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Satire For The Right. And The Wrong.
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Iowa Democratic congressional candidate Rita Hart, who lost her race by six votes, will challenge the results in the House, forgoing state channels.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander, retiring this year after three terms, pleaded Wednesday with fellow senators to get the storied chamber back on track as the backbone of legislative compromise, warning against shortcuts such as Democrats’ ravenous appetite for doing away with the filibuster.
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'Our dangerous winter has arrived'
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Understandably, with COVID-19 raging, America — and the world — has turned its attention inward. But, as evidenced by the recent assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, the business of international relations has not paused. With escalating international tensions, America must continue to lead — both in arms and moral fortitude.
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If the Founders came to Congress tomorrow and saw the diminished role the legislative branch plays in the function of the federal government — the degree to which the legislature really is vanishing — it would be a mystery to them.
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Provisional figures indicate that 2020 will be one of the hottest in a record dating back to 1850.
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Democratic members of the "Squad" in the House of Representatives slammed former President Barack Obama for coming out against the “defund the police” slogan.
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President Donald Trump would sign a Senate Republican coronavirus relief measure, a White House official said on Wednesday, though it was unclear it would have the votes to pass the...
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President calls Section 230 "corporate welfare" for "Big Tech" and "serious threat to our National Security & Election Integrity."
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Krugman could at least have double-checked his own columns from a year ago just to make sure he didn’t write anything obviously dumb
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A lawyer for President Donald Trump's campaign said the team is preparing to file a lawsuit soon alleging ...
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Congress this week will seek a government funding deal and determine whether bipartisan consensus can be reached on additional COVID-19 relief.
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Episode 2 of The Bridge features the second half of our conversation with State Rep. Greg Rothman. Rothman represents the 87th house district, which includes the Cumberland County communities of Camp
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We find ourselves ten months into one of the most catastrophic global health events of our lifetime and, disturbingly, we still do not know how it began. What’s even more troubling is that despite the critical importance of this question, efforts to investigate the origins of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus and of the associated disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), have become mired in politics, poorly supported assumptions and assertions, and incomplete information.
To avoid or mitigate the dire consequences of this and future pandemics (here, people in PPE bury a victim in Delhi, India in June), unraveling the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 will be essential—even though a definitive answer may be elusive, and an objective analysis means broaching some uncomfortable possibilities. Image credit: Shutterstock/PradeepGaurs.
SARS-CoV-2 is a betacoronavirus whose apparent closest relatives, RaTG13 and RmYN02, are reported to have been collected from bats in 2013 and 2019, respectively, in Yunnan Province, China (1). COVID-19 was first reported in December 2019 more than 1,000 miles away in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. Beyond these facts, the “origin story” is missing many key details, including a plausible and suitably detailed recent evolutionary history of the virus, the identity and provenance of its most recent ancestors, and surprisingly, the place, time, and mechanism of transmission of the first human infection. Even though a definitive answer may not be forthcoming, and even though an objective analysis requires addressing some uncomfortable possibilities, it is crucial that we pursue this question. Preventing the next pandemic depends on understanding the origins of this one.
There are several potential origin scenarios. First, SARS-CoV-2 may …
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Why is a private Facebook group for women expelling Jewish members?
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A DOJ official said the department will continue to pursue allegations of fraud related to the 2020 election.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has launched investigations into several groups, including one founded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, for seeking to “aggressively” register “ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters” before the state’s Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections.
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LeBron James will be with the Lakers through the 2022-23 season as the sides agreed to a two-year, $85 million contract extension, his agent told ESPN and multiple outlets Wednesday.
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday formally embraced citizenship rights for 11 million illegal immigrants and a full erasure of all of President Trump’s get-tough border policies, as part of the party’s new unity platform.
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Former President Barack Obama Tuesday criticized the Democrat party for relying too long on the "same old folks."
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LLinWood and SidneyPowell1 will attend the Rally https://mobile.twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1333928103480012800 https://twitter.com/ali/status/1333940340680781824?s=21
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San Bernardino County emergency dispatchers have stopped sending an ambulance to all 911 calls, a strategy that’s lightening their load as coronavirus-related calls surge.
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Former military leaders calling for troops to oversee a presidential vote recount under martial law raised alarms for constitutional scholars and military-civilian experts.
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‘We lose people in the hands of police. It’s not a slogan but a policy demand,’ said Rep. Ilhan Omar.
