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Feb 03 2021
News
Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lies in honor at Capitol; Biden, others pay respects
Lawmakers and others held another memorial service Wednesday for Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in the Capitol Rotunda, where he has been lying in honor since Tuesday evening after dying last month from injuries suffered during the Jan. 6 riot at the building that he helped defend.
There will be a send-off ceremony outside the steps of the Capitol before his remains are
Fox News (Online News)Nov 12 2020
Opinion
AOC & Co.’s loathsome plan to keep lists of pro-Trumpies
In Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” a man named Ko-Ko appointed to the job of Lord High Executioner tries to figure out whom he should have killed. “There will be,” he says, “no difficulty in finding plenty of people whose loss will be a distinct gain to society at large.” And then he reveals that he has “a little list” — a list “of society offenders . . . who never would be missed!”
New York Post (Opinion)Jul 30 2021
News
A Thousand Coal Miners Are Still On Strike After 4 Months
Michael Argo has spent 13 years working underground at a coal mine in Brookwood, Alabama, just outside Tuscaloosa. It’s the same mine his father worked at, raising Argo on good union wages and excellent health care coverage. When Argo followed in his father’s footsteps, he believed the job would get better with time and seniority. Instead, he said the job has only gotten worse.
“I’m
HuffPostMay 05 2021
Opinion
Oversight Board Is Wrong to Uphold Facebook’s Suspension of Trump
Facebook’s Oversight Board decided to uphold Facebook’s and Instagram’s suspension of former President Donald Trump from their platforms today. This decision is the wrong one, and one that all Americans, regardless of political affiliation, should be concerned about. However, the Oversight Board was entirely appropriate to admonish Facebook for the fact that its penalty was vague and
The Daily SignalMar 08 2021
Analysis
Biden team 'has zero confidence' that 'absentee president' can handle press conference, Concha suggests
Joe Biden is showing himself to be an "absentee president" by not holding a solo press conference or scheduling an address to Congress despite having been in office for more than six weeks, Joe Concha told "America Reports" Thursday.
"I look at what President Biden said on January 14th where he said, as president-elect, he would address Congress 'next month', as in February," said
Fox News (Online News)Jan 05 2020
News
UK minister defends US killing of Iran’s Soleimani
Dominic Raab, Britain’s foreign secretary, has defended US president Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate the top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, saying America had “a right to self-defence”.
“We understand the action the Americans have taken,” Mr Raab told the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show. “We understand why they did it.”
Financial TimesAug 31 2021
News
‘Democracy will be in shambles’: Democrats in last-ditch effort to protect voting rights
Democrats are pushing what may be their last chance to hold off voter suppression efforts by Republicans, and say that their control of both the House and Senate is at risk if they do not pass their new legislation to protect elections.
Their bill, which cleared the US House on a party-line vote last week, has now been taken up by a bitterly divided Senate. It would ensure that states
The GuardianJul 24 2020
Humor
Country Time CEO Unsure If Company Supposed To Be Racist Or Not
Admitting that they had made no significant progress in understanding where they stood in the present climate, Country Time CEO Howard Worth told reporters Thursday that he was unsure if his company was supposed to be racist or not. “Certainly, it seems like the name Country Time is idealizing some long lost past of rural America, but as far as we can see it isn’t explicitly related to the
The Onion (Humor)Dec 25 2020
News
Coronavirus has altered Christmas. But in a few countries, it looks a little like normal.
While Christians in the Americas, Europe, India, Russia and elsewhere have had to curtail their holiday celebrations due to coronavirus restrictions and widespread infections, in some parts of the world, the holiday is set to proceed a little bit more like it normally does.
With limited outbreaks, places including Australia, New Zealand, Rwanda, Taiwan and Vietnam have rolled back some
Washington PostDec 31 2019
News
2019: The year Trump "effectively" shut off asylum at the border and restricted immigration
Lee Gelernt has spent much of 2019 crisscrossing federal courts across the country trying to halt some of the Trump administration's most controversial immigration policies.
As the top immigration litigator at the American Civil Liberties Union, Gelernt is accustomed to high-stakes legal fights with different administrations. But in the past 12 months, the veteran civil rights lawyer
CBS News (Online)