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Feb 09 2017
News
A Brief History of the Senate Rule That Silenced Elizabeth Warren
The prohibition on impugning a fellow senator dates back to a fistfight in 1902. But it’s an edict that is rarely, if ever, enforced. Rule XIX—the suddenly infamous Senate edict that Republicans invoked Tuesday night to silence Elizabeth Warren—began 115 years ago with a fistfight in the Capitol.
In February 1902, the Senate was debating a bill related to the Philippines when Senator
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Dec 26 2012
News
Fiscal deal failure would dent monthly budgets for millions
Families across the country might soon have to start trimming back their monthly budgets, with lawmakers running out of time and ideas for averting a crushing set of tax hikes.
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Jun 10 2021
Perspectives Blog
AllSides Live: Should AllSides Censor Instagram Comments?
This week on AllSides Live, our Instagram Live Show, we were joined by Sharon McMahon, a former high school government and law teacher on a mission to combat political misinformation. You may know her from her viral Instagram account @SharonSaysSo, where she's amassed over 600,000 followers. Sharon is dedicated to sharing non-partisan facts about the US government and democracy.
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Jan 10 2020
News
Iran denies firing missile that downed Ukrainian jet, calls for evidence
Multiple officials told NBC News that U.S. intelligence officials have evidence suggesting the jetliner was brought down by a missile in error.
Iran has strongly denied that a Ukraine International Airlines jetliner that crashed in Iran shortly after takeoff earlier this week, killing 176 people, was downed by an Iranian missile by mistake.
"What is obvious for us, and what we
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Jul 13 2016
News
How a controversial study found that police are more likely to shoot whites, not blacks
Roland Fryer Jr. never cared much for the cops. When he was growing up, his family dealt crack in Daytona Beach, Fla., and while Fryer was on his way to becoming a celebrated economist at Harvard University, many of his cousins and closest friends were serving mandatory sentences in prison. During his childhood, encounters with police were fraught with danger.
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Oct 23 2019
News
BREAKING: Dallas Jury Grants Mother Sole Custody of Purported Transgender Child
“You’ve heard of people who can’t agree if the sky is blue. These parents can’t even agree if their child is a boy or a girl,” said Logan Odeneal, the lawyer for Jeff Younger, in his concluding remarks to the jury in a drawn-out custody battle.
For the past week, jurors have been sitting through a family court trial between Younger and Anne Georgulas, who argued over whether their seven
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Apr 18 2017
News
THE WEST WING LOOKS GOOD ON IVANKA TRUMP’S BRAND
Surrounded by photographers at Mar-a-Lago, Arabella Kushner shifted on her feet as she sang a traditional song in Mandarin. The gesture, which her mother, Ivanka Trump, posted on Instagram, was to welcome Chinese president Xi Jinping to the United States, and to her family’s private club in Palm Beach, where her father, President Donald Trump, would discuss trade, North Korea, and later, over
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Jul 27 2020
Fact Check
What Science Says About Children, COVID-19 and School Reopenings
In promoting the reopening of schools this fall, Trump administration officials have, at times, inaccurately described the evidence on how COVID-19 affects children:
Adm. Brett Giroir, the coronavirus task force lead on testing, said on July 12 that studies in other countries show “young children do not seem to spread the virus” and “don’t get sick.” Children are very rarely seriously
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Oct 21 2019
News
The lessons of a shootout in Sinaloa
THE GUN battles on the streets of the Mexican city of Culiacán was, once again, a tale of organised crime against the disorganised state. It started as an attempt by soldiers and other armed law enforcers to arrest a prized target: Ovidio Guzmán López, whose father, Joaquín (aka “El Chapo”), once ran the Sinaloa drug gang and is serving a life sentence in an American prison. Chapo Junior now
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Sep 07 2016
News
Behind Closed Doors, Donald Trump’s Adviser Explains His Real Economic Plan
At a private meeting of conservatives in Cleveland this summer, Donald Trump’s senior economic adviser, Stephen Moore, said the candidate planned to pay for his costly proposals by eliminating the departments of Commerce, Energy and Education; lifting all restrictions on mining, drilling and fracking; ending Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programs, and offering rust-belt factory
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