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Dec 20 2019
News
Reviews of 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now in theaters. It is the final entry in the trilogy started under Disney, commonly known as the 'sequel trilogy.'The film was directed by J. J. Abrams and co-written by Abridge NewsJul 18 2020
Fact Check
Is It Illegal for Businesses to Refuse to Accept Cash?
A number of viral Facebook posts (including one from Mississippi State Sen. Chad McMahan) claim that it is illegal for businesses not to accept cash payments for goods or services. The posts further claim that when cash is turned down, the debt is legally recognized as paid. These posts come at a time when some businesses are refusing cash payments due to concerns about coronavirus
The DispatchMar 05 2013
News
Colorado lawmakers advance package of gun control bills
Firearm restrictions pitched by Colorado Democrats advanced Monday, as the battle over them intensified with hundreds of gun rights supporters cramming the state Capitol and circling the building all day with car horns blaring. Inside, the husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords urged lawmakers to pass universal background checks and victims of mass shootings in Connecticut and a
Fox News (Online News)Aug 18 2016
Opinion
The Privacy Debate is On
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, set to star as Edward Snowden in a new biopic from director Oliver Stone, says it’s a good time to talk about what it means to live in a democracy. hen director Oliver Stone called and asked him to play the lead in a movie about Edward Snowden, who exposed massive government surveillance programs, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was excited and nervous.
Not because he was
CNETApr 21 2020
News
Netflix adds 15 million subscribers as people stream more than ever, but warns about tough road ahead
Netflix is one of the rare companies benefiting from the global pandemic, which has kept billions of people at home with nothing to do but stream. But the question is how long can it last?
Although much of Netflix’s recent boom didn’t start until mid-March, when more people were forced to stay home to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, a series of popular, original shows and
The VergeMar 08 2021
News
Los Angeles Schools Remain Closed and Families Wonder: How Much Longer?
It has been almost a year since the coronavirus pandemic virtually emptied public schools in Los Angeles and sent Shamael Al-Alim home to take classes from her bedroom.
She does not miss rising at 6 a.m. to catch a bus and a train to her high school. But there is so much that, at 17, she does miss: The prospect of an in-person prom and graduation. The history teacher who ran the social
New York Times (News)May 30 2020
Opinion
How Police Officers Do Their Jobs
This has nothing to do with Minneapolis, but there appears to be a real lack of understanding about police work on the part of many of the general public. Mainly because no one ever took the time to try to explain how cops do their jobs. Most people form their opinions about the police and how they operate based on what they see on TV or in the movies.
So here’s a chance to test your
TownhallDec 04 2013
Opinion
Social networks can help predict gun violence
Is it possible to predict who is most likely to die at the hands of a gun? Not shootings like those at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut , the movie theater in Aurora, Colo. , or the Washington Navy Yard , but the all-too-common shootings that occur in neighborhoods across the country.
The idea is not far-fetched if one drills down into the nature of gun violence, which, in
Washington PostJul 22 2015
News
Colorado Death Penalty In Focus As Massacre Trial Enters New Phase
The lead prosecutor in the Colorado movie massacre trial tore into the state's governor at a news conference, calling him arrogant and weak for giving the mass murderer a reprieve from execution.
This was two years ago, and Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler was not talking about James Holmes, who last week was found guilty on all counts by a jury for fatally shooting 12
HuffPostJan 28 2020
Opinion
It’s Good That Joe Rogan Endorsed Bernie. Now We Have to Organize.
One of the world’s most popular podcasters has said that he’ll “probably vote for Bernie Sanders.” He went on to say some glowing things about Senator Sanders’s consistency and integrity. Unsurprisingly, the Sanders campaign celebrated the moment by tweeting out the clip.
Why wouldn’t it? While Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, and Andrew Yang have appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan has
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