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Dec 06 2012
News
BREAKING: Sen. Jim DeMint will step down from Senate
Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina will resign from his Senate seat as of Dec. 31 to take over as head of the Heritage Foundation, his office announced Thursday.
"I honestly believe that I can do a lot more on the outside than I can on the inside," DeMint told reporters at Heritage Thursday.
According to a source close to the senator, DeMint was formally offered the job
CNN (Online News)
Mar 06 2020
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Officials say gunmen kill 32 at ceremony in Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen opened fire Friday at a ceremony in Afghanistan’s capital attended by prominent political leaders, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens more before the two attackers were slain by police, officials said.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its website.
Militants from IS have declared war on
Associated Press
Oct 19 2022
Perspectives Blog
Facts vs Myths: Who’s to Blame for 2022’s Record-High Inflation?
This blog was written by Content Intern Rose Mercer (Lean Left bias) and News Assistant Ethan Horowitz (Lean Right bias).
Inflation has often been described as a hidden tax on living, penetrating into even the most routine aspects of life that are normally insulated from the actions of political brass and economic heavyweights.
Especially if wages do not increase parallel to
AllSides Staff
Feb 23 2021
News
SPLC: At least 160 Confederate symbols taken down in 2020
When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee.
The Lee statue, which represented the state of Virginia as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol for 111 years, had been removed just weeks before — one of at least 160 public
Associated Press
Aug 12 2020
Data
Views on race and immigration
Some of the starkest partisan divides on political values are seen in views about race and immigration: Democrats are substantially more likely than Republicans to say that the country has not gone far enough to give black people equal rights and that white people benefit from societal advantages that black people do not have. Democrats also express more positive views of immigrants and the
Pew Research Center
Feb 11 2021
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China Bans BBC World Service, Following U.K. Ban Of Chinese Network
China's broadcasting regulator has banned the BBC World Service from airing there, according to a report in Chinese state media. The news follows a move by Britain's communications regulator last week to strip the state-run China global television network of its broadcast license in the U.K.
According to the state news agency Xinhua, China's National Radio and Television Administration
NPR (Online News)
Nov 03 2020
News
Congress Probes Claim U.N. Gave Names of Uighur Dissidents to China
Congress is investigating new allegations the United Nations fed the names of Chinese dissidents to the Communist Party, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Emma Reilly, a human-rights lawyer and former U.N. official, alleged in a Sunday interview that the U.N. handed over the names of Uighur dissidents to Communist Party officials, potentially endangering the dissidents and their
Washington Free Beacon
May 07 2013
News
DeMint's Departure: A Onetime Ally Spurns Rubio
In his new role as president of the Heritage Foundation, the former South Carolina senator parts company with a conservative Senate ally on the subject of immigration.
NPR (Online News)
Jun 08 2016
News
Donald Trump: Republicans angry at me have to ‘get over it’
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump says Republicans who might be angry about Mr. Trump’s recent comments invoking the Mexican heritage of a judge overseeing a case against Trump University need to “get over it.”
Washington Times
