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Jun 22 2022
News
Biden can’t escape questions on his age
President Biden can’t escape questions about his age, a fact of life that’s causing uneasy Democrats to assess whether he can realistically run for reelection in 2024, when he will be 81 years old.
Conversations that were once whispered in private are spilling out into the public amid angst over a potential drubbing for the party in this fall’s midterm elections and existential
The HillJul 18 2022
Analysis
Progressives Twist Ted Cruz’s Obergefell Criticism Beyond Recognition
Welcome back to “Forgotten Fact-Checks,” a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we dissect dishonest narratives about conservatives and the Supreme Court and hit more media misses.
Tall Tales about Conservatives and the Supreme Court
Last week Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) voiced the commonly held belief that the Supreme Court decision that legalized
National Review Fact CheckJan 28 2022
News
Biden says Pittsburgh bridge collapse shows how poor infrastructure ‘can threaten lives’
President Joe Biden made an unscheduled visit to the site of a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh on Friday afternoon, during a trip originally meant to tout his legislative agenda — including the landmark infrastructure law he signed last year.
“We saw today, when a bridge is in disrepair, it literally can threaten lives,” Biden said in a speech at Carnegie Mellon University’s Mill 19, just
CNBCFeb 28 2022
News
Ukraine tests China’s ‘limitless’ friendship with Russia
Beijing appears to be throwing its weight behind Russia. The decision will impact not only the crisis in Ukraine, but also the global geopolitical landscape.
Countries around the world have rushed to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. China is not one of them.
Instead, China has provided robust diplomatic support for Russia, while blaming the United States and the North
Christian Science MonitorApr 19 2021
News
Smaller Corporate Tax Increase Floated at White House Infrastructure Meeting
President Biden and a bipartisan group of lawmakers discussed alternative ways to pay for infrastructure spending, including a smaller increase in the corporate tax rate, as Republicans and Democrats aired possible changes to the size and scope of the package.
The White House has proposed raising the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21%, along with increasing taxes on U.S. companies’
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 10 2022
Opinion
NBC’s ‘Cataclysmic’ Olympics-Coverage Flop
Dear readers, is there a more beautiful phrase this morning than “cataclysmic loss of audience”?
NBC is facing a cataclysmic loss of audience for the 2022 Winter Olympics as viewership tanked for Friday’s Opening Ceremony, averaging just 16 million.
It is a record low for the Opening Ceremony (20.1 million for 1988 in Calgary was the previous record) and a whopping 43 percent
Jim GeraghtyJun 08 2022
News
California voters oust reformist DA in San Francisco as House battlegrounds take shape
San Francisco voters fired their headline-grabbing reformist district attorney Tuesday, NBC News projects, after rising crime rates proved intolerable even for the famously progressive city.
Chesa Boudin, the son of left-wing radicals who was elected on a Black Lives Matter-aligned platform to reform the criminal justice system, faced a successful recall effort as voters grew frustrated
NBC News DigitalAug 15 2021
Perspectives Blog
Facts vs Myths: Did Donald Trump Tell People to Inject Bleach?
Updated April 24, 2024
In summer 2020, when there were still many questions regarding possible coronavirus treatment, members of the White House’s COVID-19 task force briefed the press about the latest coronavirus developments. William Bryan, a Department of Homeland Security official, discussed findings about the success of disinfectant and sunlight in killing the coronavirus.
Ethan HorowitzMar 17 2022
News
Weekly jobless claims total 214,000, better than expected for tight labor market
The U.S. labor market tightened further last week, with jobless claims coming in at the lowest level since the beginning of the year, the Labor Department said Thursday.
Initial filings for unemployment insurance totaled 214,000 for the week ended March 12, better than the Dow Jones estimate for 220,000 and a decline of 15,000 from the prior week.
The total was the lowest since
CNBCJul 28 2022
Perspectives Blog
Which News Outlets Mislead? Democrats and Republicans Disagree
Which media outlets do you visit to get news on current events and politics? Do you avoid any that you believe convey misinformation or disinformation? Your perception of media outlets being misleading may come down to your own political beliefs.
According to a recent University of Chicago Institute of Politics survey of 1,000 registered voters in the U.S. from May 2022, a partisan
Andrew Weinzierl