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Nov 10 2020
News
Celebrations for Biden, Harris probably spread coronavirus, Bay Area health experts warn
The impromptu celebrations for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris after the marathon presidential election could very well have harmed the new president’s goal of taming the coronavirus pandemic, Bay Area epidemiologists said.
Corks popped in the Bay Area and across the nation after the two ended President Trump’s four-year reign, but it was pretty clear from television crowd shots that social
San Francisco Chronicle
Oct 27 2020
News
Trump and Biden Take Different Tacks in Campaign’s Final Week
President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are employing divergent tactics in the final week before Election Day, with Mr. Trump set to crisscross the country for campaign rallies while Mr. Biden’s operation floods the airwaves and relies on a more virtual approach.
Mr. Trump scheduled three campaign stops in Pennsylvania on Monday and has rallies planned later this week in
Wall Street Journal (News)
Mar 02 2020
News
Mainers to cast ballots in Super Tuesday presidential primaries, vaccinations referendum
Maine voters will participate in the largest, most consequential primary day of the 2020 presidential elections on Tuesday and also decide whether to keep or reject a law on mandatory childhood vaccinations.
This will be the first presidential primary election since Maine dropped the more complicated and time-consuming caucus system. And while the state hasn’t received much in-person
Portland Press Herald
Feb 01 2021
News
Marjorie Taylor Greene penned conspiracy theory that a laser beam from space started deadly 2018 California wildfire
In November 2018, California was hit with the worst wildfire in the state’s history. At the time, future Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote a bizarre Facebook post that echoed QAnon conspiracy theorists and falsely claimed that the real and hidden culprit behind the disaster was a laser from space triggered by some nefarious group of people.
Greene’s post, which hasn’t previously
Media Matters
Oct 07 2020
News
In late-night tweets, Trump changes course on coronavirus relief talks
In a pair of late-night tweets, President Donald Trump, changed course on negotiating coronavirus relief that he had earlier announced he was calling off until after the election.
"The House & Senate should IMMEDIATELY Approve 25 Billion Dollars for Airline Payroll Support, & 135 Billion Dollars for Paycheck Protection Program for Small Business. Both of these will be fully paid
ABC News (Online)
Aug 07 2019
News
Why Joaquin Castro’s tweet of a list of Trump donors is so controversial
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) is under fire for tweeting out a list of donors to President Donald Trump. Why the maneuver is so controversial isn’t entirely clear: It’s all information that was already public.
The Texas Democrat and brother to 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro on Monday tweeted a list of 44 San Antonio donors who contributed the maximum amount under
Vox
Oct 12 2018
News
Midterms: Young Americans not enthusiastic about voting, poll finds
Only one in three young Americans in the U.S. are certain they’re going to vote in the November midterm elections, according to a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute and The Atlantic.
USA TODAY
Oct 12 2018
News
Trump's lawyers preparing answers to questions in Russia probe: source
President Donald Trump’s lawyers are preparing answers to questions for the U.S. special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Reuters
Oct 06 2020
Analysis
Is the FDA Too Cautious in Its Approach for Approving COVID-19 Vaccines?
"The vaccines are coming momentarily," asserted President Donald Trump in his post-hospitalization video yesterday. The same day the White House reportedly first blocked and then scrambled to approve under pressure the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) proposed guideline that COVID-19 clinical trial vaccine recipients be followed for two months to evaluate vaccines' safety before they can
Reason
Apr 03 2021
Analysis
Trump Campaign Used Tricks to Get Donors to Give More Money Than They Intended
Supporters of former President Donald Trump sometimes dug deep into their finances to answer their candidate’s call for financial assistance in the run-up to the presidential election. What many of them found though is that they were unwittingly signed up to give recurring donations that sometimes depleted bank accounts. And the people who fell prey to these schemes weren’t just people who
Slate