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Apr 03 2024
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Former Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan on polarization, Vos, partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin
Mike Sheridan, the last Democrat to serve as the Wisconsin state Assembly speaker, predicts a decline in Republican influence following the introduction of new electoral maps and said he won’t be ruling out another future run for office. Sheridan spoke with The Daily Cardinal to discuss a surge in political polarization, new legislative maps and voter turnout ahead of the 2024 election.
Daily CardinalMar 01 2023
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China Select Committee hearing highlights partisan divide on Beijing-countering strategy
The new House China Select Committee previewed its agenda for this Congress in a prime-time evening hearing on Tuesday that revealed early partisan fault lines in the body’s legislative agenda.
The hearing — whose witnesses included former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster — marked the climax of a full day of intensive
PoliticoApr 03 2024
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Biden administration bars drilling in Colorado’s Thompson Divide landscape
The Biden administration on Wednesday barred drilling and mining in a Colorado landscape known as the Thompson Divide, an area of mountaintops, foothills and valleys in the center of the state. The administration said that it would bar drilling and mining in 221,898 acres of the divide’s lands for 20 years, as part of an effort to preserve it for the future. “The Thompson Divide area is a
The HillApr 10 2024
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The urban-rural death divide is getting alarmingly wider for working-age Americans
In the 1960s and 1970s, people who lived in rural America fared a little better than their urban counterparts. The rate of deaths from all causes was a tad lower outside of metropolitan areas. In the 1980s, though, things evened out, and in the early 1990s, a gap emerged, with rural areas seeing higher death rates—and the gap has been growing ever since. By 1999, the gap was 6 percent. In 2019
Ars TechnicaMar 21 2024
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Partisans are equally likely to say the other candidate is ‘too corrupt’
One of the most remarkable findings from Yahoo News’s new poll is not exactly a new one.
Respondents to the poll, conducted by YouGov, were asked whether they thought a set of concerns applied to President Biden or Donald Trump. Was either of the two general-election candidates too extreme on the issues to be president? Too corrupt? Too incompetent? Too dangerous?
These are broad
Washington PostApr 11 2024
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JESSE WATTERS: The OJ Simpson verdict divided us, but the trial brought us together
Fox News host Jesse Watters reflects on how the O.J. Simpson trial united America in conversation following the athlete’s death on " ." JESSE WATTERS: Justice wasn't about guilt or innocence — it was about being able to afford lawyers like the "Dream Team." You'd ask people, " ?" America's judicial system worked or it didn't work, depending on who you talked to. Juries are filled with people,
Fox News (Online News)Apr 11 2024
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O.J. Simpson's double-murder trial wreaked havoc on the Kardashians, temporarily dividing the family
Robert Kardashian, second from left, looks up at O.J. Simpson, second from right, as not-guilty verdicts are read in the former football star’s double-murder trial. (Also shown are F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie Cochran, right.) Kris Jenner and Robert Kardashian divorced five years before O.J. Simpson went on trial for the 1994 murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald
Los Angeles TimesApr 03 2024
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Community members divided over book appeals for Newport Beach libraries
The Newport Beach Central Library on Avocado Avenue. The city’s board of library trustees will hear public appeals of two children’s book titles this month. Under a recently instituted practice, the Newport Beach Board of Library trustees is poised to hear public appeals this month on two children’s books — “Melissa,” by Alex Gino, and “Prince & Knight,” by Daniel Haack. Board members will
Los Angeles TimesApr 03 2024
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Poll: Americans overwhelmingly reject criminalizing abortion, divided on other issues
NPR Fact CheckApr 03 2024
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Americans are divided on politics. These lawmakers want to do something about it.
WASHINGTON – In Tacoma, Washington, residents came together for an interfaith solidarity event after a series of attacks rocked faith institutions, including an Islamic center targeted by an arson attack and a Buddhist nun being assaulted. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., whose district encompasses most of Tacoma, was in attendance at the 2021 event. After the gathering, which he called “powerful
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