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Aug 07 2020
News
ICE Resisted Coronavirus Testing to Avoid Releasing Detainees
ON THE EVENING of July 1, four people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody slept on the floor of the intake room at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility in Bakersfield, California. A detainee who arrived with them had tested positive for Covid-19, but there was no room in the detention center — which is run by the private prison company GEO Group — to isolate people exposed to the
The InterceptOct 21 2019
News
Trump Pulls Back Plan to Host G7 Summit at Doral Resort in Florida
President Trump on Saturday announced that the Group of Seven (G-7) world leader's meeting in 2020 will not be held at his Doral, Florida resort.
The change in plans came two days after Acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney announced during a meeting on Thursday that Doral would host the summit next June.
Mulvaney said the decision to have the summit at Doral came
CBNJun 28 2012
News
What’s Next for Health Care?
Room for Debate presents a video roundtable, via Google+, about the Supreme Courts decision to largely uphold the Affordable Care Act. The half-hour debate, moderated by David Firestone of The Times editorial board, includes Robert Reich, Michael Cannon, Grace-Marie Turner and Maggie Mahar.
New York Times (News)Oct 02 2012
Opinion
Same-sex marriage
In a recent New York Times op-ed, Brookings scholar Jonathan Rauch and co-author David Blankenhorn argue that linking federal civil unions to guarantees of religious freedom is a way to head off a long-term, scorched-earth debate over gay marriage and religious liberty.
Brookings InstitutionJan 06 2021
News
Warnock makes history with Senate win as Dems near majority
Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party’s reach.
A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler. It was a stinging rebuke of outgoing
Associated PressJan 06 2021
News
Raphael Warnock wins Georgia runoff election against Sen. Loeffler, lifting Democratic hopes of claiming Senate majority
Democrats closed in on control of the U.S. Senate early Wednesday with a stunning come-from-behind victory in one of Georgia's twin runoff elections and the lead in the second contest, races that could reshape the first two years of President-elect Joe Biden's term by giving Democrats a clearer path to enacting their legislative priorities.
After swapping leads over the course of the
Washington PostJul 24 2019
News
Why Native Hawaiians are fighting to protect Maunakea from a telescope
On the morning of July 15 — the day Hawaii Gov. David Ige said construction would begin for the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project on the Big Island — a line of elders, known as kūpuna, positioned themselves in the roadway leading up to the summit of Maunakea. Each elder was assigned a caretaker to tend to their health and nutritional needs while they awaited and blocked access
VoxFeb 04 2020
News
Democrats appeal to senators’ faith in final argument to convict President Trump
WASHINGTON — House impeachment managers, failing to get the Senate to subpoena witnesses in the trial of President Donald Trump, turned their sights Monday to the long-shot goal of removing a president from office for the first time in history.
In impassioned speeches, several laced with religious language and messages, the prosecutors asked senators to be numbered among the “Davids who
Deseret NewsJun 23 2021
News
Iran’s New President
“Iran’s president-elect [Ebrahim Raisi] staked out a hard-line position Monday in his first remarks since his landslide election victory, rejecting the possibility of meeting with President Joe Biden or negotiating Tehran’s ballistic missile program and support of regional militias.” (AP News)
Both sides condemn Raisi’s human rights record:
“During his two years at the helm of
The Flip SideNov 17 2020
News
Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger fires back against Trump’s false claims about election
After a barrage of unfounded claims from President Donald Trump questioning various aspects of Georgia’s voting system, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger fired back.
In a series of Facebook posts from the Secretary of State page, Raffensperger, a Republican, addressed claims about the makers of the state’s election system, Dominion, as well as claims made by the president
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