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Mar 08 2021
News
New York Attorney General Taps 2 Lawyers To Lead Andrew Cuomo Investigation
New York’s attorney general on Monday named two independent lawyers to lead the investigation into multiple sexual harassment allegations made against Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), saying the pair would help “provide New Yorkers with the answers they deserve.”
Attorney General Letitia James tapped Joon Kim, a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Anne Clark, an
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Jul 19 2021
Opinion
It’s Not a Border Crisis. It’s a Climate Crisis.
Here, in the small Mayan indigenous village of Xucup, men and boys pack tightly and stand in the back of pick-up trucks in the early morning, heading to the fields to check on their crops after a night of harsh rain.
It’s early June — and any strong storm has the potential to derail months of work tending to crops, mostly maize, which soon people will harvest to feed their families. And
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Jul 21 2022
Fact Check
Fact check: No clinics have closed since Roe v. Wade overturned, Planned Parenthood says
The claim: Planned Parenthood clinics are shutting down all over the country
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion, several social media users falsely claimed Planned Parenthood shut down clinics across the country.
"Why are Planned Parenthood clinics closing down all over the country?" reads a now-deleted June 24 tweet that
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May 27 2019
News
The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day
More than two dozen U.S. cities claim to the be the “birthplace of Memorial Day."
In July of 1866, a New York newspaper reported on a “grand gathering” of Union veterans in Salem, Ill. Gen. John A. Logan, head of the fraternal group the Grand Army of the Republic, made a speech, railing against the defeated Confederates and urging rights and protections for freed slaves.
He also
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May 16 2022
News
Supreme Court agrees with Cruz, strikes campaign contribution restriction
The Supreme Court split along ideological lines Monday and agreed with Sen. Ted Cruz’s challenge to a law limiting post-election political contributions to repay a candidate’s loan to his campaign.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) asked the court to take the case, after a three-judge panel in Washington sided with the Texas Republican and said the law unconstitutionally restricts a
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Oct 07 2021
News
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Texas Heartbeat Act
A federal judge on Wednesday issued an order temporarily blocking the enforcement of Texas’s heartbeat abortion law, which allows private citizens to sue providers that perform abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman granted the Biden administration’s request to temporarily block enforcement of the abortion ban and denied the state’s request
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Jun 02 2022
Perspectives Blog
What Are "Assault Rifles" and "Assault Weapons"?
In the wake of mass violence in the United States, especially attacks that involve rifles, some voices often call for bans on "assault rifles" or "assault weapons," while others push back. But what exactly would that include? For advocates of such bans, "assault rifles" and "assault weapons'' are terms used broadly to describe automatic and semiautomatic rifles, especially those
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Nov 19 2021
Conversation Guide
Religious Freedom and Non-Discrimination
Our constitution guarantees our freedom to express our religion. But what happens when our religious beliefs impact others in society? How can we honor and respect others with different viewpoints? Most recently, the Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage was the law of the land. But what about traditionalists whose creed says that it is a sin? This conversation is about the line between
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May 24 2022
News
Trump heads for big rebuke in Tuesday’s elections
Donald Trump wants Georgia Republicans to ditch their governor on Tuesday.
If the polls are even remotely in the right ballpark, they’re about to tell Trump to take a hike.
The Republican base is poised to take a turn delivering Trump a stinging rebuke in a state where, during his presidency, the GOP lost two Senate seats, two House seats and the state’s Electoral College votes
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Jan 08 2022
Data
Americans at the ends of the ideological spectrum are the most active in national politics
U.S. adults who fall on either end of the ideological spectrum are more active than other Americans across several measures of political engagement, from voting to posting about politics on social media to donating to campaigns. Americans who hold less consistently liberal or conservative views, by contrast, tend to be less engaged on these topics, as Pew Research Center studies have long
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