AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
Oct 26 2017
News
San Juan mayor feuds with energy firm when it threatens to stop work after audit request
A letter sent by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general’s office on Wednesday touched off a Twitter feud and later apology by the small Montana-based company that earned a contract to restore power on the island.
ABC News (Online)May 22 2014
News
Obama transition team told about 3 audits showing VA misreported wait times
President Obama's transition team was warned in 2008 that repeated audits showed the Veterans Affairs Department was misreporting wait times for medical treatment, including one audit revealing delays nearly 10 times worse than the department was officially acknowledging.
Washington TimesJan 31 2020
News
Johnson hails ‘new beginning’ as UK counts down to Brexit
LONDON (AP) — Britons counted down the hours Friday to their country’s departure from the European Union — some joyous, some sad, many just hopeful the divorce would mark the end of an anguished chapter in their country’s history.
The U.K. officially departs the EU at 11 p.m. local time, midnight in Brussels (2300 GMT, 6 p.m. EST). The move comes 3½ years after the country voted by a
Associated PressAug 04 2020
Analysis
How Police Unions Protect Bad Cops
Do police unions protect bad cops? How do collective bargaining agreements keep bad cops on the job? Where is there room for reform in this aspect of police departments? Charlyce Bozzello, communications director at the Center for Union Facts, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to break it down.
Rachel del Guidice: I’m joined today on “The Daily Signal Podcast” by Charlyce Bozzello. She’
The Daily SignalMay 30 2020
Analysis
How Federal Marijuana Policy Is Pushing Veterans into the Black Market
Alex is 34 and lives outside of Sacramento. Like many Californians, he vapes marijuana concentrate for a variety of health problems such as anxiety. But even though he lives within a half-hour drive of a legal dispensary, Alex purchases his cannabis on what he likes to call the “duty-free” market. About once a month, he drives an hour to an acquaintance’s house to purchase about an ounce of
PoliticoNov 14 2017
News
Probe of Clinton Foundation, Obama’s Russia uranium deal possible: Sessions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday he’s considering appointing a special counsel to look at whether the FBI properly handled the investigation into Russia’s purchase of uranium rights and donations to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton led the State Department.
Washington TimesApr 20 2019
News
Here's what happened to President Trump's approval rating after the Mueller report
President Donald Trump's approval rating sank to a new yearly low following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the investigation into Trump's campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos, Trump's approval rating dropped to 37 percent after the Justice Department released a redacted version of the Mueller
The BlazeMar 11 2015
News
State Dept. employees aren’t properly recording e-mails, watchdog says
State Department employees don’t have the proper training to preserve agency e-mails, a watchdog found in a report released Wednesday, raising the issue that billions of department e-mails may not have been recorded as they were supposed to be.
Despite a 2009 upgrade to the agency’s records system, the watchdog Inspector Ge
Washington TimesMar 03 2017
News
Brian Williams Makes Wild Claim About Russia, Trump And Sessions — Pete Williams Tells Him He’s Going ‘Too Far’
Shortly after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian tampering in the 2016 election, Brian Williams went for broke.
The Daily CallerMay 03 2020
Opinion
Stopping covid-19 behind bars was an achievable moral imperative. We failed.
Covid-19 is rampaging through the country’s jails and prisons. As of last week, the Marshall Project documented more than 9,400 cases of covid-19 in U.S. jails and prisons, with more than 140 deaths. A Twitter account tracking prison data puts the figure higher — more than 18,000 staff and prisoners infected in the 45 states providing data. The known infection rate in jails in prisons is about
Washington Post