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Oct 24 2015
News
U.S. Won’t Prosecute Former IRS Official Lois Lerner
The Justice Department won’t charge Lois Lerner, a former Internal Revenue Service official, over Tea Party groups’ applications for tax-exempt status, closing a nearly 2 1/2-year investigation with a determination that IRS officials bungled the matter but committed no crimes.
“Our investigation uncovered substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia,
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 22 2020
News
Shootings Rise in NYC, Perps Set Free Due to Court Backlog
Shootings erupted across New York City over the weekend ahead of the long-awaited second phase of the city’s coronavirus reopening scheduled for Monday.
24 people were shot in the span of as many hours beginning on Saturday, with the court system facing a backlog of cases because of coronavirus closures. The NYPD said suspects arrested on gun-possession charges were being set free
National Review (News)Dec 14 2019
News
GOP, Dems call for probe of hundreds of pardons issued by ex-Kentucky Gov. Bevin
Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned 428 people -- including some violent offenders -- between Election Day last month and the end of his term Tuesday, the state Secretary of State's Office said this week, prompting calls for an investigation by state officials.
Those pardoned by Bevin included a man convicted of reckless homicide, a convicted child rapist, a man who murdered his
Fox News DigitalFeb 10 2021
Opinion
Impeachment Poses One Question
Much of the legal wrangling serves to obscure the central matter before the Senate.
One casualty of a moment in American life when politics seems to pervade everything is an inability by many prominent people to tease apart what is and is not a matter of politics.
The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, which gets under way today, offers several prime
The AtlanticJan 05 2019
News
Trump Keeps Giving Mueller Reasons to Pursue the ‘Collusion’ Probe
The special counsel is going to keep digging until Trump stops this. It’s a new year with a new Congress, but it’s the same question: When is Special Counsel Robert Mueller going to file his much-anticipated final report? My 2018 answer was: When he’s good and ready. I have a caveat for 2019, though: Maybe when President Trump stops giving him additional reasons to keep digging.
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National Review (News)Jan 13 2021
News
McConnell Privately Backs Impeachment as House Moves to Charge Trump
Senator Mitch McConnell has concluded that President Trump committed impeachable offenses and believes that Democrats’ move to impeach him will make it easier to purge Mr. Trump from the party, according to people familiar with Mr. McConnell’s thinking.
The private assessment of Mr. McConnell, the most powerful Republican in Congress, emerged on the eve of a House vote to formally
New York Times (News)Aug 13 2020
Background
Capital punishment in the United States
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United States, currently used by 28 states, the federal government, and the military.[1] Its existence can be traced to the beginning of the American colonies. The United States is the only developed Western nation that applies the death penalty regularly.[2][3][4][5][6] It is one of 55 countries worldwide applying it, and was the first to develop
WikipediaJun 06 2023
Headline Roundup
Fact Check: Nikki Haley's 2024 CNN Town Hall
GOP Presidential candidate Nikki Haley spoke at a CNN (Lean Left bias) Town Hall in Iowa on Sunday, prompting reactionary coverage across the spectrum.
“White Governor”: Right-rated sources highlighted a CNN panelist’s mislabeling of Haley’s race. Bakari Sellers criticized Haley’s handling of racial tensions as South Carolina governor in 2015, calling her a “white governor from the Deep
CNN Fact Check FactCheck.org New York Post (News)Jun 18 2020
News
Google Ads bans Zero Hedge for racist content, but reverses decision on The Federalist
Google says it’s banning the site Zero Hedge from its Google Ads program for racist content — but it reversed plans to ban a second site, The Federalist, after the site removed comments from its articles. “We have strict publisher policies that govern the content ads can run on and explicitly prohibit derogatory content that promotes hatred, intolerance, violence or discrimination based on
The VergeOct 26 2023
Headline Roundup
Twenty-Five Years Since the Murder of Matthew Shepard
Earlier this month marked the 25th anniversary of the murder of Matthew Shepard in what The Hill (Center bias) labeled “one of the most notorious anti-gay hate crimes in U.S. history.”
Biden’s Words: In a statement marking the 25th anniversary of Shepard’s murder, President Joe Biden said, “No American should face hate or violence for who they are or who they love.”
Turning Point
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