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Jan 09 2020
News
GOP governor revives long push for restoring voting rights to Iowa felons
Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, is promising to revive her quest to end the state's status as the only place in the country where convicted felons are permanently barred from voting.
She says she is optimistic that when the General Assembly convenes next week, her fellow Republicans in the majority will pass legislation starting a process lasting several years for giving
The FulcrumNov 22 2012
News
Republicans attack Rice, not race
Republicans shot down Democratic charges that ongoing criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice is couched in racism or sexism, and pressed President Obama for more answers on the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, as partisan battle lines hardened Wednesday over the incident and its aftermath.
Washington TimesMay 09 2013
Opinion
Benghazi Truths vs. Washington Politics
'I was stunned. My jaw dropped," said Gregory Hicks at Wednesday's House hearing on the Benghazi terror attack last fall and its aftermath. Mr. Hicks, deputy chief of mission in Libya under Ambassador Chris Stevens, was referring to the now-famous TV appearances by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice.
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Jul 10 2019
Headline Roundup
UK Ambassador Resigns Following Release of Cables Criticizing Trump
Sir Kim Darroch, the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the United States, quit his position days after diplomatic cables that revealed his criticisms of President Donald Trump were leaked.
Washington Times The Guardian BloombergDec 14 2012
News
Madeleine Albright On Susan Rice's Withdrawal: 'It's Appalling What Happened Here'
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said she found the treatment of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice by Republican senators "appalling," arguing that her consideration to be the next Secretary of State became a "political football" that had very little to do with her actual career and record as a public servant.
HuffPostJul 16 2021
News
Swing-District Dem Says Party’s Stimulus Spending Drove Inflation
As consumer prices in the United States jumped to record levels—and as congressional Democrats planned a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure proposal—Rep. Kim Schrier (D., Wash.) said her party's costly stimulus spending drove inflation.
Schrier acknowledged during a June telephone town hall that Democrats' coronavirus stimulus spending led to "a lot more people buying things," which
Washington Free BeaconApr 15 2021
Analysis
Why This Keeps Happening in Minneapolis
Even as it reels from the continuing trial of Derek Chauvin, Minneapolis is again mourning the death of a Black man killed by the police. On Sunday, a 20-year-old father, Daunte Wright, was pulled over in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of the city. When police reportedly tried to arrest him for an outstanding warrant, he sought to reenter his vehicle. One of the officers, Kim Potter, shouted “Taser
SlateApr 14 2021
News
Protesters and police clash for a third night after Daunte Wright's death as prosecutors weigh charges against officer
A Minnesota prosecutor could decide as early as Wednesday whether to charge a police officer who authorities say shot and killed a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb after a traffic stop -- a shooting that has sparked three nights of protests.
The Washington County prosecutor is weighing charges for Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter in Sunday's fatal shooting of 20-year-old
CNN DigitalJan 26 2017
News
It’s Been a Long Week
n his first week in office, Donald Trump has begun to inflict immense damage across a wide range of policy areas. He is starting to build the wall, ban refugees, and bar Muslim immigrants. He has cut billions of dollars in funding from U.N. agencies and green-lighted the Keystone XL pipeline. He has placed a freeze on government hiring and prohibited international NGOs that receive U.S.
SlateSep 27 2019
News
Indonesia has banned marriage for young girls
ONE IN FIVE girls marries before reaching adulthood. One in twenty is wed before her fifteenth birthday. In Indonesia, which has the eighth-highest number of child brides in the world according to the UN, the phenomenon should soon be a thing of the past. This month the country’s parliament raised the minimum age at which girls can marry from 16 to 19. Legislators were spurred to act after the
The Economist