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Apr 27 2021
News
Poll: Overwhelming Majority Support Requiring ID to Vote
A poll released Monday by Fox News shows an overwhelming majority of voters support the requirement to show a valid ID to prove citizenship before voting.
The poll was conducted April 18-21, under the joint direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company (R). The poll interviewed 1,002 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide, with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage
Breitbart News
Oct 21 2020
News
Biden would return to Obama-era immigration policies if elected, report says
Joe Biden, if elected president, would undo a number of key Trump administration’s policies related to immigration, and specifically illegal immigration, a new report predicts -- concluding that the differences between the two candidates on the issues is “stark.”
“The contrast between President Trump and Biden’s immigration policies is stark,” the report by the conservative Heritage
Fox News Digital
Dec 10 2020
Analysis
Could Nasdaq’s proposed diversity mandates be the key to changing corporate America?
Corporate America has long been criticized for its lack of gender and racial diversity, with underrepresented racial groups making up just 12.5% of board seats at the 3,000 largest publicly traded companies, and women making up just 21%.
To fix this issue, several companies, and even a few states, have implemented diversity mandates. Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs said it would not
CNBC
Sep 14 2020
Analysis
Trump HHS Aide Michael Caputo Launches Unhinged Attack on CDC, Warns of Insurrection
Michael Caputo, the former Trump campaign official and Roger Stone associate whom President Trump appointed to be spokesman of the Department of Health and Human Services, spent the weekend defending his efforts to alter the CDC’s weekly COVID-19 reports in order to protect the president politically — a defense that included baselessly claiming that scientists at the agency were deep-state
New York Magazine
Aug 31 2020
News
94% of Americans who died from COVID-19 had contributing conditions: CDC
Ninety-four percent of Americans who died from COVID-19 had other “types of health conditions and contributing causes” in addition to the virus, according to a new CDC report.
Using provisional data on coronavirus-related deaths from the week ending Feb. 1 through Aug. 22, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded last week that “for 6 percent of the deaths, COVID-19 was
New York Post (News)
Nov 12 2020
News
U.S. Unemployment Claims Slip but Hold at High Levels
New applications for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, suggesting layoffs were easing despite a surge in coronavirus cases across the country.
Initial claims for jobless benefits, a proxy for layoffs, declined to 709,000 last week from 757,000 a week earlier, the Labor Department said Thursday. While weekly claims have fallen from a peak of near 7 million at the end of March
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jan 26 2021
Fact Check
Did Biden Temporarily Freeze Trump Rule Lowering Insulin, EpiPen Prices?
In the first few days of his 2021 term, U.S. President Joe Biden was quick to issue nearly a dozen executive orders aimed at reversing many of the policies of former President Donald Trump, from rejoining the World Health Organization to recommitting the U.S. to the Paris climate accord. And, as the 46th president took pen to paper, he required that all federal rules pending review that were
Snopes
Dec 10 2020
News
More Than 3,100 Dead From COVID-19 In U.S. In Grim Single-Day Record
At least 3,124 people in the United States died from COVID-19 on Wednesday, a grim new record as the country grapples with the worst phase of the pandemic thus far.
Johns Hopkins University reported the figure late Wednesday amid a surge in infections around the nation following the Thanksgiving Day holiday period. More than 220,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus on
HuffPost
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Elie Mystal
Elie Mystal is The Nation’s justice correspondent—covering the courts, the criminal justice system, and politics—and the force behind the magazine’s monthly column “Objection!” He is also an Alfred Knobler Fellow at the Type Media Center. Mystal is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a former associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, and a lifelong New York Mets fans. One of those things is not like the others. Prior to joining The Nation, Mystal was the executive editor of Above the Law. He’s a frequent guest on MSNBC and Sirius XM. He will resist.
Jun 03 2021
News
Jobless Claims Drop to Another Pandemic Low
Worker filings for initial jobless claims have dropped by 35% since late April, slipping below 400,000 last week for the first time since the pandemic started.
Weekly unemployment claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 385,000 last week from a revised 405,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Last week’s decline in claims marked the fifth straight week that new
Wall Street Journal (News)