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Nov 04 2022
News
Obama Warns ‘Demonizing’ Opponents Leads to Violence as Biden Calls Republicans Threat to Democracy
Former President Barack Obama warned Democrats not to demonize their political opponents Wednesday even as President Joe Biden delivered a speech attacking “MAGA Republicans” and tying them to last week’s assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband.
Obama told a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, that demonizing opponents with “over-the-top” rhetoric could result in physical violence:
“One
Breitbart News
Feb 28 2023
News
Murdoch: Hannity was ‘privately disgusted’ with Trump after 2020 election
Fox News host Sean Hannity was “privately disgusted” with former President Trump’s actions following his loss in the 2020 election, despite showing steadfast support on air, according to statements made by the network’s owner revealed in a new court filing this week.
The revelation came in the latest court filing made by Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox News and billionaire
The Hill
Feb 28 2023
News
Tenn. governor vows to sign anti-drag bill as photo surfaces
Republican Gov. Bill Lee says it would be “ridiculous” to conflate a recently surfaced yearbook photo of him wearing women’s clothing in high school to drag show performances currently under attack in Tennessee and other GOP-led states.
Lee told reporters this week that he plans to sign legislation that would severely limit where drag performances can take place by banning “adult
Associated Press
Mar 16 2023
News
GOP lawmakers cringe over Trump’s effort to destroy DeSantis
Senate Republicans are wincing over former President Trump’s early barrage of attacks against his chief rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), fearing they’re seeing a preview of a brutal primary to come that could leave both candidates weakened heading into the general election.
GOP lawmakers acknowledge DeSantis needs to show he can take a punch and aren’t shocked Trump would take
The Hill
Feb 18 2023
News
US determines Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, VP Harris says
Vice President Kamala Harris announced the United States has determined the Russian military is committing crimes against humanity in its invasion of Ukraine.
Harris made the remarks on Saturday during her speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
"The United States has formally determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity," Harris said.
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Fox News Digital
Oct 21 2022
Fact Check
Is Biden Administration Funding Drag Shows in Ecuador?
Drag queens across the nation have been the target of conservative attacks and legislative efforts to outlaw drag shows.
Republican lawmakers have repeatedly raised issues with the attendance of children at drag performances—which those in the drag communities have argued are not inherently sexual—as part of a larger effort to curb teachings of gender and race theories to kids in
Newsweek
Sep 15 2022
Opinion
Ukraine Deflates MAGA Macho Myths
On Aug. 29 Tucker Carlson of Fox News attacked President Biden’s policy on Ukraine, asserting among other things: “By any actual reality-based measure, Vladimir Putin is not losing the war in Ukraine. He is winning the war in Ukraine.” Carlson went on, by the way, to assert that Biden is supporting Ukraine only because he wants to destroy the West.
Carlson’s timing was impeccable. Just
Paul Krugman
Mar 14 2023
News
Student Activists Target Stanford Law School Dean in Revolt Over Her Apology
Hundreds of Stanford student activists on Monday lined the hallways to protest the law school’s dean, Jenny Martinez, for apologizing to Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan, whom the activists shouted down last week.
The embattled dean arrived to the classroom where she teaches constitutional law to find a whiteboard covered inch to inch in fliers attacking Duncan and defending
Washington Free Beacon
Aug 03 2023
Perspectives Blog
This Week in Fact Checking: HBCUs, Hunter Biden, Ron DeSantis
As an AllSides reader, you probably know news coverage often includes several forms of bias, or sometimes even flat-out misinformation.
Whether the product of a carefully coordinated propaganda campaign or an innocent mistake by a journalist or social media user, misinformation is inevitable. Because of this, many “fact-checkers” have popped up as their own entities, like Snopes (Lean
Andy Gorel
Dec 30 2022
News
Idaho students' families react to Pennsylvania arrest of murder ...
The families of four Idaho college students killed in a shocking home invasion stabbing attack last month praised police and thanked the supportive public Friday after investigators revealed a suspect had been arrested on the other side of the country. Pennsylvania police arrested 28-year-old Bryan Christopher Kohberger early Friday. He is a graduate student at Washington State University,
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