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Jul 22 2021
News
Pennsylvania Decertifies County’s Voting System, Cites Violation of Election Code
Pennsylvania’s top election official has decertified the voting system of rural Fulton County for future elections, saying that an election assessment by a third party had violated the Keystone State’s election code, according to a release on Wednesday.
Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid, an appointee of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, informed the Fulton County Board of
The Epoch Times
Apr 06 2017
News
President Trump Says Gas Attack Changed His Views on Syria
President Donald Trump said Wednesday a chemical weapons attack in Syria this week that left at least 86 people dead had altered his position on Syria and its leader Bashar al-Assad. Speaking at the White House alongside King Abdullah II of Jordan, Trump called the attack an "affront to humanity" but offered no details about his planned response.
Democracy Now!
Jul 15 2020
News
Florida surpasses 300,000 coronavirus cases
Florida surpassed 300,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. The state has seen a surge of infections in recent weeks and now sits behind only California and New York in the number of confirmed cases it's reported.
Health officials reported an additional 10,181 new confirmed cases Wednesday. Florida took more than
CBS News (Online)
Aug 13 2020
Background
Permanent Private School Closures in the Time of COVID-19
Permanent closure of private schools due to COVID-19 financial strain hasn’t been as common as we initially feared, or at least not yet. Families and teachers who are facing diverse health and educational priorities need myriad options, so the lower‐than‐expected numbers are welcome news. However, Director of the Center for Educational Freedom Neal McCluskey notes that private schools are
Cato Institute
Apr 04 2019
News
Trump, Republicans Decide Not to Touch Affordable Care Act Without Replacement Plan
Republican lawmakers are breathing a sigh of relief that the Trump administration backed away from seeking an immediate repeal of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement plan, and instead will take the issue on the 2020 campaign trail.
"I was disappointed when we were talking about repeal only without a credible plan to replace," Indiana Sen. Mike Braun (R) told CBN News. "We
CBN
Sep 21 2019
News
Would ‘Medicare for All’ Save Billions or Cost Billions?
How much would a “Medicare for all” plan, like the kind being introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, change health spending in the United States?
Some advocates have said costs would actually be lower because of gains in efficiency and scale, while critics have predicted huge increases.
We asked a handful of economists and think tanks with a range of perspectives to
New York Times (News)
Apr 01 2020
News
There Is No Reason to Believe China Is Reporting Its Coronavirus Cases Accurately
As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 rises quickly in the United States and in many other countries around the world, the official number of new cases in China, the source of the pandemic, has fallen dramatically. Given the record of secrecy, duplicity, and coverup by the Communist government of China, there is little cause to take those official figures at anything close to face value
The Dispatch
Jun 02 2021
News
Biden officially ends Trump’s 'remain in Mexico' policy on asylum seekers
President Joe Biden's administration officially ended the controversial "remain in Mexico" policy that former President Donald Trump implemented in respect to migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security memo issued on Tuesday shut down the policy, technically known as Migrant Protection Protocols, after Biden had issued an executive order on Feb. 2 to have
The Blaze
Dec 17 2021
Headline Roundup
Congress Passes Bill That Bans Chinese Imports Created With Uighur Forced Labor
The Senate unanimously approved a bill on Thursday that would ban the import of goods from China’s Xinjiang region unless businesses can prove they were produced without forced labor.
The bill, formally known as The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, is expected to be signed by President Biden in the coming days. The legislation marks the White House's latest pushback against China's
Washington Times
New York Times (News)
BBC News 
Oct 05 2020
News
Trump and medical team will decide later Monday whether he’s discharged, chief of staff says
President Donald Trump and the team of doctors treating him for the coronavirus will decide Monday whether to discharge him from Walter Reed Medical Center, NBC News reported.
Trump’s possible departure could send a signal that his health is improving following his diagnosis. But the move is bound to breed skepticism among those who have criticized administration officials for a lack of
CNBC