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Mar 01 2023
News
Nigeria presidential election 2023: Bola Tinubu declared winner amid calls for a rerun
Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was declared the winner of Nigeria's presidential election early Wednesday, amid calls from the opposition for a rerun in Africa's largest democracy.
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Mahmood Yakubu announced the results on live television just after 4 a.m. local time. Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party
ABC News (Online)
Mar 06 2023
News
Four Americans kidnapped from minivan after driving into Mexico
Four U.S. citizens are missing after being kidnapped from their vehicle by unidentified armed men in Mexico, the FBI said in a statement.
The Americans came under fire from the gunmen shortly after crossing the border Friday into the city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state, across from Brownsville, Tex., the FBI said Sunday. It said the Americans were in a white minivan with North
Washington Post
Mar 27 2023
News
Banks close accounts, slam doors on Jan. 6 rioters; feds accused of terrorist treatment
People prosecuted for low-level felonies and misdemeanors such as trespassing and disorderly conduct for their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol say they have been blacklisted by banks and shut out of social media fundraising services.
These defendants say they have been treated like “domestic terrorists” despite convictions of relatively low-level crimes.
Washington Times
Feb 13 2023
News
Chicago mayoral candidates promise to raise wages for early childhood educators, but differ on how to do it.
Chicago’s mayoral candidates say the city needs to increase wages for early childhood educators, make child care affordable for families, collaborate with local providers and state agencies to make funding easier, and even allow child care providers to move into public schools that are underenrolled.
The candidates detailed how they would reform child care and early childhood education
Chalkbeat
Jan 15 2023
News
5 New Houses For Sale In The Oak Lawn Area
OAK LAWN, IL — When you’re in the market for some new digs, keeping tabs on all the latest listings can take hours of tedious searching online. That’s why we’ve gone ahead and done the initial work for you. Here’s a sampling of the newest batch of properties to hit the market in and around Oak Lawn — such as a listing in the Chicago Ridge area with 3 beds and 1 bath for $239,900, and another
Patch.com
Feb 28 2023
News
Election Reformers Get New Tool to Pressure States to Clean Up Voter Rolls
A new interactive website database is now available free to individual citizens and election reform groups across the country to help in the fight to get all states to obey a federal election law mandating regular voter roll maintenance.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a national, non-profit, law firm dedicated to election integrity, announced the launch of the website on
The Epoch Times
Feb 16 2023
Opinion
The Feds Are Buying Their Way Around the 4th Amendment
A Republican congressman last week highlighted an oft-overlooked threat to the privacy of all Americans: The federal government's practice of purchasing citizens' private market data (PMD) from data brokers without a warrant. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R–N.D.) raised the issue at the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government's inaugural hearing.
"The federal
Reason
May 14 2013
News
Attorney General Eric Holder Reveals He Recused Himself From AP Phone Record Investigation
When the floor was opened for questions at a press conference Tuesday, originally about Medicare fraud, reporters focused questions to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on the recent revelation of the Department of Justices investigation that secretly obtained phone records of Associated Press reporters.
The Blaze
Feb 27 2023
News
Fauci Speaks Out About COVID Lab Leak Theory After Report
Dr. Anthony Fauci urged people to keep an open mind when it comes to COVID-19 origins after a new report suggested that the virus was leaked from a Chinese lab.
COVID-19 emerged in 2019 in Wuhan, China, and its origin has sparked worldwide debate, with opposing sides disagreeing on whether the virus was leaked from a lab or whether it was naturally occurring. The virus has infected more
Newsweek
Jan 20 2023
Analysis
The big problem with any debt ceiling fix
So it’s come to this: another debt ceiling crisis.
This is the fifth standoff I’ve covered as a reporter. There was the big one in 2011, of course, but then the 2013 standoff related to Obamacare, the lower-profile standoff in 2015, and the 2021 fight that required a temporary change to the Senate filibuster. I’m 32 years old. As I tell myself in the mirror every morning, that is not
Vox