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May 02 2019
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Minus Barr, House committee convenes Mueller hearing
A U.S. House committee convened on Thursday without Attorney General William Barr in attendance to discuss his handling of the Mueller report at a time of rising tensions between the Trump administration and Congress.
A day after Barr appeared at a Senate hearing to defend his handling of the report on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, the House of Representatives Judiciary
Reuters
Sep 23 2020
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Facebook Removes Chinese Accounts Posting About Foreign Policy, 2020 Election
Facebook says it has taken down a network of China-based fake accounts whose posts included content about the U.S. presidential election.
Most of the activity by the more than 180 fake accounts, groups and pages was focused on Southeast Asia, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy, said in a blog post Tuesday.
The network posted in Chinese, Filipino and English
NPR (Online News)
Apr 15 2020
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Hot spots erupt in farm belt states where governors insist lockdowns aren’t needed
The only hospital in Grand Island, Neb., is full. The mayor has asked for a statewide stay-at-home order that the GOP governor insists isn’t needed. More than one-third of those tested for coronavirus in the surrounding county are positive — and there aren’t enough tests to go around.
Grand Island is the fourth-biggest city in a state President Donald Trump and his top health officials
Politico
Apr 19 2021
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Brian Sicknick: US Capitol riot policeman 'died of natural causes'
A US police officer who died after January's Capitol riot had two strokes and died from natural causes, the chief medical examiner for Washington DC has ruled.
Two men are accused of using a type of pepper spray on Officer Brian Sicknick.
However, the ruling means they are now unlikely to be charged with homicide.
The autopsy found no evidence of an allergic reaction to
BBC News
Jan 06 2021
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'An absolutely disgraceful moment': News anchors express shock at revolting turn at U.S. Capitol
News networks covering the formal certification of the next president of the United States Wednesday found themselves carrying live pictures of a violent revolt by Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol.
The shocking turn of events seemed to overtake news networks that had planned for protests, but not a breach of the building that holds the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
USA TODAY
Mar 25 2021
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What can persuade wary Republicans to get the COVID vaccine?
Concerns that vaccine hesitancy might prevent the United States from ending the coronavirus pandemic have been prominent among public health experts since well before any COVID vaccines had been approved. While much of the attention in the early weeks of the rollout was on addressing skepticism among people of color, polls suggest that the biggest divide in vaccine acceptance is not along
Yahoo! The 360
Mar 04 2020
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Mike Bloomberg drops out of Democratic presidential race, endorses Joe Biden
Billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday dropped out of the Democratic presidential race after a humiliating rejection by voters on Super Tuesday.
He said he wasn’t giving up on the fight to defeat President Trump and threw his support — and his fortune — behind former Vice President Joseph R. Biden.
“While I will not be the nominee, I will not walk away from the
Washington Times
Sep 22 2020
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Notable opinions of U.S. Supreme Court contender Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett, a front-runner for the open U.S. Supreme Court seat President Donald Trump is pushing to fill, is a favorite among religious conservatives.
As a judge on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett, 48, has voted in favor of one of Trump’s hardline immigration policies and shown support for expansive gun rights. Here are some of her most notable
Reuters
Nov 18 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Rittenhouse Trial Takes Precedence Over Major Infrastructure Bill
If judged by the amount of news coverage on it, the vast $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill signed into law Monday after months of partisan feuding is hardly a story this week compared to the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law during a bipartisan ceremony Monday. It is the largest infrastructure investment in U.S. history and will likely have
AllSides Staff
Sep 09 2019
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Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
Washington (CNN)In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.
A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that
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