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Sep 27 2023
Headline Roundup
Will the FTC’s Amazon Lawsuit Protect or Harm Consumers?
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sued Amazon for allegedly “illegally maintaining monopoly power.”
The Details: An FTC statement says the regulator targeted Amazon “not because it is big, but because it engages in a course of exclusionary conduct that prevents current competitors from growing and new competitors from emerging.” Amazon’s anticompetitive tactics allegedly
Ars Technica
New York Post (Opinion) 
Bloomberg 
Apr 07 2021
News
Tax avoidance gets the world’s attention
Afavorite research topic among economists is whether countries are able to improve their tax collection, especially in curbing legal tax avoidance (“loopholes”) by citizens and corporations. The former Soviet state of Georgia, for example, was recently commended by the International Monetary Fund for a rapid rise in tax revenue. Its reform, said the IMF, required “first and foremost a broad
Christian Science Monitor
Dec 31 2020
Fact Check
Did Congress Give Itself a $40,000 Raise?
A viral Facebook post claims that members of Congress gave themselves a $40,000 raise this year.
Similar claims went viral earlier in 2020, suggesting that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi requested a $38,000 raise in the first coronavirus relief package. As noted in a fact check of these claims, Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution establishes that Congress can set its own salary
The Dispatch
Oct 15 2019
News
Teacher 'habitually' takes a knee during Pledge of Allegiance. It doesn't go unnoticed: Teachers aren't 'paid to indoctrinate our students'
A New Jersey middle school reassigned a teacher after the unidentified educator "habitually" kneeled during the morning recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, which took place during homeroom.
The Blaze
Apr 22 2020
News
Republican Group Endorses Biden With Anti-Trump Ad In Battleground States
George Conway’s Lincoln Project hits Trump and praises Biden in a blistering new video.
A conservative group critical of President Donald Trump is going on the attack with a new ad endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden for November’s election.
The spot from The Lincoln Project, titled “Ready,” lauds Biden as “a bipartisan leader who puts good ideas ahead of party politics”
HuffPost
Jul 28 2020
News
Fox's Chris Wallace says Biden campaign turned down interview request: 'We'll keep asking'
Fox News's Chris Wallace informed viewers on Sunday that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign said the former vice president was "not available" for an interview after President Trump said Biden couldn't handle tough questioning from the "Fox News Sunday" host.
"In our interview last week with President Trump, he questioned whether his Democratic opponent,
The Hill
Aug 10 2020
News
Lebanon's president accepts gov't resignation after Beirut blast
Lebanese President Michel Aoun has accepted the resignation of the country's government and asked it to stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet is formed.
The announcement on Monday came amid boiling tensions in the country following a devastating explosion last week that tore through the capital, Beirut, killing some 200 people and wounding 6,000 others.
"This crime
Al Jazeera
Feb 27 2022
Headline Roundup
Photos and Videos Highlight Ukraine Defending Against Russian Invasion
As Russia carries on its invasion of Ukraine, news outlets across the spectrum have highlighted a number of pictures and videos that help illustrate what the conflict currently looks like.
Photographers from The New York Times (Lean Left bias) and Reuters (Center bias) are on the ground in Ukraine providing Americans a closer look at the ongoing military invasion. Many photos feature
New York Times (News)
Breitbart News
BBC News
Aug 22 2020
Fact Check
What the Dems didn’t say, and what Trump did
Joe Biden and fellow Democrats spun an assortment of facts to their benefit in their national convention, omitting inconvenient truths such as Barack Obama’s record of aggressive deportations and swift action by a Republican president to save the auto industry more than a decade ago.
Meantime President Donald Trump flooded the zone with falsehoods, some so apparent that anyone with
Associated Press Fact Check
Nov 18 2020
News
Millions Will Lose Unemployment Aid This December Unless Congress Acts Fast
Nearly 12 million workers will lose federal unemployment benefits on Dec. 26 if lawmakers fail to reach a reauthorization deal.
At the outset of the coronavirus pandemic in March, Congress sprang into action with new unemployment programs and boosted benefits an unprecedented $600 per week. But lawmakers thought the pandemic would be under control in a matter of months, and the extra
HuffPost