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Apr 19 2017
News
Study: Social Media Bubbles Might Not Be Making Us More Polarized After All
After Donald Trump’s stunning electoral victory, lots of people wondered how, exactly, this had all happened. One possible solution, it seemed, was that everyone was trapped in an information bubble of their own making — numerous articles alleged that self-segregated social media feeds had become an echo chamber for people’s own thoughts and beliefs. The theory was popular, even if empirical
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Jan 11 2015
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Reaching Outside C.I.A., Obama Picks Treasury Official to Become Agency’s No. 2
President Obama has chosen the Treasury Department official who has directed the effort to cut off funding of the Islamic State and impose economic sanctions on Syria, Russia and Iran to become the C.I.A.’s deputy director, the agency announced on Friday.
The official, David S. Cohen, who as under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence has spent more than three years in
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Jan 31 2014
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AllSides of the Union
It's an American tradition.
When the president weighs in how things are going in Washington and around the country, every word is debated and analyzed. Here's a snapshot of this week's views in the media.
Snippets from the Right
An Instantly Forgettable State of the Union Address, Town Hall
President Obama delivered an unremarkable speech tonight in which he
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Jun 24 2020
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Trump's Biden problem: People don’t hate him like they did Hillary
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden may not be moving much, but he’s proving a tougher target for President Trump than his past political opponents.
Less than five months from the election, the Trump campaign team is still trying to find the right message to defeat Biden. The president has stuck with the “Sleepy Joe” nickname, though his campaign is as likely to go with “Hidin’
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May 01 2020
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Rent Is Due Today, But Millions Of Americans Won't Be Paying
More than 30 million people have applied for unemployment as of April 30, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Many are falling behind on their rent and are being evicted, despite new rules designed to stop evictions. Experts say the moratoriums by state and local officials don't go far enough and are leaving tenants vulnerable.
"My main concern is that I'll be evicted," says David
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Feb 28 2020
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Stocks Fall Again, Face Biggest Weekly Losses Since 2008
A market storm gathered pace Friday as stock markets around the world sold off and investors struggled to calculate the economic fallout from the coronavirus epidemic.
The S&P 500 fell 1.8%, a day after the biggest percentage drop in U.S. markets since August 2011. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 466 points, or 2%, putting it about 14% below its Feb. 12 record close. The
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Sep 14 2019
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What’s Going On With Trump’s Approval Rating?
Amid headlines about racist tweets, trade wars and hurricane maps, President Trump’s approval rating has dipped slightly since the middle of July. On Tuesday, it stood at 41.0 percent, down from 43.0 percent on July 22 in FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker. While his approval rating was at 41.6 percent as of Thursday at 5 p.m. ET, this is about as low as Trump’s approval rating
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Apr 30 2020
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Trump says China wants him to lose his bid for re-election
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in November.
In an interview with Reuters in the Oval Office, Trump talked tough on China and said he was looking at different options in terms of consequences for Beijing over the virus. “I can do a lot,” he said
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Aug 07 2020
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Why Black Workers Will Hurt the Most if Congress Doesn’t Extend Jobless Benefits
When Congress expanded unemployment insurance this year to meet the staggering economic toll of the pandemic, it had one less-noticed effect: It made America’s fractured jobless benefits system more fair.
Starting in April, the federal government provided $600 weekly payments to unemployed workers in addition to state jobless benefits, smoothing sharp differences between more and less
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Feb 25 2020
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Coronavirus only part of the story behind the Dow’s drop
As someone has certainly told you by now, the Dow fell by more than 1,000 points yesterday, its worst day in more than two years, erasing all of 2020's gains. Most news headlines assert that the stock market's momentum was finally broken by "coronavirus fears," but that's not the full story.
What's happening: The novel coronavirus has been infecting and killing scores of people for
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