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Sep 25 2014
News
Colleges Win, Student Borrowers Lose In Obama Administration Absolution
The U.S. Department of Education is turning its back on at least 1,000 borrowers in favor of shielding their former colleges from potentially crippling sanctions that would have resulted from high rates of default on federal student loans.
HuffPostOct 01 2013
News
Government shutdown begins as gridlocked Congress gives up
Congress adjourned early Tuesday morning without renewing funding for the federal government and the White House issued orders beginning the grim task of shutting down nonessential services across the nation.
Washington TimesDec 11 2019
News
Jersey City: Deadly gun battle kills six people
A police officer and at least five other people have died in a series of gun battles in Jersey City, in the US state of New Jersey.
Two other police officers were wounded during the incident, which ended in a shootout after two gunmen barricaded themselves in a kosher supermarket.
A motive for the incident is not yet known. But the mayor said investigators believe the location
BBC NewsFeb 19 2015
News
Ted Cruz warns Obama to stop spending on amnesty plans for illegal immigrants
Sen. Ted Cruz warned the administration Wednesday that it needs to stop even planning for an eventual amnesty for illegal immigrants, saying a federal judge’s broad injunction means it would be illegal for the Homeland Security Department to spend any money on President Obama’s immigration plans.
Washington TimesDec 03 2015
News
San Bernardino Shooting Investigators Seek Clues to Motive
Investigators on Thursday hunted for a motive in the backgrounds of a husband and wife suspected in a shooting rampage that left 14 dead and 17 others wounded here, while federal agents traced the origins of the four guns recovered from the suspects — at least two of them bought legally — and officers combed through a sprawling set of crime scenes for evidence.
New York Times (News)Apr 20 2019
News
This Is The Part Of ‘Medicare For All’ That You Never Hear About
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and his allies talk a lot about how “Medicare for All” would take back money from insurers and drug companies, and use those savings to help make sure every American has generous health insurance. That is accurate. But Sanders and his allies rarely mention that Medicare for All would also restrict the flow of money into the rest of the health care industry,
HuffPostJun 01 2020
Opinion
Good Policing Saves Black Lives
A report by Harvard’s Roland Fryer shows that when the cops pull back, homicides increase.
How do you root out bad cops without changing the behavior of good cops?
That’s a question explored in a forthcoming academic paper on policing the police by Harvard economist Roland Fryer and co-author Tanaya Devi. Given the current nationwide protests and mob violence ignited by the death
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Dec 22 2014
News
New York Times calls on feds to investigate Dick Cheney for torture
n a Monday editorial titled “Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses,” The New York Times called on the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation of former Vice President Dick Cheney and several other Bush administration officials for actions they took to counter terrorism and root out terrorists, post Sept. 11, 2001.
The press for a federal query came in response to the Senate
Washington TimesFeb 01 2014
News
Senate Resolution to Tackle Common Core’s Threat of ‘National Curriculum’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is taking on the controversial Common Core state education standards saying in a draft resolution that what was intended to be a state initiative was “transformed into an incentive-based mandate from the federal government.
The BlazeDec 09 2019
News
Justice Department Inspector General Finds ‘Serious Performance Failures’ in FBI’s Carter Page Probe
The Justice Department’s top watchdog blasted the FBI for a series of “fundamental errors” in its probe of a Trump campaign official but said it found no evidence that political bias fueled the investigation.
Less than an hour after the long-awaited findings from Inspector General Michael Horowitz were released, a federal prosecutor conducting a separate investigation of the FBI’s
Daily Beast