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Jun 11 2012
News
GOP lawmakers turn up heat on leaks, claim news reports show high-level involvement
Republican lawmakers are increasingly casting doubt on the Obama administration's claim that recent security leaks were not green-lighted by the upper echelons of the president's staff -- pointing to the news stories themselves to argue top advisers were involved in "trying to give the president glory." Since Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that he's assigned two U.S. attorneys
Fox News (Online News)Jun 11 2019
News
Will Antitrust Action Against Big Tech Resolve Anything?
Being a big company is not a crime. What problem are we trying to fix?
Well, it was bound to happen eventually. After near three years of all-out rhetorical war against tech giants, for politically-shifting sins including bigness, too much censorship, not enough censorship, data hoarding, and being too irresistible, policymakers are ready to move beyond cheap talk and start slapping
ReasonDec 20 2019
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Reviews of 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now in theaters. It is the final entry in the trilogy started under Disney, commonly known as the 'sequel trilogy.'The film was directed by J. J. Abrams and co-written by Abridge NewsOct 23 2019
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Why Mark Zuckerberg Keeps Saying Facebook Needs to Win Against China
Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg approached Xi Jinping at a White House dinner and asked if the Chinese president would honor him and his wife, Priscilla, by giving their soon-to-be-born child an honorary Chinese name. Xi declined, but Facebook still continued trying to break into China’s heavily restricted, but potentially very lucrative, internet market. The next year, Zuckerberg was famously
SlateMay 30 2019
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Robert Mueller doesn’t want to testify, but will he succeed in heading off a subpoena?
One thing Robert Mueller made perfectly clear when he delivered his first public statement in more than two years is that he has no desire for a repeat performance before Congress -- but will he have a choice?
Not satisfied with Attorney General Bill Barr's characterization of Mueller's report on Russian election interference and possible obstruction of justice by the president,
Fox News (Online News)Jun 25 2019
News
South Bend police union slams Buttigieg over response to police shooting of black man
The South Bend, Indiana police union is accusing the city’s mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg of making decisions on an officer-involved fatal shooting “solely for his political gain.”
The charge from the South Bend Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #36 comes as Buttigieg – who’s soared from a long-shot to a top-tier contender for the Democratic nomination – is
Fox News (Online News)Jun 20 2019
News
Back home in South Bend, Buttigieg faces ‘his nightmare’
In recent weeks, Pete Buttigieg had emerged as the surprise success of the 2020 presidential campaign. Polls showed him surging in key states, enchanted Democrats were forking over millions of dollars, and his husband, Chasten, had accumulated more than 340,000 followers on Twitter.
Then came bad news from South Bend, the town Buttigieg leads as mayor. A white police officer had shot
Washington PostMay 23 2019
News
SPYGATE: If The FBI Missed This Glaring Inaccuracy, Did They Even Attempt To Verify The Trump Dossier?
Did the FBI verify the Trump dossier? It’s a question that then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe refused to answer. The dossier is the piece of political opposition research compiled by former MI6 spook Christopher Steele that the Clinton campaign and the Democrats bankrolled. The intention was to find dirt on Trump. It was reportedly used as credible evidence to secure a FISA spy warrant on
TownhallMay 21 2019
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Key Democrats up the pressure on Pelosi for impeachment but she stands by go-slow approach
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing pressure from within her own leadership ranks to take a more aggressive strategy toward impeachment even as Pelosi made clear that she is pursuing a deliberate approach.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler discussed with Pelosi the advantages of an impeachment inquiry in terms of adding weight to a court case, according to a source with direct
CNN (Online News)Aug 05 2019
Opinion
We Should Fear Free-Speech Curbs More Than Exposure to Racist Manifestos
People can decide for themselves what to make of hateful words, whether in Mein Kampf or a murderer’s manifesto.
As horrifying as the killings by the El Paso and Dayton shooters are, let’s not make free speech another casualty of these murders.
In the wake of the El Paso shootings, many commentators have attacked the Drudge Report for publishing the killer’s alleged 2,300-word
John Fund