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Mar 16 2020
News
Kentucky becomes latest state to delay primary due to coronavirus
Kentucky is the third state to postpone scheduled primaries due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"Kentucky law allows the secretary of state and the governor to jointly act to change the time of an election due to a state of emergency," Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams said in a video posted to Twitter on Monday. "Today, Gov. [Andy] Beshear and I agreed to delay the primary
Washington Examiner
Jun 23 2021
News
A new political tone over gun violence?
As shootings rise, a primary race in New York and President Biden’s anti-crime package reflect a more nuanced approach to crime.
In more than 100 countries, the homicide rate has been falling over the past 13 years. Not so in the United States. In the past 18 months, starting before the pandemic, the murder rate has risen 25% to 30%, mainly in big cities, with warnings of a violent
Christian Science Monitor
Dec 22 2020
News
Drugmakers rush to test whether vaccines stop coronavirus variant
Drug makers including BioNTech and Moderna are scrambling to test their COVID-19 vaccines against the new fast-spreading variant of the virus that is raging in Britain, the latest challenge in the breakneck race to curb the pandemic.
Ugur Sahin, chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech, which with partner Pfizer took less than a year to get a vaccine approved, said on Tuesday he needs
Reuters
Aug 24 2021
Analysis
The FDA Really Did Have to Take This Long
If vaccine approval feels maddeningly scrupulous, that’s because the alternative is worse.
After months of anticipation, Americans have a fully licensed COVID-19 vaccine. Today, the FDA announced the approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s shot for people 16 and older—the first complete thumbs-up among the three vaccines available in the U.S.
The pervasive mood has been: Finally. Pfizer’s
The Atlantic
Apr 09 2020
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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 Federalist
May 09 2020
News
House Intelligence Committee transcripts provide new insight, fuel old divisions
Thousands of pages of witness transcripts released Thursday by the House Intelligence Committee provided immediate, if timeworn, fodder for unhealed partisan divisions stemming from the panel's investigation into Russia's 2016 election interference.
They did little to dislodge headlines related to the rising health and economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic, though President Trump
CBS News (Online)
Jun 22 2021
News
Activists fear Biden’s climate pledges are falling apart: ‘We aren’t seeing grit’
On his first day at the White House, Joe Biden earned praise for following through on several campaign promises, committing the US to strict climate goals and a greener future. Now, nearly six months into his presidency, several of those commitments are being put to the test, and already, many are falling apart.
A court last week ruled that the Biden administration did not have the
The Guardian
Oct 22 2020
News
What U.S. foreign policy would look like under Trump, Biden
With the United States engulfed in multiple major domestic crises, it’s no surprise that foreign policy has been something of an afterthought during the presidential campaign. The combined weight of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic collapse and the racial justice movement have pushed international issues off the front page — and to the back of voters’ minds. Just 57 percent of
Yahoo! The 360
Aug 27 2020
Analysis
How Trump Mastered the Art of Telling History His Way
The Republican convention has glossed over the most painful facts about the pandemic and the cratered economy. It’s not the first time the president has altered reality.
Donald Trump, according to the first three nights of the Republican National Convention, is a tireless worker, a peerless truth-teller, a champion of women, an open-arms anti-racist and a decisive leader who created the
Politico
Feb 08 2021
News
Biden’s Covid-19 Vaccination Aims: Speeding the Rollout and Addressing Racial Disparities
President Biden took office promising to address the coronavirus pandemic with plans that included a swifter nationwide rollout of vaccines and a focus on getting them to minority and lower-income people who have been hit hard by Covid-19.
As new variants increase the urgency for vaccinations, competing pressures are testing his administration’s capacity to accomplish both goals at once
Wall Street Journal (News)