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Jul 01 2020
News
Nearly $1 Billion Is Shifted From Police in Budget That Pleases No One
New York City officials on Tuesday agreed to a grim coronavirus-era budget that will sharply curtail municipal services, impose a hiring freeze and, in a move meant to placate calls to defund the police, shift roughly $1 billion from the Police Department.
The $88.1 billion budget reflected the economic shutdown that followed the outbreak, causing a $9 billion revenue shortfall that
New York Times (News)Jul 01 2020
News
Joe Biden Demands Facebook Censor Trump: ‘The Time for Action Is Now’
Joe Biden’s campaign wrote a letter to social media giant Facebook on Monday demanding the platform censor posts of his political rival, President Donald Trump.
Acknowledging the campaign has sent “prior letters” to tattle on Trump, Biden campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, wrote in part:
As I am sure you will agree, it is absolutely vital that the American public clearly
Breitbart NewsApr 17 2013
Opinion
Senate rejects expanded gun background checks
The Senate prepared to vote on amendments to tougher gun proposals in the aftermath of the Newtown massacre.
CNN DigitalNov 12 2020
News
Who decides when an election is over?
The media don’t determine the winner, and President Trump has the right not to concede. But there are after-effects. Enter America’s next great civics lesson.
Dear reader:
When the presidential race was “called” last Saturday for former Vice President Joe Biden, I was sitting with a few other reporters in an Italian restaurant near the Trump National Golf Club in northern
Christian Science MonitorFeb 11 2020
News
Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire primary in razor-thin victory over Pete Buttigieg
MANCHESTER, NH — Sen. Bernie Sanders has narrowly edged out Pete Buttigieg in a nail-biting New Hampshire primary — winning in a razor-thin victory in the Granite State after the chaotic Iowa caucuses, according to ABC, NBC and CBS network projections.
The self-described “Democratic Socialist” and party outsider from Vermont won 26 percent of the vote but failed to turn out a revolution
New York Post (News)Jun 13 2015
News
Business Leaders React With Dismay to Defeat of Trade Bill
As big a setback as Friday’s vote on Capitol Hill was for President Obama’s efforts to advance his trade agenda, it was an even bigger rebuff for the leaders of American business.
While there are deep divisions over trade policy among Democrats, and to some extent among Republicans as well, corporate America has been nearly unified in its support of a deal that would lower various
New York Times (News)Mar 06 2020
News
Has Obama Been Meddling in the 2020 Democratic Primaries?
Former President Barack Obama is keeping a low-profile. He’s not working to screw over Bernie Sanders. He’s not really following the race. He doesn’t talk about politics all that much—but now he’s closely keeping tabs. Whatever the case, Obama’s confidants have done well in muddying the waters as to what the popular Democrat in recent memory has been up to in his post-White House life. Sort of
TownhallJun 30 2020
Opinion
I opposed taking Woodrow Wilson’s name off our school. Here’s why I changed my mind.
The Princeton University Board of Trustees voted on Friday to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the university’s School of Public and International Affairs. It acted because Wilson’s racist opinions and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school whose scholars, students and alumni must stand firmly against racism and for equality and justice.
For my university, the
Guest WriterJan 29 2016
News
Republicans barnstorm Iowa after debate, as underdogs show new life
If theres one message the Republicans not named Donald Trump aimed to get across at the final debate before Iowa's caucuses, it was this 50 states still have to vote and a lot could change when they do.
Fox News DigitalMay 31 2020
News
Trump vs. Twitter: Making sense of the fact-check fight
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday targeting the rights that social media companies have to alter or remove content posted to their platforms. The order came amid an ongoing dispute between the president and Twitter stemming from the company’s decision to append a fact check to two of his tweets falsely connecting mail-in voting with election fraud.
Trump and his
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