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Sep 05 2021
News
Inside Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan: Warnings, Doubts but Little Change
In June, as security worsened in Afghanistan, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan began to raise questions about the rapid pace of U.S. military withdrawal.
The Pentagon was planning to pull out the bulk of its force and shut Bagram air base by early July to minimize the risk to its troops. With a large U.S. Embassy staff in Kabul and fresh intelligence suggesting the Afghan
Wall Street Journal (News)Author
Gina Baleria
Gina Baleria, Ed.D., is an Assistant Professor of Journalism, Media Writing, & Digital Media in the Department of Communication & Media Studies at Sonoma State University. She also hosts the podcast News in Context (@NewsInContextSF), which airs on 102.5 KSFP in San Francisco on Fridays at 8:30am and 6:30pm.
Sep 08 2020
News
Rochester Police Chief Resigns After Accusations of Cover-Up in Prude Case
The police chief of Rochester, N.Y., and several of his department’s highest ranking officials resigned on Tuesday in the aftermath of the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who suffocated after he had been placed in a hood by city police officers and pinned to the ground.
The resignations of the police chief, La’Ron D. Singletary, the deputy chief, Joseph Morabito, and, according to
New York Times (News)Dec 12 2020
Analysis
In Trying for a Diverse Administration, Biden Finds One Group’s Gain Is Another’s Loss
The head of the N.A.A.C.P. had a blunt warning for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. when Mr. Biden met with civil rights leaders in Wilmington this week.
Nominating Tom Vilsack, a former secretary of agriculture in the Obama administration, to run the department again would enrage Black farmers and threaten Democratic hopes of winning two Senate runoffs in Georgia, Derrick Johnson
New York Times (News)Aug 15 2021
News
GOP Senators Call for Hearing on Nursing Home Deaths in States With Democratic Governors
Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are urging the chairman and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to hold a hearing into whether governors of blue states “violated the civil rights of seniors by sending individuals with COVID-19 to nursing home facilities.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) penned a letter to Durbin along with Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Lindsey Graham
Independent Journal ReviewOct 14 2021
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Steve Bannon Refuses to Testify to Jan. 6 Committee, Cites 'Executive Privilege'
Steve Bannon's lawyers have written a letter to the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol stating he will not produce documents for subpoenas, citing Donald Trump's claim of executive privilege.
The defense team for Bannon, one of a number of the former president's allies who have been subpoenaed by the panel in connection with the insurrection, has
NewsweekJul 30 2021
News
House Republicans Want Fauci, Top Scientist to Brief Them on COVID Origin Email
Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, want a top scientist, who had once said COVID-19 seemed like it may have been engineered, to brief them on why she changed her mind within a matter of days.
The two congressmen made their demand in a letter to Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps' Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Sparking their interest was an
Newsmax (News)May 25 2021
News
A year since George Floyd’s murder, Americans reflect on his legacy
Americans on Tuesday will mark the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd beneath a white Minneapolis police officer’s knee, which catalyzed the largest U.S. protest movement in decades over police brutality against Black people.
In Washington, President Joe Biden will meet privately with members of Floyd's family at the White House, not far from where promised police reform
ReutersSep 22 2021
Fact Check
COVID-19: The Unvaccinated Pose a Risk to the Vaccinated
Q: How do people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 pose a risk to people who have been vaccinated?
A: An unvaccinated person who is infected with COVID-19 poses a much greater risk to others who are also unvaccinated. But vaccines are not 100% effective, so there is a chance that an unvaccinated person could infect a vaccinated person — particularly the vulnerable, such as
FactCheck.orgMay 13 2016
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Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show
Leaked documents show how Facebook, now the biggest news distributor on the planet, relies on old-fashioned news values on top of its algorithms to determine what the hottest stories will be for the 1 billion people who visit the social network every day.
The documents, given to the Guardian, come amid growing concerns over how Facebook decides what is news for its users. This week the
The Guardian