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Dec 10 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: US Nears Vaccine Approval as UK Gives First Doses
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Updated 12/13/20 at 4:21 p.m. PT: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it approved Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine on Friday evening, with inoculations expected to begin Monday.
Updated 12/11/20 at 11:53 a.m. ET A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee voted Thursday to recommend
AllSides Staff
Feb 26 2020
News
America has a 'gruesome' history of lynching, but it's not a federal crime. A House vote could change that
The House is expected to vote Wednesday on legislation that would make lynching a federal crime, a move supporters say is long overdue in a country whose history is stained with the atrocities.
“I cannot imagine our nation did not have any federal law against lynching when so many African Americans have been lynched,’’ said Rep. Bobby Rush, a Democrat from Illinois and a lead sponsor of
USA TODAY
Aug 05 2020
News
TikTok
“Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok [from ByteDance], a forced sale after [President Donald] Trump threatened to ban the Chinese-owned video app… Trump said Monday to reporters that the U.S. ‘should get a very large percentage of that price because we’re making it possible… we want and we think we deserve to have a big percentage of that price coming to America, coming to the
The Flip Side
Dec 26 2012
News
Republican leaders huddle over fiscal cliff
House Republican leaders Wednesday said the Senate needs to act first on legislation to avert the fiscal cliff, hinting they would not bring the House back into session until Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moves something through his chamber.
Politico
Sep 02 2019
News
2020 Democrats enter crucial stretch
Tuesday will mark exactly five months until the Iowa caucuses, the first contest in the Democratic nominating process for president.
It’s a milestone that also signals the campaign becoming more competitive.
Ten candidates are slated to debate in Houston on Sept. 12, the first time all the leading contenders will be on the same stage together.
That means the “air war” will
The Hill
Dec 03 2021
Headline Roundup
Jeffrey Epstein Accusers, Ex-Employees Testify in Ghislaine Maxwell Trial
The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, alleged accomplice of infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, continued this week with testimonies from Epstein's accusers and former employees.
On Tuesday, Epstein's former pilot testified that high-profile people such as former Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, actor Kevin Spacey, and the Royal Family's Prince Andrew were on Epstein's private
Reuters
NBC News (Online)
Washington Examiner 
Jun 09 2020
Analysis
Democrats’ sweeping new police reform bill, explained
House and Senate Democrats unveiled a new policing reform bill on Monday in the wake of George Floyd’s killing at the hands of a now-former Minneapolis police officer and the weeks of protests against police brutality that followed.
The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 contains a number of measures that make it easier to prosecute police misconduct and demilitarize police departments
Vox
Jul 03 2012
News
Mormon influence in Nevada fading, but still a factor
Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- In 1986, with control of the United States Senate up for grabs, The Economist dispatched a reporter to Nevada, an important battleground that year, to survey the race between then-Rep. Harry Reid and his Republican opponent, James Santini.
CNN (Online News)
Apr 17 2019
News
Trump vetoes Congress’s directive to end US involvement in bloody Saudi-led war in Yemen
Congress reasserted its constitutional power over declaring wars. Trump called it an attempt to “weaken my constitutional authorities.”
President Donald Trump vetoed Congress’s bipartisan resolution to withdraw US support from the Saudi-led war in Yemen, cementing American involvement in a deadly humanitarian crisis abroad.
In a historic move, Congress passed a War Powers
Vox
Jan 14 2014
News
Reid Overstates Reduction in Uninsured
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid incorrectly claimed that 9 million Americans “have health care that didn’t have it before” because of the Affordable Care Act. That figure includes an unknown number who previously had insurance but switched to a policy sold through the exchanges, plus an unknown number of Medicaid recipients who renewed their coverage.
FactCheck.org