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Jun 13 2012
News
Obama Seeks New Taxes on Rich
President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to enact new taxes on the wealthy, restructure the tax code and approve short-term spending measures as part of an election-year budget plan aimed at boosting job growth and helping the middle class.
Mr. Obama's $3.8 trillion budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 was quickly dismissed by congressional Republicans and GOP presidential
Wall Street Journal (News)Jul 30 2020
Perspectives Blog
The Roles and Responsibilities of Op-Ed Sections and of the Public
Recent conversations and controversies surrounding the venerable op-ed pages at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have been framed in various ways, with commentators using phrases such as cancel culture, an attack on freedom of speech, an example of poor fact checking, and other buzzwords of the moment.
But instead of helping us have a nuanced conversation, this discourse
Gina BaleriaMay 04 2015
News
Romney: Clinton pandering to blacks with justice reform comments
Former Massachusetts Gov. and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney says recent comments from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton about the criminal justice system were political in nature and designed to shore up support among the black community.
“I was concerned that her comments really smacked of politicization of the terrible tragedies that are going on there,” Mr
Washington TimesMay 03 2015
News
With federal probe over, Christie must decide if he will launch a 2016 White House bid
The findings of the federal probe into the rogue closure of George Washington Bridge lanes in 2013 appear to have put New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the clear, but whether he has emerged unscathed enough to make a 2016 presidential bid remains uncertain.
Since news of the scandal broke, Christie has maintained that he had no knowledge about plans to close the lanes -- a revenge plot
Fox News DigitalJun 03 2024
Headline Roundup
Trump Campaign Launches TikTok Account
Former President Donald Trump launched an official account on the popular video-sharing app TikTok over the weekend.
The Details: Trump's first post on TikTok features several video clips of him at an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) show in Newark, New Jersey. A day after the account was made, the TikTok account @realdonaldtrump had amassed over 4.2 million followers — much more
BBC News Fox News Digital USA TODAYMay 27 2019
News
Former Colorado Governor And 2020 Candidate Urges Distance From 'Socialism'
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper warned his party of straying too far to the left as it selects a nominee to face President Trump in next year's election.
Hickenlooper, one of the 23 candidates running for the Democratic Party's nomination, told NPR why he doesn't believe in some of the party's major policy proposals, such as the Green New Deal and "Medicare for All."
"If
NPR (Online News)May 27 2019
News
Trump seizes on NYU professor’s tweet to push change of libel laws
President Trump on Monday seized on a New York University professor’s false tweet as an example of journalistic malpractice while calling for the U.S. to modify its libel laws to hold news media accountable.
In his early morning tweet while on an overseas trip to Japan, the president said a fake quote attributed to him by Ian Bremmer shows “what’s going on in the age of Fake News.”
Fox News DigitalNov 12 2016
Opinion
I’m a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump.
A lot is being said now about the “silent secret Trump supporters.”
This is my confession — and explanation: I — a 51-year-old, a Muslim, an immigrant woman “of color” — am one of those silent voters for Donald Trump. And I’m not a “bigot,” “racist,” “chauvinist” or “white supremacist,” as Trump voters are being called, nor part of some “whitelash.”
In the winter of 2008, as a
Washington PostFeb 14 2020
News
The Roger Stone Sentencing Dispute
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
This week, federal prosecutors issued a sentencing recommendation for Trump ally Roger Stone, asking the judge to give Stone between 7 and 9 years in prison.Stone was convicted last November of seven crimes, Abridge NewsJun 03 2012
News
Congress sets its sights on conventions
They railed against government bureaucrats for throwing a lavish conference, and now members of Congress are grappling with their own election year extravaganzas: The Republican and Democratic national conventions. In the aftermath of Congresss public shaming of the General Services Administration for throwing an $800,000-plus conference in Las Vegas, lawmakers find themselves squeezed between
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