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Jul 30 2019
News
Sen. Cruz Met With Protests at LAX
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, stepped off a plane and into a crowd of protesters Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport who chanted "free the children" as he waited for his luggage.
The chant was a reference to detention centers at the southern border.
Cruz can be seen in video posted to Twitter smiling, shaking a few hands and even taking pictures with some fellow travelers as
Newsmax (News)
Sep 15 2020
News
Democrats demand answers over 'mass hysterectomies' at ICE facility
Top Democrats demanded answers Tuesday after a whistleblower nurse filed a complaint claiming that an immigration detention center was performing an exceptional number of hysterectomies on migrant women.
Dawn Wooten, a licensed practical nurse, said the rate of the procedure at the Georgia facility was a red flag, said one particular gynecologist was at the center of the operations, and
Washington Times
Oct 27 2021
News
Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures
Federal Trade Commission staffers have begun looking into disclosures that Facebook Inc.’s FB -0.87% internal company research had identified ill effects from its products, according to people familiar with the matter.
Officials are looking into whether Facebook research documents indicate that it might have violated a 2019 settlement with the agency over privacy concerns, for which the
Wall Street Journal (News)
Oct 27 2021
News
FDA advisers recommend Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended on Wednesday that children ages 5 to 11 receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The FDA's advisory committee announced the decision after a study found that the benefits for children who receive inoculation far outweigh the potential risks of cardiac arrest symptoms, according to the Washington Post.
The panel voted
Washington Examiner
Jul 28 2019
News
Trump campaign sees political advantage in a divisive appeal to working-class white voters
President Trump launched another broadside Saturday on a Democratic political opponent, calling a prominent black congressman’s Baltimore district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and saying “no human being would want to live there.”
That Twitter attack on Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) plunged the nation into yet another anguished debate over the president’s divisive
Washington Post
Mar 02 2022
Analysis
All the President’s Incoherence
On the homepage, Matthew Continetti submits that the “goal of President Biden’s State of the Union Address” was to “reset his presidency after one of the worst inaugural years in American history.” I discern no evidence that this is true. At no point in last night’s rambling, incoherent address did Biden attempt anything close to what could be considered a “reset.” He altered neither his style
National Review (News)
Apr 30 2020
Analysis
Stop Yelling at Runners for Not Wearing Masks!
It is not a very fun time to be a runner in Brooklyn, where I live. This is best evidenced by a sign that’s been going around Twitter that reads, in part: “DEAR JOGGER, PUT ON A FUCKING MASK.” (The sign also manages to get an unfounded dig in at millennials.)
Similar anti-runner sentiments abound on social networks like Next Door, and even in real life interactions. I have seen posts
Slate
Nov 24 2020
News
California inmates part of $1B unemployment fraud schemes, prosecutors say
Sophisticated crime rings involving inmates in California's jails and prisons may have stolen upwards of $1 billion in pandemic unemployment aid, four district attorneys and a federal prosecutor announced Tuesday.
The news: A multi-agency investigation found that 35,000 unemployment claims were filed in the name of California state prison inmates between March and August, including that
Politico
Nov 13 2016
News
Trump’s Hires Will Set Course of His Presidency
“Busy day planned in New York,” President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Twitter on Friday morning, two days after his astonishing victory. “Will soon be making some very important decisions on the people who will be running our government!”
New York Times (News)
Jun 09 2021
News
How the Mormon church unlocked medical pot for deep red states
On a Thursday in October 2018, a handful of Utah’s top lawmakers, representatives from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and medical marijuana advocates filed into the Gold Room, an ornate space in the state Capitol.
They were joined by the Utah Medical Association and law enforcement groups to announce a deal to legalize medical marijuana across the state.
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