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Aug 12 2020
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Another Day, Another 124 Violent SWAT Raids
It's 3:00 a.m. Your children are screaming and your dog is lying dead in a pool of blood. Scorch marks and shattered glass cover the floor. You're being held at gunpoint by towering figures wearing black and holding AK-47s.
This isn't a Hollywood movie set. Odds are this is a predawn SWAT raid targeting a family of color. Mission objective: search the home for a small amount of drugs.
ACLUMay 05 2021
Opinion
The Federalism Fix
Imagine a world in which your favorite policy proposals are no longer blocked by Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Bernie Sanders, or Ted Cruz. In this world, Washington’s longstanding partisan warfare no longer paralyzes action on health care, welfare, education, and infrastructure.
Impossible? Not at all. The simple solution is federalism. Rather than watch lawmakers in Washington fight
City JournalJun 07 2020
Analysis
When Should Force Be Used To Protect Public Health?
During an April 2 interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Surgeon General Jerome Adams compared deaths caused by COVID-19 to deaths caused by smoking and drug abuse. "More people will die, even in the worst projections, from cigarette smoking in this country than are going to die from coronavirus this year," he said.
Wallace questioned the analogy. "Dr. Adams," he said, "there's a big
ReasonMar 25 2020
Opinion
Trump can’t guide us through the coronavirus pandemic, but conservatism can help
While many state governors are stepping up to meet the continuing challenges of coronavirus in unprecedented ways, our federal government continues to let us down.
At the White House, we know the president took too long to act, dismissed the seriousness of the pandemic in the earliest days, spread misleading information about test availability and drug treatments at press briefings, and
S.E. CuppApr 29 2020
News
Trump’s ‘Operation Warp Speed’ Aims to Rush Coronavirus Vaccine
The Trump administration is organizing a Manhattan Project-style effort to drastically cut the time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine, with a goal of making enough doses for most Americans by year’s end.
Called “Operation Warp Speed,” the program will pull together private pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and the military to try to cut the development time for a
BloombergApr 05 2021
News
Pfizer Says Clinical Trial Shows Vaccine is Highly Effective For 6 Months
An ongoing Phase 3 clinical study shows that the Pfizer vaccine is 91% effective for at least 6 months, the company announced April 1.
Vaccine experts say it is likely effective longer than that, but this data showing high protection 6 months after both shots are administered is good news.
“The vaccine was 100% effective against severe disease as defined by the U.S. Centers for
Scriberr Media - NewsFeb 03 2020
News
'This was supposed to be reparations' Why is LA's cannabis industry devastating black entrepreneurs?
A Los Angeles government program set up to provide cannabis licenses to people harmed by the war on drugs has been plagued by delays, scandal and bureaucratic blunders, costing some intended beneficiaries hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.
Black entrepreneurs and activists across LA told the Guardian that the city’s embattled “social equity” program has left aspiring business
The GuardianJul 28 2014
News
Federal marijuana bill would legalize some cannabis strains
Doctors in Macon, Georgia, told Janea Cox that her daughter, Haleigh, might not live another three months. That was the middle of March, when Haleigh's brain was being short-circuited by hundreds of seizures a day, overrunning the array of five potent drugs meant to control them. Worse, the drugs were damaging Haleigh's organs. "She was maxed out," Cox said. "She'd quit breathing several times
CNN (Online News)Aug 03 2022
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: The UK's Only Youth Gender Clinic Announces Plan to Shut Down
Each week, AllSides Media Bias Alerts examine media bias in coverage of a major or important story using the AllSides Media Bias Ratings™ and our AllSides Media Bias Chart™.
The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK announced plans on July 28 to close Tavistock Centre, the only gender identity specialist clinic for children and young people in the UK. Media in the UK, the
Clare AshcraftDec 18 2019
News
Chrystul Kizer Faces Life In Prison For Killing Her Alleged Pedophile Sex Trafficker, Randy Volar
A young Black girl confessed to killing her white, male sex trafficker when he drugged her and tried to force her to have sex with him.
Now, she is facing life in prison.
Chrystul Kizer was 17 years old when she allegedly shot Randy Volar twice before setting his body on fire and taking off in his BMW, police said, the Washington Post reports.
She was charged with first-
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