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Jan 28 2013
News
Gun Debate Puts Reid In a Delicate Position
While campaigning for re-election in 2010, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delighted gun enthusiasts by shooting clay pigeons at an event in his state that included Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the National Rifle Association.
Wall Street Journal (News)Jul 21 2020
News
Meadows, Mnuchin head to Capitol Hill to huddle with lawmakers on the next coronavirus bill
That means these negotiations will likely crescendo between now and the first week of August.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin travel to Capitol Hill Tuesday to meet with Senate Republicans over lunch and then huddle with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on the next coronavirus bill.
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Fox News (Online News)Apr 04 2013
Opinion
SHAPIRO: New York's defiance of the Second Amendment
Earlier this year in the wake of the tragic Sandy Hook Shootings the state of New York defied the U.S. Supreme Court by passing the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act a complete ban on magazines that hold more than seven rounds.
Washington TimesMar 21 2013
News
Blow To Tea Party Darling
Cindy Hill the demoted head of Wyomings public schools lost an attempt to reclaim her authority Wednesday.
HuffPostThink Tank / Policy Group
redefinED
The aim of redefinED is to recast the way we perceive public education. Far too often, the debate over any education program begins first with an assessment of whether it undermines traditional neighborhood public schooling. But today’s school systems and public policies have exploded the historical definition of a public education. It’s time our discourse did so as well. - See more at: http://www.redefinedonline.org/about/
Jun 12 2020
News
Risk of new lockdowns rises with fear of second COVID-19 wave
Fears of a second wave of COVID-19 infections shut six major food markets in Beijing on Friday, while India, which opened up this week, recorded a record daily increase and half a dozen U.S. states said their hospital beds were filling up fast.
Health officials worldwide have expressed concerns in recent days that some countries grappling with the devastating economic impact of
ReutersSep 23 2019
News
Trial Opens for Former Officer Who Killed Unarmed Black Man in His Apartment
DALLAS — Botham Shem Jean posed no threat to the off-duty police officer who shot and killed him as he was watching television in his Dallas apartment last year, and in the final startled moments of his life, he had no chance to tell the officer she had entered the wrong apartment, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday, the opening day of the officer’s murder trial.
The former officer,
New York Times (News)Oct 01 2019
News
Harvard Defeats Suit Seeking to Bar Race-Conscious Admission
Harvard University defeated an anti-affirmative action group’s lawsuit to stop the school from using race as a factor in admissions, in a ruling that’s likely to be challenged all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the nation’s oldest college doesn’t discriminate against Asian-Americans, as the suit claimed, and that its consideration of race as one
BloombergAug 25 2014
News
Obamacare: Reduced Hours, Cost Hikes, Cancelations, Enrollment Attrition
Obamacare mandates that substitute teachers cannot work more than 30 hours per week at the same district without being offered healthcare benefits. The Central Cambria School District is now faced with a serious dilemma- how they will deal with a teacher’s absence when a regular teacher cannot work and when a substitute teacher is close to exceeding their 30 hour threshold. Lisa Urbassik, a
TownhallApr 29 2020
News
'Tip Of The Iceberg': Economy Shrinks At 4.8% Pace, But Worst Is Yet To Come
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to trigger the sharpest recession in the United States since the Great Depression. An early signal of that came Wednesday, when the Commerce Department said the economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate in the first three months of the year — the first quarterly contraction since 2014 and the largest since the Great Recession.
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