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Aug 25 2021
Headline Roundup
State Department Estimates 1,500 Americans Still in Afghanistan
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that as many as 1,500 Americans were still in Afghanistan. Of that group, Blinken said the State Department was in “direct contact” with about 500 and “aggressively reaching out” to the remaining 1,000 “multiple times a day through multiple channels of communication.” About 6,000 Americans were in the country when the Taliban took Kabul on Aug.
New York Times (News)
The Hill 
New York Post (News) 
Feb 08 2023
Headline Roundup
Fact Checking Biden's 2023 State of the Union Address
President Joe Biden made several statements during Tuesday night's State of the Union that sparked clarifications from fact checkers across the political spectrum.
Job Growth: Biden said he created "more jobs created in two years than any president has ever created in four years." The raw number is accurate. However, Biden left out the fact that job growth was sparked by post-COVID-19
The Daily Caller
CNN Fact Check 
FactCheck.org
Mar 09 2021
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: The Necessity of Another COVID-19 Relief Bill
The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill may be signed into law as soon as this week, and has elicited many opinions from throughout the spectrum. Many on all sides, but especially on the left, are more concentrated on the bill's immediate benefits for pandemic-weary Americans. Some on the right are more concerned with potential long-term economic effects of the bill and unnecessary fiscal
Pew Research Center
Townhall
MSNBC
Mar 30 2020
Headline Roundup
New York City Continues Coronavirus Battle
New York and New York City have been an epicenter of COVID-19 coronavirus cases in the United States; at least 1,200 people have died in the state as of Monday, as NYC Mayor Andrew Cuomo (D) and state officials continue to grapple with containing the outbreak.
Some right-rated outlets have criticized New York Democrats, particularly for releasing inmates during the COVID-19 outbreak.
New York Daily News
NPR (Online News)
New York Post (News)
Oct 28 2021
Headline Roundup
Biden Pitches New Spending Framework to Senate Dems
On Thursday, President Joe Biden met privately with House Democrats to outline the specifics of his Build Back Better economic agenda and to sell his scaled-back spending plan to resistant progressives.
An agreement on a bill priced between $1.75 and $1.9 trillion, down from the original $3.5 trillion figure, would represent a victory for centrist Democrats who pushed back on climate
Washington Times
The Hill
Politico
Jun 08 2021
Headline Roundup
Infrastructure Talks Dissolve Between Biden, Senate GOP
Bipartisan infrastructure negotiations between the White House and a group of Senate Republicans fell apart Tuesday. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who'd been leading negotiations with President Joe Biden, said the president ended the negotiations on a Tuesday phone call. Biden had recently dropped his infrastructure proposal's price tag from $2.25 trillion to $1 trillion, and the Senate
Washington Times
HuffPost
Axios
Mar 20 2022
Headline Roundup
IEA Proposes 10-Point Plan To Cut Oil Use Amid Putin's Invasion of Ukraine
The International Energy Agency has proposed a 10-point plan to cut oil use amid the emerging global energy crisis "triggered by" Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Most of the advised measures in the IEA's 10-point plan will "require changes in the behavior of consumers, supported by government measures." If fully implemented, the Paris-based organization estimates that "advanced economies"
Financial Times
The Daily Caller
CNN Business
Nov 10 2020
Headline Roundup
Health Experts Say Pro-Biden Celebrations May Have Been 'Superspreader' Events
Large celebrations following the media's projection of Joe Biden as the 46th U.S. president may have spread the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to health experts and epidemiologists who voiced concern about the lack of social distancing at the demonstrations. Thousands of people congregated in the streets this past weekend in major cities across the United States after multiple major networks
MarketWatch
Fox News (Online News)
San Francisco Chronicle
Nov 21 2021
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: Rittenhouse Trial Results
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial flooded the homepages of national media outlets and subsequently caused a massive partisan divide across the political spectrum.
After being acquitted on all five charges pressed against him Friday afternoon, Rittenhouse said “the jury reached the right verdict” and emphasized that “self-defense is not illegal." The majority of right-rated voices seemed to
National Review (News)
Mother Jones
The Hill
Dec 29 2022
Headline Roundup
Lawmakers Press DOT, Buttigieg Over Southwest Flight Cancellations
Following a large number of delays and flight cancellations by Southwest Airlines over the holidays, the Department of Transportation is facing pressure from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to hold the airliner accountable for travel disruptions.
For Context: Southwest Airlines canceled over 2,500 flights on Wednesday. The systemic failings at Southwest are being blamed on a
The Hill
Fox News (Online News)
CNN (Online News)