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Oct 15 2020
News
Why legal battles over the US election have already begun
One party wants expansion of the electorate, the other wants to contract it. How that plays out on and around Election Day will be battled by legal teams both presidential campaigns have assembled to challenge how voters’ ballots are cast and counted.
Two decades ago, a presidential election was decided by Bush v. Gore, a Supreme Court ruling that put a stop to ballot recounts in
Christian Science MonitorOct 15 2020
Analysis
Trump team makes a suspicious effort to swing the election with purported Hunter Biden emails
Rudy Giuliani is again trying to drum up a scandal about the Bidens and Ukraine.
It’s October in a year when President Donald Trump is running for reelection — and, as if on cue, the mysteriously obtained private emails of someone close to his opponent have been leaked.
The leaker in this case is President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who provided a copy of a hard drive that
VoxMay 05 2020
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Trump runs into trouble with expectations game
President Trump is mired in controversy over projections about the total number of deaths from COVID-19.
His detractors accuse him of pulling figures out of thin air, giving the nation false hope and seeking to boost his reelection odds.
Trump’s defenders, however, assert he is simply fulfilling the traditional role of a president in trying to bolster morale during a crisis.
The HillDec 18 2012
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Gun sales surge after Connecticut massacre
The prospect of a renewed assault weapons ban in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre has set of a round of buying, as thousands of Americans head to their local gun store to secure the popular AR-15 -- the model used by the school gunman -- before potential government prohibitions on their purchase.
Fox News (Online News)Mar 05 2020
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Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Will Drop Out of Presidential Race
BOSTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts plans to drop out of the presidential race on Thursday and will inform her staff of her plans later this morning, according to a person close to her, ending a run defined by an avalanche of policy plans that aimed to pull the Democratic Party to the left and appealed to enough voters to make her briefly a front-runner last fall, but that
New York Times (News)Feb 21 2015
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AP U.S. History controversy becomes a debate on America
An advanced high school U.S. history course has become the subject of an academic proxy war over what some consider a quasi-sacred national principle: American exceptionalism. The simmering national debate over Advanced Placement U.S. History, an optional high-school course whose final exam can earn students college credit, boiled over this week when an Oklahoma lawmaker sought to replace
PoliticoJul 05 2015
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How did Greece get to this point?
Polls show a contest too close to call. But this much is known: The result could cost Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras his job and force an abrupt change in government. And no matter how it goes down, it won't solve the urgent crisis facing Greece.
CNN (Online News)Dec 29 2020
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The political winners of 2020
Marred by a global pandemic and its devastating economic consequences, 2020 is a year we all want to forget. But the consequences of the 58th presidential election in American history will not soon slip into the forgotten pages of a dusty library; for once, that tired cliché of the most important election in our lifetimes felt apt.
It is fitting, poetic even, that the seemingly endless
The HillSep 11 2020
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Republican worries rise as Trump campaign pulls back from television advertising
Fearing a coming cash crunch, President Trump’s campaign has pulled back from television advertising over the last month, ceding to Democratic nominee Joe Biden a huge advantage in key states and sparking disagreements over strategy within the president’s senior team.
Republican officials have been inundated with calls from worried activists and donors who complain about constant Biden
Washington PostMar 04 2020
Analysis
What Went Down On Super Tuesday
Well, it’ll still be days or weeks before we have the full vote total in California, and it’s still too close to call in Maine, but with Texas now in the win column for Biden, this evening’s top-line takeaway is even clearer: Biden mounted a comeback and won Super Tuesday.
In total, Biden won nine of the 15 primary contests at stake tonight, pulling off a number of upset victories,
538 (ABC News)