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Nov 30 2021
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: Omicron Travel Ban Sparks Cries of Hypocrisy, Anti-Trump Media Bias
New COVID-19 travel restrictions in the U.S. have revived the debate over immigration bans and national security, sparking criticisms of media bias and political hypocrisy.
President Joe Biden banned travel from eight African nations for non-U.S. citizens Monday in response to the emerging Omicron COVID-19 variant: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa
The Week - News Washington Examiner Fox News (Online News)Jan 15 2014
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Senators: Benghazi attack 'likely preventable'
The deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, was "likely preventable" based on known security shortfalls and prior warnings that the security situation there was deteriorating, the majority of the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a report released on Wednesday. Separately, the findings also noted what the FBI had told the panel -- that 15 people cooperating
CNN (Online News)Jan 01 2022
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The Cruel Failure of Welfare Reform in the Southwest
As the 1960s came to their tumultuous end, California Gov. Ronald Reagan convened a summit on the topic of welfare. He was hoping to try out one of his new ideas: that poor single mothers were, in the wake of the civil rights movement, increasingly living idly and defrauding government assistance programs.
George Miller, then the welfare director in neighboring Nevada, volunteered to do
ProPublicaJan 20 2022
Opinion
A Scandal For Every Month: The Biggest Botches, Failures, And Mess-Ups Of Joe Biden’s First 12 Months In Office
Joe Biden has been in the Oval Office (or that weird set in the Eisenhower building’s South Court auditorium with the greenscreen windows) for a year now, and he’s already managed to make his short presidency known for a long line-up of scandals, botches, and slip-ups.
It’s too hard to narrow the list down to one top failure, although his disgracefully handled Afghanistan withdrawal may
The FederalistMay 02 2021
News
Tim Scott optimistic about Congress' progress on police reform
Sen. Tim Scott on Sunday had an optimistic tone about Washington’s progress on police reform discussions, emphasizing why he’s the right person to lead the charge on his side of the aisle.
“I personally understand the pain of being stopped 18 times driving while Black,” the South Carolina Republican said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” “I also have seen the beauty of when officers go
PoliticoJan 19 2022
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As U.S. Athletes Face Mounting Dangers in Beijing, Blinken Wastes Time in Kyiv
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with officials in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, ignoring the mounting dangers facing American athletes at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which President Joe Biden refused to boycott.
Beijing officials have admitted to surging cases of both the omicron and delta variants of Chinese coronavirus, threatening the health of residents in the capital.
Breitbart NewsOct 26 2014
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White House Presses States to Reconsider Mandatory Ebola Quarantine Orders
The Obama administration has expressed deep concerns to the governors of New York and New Jersey and is consulting with them to modify their orders to quarantine medical volunteers returning from West Africa as President Obama seeks to quickly develop a new, nationwide policy for the workers, according to two senior administration officials.
One administration official said the federal
New York Times (News)Jun 18 2021
Analysis
Poverty hurts the boys the most: Inequality at the intersection of class and gender
One of the cognitive curses of the human mind is the tendency to chop everything into two: black and white, rich and poor, men and women, North and South, and so on. By instinct, we tend to lump people together into clear and distinct categories, preferably just two. The world seems simpler that way.
But of course, the world is not simple. People are not sorted into neat boxes. One
Brookings InstitutionNov 24 2021
News
The Buttigieg presidential buzz has penetrated the White House
Pete Buttigieg has long been a man in a hurry.
Since 2010, he has run for treasurer of Indiana, mayor of South Bend, chair of the Democratic National Committee, and president of the United States. At 39, he is one of the most omnipresent and newly-powerful members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet. But he says he’s not thinking about what comes next, even as he’s buzzed about as a
PoliticoOct 18 2014
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The Tangled Story Of Why Ebola Vaccine Research Came Up Short
Around 2008, an Ebola outbreak in Africa sparked a renewed push within the U.S. biomedical research community to find a vaccine. A company called Integrated BioTherapeutics Inc. was given a $5.8 million contract from the National Institutes of Health for vaccine research.
Integrated Biotherapeutics, with subcontractor Protein Sciences Corp., began exploring a way to develop proteins
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