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Dec 23 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Omicron's Spread Fuels Concern, COVID-19 Fatigue
Amid the spread of the seemingly mild but more contagious Omicron variant and a potential COVID-19 spike over the holidays, President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday a plan to distribute 500 million at-home COVID-19 tests for people who request them. While COVID-19 cases have risen nationwide in recent weeks, the Omicron variant became the dominant strain. The CDC reported this week that
AllSides Staff
Dec 10 2013
News
World Leaders Extol Mandela Before a Crowd of Thousands
Scores of leaders from around the globe,including President Obama, joined tens of thousands of South Africans in a vast stadium on Tuesday to pay common tribute to Nelson Mandela.
New York Times (News)
Mar 20 2024
Headline Roundup
Hong Kong Faces Western Criticism Over Beijing-Backed Security Law
The Chinese government pushed back on Wednesday against criticism of Hong Kong’s newly passed national security law, which includes provisions for life imprisonment for crimes such as treason and insurrection.
The Details: The law's unanimous passage comes two years after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law in the city following protests in 2019. Notably, local legislation
NBC News Digital
South China Morning Post 
The Epoch Times 
Jul 17 2020
News
Trump stares down a ticking economic time bomb
Government aid propping up the economy could soon disappear, schools are scrambling their plans and new shutdowns are slamming businesses — just before a key stretch of the general election.
It’s crunch time for the key issue President Donald Trump’s aides and advisers believe will determine his fate this November.
A stretch of critical decisions from mid-July until Labor Day
Politico
Feb 11 2021
Analysis
American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread
Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.
I. To My Mother you were born on July 9, 1964, in Greenwood, Mississippi, delivered into the cradle of white supremacy. Listening to the stories of terror and hope woven into the story of your birth used to frighten me. The year before you entered the world,
The Atlantic
Jan 25 2020
News
Sanders Seizes Lead in Volatile Iowa Race, Times Poll Finds
DES MOINES — Senator Bernie Sanders has opened up a lead in Iowa just over a week before the Democratic caucuses, consolidating support from liberals and benefiting from divisions among more moderate presidential candidates who are clustered behind him, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll of likely caucusgoers.
Mr. Sanders has gained six points since the last Times-Siena
New York Times (News)
Mar 02 2016
News
Donald Trump Overwhelms G.O.P. Rivals From Alabama to Massachusetts
Donald J. Trump won sweeping victories across the South and in New England on Tuesday, a show of strength in the Republican primary campaign that underscored the breadth of his appeal and helped him begin to amass a wide delegate advantage despite growing resistance to his candidacy among party leaders.
New York Times (News)
Oct 16 2019
News
The October Democratic Debate In 6 Charts
Last night, 12 candidates duked it out in Westerville, Ohio, in the fourth Democratic debate. Sen. Elizabeth Warren built on her past debate successes, receiving high marks from both voters who care more about defeating President Trump and voters who care more about a candidate whose positions they agree with. But she was not the only winner in the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted using
538 (ABC News)
Mar 04 2020
News
Biden’s Delegate Lead Is Small, but Could Be Hard to Overcome
Joe Biden not only reclaimed his status as a front-runner on Super Tuesday, but his victories also gave him a clear path to amassing enough delegates to clinch the nomination by the Democratic National Convention.
Bernie Sanders, the left wing’s champion, has dodged a knockout blow for now. While he has lost his lead in pledged delegates, he remains competitive in the delegate count,
New York Times (News)
Apr 10 2020
Background
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia and is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus
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