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May 20 2013
News
DOJ Targeted Fox News Reporter by Monitoring Movements
It turns out President Obama's Department of Justice wasn't just targeting Associated Press reporters. The Washington Post has revealed DOJ specifically targeted Fox News' Reporter James Rosen, who covers the State Department. DOJ not only monitored Rosen's phone calls, but his movements.
When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about
Townhall
Mar 28 2019
News
Trump, Republican lawmakers call on House intelligence chairman to resign
President Donald Trump on Thursday urged House intelligence panel chairman Adam Schiff to resign, after Attorney General William Barr said Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not establish evidence of collusion between the 2016 election campaign and Russia.
“Congressman Adam Schiff, who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign
Reuters
Oct 22 2015
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Clinton Testifies Again On Benghazi
A new hearing took place today on the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, where four Americans lost their lives. Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton testified before a House committee for several hours. GOP leaders still have questions about whether, among other things, Clinton, as secretary of state, properly heeded warnings and ensured security at the diplomatic outpost. Some say it’s mainly John Gable, AllSides Co-founder
Dec 29 2013
News
Healthcare.gov withstood traffic onslaught this week, administration says
The federal website where Americans can sign up for new health insurance saw a rush of traffic ahead of this week’s deadline to secure coverage by next year, an Obama administration official said on Friday.
Julie Bataille, communications director for the agency directing the website, said 880,000 people visited HealthCare.gov on Christmas Eve – which was the last day Americans could go
CNN (Online News)
Aug 13 2019
News
White House delays some new China tariffs until Dec. 15
The White House on Tuesday said it would delay imposing tariffs on Chinese imports of cellphones, laptop computers, video game consoles, and certain types of footwear and clothing until Dec. 15, significantly later than the Sept. 1 deadline President Trump had repeatedly threatened.
The announcement, which came from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, likely ensures that Apple
Washington Post
Aug 12 2019
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Protesters shut down Hong Kong airport as China warns of ‘terrorism,’ raising fears of military crackdown
Thousands of protesters shut down Hong Kong’s international airport Monday, defying an intensifying police crackdown, as China issued ominous warnings that described the protests as “terrorism” and began massing a paramilitary force in a southern border city.
Some of the protesters who had been occupying the airport’s arrivals hall swarmed into the departures area Monday, prompting
Washington Post
Dec 07 2014
News
How the ISIS war looks from Baghdad
Sitting here in the US, it's easy to be confused about what's actually happening in the American-led war against ISIS. So it's invaluable when experts like Doug Ollivant — former National Security Council Director for Iraq and current partner at Mantid International — visit the country.
Ollivant, who recently returned from a visit to Baghdad surveying the military and political
Vox
Apr 29 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: CDC Says Vaccinated People Usually Don't Need Masks Outside
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated guidelines on Tuesday regarding mask-wearing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying vaccinated people can go maskless outside in most situations. The CDC says vaccinated people should still avoid indoor large-sized in-person gatherings and
AllSides Staff
Mar 12 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Republicans Stop Paying Attention
From the CenterThis viewpoint is from a writer rated Center.
Joe Biden has succeeded in passing the largest expansion of domestic government spending and the most targeted expansion of aid to low-income Americans in more than fifty years. Bernie Sanders tweeted that the legislation was “the most progressive bill he’s seen pass since he’s been here” and that it was “the most
Dan Schnur
Mar 13 2015
News
The end of white Christian America is nigh: Why the country’s youth are abandoning religious conservatism
here’s been a lot of media attention recently to the changing demographics of the United States, where, at current rates, people who identify as “white” are expected to become a minority by the year 2050. But in many ways, the shift in national demographics has been accelerated beyond even that. New data from the American Values Atlas shows that while white people continue to be the majority
Salon