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Dec 02 2021
News
As voters get angrier, local officials bear the brunt
From school boards to health departments, officials are facing more intense forms of harassment, reflecting the nationalization of local politics. Many say the climate is affecting morale.
When Amy Milsten volunteered to run for school board, she expected to spend five hours campaigning each week. She ended up spending five hours each day.
Her race, in Pennsylvania’s Central
Christian Science MonitorOct 22 2021
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Doctors Can Prescribe Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine Off-Label for COVID-19: Nebraska AG
Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson issued a legal opinion saying that his office won’t seek disciplinary action against doctors who prescribe hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin as off-label medicines to treat or prevent COVID-19, as long as they are not engaging in any misconduct.
The opinion (pdf), issued on Oct. 14, was in response to a request from Dannette Smith, CEO of the state
The Epoch TimesAug 18 2021
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Human remains found in C-17’s wheel well after Afghanistan departure; Air Force investigating
The Air Force has opened a formal review of what led a C-17 transport plane to take off from Afghanistan’s main international airport with people clinging to its landing gear — a scene that resulted in Afghan civilians falling to their deaths.
Video showing those deaths and capturing other chaos that unfolded Monday at Hamid Karzai International Airport has been watched by audiences
Washington TimesOct 22 2021
Analysis
MIT Canceled a Professor's Guest Lecture Because He Opposes Race-Based Admissions
Dorian Abbot is a geophysicist at the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) invited him to deliver a guest lecture on climate change, then canceled the talk due to campus outrage over his views.
Notably, it was not Abbot's views on climate change that prompted the student, staff, and alumni revolt. It was his views on affirmative action: He had publicly
ReasonFeb 04 2022
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Fed influence, shaky forecasts, delayed decisions: How the Biden administration misread the inflation threat
When President Joe Biden nominated former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to run the Treasury Department, his rationale was simple: “No one is better prepared to deal with this crisis.”
The crisis to which he referred was a “K-shaped” economic recovery that had exacerbated inequality in the wake of a once-in-a-generation pandemic. The administration had a simple plan, and Yellen
CNBCMay 10 2021
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Biden HHS reverses Trump-era policy limiting transgender health rights
The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced that it will protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in health care, reversing a Trump-era policy.
The HHS' Office for Civil Rights said it would interpret and enforce Section 1557 and Title IX's prohibitions on discrimination based on sex to include discrimination on the basis
Fox News DigitalFeb 11 2020
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Justice Dept backs off stiff sentence recommendation for Roger Stone
The Justice Department is stepping back from a recommendation that Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, serve a stiff prison sentence following his conviction on charges of impeding congressional and FBI investigations into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
In an early-morning tweet Tuesday, Trump blasted federal prosecutors for urging a prison sentence
PoliticoNov 18 2021
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Judge Bans MSNBC From Rittenhouse Trial
Judge Bruce Schroeder banned MSNBC journalists from the courthouse during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial after a network producer was taken into police custody for "trying to photograph jurors."
The Kenosha Police Department announced Thursday morning that it arrested James J. Morrison, who said he is a producer employed by MSNBC News, for running a red light while tailing the jury's bus
Washington Free BeaconJul 23 2021
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Democrats blast FBI as new details of Kavanaugh inquiry emerge
A group of Democratic senators is demanding more answers from the FBI after the agency revealed new details about the limited scope of its supplemental investigation into Brett Kavanaugh's background when he was a nominee for the Supreme Court.
In a letter June 30 to Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Chris Coons, D-Del., made public Thursday, Jill Tyson of the FBI's congressional
NBC News DigitalJul 22 2021
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Canadian travel ban extended until Aug. 21 for fully vaccinated Americans
The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday extended its travel restrictions between the US and Canada to Aug. 21 — following the announcement by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the border would reopen to fully vaccinated Americans on Aug. 9.
“Given the outbreak and continued transmission and spread of COVID-19 within the United States and globally, the Secretary has
New York Post (News)