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Nov 25 2018
News
Leftover Tax Provisions Sit on Congress’s Post-Thanksgiving Plate
U.S. lawmakers are cobbling together a year-end grab-bag tax bill, seeking consensus on retirement policy, lapsed tax breaks, assistance to disaster victims, minor IRS changes, and technical corrections to last year’s tax law.
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 19 2020
Analysis
What Three Cities Are Spending on Police Compared With Everything Else
Calls to defund or abolish police departments have become the signature demand of protesters who have taken to the streets in cities across the country over the last few weeks to denounce police violence against Black people. Proponents of such policy measures argue that the U.S. should reallocate much, or even all, of the money spent on law enforcement for anti-poverty initiatives, education
SlateMay 25 2021
Analysis
George Floyd anniversary: How his death turned policing into a political battle
George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police rocked nearly every facet of American life: entertainment, academia, politics, corporate culture, and even conversations at the dinner table.
One year after the tragedy felt around the world, the law enforcement community is still grappling with the fallout that has thrown the future of policing into uncertainty.
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Washington ExaminerOct 17 2019
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White House stonewalling? Democrats overreaching? Supreme Court justices may be asked to decide
President Donald Trump says his impeachment battle with House Democrats "probably ends up being a big Supreme Court case."
If so, it may not be alone.
Several other legal disputes over Trump's personal, professional and political dealings, both as president and before taking office, are headed toward the nation's highest court just as the 2020 presidential campaign is heating up
USA TODAYNov 28 2017
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Senate Republicans Looking To Play ‘Let’s Make A Deal’ On Tax Cuts
Senate Republicans are moving quickly toward a vote on their tax proposal this week, with GOP leaders still tweaking the bill to win over reluctant Republicans.
HuffPostSep 25 2020
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How Criminal Cops Often Avoid Jail
When New Jersey lawmakers sought advice about police accountability, one of the power players they turned to was Sean Lavin, a police union leader.
Lavin testified before state senators at a July hearing, where he questioned whether civilians are qualified to serve on police oversight boards, and suggested that chokeholds might sometimes be warranted. He also argued against releasing
ProPublicaAug 05 2020
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Shock: NBC Admits New York’s Mail-In Ballot System Is a ‘Fiasco’
In an all but tacit admission that President Trump’s concerns about mail-in voting had some merit, Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News featured a nearly three-minute-long segment discussing how the absentee ballot system in New York was a disaster. And with no winner declared in a Democratic congressional primary after six weeks, senior investigative and legal correspondent Cynthia McFadden warned that
NewsBustersMay 26 2015
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Support for marriage equality in Ireland was strikingly broad
Ireland's historic vote in favor of marriage equality last Friday was, in the end, not especially close, with the yesses carrying almost every electoral district. Still, as Jason Kelleher's map of the vote shows, there were some very pronounced regional differences:
VoxDec 19 2020
Analysis
Why Just ‘Adding Context’ to Controversial Monuments May Not Change Minds
In 1697, Native American raiders, probably from the Abenaki people, took English colonist Hannah Duston, 40 years old at the time, and her newborn daughter captive. A month later, Hannah rode back into Haverhill, Massachusetts, on a stolen canoe carrying a bag full of scalps. Hannah’s daughter had died or been killed, and Hannah herself had escaped after leading a plan, with her Abenaki
Smithsonian MagazineDec 30 2019
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Privacy fears as India police use facial recognition at rally
Police in the Indian capital of New Delhi used facial recognition software to screen crowds at a recent political rally - a first for India - raising concerns about privacy and mass surveillance amid nationwide protests against a new citizenship law.
The Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) software that the Delhi Police had installed to identify missing children was used at Prime
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