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Aug 27 2021
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: Schools, Families Face Challenging Return to the Classroom
As students and faculty return to schools, concerns about COVID-19, mask mandates and the pandemic's psychological impact on children are major points of discussion. Fifteen states and Puerto Rico have enacted mask mandates for schools; eight states have outlawed school mask mandates, though some school districts in those states have mandated masks anyway. According to the American Academy of
USA TODAY Newsweek Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Apr 07 2020
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Voting in the Age of Coronavirus
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
As the U.S. deals with the coronavirus pandemic, state, local, and federal officials are beginning to grapple with the realities of holding elections in a time of social distancing.Wisconsin's April 7th primary Abridge NewsNov 05 2020
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Trump Gains Ground Among Minority Voters, but Loses Some With Whites
President Donald Trump expanded his share of both the black and Hispanic vote from four years ago, based on exit polling, even as the presidential race remains undecided.
Trump’s share of votes fell by nearly the same proportion among white and male voters, according to exit polling by The New York Times compared to its 2016 exit polling.
The president held on to the same slice
The Daily SignalOct 20 2020
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A Secret U.S. Rescue in Yemen Played a Role in Mideast Peace Deal
On Aug. 11, 2017, a United Arab Emirates helicopter filled with soldiers taking part in an offensive against al Qaeda militants crashed in Yemen, leaving three soldiers dead and seven seriously wounded, including a young member of the royal family.
As Emirati leaders scrambled to rescue their soldiers, they turned to the U.S. and asked America to organize an urgent rescue mission.
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 17 2020
Fact Check
Trump fuels spread of altered Biden video, tweeting it twice
A video altered to make it appear as though Democratic president candidate Joe Biden played a song disparaging the police was viewed more than 4.5 million times on Twitter by Wednesday afternoon, its spread fueled by President Donald Trump, who tweeted it — twice.
The video, which appears to show Biden playing a controversial song by the rap group N.W.A. during a campaign trip to
Associated Press Fact CheckApr 01 2019
Opinion
OPINION: The Conservative Case For Conservatism
For us actual conservatives, one of the most tiresome aspects of our struggle to retake our country is our never-ending struggle to get the Fredocons who still populate our movement to take our own side in this fight. Exhibit A is the “Conservative Case For XXXX” phenomenon, in which XXXX inevitably equals some liberal goal, objective or obsession. We’re supposed to nod our heads and give in
Guest Writer - RightFeb 05 2013
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GOP’s Raul Labrador quietly emerging as middleman for immigration reform
Raul R. Labrador is the only Puerto Rican, Mormon, tea-party immigration lawyer in Congress, which the Idaho Republican figures makes him the perfect bridge between the GOPs hard-line resistance to an immigration overhaul and the urgent sense among Democrats that the November election won them a free hand on the issue.
Labrador spent his first two years in Congress earning and
Washington PostNov 25 2019
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Activists Disrupt Harvard-Yale Rivalry Game To Protest Climate Change
The annual Harvard-Yale football game was delayed for almost an hour on Saturday as climate change activists rushed the field at the end of halftime.
Unfurling banners with slogans like "Nobody wins. Yale and Harvard are complicit in climate injustice," protesters from both schools called on the universities to divest their multi-million dollar endowments from fossil fuels companies, as
NPR (Online News)Nov 25 2019
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Students swarm field at Harvard-Yale football game, chant ‘OK boomer’ in climate change protest
Hundreds of climate change protesters swarmed the field during halftime of the annual Harvard-Yale football game Saturday, delaying the action for nearly an hour as students chanted “OK boomer” and as police made arrests and issued summonses for disorderly conduct.
Players from both teams joined demonstrators on the field in a showstopping escalation of long-running campaigns for the
Washington PostNov 18 2019
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How the path to the Democratic presidential nomination is different in 2020
The Democratic Party will officially nominate a 2020 presidential candidate at its convention next July, but not before a long primary season that kicks off with the Iowa caucuses in February and ends with the Puerto Rican primary in June.
The goal for candidates: Amass on a state-by-state basis the 1,885 delegates needed to be nominated on the first ballot at the convention in
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