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May 17 2014
News
Gowdy names Capitol Hill veteran to Benghazi probe
House Benghazi committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., tapped a veteran of Capitol Hill and the K Street lobbying world as majority staff director of the controversial panel, amid indications that opponents – both of the new staff director and of the committee’s mandate – are ramping up their efforts.
To lead the Republican majority staff, Gowdy selected Philip Kiko, a key aide to
Fox News DigitalMar 18 2021
News
Recall or science? Newsom's sudden reopening push has many wondering
California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the past year as one of the nation's most restrictive pandemic governors. Now, he’s throwing the doors open.
Facing a recall threat, Newsom this month announced the return of outdoor concerts and Major League Baseball games, allowed Disneyland to open its gates soon and signed legislation that attempts to reopen schools.
The Democratic governor
PoliticoApr 02 2020
Analysis
Inside an Urgent Mission to Protect the Homeless From Coronavirus
On a recent evening in Portland, Oregon, Dr. William Toepper put on a paper surgical mask and made his way down a muddy road toward a row of shelters pitched beneath the fir trees. Smoke drifted up from a small fire tended by two women. One of them stood as he approached. “You doing OK?” he asked.
“Yeah,” she said. “Got any food?”
“We’ve got survivor kits,” Toepper offered,
The NationMar 17 2015
News
House GOP Budget Plan Calls for More Military Spending, Ending Health Law
House Republicans unveiled a budget proposal Tuesday that would eliminate the federal deficit within 10 years, largely by overhauling Medicare and Medicaid and other social safety-net programs.
The proposal uses a contentious tactic designed to placate defense hawks concerned about military spending curbs and deficit hawks uneasy over waning fiscal discipline. It would boost military
Wall Street Journal (News)May 03 2014
News
In Surveillance Debate, White House Turns Its Focus to Silicon Valley
Nearly a year after the first disclosures about the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices at home and abroad, the agency is emerging with mandates to make only modest changes: some new limits on what kind of data about Americans it can hold, and White House oversight of which foreign leaders’ cellphones it can tap and when it can conduct cyberoperations against adversaries.
New York Times (News)May 29 2020
News
What schools will look like when they reopen: Scheduled days home, more online learning, lots of hand-washing
Imagine, for a moment, American children returning to school this fall.
The school week looks vastly different, with most students attending school two or three days a week and doing the rest of their learning at home. At school, desks are spaced apart to discourage touching. Some classrooms extend into unused gymnasiums, libraries or art rooms – left vacant while schools put on hold
USA TODAYNov 20 2020
News
The Exemption in Gov. Newsom's Lockdown Order That Exposes Its Absurdity
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a “limited Stay at Home Order” beginning Saturday for one month.
“Non-essential work and gatherings must stop from 10pm-5am in counties in the purple tier,” Newsom said.
In a statement, he noted that it was the same as his March lockdown order but was only taking place during the seven-hour window.
The order affects people in 41
TownhallMay 20 2021
News
As GOP-run states slash jobless aid, the Biden administration finds it has few options
The Biden administration has scrambled to devise a way to keep paying heightened unemployment benefits to an estimated 3.6 million Americans who stand to lose them soon in Republican-led states, but Labor Department officials have come to believe that the law does not allow them to do so.
With a federal intervention now unlikely, jobless Americans in at least 22 states including Arizona
Washington PostAug 24 2021
Analysis
The FDA Really Did Have to Take This Long
If vaccine approval feels maddeningly scrupulous, that’s because the alternative is worse.
After months of anticipation, Americans have a fully licensed COVID-19 vaccine. Today, the FDA announced the approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s shot for people 16 and older—the first complete thumbs-up among the three vaccines available in the U.S.
The pervasive mood has been: Finally. Pfizer’s
The AtlanticJun 29 2020
Analysis
All the ways the coronavirus will make this school year harder than the last, even if campuses reopen
School communities desperate for normalcy are hoping that the new school year will be more stable than the last, when the coronavirus forced schools to close and launch remote learning overnight. But that seems like wishful thinking, as 2020-2021 is shaping up to be even more problematic.
School districts are embarking on novel experiments in learning, unveiling plans to reopen with new
Washington Post