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Feb 24 2021
News
‘This is the Darkest Moment’: Afghans Flee a Crumbling Country
The dusty city below and its snow-capped mountains whizzed by in a blur. Clutching his light blue passport, Jawad Jalali’s eyes filled with tears as the roaring engines lifted the plane higher into the sky. Leaving Afghanistan wasn’t easy for the 30-year-old photojournalist.
“War is so ugly,” he said. “It takes everything from you. Your job, your security, your hopes, and your dreams
Foreign PolicyMay 13 2021
Analysis
Biden administration struggles to limit political damage from gas shortage
President Biden has struggled this week to contain an escalating gasoline shortage in the Southeast, prompting Republicans to open a new line of attack against him on an issue that has long been fraught with political peril for the party that controls the White House.
In Congress, Republicans seized on Biden’s moves to transition away from fossil fuels, suggesting it imperils the
Washington PostApr 30 2021
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: The Ongoing Global Semiconductor Chip Shortage
A global shortage of semiconductor computer chips has impacted industries around the world, causing supply chain delays for everything from cars to smartphones and gaming consoles. On Wednesday, Apple CFO Luca Maestri said that supply constraints would limit sales of iPads and Macs, cutting the company’s revenue by $3 billion to $4 billion over the next three months. While the Biden
CNN (Online News) The Hill Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Aug 07 2019
News
Ohio police investigating home explosion as possible hate crime after Nazi graffiti found
Authorities in Ohio are reportedly investigating a home explosion Wednesday as a possible hate crime after finding racial slurs and swastika graffiti.
The Wayne County Sheriff’s Department said on Facebook that nobody was injured in the house explosion in Sterling.
Sheriff Travis Hutchinson told reporters police found racial slurs and a swastika painted on the home’s garage and
The HillAug 05 2019
News
Deadly blast outside Cairo hospital 'terrorist incident
An explosion in Cairo on Sunday evening which killed 20 people was terrorist-related, Egypt's president has said.
A car drove at high speed in the wrong direction, crashing into three others outside a cancer hospital in central Cairo, causing an explosion.
Another 47 people were injured, at least three of them critically, a health ministry spokesman added.
President Abdel
BBC NewsApr 05 2017
Opinion
The President Is This Presidency’s Worst Enemy
The conservative commentariat is full of suggestions these days for how Donald Trump can salvage his first 100 days. F. H. Buckley, the organizer of “Scholars and Writers for Trump,” writes in the New York Post that the president should “split” the GOP, align himself with Democrats, and embrace Canadian-style single-payer health car.
Guest WriterMay 28 2021
Opinion
Tucker Carlson: Democrats have reimagined public safety, making the public much less safe
'The Democratic Party took full control of the country and their policies resulted in a huge number of killings'
One Sunday afternoon last September, a 16-year-old called Aaron Pryor was shot to death in a driveway near his home in Oakland, California. Even by the standards of midday drive-by shootings, it was an awful crime. Surveillance footage showed the killer fired more than a
Tucker CarlsonAug 24 2020
News
"They saw a cop shoot their father": Video shows Wis. police shoot Black dad in back multiple times
Two police officers in Wisconsin were placed on administrative leave after video showed a Black father being shot multiple times in the back at close range as he tried to enter a vehicle.
Protests broke out in Kenosha, Wis., a witness recorded the moment police officers followed a man identified by officials as 29-year-old Jacob Blake to a SUV after responding to a domestic incident.
SalonMay 07 2014
News
The Changing Picture Of Poverty: Hard Work Is 'Just Not Enough'
Many American families living in or right above the poverty line have flat-screen TVs, cars and cellphones - so what does living in poverty mean today?
NPR (Online News)May 07 2020
News
No Income. Major Medical Bills. What Life Is Like for Millions of Americans Facing Financial Ruin Because of the Pandemic
On the same day that Elon Musk, the famously eccentric CEO of the electric-car company Tesla, saw his net worth hit $36.6 billion, Maricela Betancourt, one of the many people who work in his factories, was agonizing over her family’s bills. Betancourt, 58, had been a janitor at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., factory until April 7, when the company told her and 129 fellow janitors to go home and not
Time Magazine