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Nov 21 2019
News
Democratic Debate
On Wednesday evening, the Democrats held their fifth presidential primary debate. (NBC News)
The left doesn’t see any clear winners, but applauds the substantive policy discussions that took place.
“During the debate, each of these candidates answered questions playing to their strengths; Warren landed a punch with an exchange on her wealth tax, Biden talked about foreign policy
The Flip SideApr 09 2020
News
Celebrities Organize Major Benefit For China-Complicit WHO
The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak is finally forcing a conversation about our vast economic entanglements with communist China. While we’re reevaluating those ties, celebrities are flocking to TikTok and raising money for the China-complicit World Health Organization.
Lady Gaga is helping organize a major star-studded special on April 18, set to air across CBS, ABC, and NBC. The list of
The FederalistApr 09 2020
News
Sanders's influence endures as campaign ends
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ended his second and likely final run for the presidency on Wednesday, acknowledging that a “feasible” path to the Democratic nomination was “just not there.”
But Sanders’s failure to claim the big prize shouldn’t blind anyone to his achievements.
It is almost exactly five years since Sanders announced his first presidential run.
In that time,
The HillApr 12 2019
News
James Comey Doesn’t Know ‘What The Heck’ Barr Meant About ‘Spying’ On Trump Camp
Has the attorney general come to the belief that “court-ordered electronic surveillance is spying?” the former FBI director said. “Wow.”
Former FBI Director James Comey said Thursday he doesn’t know “what the heck” Attorney General William Barr was “talking about” when Barr said he believed the Justice Department was “spying” on the Trump campaign in 2016.
“I really don’t know
HuffPostNov 12 2019
News
Democrats sharpen their message on impeachment
In a last-minute move, Democrats are shifting their impeachment rhetoric and talking points just days before the first public hearings into President Trump’s handling of foreign policy in Ukraine.
The televised hearings mark a crucial phase in an investigation conducted thus far behind closed doors, as Democrats seek to swing public opinion — and by extension, that of Republicans —
The HillNov 11 2019
Opinion
Republicans push diversions and distractions ahead of this week's televised impeachment hearings
Two days before televised impeachment hearings begin, Donald Trump's allies are peddling a smokescreen of conspiracy theories and distractions, hoping to sow confusion over the case against him.
Trump himself aggressively squelched the one defense that could ease the political pain of moderate Republican lawmakers. He warned that it would be unacceptable for any Republican to argue his
CNN (Opinion)Jul 01 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Major Rulings Issued as Supreme Court Session Ends
The Supreme Court issued the last decisions of its term Thursday morning, capping off a session that featured several key rulings. Among them: it voted 6-3 to uphold Arizona voting laws in a win for the GOP; it sided 8-1 with a high school student in a free speech case against her school; and it declined to hear a case regarding a school board's policy on transgender students and bathroom use
AllSides StaffSep 08 2014
News
The most revealing quote about Obama’s political instincts
President Obama said this weekend that fears of damaging his party’s chances of holding the Senate were not behind his decision to abandon plans to use executive action to grant temporary amnesty to large numbers of illegal immigrants. Instead, the president told NBC News’ re-launched Sunday chat show, that he waited for a different political reason. Obama said he pulled back because voters
Fox News DigitalSep 08 2014
News
Ebola is a 'national security priority,' Obama says
President Barack Obama on Sunday signaled for the first time that he is likely to dispatch U.S. military resources to help fight the serious outbreak of Ebola in several countries in West Africa. "We have to make this a national security priority. We have to mobilize the international community, get resources in there," the President said to Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We're going
CNN DigitalMay 31 2012
News
Romney ties Obama in three key states
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is neck-and-neck with President Obama among registered voters in three key swing states, a new NBC News/Marist poll finds. In Iowa, including leaners, Obama and Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, are tied at 44 percent. In Colorado, Obama takes 46 percent and Romney 45 percent. In Nevada, Obama is at 48 percent to Romneys 46 percent. Obama won
Washington Post