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Dec 07 2022
News
Peru’s President impeached and arrested after he attempts to dissolve Congress
Dina Boluarte became Peru’s first female president on Wednesday, capping off a dramatic day which saw her predecessor detained by police and impeached by lawmakers.
Boluarte, the country’s former Vice President, was sworn into the top job at Congress to become Peru’s sixth president in under five years.
The ceremony took place hours after a majority of 101 members in the 130-
CNN (Online News)
Dec 07 2022
Opinion
Herschel Walker just wrote Donald Trump's political obituary
Herschel Walker, the Heisman Trophy winner who led the Georgia Bulldogs to a national championship in 1982, just wrote Donald Trump’s political obituary.
Walker lost his bid to replace Georgia’s incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock, handing Democrats in that chamber a critical majority. A majority which will enable Joe Biden to appoint more judges, enact more legislation and put in place
Fox News (Opinion)
Nov 10 2022
News
Joe Biden Just Had the Best Midterms for a Democrat President in 24 Years
President Joe Biden has produced the Democrats best midterm election result since 1998, after an expected Republican "red wave" failed to materialize.
Counting continues in a number of seats, with control of both the Senate and House of Representatives up for grabs, though the GOP enjoys a sizable seat lead in the lower chamber.
Thus far the Democrats have won 48 Senate seats and
Newsweek
Feb 27 2022
News
Pennsylvania Senate clash: Bartos showcases ‘strongest grassroots army’ in GOP primary race
In a combustible Republican primary in the most expensive Senate race in the nation this year, candidate Jeff Bartos says he’s got the winning ingredient that his rivals for the GOP nomination in Pennsylvania don’t have.
"I’ve been working for five years around the state," the real estate developer, philanthropist and the 2018 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor told Fox News
Fox News (Online News)
Dec 20 2022
Opinion
Jan. 6 committee goes out swinging
The House committee investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol is going out with guns blazing, using its final appearance on the public stage to recommend severe criminal charges against former President Trump and accuse four sitting GOP lawmakers — including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) — of ethical lapses for their refusal to cooperate with the probe.
In their
The Hill
Mar 27 2023
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Do Increasing Fentanyl Seizures Indicate More Drugs or Better Detection?
As fentanyl overdoses continue to skyrocket in the U.S., questions about where it comes from and how to deal with it are driving media bias and divides in coverage.
During the week of March 13, the Drug Enforcement Administration captured over 900 pounds of fentanyl at the U.S.-Mexico border in an operation dubbed "Blue Lotus." This operation was a reaction to the mass drugs entering
Clare Ashcraft
Dec 20 2022
News
Congress unveils $1.7 trillion deal to fund government, avert shutdown
Democratic and Republican negotiators early Tuesday unveiled a roughly $1.7 trillion deal to fund the U.S. government through most of 2023, setting up a last-minute sprint on Capitol Hill to approve the sprawling package and avert a potential shutdown.
The 4,155-page measure, known in congressional parlance as an omnibus, included funding for key elements of President Biden’s economic
Washington Post
Jul 29 2022
Analysis
Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams are in a rematch. What's changed?
Four years ago, Democrat Stacey Abrams came within 1.4% of defeating Republican Brian Kemp in a governor's race now viewed as an opening salvo in the fight to turn Georgia blue.
Why it matters: The political winds shaping this fall's highly anticipated rematch between popular incumbent Kemp and Abrams — a fundraising juggernaut with national name recognition — are remarkably different
Axios
Author
Rex Huppke
Rex Huppke is a columnist with a Left bias. He writes for USA TODAY (Lean Left bias). An independent review of Huppke's writing in July 2022 conducted by AllSides Managing Editor Henry A. Brechter (Center bias) noted that Huppke focuses most of his columns on political arguments against former President Donald Trump and core conservative causes, such as outlawing abortion and the idea of gun rights.
Nov 09 2022
News
U.S. tensions are high. Chaplains at the polls tried to keep peace.
As tensions mounted on Election Day, often over who would be allowed to monitor the vote during one of the more hotly contested and consequential midterms in years, at least one group went to the polls hoping to keep the peace: chaplains.
Like their counterparts in the military, these trained volunteers — whether ordained clergy or lay people driven by religious faith — were on hand to
Washington Post