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Nov 12 2020
News
Pfizer's Covid-19 Vaccine Announcement
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
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On Monday, pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced exciting developments on a potential Covid-19 vaccine. According to early test results, the company says, its vaccine was 90% effective in preventing Covid-19. Abridge NewsOct 09 2014
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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Gay Marriage In Idaho, Nevada
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked Tuesday's appeals court decision that struck down bans on same-sex marriage in Idaho and Nevada.
Officials in Idaho had filed a last-minute appeal to the Supreme Court following Tuesday's appeals court decision. In his order, Kennedy gave lawyers representing same-sex couples until 5 p.m. Thursday to respond to the appeal.
NPR (Online News)Oct 09 2014
News
Court Says It Mistakenly Blocked Same-Sex Marriage In Nevada
The Supreme Court spokeswoman says Justice Anthony Kennedy mistakenly blocked the start of same-sex marriage in Nevada in an order that spawned confusion among state officials and disappointment in couples hoping to be wed.
Spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Thursday that Kennedy's order issued a day earlier was an error that the justice corrected with a second order several hours later.
HuffPostJun 02 2020
Analysis
Riots May Be Destructive, but Abusive Policing Is Tyranny
Since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin—assisted by three murderously indifferent cop buddies—protests over abusive and lethal police conduct have spread across the country and turned destructive. Law-and-order types take that as an opening to shift the topic from the long, troubling history of law enforcement in this country to the excesses of the
ReasonApr 26 2015
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Supreme Court Seems To Be On The Verge Of Ruling In Favor Of Marriage Equality
The U.S. Supreme Court's arguments on Tuesday over same-sex marriage will cap more than two decades of litigation and a transformation in public attitudes.
Based on the court's actions during the past two years, a sense of inevitability is in the air: That a majority is on the verge of declaring gay marriage legal nationwide.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court's pivotal member on
HuffPostMar 25 2015
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Supreme Court Rejects Ruling That Upheld Alabama's Gerrymandering
The U.S. Supreme Court called a district court ruling that upheld Alabama's redistricting plan, which overloaded some districts with black Democrats, "legally erroneous." In a 5-to-4 ruling, the justices rejected the ruling and sent it back to the lower court.
Justice Steven Breyer, who delivered the opinion, was joined by the court's other liberals, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia
NPR (Online News)Oct 26 2020
Opinion
Saving Private Biden
In the thick of the 2016 presidential campaign, the front page of the New York Times handed down the word from on high: In the era of Donald Trump, press objectivity was a luxury America could not afford.
It turned out that biased press coverage wasn’t enough to keep Mr. Trump from winning. So for 2020 the press introduced a new corollary: Joe Biden must never be asked a tough question
William McGurnMar 28 2013
News
How Gay Marriage Won
Eager to be eyewitnesses to history, people camped for days in the dismal cold, shivering in the slanting shadow of the Capitol dome, to claim tickets for the Supreme Courts historic oral arguments on same-sex marriage. Some hoped that the Justices would extend marriage rights; others prayed that they would not. When at last the doors of the white marble temple swung open on March 26 for the
Time MagazineApr 24 2024
Headline Roundup
Australian PM Criticizes Elon Musk Over Censorship and Safety on X
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk are locked in a public feud over censorship of violent content on Musk's social media platform, X. The Details: X is refusing Australia’s request to globally block a video of a 16-year-old attacking a bishop at a church in Sydney, instead simply hiding the clips from Australian viewers. Australian authorities
The Hill CNN (Online News) Washington ExaminerSep 17 2019
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Democrats hit the panic button after internal polling shows stunning public opinion on impeachment
More moderate Democrats are sounding the alarm after internal polling showed that a vast majority of voters saw the party as having misplaced priorities on impeachment.
Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi of New York took his concerns straight to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and explained his rationale to Politico.
"It's very frustrating for me — someone coming from a
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