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Jan 16 2023
News
Recent shootings raise stakes for pro-gun lobbyists in Richmond
Gun rights advocates said recent shooting incidents in Virginia only increased their sense of urgency as they descended Monday on the state Capitol in an annual display of civic firepower for the Second Amendment. Charges that a 6-year-old pupil shot and wounded a Newport News teacher, as well as the deaths of six Chesapeake Walmart employees and three University of Virginia students in
Washington Post
Apr 07 2023
Perspectives Blog
Misinformation Watch: The George Soros-Alvin Bragg Connection
“Fact-checkers” can be just as biased as opinion writers. Their coverage of former President Donald Trump’s indictment was no exception, and spread misinformation about the connection between his prosecutor and billionaire donor George Soros.
Specifically, the question of whether Soros “funded” Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who prosecuted Trump, is a subject of debate.
Henry A. Brechter
Jan 05 2023
News
Kari Lake goes full bananapants, calls herself the 'duly elected governor' of Arizona
On the right-wing network Real America’s Voice, which is essentially what Fox News would be if they wore their Hitler Underoos on the outside of their pants, Lake confidently asserted that she was the “duly elected governor” of Arizona. Because why the fuck not, huh? LAKE: “It gets worse, I mean, with President Trump they did this in the middle of the night, and our movement was so big and so
Daily Kos
Mar 10 2023
News
Payrolls rose 311,000 in February, more than expected, showing solid growth
Job creation decelerated in February but was still stronger than expected despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to slow the economy and bring down inflation.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 311,000 for the month, the Labor Department reported Friday. That was above the 225,000 Dow Jones estimate and a sign that the employment market is still hot.
The unemployment rate rose to 3.6%,
CNBC
Mar 10 2023
Analysis
Many kids need tutoring help. Only a small fraction get it
David Daniel knows his son needs help.
The 8-year-old spent first grade in remote learning and several weeks of second grade in quarantine. The best way to catch him up, research suggests, is to tutor him several times a week during school.
But his Indianapolis school offers Saturday or after-school tutoring — programs that don’t work for Daniel, a single father. The upshot is
Associated Press
Feb 08 2023
News
Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots
Soon after ChatGPT debuted last year, researchers tested what the artificial intelligence chatbot would write after it was asked questions peppered with conspiracy theories and false narratives.
The results — in writings formatted as news articles, essays and television scripts — were so troubling that the researchers minced no words.
“This tool is going to be the most powerful
New York Times (News)
Jan 11 2023
News
Grim annual artwork brings New Orleans' 2022 murder count to the steps of City Hall
On Wednesday, there will be 268 shiny silver faces glinting in the sun near the steps of City Hall. The cluster of palm-sized, mirrored faces may be eerily beautiful, but they are the bearers of bad news. Each of them represents a 2022 New Orleans murder victim. For eight years, artist Mitchell Gaudet has created a similar sculpture that records the murder tally in New Orleans. At the start of
The Times-Picayune
Jan 02 2023
News
U.S. watchdogs guarding $5 trillion in covid aid say they need more money
Michael Horowitz came to Congress with a plea: If the U.S. government truly hoped to keep track of roughly $5 trillion in coronavirus aid, then federal watchdog agencies would need some new money of their own.
It was June 2022, more than two years after the pandemic first arrived in the United States — and Horowitz, the leader of the country’s chief pandemic oversight body, said some of
Washington Post
Jan 16 2023
News
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown draws his first GOP challenger in key 2024 race
CLEVELAND — Matt Dolan, who lost a raucous Republican Senate primary in Ohio last year, will run again in 2024, this time seeking to unseat longtime Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown. Dolan will announce his candidacy this week, he told an Ohio GOP official in a voicemail Sunday that the official shared with NBC News on the condition of anonymity. Brown has said he intends to seek a fourth
NBC News Digital