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Dec 26 2020
Opinion
Is Biden’s Bipartisan Optimism Naive, or Exactly What the Country Needs?
The recent news about President-elect Joe Biden seems all business: cabinet appointments, pandemic plans, transition teams. But who is Joe Biden, the person? And what kind of president will he be?
That’s what Evan Osnos set out to explore in his new biography Joe Biden: The Life, The Run, and What Matters Now. Joe Biden is a man who’s faced enormous personal tragedy and devoted himself
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Nov 02 2020
Analysis
Why fracking is in Trump’s closing argument
One of President Trump’s big closing arguments is all about fracking, and there’s a good reason why: He thinks it can deliver him the voters he needs to win Pennsylvania, potentially the pivotal state in this election.
Trump has been building up his pro-fracking argument for weeks, intensifying the push after his Democratic rival Joe Biden said during the final presidential debate he
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Nov 02 2020
Fact Check
Does Joe Biden’s plan tax semi-automatic firearms?
If Joe Biden is elected president, Americans who own certain kinds of guns may owe the federal government some money.
One Facebook post, published Oct. 29 by the page for a Texas-based apparel company, claims that Americans who own semi-automatic firearms or high-capacity magazines would be charged $200 per unit under the Democratic presidential candidate’s gun policy.
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May 14 2020
Opinion
Adam Schiff lied about the Trump investigation — and the media let him
Last week, Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell forced Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff’s hand. If the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee didn’t release the transcripts of 53 interviews from the committee’s Russia collusion investigations, then he’d do it himself. The transcripts, many of them from nearly three years ago, were declassified and ready for public
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Apr 30 2021
Opinion
Nine in 20 of us identify as independents. So how can we be polarized?
Gallup's fresh quarterly assessment of Americans' political leanings finds 44 percent of Americans regard themselves as independents. This is a remarkable statistic — especially because we are living in a time when traditional media and social media continue to hammer away at the claim that we are a nation that is polarized.
Our people are polarized and, the media's conventional wisdom
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Jul 08 2020
News
Biden says he will rejoin WHO on his first day in office
Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he would reverse President Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) if elected.
The former vice president said rejoining the WHO would be one of his first steps as president.
“Americans are safer when America is engaged in strengthening global health. On my first day as President, I will rejoin the
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Jan 24 2021
News
US Lawmaker Urges Biden to Keep His Promise of Addressing TikTok Security Risks
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is urging President Joe Biden to address concerns posed by popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok.
“I encourage the Biden admin to stick to its concerns about CCP [Chinese Communist Party] social media companies like TikTok, which put our personal data & nat’l security at risk,” McCaul stated
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Jul 14 2018
News
Mueller’s Latest Indictments Show That ‘Witches’ Are Very Real
Earlier today the Grand Jury for the District of Columbia charged twelve Russian intelligence officers with conspiring “to gain unauthorized access (to ‘hack’) into the computers of U.S. persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, steal documents from those computers, and stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.” The
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Sep 23 2020
News
GOP senators’ report calls Hunter Biden’s board position with Ukraine firm ‘problematic,’ but fails to show how it changed U.S. policy
A pair of Senate Republican committee chairmen released a report Wednesday arguing that Hunter Biden’s board position with a Ukrainian energy company was “awkward,” “problematic” and interfered with “efficient execution of policy” for the Obama administration, but failed to demonstrate that it changed the administration’s policy toward Ukraine.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental
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Jan 26 2015
News
Round I in Iowa: Scott Walker Emerges
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's rousing speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday has early speculation favoring his "go big and go bold" call to Republicans.
Walker received multiple standing ovations during his speech, with news outlets reporting that the crowd was more receptive to him than to other potential GOP 2016 hopefuls including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, New Jersey Gov. Chris
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