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Dec 07 2020
Opinion
Conspiracy Theorists Are Out to Get Each Other
If I’d told you two years ago that Donald Trump and Stacey Abrams would be soulmates, conjoined one day as victims of a dark political conspiracy by a Republican Party intent on denying them their rightful status as popular winners, you’d have asked me to take a sobriety test. But here we are.
Ms. Abrams still insists she’s the winner of the 2018 gubernatorial election in Georgia. She
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Dec 22 2020
News
Congress Passes Covid-19 Relief, Spending Package With Overwhelming Support
Congress overwhelmingly approved $900 billion of relief for households and businesses battered by the coronavirus pandemic, passing an emergency measure aimed at buoying the country through a difficult winter and into a new year.
The bill now heads to the White House, where President Trump is expected to sign it into law.
The Senate voted 92-6 late Monday to approve both the
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 07 2020
Opinion
Privacy Cannot Be a Casualty of the Coronavirus
Millions of Americans, sheltering in their homes from the coronavirus, have turned to communications platforms like Zoom, Google Hangouts and Facebook Messenger in order to work or stay connected to friends and family. Free and easy to use, the services are gobbling up record numbers of new users.
But there’s a saying in Silicon Valley: If the product is free, you are the product.
New York Times (Opinion)Jul 22 2020
News
China expands its amphibious forces in challenge to U.S. supremacy beyond Asia
China launched its military build-up in the mid-1990s with a top priority: keep the United States at bay in any conflict by making the waters off the Chinese coast a death trap. Now, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is preparing to challenge American power further afield.
China’s shipyards have launched the PLA Navy’s first two Type 075 amphibious assault ships, which will form
ReutersJul 13 2022
Headline Roundup
U.S. Lawmakers Cite Shortage in Monkeypox Vaccines
As the prevalence of monkeypox continues to rise across the country, a number of lawmakers have criticized the Biden administration for not meeting the demand for monkeypox vaccines.
Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) wrote on Wednesday that his community is "veering toward a public health mess" given the monkeypox vaccine shortage "caused" by the federal government. As of Wednesday,
SFGATE Newsmax (News) CNBCApr 07 2020
Opinion
How civic groups are using online tools to fight social isolation in pandemic
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to upend American life, social lives are vanishing. Coffee shop dates have been traded for quarantines, face-to-face meetings exchanged for physical distance. Real conversations and opportunities for social connection outside of the immediate family are scarce.
Connecting online seems like the logical solution, but has often been an ineffective
Henry A. BrechterMar 09 2021
Analysis
Biden poised for major Hill victory but faces some flashing red lights
By most conventional measures, President Biden should be riding pretty high.
He is about to score his first major legislative victory, pumping nearly $2 trillion—a staggering figure—into the economy to deal with the pandemic. A new ABC poll shows 68 percent of those surveyed approving of his approach to the crisis, a figure that includes 35 percent of Republicans. And he says every
Fox News DigitalDec 21 2020
Opinion
What All the Secession Talk Really Means
As MAGA World’s hopes for an election redo have slipped away, an equally improbable idea has begun to percolate among Donald Trump’s most bitterly disappointed followers: secession.
Texas GOP chair Allen West floated the idea of a new union of “law-abiding states,” and Texas state Rep. Kyle Biedermann—previously best known for dressing up as “gay Hitler”—pledged to file a bill in Austin
PoliticoApr 08 2020
News
How Safe Is It To Eat Takeout?
Don Schaffner had Thai takeout for dinner a few nights ago, just as he did occasionally in the weeks and months before the current COVID-19 pandemic.
That's worth knowing. Schaffner is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey whose expertise includes quantitative microbial risk assessment, predictive food microbiology, hand-washing and cross-contamination.
NPR (Online News)Apr 21 2021
News
What securing China’s cooperation on climate change may cost US
Can nations collide one day and work together the next? To do so is central to President Biden’s China policy. On the surface, climate change provides a chance to cooperate – though perhaps at a price.
President Joe Biden brought a China policy to the White House based on three C’s: compete, confront when necessary, and cooperate when it’s possible and even vital to both countries’
Christian Science Monitor