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Aug 06 2021
News
Texas Governor Orders Review of Whether Gender-Transition Surgery Constitutes Child Abuse
Texas governor Greg Abbott on Friday directed the state Department of Family Protective Services to issue a determination on whether gender-transition surgery on children constitutes child abuse.
“Subjecting a child to genital mutilation through reassignment surgery creates a ‘genuine threat of substantial harm from physical injury to the child,’” Abbott wrote in a letter to the
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Oct 21 2014
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White House Confirms US Citizen Released from North Korea
The White House said on Tuesday that detained American tourist Jeffrey Fowle had been released from North Korea and was on his way home to be with his family. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the United States welcomed the move but pressed North Korea to release two other U.S. citizens as well.
"While this is a positive decision ... we remain focused on the continued detention of
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Nov 17 2021
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Oklahoma is preparing to defy its parole board and kill Julius Jones
Just hours before the scheduled execution of Julius Jones, a 41-year-old Black man convicted of a murder he says he didn’t commit, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt still hasn’t said whether he’ll commute the death sentence, as activists have urged.
Jones was found guilty and sentenced to death in 2002 for the murder of Oklahoma businessman Paul Howell. Jones, who has always maintained his
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Oct 28 2019
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In Pakistan's Kasur, child rapes and killings continue unabated
Kasur, Pakistan - Nine-year-old Faizan Muhammad stepped out of the mosque where his family lives in the small central Pakistani town of Chunian on a warm September evening.
Hours later, he had still not returned home, and his family began to fear the worst.
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Aug 06 2020
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Coronavirus: Dr Fauci says daughters have been harassed
Speaking to CNN, Dr Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said he had personally received death threats.
As a result he said he had hired security to protect his family.
The top doctor has been at odds with President Donald Trump at several points during the pandemic.
"Getting death threats for me and my family and harassing my daughters to the point
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Feb 19 2014
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Clashes in Kiev Kill Dozens as Protesters Cling to Square
Protesters in Kiev stoked what they are calling a “ring of fire” separating themselves from the riot police in a desperate final effort on Wednesday to defend a stage on Independence Square that has been a focal point of their protests and keep their three-month-old movement alive.
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Sep 12 2022
Perspectives Blog
Cognitive Biases and Brain Biology Help Explain Why Facts Don’t Change Minds
This piece originally appeared on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Keith M. Bellizzi, Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Connecticut
“Facts First” is the tagline of a CNN branding campaign which contends that “once facts are established, opinions can be formed.” The
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Dec 09 2019
Analysis
The Rise of Birth Control & the Decline of Civilization
In The Sociological Tradition, Robert Nisbet referred to the Industrial and French Revolutions as the two great ideas of the western world.[1] No two events so dramatically altered civilization as significantly, their temporal overlap only intensifying their effects.
If the two Revolutions are the two great ideas of the Western world, then the third great idea must be birth control. No
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Jan 28 2020
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White House To Unveil Mideast Peace Plan — Despite Palestinian Rejection
President Trump is expected to unveil his long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan that he hopes will bring about "the deal of the century." But the Palestinian leadership, which severed relations with the U.S. administration as it took a series of pro-Israel moves, has already rejected the plan.
The president was set to be joined by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in
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Jun 03 2021
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Jobless Claims Drop to Another Pandemic Low
Worker filings for initial jobless claims have dropped by 35% since late April, adding to signs of a healing labor market as the U.S. economy ramps up.
Weekly unemployment claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 385,000 last week from a revised 405,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said Thursday. Last week’s decline in claims marked the fifth straight week that new filings fell,
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