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Feb 24 2021
Analysis
Why state legislatures are still very white — and very male
State legislatures around the country have made little progress in diversifying their ranks during the last decade, with many states losing ground in boosting the representation of people of color and white women.
Even as the share of nonwhite Americans has grown, a POLITICO analysis of data from the National Conference of State Legislatures finds that most state legislatures are
PoliticoFeb 16 2022
News
Threats force Ottawa cafe owner to close business after name appears in hacked list of Freedom Convoy donors
Tammy Giuliani, owner of Stella Luna Gelato Café in Ottawa, Canada, was forced to shut down her business after an onslaught of threats was made because of her donation to the Ottawa trucker convoy protesting against coronavirus restrictions.
Giuliani donated $250 to the Freedom Convoy via fundraising platform GiveSendGo. After the site suffered a data breach, Giuliani's contribution was
Fox News (Online News)Apr 13 2022
Fact Check
Fact check: False claim about Ukraine, child sex trafficking and money laundering
The claim: Ukraine is the money laundering and child sex trafficking "capital of the world"
An information war about the Russia-Ukraine conflict is continuing online even as troops clash on the ground, with bots spreading disinformation and Russian state media seeking to divide Western viewers.
A viral Facebook post from April 2 claims Ukraine is the money laundering and child
USA TODAYJul 15 2022
Fact Check
Fact-check: Can Texans 'too dangerous to carry a loaded gun in public' now carry?
Beto O'Rourke: "38,000 Texans had their license to carry denied, revoked, or suspended over the last five years because law enforcement deemed them too dangerous to carry a loaded gun in public. But thanks to Greg Abbott's new law, they don't need a license to carry anymore."
PolitiFact Texas ruling: Mostly False
Here's why: Many Texas officials were present as Gov. Greg Abbott
Austin American-StatesmanApr 01 2022
News
U.S. Hiring Stays Robust as Jobless Rate Falls, Wages Pick Up
The U.S. added close to half a million jobs in March and the unemployment rate fell by more than expected, highlighting a robust labor market that’s likely to support aggressive Federal Reserve tightening in the coming months.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 431,000 last month after an upwardly revised 750,000 gain in February, a Labor Department report showed Friday. The unemployment rate
BloombergJun 22 2022
News
Janet Yellen Admits Things Are About To Get Worse
Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen said that she anticipates the “economy to slow” during a Sunday morning interview on “This Week.”
Host George Stephanopoulos cited a new Wall Street Journal report from Sunday that said economists expect the likelihood of a recession to be 44% within the next year.
“Is that what you expect as well?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“Well, I expect the
The Daily CallerMar 03 2022
News
Wisconsin probe finds 2020 election riddled with nursing home voting fraud
Intercepted ballots, forged signatures and questionably high voting rates plagued Wisconsin’s nursing homes and other long-term care facilities during the 2020 presidential election, a state-appointed investigator said.
In light of the findings, the investigator said, the ballots from those facilities should be audited.
The special counsel’s report was issued Tuesday after an
Washington TimesJan 07 2022
News
CDC reports record number of child COVID-19 hospitalizations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky reported Friday that there have been a record number of pediatric hospitalizations due to COVID-19 and announced new isolation guidelines for students, staff and teachers to preserve in-person learning in schools.
During a media briefing, Walensky cautioned that pediatric hospitalizations are at the highest
The HillJan 16 2022
News
Level Of Migration To U.S. Not Unprecedented — Even After Push Proposed By Chamber Of Commerce
The appeal by U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark was simple. “We need more workers”, she told CNN on Tuesday. As the U.S. economy is struggling with staff shortages and record resignations, Clark’s appeal to double legal immigration to the U.S. is still highly controversial.
Data aggregated by the Migration Policy Institute shows that the presence of foreign-born populations in
ForbesJan 27 2022
Opinion
Our Tribalism Will Be the Death of Us
One of the most consistently intelligent and unbiased sources of news about Covid has been The Times’s newsletter The Morning, anchored by David Leonhardt, who fully respects science while being cleareyed about what it hasn’t figured out yet, opts for data over diatribes and tends toward understatement in an age of hyperbole. So when I see that his focus on a given day is the pandemic, I perk
Frank Bruni