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Oct 20 2021
Headline Roundup
White House Announces Plan to Vaccinate Kids Ages 5-11
The Biden administration is preparing to roll out COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11, White House officials announced Wednesday. Under the White House's plan, children in this age group would be offered a lower dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, administered with smaller needles. Vaccination sites would include pediatricians’ offices, pharmacies, children’s hospitals, school clinics
New York Post (News) NPR (Online News) CNN (Online News)Feb 19 2015
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Story of the Week: Obama on Islam + Terrorism
This week the White House held a summit on combating violent extremism. President Barack Obama spoke at the summit and published a related Los Angeles Times op-ed. Opinions across the nation run strong on anything related to terrorism and Islam, so today we bring you multiple views into what the president has been saying this week.Snippets from the Left Obama Explains Why He John Gable, AllSides Co-founder
Nov 18 2022
Headline Roundup
House GOP Announces New Probe of Biden Family
House Republicans laid out new "top priority" plans on Thursday to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.
Key Quotes: "This is an investigation of Joe Biden, the president of the United States, and why he lied to the American people about his participation in his family’s international business schemes," said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who's set to head the House
CNN (Online News) Washington Free Beacon NewsweekAug 11 2020
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Joe Biden Names Kamala Harris as Running Mate
Former vice president and presumptive democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden named Sen. Kamala Harris (CA) as his running mate in a tweet on Tuesday. The only black woman in the Senate, Harris previously served as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general before starting her own presidential bid in early 2019; low campaign finance figures ended her campaign in December
538 (ABC News) Washington Post Fox News (Online News)Nov 13 2022
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After Greenpeace Report, What's the Future of Plastic Recycling?
"Most plastic simply cannot be recycled," said Greenpeace in a recent report. What's next?
For Context: The report estimates that only 4.7% of U.S. household plastics were recycled in 2021, and says "plastic waste is extremely difficult to collect, virtually impossible to sort for recycling, environmentally harmful to reprocess, often made of and contaminated by toxic materials, and not
The Week - News The Hill City JournalNov 08 2022
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When Will We Know the 2022 Midterm Election Results?
It’s likely that we won’t know the final results of every state and local election on Election Day.
For Context: In 2020, a rise in the use of mail-in ballots — which many states bar election officials from counting before Election Day — led to delays in official election results. This created a “mirage” effect, where some candidates appeared to gain a lead after Election Day as mail-in
NPR (Online News) 538 (ABC News) Washington ExaminerAug 23 2018
Perspectives Blog
Manafort and Cohen Courtroom Drama: How Will It Impact President Trump?
After President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted on eight counts of fraud and Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to several criminal charges, media personalities are split as to how it will impact the president. Some argue that the developments implicate him as a co-conspirator, particularly after Cohen testified that then-candidate Trump ordered him to John Gable, AllSides Co-founderJul 06 2016
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: FBI Statement on Clinton Emails
This week, FBI Director Comey issued a public statement about Hillary Clinton's use of private email servers while she was secretary of state. He did not recommend a formal indictment, but he said Clinton and her team were ”extremely careless" with classified material. Are these reasonable conclusions and how will they affect the presidential election? Analysis varies widely on different sides
John Gable, AllSides Co-founderJul 20 2022
Headline Roundup
Biden Announces Executive Actions on Climate Change, Stops Short of Declaring Emergency
President Joe Biden pledged to take executive action on climate change during a Wednesday visit to a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, MA.
Biden did not officially declare a climate emergency, as some had pressured him to do, but he did call climate change an “emergency,” “a clear and present danger” and “an existential threat.” He announced $2.3 billion from FEMA to mitigate
The Hill New York Post (News) NPR (Online News)Jun 18 2021
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US Catholic Bishops to Prepare Document That May Deny Biden Communion
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted Friday to draft a statement regarding the Eucharist after much debate surrounding whether President Joe Biden and other Catholic lawmakers who support abortion are eligible to receive communion. The conference voted 168 to 55, with six abstentions, to draft the statement over the summer and present for edits in November. CNN reported that
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