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Jun 29 2015
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When deciding whether to run for office, Vice President Joe Biden has made it a practice to seek his family’s counsel. That advice has included at least two members of his immediate family—his sons—urging him to run for president in 2016, Biden friends and advisers say.
Before his death last month, elder son Beau Biden encouraged his father to get into the race, people familiar with the
Wall Street Journal (News)May 29 2019
News
Abortion in US: What surprise Supreme Court ruling means
In a surprise move, the Supreme Court has issued a pair of decisions on an Indiana law restricting abortions, offering clues on how the nine-member court - with two new justices appointed by Donald Trump - could view the contentious issue in the days and years ahead.
The court's actions were a mixed bag for those on both sides of the abortion debate.
In an unsigned opinion, the
BBC NewsMay 28 2019
News
Supreme Court Won’t Reinstate Indiana Ban on Abortion for Sex Selection
The Supreme Court sidestepped major abortion cases Tuesday, letting stand a lower-court ruling that Indiana cannot ban abortions for the purpose of sex, race or disability selection but allowing the state to regulate the disposal of fetal remains.
The court’s unsigned opinion appeared the product of a delicate compromise, and it stressed the justices weren’t ready—for now—to consider
Wall Street Journal (News)May 28 2019
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Supreme Court upholds Indiana's fetal tissue burial law
The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld an Indiana law that governs how hospitals and abortion clinics can dispose of fetal remains, ruling the state does have a valid interest in that matter.
But the justices declined to hear a challenge involving the state’s law banning abortions when the decision is based on race, gender or diagnosed disability such as Down syndrome.
A lower appeals
Washington TimesJun 16 2020
Opinion
Trump vs. Biden on criminal justice
The long, hot summer of discontent we can expect as the numerous protests of police violence are accompanied by sackings, and lootings are bound to have an impact on the upcoming presidential race. Whether it will benefit President Donald J. Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden is, at this point, anybody’s guess.
Most prognosticators seem to think it’s all working to Mr. Biden’s
Washington TimesNov 13 2019
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Coverage of Don Cherry's Firing Differs on Left and Right
Longtime TV personality Don Cherry, considered by many to be a legendary personality due to his 38-year career, was fired by Sportsnet Monday after he said not enough people (or immigrants, depending on whom you ask) in Toronto wear poppies to honor veterans on Remembrance Day. The subsequent coverage revealed significant media bias on the left and the right.
View Cherry’s comments in
Julie MastrineOct 29 2022
Headline Roundup
Obama Campaigns for Democrats Abrams, Warnock in Georgia
Former President Barack Obama began a cross-country tour on Friday to campaign for Democratic candidates in tight midterm races. His first stop was Georgia, where he stood alongside Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, addressing a crowd of 7,000 at the Gateway Center Arena.
Key Quotes: Obama stressed the importance of electoral
USA TODAY Fox News Digital NewsweekDec 28 2014
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Civil rights leaders at odds as Ferguson protests grow
Protests against police treatment of black people have laid bare growing tensions between long-standing civil rights groups that have battled discrimination for decades and new groups of leaders who want an edgier approach.
Activists who spurred demonstrations across the country after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man in Ferguson, Mo
USA TODAYOct 31 2015
News
Academia’s Rejection of Diversity
ONE of the great intellectual and moral epiphanies of our time is the realization that human diversity is a blessing. It has become conventional wisdom that being around those unlike ourselves makes us better people — and more productive to boot. Scholarly studies have piled up showing that race and gender diversity in the workplace can increase creative thinking and improve performance.
New York Times (News)Jun 03 2015
Opinion
Kerry Adviser Marie Harf in Twitter Fight Over Iran Nukes
With Western and Iranian negotiators racing toward a June 30 deadline to hammer out the final details of a nuclear deal, the mood is tense. Just take a look at Twitter TWTR +1.59%, where Secretary of State John Kerry’s senior communications adviser Marie Harf is feuding with a reporter.
David Sanger, a national security reporter at the New York Times NYT +1.06%, wrote a story earlier
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)