Month: April 2020

Election volunteer Nancy Gavney verifies voter and witness signatures on absentee ballots at City Hall during the presidential primary election in Beloit, Wisc., April 7, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) This is what the Constitution wanted us to avoid. I‘m sorry, but you have no constitutional “right” to vote by mail. You have no constitutional “right” to
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A worker piles up a shipment containing personal protective equipment (PPE) as the spread of the coronavirus continues in Bari, Italy, April 7, 2020. (Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters) The Department of Health and Human Services revealed Wednesday that the nation’s federal stockpile was deploying nearly all of its remaining personal protective equipment (PPE), confirming a Congressional report
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California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes discusses Democrat efforts to withhold impeachment transcripts. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX News Edge.
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Musician John Prine performs at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Mass., September 19, 2016. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The singer-songwriter, who passed away Tuesday at 73 from coronavirus-related complications, found greatness in a natural relatability. My grandfather was a country singer, the kind who usually played in bars. He sometimes played guitar for people who’d
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Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri has frequently used humor in her items (usually published in Saturday’s print edition), so it was no surprise when her latest item tried to concoct a post-apocalyptic view of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as a fanatical, heartless, ruthless scourge still confirming federal court judges despite the fact that
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Pope Francis suggested the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus may be nature’s response to climate change in comments in an email interview with Commonweal Magazine’s Austen Ivereigh published Wednesday. The interview was conducted in Spanish and translated by Ivereigh into English. Pope Francis celebrates Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on April 5,
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Just how far can state governments go in limiting liberty in an emergency? Far enough to make Texas’ order limiting health-care options to essentials constitutional, the Fifth Circuit ruled last night, reinstating the order that blocks almost all abortions in the state. Texas arguably had a legitimate and urgent state interest in rationing surgical supplies
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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders listens to a question during the 11th Democratic candidates debate of the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign in Washington, March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) announced on Wednesday that he is dropping out of the presidential race. Sanders said in a speech from his hometown
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders announces that he is suspending his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in a livestream broadcast from his home in Burlington, Vt., April 8, 2020. (Bernie Sanders 2020 Campaign/Reuters) As he bows out of what will presumably be his final White House run, the Democratic Party appears to be
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Are the Hispanic networks covering up unfavorable news for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign? That’s what it looks like. This time, it´s about a sexual harassment accusation against Joe Biden by Tara Reade, a former assistant of then-Senator Biden. It was not until the Spanish-speaking national network Azteca America, published a radio interview with Reade and
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President Donald Trump speaks during the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 5, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The coronavirus pandemic is just the latest of his trials. The most inane of the many fatuous arguments raging over the administration’s handling of the coronavirus is the debate about whether the Democrats distracted President
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