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Nov 19 2021
News
Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all counts in Kenosha trial
Jurors in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Friday declared Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts, capping off an intense trial surrounding the deadly unrest in that city last summer.
Rittenhouse, 18, would have faced a mandatory life sentence if found guilty and convicted of first-degree intentional homicide.
The verdict came on the fourth day of deliberations and 15th day of the
Fox News Digital
Oct 17 2020
News
Jo Jorgensen: 'Requiring People To Vaccinate Their Children Is One of the Most Egregious Things That the Government Can Do'
As the Libertarian Party has established itself as the most electorally successful third party in the United States, voters have grown accustomed to the group's radical messaging against taxation, prohibition and war. One of the party's top 10 presidential primary finishers in 2020, after all, had his name legally changed to "Taxation Is Theft."
Reason
Apr 20 2022
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40,000 students' debt erased, almost 4M on the table for further breaks
Thousands of current and former students have had their debt wiped clean, with the possibility for further breaks on the horizon.
Federal Student Aid estimates that approximately 40,000 individuals will receive "immediate debt cancellation" under new guidelines for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
"Student loans were never meant to be a life sentence, but it’s
Fox Business
Sep 16 2021
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Judge rules U.S. can't expel migrant families using public health law
A federal judge on Thursday directed the Biden administration to stop using a public health law invoked at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic to expel migrant families with children from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia certified all migrant families in U.S. border custody as class members in a lawsuit filed by the
CBS News (Online)
Jun 25 2021
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US Justice Department sues Georgia over election laws
The Biden Justice Department has announced that it will sue the state of Georgia over new voting laws passed in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the laws were "enacted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of black Georgians to vote".
Republicans, who control Georgia's state legislature, say the restrictions streamline voting
BBC News
Oct 09 2020
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More than 1 million people could lose their vote on Nov. 3. That’s the best-case scenario
Rejected ballots in the 2020 election battle between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden could become the post-election focus.
In a normal election year in any given state, hundreds or even thousands of absentee ballots get tossed for everything from late postmarks to open envelopes.
North Carolina rejected 546 ballots for missing witness signatures in the 2012 presidential
USA TODAY
Dec 20 2020
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Trump campaign takes fight over Penn. election, ballot laws to Supreme Court
President Trump’s campaign team on Sunday filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse several cases by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to change the state’s mail ballot law before and after the 2020 presidential election.
The president’s campaign alleged in a statement that the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court’s changing of the law was a violation of Article II of the
Fox News Digital
Dec 14 2021
Analysis
Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds
An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.
Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and their 79 Electoral College votes by a combined 311,257
Associated Press Fact Check
Jan 28 2022
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Record Gun Sales Fueled By 5.4 Million First Time Buyers
Gun sales surged to a record high in 2021, fueled by first-time gun owners, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).
At least 5.4 million people purchased firearms for the first time in 2021, with roughly 30% of all gun purchases going to first-time buyers, according to the NSSF. The figure is a 10% decrease from 2020, when approximately 8.4 million people purchased
The Daily Caller
Dec 30 2020
Fact Check
Did Pennsylvania Record 205,000 More Votes Than Voters?
Among the copious false claims about election fraud that U.S. President Donald Trump made after losing the 2020 presidential election to challenger Joe Biden was the assertion that the state of Pennsylvania had found they recorded “205,000 votes more than they had voters.”
The apparent source of the misinformation amplified by Trump was a news release issued by Pennsylvania State Rep.
Snopes