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Nov 14 2023
Headline Roundup
Hundreds of US Officials Urge Biden to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza
Hundreds of United States officials have reportedly signed internal memos submitted through the State Department’s “dissent channel” protesting the Biden Administration's handling of the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
Details: First established during the Vietnam War, the dissent channel allows officials to raise concerns and voice disapproval with federal policies.
New York Times (News) Reuters Washington TimesOct 04 2012
Opinion
Healthcare
America's health care financing and insurance systems need major reform. Policymakers should take decisive steps to move today's bureaucracy driven, heavily regulated third-party payment system to a new patient-centered system of consumer choice and real free-market competition. In such a system, individuals and families would make the key decisions and control the flow of dollars.
The Heritage FoundationMay 21 2024
Headline Roundup
Is Corporate Greed Causing Inflation? New Fed Report Disputes Biden's Claims
President Joe Biden has frequently attributed inflation to corporate greed. Is corporate price gouging the driving force behind inflation?
Details: A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco concluded that the inflation experienced over the past few years is not the result of corporate markups. The report stated, “markups have risen substantially in a few industries
CNN Digital Reuters Fox BusinessMar 04 2020
Opinion
The Democratic Party Wasn’t Ripe for a Takeover
Not long ago, commentators were declaring that “Bernie Sanders’ revolution is coming” and “It’s Bernie’s party’s now.” Pundits were delivering eulogies over the supposedly lifeless body of Joe Biden’s campaign. The moderate candidates in the Democratic presidential race who hadn’t yet dropped out were lagging behind Sanders. The only chance of stopping the Vermont senator’s socialist takeover
The AtlanticNov 01 2019
News
California’s Latino voters helped turn state blue. Will others catch the wave?
Latino voters in California skew Democratic, driven in part by the politics of immigration. Should that trend repeat nationally, the demographic tide of Latino votes could move more states onto the Democratic ledger.
Lorena Gonzalez remembers well the political earthquake that struck her home state of California 25 years ago. She felt it clear across the country, in Washington, D.C.,
Christian Science MonitorAug 12 2022
Headline Roundup
House Passes Inflation Reduction Act in Party-Line Vote
The House of Representatives voted 220-207 on Friday to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, the deal reached by Senate Democrats on climate change, healthcare and taxes.
All House Democrats voted in favor of the bill, and no House Republicans supported it. While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called it a “fabulous bill,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Democrats knew
CNN Digital Axios Washington ExaminerJan 28 2015
News
Arizona measles outbreak reaches 'critical point'
Two more cases of measles were confirmed in Arizona on Tuesday, and public health officials have warned that hundreds more people in the state may have been exposed this month.
Both of the cases confirmed Tuesday — a man in Pinal County and a woman in Phoenix — were linked to a family of four whose measles cases were confirmed last week following travel to Disneyland in California.
USA TODAYMar 11 2024
Headline Roundup
Trump Calls TikTok a National Security Threat But Opposes Ban
On Monday, 2024 Republican frontrunner and former President Donald Trump called TikTok a national security threat but opposed banning the app.
Details: Trump stated that despite data security risks posed by TikTok's Beijing-based parent company, “There’s a lot of good and there’s a lot of bad” with the platform. He argued a ban would empower Facebook, an “enemy of the people.” This
New York Daily News Forbes New York Post (News)May 14 2020
Headline Roundup
Amid Insider Trading Probe, Burr to Step Down from Intelligence Committee
Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) is set to step down as the Senate Intelligence Committee chairperson, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Thursday morning. This comes after Burr's Washington D.C. office was served a search warrant by the FBI Wednesday in relation to investigations of COVID-19 coronavirus-related insider trading allegations brought against Burr and several other
ProPublica Axios Fox News DigitalOct 29 2019
News
Democrats’ Secret Plan to Kill Third Parties in New York
The state party chairman, an ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, wants to quintuple the number of votes that a political party needs to secure a ballot line.
The chairman of the New York State Democratic Party is pushing a proposal that would essentially neuter almost all third parties, crippling one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s biggest political nemeses but also potentially helping conservatives
New York Times (News)