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Sep 01 2021
News
“Disaster for Me and My Children”: Afghan Doctor Describes Escape from Kabul After Taliban Takeover
Afghan doctor Wais Aria describes how he fled Afghanistan with his family after the Taliban takeover, packing up his wife and four children and trying for days to leave from the Kabul airport, where he was beaten by the Taliban. They managed to catch a flight out of the country Thursday and arrived in the U.S. on Saturday. “It was a disaster for me and my children,” says Aria, now in
Democracy Now!Jun 01 2022
News
Fox’s coverage in the wake of the Uvalde shooting favors nonexistent culture wars over murdered children
Last week, 19 children and two teachers were horrifically killed when an 18-year-old with an assault rifle barricaded himself in a classroom in Uvalde, Texas.
In response, Fox launched a sickening week-long, yet familiar, campaign to desensitize its audience to the massacre, hidden under the pretense of militaristic solutions and fruitless thoughts and prayers.
In its coverage,
Media MattersMar 17 2022
News
Vulnerable House Democrats now support lowering gas prices after backing policies to raise them
Politically vulnerable Democrats who once supported policies that would have raised gas prices are now singing a different tune ahead of the November midterm elections.
Democratic Reps. Elissa Slotkin and Dan Kildee of Michigan, Dina Titus of Nevada, and Kim Schrier of Washington state, who all face tough re-election battles in their districts, have cosponsored the Gas Prices Relief Act
Fox BusinessJan 19 2022
News
Letitia James seeks to force Trump, Donald Jr. and Ivanka to cooperate with probe
New York Attorney General Letitia James has taken legal action to force former President Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. and Ivanka Trump to cooperate with her investigation into the Trump Organization’s financial dealings.
James on Tuesday filed a motion seeking a court order to compel the three family members to appear for sworn testimony as required by subpoenas that have been issued
New York Post (News)Feb 04 2022
Fact Check
Biden exaggerates $10 a month ‘Obamacare’
The Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” — has inspired many exaggerated claims through the years, both from fans and foes. Now President Joe Biden is adding his own.
With a few loose words turned into a pithy formula, the president implies that his enhanced version of the ACA is much better than it really is. Biden suggests that considerably more people are getting health insurance for
Associated Press Fact CheckFeb 04 2022
News
Lethal US raid on IS encounters a doll, crib, bomb, bullets
When helicopters carrying some 50 U.S. commandos thumped onto the ground in Syria an hour after midnight, the raiders confronted a houseful of extremists and children.
Baby comforts were inside — a stuffed bunny, a blue plastic swing, a crib. So was the paraphernalia of violence — such as the bomb Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi is said by U.S. officials to have used to blow up
Associated PressMay 18 2022
News
Is It Real Now? Here's How the Baby Formula Crisis Has Hit One Biden Cabinet Secretary
So, is it real now, guys? The Left has regarded the baby formula shortage crisis as a Fox News invention. It’s not a real problem in the minds of liberal America who are nestled in their coastal and urban strongholds. That’s not shocking coming from the camp that despises motherhood and raising families. For one Biden cabinet secretary, the crisis has hit close to home. Transportation
TownhallNov 06 2021
Analysis
Progressives Helped Biden Pass His Infrastructure Bill. But They Gave Up Their Leverage.
House progressives backed down on Friday, giving President Joe Biden a chance to claim a win—even as his party’s hopes of enacting a broader agenda wobbled.
In remarks Saturday morning, Biden said that the infrastructure bill will create millions of jobs. “Yesterday we took a monumental step forward as a nation,” he said. “And we’re just getting started.”
Progressives permitted
Mother JonesMay 03 2022
News
California population keeps falling, led by coastal losses; inland areas keep growing
California’s population continued to decline after falling for the first time on record during the COVID-19 pandemic — but that loss is showing signs of slowing, new demographic data indicate.
The state’s population declined by 117,552 between Jan. 1, 2021, and Jan. 1, 2022, bringing the estimated total population to 39,185,605, according to data released by the state Department of
Los Angeles TimesFeb 03 2022
Analysis
Critical thinking on censorship
Most of us don’t know what we think, really. Throughout our lives we encounter so many influential entities — from our family, our culture, our schools, by advertising, by the media — that we rarely have thoughts that are totally original. Most are variations of what we already know or have been conditioned to think and feel.
How might we learn which thoughts really belong to us, and
The Fulcrum