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Feb 07 2015
News
First on CNN: DNC expanding communications team for 2016
The Democratic National Committee is bringing on a former Obama campaign spokeswoman as their national press secretary and launching a new digital-focused position in preparation for 2016, according to details shared first with CNN.
It's part of what DNC Communications Director called an "aggressive expansion" of the committee's communications team heading into the election cycle, which
CNN Digital
Jan 21 2022
News
After rocky start, can Biden recover in Year Two?
The American presidency often involves major on-the-job training, as Joe Biden is learning. Despite historic challenges and a polarized electorate, experts say it’s not too late for the president to turn things around.
On this day a year ago, America turned the page from a most controversial president and toward a familiar face – one who many hoped could bring the nation together amid
Christian Science Monitor
Nov 08 2021
News
Eric Adams says he wants to end NYC’s school mask mandate, calls himself ‘conservative’ on crime
Mayor-elect Eric Adams took to the airwaves Sunday and declared he wants to nix mask mandates in the classroom and called himself “conservative” on public safety.
Adams fears masks are stopping students from making friends and said he wants to end the school mask mandate when he takes office come Jan. 1.
“If we can find a safe way to do it, I look forward to getting rid of the
New York Post (News)
Oct 04 2021
News
Facebook whistleblower goes public with her allegations of deception
A Facebook whistleblower says the social network puts profits over safety, and has handed thousands of pages of internal company documents to federal law enforcement.
The former Facebook data scientist revealed her identity in a televised interview on Sunday night.
Who is the whistleblower: Frances Haugen is a specialist in how algorithms affect what we see on social media, and
NPR (Online News)
Oct 02 2020
News
Supreme Court will hear major voting rights case
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a major voting rights case, setting up a clash over states’ handling of absentee ballots.
Why it matters: The court has already invalidated a key section of the Voting Rights Act, even before President Trump solidified and expanded its conservative majority, and is now poised to limit voting-rights enforcement again.
The justices will not
Axios
Oct 20 2020
Opinion
California Ballot-Harvest Boomerang
Democrats in Sacramento have been rewriting election laws to help their party “ballot harvest.” But now Republicans have figured out how to play the same game, and Democratic state leaders are threatening legal action.
In 2016 California Democrats passed a law allowing anybody, including paid campaign operatives and political parties, to collect and return mail-in ballots. Two years
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
Dec 20 2018
News
In Syria withdrawal, Trump discards advice from allies and officials
Seated at the head of his Situation Room conference table, President Donald Trump was adamant: American troops must come home from Syria. He had just announced as much to a crowd in Ohio. The assembled military and national security advisers told him the move was rash and unwise. So he gave them six months.
CNN Digital
Feb 19 2021
News
Trump is free to run for president again, but can he win?
The Senate on Saturday voted to acquit former President Donald Trump of the charge that he incited the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Had he been convicted, Trump could have faced being barred from holding any future public office. But with 57 senators voting to convict — well short of the two-thirds majority needed — there is no legal barrier preventing Trump from running for
Yahoo! The 360
Nov 05 2021
News
Biden Denies Plan For $450,000 Payments To Separated Families: 'Not Gonna Happen'
President Joe Biden dismissed a “garbage” Wall Street Journal report from last week that alleged his administration was considering paying about $450,000 to each individual separated from their family at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that the purported plan to settle several lawsuits filed against the federal government on behalf of the immigrants was not under consideration.
After a
Forbes
Jun 10 2020
News
Judiciary hearing emphasizes rare bipartisan comity on policing changes
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee aired an eagerness Wednesday to work with Democrats on legislation to address police misconduct, but hinted that they would prefer a narrower bill than the broad proposal Democrats want to pass this month.
Gone were the loud voices, overheated cross-talk arguments and sharp partisanship of previous Judiciary Committee hearings in the past
Roll Call