legislation or if Democrats pursue legislation on their own.
Progressives are getting frustrated with Biden’s ongoing talks with Republicans, and want the White House to start to pursue an infrastructure package that could pass without GOP support through
The Hill