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Aug 13 2014
News
Health Coverage to End Without Proof of Citizenship or Legal Residency
The Obama administration moved Tuesday to cut off health insurance for up to 310,000 people who signed up through the HealthCare.gov system unless they can provide documents in the next few weeks showing they are U.S. citizens or legal residents.
Those individuals have until Sept. 5 to send in additional information that could confirm they are in the U.S. legally, a condition of using
Wall Street Journal (News)
Oct 12 2022
Headline Roundup
How New Proposed Gig Worker Rules May Affect the Economy
Key Facts: The Biden administration is proposing a new rule that could re-classify millions of gig workers as employees rather than independent contractors, and it's expected to be implemented next year.
Key Quotes: “While independent contractors have an important role in our economy, we have seen in many cases that employers misclassify their employees as independent contractors,
Fox Business
Reuters
Associated Press 
Dec 10 2019
Analysis
Trump impeachment articles: Democrats decide to 'keep it simple, stupid'
Ever since Nancy Pelosi announced last week that she was instructing the Judiciary Committee to draft articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, speculation swirled as to what exactly they would look like.
Would they be broad, sweeping in a hodgepodge of alleged presidential misdeeds that include evidence gathered over the course of Mr Trump's three-year presidency? Or would they go
BBC News
Sep 22 2021
Perspectives Blog
Partisan Divide Among Republicans, Democrats About Covid Risks
What are the chances somebody with COVID-19 must be hospitalized? Your perception may vary depending on your political leaning.
The chances of being hospitalized from COVID-19 are between 1-5%, but Democrats overestimate the risk: 41% of Democrats think the chance of hospitalization is 50% or more, while 28% of Republicans think the chances are that high. Republicans were more likely
Julie Mastrine
Nov 07 2013
News
ObamaCare website could only handle 1,100 users a day before launch, docs show
The problem-plagued ObamaCare website was only equipped to handle 1,100 users a day before it was launched, documents released by the House Oversight and Reform Committee reveal.
The Obama administration has repeatedly insisted that the website’s repeated crashes were due to unexpectedly high traffic. U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said on Oct. 6 that the website was expected
Fox News Digital
May 13 2016
News
Political Polarization
Political polarization – the vast and growing gap between liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats – is a defining feature of American politics today, and one the Pew Research Center has documented for many years.
Beginning with a survey of more than 10,000 adults conducted in early 2014, this Pew Research Center series further addresses the nature and scope of political
Pew Research Center
Feb 10 2020
News
Trump To Again Propose Slashing Foreign Aid In Budget
President Trump will propose $4.4 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade in his budget for fiscal year 2021 — a document that is expected to be quickly dismissed by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
The proposal, set for release at 12:30 p.m. ET on Monday, will include slashing foreign aid by 21%, budget chief Russell Vought told NPR's Steve Inskeep.
The
NPR (Online News)
Nov 22 2021
Headline Roundup
FDA Proposes 55-Year Plan for Releasing Data on Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine
In response to a request for data about the approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a plan to release 500 of the 329,000 pages of related documents each month.
The data request came from Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, which argued that "basic liberty and government transparency demand that the documents and data"
Snopes
Reuters
The Epoch Times
May 22 2019
News
Confidential draft IRS memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless president invokes executive privilege
A confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post.
The memo contradicts the Trump administration’s justification for denying lawmakers’ request for President Trump’s tax returns, exposing fissures in the
Washington Post
Nov 26 2019
News
Former White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with House subpoena, judge rules
Former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a House subpoena, a federal court ruled Monday, finding that “no one is above the law” and that top presidential advisers cannot ignore congressional demands for information. The ruling raises the possibility that McGahn could be forced to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry.
U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Washington Post