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Feb 18 2013
News
High profile but out of sight: Obama's golf outing with Tiger Woods
President Barack Obama's round of golf with Tiger Woods was one of the most talked about moments of the weekend, but not one of the most seen. Despite its high interest and high profile, the game was off-limits to White House reporters and photographers.
And that drew a complaint from the White House Correspondents’ Association, expressing news organizations' "extreme frustration" with
CNN (Online News)Nov 11 2020
Opinion
We must prevent a vaccine 'infodemic' from fuelling the Covid pandemic
he world has been offered a first ray of hope for a potential Covid-19 vaccine, created by Pfizer and BioNTech. So far, efforts have been focused on the manufacture and deployment of this and many other vaccines. Now that we have our first candidate, attention will turn to uptake. If researchers offer a vaccine, will people volunteer for it? And if they don’t, why not?
As the World
The GuardianSep 21 2014
News
The rowdy greens take charge
Tens of thousands of environmental activists are flooding New York City’s streets this weekend in a coming-out party for a new breed of environmentalism – one that’s louder and rowdier than the old-school greens who dominated the movement when Barack Obama entered the White House. These upstarts like 350.org are brushing aside the staid Washington lobbying strategies of groups that failed to
PoliticoApr 02 2020
Analysis
Trump’s coronavirus death toll estimate exposes his failure
Trump had a chance to avert the unfolding coronavirus disaster. He blew it.
President Donald Trump revealed a grim projection in the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday: Even with the social distancing the US is doing now, 100,000 to 200,000 Americans will likely die as a result of the ongoing outbreak. “When you see 100,000 people, that’s a minimum number,” Trump said.
It’s a
VoxJul 14 2015
News
California Drought Pits Salmon Runs Against Nut Orchards
In California, drought and mismanagement of remaining scarce water supplies is killing a key part of the ocean—the salmon that commercial and recreational fishermen rely on. Meanwhile, in the San Joaquin Valley, inland from the coast, nut orchards that depend on imported water from salmon streams in the northern part of the state go on for miles.
At least some from the San Joaquin
NewsweekMar 19 2020
News
A pandemic's generous responders
Charitable giving has spiked as fast as the virus, filling in the gaps of government response to the crisis.
In a pandemic, everyone is a responder, even if he or she is self-isolating. Yet for many people during the coronavirus outbreak, the response has been outward. According to the research group Candid, global giving to combat the outbreak and deal with the economic fallout has
Christian Science MonitorOct 30 2019
News
How Kamala Harris’s ‘Family of Fighters’ Influenced Her Campaign Message
Candidate cites civil-rights activism of her Indian-born mother and grandfather as she tries to gain traction.
Kamala Harris hadn’t yet sat down to eat gumbo with a family in Waterloo, Iowa, earlier this month when her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, became a part of the conversation.
Sen. Harris (D., Calif.) comforted her host, Cathy Ketton, who lost her mother to cancer,
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 02 2020
News
How Trump’s scattered team scrambled to respond to historic protests
Trump lurched between conciliatory and aggressive statements as he sought to make a mark amid America’s broadest racial justice protests in a half century.
A barricade of police troops had already formed outside the White House by the time President Donald Trump returned Saturday evening, still giddy from his trip to Florida to watch the first manned commercial spacecraft launch into
PoliticoFeb 20 2020
News
Democratic debate: Bloomberg rivals line up to attack billionaire
In a punchy debate worthy of Las Vegas, billionaire Michael Bloomberg came under attack from all sides.
The field of candidates for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination has been shrinking for months, but on Wednesday night in Nevada, the debate stage had one significant new arrival.
For the first time since he launched his unconventional, money-suffused campaign in
BBC NewsMay 02 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Diversity of Mind at the Fed
The left won’t forgive Steve Moore for being right about tax reform.
Steve Moore withdrew Thursday as a candidate for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, after weeks of media pounding all out of proportion to the job. This ugly episode underscores the need for fresh thinking at the Fed, and that’s where President Trump’s economic advisers should keep their focus.
The plaster
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