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Mar 27 2023
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Do Increasing Fentanyl Seizures Indicate More Drugs or Better Detection?
As fentanyl overdoses continue to skyrocket in the U.S., questions about where it comes from and how to deal with it are driving media bias and divides in coverage.
During the week of March 13, the Drug Enforcement Administration captured over 900 pounds of fentanyl at the U.S.-Mexico border in an operation dubbed "Blue Lotus." This operation was a reaction to the mass drugs entering
Clare Ashcraft
May 11 2017
News
Brexit will be so damaging that UK will try to rejoin EU, Scottish minister says
The United Kingdom's exit from the European Union will be so damaging that it will try to rejoin in 20 years, Scotland's Brexit minister said on Thursday.
Reuters
Jan 15 2019
News
Four Amendments Threaten to Derail May's Deal: Brexit Update
Theresa May’s Brexit deal finally goes to vote in Parliament, with defeat all but certain. Lawmakers will debate four amendments to the prime minister’s motion -- and they would all effectively wreck her draft accord with the European Union.
Bloomberg
Jun 18 2021
News
With Putin Behind Him, Biden's Focus Shifts to China's Xi
Joe Biden’s first trip abroad as president saw him meet with scores of U.S. allies as well as a top adversary, leaving him poised to confront the country he’s called America’s most serious global competitor: China and its leader, Xi Jinping.
The world’s second-largest economy was on the agenda throughout Biden’s meetings the past week with the Group of Seven industrialized nations, NATO
Newsmax (News)
Jun 25 2016
News
What Brexit tells us about Donald Trump and US politics
The underdog movement to remove Britain from the European Union echoed the rhetoric of Donald Trump in many ways, and that is instructive.
Christian Science Monitor
Nov 22 2018
News
EU, UK agree Brexit text, but gaps remain before summit
Britain and the European Union agreed a draft text setting out a close post-Brexit relationship, officials said, though wrangles over fish and the future of Gibraltar must still be settled before leaders meet on Sunday.
Reuters
Oct 29 2014
Opinion
OPINION: Europe’s Ambitious Climate Goal
The European Union continues to lead by example on the issue of climate change. Last week, the union’s 28 members agreed to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent, compared with 1990 levels, by 2030.
New York Times (News)
Dec 24 2020
News
Breakthrough: UK and EU reach post-Brexit trade agreement
After months of talks and at almost the last minute, Britain and the European Union struck a provisional free-trade agreement Thursday that should avert New Year chaos for cross-border traders and bring a measure of certainty for businesses after years of Brexit turmoil.
With just over a week until the U.K.’s final split from the EU, the British government said the “deal is done.”
Associated Press
Oct 20 2022
News
The GI Bill left behind Black World War II vets. Now there's a move to fix that
William Dabney never liked to talk much about his time fighting in World War II.
"He didn't keep his uniform or any of those things. In other words, he was through with the service," says Beulah Dabney, who married him in 1951.
It wasn't just the horrors of war — which he had seen up close at Omaha Beach in France on D-Day. What bothered Dabney was the treatment he and his fellow
NPR (Online News)
Sep 09 2018
News
Google Case Asks: Can Europe Export Privacy Rules World-Wide?
Google on Tuesday will appeal an order to extend the European Union’s “right to be forgotten” to its search engines across the globe, arguing before the EU’s top court that the order encourages countries to assert sovereignty beyond their borders.
Wall Street Journal (News)