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Apr 30 2015
News
John Boehner: Obama 'Needs To Step Up His Game' On Garnering Support For Trade Bill
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday that President Barack Obama “needs to step up his game” to rally more Democrats behind legislation that would give him fast-track authority on trade deals.
Boehner told reporters that “there will be strong Republican support for trade promotion authority.”
The bill, which would allow Obama to use expedited procedures to push the
HuffPost
Oct 07 2019
News
With love, Cory Booker. Inside one long-shot bid for the White House.
Senator Booker’s message of love and unity has been dismissed by some as too soft. But it’s an approach he honed over nearly two decades of living and working in Newark’s toughest neighborhoods.
The first time New Hampshire state Sen. Martha Hennessey heard Sen. Cory Booker speak, he reminded her of a Baptist preacher. “He was so ‘love and hope,’” she says. “Frankly, I was almost in
Christian Science Monitor
Nov 23 2020
Perspectives Blog
How Readers Rated the Media Bias of AP, BBC and The Epoch Times, and More
In September, we released the findings of our August 2020 Blind Bias Survey, in which over 2,000 people across the political spectrum rated the media bias of five different news outlets blindly, seeing only their content and story choice but not the name of the news publication. Below are visualizations of the data we collected.
In a Blind Bias Survey, we ask people to self-report their
Rick Wytmar
Jun 25 2019
News
Emergency Aid for Migrants Badly Divides Democrats
WASHINGTON — Congress is trying to rush $4.5 billion in emergency humanitarian aid to the southwestern border while placing new restrictions on President Trump’s immigration crackdown, spurred on by disturbing images of suffering migrant families and of children living in squalor in overcrowded detention facilities.
But with a House vote on the package planned for Tuesday, some
New York Times (News)
Apr 02 2016
News
The GOP’s Nuclear Option to Stop Donald Trump: A Third-Party Candidate
The first line of defense for establishment Republicans hoping to keep Donald Trump from carrying their party’s banner this fall is to prevent him from winning the delegates in the remaining primaries this spring. If that fails, the next plan is to deny him a win at the GOP convention in Cleveland by peeling away pledged delegates on the second or third round of balloting. And if that fails, a
Daily Beast
Dec 05 2014
News
On War and Immigration, Obama Faces Tests of Authority From Congress
Congress moved on two fronts Thursday to test the limits of presidential authority, with a surprising maneuver in the Senate to begin debating President Obama’s war powers against the Islamic State and a vote in the House to prohibit him from enforcing his executive action on immigration.
With the two parties in a perpetual state of dispute, the actions represented a rare, if unplanned
New York Times (News)
Aug 29 2015
News
Obama Tries to Soothe Divided Jewish Community on Iran Deal
President Obama appealed to a divided and troubled Jewish community on Friday, defending his nuclear accord with Iran as in the security interest of both the United States and Israel, and calling for a more civil debate with a congressional vote just weeks away.
In an Internet broadcast from the White House, Mr. Obama took questions from the largest Jewish umbrella organizations. He
New York Times (News)
Jan 23 2013
News
House Passes GOP's Debt-Ceiling Plan; Senate Democrats Offer Their Support
By a vote of 285-144, the House just passed a Republican plan that postpones for three months the federal government's next bump up against the so-called debt ceiling.
As we said earlier, the measure would head off another big battle over raising the government's borrowing authority — such as the one in 2011 that almost led to a government shutdown.
NPR (Online News)
Apr 23 2015
News
Senate Makes History By Confirming Loretta Lynch As U.S. Attorney General
Loretta Lynch was confirmed as U.S. attorney general on Thursday after months of GOP delays, making history by becoming the first African-American woman to hold the post.
Lynch was confirmed in the Senate 56 to 43. All Democrats voted for her, along with 10 Republicans: Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Orrin
HuffPost
Aug 31 2023
Headline Roundup
What Does the Gadsden Flag Symbolize in Modern America?
The meaning behind the Gadsden flag, first conceived to symbolize resistance to tyranny during America’s war for independence, is being debated after a seventh-grader in Colorado was reprimanded by school officials for displaying a patch of the flag on his backpack.
For Context: Jaiden Rodriguez, 12, was suspended after school officials determined the flag originated in “slavery and
New York Post (Opinion)
Newsweek
Washington Post