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Jul 08 2019
News
After Rancorous Border Fight, Congress Faces Funding Deadlines
Lawmakers return to the Capitol this week, with lingering acrimony among Democrats and Republicans expected to hover over debates on legislation and passage of spending bills needed to avoid a government shutdown.
House Democrats left Washington at the end of June riven by negotiations over a $4.6 billion bill funding humanitarian aid for migrants at the southern border. More
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 03 2019
Headline Roundup
AOC's Chief of Staff and Top Spokesman Leave Her Office
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti and communications director Corbin Trent are both leaving her D.C. office. Chakrabarti is leaving to work with New Consensus on the Green New Deal. Trent is leaving to work on Ocasio-Cortez's 2020 reelection campaign as communications director.
Media outlets on the right and in the center focused on Chakrabarti's
The Hill CNN (Online News) Washington ExaminerFeb 01 2024
Headline Roundup
Plans Approved for Retaliatory Strikes on Iranian Forces in Syria and Iraq
Plans have been approved for retaliatory strikes over a number of days against targets in Iraq and Syria, including Iranian forces, multiple outlets reported Friday.
For Context: The news came after days of speculation and commentary on how President Joe Biden’s administration would respond to the killing of three U.S. service members via a reportedly Iranian-made drone flown by the
CBS News (Online) The Daily Wire ReutersOct 15 2020
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Twitter CEO Admits Action on NY Post-Biden Story 'Not Great'
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday called his company's blocking of posts by those who tried to share the New York Post's story earlier in the day about Hunter Biden's emails referencing his then-vice president father Joe Biden and a Ukrainian natural gas company "not great."
"Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great," Dorsey posted to his personal
Newsmax (News)Apr 15 2013
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Rifts in Both Parties Complicate Odds for Gun Measure
Divisions over a measure to extend background checks for gun buyers are undermining support for what was seen as a compromise deal to ease passage of a broader bill.
New York Times (News)Jan 01 2013
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Senate passes package to avert fiscal cliff; House votes next
A full two hours after a midnight deadline, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a deal Tuesday to avert the feared fiscal cliff on an 89-8 vote.
CNN (Online News)Oct 16 2013
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Shutdown showdown Day 16: What you need to know
There’s a deal! After a whirlwind couple of days of political jockeying, Senate leaders announced the final terms of a bipartisan compromise to reopen the government and raise the debt limit.
CNN (Online News)Mar 31 2022
Perspectives Blog
Equity vs. Equality: A Political Rorschach Test
This blog is written by multiple authors of different perspectives, and published on DividedWeFall.org (Mixed media bias rating).
America Cannot Fulfill the Promise of Equal Opportunity Without Equal AccessBy Carlon Howard – Chief Impact Officer, Equity Institute
In recent years, the debate concerning the difference between equity and equality has grown
Divided We Fall (author)Jan 29 2021
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Biden’s call for unity hits first big test in Congress
With growing pressure to address the economic fallout of the pandemic, early hopes for bipartisan compromise are already dimming. Democrats say they simply can’t afford to waste time working toward a deal that’s unlikely to happen.
Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, professes himself to have been “very pleased” with what President Joe Biden said in his inauguration address about
Christian Science MonitorDec 29 2020
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Newt Gingrich: Democrats are trying to 'brainwash the entire next generation'
The 77-year-old Republican former House speaker says Trump will ‘remain a dominant figure for a fairly long period of time’
Some blame Donald Trump. Others blame social media. And those with longer memories blame Newt Gingrich for carving up America into blue states and red states racked by mutual fear, suspicion and alienation.
As speaker of the House of Representatives from
The Guardian