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Aug 14 2020
News
Postal workers' union endorses Biden; Obama criticizes Trump's USPS comments
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Postal Service workers' union endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden Friday after President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged that he's starving the USPS of money to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots.
"Biden and Harris fully exhibit the experience, dedication, thoughtfulness and steady hands that will work to ensure that
ABC News (Online)Oct 23 2017
News
Trump dismisses 401(k) changes, additional bracket for tax plan
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed the possibility of limiting popular 401(k) retirement savings plans to help pay for Republicans’ sweeping tax plan and expressed doubts about adding another top bracket targeting high earners.
ReutersDec 06 2016
News
Michael Flynn’s son spars with Jake Tapper over fake 'pizzagate' story that led armed man to go to restaurant
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's son sparred with CNN's Jake Tapper on Twitter over the "pizzagate" conspiracy that led an armed man into a Washington, DC, pizza shop Sunday.
Business InsiderNov 02 2021
Analysis
One Small Town’s Big Battle Over Critical Race Theory
Last year, after George Floyd’s murder by police, Kara Fikrig, a white 28-year-old working on her doctorate in entomology at Cornell University (“mosquitoes,” she explained), began to reflect on the ways her small hometown of Guilford, Connecticut, hadn’t adequately prepared her for difficult conversations about race and racism.
As an undergraduate at Yale, Fikrig said, she “wasn’t
BuzzFeed NewsDec 07 2020
Analysis
US millennials were grappling with the inequality of a K-shaped economy long before Covid-19
In a speech on Dec. 1, president-elect Biden spoke about the need to “address the structural inequities in our economy that this pandemic has laid bare” and referred to the “K-shaped” economic recovery, where the letter’s two diverging strokes depict two different economic outcomes facing Americans. The haves and the have-nots.
While the recovery from the pandemic may be the first time
QuartzAug 09 2021
News
The social network for doctors is full of vaccine disinformation
Dr. Paul Malarik, a retired psychiatrist, now spends about 50 hours a month helping to administer Covid-19 vaccines at pop-up clinics near his home in San Luis Obispo, California. So he’s particularly troubled when he logs onto Doximity, a site used by doctors, and reads anti-vaccine comments.
“You rarely get to the level of microchips in vaccines, but a lot of this stuff is pretty
CNBCNov 20 2018
News
Trump’s Criticism of Architect of Bin Laden Raid Draws Fire
He was the man who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. As a member of the Navy SEALs, he became renowned as one of the iconic military officers of the post-9/11 era. And after retiring four years ago, Adm. William H. McRaven took on a huge challenge as chancellor of the sprawling University of Texas System.
New York Times (News)Nov 23 2020
News
As Georgia GOP feuds over Trump loss, might it hurt party turnout for Senate runoffs?
Linda Satterfield, a 72-year-old retired trucking company owner, cast her ballot this year for President Trump. As Georgia now faces twin runoff races that will determine whether Republicans retain control of the U.S. Senate, she is so angry about his defeat in her home state that she is questioning the point of voting. “Trump won Georgia,” she insisted Friday after hearing Vice President Mike
Los Angeles TimesSep 22 2020
Opinion
Mitch McConnell is going to turn me into a socialist
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is about to turn me into a socialist or whatever is necessary to save this nation's fast-fading democracy. If he and Senate Republicans move forward with quickly replacing the recently-deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I would have lost all faith in what I believed this democratic experiment to be. In a healthy democracy, Republican senators would vow
CNN (Opinion)