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Apr 15 2023
News
What Walmart's pullback from Chicago says about Corporate America's limits
A line of Chicago mayors heavily courted Walmart over the last two decades, brushing aside community protests. And Walmart welcomed the opportunity to show cities it could be a strong corporate partner. But now, Walmart is pulling back from Chicago. The largest retailer in the country announced plans this week to close four of its eight stores in the city, citing growing financial losses.
CNN (Online News)Apr 15 2024
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Left-Wing Activists Taught To Chant ‘Death To’ America
A group of left-wing, anti-war activists was seen guided in a chant in Farsi at the Teamsters Union’s Chicago headquarters Saturday, stating “death to” America and Israel, video footage shows. In a video obtained by The Free Press, an estimated 300 activists gathered over the weekend to hear from organizers throughout the country who are planning to allegedly disrupt the Democratic National
The Daily CallerApr 15 2024
Analysis
Trump’s first criminal trial is a historic and solemn moment for America
The United States will cross a historic threshold on Monday when for the first time a former president goes on criminal trial in a case laced with fateful significance because Donald Trump could be back in the Oval Office next year.
When the presumptive GOP nominee walks into court for the start of jury selection, he and the country will enter a new state of reality as legal and
CNN (Online News)Apr 01 2024
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Baltimore bridge collapse a metaphor for America
... IF YOU CAN KEEP IT Without God, America looks a lot like a bridge that lies in ruins in Baltimore harbor. The collapse of the Frances Scott Key Bridge is a metaphor for our national decline. Key wrote a poem that became the lyrics of the national anthem – including the words: "Then conquer we must when our cause it is just. And this be our motto, in God is our trust" – as he watched the
WNDApr 10 2024
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If Europe Pushes Putin, America Should Tap Out
NATO is celebrating its 75th year as its members fight a brutal proxy war with Russia over Ukraine. The alliance marked its anniversary in Brussels last week and will hold a formal summit in July in Washington. That session could be contentious. Fears of a Ukrainian collapse are increasing, and an increasing number of policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic believe the alliance should go
The American ConservativeApr 06 2024
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Solar eclipse to cast shadow across America
A total solar eclipse will darken skies across many points in America on Monday, and while clouds are predicted to be present over shadowed portions of southern and central United States, other points are forecast to have a clearer view of the darkness. The eclipse will be visible across parts of Mexico, Canada and in the U.S. on a path from Texas moving to the northeast through Maine. The
WNDApr 17 2024
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Head to Fort Collins for FoCoMX: The Biggest Little Music Festival in America
Every year in downtown Fort Collins on a weekend in late April, “the streets are alive with the sounds of local music.” That charming assessment comes from Greta Cornett of the Fort Collins Musicians Association (FoCoMA) as she excitedly discusses FoCoMX Started “for musicians by musicians,” according to Cornett, FoCoMX is a locally organized event from the Fort Collins Musicians Association (
Denver WestwordApr 14 2024
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Anti-Chinese xenophobia fueled America's first drug war
Around 2 a.m. on Monday, December 6, 1875, a "posse of police" led by Captain William Douglass descended on 609 Dupont Street in San Francisco. The cops arrested Fannie Whitmore, Cora Martinez, James Dennison, and Charles Anderson, along with "two Chinamen who kept the place." That place, The San Francisco Examiner explained, was an "opium den," and this was the first raid conducted under an
ReasonMar 18 2024
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Bill could make Corporation Commission exempt from Open Meeting Act
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KFOR) – An Oklahoma bill, now headed to the Senate, would allow the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to discuss certain parts of the job behind closed doors. It would make the OCC exempt from Oklahoma’s Open Meeting Act for specific topics. “There are 11 things in the bill that they can talk about now and if they do, they must post it to the website within 48 hours,” said
KFOR 4Apr 26 2024
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US-China relations: Xi tells Blinken America cannot ‘say one thing and do another’
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on the United States to be a partner of China and not “say one thing and do another” in a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on Friday.
Blinken, in turn, expressed concerns about China’s supply of goods that could have military uses to Russia and its alleged manufacturing overcapacity.
South China Morning Post