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Jul 06 2019
News
Rep. Ilhan Omar's American Story. It's Complicated.
Rep. Ilhan Omar stepped to the edge of the stage in front of about 400 Richfield High School students and squinted into the lights.
More than two decades had passed since she and her family fled civil war in Somalia, first for a Kenyan refugee camp and then America. Now she was 36, one of the youngest members of Congress and the first lawmaker to wear a hijab in the legislative body’s
Washington PostDec 20 2014
News
Obama administration accused of political motives in push for new citizens
Nearly 20 years after reporters and congressional investigators caught the Clinton administration trying to register a million immigrants as new citizens and Democratic voters -- many without proper documents -- some Republicans fear the Obama administration is instituting a similar policy.
The November memorandum issued by the White House and Department of Homeland Security on
Fox News DigitalFeb 19 2021
Opinion
CNN’s Chris Cuomo is reminding us why conflicts of interest poison the news
On his Monday night CNN program, host Chris Cuomo provided an update on the biggest story of the past year. “Now, good news: When it comes to coronavirus, we’ve had the best week we’ve seen so far, in terms of getting people vaccinated. And every week since New Year’s, the rate has only improved,” said the host.
Here’s an update that he skipped: Just hours before “Cuomo Prime Time”
Erik WempleOct 31 2014
News
Soldier or Civilian, Ebola Protocols Not the Same
A U.S. soldier returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa would have to spend 21 days being monitored, isolated in a military facility away from family and the broader population. A returning civilian doctor or nurse who directly treated Ebola patients? Depends.
ABC News (Online)Feb 22 2016
News
Billionaire bashing ignores economic reality, say class warfare critics
What do Beyonce and Jay Z have in common with Walmart's Walton family, Dr. Dre and Nike's Phil Knight? Love them or hate them, as American billionaires, they are a target on the campaign trail.
"You've got CEOs making 300 times what the average worker is making. The deck is stacked in favor of those at the top," says a pro-Hillary Clinton political advertisement.
Fox News DigitalSep 28 2012
Candidate Stances
Giving everyone a shot at an education
By spurring states to raise classroom standards and reforming student loans, President Obama has put an affordable, high-quality education within reach for millions more students and their families.
Barack ObamaFeb 22 2021
Perspectives Blog
Reducing Polarization: Learn That the Other Side Thinks of You More Positively Than You Expect
From the CenterThis viewpoint is from a writer rated Center.
As friendships and family relationships continue to strain or break over political disagreements, Americans are learning firsthand about a new kind of political polarization: affective polarization. Affective polarization is when we not just disagree with the other side, but show contempt for them.
How much we
Rolf HendriksJul 15 2020
News
New Policy: Hospitals to Send COVID-19 Data to HHS Database, Not CDC
Hospitals are now to send all COVID-19 patient information to a Department of Health and Human Services database in Washington, D.C., through a new policy that is alarming health experts who say they are concerned that the information will be withheld from the public or politicized.
"Historically, CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] has been the place where public health
Newsmax (News)Jul 02 2019
Opinion
Desegregating schools without busing
The failures of busing were widely recognized even on the left not too long ago. In 2014 Slate ran a multi-part series about how liberals’ “embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.” (“Many black Americans did believe in the school bus and the access it provided, and busing might have been a viable tool for those families had it been smartly and surgically applied. It wasn’t. It was
National Review (News)Mar 11 2020
News
House Democrats expected to unveil coronavirus package Wednesday
House Democrats are expected to unveil a package Wednesday afternoon ahead of a planned vote this week to help boost the economy hit by the coronavirus outbreak.
Bipartisan discussions are still ongoing between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who spoke Wednesday morning after meeting in the Capitol less than 24 hours earlier. But Democrats are
The Hill