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Apr 24 2021
News
Vaccine passports: Pandemic spurs rise of portable health records
On a snowy April morning, Laurie Riley is heading to Aruba. Prior to the pandemic, she would come to Boston’s Logan Airport with her ticket and passport. Now, she also carries her COVID-19 test results before boarding the flight. She printed them out and also put them on an app in her cellphone, called CommonPass.
In Aruba, the pass will give her access to dedicated immigration lanes
Christian Science Monitor
May 28 2020
News
How a “Bunch of Badass Queer Anarchists” Are Teaming Up With Locals to Block a Pipeline Through Appalachia
“Life in these mountains ain’t always been easy, so people around here take a stand when they see something they don’t agree with—and I’m one of them,” says walrus-mustached Jammie Hale in his thick southwestern Virginia mountain accent. “People that grow up in places like this, seeing their environment destroyed, it stirs them, it causes people to want to get involved, and that’s why I’m
Mother Jones
Oct 01 2020
Analysis
The definitive case for ending the filibuster
Every argument for the filibuster, considered and debunked.
If Joe Biden wins the White House, and Democrats take back the Senate, there is one decision that will loom over every other. It is a question that dominated no debates and received only glancing discussion across the campaign, and yet it is the master choice that will either unlock their agenda or ensure they fail to deliver
Vox
Jul 09 2012
News
Obama pushes for tax hike on top earners, extension of Bush-era rates for others
President Obama, amid charges of class warfare, pushed Monday for a tax hike on families earning more than $250,000 -- and an extension of the Bush-era tax rates for families making less than that. The president, speaking in the East Room of the White House, said he wants to break through the "stalemate" over taxes in Congress. He argued that sustaining the current tax rates for top earners
Fox News Digital
Aug 02 2019
News
North Korea Conducts Third Missile Test Since Last Week Amid Stalled Talks With U.S.
North Korea has reportedly conducted a third test launch in just over a week, firing what appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles, according to South Korean officials.
The presidential office in Seoul said the South Korean and U.S. militaries believe the test to be of short-range ballistic missiles. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff noted that they flew about 137 miles and
NPR (Online News)
Jun 25 2020
Opinion
Stand Up, Republicans
According to recent polls, 65% of all Americans now support Black Lives Matter (BLM). Why do so many Americans support an “organization” that is avowedly dedicated to the proposition that America is evil and must be fundamentally transformed? Because the Republican establishment has made remarkably little effort to expose BLM as the revolutionary and totalitarian movement that it is.
The American Mind
Sep 30 2016
News
Trump Foundation lacks the certification required for charities that solicit money
Donald Trump’s charitable foundation — which has been sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family — has never obtained the certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public, according to the state attorney general’s office.
Washington Post
Aug 23 2016
News
A New Report on America's Wealth Gap Shows Bernie Sanders Is Right to Be Grumpy
A new Congressional Budget Office report examining trends in family wealth confirms what most Americans know from experience: The poor are buried in debt, the middle class is stuck, and—shocker—the most wealthy are piling up all the green.
Mother Jones
Dec 07 2020
News
Biden's ambassador to the GOP
Sen. Chris Coons' relationships with Republicans will be critical to advancing the new president's agenda.
Chris Coons was in the final two when it came to Joe Biden’s search for a secretary of State. But the president-elect had a simple message when he broke the news that the job would instead go to Tony Blinken.
“I need you in the Senate,” Biden told his Delaware ally during a
Politico
Jan 17 2024
Headline Roundup
China’s Population Declines for Second Year
China’s population fell for the second straight year in 2023, officials said Wednesday, as the country’s leaders failed to convince citizens to have more children.
The Details: China’s population dropped by 2.08 million in 2023, from 1.4118 billion to 1.4097 billion — even steeper than 2022’s decline of 850,000. Births dropped for the seventh straight year, with 500,000 fewer babies
New York Times (News)
The Daily Caller
South China Morning Post