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Aug 03 2022
Fact Check
No, Republicans Do Not Oppose Helping Veterans
Welcome back to Forgotten Fact-Checks, a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we explain Republican opposition to a veterans’ health bill, look at Politico’s White House PR, and hit more media misses.
Republicans Smeared as Cold-Hearted Veteran-Haters
Senate Republicans last week voted down a bill that would provide funding for health care and
National Review Fact Check
Apr 19 2023
News
Congressional Democrats Urge FTC To Ban Noncompete Agreements ‘Without Delay’
Democrats in the Senate and House sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan on Tuesday urging the agency to implement its proposed ban on noncompete agreements “without delay” and keep the rule as broad as possible.
The FTC announced in January that it plans to bar employers from using such contracts to lock workers into their jobs and prevent them from taking better
HuffPost
Feb 03 2023
News
Meta shares rocket 23%, one of the best days in over a decade
Meta shares jumped over 23% on Thursday, one of the stocks best day in nearly a decade, with a slew of analyst upgrades coming off the back of a fourth-quarter revenue beat and optimistic prognostications from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta shares sit at their highest point since September 2022, which was weeks before a disastrous third-quarter earnings report that prompted analysts across
CNBC
Aug 21 2023
Headline Roundup
Tropical Storm Hilary Hits Southern California
Tropical Storm Hilary hit southern California Sunday, the region's first tropical storm in 84 years.
The Impact: Some communities in San Bernadino County and Riverside County were ordered to evacuate, and some schools and businesses closed Monday. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Saturday ahead of the storm's arrival, and flash flood warnings were in place until early
Orange County Register
NewsNation
HuffPost
Jan 01 2023
Opinion
Making a New Year's Resolution? Don't Go to War With Yourself
New Year’s resolutions are a time for reflection—a chance to think about the limited time we have on this Earth and how to use it wisely.
Oliver Burkeman is a writer who focuses on this nexus of mortality and productivity. He is the author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mere Mortals (4,000 weeks is about the length of the average American’s life span). I caught up with him
The Atlantic
Aug 25 2022
Opinion
Democrats promised to rein in Big Tech. They have failed.
For 20 years, Congress has stood by and failed to regulate technology as tech has changed rapidly and become an integral part of Americans’ lives.
Democrats promised to change that in the last election cycle. While winning the presidency and both houses of Congress, they promised to crack down on the immense and growing power of Big Tech companies like Apple Inc. AAPL, +1.49%, Alphabet
MarketWatch
Jan 14 2023
News
Congress’s bipartisan deal to spend billions more fighting HIV and malaria abroad
On December 23, while many of us were doing last-minute holiday shopping, Congress passed a big $1.7 trillion spending package, keeping the government funded through September 30, which marks the end of this fiscal year. You’ve likely heard of some of the bill’s more newsworthy provisions, such as a change to the Electoral Count Act to prevent an attempt like Donald Trump’s in 2021 to overturn
Vox
Jun 14 2021
Analysis
The US East Coast is set to become a green energy job powerhouse
To address global warming the White House has stated that president Biden’s green energy plan aims to set the US on a course toward achieving “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. If achieved, it would mean the country that currently ranks as the world’s worst historical climate polluter would stop adding new climate pollution to the atmosphere. All of the pathways for achieving this
Quartz
Sep 07 2022
News
IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system
Electronic tax filing could soon be as simple as a few clicks on a government website — free of charge.
The Internal Revenue Service will spend $15 million studying a free, government-backed tax filing system under a provision in the sweeping climate and health-care law Congress passed this summer. It’s a landmark step toward overhauling the way most Americans file their taxes and
Washington Post
Mar 25 2023
News
Mississippi tornadoes kill 23, injure dozens overnight
Powerful tornadoes tore through the Deep South on Friday night, killing at least 23 people in Mississippi, obliterating dozens of buildings and leaving an especially devastating mark in a rural town whose mayor declared, “My city is gone.”
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said in a Twitter post that search and rescue teams from local and state agencies were deployed to help
Associated Press