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Aug 31 2019
News
Justice Ginsburg reports she’s ‘very well’ following cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Saturday she’s “alive” and on her way to being “very well” following radiation treatment for cancer.
Ginsburg, 86, made the comments at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington. The event came a little over a week after Ginsburg disclosed that she had completed three weeks of outpatient radiation
Associated PressJan 14 2016
Opinion
The State of Our System
Although I am the prototypical super-nerd who habitually watches wall-to-wall coverage of the State of the Union address, I must confess that I recorded it on Tuesday night. Perhaps this only increases my nerd status. But as I was driving home -- at the same time President Obama was concluding his speech -- a barrage of messages and social media posts lit up my mobile: "POTUS must have read
HuffPostAug 30 2019
News
A Suburb Believed in Liberal Ideals. Then Came a New Busing Plan.
This suburb, with its high-performing schools, seems a haven of diversity and progressiveness. Signs that trumpet “Stigma-free Town” and “Hate Has No Home Here” hang from lampposts and, after a series of fatal police shootings across the country, “Black Lives Matter” placards popped up on lawns.
But now a strategy to tackle racial inequity in the school district is challenging the town’
New York Times (News)Feb 10 2014
News
"The Hillary Papers" Describe Former First Lady As a "Strong, Ambitious, and Ruthless Democratic Operative"
The Hillary Papers a large archive of previously unpublished documents allegedly kept by Hillary Clintons friend and adviser Diane Blair are seeing the light of day through a report The Washington Free Beacon posted Sunday night.
The BlazeApr 03 2020
News
Report: Experts warn that coronavirus can possibly spread through talking, breathing
Dr. Harvey Fineberg, chairman of a committee with the National Academy of Sciences, says that coronavirus can be also possibly be spread even by talking and breathing.
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Fineberg presented the White House with
The BlazeJun 18 2020
News
Congress Targets Social Media Companies for Circulating Chinese Propaganda
The country’s largest social media companies are allowing the Chinese Communist Party to disseminate propaganda to American audiences with little oversight or warning, according to an ongoing congressional investigation into these companies’ failure to police suspect content.
Investigators with the House Foreign Affairs Committee have been pressing Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to
Washington Free BeaconJul 15 2020
News
Trump signs Hong Kong sanctions bill in blow for China
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law a bill to impose sanctions on Chinese officials, businesses and banks that help China restrict Hong Kong’s autonomy, a move that is likely to worsen already-strained diplomatic ties and prompt retaliation from Beijing.
"This law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and the entities involved in
PoliticoMar 02 2020
News
Biden and Sanders Offer a Choice: Unite or Fight?
It isn’t hard to imagine a Joe Biden administration in which Kamala Harris is vice president, Michael Bloomberg is treasury secretary, Pete Buttigieg is homeland security secretary, Tom Steyer is climate-change czar and Andrew Yang is commerce secretary—or, well, maybe special envoy for math and numbers and stuff like that.
It is, on the other hand, almost impossible to imagine a Bernie
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 11 2023
Headline Roundup
House Republicans Launch Investigation Into Biden Family
House Republicans launched an investigation into President Joe Biden and the Biden family on Wednesday, fulfilling a campaign promise included in the GOP’s ‘Commitment to America’ framework.
For Context: The investigation, conducted by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, aims to probe potential financial misconduct and national security risks stemming from international
New York Post (News) The Hill Associated PressMar 31 2020
Analysis
Law and Liberty in an Emergency
Pandemic in the land is putting strain on our self-image as a free people for whom the rule of law is our ne plus ultra.
Alas, when it gets down to brass tacks, even those two beacons, liberty and law, are as much in tension as in mutual need. It is by law that society restricts our freedom. On the other hand, as Burke observed, without the order that a just legal system ensures, there
National Review (News)