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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 12 2021
News
Three GOP senators meet with Trump's lawyers on eve of impeachment defense presentation
A trio of Republican senators allied with former President Donald Trump met with his defense team Thursday evening, in the middle of an impeachment trial in which they will vote on whether to convict Trump and potentially bar him from holding public office again.
Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah were spotted going into a room in the US
CNN DigitalMay 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)Aug 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 CallerFeb 10 2021
Fact Check
Trump’s lawyers and the Constitution
Lawyers for Donald Trump stretched beyond the facts when they argued there’s an open-and-shut case that the Constitution bars impeaching former presidents. That question is not settled, though the weight of legal views contradicts the Trump team’s assertions.
Bruce Castor and David Schoen addressed the Senate Tuesday on the first day of Trump’s trial after Democratic impeachment
Associated Press Fact CheckJun 05 2018
News
Billionaire Koch brothers take on Trump over tariffs
Powerful US billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are funding a multi-million dollar campaign against President Donald Trump's trade tariffs.
BBC NewsNov 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
ReutersApr 29 2021
Opinion
The Ugly Reaction to Tim Scott’s Speech Is Telling
Tim Scott gave a competent Republican response to Joe Biden’s mendacious speech last night. And boy, the contrived, hyperbolic outrage and derision we saw from liberal talking heads was something to behold.
Some of it was just farcical. Take MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace’s contention that the speech, in which Scott praised the Trump administration vaccines, was “delivered from a planet where
David HarsanyiAug 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
Axios