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Dec 14 2020
News
Surge in border crossings spells early test for Biden’s immigration plans
70,000 migrants were caught crossing the Southwest border of the U.S. last month — a 64% increase compared to last November that came in spite of the pandemic and strict immigration enforcement policies, border officials told reporters Monday.
Driving the news: Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan — a Trump appointee with hardline immigration views — sought to
Axios
May 21 2021
News
ICE Detention Center Shuttered Following Repeated Allegations of Medical Misconduct
THE DEPARTMENT OF Homeland Security announced on Thursday the agency will be shutting down the controversial immigration prison in Georgia where dozens of detained immigrant women were subjected to nonconsensual gynecological procedures, including hysterectomies.
The memo, sent by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, instructs U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to
The Intercept
May 21 2021
News
US seeing wave of 'textbook anti-Semitism' amid Israel-Gaza tensions
From New York and California to Illinois and Utah, the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza has generated a disturbing backlash against American Jews – who have found themselves the targets of death threats, hate speech and violent physical attacks.
"Stop telling me this is about Israel and Gaza," said a New Yorker who was confronted by a pro-Palestinian mob on his way to synagogue
Fox News Digital
Jan 07 2021
Analysis
Could the Capitol Riot Become a Superspreader Event?
On Wednesday, a violent mob, mostly mask-less and incited by the president, stormed the U.S. Capitol and wreaked havoc, forcing many lawmakers, staff, and members of the press to shelter in place in locked offices before moving to other secure locations. The attack, unprecedented in its own right, is compounded by the fact that it occurred on the deadliest day of the pandemic so far. On top of
New York Magazine
Sep 14 2021
Data
Americans' Ratings of CDC Communication Turn Negative
More Americans now disagree (41%) than agree (32%) that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has communicated a clear plan of action in response to the COVID-19 situation. This is the first Gallup reading since the CDC in late July changed its guidance on the need for face masks for unvaccinated people in areas of high coronavirus transmission.
The public's opinions
Gallup
Feb 21 2021
News
Jake Sullivan criticizes China’s transparency on COVID-19 origin but declines to stand by US intelligence on it
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan criticized China for blocking data on the origins of COVID-19, but declined to stand by declassified U.S. intelligence released at the end of the Trump administration, and said coronavirus origin investigations still must be led by the World Health Organization.
China has done its utmost to thwart investigations into the origins of the
Washington Examiner
Apr 06 2021
News
Biden to announce all US adults will be eligible for coronavirus vaccine by April 19
President Biden plans to announce Tuesday that he is moving up his target for all American adults to become eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by almost two weeks to April 19, according to a White House official.
Biden is also expected to announce that the United States has administered 150 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, the official confirmed, putting the president on track to
The Hill
Nov 16 2020
Analysis
China's new world order
The largest free trade area in the world came into existence over the weekend — and the U.S. was not even invited.
Why it matters: For the first time in living memory, the hegemon at the center of a major global free trade agreement is not the U.S.
China has stepped into Uncle Sam's shoes, and now anchors the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, an area covering
Axios
Jan 07 2021
Analysis
Storm the Capitol as a White Man and You'll Get It (A Selfie With a Cop)
As insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol en masse Wednesday afternoon, footage posted on social media shows them doing a lot of different things inside the Capitol. They’re banging on doors, yelling, waving Confederate and MAGA flags, brandishing guns, and posing for pictures in the Big Chair on the Senate floor. Another thing a few of them appear to be doing? Hanging out with the cops
Vice
Oct 31 2021
Analysis
VIPs expect special treatment. At Wikipedia, don’t even ask.
In the early afternoon of Jan. 7, only hours after addressing the “Stop the Steal” rally outside the White House that fed into the assault on the Capitol, John C. Eastman began working on the first draft of history: He rewrote his own Wikipedia page.
Where the article said that Eastman, a professor at Chapman Law School at the time, was helping President Donald Trump “to annul the
Washington Post