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Oct 28 2017
News
First charges filed in U.S. special counsel's Russia investigation: source
A federal grand jury on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters.
ReutersFeb 03 2020
News
How to Fight Fake News
In the era of disinformation campaigns, deepfakes and clickbait, being able to identify quality information has become an essential part of being a responsible citizen.
As election season kicks into full gear this week with the Iowa caucuses, we spoke with three Rutgers librarians to better understand fake news as a phenomenon, and what we can do to stop it from spreading.
What
Rutgers TodayDec 23 2019
News
India’s foreign minister refused to meet me. I won’t stop speaking out on human rights.
Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat, represents Washington’s 7th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
I am proud to have lived my life in two of the world’s great democracies — as a citizen of India for almost 35 years, and today, as a proud American citizen and the first Indian American woman elected to the House of Representatives.
The United States and India — the
Pramila JayapalOct 30 2020
News
Walmart Scraps Decision to Pull Guns and Ammo from Store Shelves
Walmart announced on Friday that it is reversing the decision to remove guns and ammunition from its store shelves ahead of Election Day.
The company made the announcement in an email obtained by Bloomberg.
“After civil unrest earlier this week resulted in damage to several of our stores, consistent with actions we took over the summer, we asked stores to move firearms and
The Epoch TimesDec 22 2020
Opinion
Is Trump Really All That Holds the G.O.P. Together?
The Republican Party has embraced reality-TV authoritarianism not out of strength but weakness.
Republican officials who have indulged or assisted in President Trump’s effort to nullify the 2020 election have many motivations: partisanship, conviction, delusion, cynicism, ambition, paranoia, fear. But all these reasons for participation in an antidemocratic power grab point to a single
New York Times (Opinion)Sep 28 2020
Opinion
Amy Coney Barrett’s Extremist Religious Beliefs Merit Examination
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, is a devout Catholic. Obviously, that has no bearing on her fitness to join the court. The Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, is a devout Catholic. Justice Sonia Sotomayor is Catholic, as are four conservatives currently on the court: Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh. It is
Joan WalshJun 28 2018
Opinion
OPINION: It Is Terrible To Be A Liberal In 2018 – Which Is Awesome
What a letdown – you libs were totally promised that you and your elite cohort would rule forever, unchallenged, over the filthy hordes infesting America’s non-coastal regions, and then all of a sudden those nasty Normals got militant and elected Donald Trump.
TownhallJul 31 2018
News
What's at stake in the Manafort trial? A whole heck of a lot legally and politically speaking
Russia's 2016 election attack isn't at issue in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort beginning in Virginia Tuesday, but in many ways the future of the Russia probe will very much be on the line as Special Counsel Robert Mueller works to secure a conviction.
Daily KosApr 16 2019
News
Democratic Presidential Candidates Race to Raise—and Spend—Funds
As first-quarter reports roll in, ‘burn rate’ looms as concern for 2020 field
Early finance reports for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates show they invested heavily in kickoff rallies and fundraising in efforts to build national campaigns, which will need to generate steady streams of cash.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised about $6 million in the first three
Wall Street Journal (News)Jul 07 2020
Analysis
Why Counting On A Convention Bounce This Year Is Risky
If President Trump’s Tulsa, Okla., rally in late June or his Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore are any indication, he wants a pageantry-filled convention with a big in-person audience when he accepts the Republican nomination in late August.
But the likelihood of that happening may be slim. The 2020 election is taking place in the midst of an unprecedented public health
538 (ABC News)