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Oct 26 2021
News
White House builds bridges with one of Black community’s most powerful groups
To successfully enact new voting rights and police reform laws, President Joe Biden may need some divine intervention. But if he can’t get that, at least he’s working to get some help from the Divine Nine.
Formally known as the National Pan-Hellenic Council, the Divine Nine represents nine historically Black fraternities and sororities and their alumni. It is arguably the most powerful
PoliticoDec 14 2021
News
Supreme Court Allows Vaccine Mandate for New York Health Care Workers
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block New York’s requirement that health care workers be vaccinated against the coronavirus even when they cite religious objections.
As is often the court’s practice in rulings on emergency applications, its unsigned order included no reasoning. But Justice Neil M. Gorsuch filed a 14-page dissent saying that the majority had betrayed
New York Times (News)Jul 18 2022
Perspectives Blog
Democrats aim to design a presidential nomination process that gives everyone a voice – and produces a winning candidate
This piece originally appeared on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Barbara A. Trish, an Professor of Political Science at Grinnell College The writer's bias has not been rated.
For the past few election cycles, the quartet of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina has had a lock on the early spots in the Democratic Party’s
"The Conversation" ContributorMar 27 2021
News
Harvard punishes professor who had ties to Jeffrey Epstein
A Harvard University professor who had close ties with Jeffrey Epstein and is accused of giving the disgraced financier an office on campus will be barred from starting new research or advising students for at least two years, the school announced Thursday.
Martin Nowak will be allowed to continue teaching during that period, but other contact with students will be limited and his
NBC News DigitalJun 15 2021
News
More than 600,000 people have died from Covid in the U.S. as officials race to vaccinate more people
The U.S. hit another grim milestone in the pandemic Tuesday, reaching more than 600,000 Covid fatalities as the nation races to administer at least one vaccine shot to 70% of adult Americans by the Fourth of July.
Deaths in the U.S. have been slowing for months, according to Johns Hopkins University data, due largely to an aggressive campaign to vaccinate the nation’s elderly and
CNBCFeb 17 2021
News
Biden Comes Out Against $50,000 In Student Loan Forgiveness - But Supports This Amount, Instead
President Biden has indicated he will not be cancelling $50,000 in student loans through executive action.
At a CNN town hall on Tuesday night, Biden was asked whether he would favor $50,000 in student loan forgiveness per borrower, as opposed to the $10,000 that he has publicly supported. “I will not make that happen,” said the President in response, suggesting that higher amounts of
ForbesJun 14 2021
News
Pathway to citizenship for 10 million would boost GDP by $1.7 trillion
Granting a pathway to citizenship to all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. would boost the nation's economy by $1.7 trillion over the next decade while creating 438,800 new jobs, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the University of California, Davis.
The report published by CAP, a progressive think tank, modeled different economic outcomes based
The HillDec 29 2020
Opinion
Behold, the Delivery Revolution
It’s been a terrible year for the American worker, with a notable bright spot courtesy of one of the tech firms in the crosshairs of regulators and lawmakers.
If someone had said early in 2020, “A company is going to hire hundreds of thousands of non-college-educated workers during the pandemic at well above the minimum wage,” you’d think there’d be huzzahs all around.
That’s
Rich LowryMar 29 2021
News
Noem Signs Executive Orders To ‘Protect Fairness’ in Women’s Sports After Backtracking on Transgender Bill
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) is signing executive orders that she says will “protect fairness” in women’s sports after sending a bill that would have banned transgender women from competing in female sports teams back to the legislature.
In a tweet on Monday, Noem wrote, “Only girls should play girls’ sports. Given the legislature’s failure to accept my proposed revisions to HB
Independent Journal ReviewSep 22 2020
News
US passes 200,000 deaths from COVID-19
The US has passed 200,000 deaths from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The figure represents about one-fifth of the world’s total reported deaths from the coronavirus.
The US has recorded the most COVID-19 fatalities in the world, though was ranked ninth globally in deaths per million people as of Monday, according to Statista.
Some experts had warned of
New York Post (News)