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Oct 28 2021
News
Dems Abandon Billionaire Tax That Faced Constitutional Hurdles
An aborted Democratic plan to tax assets held by billionaires was vulnerable to attack on constitutional grounds, experts told the Washington Free Beacon.
The Constitution authorizes three forms of taxation, and tax-law gurus interviewed by the Free Beacon said the ill-fated billionaire's tax did not fit neatly in any of those categories. The measure would have taxed assets that
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Jan 22 2021
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‘I Can Breathe Again’: Affected Families Celebrate The End Of The Muslim Ban
Mina Mahdavi, a 39-year-old solutions and cybersecurity engineer in California who has not been able to bring her mother from Iran to the U.S. because of the Trump administration’s anti-Muslim travel ban, tried everything she could think of.
She applied for a waiver, called the consulate and her representatives in Congress, all without avail. Her applications were always rejected.
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Mar 03 2021
Analysis
2020 was the worst year for democracy in recent history
The health of American democracy is in rapid decline, India is no longer a free country, and at most 20 percent of the world’s population lives in a liberal democracy.
These are a few of the sobering conclusions in the 2021 Freedom in the World report, an annual quantitative measurement of the state of democracy globally. The latest findings, released today, show a nearly unprecedented
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Mar 03 2021
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Biden says Texas and Mississippi over lifting COVID restrictions, guilty of ‘Neanderthal thinking’
President Biden took a swipe at Republican governors in Texas and Mississippi Wednesday, accusing them of "Neanderthal thinking" following their decision to reverse COVID safety policies, including mask mandates.
"We've been able to move that all the way up to the end of May to have enough [vaccines] for every American, to get every adult American to get a shot," Biden told reporters
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May 20 2021
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Can a 9/11-style probe provide answers about the Capitol riot?
A group of House Democrats and Republicans announced last week that they had reached an agreement to establish an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The commission would be tasked with studying the “facts and circumstances” that led thousands of Donald Trump supporters to storm the Capitol building, and with providing recommendations for
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Nov 17 2021
News
US offering investment to boost COVID-19 vaccine capacity
The Biden administration is making billions of dollars available to drugmakers to scale up domestic production of COVID-19 vaccines in the hopes of building capacity to produce an additional 1 billion shots per year to share with the world.
Under the new initiative, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority is soliciting
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Jan 04 2019
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Freshman Democrat On Trump: 'We’re Going To Go In And Impeach The Motherf**ker'
The Democrats have taken over the House. Nancy Pelosi is once again speaker. And the great duel of wits begins between House Democrats and the Trump White House. The current fight is over border wall funding, which has shuttered the government for two weeks now. Both sides are not budging. When this bout is over, the next battle will be over impeachment. Actually, every hearing House Democrats
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Jan 22 2020
Analysis
Two Legal Teams With Contrasting Strategies Face Off in the Capitol
WASHINGTON — When President Trump’s impeachment trial opened this week, the Democratic House managers prosecuting the case piled their table high with binders and notepads. Only a few rested on the defense table.
The contrasting amount of material the two legal teams brought into the Senate chamber to support their initial arguments foreshadowed a broader difference in their approaches
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Dec 11 2016
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Senate Quietly Passed the “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act"
Also called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles.
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Nov 20 2020
News
Pfizer Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization Request: When Will It Be Available For Public?
First-round doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer could soon start rolling out to the public as Pfizer, the company that developed it, started the process to apply for emergency use authorization with the Food and Drug Administration on Friday.
The company, which announced earlier this month that their vaccine, developed with BioNTech, had an initial 90% efficacy in clinical trials, is
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