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Nov 23 2021
Headline Roundup
Biden Orders Release of 50M Barrels of Oil From Strategic Petroleum Reserves
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden ordered the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve in an effort to bring down energy costs.
Japan, India, China, The United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea will also tap their reserves in a coordinated effort to drive down prices. According to AAA, gasoline prices in the U.S. are about 50% higher than a year ago. Some
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Feb 22 2016
News
The media's firewall against Donald Trump: The voters must be dummies or racists
Just when it seemed the media were starting to accept Donald Trump’s front-runner status after South Carolina, we had a newspaper throwing a temper tantrum.
New York’s Daily News, ticked off at the outcome, blamed the voters with this front-pa
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Jun 05 2020
Opinion
With these racist markers in place, there can be no peace
(CNN) - As many of America's cities burn and our democracy feels like it's unraveling, attacks on Confederate monuments in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis may seem incongruous to those who believe that these protests are only about what happened there. Yet the uprisings in American cities since Floyd's death, and the vandalizing and tearing-down of statues dedicated to men
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Jun 24 2017
News
Maritime Mystery: Why a U.S. Destroyer Failed to Dodge a Cargo Ship
There should have been lookouts on watch on the port, starboard and stern of the destroyer Fitzgerald — sailors scanning the horizon with binoculars and reporting by headsets to the destroyer’s bridge. At 1:30 a.m. last Saturday, off the coast of Japan south of Tokyo, they could hardly have failed to see the 730-foot freighter ACX Crystal, stacked with more than 1,000 containers, as it closed
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Feb 15 2020
News
What Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer had to say to a room filled with people of faith
LAS VEGAS — The Rev. Alvin Herring believes in the power of a good conversation. No matter whether he’s helping people register to vote, increase census participation or expand religion’s role in the public square, he thinks talking with neighbors about why it matters is the starting point for large-scale change.
It’s no surprise, then, that the Rev. Herring, who serves as executive
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Feb 18 2016
News
The Destroyer Cometh
Donald Trump is running riot in the GOP china shop and gleefully tearing the place up. Consider the strength of Trump’s position: If he wins South Carolina by a big margin, he goes into Nevada with momentum, and the latest poll there has him leading by
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Oct 11 2014
News
Suspected US Drone Strike Kills 2 in Afghanistan
A suspected U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan near its border with Pakistan killed two people, Pakistani intelligence said Saturday, as a Taliban suicide bomber killed a police officer in the country's south.
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Dec 11 2013
News
Obama's antics at Nelson Mandela tribute: Jovial conversation, handshake with Raul Castro
The spotlight on President Obama's day in Johannesburg marking the life of the late South African leader Nelson Mandela was stolen by a controversial handshake and an oddly timed selfie.
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Dec 10 2013
News
Nelson Mandela Memorial Draws Mourners And Leaders From Around The World
World leaders and joyous singing South Africans gathered Tuesday to honor Nelson Mandela at a Soweto soccer stadium that was half full amid cold driving rain.
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Nov 09 2019
News
Ocasio-Cortez adds excitement to Sanders rally as campaign claims record crowd
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia. — U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday made the first trip of her life to Iowa, and helped draw what U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign is calling the largest crowd in the state so far in the 2020 cycle.
More than 2,400 people filled an Iowa Western Community College arena to hear Ocasio-Cortez, a political celebrity who recently endorsed Sanders’
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