AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
Feb 27 2021
Headline Roundup
U.S. House Passes $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill
The House of Representatives passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package, which includes a $15 federal minimum wage mandate, early Saturday morning. House Democrats passed the bill with a 219-212 vote, with two Democrats joining every Republican in voting against it. The bill includes a third round of $1,400 stimulus checks, a $400 weekly unemployment insurance boost through Aug. 29,
New York Post (News) Politico The HillJul 21 2022
Headline Roundup
Joe Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19
President Joe Biden tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday morning, a White House memo said.
Biden tested positive during routine antigen testing, White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said. The positive test was confirmed with a PCR test. Biden has been fully vaccinated and twice boosted, and the White House confirmed he was taking Paxlovid, Pfizer's antiviral COVID-19 pill
Axios National Review (News) NBC News (Online)Oct 01 2021
Headline Roundup
Merck Says It Has First Effective Antiviral Pill To Treat COVID-19
American drugmaker Merck announced Friday that it will seek emergency authorization of an experimental antiviral pill known as molnupiravir after it significantly reduced the worst effects of COVID-19 in clinical trials. The company said that in the trials, the treatment cut the risk of hospitalization or death in half when given to high-risk patients within the first five days of COVID-19
Politico Washington Times Associated PressJul 13 2022
Headline Roundup
White House Urges Americans to Get Boosted to Protect Against New COVID-19 Subvariant
The Biden administration urged the American public to get COVID-19 boosters Tuesday to strengthen their protections against the BA.5 subvariant of the Omicron variant.
Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the White House’s COVID-19 response coordinator, urged Americans who have not received the first COVID-19 booster to do so immediately. The BA.5 variant has become the dominant COVID-19 strain in the
New York Times (News) Washington Times STATAug 13 2022
Headline Roundup
How Will Drug Prices Be Affected By the Inflation Reduction Act?
President Joe Biden is on track to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law next week, which includes several provisions that empower Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies.
The pharmaceutical industry, which spent over $142 million on lobbying efforts to combat the Democrats' legislation, will be required to cap out-of-pocket prescription costs for seniors and
Deseret News Center For American Progress CNBCDec 28 2021
Headline Roundup
Biden Tells Governors “No Federal Solution” to Pandemic, Pledges Support for States
In a Monday call with the National Governors Association, President Joe Biden stirred headlines by saying, “Look, there is no federal solution” to COVID-19, adding, “This gets solved at a state level. I’m looking at Governor Sununu on the board here. He talks about that a lot.”
Biden’s comments came in response to remarks by Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, who thanked Biden
Washington Post CNBC Fox News (Online News)May 05 2022
Headline Roundup
WHO: Nearly 15 Million Deaths Associated With COVID-19 Pandemic
About 14.9 million excess deaths were directly or indirectly associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, according to a World Health Organization analysis released Thursday.
The WHO’s estimate was almost three times greater than the reported 5.4 million deaths directly attributable to COVID-19 during the first two years of the pandemic. Deaths indirectly associated with the
Washington Post Washington Examiner STATMar 25 2021
Headline Roundup
Georgia Governor, State Legislature Passes State Election Overhaul
On Thursday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law a state election overhaul shortly after a Republican-majority state legislature approved it. The overhaul includes new restrictions on absentee voting, expanded access to in-person early voting, and gives the legislature greater control over how elections are run after a months-long debate over election laws in the battleground state. The 96
Newsmax (News) NPR (Online News) The GuardianJan 02 2022
Headline Roundup
Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets Permanently Banned From Twitter For Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation
Twitter permanently suspended the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday for "repeated violations" of the platform's "COVID-19 misleading information policy."
Greene's ban was prompted by a misleading graph she tweeted out on Saturday that falsely promoted "extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths" in the U.S. The congresswoman posted her response to the
Washington Post New York Post (News) Business InsiderFeb 08 2022
Headline Roundup
‘Freedom Convoy’ Blocks Busiest US-Canada Border Crossing
As Canadian truck drivers continued to protest in Ottawa, some trucks and private vehicles blocked traffic across the busiest border crossing between the U.S. and Canada.
Starting Monday evening, the “Freedom Convoy” protesters prevented traffic from entering Canada across the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario. The blockade caused traffic to back up in
Fox News (Online News) BBC News New York Times (News)