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Apr 29 2015
Opinion
DEBATE: Baltimore and Bolstering a Police Officers’ Right to Remain Silent
Many in Baltimore are enraged not just by the death of Freddie Gray in police custody but by the mystery that surrounds his death after a ride in a police van. This mystery exists because the officers who could say what happened are protected by a Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights, which limits and delays questioning police about potential misconduct. The idea behind such laws in 14
New York Times (News)May 01 2020
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Time for states to reopen their economies? Political divisions emerge as Midwest governors weigh coronavirus cases vs. unemployment.
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across America, many of the nation’s governors find themselves in a political vise, squeezed between pressure to reopen local economies amid record unemployment and to keep citizens safe from a highly contagious disease.
No region in the country has met the public health crisis with a wider range of responses than the Midwest, which is home to large
Chicago TribuneDec 01 2017
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Trump fumes after San Francisco jury acquits illegal immigrant charged in Kate Steinle killing
A San Francisco jury on Thursday acquitted an illegal immigrant charged with killing Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman whose death President Trump used to justify his proposed border wall and his crackdown on “sanctuary cities.”
Washington PostOct 28 2019
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Hannity hits Washington Post's 'sick and repulsive' headline that called al-Baghdadi a 'religious scholar
The Washington Post's headline calling ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi an "austere religious scholar" is "sick and repulsive," Fox News host Sean Hannity said Sunday, following the confirmation of his death at the hands of U.S. special forces.
Al-Baghdadi, who took over as the head of ISIS after his predecessor Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was killed in 2010, was said to have detonated a
Fox News DigitalJul 06 2020
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Chicago Gun Violence Spikes and Increasingly Finds the Youngest Victims
As Yasmin Miller drove home from a laundromat in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood last weekend, a gunman in another car peppered her red Hyundai sedan with bullets, grazing her head and striking her son, Sincere Gaston, in the chest. Sincere died in his car seat. He was 20 months old.
On June 20, a man fired gunshots through the back of a dark blue SUV, wounding the 27-year-old man
New York Times (News)Oct 27 2019
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People Think Trump Is Lying About Killing ISIS Leader To Deflect From Impeachment Inquiry
President Donald Trump was reveling while announcing the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State group more popularly known as ISIS.
“He died like a dog. He died like a coward,” Trump said about al-Baghdadi during a press conference Sunday morning. Trump teased the announcement when he tweeted Saturday night that, “Something very big has just happened
NewsOneDec 03 2019
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Trump slams Emmanuel Macron's rebuke of NATO, says France needs the alliance the most
President Trump on Tuesday slammed French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent rebuke of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), saying France historically is the country most in need of the military protection afforded by the 70-year-old alliance.
In London at a bilateral meeting alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump reacted to Macron telling The Economist
Fox News DigitalApr 11 2015
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Muslim Brotherhood Head Sentenced to Die
The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, has been sentenced to death by an Egyptian court, along with 13 other members of the group. The sentences prescribe death by hanging, though the sentences may be appealed. 34 other defendants were given life in prison over charges of plotting terrorist attacks against state facilities after the country’s first democratically elected
Daily BeastFeb 03 2021
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Governors Under Fire
“New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration confirmed [last] Thursday that thousands more nursing home residents died of COVID-19 than the state’s official tallies had previously acknowledged… The surprise development, after months of the state refusing to divulge its true numbers, showed that at least 12,743 long-term care residents died of the virus as of Jan. 19, far greater than the
The Flip SideJan 24 2015
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Supreme Court To Take Up Use Of Lethal Injection
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review Oklahoma's method of execution by lethal injection, taking up a case brought by three death row inmates who accuse the state of violating the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The high court just last week allowed the execution of a convicted killer to go ahead in Oklahoma over the objection of its four liberal members
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