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Aug 25 2020
Fact Check
Fact-checking night 1 of the 2020 RNC
Republicans opened their 2020 national convention with speeches touting President Donald Trump’s accomplishments interspersed with dark ruminations about what Democrats have in store for America if Joe Biden is elected.
"Do you believe in American greatness, believe in yourself, in President Trump, in individual and personal responsibility?" asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, a Trump supporter
PolitiFactAug 05 2020
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TikTok
“Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok [from ByteDance], a forced sale after [President Donald] Trump threatened to ban the Chinese-owned video app… Trump said Monday to reporters that the U.S. ‘should get a very large percentage of that price because we’re making it possible… we want and we think we deserve to have a big percentage of that price coming to America, coming to the
The Flip SideJan 13 2021
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Here are the Republicans who are supporting Donald Trump's second impeachment
Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking House Republican, says she will vote to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, adding to a growing list of Republicans backing the president's removal after blaming him for inciting a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last week.
Cheney said the president was solely to blame for the attack on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6.
“There has never been a
USA TODAYApr 29 2021
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Biden urges ban on 'assault weapons,' claiming 'it worked' before. No, it didn't.
In his first speech before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden urged the legislature to reissue a ban on so-called "assault weapons" and "high-capacity" magazines while arguing that it "worked before."
Yet the most widely sourced data shows that it did not, in fact, work before.
Biden declared gun violence "an epidemic in America" before saying, "
The BlazeApr 29 2021
Analysis
5 winners and 3 losers from President Biden’s first congressional address
Winner: Obamacare. Loser: Wall Street.
President Joe Biden struck a notably optimistic tone in his first speech before a joint session of Congress, coming after a long pandemic year that has been marked by isolation, loss, and for far too many Americans, death.
“After just 100 days — I can report to the nation: America is on the move again,” Biden said during his speech. “Turning
VoxSep 09 2015
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Princeton Prof: ‘Common Misunderstanding’ of Constitution Has Led to ‘Serious Erosion’ of Freedom
Princeton University professor Robert George contended in a new video published online Tuesday that a “common misunderstanding” has led to a “serious erosion” of freedom in America.
The BlazeNov 25 2020
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How 9 governors are handling the next coronavirus wave
President Donald Trump hasn’t been leading on the coronavirus and governors are again in charge of the nation’s response. They’re reacting with a patchwork policy that’s unlikely to head off the long-warned “dark winter” in America.
Governors are balancing rising case numbers and pressure to keep schools, restaurants and bars at least partially open. They’re employing loosely defined “
PoliticoJan 25 2022
Perspectives Blog
Fact-checking may be important, but it won’t help Americans learn to disagree better
This piece originally appeared on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Taylor Dotson, an Associate Professor of Social Science at New Mexico Tech. The writer's bias has not been rated.
Entering the new year, Americans are increasingly divided. They clash not only over differing opinions on COVID-19 risk or abortion, but basic facts like
"The Conversation" ContributorNov 03 2014
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Poll: Democrats Losing Grip On Young Voters
America’s young adults are swinging away from Democrats, according to a new survey published by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. Though the GOP is closing the gap on Democrats in relation to young voters, a push away from the left may not guarantee a win for the right among the politically apathetic voting demographic.
Harvard published its 26th Survey of Young Americans’
U.S. News & World ReportApr 16 2020
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Trump calls on governors with "beautifully low" coronavirus numbers to reopen on May 1
President Trump told governors on a conference call today that he wants to begin to reopen the U.S. economy on May 1.
He called on governors with low coronavirus numbers to begin to reopen their economies on May 1, with the caveat that states should go at their own pace. "You states with beautifully low numbers, let's get your states open and get back to work," Trump said, according to
Axios