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Aug 23 2022
News
Jury Convicts 2 Men in Plot to Kidnap Michigan Governor
A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a swift victory for prosecutors in a plot that was broken up by the FBI and described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists.
Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were also found guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction, namely a bomb to blow up a
Time MagazineApr 26 2021
Analysis
How the UK found the first effective Covid-19 treatment — and saved a million lives
The United Kingdom is not a pandemic success story. But its massive Covid-19 trials program is.
Peter Horby couldn’t believe his eyes.
He’d just gotten his first glimpse of new data from the United Kingdom’s Recovery Trial, an experiment enrolling tens of thousands of patients at dozens of hospitals for clinical trials investigating Covid-19 therapies.
Horby and his Oxford
VoxNov 01 2022
Opinion
Would a Death Sentence Help The Parkland Families Heal?
After a Florida jury voted to sentence Nikolas Cruz to life in prison earlier this month for the murders of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, news coverage focused on the disappointment and rage of his victims’ families. Many of them wanted the death penalty, and some will speak in court at his sentencing on Nov. 1.
Cruz’s trial featured days of defense testimony about
The Marshall ProjectApr 04 2023
Perspectives Blog
How Major News Sites Covered Trump's Indictment and Arraignment
Former President Donald Trump’s indictment and arraignment were top stories across the political spectrum in the past week. Sensationalism and partisan bias were rampant.
To document this coverage, AllSides collected screenshots of homepages from six news outlets — CNN (Left bias), Fox News (Right bias), The New York Times (Lean Left bias), Huffpost (Left bias), Breitbart (Right bias
AllSides StaffOct 27 2021
News
Prosecutors cannot call those shot by Kyle Rittenhouse 'victims.' But 'looters' is OK
Prosecutors in the criminal trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot and killed two protesters last year in Kenosha, Wis., will not be able to refer to the people he shot as "victims," a judge has ruled, while defense attorneys may be able to call them "arsonists" or "looters."
In a proceeding about the ground rules for the upcoming trial, prosecutors and defense lawyers debated
NPR (Online News)Sep 02 2022
Opinion
Val Demings’s Abortion Rights Advocacy Just May Sink Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio may be a bumbling excuse for a US senator, but when it comes to Florida politics, he’s no fool. A career politician and failed presidential contender, Rubio is campaigning this year for a third term as Florida’s senior senator. And he’s running scared.
Claiming that he’s up against “a Democratic Party that’s been captured by the far left and Marxist misfits,” Rubio made an
The NationSep 02 2022
News
Argentine vice president survives assassination attempt when gun jams
Argentina’s vice president survived an assassination attempt late Thursday after a gunman’s weapon jammed as he tried to shoot her at close range outside her home, the country's leader said.
Vice President Cristina Fernández was unharmed in the incident, which has rocked the South American nation already racked by turmoil due to spiraling inflation and her trial on corruption charges
NBC News DigitalJan 27 2022
News
How to think about boosters in light of this week's Pfizer and Moderna news
Pfizer and BioNTech announced Tuesday that they're beginning a clinical trial for an Omicron-specific Covid-19 vaccine, and Moderna revealed Wednesday that it has entered Phase 2 of its own trial of a vaccine that targets the variant, which is by far the dominant one in the United States right now.
About 50% of eligible Americans have received a booster shot, according to the US Centers
CNN DigitalSep 21 2022
News
Migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard file class-action suit against DeSantis
The group of Venezuelan migrants flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., last week by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) filed a class-action suit against the governor and the state’s transportation secretary on Tuesday.
The suit provides a detailed account of how the migrants came to board the two planes allegedly under false pretenses, arguing the relocations violated their Fourth
The HillSep 01 2022
Opinion
These Are the Crimes That Will Disqualify Trump From Ever Again Being President
The reason that Donald Trump and his allies have grown increasingly hysterical about the details of the FBI search of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago compound, and the federal investigation into his unauthorized retention and destruction of classified documents, is that they know these are the crimes that will disqualify Trump from ever again seeking the presidency.
Trump’s high
The Nation