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Aug 14 2022
News
Russia admits it’s in talks for Brittney Griner-Viktor Bout prisoner exchange: diplomat
Russia has admitted that it is in talks with the US to exchange a notorious arms dealer for basketball player Brittney Griner, a Russian diplomat said.
The diplomat’s comments marked the first time Russia said it was in talks to exchange Griner for Viktor Bout, 55, who is in prison in the US, according to a report.
“The discussions on the very sensitive topic of an exchange are
New York Post (News)Oct 09 2020
Fact Check
The state of US contact tracing: Is it working?
The White House’s struggle to get ahead of the coronavirus outbreak within its walls reflects a problem public health officials have felt for months as they’ve tried to help their communities fight the pandemic: The U.S. is not contact tracing as well as it could be.
Contact tracing, the practice of informing people who have been exposed to an infected person, is a key component of the
PolitiFactJun 08 2022
Analysis
Has the gun become a sacred object in America?
For 10 years after 9/11, James Strickland fought for the United States Army, slogging, rifle on shoulder, from battlefield to battlefield.
He took and returned fire, he says, for not just a country, but an idea – that America had God’s special blessing. “I used a gun for a living to enforce that idea,” he says.
As the U.S. endures a wave of gun violence, it sometimes seems to him
Christian Science MonitorMay 08 2022
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'Let's Take Out Putin': Graham Doubles Down on Ukraine War 'Off-Ramp'
Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said Sunday that the goal in the ongoing Ukraine war should be to "take out" Vladimir Putin, contending that there is "no off-ramp" with the Russian president remaining in power.
On March 3, shorty after Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Graham first floated the idea of assassinating Putin during an
NewsweekFeb 13 2017
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ICE Arrests 600 in Nationwide Raids After Trump Order Expands Criminalization of Immigrants
Immigrant communities across the country are on edge after federal immigration agents arrested over 600 people in the past week in the largest raids since Donald Trump became president. Raids were reported in at 11 states, including California, New York, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin. On Sunday, Trump tweeted, "The
Democracy Now!Aug 05 2020
Headline Roundup
Trump Considering Giving Convention Speech From White House
President Trump said early Wednesday that he is considering delivering his GOP nomination acceptance speech from the White House later this month, saying it would be the least expensive for U.S. taxpayers.
Trump revealed last month that he was canceling GOP convention keynote events recently relocated to Jacksonville, Florida amid a surge of cases there. And last week, Trump said he
Newsmax (News) Reuters PoliticoOct 13 2020
Analysis
Why Democratic Senate Candidates Are Competitive In Red States Like Alaska, Kansas And Montana
Democrats have a relatively clear path to securing a majority in the U.S. Senate: Win seats in Arizona, Colorado, Maine and North Carolina — all states where the Democratic candidate is favored. Carrying these four states, and winning the presidency, would take Democrats from 47 seats currently1 to 50 seats — Democrat Doug Jones is likely to lose his reelection race in Alabama — with a Vice
538 (ABC News)Sep 22 2020
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Stoking his base, Trump warns of a Kamala Harris presidency
President Donald Trump has struggled to land an effective attack against his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, so instead he is increasingly trying to elevate Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, offering dire warnings about the potential of her becoming president.
In attacks that critics decry as sexist and racist, Trump has sought to convince voters that supporting him is needed to
NBC News (Online)May 09 2016
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Going Red: We’re Not A Center-Right Nation–We’re A Pragmatic One
Last month, Ed Morrissey of our sister site Hot Air, released Going Red, which serves as a blueprint for Republicans concerning winning future national elections if they get serious in seven key counties across the country: Brown County, Wisconsin, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Wake County, North Carolina, Hamilton County, Ohio, Jefferson County, Colorado, Prince William County, Virginia
TownhallJun 27 2022
Fact Check
Fact check: Democratic group makes multiple false claims in its dramatic allegations about Lauren Boebert's past
Washington (CNN)A Democratic super PAC has made multiple false claims about Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert while pushing unproven allegations that the right-wing Colorado congresswoman has had abortions and formerly worked as an escort, all of which Boebert vehemently denies.
American Muckrakers PAC co-founder David Wheeler acknowledged to CNN that the super PAC had been "sloppy" and
CNN Fact Check