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Sep 20 2021
News
Beto O'Rourke gearing up to run for governor against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
Failed presidential candidate and former three-term Congressman Beto O'Rourke is reportedly setting his sights lower than the highest office in the land and is, instead, looking to fill the highest office in the state of Texas.
According to a Sunday Axios report, O'Rourke is prepping to run for governor of Texas in November 2022.
O'Rourke, according to the report, has been
The BlazeNov 17 2021
News
U.S. plans to invest billions in manufacturing COVID-19 vaccine
The United States is planning to invest billions of dollars in expanding COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity to make available an additional one billion doses per year, a Biden administration official said on Wednesday.
The announcement to be made Wednesday comes as the administration of President Joe Biden faces pressure from activists to increase the vaccine supply to poorer
ReutersAug 20 2021
News
COVID anxiety rising amid delta surge, AP-NORC poll finds
Anxiety in the United States over COVID-19 is at its highest level since winter, a new poll shows, as the delta variant rages, more states and school districts adopt mask and vaccination requirements and the nation’s hospitals once again fill to capacity.
The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also finds that majorities of American adults want
Associated PressAug 20 2021
News
Republicans Question Biden’s Mental State, Call On Him To Resign Over Afghanistan
Republicans in Congress are questioning President Joe Biden’s mental state, and in some cases are calling for him to resign over the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
At least seven Republicans have argued that Biden should resign and have called into question his fitness for the presidency amid his repeated trips to Camp David and his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Daily CallerMay 14 2021
News
Another Group of Scientists Calls for Further Inquiry Into Origins of the Coronavirus
A group of 18 scientists stated Thursday in a letter published in the journal Science that there is not enough evidence to decide whether a natural origin or an accidental laboratory leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic.
They argued, as the U.S. government and other countries have, for a new investigation to explore where the virus came from.
The organizers of the letter, Jesse
New York Times (News)Apr 02 2021
News
Corporations face GOP blowback for criticizing Georgia voting law
Corporations and CEOs are facing backlash after renouncing Georgia’s new voting reform law.
“You don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” declared Georgia House Speaker David Ralston as Republicans begin to push back on corporations that have come out against Georgia’s new voting law.
Under pressure from Democrats to denounce the new legislation, some corporations have begun wading
Washington ExaminerFeb 06 2022
Opinion
The Politics of the Capitol Insurrection Are Spreading Across the Country
There was a sense, on the afternoon of the Capitol insurrection, that violent white American Trumpism had reached its apex. But by the next morning, as Republican politicians and right-wing media figures began rewriting history in real time—claiming antifa actually did it, pretending the insurrectionists merely went on self-guided tours of the building and “took selfies,” portraying the white
The NationAug 16 2021
News
U.S. consumer sentiment nosedives as Delta variant spikes
Consumer sentiment plummeted in early August, according to a widely followed survey.
Why it matters: Deteriorating sentiment signals trouble for the economy if it means consumers pull back spending.
Before the August reading, sentiment had generally been improving for much of this year, as the U.S. economy was on a tear going into July. Then COVID infections spiked as the Delta
AxiosDec 19 2020
News
Judge dismisses GOP lawsuit alleging out-of-staters voting in Georgia runoff; 2nd suit attacks voting process
Georgia Republicans, including the campaigns of Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, sued on Thursday to get election officials to remove from the ballot count the votes of new Georgia residents who took part in the ongoing runoff elections for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats.
A federal judge on Friday evening rejected their case.
And as that voter residency lawsuit was heard
USA TODAYDec 19 2020
Analysis
In Georgia Runoffs, Dems Are Running Hard On Health Care. Republicans? Not So Much
There was still an hour to go before Vice President Pence took the stage to stump for Georgia's two incumbent U.S. senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Both Republicans are fighting to hold onto their seats against Democratic challengers, with a runoff election set for Jan. 5.
But Pence was clearly the celebrity draw at this Nov. 20 campaign event in Canton, an Atlanta suburb.
NPR (Online News)