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Apr 03 2021
Analysis
Ending Civil Asset Forfeiture Should Be a Bipartisan Project
During the seemingly endless run-up to the last election, my partisan friends would often say to me, "politics is binary." Their point is that voters only have two serious choices in any election, the Democrats or the Republicans. We need to pick a side and then, apparently, serve as cheerleaders for whatever that side is doing.
As a libertarian who doesn't like either choice, I often
ReasonMay 01 2015
News
Freddie Gray Update: New Speculation On His Death And Peaceful Protests
The Baltimore Police Department's report on the death of Freddie Gray is now being examined by the city's top prosecutor. The findings aren't public; police revealed only a few new details when they announced the transition in the case Thursday. Baltimore's curfew is expected to remain in effect through this weekend.
NPR (Online News)Oct 17 2019
News
Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings Dies At 68
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a Baltimore attorney and civil rights advocate who served in Maryland's legislature before representing the state in the U.S. House, where he took on a lead role in investigating President Trump, has died. He was 68.
Cummings, the head of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Reform, died early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital from complications
NPR (Online News)May 03 2015
News
U.S. Split Along Racial Lines on Backlash Against Police, Poll Finds
Americans are bracing for a summer of racial disturbances around the country, such as those that have wracked Baltimore, with African Americans and whites deeply divided about why the urban violence has occurred, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found.
A resounding 96% of adults surveyed said it was likely there would be additional racial disturbances this summer, a signal
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 10 2020
News
Growing Discomfort at Law Firms Representing Trump in Election Lawsuits
Like many big law firms, Jones Day, whose roots go back to Cleveland in the late 1800s, has prided itself on representing controversial clients.
There was Big Tobacco. There was the Bin Laden family. There was even the hated owner of the Cleveland Browns football team as he moved the franchise to Baltimore.
Now Jones Day is the most prominent firm representing President Trump and
New York Times (News)Aug 15 2020
Fact Check
Trump payroll tax cut is Social Security risk
BALTIMORE (AP) — President Donald Trump’s proposed payroll tax cut is a threat to Social Security no matter how he casts it.
During a news conference Wednesday, he insisted he could eliminate the tax if he were reelected, and do it without undercutting retirement benefits or greatly adding to the deficit. He said economic growth would offset the revenue losses.
That claim has
Associated Press Fact CheckOct 22 2021
Analysis
CNN Forced to Fact Check Joe Biden's CNN Town Hall
On Thursday night amid multiple crises of his administration's creation, President Joe Biden joined CNN for a town hall event hosted by Anderson Cooper and it went about as well as you could expect for a septuagenarian up past his bed time.
The morning after Biden and Cooper's conversation, though, CNN itself published a fact check of what Biden claimed on the stage in Baltimore.
TownhallOct 29 2021
News
Biden, Pope Francis Meet Amid Controversy Over Abortion
President Biden, the second Catholic president in American history, traveled to the Vatican on Friday for a meeting with Pope Francis that is expected to focus on climate change but has been overshadowed by controversy among church leaders over the president’s support for abortion rights.
Some U.S. bishops say that Catholic politicians who support legal access to abortion should be
Wall Street Journal (News)May 03 2021
News
COVID Deaths Continue to Decline in U.S.
In a sign that the coronavirus pandemic is beginning to ebb in America, a new analysis finds the seven-day average of new COVID-19 deaths in the United States has hit its lowest point since last October.
As of Wednesday, 684 new deaths had been reported, data from Johns Hopkins University showed. That's roughly an 80% drop since January, CNN reported. And the decline has been sure and
U.S. News & World ReportJul 01 2021
News
US cities are suffocating in the heat. Now they want retribution
For years, an elderly man stood as a regular fixture around his East Baltimore neighborhood for the way he would wander the streets in the summer, trying to stay outside his sweltering home until nightfall.
This man, who suffers from dementia, lived in a row house that shared side walls with its neighboring homes. With windows only in the front and back, there was little air flow, which
The Guardian