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Dec 22 2020
News
President Trump grants several high-profile pardons
President Trump issued full pardons to 15 individuals and commuted part or all of the sentences of an additional five people, the White House announced Tuesday.
Included in the list are Duncan Hunter, a former GOP congressman from California, Chris Collins, a former GOP representative from New York and Trump campaign advisor George Papadapoulous.
The pardons and commutations
Fox News DigitalDec 22 2020
News
Report: Social media manipulation affects even US senators
The conversation taking place around two U.S. senators’ verified social media accounts remained vulnerable to manipulation through artificially inflated shares and likes from fake users, even amid heightened scrutiny in the run up to the U.S. presidential election, an investigation by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence found.
Researchers from the center, a NATO-
Associated PressAug 13 2020
News
Justice Department Finds Yale Admissions Illegally Discriminated Against Asian American and White Applicants
A two-year long Justice Department investigation has found that Yale University illegally discriminated against Asian American and white applicants in violation of federal civil rights law.
In a letter to the college’s attorneys Thursday, the department said that Yale “rejects scores of Asian American and white applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit.”
National Review (News)Apr 08 2020
News
Rose McGowan trashes 'fraud' Alyssa Milano for backing Biden amid assault claim, invokes Kavanaugh hypocrisy
Actress-turned-activist Rose McGowan eviscerated her former "Charmed" co-star Alyssa Milano for her continued support for former Vice President Joe Biden amid a newly surfaced sexual assault accusation.
Milano, who was an outspoken advocate for the #MeToo movement and a celebrity endorser of the Democratic front-runner, addressed her "silence" on the 1993 assault allegation made Tara
Fox News DigitalOct 06 2019
News
Collins becomes third GOP lawmaker to question Trump’s call for China to probe Biden
WASHINGTON – Sen. Susan Collins joined two other Republican senators in criticizing President Trump for asking China to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden.
“I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent,” Collins said Saturday, according to the Bangor Daily News. “It’s completely inappropriate.”
Collins joins Sens.
New York Post (News)Mar 21 2021
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'We Will Not Go Back': Vigils Honoring Atlanta Victims Draw Mourners Across U.S.
From Sacramento to Salt Lake City to Philadelphia, thousands gathered this weekend at vigils across the country with signs, candles, portraits and flowers grieving the eight victims of Tuesday's shootings in Atlanta and crying out against anti-Asian racism.
In Atlanta, hundreds attended a rally and march Saturday afternoon, some holding signs reading "Stop Asian Hate" and "Racism Is A
NPR (Online News)Jan 15 2020
News
ICE can deputize Chicago police as ‘customs officers,’ worrying advocates
As the City Council prepares to vote on amendments strengthening the city’s “sanctuary” law, a newly unearthed agreement between Chicago police and federal authorities has some immigrant rights activists concerned.
The agreement — signed by former Supt. Eddie Johnson in April — allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “designate certain employees” of the Chicago Police Department
Chicago Sun-TimesApr 08 2022
Perspectives Blog
How Media Bias is a Business: HuffPost and Daily Wire
From the CenterOn the surface, the media bias displayed by Huffington Post (Left bias) and the Daily Wire (Right bias) couldn’t be more different. But a closer look reveals how corporate interests drive both media outlets toward bias and sensationalism, even as they appeal to different ends of the political spectrum.
How Corporatization Fuels Media Bias and Drowns Out Good Journalism Henry A. BrechterOct 05 2019
Opinion
Tucker And Patel: The Truth About Impeachment
Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden. Some Republicans are trying, but there’s no way to spin this as a good idea. Like a lot of things Trump does, it was pretty over-the-top. Our leaders’ official actions should not be about politics. Those two things need to remain separate.
Tucker CarlsonMay 02 2019
News
Barr puts Trump’s actions in best light, despite ‘substantial evidence’ of obstruction cited by Mueller
It was one of the most dramatic cases of potential obstruction of justice laid out by federal investigators: President Trump directing the top White House lawyer to seek the removal of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III — and then later pushing him to deny the episode.
But Attorney General William P. Barr on Wednesday played down evidence that Trump sought to fire the head of the
Washington Post