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Feb 11 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Trump's Second Impeachment Trial Begins
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Former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial began in the Senate this week. Trump is charged with "incitement of insurrection" leading to the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6 that left five people dead. Senators voted 56-44 Tuesday to proceed with the trial. 67 votes would be needed to convict Trump,
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Oct 18 2019
News
Can our friends trust the US as an ally? Most Americans say Trump's Syria move has hurt
Most Americans believe that President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from the Syrian border has damaged America’s reputation around the world as a reliable ally, a new USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds.
Even Republicans, typically in Trump’s corner, by 44%-36% say the nation’s reputation has been hurt.
Many of those surveyed express uncertainty about what to think; only half
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Dec 03 2014
News
Huckabee on Ferguson: Gov. Was 'Derelict in Duty' to Stop Looting
Gov. Jay Nixon was the most "most derelict governor I've ever seen" in exercising his "duty" during the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury opted not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen who attacked him, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Wednesday on "America’s Forum."
"His use of the National Guard was disgusting and
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Dec 03 2014
News
Dreamers Divided: Obama's Executive Actions Leave Some Young Immigrants Out
In June of 2012, Ramon Garibaldo got a text message from a friend telling him to turn on his television. President Barack Obama was giving a speech announcing his new policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, to allow undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to stay. Garibaldo was overjoyed at first -- he is undocumented, and moved from Mexico to Charlotte, North Carolina
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May 24 2019
News
Biden, Sanders Highlight Familiar Split In Democratic Party
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are very much on each other's minds.
At his campaign rally in Philadelphia Saturday, Biden went off script — twice — to deride a protester with a whistle.
"That must be Bernie or somebody," Biden said, raising eyebrows and drawing laughs.
Minutes later, with Biden talking about unity and governing amid more background whistling, he used the
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Dec 10 2019
News
Grassley Slams the FBI: Your Job is to Protect Americans, Not Harm Them
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is slamming the FBI after a new Department of Justice Inspector General report revealed agents repeatedly abused their power in order to obtain a FISA warrant on a Trump campaign official.
“Anyone who values fundamental civil liberties in the United States should be disgusted and terrified by what the inspector general uncovered in today
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Sep 06 2015
News
Exclusive: DEA chief says heroin ‘back with a vengeance,’ drugs a national security threat
“Not much of a gambler,” Chuck Rosenberg says about himself, a tad sheepishly. Indeed, in the seven deadly sins department, the new chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration is something of a zero: He’s never smoked marijuana, doesn’t drink alcohol, and lists as his only vice an excessive intake of Diet Dr. Pepper.
Such abstemiousness may be a prized attribute in the head of the lead
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May 10 2024
Headline Roundup
Police Killing of Airman Raises Questions About Police Brutality, Racism
Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, was fatally shot in his Florida apartment on May 3 by an Okaloosa County deputy responding to a disturbance call. The attorney for Fortson's family, Ben Crump, says police entered the wrong apartment.
The Details: Fortson was a member of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field. According to a witness who was reportedly on FaceTime
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Oct 14 2019
News
Columbus Day Or Indigenous Peoples' Day?
On Monday in the nation's capital, there is no Columbus Day. The D.C. Council voted to replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day in a temporary move that it hopes to make permanent. Several other places across the United States have also made the switch in a growing movement to end the celebration of the Italian explorer in favor of honoring Indigenous communities and their resiliency in the
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Apr 01 2021
Perspectives Blog
Surveys Show Republican Voters Actually Support Increasing the Minimum Wage, Just Not to $15/Hour
U.S. Congress will consider a $15 minimum wage for the second time soon. Joe Biden and most congressional Democrats want to more than double the minimum hourly wage from its current level of $7.25. Although Democrats have this policy goal, survey data (see below) show that the majority of Republican voters actually support raising the minimum wage as well, just not to a level as high as $15
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