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Sep 23 2013
News
Gingrich: Obama's big debt limit deception
As a historian and a former speaker of the House who negotiated successfully through two government shutdowns, a successful welfare reform bill, the first tax cut in 16 years and four balanced budgets, I am offended and a little frightened by President Barack Obama's deliberate dishonesty about the debt ceiling.
On Wednesday, speaking to the Business Roundtable, Obama said:
"You
CNN Digital
Dec 30 2019
News
Stocks on Track for Best Year Since 2013
U.S. stocks are poised for their best annual performance in six years, driven by the big technology companies that have led the decadelong bull market run.
An improving economic outlook, progress between the U.S. and China on trade negotiations and three interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve have boosted investors’ confidence that the expansion can continue.
With one full
Wall Street Journal (News)
Apr 02 2020
News
Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses
Two months before the novel coronavirus probably began spreading in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat.
The project, launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2009, identified 1,200 different viruses that had the
Los Angeles Times
Jan 21 2019
News
To End the Shutdown, Try Thinking Big on Immigration
As the U.S. government shutdown approaches the one-month mark, one thing has become abundantly clear: Few politicians in Washington—Republican or Democrat, in Congress or the White House—consider the best interest of the country a priority. The fight is all about politics, partisanship and power.
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
Feb 09 2020
News
Joe Walsh ends Republican primary challenge against Trump
Former US Rep. Joe Walsh is ending his uphill challenge against Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination, after suffering a crushing loss in the Iowa GOP caucuses in which he received only 1% of the vote.
"I am ending my candidacy for president of the United States," Walsh told CNN's John Berman on "New Day." "I got into this because I thought it was really important
CNN Digital
Nov 13 2020
Opinion
CNN's Preposterous Call for Unity
There was a Museum of Broadcasting in New York City, but there’s never been anything called the Museum of Broadcasting Shamelessness. Imagine a place where they could run a medley of Dan Rather insisting repeatedly that despite the small problem of his phony National Guard documents, “the underlying story is true.”
An obvious entry in the Shamelessness Museum emerged about one single
NewsBusters
Dec 07 2020
News
Biden to Nominate Xavier Becerra as Health and Human Services Secretary
President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, according to people familiar with the decision, selecting a legal advocate who has waged battles to preserve the Affordable Care Act.
Mr. Becerra led a coalition of 20 states and Washington, D.C., in a legal defense of the ACA after Republican-led
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jun 25 2020
Analysis
Tech platforms have a trust problem. Do they care?
REPORTING ON JOURNALISM has been a more depressing task than usual in the recent past, and the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic might make us fear the worst for the future. However, it is not all bad news, even as business models are challenged and jobs disappear.
Last week, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism dropped its annual blockbuster report, which
Columbia Journalism Review
Nov 14 2019
News
Impeachment Hearings Begin
“Lawmakers and lawyers questioned a bow tie-wearing George Kent, the deputy secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, and bespectacled Ambassador Bill Taylor, charge d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine. Both linked the president directly to a pressure campaign on Ukraine to conduct investigations that would benefit him politically.” (Reuters)
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The Flip Side
Nov 30 2018
News
President Trump's lieutenants: The new GOP senators are the most pro-Trump yet
President Donald Trump’s cavalry is coming to Washington. With the election of six new Republicans this month and a runoff victory Tuesday for staunch Trump ally Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, the U.S. Senate will now be more pro-Trump than ever.
USA TODAY