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Aug 04 2023
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2 Navy Sailors Arrested for Allegedly Passing Military Info to China
Two U.S. Navy sailors were separately arrested and charged with sending sensitive military information to Chinese intelligence officers, U.S. officials said Thursday.
The Details: The separate cases were both announced in the same Justice Department statement. One of the sailors, 22-year-old Jinchao Wei, allegedly began communicating with a Chinese intelligence officer in February 2022
New York Post (News) ABC News (Online) ReutersDec 05 2016
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Trump Picks Carson for HUD
The unconventional choice of the retired neurosurgeon seems to underscore Trump’s willingness to forgo traditional policy expertise in some Cabinet positions to surround himself with allies. Carson is the president-elect's first African American pick for a Cabinet-level post.
CNN (Online News) Fox News (Online News) New York Times (News)Nov 30 2016
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Trump Leaves His Business
President-elect Donald J. Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that he would soon leave his “great business in total” to focus on the presidency, a response to growing worries over the businessman-in-chief’s conflicts of interest around the globe.
Townhall Washington Post The HillMay 18 2017
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Special Counsel Appointed
The Justice Department on Wednesday appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including potential collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign associates and Russian officials.
Vox The Daily Caller CNN (Online News)Oct 11 2020
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Trump Returns to Campaigning; Doctor Says He is 'No Longer Contagious'
President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail by holding an event at the White House Saturday, just over a week since he tested positive for the virus. Trump spoke from a balcony to several hundred supporters, saying he was "feeling great." On Saturday evening, White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said Trump was no longer considered a transmission risk to others, but didn’t say
Wall Street Journal (News) Washington Post New York Post (News)Aug 31 2022
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FDA Authorizes Updated COVID-19 Booster Shots for Expected Fall Omicron Wave
The FDA updated its emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to include updated booster shots designed to fight the highly contagious BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants.
The updated booster shots came ahead of an expected fall or winter wave of COVID-19 cases. The U.S. currently has a seven-day average of about 90,000 daily new cases, but last
Fox News (Online News) STAT The VergeNov 01 2023
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NYC Offers Migrants 1-Way Plane Tickets to Leave the City
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has announced that the city has opened up a "reticketing center" where migrants can receive a free, one-way plane ticket to anywhere in the world.
Key Details: This voluntary offer is in response to an increase in migrants arriving in the city and the need to free up space in New York's overburdened shelter system. Additionally, some shelters have been
Axios Staten Island AdvanceAug 29 2022
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As School Year Begins, Book Bans and Curriculum Laws Spark Controversy
As schools return from summer break, many classrooms are finding themselves in the middle of a culture war waging throughout the nation. As Republican-governed states such as Florida and Texas pass new laws prohibiting select books and topics of discussion from schools, educators are navigating new legal waters with trepidation and uncertainty.
At the forefront of new education
Reason 538 (ABC News) New York Times (News)Feb 08 2022
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‘Freedom Convoy’ Blocks Busiest US-Canada Border Crossing
As Canadian truck drivers continued to protest in Ottawa, some trucks and private vehicles blocked traffic across the busiest border crossing between the U.S. and Canada.
Starting Monday evening, the “Freedom Convoy” protesters prevented traffic from entering Canada across the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario. The blockade caused traffic to back up in
Fox News (Online News) BBC News New York Times (News)Jun 01 2022
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Biden's Comments on 9mm Handguns, 2nd Amendment Draw Scrutiny
President Joe Biden's recent remarks about handguns and gun laws sparked criticism from fact-checkers and conservative voices.
Speaking to reporters at the White House Monday after meeting with Uvalde shooting victims' families, Biden said that when he visited a New York trauma hospital 20-25 years ago and asked why the death rate had gone up, a trauma doctor told him that "a 9mm
Washington Post Newsweek New York Post (News)