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Aug 16 2020
News
Confucius Institutes Have Been Rapidly Dissolving — Here Are The Dozens Still Left On American Campuses
Confucius Institutes have faced increasing scrutiny by lawmakers over the years, with accusations of the Chinese government exerting its soft power and enforcing a culture of self-censorship within chapters at campuses across the country.
The Trump administration announced its plan to designate the Confucius Institutes U.S. Center (CIUS) as a foreign mission Thursday, in order to
The Daily Caller
Apr 21 2020
News
Schumer predicts Senate passage of relief bill Tuesday
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday said he believed Democrats, Republicans and the White House had a deal to provide $350 billion to a coronavirus relief small-business lending program and that the Senate could vote on the deal later in the day.
The package would also provide $75 billion for hospitals and $25 billion to expand testing.
“I think we will be
The Hill
May 16 2019
News
'Condescending': Pelosi rips Trump immigration-reform plan
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that President Trump’s new immigration plan is “condescending” to families by suggesting their family ties have less merit than migrants with needed skills.
Speaking before the president outlined his plans in a speech from the White House, Mrs. Pelosi said House Democrats are going another direction and will approve legislation to legalize
Washington Times
Apr 24 2019
News
Democrats Ask and Trump Says No, Signaling a Bitter Fight Ahead
President Trump’s administration foreshadowed weeks, if not months, of trench warfare with Congress on Tuesday as it defied demands for documents and testimony on multiple fronts in an effort to thwart expanding investigations mounted by House Democrats.
While Democrats debated the merits of pursuing impeachment against Mr. Trump, his advisers signaled that the administration would
New York Times (News)
Jun 26 2020
News
Trump can't divert military funds for border wall, federal appeals court says
(CNN) - The Trump administration doesn't have the authority to divert Pentagon funds to construct additional barriers on the US-Mexico border, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, days after President Donald Trump's visit to a section of the wall in Arizona.
In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said that the transfer of $2.5 billion circumvented Congress, which holds
CNN Digital
Aug 24 2018
News
Here Are The 52 Trump Investigations That Democrats Plan If They Win The Midterms
If Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in November, they will gain the most important tool available to investigate the Trump administration: subpoena power. And Democrats on the House oversight committee, that chamber’s main investigative panel, are prepared to use it.
HuffPost
Jun 06 2022
Perspectives Blog
AllSides Analysis: Yahoo! News Curation Favors Media Outlets on the Left
In April and May 2022, AllSides conducted a media bias analysis of Yahoo! News, finding that its content curation and homepage top stories greatly favored stories from news media outlets that have a left-leaning perspective.
An analysis of 588 curated articles published by Yahoo! News in April 2022 showed that 65% were from a media outlet that has a Left or Lean Left AllSides Media
Andrew Weinzierl
Sep 24 2019
News
Trump administration claims Ukraine aid was stalled over corruption concerns, decries media ‘frenzy’
The Trump administration pushed back Tuesday in the wake of multiple reports that the White House froze millions in aid to Ukraine shortly before President Trump pressured the country's leader to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The reports coincided with a renewed round of calls, including from more centrist Democrats, for a formal impeachment inquiry. Those calls came a day
Fox News Digital
Aug 24 2021
Background
Key facts about the abortion debate in America
Nearly five decades after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, opponents and supporters of abortion rights are still battling over the issue in court, at the ballot box and in state legislatures. Several states have introduced or passed new restrictions on abortion in 2021 with an eye toward giving the Supreme Court a chance to overturn its decision in Roe, and the high court agreed
Pew Research Center
Oct 18 2021
Fact Check
Did Kamala Harris’ YouTube Show Feature Child Actors?
Following the premiere of the YouTube Originals series Get Curious with Vice President Harris—a show in which Vice President Kamala Harris teaches children about science—the claim that the video used child actors went viral on social media. Donald Trump Jr. shared the claim, along with figures like Sean Hannity and Diamond and Silk.
Right-wing outlets such as Newsmax, the Daily Caller
The Dispatch Fact Check