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Jul 06 2021
News
4th Of July Shootings Across The Country Kill More Than 180 This Year
More than 180 people were killed in shootings across the country over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive and reviewed by NPR.
By 11:30 p.m. on Monday, the Gun Violence Archive reported 189 people killed and 516 injured in shootings over the course of a 72-hour period starting Friday. In total, there were more than 540 shootings
NPR (Online News)Dec 18 2020
Analysis
Here’s a look back at the best and worst of news media in 2020
Good morning and welcome to a special edition of the Poynter Report. Today, I look back at the year in media — from the best to the worst to the inspiring to the heartbreaking and everything in between. What a year it has been with a world turned upside down by a pandemic and our country turned upside down by a heated presidential election and a reckoning over race.
But we survived,
PoynterApr 25 2013
News
Biden Continues Gun Control Push
Despite a bill criminalizing the private transfer of firearms failing in the Senate last week and despite more Senators voting for national carry reciprocity than more gun control, Vice President Joe Biden is continuing to push President Obama's anti-gun agenda by meeting with "gun safety groups" at the White House today.
TownhallJan 08 2016
News
OPINION: Barack Obama: Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility
The epidemic of gun violence in our country is a crisis. Gun deaths and injuries constitute one of the greatest threats to public health and to the safety of the American people. Every year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns. Suicides. Domestic violence. Gang shootouts. Accidents. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost brothers and sisters, or buried their own
Barack ObamaNov 02 2020
News
Control of U.S. Senate Centers Around a Handful of GOP-Held Seats
Republicans and Democrats enter Election Day in a fight for control of the Senate, with key races tightening during a final push to turn out voters at the close of the chamber’s most expensive contests in history.
Republicans are fighting to hang on to their majority, which now is a narrow 53-47 advantage. Democrats need to gain four seats to take control if President Trump is re-
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 10 2021
News
Cuomo could face these charges if arrested on Brittany Commisso allegations
The New York attorney general’s report on alleged sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the result of a civil investigation, but it has since led to law enforcement officials opening criminal investigations with the possibility of Cuomo being arrested.
The big question is what – if anything – could the governor be charged with? On Sunday, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple hinted at
Fox News DigitalApr 17 2020
News
‘They’re Death Pits’: Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes
The first warning of the devastation that the coronavirus could wreak inside American nursing homes came in late February, when residents of a facility in suburban Seattle perished, one by one, as families waited helplessly outside.
In the ensuing six weeks, large and shockingly lethal outbreaks have continued to ravage nursing homes across the nation, undeterred by urgent new safety
New York Times (News)May 20 2021
Opinion
Liberal TV Touts GOP ‘Civil War’ Over Biden’s Policy Debacles
As President Biden and his profligate administration leave their fingerprints on more and more policy failures affecting millions of Americans, the liberal media’s tactic seems to be to barely cover or outright ignore these Democratic debacles. Instead, the broadcast evening newscasts are more excited by political dramas, such as the recent ouster of Representative Liz Cheney from her position
NewsBustersNov 17 2020
News
2 accused of voter registration fraud in Los Angeles County
A man seeking to run for mayor of a Southern California suburb and a co-defendant allegedly submitted 8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications on behalf of homeless people, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.
Overt acts listed in the criminal complaint did not indicate any fraudulent ballots were cast, and a press release did not specify how the
Associated PressJul 14 2020
Analysis
Record Numbers Have Lost Their Health Insurance the Moment They Need It Most
There are a number of concurrent crises playing out in the United States at the moment, as the country grapples with a runaway pandemic, a teetering economy, and absent national leadership, all of which are made worse by an American-made crisis that predates the current moment: the American health care crisis. In a country where health coverage has long been treated as a luxury, linked to
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