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Jan 03 2013
News
NDAA Signed Into Law By Obama Despite Guantanamo Veto Threat, Indefinite Detention Provisions
President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, despite his own threat to veto it over prohibitions on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Civil liberties advocates had roundly criticized the bill over Guantanamo and a separate section that could allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens on suspicions of supporting
HuffPostJul 05 2019
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Trump’s Fourth of July celebration thrills supporters, angers opponents
Americans gathered in Washington on Thursday as one nation, feeling a little divisible, struggling to maintain unity on the Fourth of July, a summer ritual that normally brings a day-long pause to partisan hostilities. But that was before President Trump updated the day with his unique stamp — speaking of “one people chasing one dream and one magnificent destiny” from a Lincoln Memorial
Washington PostApr 19 2019
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Mueller report lays out obstruction evidence against the president
The report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III lays out in alarming detail abundant evidence against President Trump, finding 10 “episodes” of potential obstruction of justice but ultimately concluding it was not Mueller’s role to determine whether the commander in chief broke the law.
Submitted to Congress on Thursday, the 448-page document alternates between jarring scenes of
Washington PostJun 02 2020
Headline Roundup
Controversy Surrounds Trump Church Visit, Dispersal of Protesters
Media coverage of President Donald Trump's Monday appearance at St John's Episcopal Church in Washington D.C. has differed greatly along partisan lines.
Coverage from many left-rated outlets and some center-rated outlets focused more on the purportedly excessive use of tear gas, flash bang grenades and other crowd control measures to clear the protesters prior to the president's
Associated Press Vox The FederalistOct 28 2019
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Refugees poured into my state. Here’s how it changed me.
Refugees came to rebuild their lives, and rebuilt a town in turn. One Mainer who tracked this former mill town’s yearslong transformation found herself transformed: The native debunked her own biases about the newcomers.
When I was growing up, Lisbon Street in Lewiston was the center of the world. A few times a year, my family drove there from our village 45 miles up the Androscoggin
Christian Science MonitorJul 24 2013
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5 takeaways from Obama’s economy speech
President Barack Obama on Wednesday said America had “fought its way back” from the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression and warned Republicans not to create another budget “fiasco” this fall that could knock the country off course yet again. In sharper and more traditionally partisan terms than many expected, Obama took credit for helping to shepherd the economy back from the
PoliticoApr 18 2019
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Mueller report says investigators struggled with whether Trump committed crime of obstruction
A detailed report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III said investigators struggled with both the legal implications of investigating President Trump for possible obstruction of justice, and the motives behind a range of his most alarming actions, from seeking the ouster of officials to ordering a memo that would clear his name.
“The evidence we obtained about the President’s
Washington PostJul 19 2013
Opinion
Obama Takes Romney’s Advice on Detroit
Just before Detroit became the largest municipality to ever file bankruptcy, the failed city’s emergency manager, Kevin Orr, pleaded with top White House officials, including senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, for help. But no help was coming. That detail in the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of how the once-great city, now $11 billion in debt, finally succumbed may be the most telling of any in
Fox News (Online News)Jan 13 2021
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Politifact “Fact Check” Is Actually Analysis
From the RightThis piece is from a writer rated Lean Right.
America is politically volatile and has been for some time, and in recent weeks things have only escalated. Amid the turmoil, people are clamoring for cold, hard facts.
Fact checking sites like Politifact (Lean Left bias) promise to help. But sometimes, instead of giving you the facts and letting you interpret
Julie MastrineOct 23 2019
News
Why Mark Zuckerberg Keeps Saying Facebook Needs to Win Against China
Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg approached Xi Jinping at a White House dinner and asked if the Chinese president would honor him and his wife, Priscilla, by giving their soon-to-be-born child an honorary Chinese name. Xi declined, but Facebook still continued trying to break into China’s heavily restricted, but potentially very lucrative, internet market. The next year, Zuckerberg was famously
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