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Apr 11 2016
Background
Should All Americans Have the Right (Be Entitled) to Health Care?
47.9 million people in the United States (15.4% of the US population) did not have health insurance in 2012 according to the US Census Bureau. The United States and Mexico are the only countries of the 34 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that do not have universal health care.
Proponents of the right to health care say that no one in the
ProCon.org
Sep 08 2021
News
Virginia's Massive Robert E. Lee Statue Has Been Removed
Wednesday, the state of Virginia removed the 12-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee more than 130 years after it was installed amid efforts to change the collective memory of the Civil War.
Despite its massive size, it was lifted from its pedestal in one piece and is headed for storage. Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, was there as the statue came down and appeared pleased by
NPR (Online News)
Nov 18 2020
News
Kevin McCarthy Reelected As Top House Republican
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was reelected Tuesday as the top House Republican for the 117th Congress.
Republicans held votes for leadership positions Tuesday to which McCarthy was reelected as the Republican leader of the next Congress and faced no opposition. McCarthy said he thinks the party is stronger than ever and that the future is bright for House Republicans during an
The Daily Caller
Jul 23 2021
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St. Louis chief prosecutor Kim Gardner accused of dereliction of duty
Kim Gardner was supposed to be tough on crime.
Gardner, the first black woman to be elected St. Louis's Circuit Attorney, campaigned on progressive changes and vowed to go after criminals and hold them accountable. She did flashy interviews on 60 Minutes and Nightline and grabbed even more headlines when she sued the city, its police union, and five others in 2020 for what she called a
Washington Examiner
Aug 05 2021
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U.S. unemployment rolls shrinking in boost to labor market recovery
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits declined further last week, while layoffs dropped to their lowest level in just over 21 years in July as companies held on to workers amid a labor shortage.
The weekly unemployment claims report from the Labor Department on Thursday, the most timely data on the economy's health, also showed
Reuters
Jun 28 2021
Analysis
The Supreme Court’s Surprising Term
The Supreme Court term that began last fall has spanned several epochal upheavals at once: the second peak and wind-down of the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Presidential election, and its dramatic aftermath, including the violent mob attempt to block the certification of the outcome. During the term, oral arguments were conducted entirely by telephone, a low-tech option that had the effect
The New Yorker
Jun 02 2020
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Three Months, 6 Million Guns Sold
An estimated 6 million guns have been sold since the coronavirus outbreak began in March, as May marked the third consecutive month of record-high sales.
More than 1.7 million guns were sold in May 2020, according to an analysis by Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting. That is an all-time record for the month and an 80 percent increase from 2019. The spike in sales comes as rioting
Washington Free Beacon
Oct 06 2021
News
Facebook Outage Left Latin America Dark, Where WhatsApp Dominates
While many people around the world coped with the Facebook and Instagram outage by making lighthearted jokes on Twitter, the incident had more serious consequences for WhatsApp users in Latin America.
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are now back online after millions were unable to access the social media sites or messaging app for several hours on Monday. The company said the issue
Newsweek
Oct 27 2020
News
The Rust Belt boom that wasn't: Heartland job growth lagged under Trump
The voters of Monroe County, Michigan, may have expected an economic windfall when they flipped from supporting Democrat Barack Obama to help put Donald Trump in the White House in 2016.
But it went the other way: Through the first three years of the Trump administration the county lost jobs, and brought in slightly less in wages in the first three months of 2020 than in the first three
Reuters
Sep 04 2020
News
Prepare for the weirdest election 'night' ever
Remember Florida’s presidential election recount in 2000, with the hanging chads, the magnifying glasses, and the weeks of courtroom battles about how to count the votes? There could be post-election vote-counting chaos again in the 2020 election -- maybe in Florida, maybe some other state, or even in several states at the same time.
The reason is the heavy reliance this year on slower-
PolitiFact