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May 12 2019
News
Handful of 'left leaning sources' dominate Google's 'Top Stories,' study finds
A new study from the Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern found that many of Google’s top hits for news searches came from just a handful of sources.
Researches Daniel Trielli and Nicholas Diakopoulos conducted their study by looking at the results of over 200 news related questions every day in November 2017. They found 6,303 individual links to articles in the Top Stories Box
Washington Times
Apr 16 2020
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U.S. Jobless Claims Top 20 Million Since Start of Shutdowns
Another 5.2 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total seeking aid in a month of coronavirus-related shutdowns to 22 million and showing a broad shock for the U.S. labor market.
Total claims filed in the week ended April 11 were down from the 6.6 million filed the prior week, the Labor Department said Thursday. For the March 28 week, 6.9 million
Wall Street Journal (News)
Feb 28 2020
Analysis
The Wrong Trump
With the coronavirus in the air, we need the version who’s not afraid to attack the problem.
The wrong Donald Trump has shown up to deal with the coronavirus. One might have expected Donald Trump, a germophobe who spent much of his campaign lambasting the Chinese, to take an aggressive approach on the Wuhan virus. You’d expect the Trump who breaks taboos and shuts things down until “our
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Jan 11 2014
News
CHRISTIE AIDE: OFFICIAL 'MESSING WITH US' BY REOPENING BRIDGE BEFORE ELECTION
The New Jersey legislature stunned the media world with an extensive, thousand-page document drop providing more evidence that Gov. Chris Christie's staff closed down part of the George Washington Bridge for political retribution – and even blamed the Mayor of Fort Lee for their mischief. The majority of the thousand-document set of exhibits – available on the New Jersey state website and
Breitbart News
Apr 19 2024
Headline Roundup
Will Israel's Retaliation Against Iran Escalate the Conflict?
Following Israel’s retaliatory strike on Iran, voices across the spectrum are reflecting on what the attack means for the region.
Lowered Chances of Escalation: An analysis in the New York Times (Lean Left bias) stated that the “relatively limited scope” of Israel’s strike and the “subdued response” from Iran may have “lowered the chances of an immediate escalation.” While potential for
New York Times (News)
The Jerusalem Post
National Review (Opinion)
Oct 28 2013
News
Feinstein Calls for 'Total Review' of NSA Spying
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein is calling for a "total review of all intelligence programs" after allegations that the National Security Agency eavesdropped on the German chancellor — activity the California Democrat says she wasn't told about.
Feinstein said Monday that while her committee was informed of the NSA's collection of phone records under a secret
Newsmax (News)
May 09 2019
News
Joe Biden, Rusty Weather Vane
Say what you will about the ethics of plagiarists—at least they have an ear for what audiences want to hear.
When Joe Biden cratered in his first official run at the White House in 1987, it was because of a series of borrowed speech passages, hand gestures, and even biographical details (no, he didn't derive from a family of coal miners, as he once claimed, nor was he "the first" in his
Reason
Oct 24 2020
News
Stricken Venezuelan oil tanker raises fears of Caribbean ecological disaster
Concerns are growing that an oil tanker carrying millions of gallons of oil could spill its load into the sea between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, causing an ecological catastrophe.
The Venezuelan-flagged Nabarima has lain in the Gulf of Paria since last January when U.S. sanctions on Venezuela made it illegal for companies that operate in the U.S. to trade with the country's
NBC News Digital
Apr 13 2020
Background
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD,[5] USDOD or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. The DoD is the largest employer in the world,[6] with nearly 1.3 million active-duty service members (soldiers,
Wikipedia
Oct 18 2015
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Washington, DC, workers to get 16 weeks paid leave under city hall plan that taxes businesses
Washington, D.C., is poised to give workers in the city the most generous family-leave benefits in the country -- a plan that is backed by the Obama administration and would side-step Congress on such issues.
If approved, the legislation would give essentially every part- and full-time employee in the nation’s capital as much as 16 weeks of paid leave for such family matters as newborn
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