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Aug 21 2019
News
Expert: Law blocks most Florida felons from regaining voting rights
The new law requiring felons in Florida to pay all their fines and court fees before getting their voting rights restored would leave about 80 percent of them unable to register, according to research that is part of a legal challenge to the law.
Professor Daniel Smith, chairman of the University of Florida political science department, also found that black convicts would be more
The Fulcrum
Oct 28 2019
News
Everything you need to know about the controversial rise and fall of Katie Hill
After she won reelection last year as part of a historic, female-driven wave for House Democrats, the party picked Rep. Katie Hill (Calif.) to be one of its faces of success.
She is young (32), diverse (one of the first openly bisexual members of Congress), politically astute (her first time running for office was for this seat) and from the kind of district that helped the Democrats
Washington Post
Sep 24 2020
News
Two Louisville police officers were shot during a night of protests.
Two Louisville police officers were shot during demonstrations on Wednesday night, the police chief said, after a grand jury decided to not charge any officer in the killing of Breonna Taylor, instead indicting one former detective for recklessly firing into another apartment during a botched raid on Ms. Taylor’s apartment in March.
A suspect, Larynzo Johnson, 26, was arrested Wednesday
New York Times (News)
May 29 2020
News
NCAA outlines plan to get athletes back to campus
The NCAA released guidelines on Friday that aim to help schools safely bring student athletes back to college campuses.
Why it matters: Schools across the U.S. are prepping for football players to return as early as June 8, after the Southeastern Conference green-lit workouts and team activities at the discretion of individual universities.
Catch up quick: The NCAA proposes that
Axios
Feb 13 2020
News
Attorney General Says Trump's Tweets About DOJ Make His Job 'Impossible'
Attorney General William Barr asked President Trump to stop his social media commentary on Thursday after the flap over the case involving Trump's adviser Roger Stone.
Barr told ABC News in an interview scheduled to air on Thursday evening that he wants Trump to "stop tweeting" and that the president's comments make it "impossible" to do his job as the head of federal law enforcement.
NPR (Online News)
Nov 19 2020
Opinion
Don’t Forgive Student Debt
This week, the Left has intensified its calls for President-elect Joe Biden to forgive student debt via executive order, perhaps as much as $50,000 per borrower. Such a move would constitute both awful policy and an abuse of the discretion that Congress has granted to the executive branch in this area.
It is often said that Americans’ trillion-and-a-half-dollar student-loan debt is a “
National Review (News)
Dec 09 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story Of The Week: Biden Stages Diplomatic Boycott Of China Olympics, Talks With Putin
President Joe Biden's interactions with China and Russia made top headlines across the political spectrum this week. On Monday, Biden said that the U.S. would stage a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics over China's abuse and detainment of Uighur Muslims. U.S. athletes still plan to compete but no U.S. officials will attend. China threatened consequences in response. China has
AllSides Staff
Dec 21 2020
Analysis
Only the world wars have rivalled covid-19 for news coverage
Given how much the world has changed in 2020, it is hard to fathom that the year was just one leap-day longer than 2019. On January 16th The Economist published its first article about a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, which at that point had been confirmed only as the cause of 42 infections and one death. Two weeks later, covid-19 made its debut on our cover. It returned there on February
The Economist
Apr 19 2020
Opinion
Covid-19 Is Trapping Ecuador Between Death and Debt
Sometime late last month the bodies began to turn up on the streets of Guayaquil. Some of the dead were abandoned in dumpsters. Others had been bundled in plastic and left on the sidewalks of this seaside Ecuadoran city, the yellow and black plastic cordon suggesting an unsolved crime scene.
While most of Latin America is bracing for the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, Ecuador is
Bloomberg
