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Mar 18 2020
News
Facebook is wrongly blocking news articles about the coronavirus pandemic
Facebook is blocking users from posting some legitimate news articles about the novel coronavirus in what appears to be a bug in its spam filters.
On Tuesday, multiple Facebook users reported on Twitter that they found themselves unable to post articles from certain news outlets including Business Insider, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, and The Times of Israel. It's not clear exactly what had
Business InsiderDec 08 2021
News
It’s Kentucky straight in Lexington City Hall
Mayor Linda Gorton has been in politics long enough to know how to dodge a reporter’s question. Asked three times if she voted for Donald Trump, Gorton responded with a smile.
There’s a reason. She’s a dyed-in-the-wool nonpartisan, despite being a registered Republican.
“I don’t talk about who I voted for in anything, really,” the first-term mayor said in an interview in her
PoliticoNov 05 2020
Opinion
The pollsters were wrong again — why do we listen to them?
Every single major election year, they do it to us. They offer us numbers, and people interested in politics mainline them like heroin. We’re soothed. We’re calmed. Soon we are hungry for more, more, more. By election night, we junkies end up fried, damaged, and in need of rehab.
It’s time to go cold turkey before our last brain cells are destroyed.
Donald Trump won Florida by 3.
New York Post (Opinion)Oct 19 2020
News
Race For A (Ballot) Cure: The Scramble To Fix Absentee-Ballot Problems
Hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots could be rejected this November because of mistakes, such as missing or mismatched signatures. Voter advocacy groups, political parties and others are rushing to help voters fix — or "cure" — their ballots before it's too late, so they can be counted.
Common Cause is one of many organizations actively calling voters in key battleground states,
NPR (Online News)Dec 18 2020
News
Momentum: More Good News for GOP in Senate Runoffs?
Plugged-in Georgia political commentator and radio host Erick Erickson recently joined my radio show and sounded guardedly bullish about Republicans' chances in the January 5th Senate runoffs (early voting for which is currently underway). In a new online post, Erickson expounds on what he's seeing and hearing, and it's more convincing than a handful of potentially-unreliable polls, which we
TownhallNov 20 2020
Opinion
Giuliani sweats profusely while falsely accusing Biden of ‘horrible’ crimes during bizarre press conference
What a hot mess.
Rudy Giuliani sweated so much during a press conference Thursday that streaks of what appeared to be dark hair dye streamed down his cheeks, making for a bizarre juxtaposition as the ex-mayor insisted without evidence that Democrats stole the election from President Trump.
Giuliani, who’s spearheading the Trump campaign’s bumbling legal battle to overturn Joe
New York Daily NewsJan 27 2022
News
More than half of Virginia school districts are defying Youngkin’s mask-optional order
About a week after announcing his executive order making masks optional in schools throughout Virginia, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) said on a radio show that school districts statewide had rushed to comply.
“The reality is it’s about 25 out of our 130 school systems across Virginia who aren’t recognizing the rights of parents today,” Youngkin told conservative host John Fredericks on Monday
Washington PostNov 03 2021
News
How Glenn Youngkin clinched victory over Terry McAuliffe
Republican Glenn Youngkin's shocking defeat of Democrat Terry McAuliffe Tuesday in the Virginia gubernatorial contest will almost certainly serve as a blueprint for Republicans in the post-Trump era.
Youngkin’s victory was consistent with late October polls that showed him burning through McAuliffe’s summer lead and claiming a modest advantage on the strength of his message about
Washington ExaminerNov 02 2021
News
Mayoral Candidates Turn Backs To Black Lives Matter Movement, Promise ‘Law And Order’
Candidates running in Tuesday’s mayoral elections across the U.S. have promised to “crackdown” on crime in the aftermath of violent crime surges that swept through major American cities.
Candidates, including Democrats, have stepped away from the Black Lives Matter movement’s calls to defund police departments in response to the death of George Floyd, as crime has risen in cities and
The Daily CallerNov 18 2020
News
US Republicans grow more diverse in newly won House seats
Republicans cut the Democratic Party’s margin of majority control in half in the United States House of Representatives in the November 3 election and did it with a diverse field of women and minority candidates.
While Democrats remain in charge, Republicans have secured 207 seats in the House, up from 201 prior to the election. They will likely gain yet more as votes are still being
Al Jazeera