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Aug 30 2021
News
Biden enters perilous final hours of Afghanistan mission
The remaining U.S. forces in Afghanistan are set to leave the country on Tuesday, marking an end to a nearly 20 year military engagement.
But the exit will not be a clean break for the Biden administration, which still must grapple with whether to continue evacuation missions for Americans and Afghan allies left behind, as well as the fallout from a deadly ISIS attack last week that
The Hill
Oct 06 2020
Fact Check
Biden’s verbal blunders: Separating the real from the fake
Before news of President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test upended the election cycle with a host of unknowns, one of his campaign’s leading narratives was that of Joe Biden as a clumsy, aging orator who frequently flubs the facts.
The evidence driving this line of attack on the former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee has been a mixture of truths and exaggerations
PolitiFact
Jan 20 2017
News
Where America's Terrorists Actually Come From
Syrian refugees have committed zero attacks in the United States.
The Atlantic
Oct 08 2020
News
Never-Trump group is 2020’s top ‘dark money’ spender so far
President Donald Trump’s reelection effort faces an onslaught of attack ads from well-funded groups run by disaffected Republicans. And one of the most prominent of these Never-Trump groups isn’t disclosing its sources of funding.
Defending Democracy Together has spent $11.5 million on independent expenditures opposing Trump or backing Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Organized as a 501(c
OpenSecrets.org
Jan 18 2021
News
Can Biden's inauguration be kept safe?
When President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday, he’ll take the oath of office while standing on the very steps that were overrun by a violent mob of Trump supporters just two weeks earlier. Right-wing extremists online are plotting ways to repeat their assault on the U.S. Capitol, potentially on a much larger — and far more deadly — scale.
Concerns over another
Yahoo! The 360
Jul 21 2019
News
Schiff: Trump 'has decided racism is good politics'
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday said that President Trump's attacks on four progressive congresswomen of color is part of a strategy to embrace racism as a political strategy. “I think tragically the president has decided racism is good politics," Schiff said on CBS's "Face The Nation."
The Hill
Apr 30 2019
News
Synagogue Shooting, and NYT Cartoon
On Saturday, “a gunman walked into a San Diego-area synagogue crowded with Sabbath worshippers on Saturday and opened fire with an assault-style rifle, killing one woman inside and wounding three others.” (Reuters)
The left is focused on the shooting -- condemning white nationalism, and criticizing Trump for his divisive rhetoric and once again defending the Charlottesville protestors
The Flip Side
Jul 07 2022
Perspectives Blog
Gun Safety Laws Questioned After Illinois Shooting
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The suspect in the country's latest mass shooting bought several guns legally despite a history of concerning behavior and run-ins with police, and many are questioning why Illinois's gun safety laws didn't prevent him from doing
AllSides Staff
Dec 08 2020
News
Texas files desperate bid with Supreme Court asking justices to allow lawsuit against battleground states
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Supreme Court late Monday night to take up a lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, arguing that the battleground states exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws. He seeks to block election results from the states.
It is the latest long shot petition to reach the high court
CNN Digital
Oct 28 2020
News
Trump’s campaign website hit with cryptocurrency scam
President Trump’s campaign website was hacked Tuesday afternoon in an apparent cryptocurrency scam, the New York Times reports. “This site was seized,” the fake FBI notice read, before claiming without proof to have gained access to Trump’s private communications containing evidence of wrongdoing. Two cryptocurrency wallet addresses were then listed, asking visitors to send funds and
The Verge