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Oct 29 2014
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Jeb Bush Slams Obama On Ebola Response
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama's initial handling of the Ebola crisis as "incompetent," saying it gave rise to unneeded fears among the American public about the virus.
Bush, who is the latest potential Republican presidential candidate to attack the president over Ebola, also said in a wide-ranging discussion at Vanderbilt University that he
HuffPostOct 24 2015
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House votes to gut Obamacare through budget process
The House voted Friday to scrap Obamacare’s most unpopular mandates and taxes, putting in motion a plan to dismantle the law through the budget process despite Democratic derision and conservative-driven complaints the bill doesn’t go far enough.
Lawmakers voted along party lines, 240-189, to also defund Planned Parenthood for one year as punishment for its controversial abortion
Washington TimesDec 23 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Omicron's Spread Fuels Concern, COVID-19 Fatigue
Amid the spread of the seemingly mild but more contagious Omicron variant and a potential COVID-19 spike over the holidays, President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday a plan to distribute 500 million at-home COVID-19 tests for people who request them. While COVID-19 cases have risen nationwide in recent weeks, the Omicron variant became the dominant strain. The CDC reported this week that
AllSides StaffMay 05 2015
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Mike Huckabee and the Continuing Influence of Evangelicals
The religious right remains the largest voting bloc in the Republican Party, and that gives Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, the potential to play a big role in the presidential nominating contest.
But Mr. Huckabee, who was set to announce his presidential bid Tuesday morning, will have a harder time winning Iowa than he did in 2008, when religious conservatives had serious
New York Times (News)Mar 23 2020
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Trump Says Coronavirus Cure Cannot ‘Be Worse Than the Problem Itself’
The president, who has watched the economy plunge amid social distancing measures, says restrictions will be reassessed.
President Trump on Sunday night said that the government would reassess the recommended period for keeping businesses shut and millions of workers at home after this week, amid millions of job losses caused by the efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus
New York Times (News)Oct 05 2014
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Hambycast: Rand Paul's campus challenge
Campus politics aren't always a clear winner for Rand Paul, as he discovered here this week during an appearance at the College of Charleston. The Kentucky Republican and potential 2016 contender opened with a familiar riff about government surveillance that won predictable applause -- especially from the many students who represented Young Americans for Liberty, the libertarian outfit created
CNN DigitalOct 21 2019
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Four big drug firms agree $260m opioid payout hours before trial set to begin
Four major pharmaceutical companies have agreed a multimillion-dollar payout over the US opioid epidemic, hours before a federal trial in Ohio in which they were to be accused of a conspiracy to profit off of addiction and death.
Teva Pharmaceuticals, the largest manufacturer of generic drugs in the world, and three drug distributors, among the biggest corporations in America, have
The GuardianJul 03 2020
Analysis
The New Boomerang Kids Could Change American Views of Living at Home
For the most part, the pandemic has restricted motion in America. But one exception has been a large-scale nationwide reshuffling of humans between homes. Before the coronavirus came to the United States, many of the country’s young adults were working, studying, and building lives on their own. Now a great deal of them are back to living with their parents.
The number of American
The AtlanticSep 20 2014
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Efforts underway to change the GOP on same sex marriage
Gay conservatives are undertaking the most coordinated effort yet to change the Republican Party's position on same-sex marriage. Their approach: one state and one Republican activist at a time. While the official stance of the Republican Party says the "the union of one man and one woman must be upheld as the national standard," conservative same-sex marriage advocates want to change that.
CNN DigitalJan 08 2020
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Is the Iran nuclear deal effectively dead? Three questions.
Escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran have put renewed focus on what remains of the Iran nuclear deal – and what, if anything, might ultimately replace it.
The Iran nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), took effect in January 2016. Negotiated between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council – China, France,
Christian Science Monitor