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Nov 16 2022
Headline Roundup
Amazon Begins Layoffs, 10,000 Employees Expected to be Impacted
Amazon began a round of layoffs on Wednesday. The layoffs were initially reported by the New York Times (Lean Left Bias) on Tuesday, with reports stating approximately 10,000 employees could lose their position at the company as it works towards consolidating select divisions and teams.
Key Quotes: Dave Limp, Senior Vice President of Devices & Services at Amazon, addressed Amazon
New York Post (News) Forbes GizmodoNov 10 2014
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Obama endorses net neutrality
President Obama came out strongly Monday for the concept of net neutrality, saying that "an open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life."
In a written statement, Obama asked the Federal Communications Commission to "create a new set of rules protecting net neutrality," and to ensure that phone and cable companies will not be able "to act
USA TODAYSep 14 2013
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California Set to Raise State Minimum Wage
Workers in California would be paid at least $10 an hour in 2016 under a bill passed by the legislature Thursday, a measure likely to make the state the first to guarantee such a high minimum wage.
Gov. Jerry Brown already has pledged his support for the legislation, which would increase the state's current minimum wage of $8 an hour to $9 an hour next July and $10 an hour by January
Wall Street Journal (News)Mar 03 2020
Fact Check
Trump and the ‘New Hoax’
Democratic presidential candidates harshly criticized President Donald Trump for using the term “hoax” in connection with the coronavirus outbreak. There’s no question that the president described the disease as the Democrats’ “new hoax” at a political rally on Feb. 28 in South Carolina.
But the following day, after the death of the first American from coronavirus in Washington state,
FactCheck.orgJul 26 2015
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Presidential Race Just Started? Not According to the Spending
Since late last year, presidential hopefuls have been romancing donors, hiring staff and haunting the diners and senior centers of Manchester and Dubuque.
But on paper, most of the candidates spent virtually no money exploring a presidential bid until very recently. According to campaign disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission last week, the much-promoted campaign staff
New York Times (News)Dec 27 2015
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Ryan so far proves he can 'make the sausage,' but he'll likely be serving a much different House party in 2016
“I actually make sausage,” chirped House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan. “I can’t make that up.”
And the Wisconsin Republican isn’t talking about moving legislation in Congress.
Long before Ryan clutched the speaker’s gavel, bow hunting deer consumed his late-fall and early-winter weekends. Ryan aims to bag three or four deer a year. He then crafts jerky and sausage from the meat.
Fox News (Online News)Jul 22 2015
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Sandra Bland: What we know about her mysterious death in a jail cell
Why would a woman with a promising new job commit suicide after she was arrested over an argument for a minor traffic violation? That's the question on friends and families' minds after police said Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, killed herself in a Texas jail cell on July 13.
The mysterious death came after police pulled over Bland for failing to signal when changing lanes and
VoxJul 11 2019
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Ross Perot
On Tuesday, “H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice mounted outsider campaigns for president” died of Leukemia. (AP News)
The left recognizes Perot’s similarities to Trump but highlights their very different temperaments.
“Both men convinced large numbers of Americans that it was better to have a
The Flip SideJun 06 2019
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Trump Pressures Mexico as Second Day of Border Talks Begin
U.S. has threatened to impose tariffs starting Monday if no deal is reached on slowing migrant crossings
President Trump said Thursday that progress was being made in border-security talks between Mexican and U.S. officials, but warned that Mexico must “step up to the plate” if it wants to head off tariffs planned for next week on $350 billion in imports.
Officials were set to
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 30 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Stalled Negotiations Threaten Biden's Agenda
Congress is juggling two massive spending bills and the need to raise or suspend the national debt limit this week. Both chambers of Congress passed a bill Thursday to keep the government funded through Dec. 3, but the harmony stopped there. There are progressives, centrist Democrats and Republicans who oppose passing the Biden administration's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill or the $3.5
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