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Oct 15 2020
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Facebook and Twitter Take Steps to Limit Spread of Controversial New York Post Article
On Wednesday, Facebook and Twitter took steps to limit the spread of a controversial New York Post story about Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s son’s work in Ukraine—and in response, conservative figures are decrying the platforms for improperly censoring speech.
The unverified article claims that a “smoking gun” email shows Hunter Biden introducing his father to an executive at a
SlateJul 25 2015
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Obama's most dangerous trip yet
This may be the most dangerous place Barack Obama has visited as president. Kenya is arguably more treacherous for the president than Afghanistan, where there are U.S. troops on the ground and hardened military bases to shield him. By contrast, this is a bustling, crowded city with an active terrorist group — in this case, Al-Shabaab, Somalia-based Islamists who’ve aligned themselves with Al
PoliticoJun 11 2020
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Big Money Bought the Forests. Small Logging Communities Are Paying the Price.
FALLS CITY, ORE. — A few hundred feet past this Oregon timber town, a curtain of Douglas fir trees opens to an expanse of skinny stumps.
The hillside has been clear-cut, with thousands of trees leveled at once. Around the bend is another clear-cut nearly twice its size, then another, patches of desert brown carved into the forest for miles.
Logging is booming around Falls City, a
ProPublicaMar 26 2020
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As jobless numbers spike, a question rises: When can economy reopen?
Tame the coronavirus, then tackle the economy? A difficult and sensitive debate is emerging over how to get back to “open for business.”
Some Americans are beginning to chafe under the coronavirus restrictions that authorities have put into place – not least of them President Donald Trump, who this week suggested lifting restrictions at least partially by Easter on April 12 to start
Christian Science MonitorDec 05 2015
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Obama meets with ex-Rep. Giffords on gun control
Continuing his push for gun control Friday, President Obama met with former Rep. Gabby Giffords and her husband at the White House to discuss executive actions to restrict gun ownership.
The White House said Mr. Obama, Ms. Giffords and husband Mark Kelly “discussed what more can be done to keep guns out of the hands of those who should not have them, including ongoing efforts by the
Washington TimesMar 28 2015
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Hillary backer: Calling Clinton ‘calculating’ or ‘ambitious’ is ‘coded sexism’
I don't know about you, but when I get an email titled "Your Obsessive and Loathsome Coverage," it's not too long before I hit the delete button.
Fortunately, New York Times reporter Amy Chozick didn't do that when she got such a missive from a hyperactive Hillary Clinton supporter. She hit the tweet button instead.
Now let me inoculate myself, as a male member of the species,
Fox News (Online News)Nov 28 2019
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Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving On The 4th Thursday Of November
Move Thanksgiving to Friday? That's what F.B. Haviland asked President Herbert Hoover in 1929.
Didn't happen. But while we're on the subject, ever wonder why we carve our gobblers on the fourth Thursday of November? Hint: It's not because Thanksgiving Thursday is more alliterative than Thanksgiving Friday.
In 1789, President George Washington declared Thursday, Nov. 26, as a "Day
NPR (Online News)Oct 30 2020
Analysis
Don’t Sweat the Polls
“I want to feel hopeful about Joe Biden’s chances this year, but I just can’t,” my neighbor confessed to me, as we stood in line outside a coffee shop. What had begun as pleasant conversation—dogs, the temperature, clouds—had been pulled, through the vortex known as Late October in an Election Year, into an airing of political anxieties. “I’m still so afraid that 2016 is going to happen again
The AtlanticNov 26 2019
Analysis
The Anti Abortion 'Replacement' for Planned Parenthood Isn't Doing Much—Except Gobbling Taxpayer Money
Earlier this year the California-based network of Obria clinics wrestled a potential $5 million grant from the federal government. The group had positioned itself as the “pro-life” Planned Parenthood, an organization that could divert health grants into something that offered virginity instead of The Pill; the kind of place destined to draw attention from federal agencies sympathetic to a
JezebelAug 19 2013
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Illinois governor signs law expanding background checks for potential gun owners
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a new gun-control measure into law Sunday that requires all gun owners, including private citizens, to check the background of the person buying the gun. Under previous legislation, adults only had to undergo a background check if they were buying guns at a licensed firearm shop or at a gun show in the state. Under the new law, gun owners are also required to
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