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Dec 31 2019
News
Critics seize on Biden's Texas gun law comments following church shooting
Critics of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are slamming his comments about Texas's nonrestrictive firearms laws after an armed parishioner shot and killed a suspect who opened fire on a church congregation in the state over the weekend.
“It is irrational, with all due respect to the governor of Texas, it’s irrational what they’re doing,” Biden said in September following a
Washington Examiner
Nov 15 2021
News
US journalist jailed in Myanmar for nearly 6 months is freed
American journalist Danny Fenster, who was recently sentenced to 11 years of hard labor after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, was freed and on his way home Monday, a former U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the release said.
Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was convicted Friday of spreading false or inflammatory
Associated Press
Sep 11 2020
Opinion
Why Biden Will Withdraw From the Debates
William Shakespeare famously observed that “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
One of these players, Joe Biden, is currently trying out for the biggest role of his life. Unfortunately, he’s in danger of bombing the audition. He’s flubbing lines, breaking character, and occasionally forgetting the plot.
His rambling, often incoherent speech in
The American Spectator
Dec 15 2021
News
Where are noncitizens allowed to vote in the US?
New York City councilmembers voted this past Thursday to allow legal noncitizens to vote in local elections, but it is not the first municipality in the U.S. to enact similar measures.
While New York City is the largest city to do so — with nearly 800,000 additional city residents now eligible to vote — 14 smaller U.S. jurisdictions have similar laws allowing noncitizens to vote in
Fox News Digital
Jan 31 2022
News
Campaigning to Oversee Elections, While Denying the Last One
Nearly two dozen Republicans who have publicly questioned or disputed the results of the 2020 election are running for secretary of state across the country, in some cases after being directly encouraged by allies of former President Donald J. Trump.
Their candidacies are alarming watchdog groups, Democrats and some fellow Republicans, who worry that these Trump supporters, if elected
New York Times (News)
Jan 31 2022
News
Quiet part loud: Trump says Pence ‘could have overturned the election’
Donald Trump was accused of “saying the quiet part loud” on Sunday night, when he protested that Mike Pence, his former vice-president, could have overturned his election defeat by Joe Biden.
Though he has appeared to admit Biden won before, Trump usually insists he won and his opponent stole the election through voter fraud – the “big lie” which animates rallies like one in Conroe,
The Guardian
Nov 30 2021
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: The Waukesha Christmas Parade Attack
Some have accused the media of bias in their reporting of a recent attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin in which at least six people were killed and 62 were injured after a man drove an SUV through a Christmas parade.
Some commentators have accused CNN (Left) and The Washington Post (Lean Left) of committing bias by omission, as their reports did not assign a human agent to the incident and
Julie Mastrine
Dec 14 2021
News
DC attorney general sues far-right groups over Jan. 6 attack
Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine (D) on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over their role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The 84-page civil complaint, which also lists dozens of individuals, alleges violations of local D.C. and federal laws, including a statute stemming from the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which targets
The Hill
Sep 07 2015
News
Uneven Wages Cast Shadow Over Labor Day
Millions of American workers for more than a century have welcomed the beginning of September – and the three-day weekend accompanying it – with open arms, ironically enjoying a day off on a holiday known as Labor Day.
U.S. News & World Report
Oct 04 2021
News
Pandora papers reveal hidden riches of Putin’s inner circle
In September 2003, a secret transaction took place. The location was Monaco, a tax haven associated with the international rich. Specifically, an exclusive block just beneath its lavish casino. An apartment changed hands. A local notary signed the deal. Purchase price: €3.6m (£3.1m). For this, the buyer got a luxury fourth-floor flat, two parking spaces, a storeroom, and the use of a pool in
The Guardian