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Sep 21 2019
News
U.S. to deploy military forces to Saudi Arabia, UAE after drone attacks on oil sites
The United States is deploying military forces to the Middle East after Saturday's drone attacks on major oil sites in Saudi Arabia that the administration of President Donald Trump has blamed on Iran.
"The president has approved the deployment of U.S. forces which will be defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and missile defense," U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said at
NBC News DigitalSep 21 2019
News
Pentagon sending 'defensive' troops and missiles to Saudi Arabia after Iranian oil attack
The Pentagon is sending additional troops and missiles to Saudi Arabia in response to Iran's attack on Saudi oil facilities last weekend.
"The president has approved the deployment of U.S. forces, which are primarily defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and missile defense," Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in a surprise briefing Friday night. "We will also work to
Washington ExaminerSep 18 2019
News
How to be a human lie detector of fake news, according to the latest science
Fake news existed long before the internet.
In an essay on political lying in the early 18th century, the writer Jonathan Swift noted that "Falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it." You have to hire a train to pull the truth, explained English pastor Charles Spurgeon in the 19th century, while a lie is "light as a feather ... a breath will carry it."
Clearly, humans
CNN DigitalMay 14 2020
Fact Check
McConnell’s claim that Obama left behind no ‘game plan’ for the coronavirus outbreak
“They claim pandemics only happen once every hundred years but what if that’s no longer true? We want to be early, ready for the next one, because clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration any kind of game plan for something like this.”
— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in an online discussion hosted by the Trump campaign, May 11, 2020
Washington PostMay 07 2019
News
New Jersey Politician Wants To Ban All Bags—Paper or Plastic
In August 2018, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would have imposed a five-cent fee on both paper and plastic carryout bags, arguing that the legislation did not do enough to protect the Garden State's famed natural beauty.
"Single-use carryout bags—particularly plastic bags—represent a significant source of the litter that clutters our communities and mars
ReasonMar 07 2022
Perspectives Blog
When CNN Goes Back to News
From the CenterThe war in Ukraine has resulted in untold amounts of suffering, misery and death. It has dramatically upended the post-Cold War geopolitical and security infrastructure of the European continent and has remade American domestic politics. It may also lead to CNN becoming a cable news network again. When media entrepreneur Ted Turner founded a cable television network
Dan SchnurMay 13 2020
Analysis
Will Breyer Side With Trump in Congressional Subpoena Fight?
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in Trump v. Mazars, a case which asks whether the House Committee on Oversight and Reform overstepped its legal authority in 2019 when it subpoenaed Mazars USA, Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm, demanding eight years of financial records pertaining to Trump and several of his business entities.
In Barenblatt v. United States (
ReasonMar 25 2020
Opinion
The Coming Age of Dispersion
As of this writing, the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic remain uncertain. But one possible consequence is an acceleration of the end of the megacity era. In its place, we may now be witnessing the outlines of a new, and necessary, dispersion of population, not only in the wide open spaces of North America and Australia, but even in the megacities of the developing world. Much of
QuilletteJan 09 2016
News
Hillary Clinton's autism plan shows just how far the autism rights movement has come
On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton's campaign revealed her plan for tackling autism. That in and of itself isn't huge news. Clinton has tons of plans: She's got a plan to cure Alzheimer's disease, a plan to crack down on campus sexual assault, a plan to reduce out-of-pocket health costs, and many, many more. But the nature of the plan is news. Some of the major elements of the plan include:
VoxMay 06 2020
Analysis
Just How Dangerous Is the ‘Murder Hornet’?
The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) has arrived in North America. In the past several days photographs and videos have surfaced showing how viciously this insect has attacked honeybees: it crawls into hives and rips off the heads of bees in large numbers—making its supervillain nickname, “murder hornet,” feel disturbingly apt. Government agencies and local beekeepers have sprung into
Scientific American