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Mar 11 2020
Headline Roundup
Biden Extends Delegate Lead After Tuesday's Primaries
Former Vice President Joe Biden extended his lead in delegates and called for unity after primary wins in Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) scored a victory in North Dakota, with Washington remaining too close to call. Get balanced news and perspectives on the candidates, state-by-state election results, delegate totals and more on the AllSides
Politico Reuters Washington ExaminerApr 28 2021
Analysis
The free speech case so complicated it seems to have stumped the Supreme Court
Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday, is a tough case. And it’s not tough because it presents the kind of politically toxic questions that often cause the justices to retreat into their partisan corners.
Members of the Court from across the political spectrum spent Wednesday morning struggling to determine when a school district should be
VoxSep 02 2019
News
Tribal leaders say 2020 should be about 'life or death' issues, not Warren's DNA
Tribal leaders say it's a grave disappointment that the political focus on Native Americans these days can seem limited to their reaction to Sen. Elizabeth Warren's DNA test results or President Donald Trump calling her "Pocahontas" to disparage her fraught history of claiming Native American ancestry.
Attention, instead, should be paid to issues such as health care and suicide that for
ABC News (Online)Jul 16 2013
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Snowden applies for temporary asylum in Russia
Intelligence leaker Edward Snowden formally submitted an application for temporary asylum in Russia on Tuesday, his lawyer said.
Snowden argued in his application that he needs asylum because "he faces persecution by the U.S. government and he fears for his life and safety, fears that he could be subjected to torture and capital punishment," lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said on Russian
USA TODAYFeb 06 2014
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Unemployment Insurance Extension Fails Again In Senate
Democrats failed on Thursday to win enough Republican votes to reauthorize long-term unemployment benefits for more than a million workers cut off in December.
At least five Republicans needed to vote for the bill in order for it to advance, but only four did. The bill failed 58-to-40.
"Because of the inaction of one person today there's a family, thousands of families who are
HuffPostJul 11 2013
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House GOP split over immigration reform
Immigration reform entered an uncertain new phase on Wednesday as House Republicans signaled some willingness to compromise with President Barack Obama and Democrats but rejected a Senate-passed bill and insisted they would take their time drafting their own version. Following more than two hours of talks on how to proceed, GOP legislators said the biggest question was whether to give the 11
CNN (Online News)Jun 11 2018
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All Politics Is National Because All Media Is National
State and local governments have a huge influence on citizens’ daily lives. They spend people’s tax dollars. They decide how schools operate and what constitutes a crime. And yet, few people seem to care these days. State and local elections aren’t drawing the interest from voters or the media that they did a few decades ago. National politics, on the other hand, is a bit like your smartphone
538 (ABC News)Mar 10 2013
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Analysis: What's behind Obama's charm offensive?
In case you missed it, Barack Obama–the man who once seemed perfectly content to live under the political equivalent of house arrest–has suddenly decided to become a party animal. He's having phone chats with Republicans, taking them out to dinner at a swanky Washington hotel and has plans to rush up to Capitol Hill next week for four meetings -with the Democrats, and his new acquaintances,
CNN (Online News)Aug 03 2014
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Why are so many Ebola health-care workers dying from the virus?
The disturbing feature of the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa isn't just that it's the largest and deadliest: it's also that so many health workers have lost their lives while caring for the sick.
The death toll right now is at least 60, according to the World Health Organization. To put that into context, in the second biggest outbreak in history—which took place in 1976 in Zaire
VoxJan 26 2014
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Gunman identified in Maryland mall shooting
Maryland police have identified the man who fatally shot two people at a mall in suburban Baltimore before killing himself as a 19-year-old who lived roughly 20 miles away in the same town as one of his victims.
Darion Marcus Aguilar of the 4700 block of Hollywood Road in College Park arrived at the Mall at Columbia by cab about 10:15 a.m. Saturday, or roughly an hour before he fired
Fox News (Online News)