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Feb 04 2013
News
Wallace Rebukes NRA's LaPierre: "That's Ridiculous And You Know It, Sir"
Fox News' Chris Wallace challenged National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre's false claims about strengthening gun laws, even going so far as to describe one of his talking points as "ridiculous." Wallace's treatment of LaPierre is a departure from his Fox colleagues who have allowed LaPierre to push his agenda without challenge.
Media MattersApr 10 2020
News
White House Works to Restart Economy as Democrats Block Billions in Additional Aid Amid Unemployment Crisis
In just three weeks, nearly 17 million Americans have filed for unemployment.
One in ten Americans is now out of work.
In California this week, a long line of people waited in the rain for food, a scene repeated in other states.
Many states are struggling to keep up with the barrage of unemployment requests.
"How long it takes will vary by states," says Secretary of
CBNNov 22 2014
News
House Panel Finds 'No Intelligence Failure' Before Benghazi Attack
After a nearly two-year investigation, the final report by the House Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA "ensured sufficient security for CIA facilities in Benghazi and ... bravely assisted the State Department" on Sept. 11, 2012, during a deadly attack on U.S. facilities in Libya.
That's the first conclusion of the report, the result of thousands of hours of investigation
NPR (Online News)Jun 07 2014
News
Judge strikes down Wisconsin gay marriage ban
Same-sex couples began getting married in Wisconsin on Friday within minutes of a federal judge's striking down the state's gay marriage ban and despite confusion over the effect of the ruling. Clerks in Madison and Milwaukee started marrying same-sex couples Friday evening. They did so even though both Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and Chris Ahmuty, director of the Wisconsin
PoliticoOct 26 2014
News
Christie predicts quarantine will be 'national policy'
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he has no second thoughts about enacting a 21-day medical quarantine on medical workers returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa.
"I think this is a policy that will become a national policy sooner rather than later," the Republican governor said on "Fox News Sunday," emphasizing the population density of his state and the New York
PoliticoOct 08 2019
Opinion
CNN public editor: What actually is CNN?
WHEN I THINK OF CNN—when I watch it, or when I scroll through Twitter, or when I think of what I want to write about it—I think of what Jeff Zucker, CNN president, said in 2017: “The idea that politics is sport is undeniable, and we understood it and approached it that way.”
I think about it when I watch Chris Cuomo bring on bad guests, and when I ponder his half-comprehensible
Columbia Journalism ReviewFeb 18 2015
News
ABC, CBS, NBC Skip Marie Harf’s Lefty ‘Jobs for ISIS’ Idea
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf’s statement that “we cannot win this war” against ISIS by “killing them” and suggestion that “we need...to go after the root causes” like “lack of opportunity for jobs” was even too ridiculous for a liberal like Chris Matthews to swallow. Yet this latest foreign policy embarrassment for Barack Obama’s administration has yet to be reported on any of the
Media Research CenterSep 27 2015
News
Jeb Bush: Government shutdown is ‘not how democracy works’
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Sunday that shutting down the government over defunding Planned Parenthood is “not how democracy works.”
During an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” the former Florida governor said shutting down the women’s health group would be “great,” but Congress cannot just shut it down over partisan squabbles.
Congress ultimately would “
Washington TimesJun 01 2013
News
IRS, Obama Fundraisers, Immigration: Five Stories You'll Care About in Politics Next Week
The past week offered a brief respite from many of the battles that have gripped Washington over the last few weeks, and gave the Obama administration, in particular, a chance to catch its breath after getting clobbered by a trio of scandals. President Obama started the week surveying the post-Superstorm Sandy rebuilding efforts along the Jersey shore with Gov. Chris Christie by his side.
ABC News (Online)Feb 03 2015
News
Vaccination debate flares in GOP presidential race, alarming medical experts
Medical experts reacted with alarm Monday as two top contenders for the Republican presidential nomination appeared to question whether child vaccinations should be mandatory — injecting politics into an emotional issue that has taken on new resonance with a recent outbreak of measles in the United States.
First, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, while visiting a vaccine laboratory here,
Washington Post