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Aug 29 2019
News
Dow rises 350 points after China says it wants trade talks
Stocks jumped on Thursday after China said it wished to resolve its protracted trade dispute with the world’s largest economy with a “calm” attitude.
By midday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was trading 350 points higher, or 1.4 percent. The S&P 500 gained 1.3 percent, while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.5 percent.
“There’s a talk scheduled for today at a different level
NBC News DigitalNov 01 2019
News
A Crying Shame
On Wednesday, Lawrence VanDyke, Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, made news by crying at his confirmation hearing. He began weeping after he was confronted with a letter from the American Bar Association that had deemed him “Not Qualified,” a ranking based on 60 interviews with 43 lawyers, 16 judges, and one other person who had worked with him. In
SlateAug 19 2015
News
Clinton Is Defiant as Email Cases Loom
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday again dismissed criticism of her use of a private email server as politically minded attacks, as a federal judge prepares for a hearing amid a host of lawsuits over her communications while she was secretary of state.
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 29 2019
Opinion
The high price of the public charge rule: America will get sicker if this anti-immigration measure goes into effect
Earlier this month, changes to a federal rule were supposed to go into effect that would have put an overwhelming number of immigrants in danger. The rule would expand the scope of the “public charge rule” and deny permanent-resident status to certain immigrants when the government believes they are likely to receive public benefits, such as Medicaid, food subsidies and housing assistance.
New York Daily NewsNov 25 2019
Opinion
It’s Time for Term Limits on the Supreme Court
They have broad bipartisan support, and they might reduce the hysteria of nomination battles. Murmurs of concern swept through Washington, D.C., Friday night as news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a four-time cancer survivor, was back in the hospital.
Luckily, doctors said it was only because of chills and fever, and she went home Sunday. But Ginsburg’s health
John FundApr 29 2014
News
With mass sentences, Egyptians seek justice, but come away empty-handed
The same judge who sentenced 529 Egyptians to death in Minya last month sentenced another 683 defendants to death Monday. The verdicts portray a judicial system run amok. Christian Science MonitorJul 15 2020
News
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: US Supreme Court oldest justice treated for possible infection
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been taken to hospital in Maryland "for treatment of a possible infection", the court has said.
It said in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital she "underwent an endoscopic procedure... to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August".
Ms Ginsburg, 87, was "resting comfortably" and would stay in the hospital for a few days
BBC NewsJan 10 2021
Analysis
Back to Opposition
Republicans need to offer alternatives, not just resistance
Republicans can look forward to going into opposition under President Biden with equanimity and even optimism. They have dealt with Democratic presidents twice during the last 40 years, and both spells in opposition can reasonably be judged to have been successful.
After two years of Bill Clinton in the White House,
National Review (News)Feb 10 2020
Analysis
Behind The White House Move To Stop Ugly Federal Buildings (And The Architects Who Stand In The Way)
As the Second World War came to a rumbling close, the architects gazed out upon a shattered Europe utterly convinced of a series of new things: First, they, the architects, are in charge of architecture, and the only valid experts on the aesthetics of architecture. Therefore, the public and its leaders, who every day must view and live among their work, have no opinion that counts.
The FederalistMar 27 2016
News
Biden Addresses Political Polarization, Supreme Court Nomination
Vice President Joe Biden addressed President Barack Obama’s nomination of Chief Judge Of the United States Court of Appeals Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, the so-called “Biden rule” and the consequences of an eight-member court in a speech at the Georgetown University Law Center on Thursday.
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