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Sep 15 2020
Analysis
Science and health fact-checkers put pandemic claims under a microscope
In the face of a global pandemic, science and health fact-checking journalists are having their moment.
Over the past two decades, political claims and widespread hoaxes and rumors have dominated fact-checking journalism. Snopes began debunking online rumors in the 1990s. Other pioneers in the field, including Factcheck.org, PolitiFact and The Washington Post, started with a public
Poynter
Mar 09 2020
News
Cory Booker: Joe Biden endorsed by another ex-rival
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden has picked up another prize endorsement from a former rival, Cory Booker.
The New Jersey senator tweeted: "The answer to hatred & division is to reignite our spirit of common purpose."
He added that Mr Biden "won't only win - he'll show there's more that unites us than divides us".
Mr Biden and Bernie Sanders are vying to be
BBC News
Mar 31 2020
News
How 3-D Printers Are Helping to Fight the Coronavirus
A little more than a week ago, Isaac Budmen heard that a coronavirus testing site was going to be set up in Syracuse, New York, not far from where he lives with his partner, Stephanie Keefe. The couple, who are both artists, own a company that makes 3-D printers. They knew that medical workers had a shortage of face shields, one kind of personal protective equipment (P.P.E.), and they wondered
The New Yorker
May 27 2019
News
Representative Phil Roe (R-TN): "This Memorial Day, I challenge everyone to find a way to honor our nation's fallen"
I remember the moment well. It was 1971. I was 26 and living in Memphis, Tenn. I went to get the mail, like I did every day. But, this day was different because there was a letter notifying me that I had been drafted. That is why when people ask me if I volunteered to join the Army, I always say, “Yes, I volunteered. I volunteered to get the mail.”
Originally, I was ordered to go to
The Hill
Mar 31 2020
News
Nancy Pelosi blames Trump for coronavirus deaths. But footage shows she downplayed virus after Trump took action.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has laid responsibly for American deaths from the coronavirus at President Donald Trump's feet, claiming his "delayed" response to the virus is costing American lives.
But just one month ago, as COVID-19 was ravaging China and beginning to emerge in the west, Pelosi told her constituents to practically ignore warnings about the virus.
Amid concerns that
The Blaze
Jun 20 2019
News
Biden not apologizing for remarks on segregationist senators
Joe Biden refused calls to apologize Wednesday for saying that the Senate “got things done” with “civility” even when the body included segregationists with whom he disagreed.
His rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, including the two major black candidates in the contest, roundly criticized Biden’s comments. But Biden didn’t back down and was particularly defiant in the
Associated Press
Mar 30 2021
News
Suez Canal
“Salvage teams on Monday finally freed the colossal container ship stuck for nearly a week in the Suez Canal, ending a crisis that had clogged one of the world’s most vital waterways and halted billions of dollars a day in maritime commerce. A flotilla of tugboats, helped by the tides, wrenched the bulbous bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given from the canal’s sandy bank, where it had been
The Flip Side
Sep 03 2020
Fact Check
FactChecking Trump’s Fox News Interview
In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that aired over two days, President Donald Trump made several false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims:
Trump falsely took credit for getting the National Guard to Kenosha to help quell violent protests. The guard had already been deployed when he first mentioned it.
Referencing a controversial policy allowing COVID-19 patients
FactCheck.org
Nov 22 2019
News
Ex-FBI lawyer reportedly under investigation for altering Russia probe document
A former FBI lawyer is being investigated for allegedly altering a document connected to the surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, according to a report Thursday.
CNN reported the investigation, citing several sources briefed on the matter.
The FBI official was not identified nor is it clear exactly how the allegedly altered document influenced the investigation of
Washington Times
Jun 26 2013
Opinion
Congress, give us new Voting Rights Act
In an earthshaking 1965 speech to Congress and to the nation, President Lyndon Johnson spoke directly to the sinister forces that had restricted black Americans' right to vote across the South -- laying out the goals of the Voting Rights Act in the form of a command to this shameful cabal.
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