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Feb 16 2014
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In the Debate Over Health Care, ‘Real People’ Become Human Volleyballs
In the Republican response to the State of the Union address, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington lamented the travails of “Bette in Spokane,” whose insurance policy had been canceled because of the health care law and who faced huge premium increases to replace it.
The reality for Bette Grenier of Chattaroy, Wash., was more complicated.
New York Times (News)Feb 24 2020
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U.S. Stocks Plunge as Coronavirus Crisis Spreads
As outbreaks spread outside China, spiking in Italy and South Korea, investors are growing increasingly concerned about a global economic slowdown.
Stocks on Wall Street plummeted on Monday, following sharp declines in global markets after spreading coronavirus outbreaks in Italy and in South Korea stoked concern among investors about the potential damage they might inflict on the
New York Times (News)May 14 2019
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An Unending Trade War Leaves Wall Street Jittery
Investors are dealing with a painful new reality: The trade war between the United States and China could last indefinitely.
That anxiety spread across the stock markets on Monday, as investors around the world tried to divine the potential fallout to economic growth and corporate profits. Bonds and commodities, too, flashed warnings of a slowdown.
The stock losses have brought
New York Times (News)Oct 18 2019
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Hundreds Of Rats Formerly Living With Woman In Van Are Up For Adoption
Hundreds of domestic rats in San Diego are up for adoption after a woman who had previously been caring for them in the van where she was living gave them up.
“Overall, these rats were well cared for and the owner really loved them,” said Nina Thompson, spokesperson for the San Diego Humane Society. “However, her population got out of hand very quickly.”
The woman had been living
HuffPostAug 07 2023
Headline Roundup
Yellow Corporation Files for Bankruptcy
Yellow Corporation, a Nashville-based trucking company, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday night.
Key Details: Yellow Corporation is the third largest less-than-truckload carrier in the United States and has been operating for 99 years. The company announced its closure on July 30th amid a Teamsters union stalemate.
Key Quote: “It is with profound disappointment that
CNN Digital Washington Examiner ForbesMar 28 2018
Headline Roundup
Facebook Will Redesign Privacy Controls
Facebook is giving its privacy tools a makeover as it reels from criticisms over its data practices and faces tighter European regulations in the coming months.
CBS News (Online) Washington Times BloombergAug 15 2013
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Immigration reform's whipping boy: Kevin McCarthy
Pro-immigration reform groups on the left have a new whipping boy: House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy. Unions and other powerful liberal groups have organized a campaign to paint the No. 3 House Republican as the ultimate decider of whether the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants will get a new pathway to citizenship.
PoliticoSep 03 2019
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Mike Pence forced to defend his stay at Trump property in Ireland
Vice President Mike Pence is meeting Tuesday with leaders in Dublin after staying overnight at a Trump property on the other side of Ireland, prompting Democrats to accuse him of “funneling” taxpayer money to his boss.
Mr. Pence flew from an airport near Mr. Trump’s golf club in Doonbeg, on the west coast, to meet with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and other dignitaries 180 miles away in the
Washington TimesSep 03 2017
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The most powerful nuclear blasts ever
The apparent hydrogen bomb that North Korea is believed to have detonated underground on Sunday was a massive explosion.
Some estimates put it at 100 kilotons, which would be five times more powerful than Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki by the US in 1945 and which killed 70,000 people instantly.
But it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on
BBC NewsJun 01 2020
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Despite furor, accountability lags for police. Here’s why it might change.
It’s not his phrase, but former Seattle police Chief Norm Stamper covets it when describing police officers: “tiny principalities of power.”
Armored with immunity for a wide swath of behavior, protected by unions and friends and demands for civic order, and beholden more to a beat cop code than to the chief’s orders, the 900,000-strong American police force cuts a unique profile: They
Christian Science Monitor