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May 07 2020
News
Justice Department Drops Case against Michael Flynn
The Justice Department has moved to withdraw its case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, citing “newly discovered and disclosed information,” according to a new court filing.
The move, first reported by The Associated Press, comes less than an hour after the top prosecutor on the case, Brandon Van Grack, submitted his withdrawal from the case. The decision
National Review (News)
Author
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a member of the USA TODAY Board of Contributors. According to his Wikipedia page, "Reynolds is often described as conservative, but holds liberal views on some social issues such as abortion, the War on Drugs and gay marriage. He describes himself as a libertarian and more specifically a libertarian transhumanist.
Feb 11 2021
News
Biden Announces 200M New Vaccine Doses, Rips Trump Admin Distribution Plan
President Joe Biden’s administration has secured the purchase of an additional 200 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, the White House announced Thursday.
The administration announced in January that it was “working to purchase” an additional 100 million doses each from Pfizer and Moderna. That effort is now successful, raising the total number of doses at the nation’s disposal to
The Daily Caller
Sep 02 2021
Analysis
McCarthy threat offers dark preview of possible Republican House
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is offering a glimpse of the Donald Trump-inspired authoritarian streak likely to animate a Republican majority if the party triumphs in next year's midterm elections.
In the latest manifestation of the possible future House speaker's hard right turn, he warned telecom and social media companies could lose their right to operate on US soil if they
CNN Digital
Sep 02 2021
Analysis
The Evacuation From Afghanistan Isn’t Over
This week, the head of the U.S. Central Command announced that the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was complete. But the volunteer effort to get people out, known as “Digital Dunkirk,” is still going. Matt Pelak, an Army veteran and National Guardsman who’s part of the effort, says “there are thousands of American citizens, passport holders, and green card holders still in
Slate
Dec 09 2020
News
Swalwell Says His Ties to Chinese Spy Were Leaked Because of Trump Criticism
Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell is alleging that information about his ties to a suspected Chinese spy were leaked to the press in retribution for his vocal criticism of President Trump.
“I’ve been a critic of the president. I’ve spoken out against him. I was on both committees that worked to impeach him,” Swalwell told Politico on Tuesday. “The timing feels like that should be
National Review (News)
Sep 09 2017
News
Obama Official Who Created DACA Sues Trump To Protect It
Janet Napolitano, the former secretary of Homeland Security, helped craft the program that President Trump wants to kill.
HuffPost
Oct 17 2020
Fact Check
Chance of an asteroid hitting Earth on Nov. 2 is not higher than dying of COVID-19
The claim: There's a higher chance of an asteroid hitting Earth than of a person dying from COVID-19. It has been shared in various iterations thousands of times on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to downplay the severity and risk of COVID-19, a global pandemic.
"So NASA says there is a .042% chance of an asteroid hitting earth on 11/02/2020. The chance of dying from
USA TODAY
Oct 10 2018
News
Treasury Spells Out New Rules on Foreign Deals Involving U.S. Technology
Treasury officials Wednesday issued new rules requiring all foreign investors in certain deals involving critical U.S. technology to submit to national security reviews or face fines as high as the value of their proposed transactions.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Aug 08 2020
Opinion
Mark Zuckerberg Is Right: Facebook Should Not Be the Arbiter of Truth
At a congressional hearing last week focused on antitrust issues, Mark Zuckerberg repeated his admonition that he does not want Facebook to act as a fact-checker. “We do not want to become the arbiters of truth. That would be a bad position for us to be in and not what we should be doing,” he said in response to a question from Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI).
It has become
Jacobin