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Oct 18 2019
News
Elizabeth Warren references contract after attack on pregnancy discrimination claim
As Elizabeth Warren's biography receives greater scrutiny, the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner added a line to her stump speech at a gathering of Democratic women.
"I became a special needs teacher and I loved that job. But at the end of the first school year, I had an experience that at least some women will recognize," the Massachusetts senator said in Washington, D.C. "By
Washington Examiner
Nov 15 2021
News
US journalist jailed in Myanmar for nearly 6 months is freed
American journalist Danny Fenster, who was recently sentenced to 11 years of hard labor after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, was freed and on his way home Monday, a former U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the release said.
Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was convicted Friday of spreading false or inflammatory
Associated Press
Mar 10 2021
News
'No More Money For RINOs': How Trump's Fight With The GOP Is All About Control
The latest Trump-versus-The-Establishment skirmish is over one of the things couples fight about most.
Money.
"No more money for RINOS," former President Donald Trump said in a statement Monday night, using the acronym for "Republicans In Name Only," which is what conservatives call Republicans they deem not sufficiently conservative. "They do nothing but hurt the Republican
NPR (Online News)
Jan 13 2020
News
How 'Internet Express' is helping Kashmiris go online
Braving the snow and cold, Abrar Ahmad, 18, is one of the thousands of Kashmiris who regularly spend hours journeying on a packed train just so that they can go online as the region grapples with the longest internet blackout imposed by the federal government.
Stepping off the crammed train - dubbed the "Internet Express" by Kashmiris - in the town of Banihal, about 100km (approximately
Al Jazeera
Nov 19 2021
News
Paul Gosar
“The House of Representatives voted to censure hardline Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and remove him from his two committee assignments… The formal rebuke came after Gosar posted an anime style video on Twitter last week that depicts him murdering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y, and attacking President Biden. The video, which he deleted after intense blowback, shows [a] character
The Flip Side
Sep 05 2020
Analysis
Why Pennsylvania is ground zero for mail-in voting debate
The phone is ringing nonstop in Pennsylvania’s Lycoming County.
“Did the November election get delayed?”
“Can I still vote by mail?”
“Why did my wife, who died in 2011, get an application for an absentee ballot with her name and address already filled in?”
It’s the last category that drives county election director Forrest Lehman and his staff especially batty.
Christian Science Monitor
Sep 25 2020
Analysis
In America, your absentee ballot is more likely to be counted if you’re white
A RECORD NUMBER of Americans are expected to vote by mail in this year’s presidential election. That is due, in no small part, to the covid-19 pandemic, but it is also the result of a long-term shift toward early and absentee voting. Activists argue that increasing access to such alternative forms of voting helps to make voting more convenient—eg, by removing the need to stand in a long queue
The Economist
Nov 27 2021
Analysis
Democrats Tackle Changes to $2 Trillion Spending Plan as Deadlines Loom
Democrats will sort through a heavy pile of to-do items when they return to Washington, including ironing out disagreements over their Build Back Better bill, keeping the government funded and boosting the debt limit before the U.S. runs out of money to pay its obligations.
The party’s $2 trillion education, healthcare and climate package, which passed the House before the Thanksgiving
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jan 06 2022
News
Harris describes Jan. 6 alongside Pearl Harbor, 9/11 as dates that 'echo throughout history'
One year after the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris stated that the date will live on in the country's memory, likening it to the dates of the Pearl Harbor attack and the 9/11 terror attacks.
In an address delivered as part of a commemoration of the anniversary of the protest in which demonstrators entered the Capitol building, interrupting the counting of electoral
Fox News Digital
Feb 17 2022
Perspectives Blog
Presidential Odd Couples: Bill + George(s)
“This is the way our country ought to work.” Note: This piece was originally created by The Village Square and published on respectandrebellion.com
The Unlikely Friendship Between Presidents Bill Clinton and the George Bush(es)If you were to come up with two names most demonized in politics today, you’d be hard pressed to find any with more historic animosity than “Bush” or “
Respect + Rebellion