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Jun 04 2019
News
Congress finally passes $19 billion in disaster aid
Lawmakers approved the package Monday after months of delays.
More than a year since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, seven months since Hurricane Michael hit Florida, and two months since flooding destroyed towns in Iowa and Missouri, Congress has finally passed a $19.1 billion disaster aid package.
The funding, which took Congress roughly six months to approve, is set to
VoxOct 02 2019
Opinion
Impeachment Creates an Opening for Chappaqua
It appears Hillary is the one who thinks she should be getting impeached.
How is the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry going to turn out? Well, we have already been through the impeachment inquiry, though it was called by another name. It was called the collusion inquiry, and it turned out as most conservatives said it was going to turn out. They said there was no evidence and Robert
Guest Writer - RightApr 20 2021
Headline Roundup
Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs ‘Anti-Riot’ Law
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new “anti-riot” law on Monday which aims to respond to 2020’s George Floyd protests. “If you look at the breadth of this particular piece of legislation, it is the strongest anti-rioting, pro-law enforcement piece of legislation in the country,” DeSantis said. The law grants civil immunity to people who drive their cars into protesters who are blocking a road
NPR (Online News) CNN (Online News) Fox News (Online News)Jun 10 2019
Headline Roundup
Vatican Denounces Gender Theory as "Confused Concept of Freedom"
In a new document released on Monday, the Vatican rejected gender theory and the idea that one can choose their gender as an attempt to "annihilate nature." The 30-page document, called "Male and Female He Created Them," has been criticized by LGBTQ advocates as inciting hatred. The document rejects the concepts of "intersex" and "transgender" as characteristic of a postmodern culture and says
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News
Rubio to Deliver Response to Obama's State of the Union
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, one of the lawmakers who introduced a bipartisan illegal immigration reform plan last week, will give the official Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address next week.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced today that they have selected U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to deliver
TownhallJul 29 2019
News
Trump Lashes Out at Al Sharpton, Saying He ‘Hates Whites’
President Trump, after a weekend spent assailing a leading African-American congressman from Baltimore, widened his war on critics of color on Monday morning as he denounced the Rev. Al Sharpton as “a con man” who “Hates Whites & Cops!”
Mr. Trump seemed to be responding to a Twitter post in which Mr. Sharpton showed himself at an airport “headed to Baltimore,” presumably a reference
New York Times (News)Jan 31 2013
News
Poll: New Yorkers split on fracking
As their governor weighs whether to allow fracking, New Yorkers are evenly split on whether the controversial drilling practice should be allowed in their state. A Quinnipiac poll released Thursday shows that 43 percent support "drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale," which underlies parts of upstate New York. That fuel is accessible only by fracking  the use of water, sand
Washington TimesMay 21 2019
News
Election security bills in the Senate are hitting one big roadblock: Mitch McConnell
While the issue of Russian collusion is very clearly politically charged, concerns about election security and foreign interference have historically been more bipartisan. As Mitch McConnell has made clear, however, that’s no longer the case.
Although several Republican-controlled Senate committees are still trying to address potential meddling by foreign adversaries — the Judiciary
VoxJul 22 2019
News
Iran Says It Will Execute Group of Alleged CIA-Trained Spies
Iran, locked in a worsening political standoff with Western powers, has handed down death sentences to several nationals accused of being part of a CIA-trained spy network uncovered earlier this year, an official said on Monday.
U.S. President Donald Trump denounced the Iranian report as “totally false” on Twitter Monday. “Just more lies and propaganda (like their shot down drone) put
BloombergSep 01 2023
Headline Roundup
As COVID-19 Cases Rise, Experts Advise Some to Mask Up Again
A moderate rise in COVID-19 cases has some experts advising a return to facemasks in certain situations.
Rising Cases: Cases including two new variants — EG.5 and BA.2.86 — spurred over 15,000 hospitalizations in the week ending on August 19, up 18.8% from the previous week but still far below pandemic highs. Citing high levels of immunity, Dr. Anthony Fauci told BBC News (Center bias
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