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Aug 20 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: DNC 2020: Biden Nominated, Speakers Take Aim at Trump
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The Democratic Party kicked off its first virtual election convention on Monday, featuring multiple prominent speakers and portraying Joe Biden as the candidate who can pull the nation together amid racial justice protests and the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The convention culminated Thursday night with
Micaela RicaforteJun 17 2017
Headline Roundup
Acquittal in Philando Castile Case
A Minnesota police officer was acquitted of manslaughter after fatally shooting Philando Castile last July.
Slate USA TODAY Fox News (Online News)Jun 19 2023
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Celebrating Juneteenth 2023
Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 that slaves in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Key Details: Juneteenth was designated a federal holiday in 2021, and is the newest federal holiday. At least 28 states and the District of Columbia recognize the day as a public holiday by closing government
National Review (News) Axios CNBCJun 13 2017
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Questions for Sessions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify today in public before the Senate intelligence committee, as controversy continues to swirl over President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing in May of former FBI director James Comey, and the continuing investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia.
Fox News (Online News) CNN (Online News) New York Times (News)Jun 12 2017
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Jeff Sessions to Testify
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify Tuesday before the same Senate committee that heard from former FBI Director James Comey last week, keeping national attention on a Russia investigation that White House officials have been trying to push to the background.
Washington Times CBS News (Online) Wall Street Journal (News)Mar 16 2017
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Judges Rule Against Travel Ban
A federal judge in Hawaii issued a worldwide restraining order against enforcement of key parts of President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban executive order just hours before the directive was set to kick in, backed up by a second federal judge in Maryland who put out his own ruling blocking parts of the order.
Townhall New York Times (News) PoliticoMar 12 2017
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US Attorney Fired, Refused Resignation
US Attorney Preet Bharara was fired by the Trump Administration after refusing to resign. He and 45 other US Attorneys hired under Obama were let go this week.
Townhall HuffPost CNN (Online News)Mar 03 2017
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Is Session’s Recusal Enough?
Still needed, some experts say, is a special prosecutor or bipartisan commission to investigate contacts between officials from Russia and the Trump campaign.
National Review (News) Christian Science Monitor New York Times (News)Jan 31 2017
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Acting Attorney General Fired
President Donald Trump fired the nation's acting attorney general Monday night after she refused to defend an executive order he issued last week restricting immigration in the name of national security.
New York Times (News) CNN (Online News) National Review (News)Jul 02 2012
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Romney Campaign at Odds With G.O.P. on Health Care ‘Tax’
The Republican message machine is trying hard to accuse President Obama of increasing taxes on middle-class Americans after the Supreme Courts ruling that the health care mandate is valid as an exercise of the governments taxing power.
But the party is doing so without the help of Mitt Romney, whose own health plan in Massachusetts contained an almost identical mandate.
On Monday
New York Times (News)