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Jun 18 2020
News
Congress Targets Social Media Companies for Circulating Chinese Propaganda
The country’s largest social media companies are allowing the Chinese Communist Party to disseminate propaganda to American audiences with little oversight or warning, according to an ongoing congressional investigation into these companies’ failure to police suspect content.
Investigators with the House Foreign Affairs Committee have been pressing Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to
Washington Free BeaconAug 17 2014
Opinion
Rand Paul: We Must Demilitarize the Police
The shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown is an awful tragedy that continues to send shockwaves through the community of Ferguson, Missouri and across the nation. If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.
Rand PaulDec 18 2014
Background
OPINION: 4 Ideas That Could Begin to Reform the Criminal Justice System and Improve Police-Community Relations
From the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, to the heavily militarized police response, to the protests in the wake of Brown’s death, to the failure of the grand jury to indict Officer Darren Wilson for his role in the shooting, the events in Ferguson, Missouri, have turned up the heat on a long simmering debate over the persistent inequalities in our criminal justice system.
Center For American ProgressJan 21 2021
News
Liberal Journalist Points Out Media's Hypocrisy Over Military Occupation of DC
Approximately 25,000 thousand National Guard members were in Washington, D.C. this week, in addition to thousands of police and other law enforcement officers; metro stations were shut down; checkpoints were set up; and fences erected.
It was a level of militarization that “no living American has seen” before, and one Fox News’s Tucker Carlson said Democrats are using as a clear
TownhallMay 01 2014
News
GOP Reps. Propose $5 Million Reward for Benghazi Info
Two House Republicans have proposed legislation that would require the U.S. government to offer a 5 million reward for information about the 2012 Benghazi attacks that left four Americans dead. The bill from Reps. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) would require the State Department to offer...
The BlazeJan 20 2020
Opinion
The New York Times’s Endorsement Charade
The New York Times has created a spectacle around one of the stodgiest features of presidential primary season: The newspaper endorsement. In years past, the Times had simply splashed the name of the chosen one across its editorial page a week or so before the Iowa Caucuses, with a few bromides about “experience” and “temperament.” In the last two competitive Democratic primaries, the Times
New RepublicNov 19 2019
News
Jeffrey Epstein's Prison Guards Are Indicted On Federal Charges
Two correctional officers who were assigned to guard Jeffrey Epstein on the night he was found dead in his cell of an apparent suicide have been indicted on criminal charges, federal prosecutors in New York announced Tuesday.
Authorities have charged Michael Thomas and Tova Noel with making false records and conspiracy. The two worked as jail guards at the Metropolitan Correctional
NPR (Online News)Sep 11 2019
News
Republican reps cite 9/11 anniversary in criticizing Trump decision to invite Taliban to US for peace talks
Two Republican members of Congress on Sunday expressed concern over President Donald Trump's now-canceled plan to host Taliban leaders at Camp David for secret peace talks around the 18th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The comments from Reps. Michael Waltz of Florida and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois come one day after Trump tweeted that he invited Taliban leaders
CNN DigitalJun 08 2020
News
Why was George Floyd’s death the breaking point?
Throughout America’s long history of racial violence, certain names have stood out as markers of the struggles of a particular period in time. Emmett Till’s lynching in 1955 drew attention to the brutality of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The beating of Rodney King and acquittal of the officers involved sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992. The police killings of Eric Garner and
Yahoo! The 360Sep 11 2012
News
A Somber Reading of the Names of the Dead
Though they were not to speak, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani created a small stir when they arrived shortly before the ceremony was to begin.
New York Times (News)