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WASHINGTONβFederal regulators this week are expected to unveil their plans for reversing Obama-era rules that require internet-service providers to treat all web traffic equally , a move that could fundamentally reshape the internet economy and consumers β online experience .\nThe changes , expected to be adopted at th... | allsides-corpus-300 |
During a conversation held Wednesday night on the invite-only Clubhouse appβan audio social network popular with venture capitalists and celebritiesβentrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan , several Andreessen Horowitz venture capitalists , and , for some reason , television personality Roland Martin spent at least an hour talk... | allsides-corpus-301 |
In Wednesday 's televised impeachment hearing , U.S . Ambassador William Taylor and State Department official George Kent `` did not paint a flattering portrait of our president , and his bootlickers in the House did n't look too good , either , '' Jimmy Kimmel said on Wednesday 's Kimmel Live . `` The president called... | allsides-corpus-302 |
The left is in a veritable state of hysteria as the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) moves to vote on Chairman Pai 's deregulatory `` Restoring Internet Freedom '' ( RIF ) order on Dec. 14 . It 's gotten so bad that incensed supporters of so-called `` net neutrality '' have taken to harassing commissioners ' c... | allsides-corpus-303 |
Well , it was bound to happen eventually . After near three years of all-out rhetorical war against tech giants , for politically-shifting sins including bigness , too much censorship , not enough censorship , data hoarding , and being too irresistible , policymakers are ready to move beyond cheap talk and start slappi... | allsides-corpus-304 |
Republicans on Monday blasted Secretary of State John Kerry for suggesting in a letter to his Iranian counterpart that the administration could help the country get around new visa restrictions passed by Congress .\nβ Instead of bending over backwards to try to placate the Iranian regime , the White House needs to be h... | allsides-corpus-305 |
WASHINGTON β Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired via Twitter after returning from an Africa trip during which he was out of the loop on North Korean talks and contradicted the White House position on Russia 's responsibility for poisoning a former double agent in the United Kingdom .\nIn other words , his last w... | allsides-corpus-306 |
The Obama administration acknowledged Monday that the FBI found at least 14,900 more email messages former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never turned over to the government , and officials are facing intense pressure to release them ahead of November β s election .\nA federal judge ordered the State Department to ... | allsides-corpus-307 |
President Donald Trump came into office promising to run the federal government like a private business , and , like almost any new chief executive officer , he β s looking to restructure .\nConversations with more than a dozen people in and outside of State who are involved in or monitoring the administration 's plans... | allsides-corpus-308 |
Trump Picks Heather Nauert , Former Fox News Anchor , As U.N . Ambassador\nFrom Fox & Friends to the State Department , and now likely to the United Nations .\nPresident Trump says he will nominate Heather Nauert , the State Department spokeswoman and a former Fox News host , to become the next ambassador to the U.N .\... | allsides-corpus-309 |
But the American ambassador to the United Nations , Nikki R. Haley , suggested that such a process was doomed as long as Mr. Assad was in power . β We know there β s not any sort of option where a political solution is going to happen with Assad at the head of the regime , β she said on CNN . β If you look at his actio... | allsides-corpus-310 |
Newly released internal FBI emails showed the agency 's highest-ranking officials scrambling to answer to Hillary Clinton 's lawyer in the days prior to the 2016 presidential election , on the same day then-FBI Director James Comey sent a bombshell letter to Congress announcing a new review of hundreds of thousands of ... | allsides-corpus-311 |
WASHINGTON β Former FBI director James Comey will soon testify in open session before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence , following revelations Friday that President Trump told Russian leaders that Comey is a `` nut job '' who was adding pressure to the high-stakes investigation of possible interference in th... | allsides-corpus-312 |
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified Wednesday that he would not have signed a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant renewal for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page had he known about the since-revealed misconduct surrounding those warrants -- while faulting the FBI for its handling of the... | allsides-corpus-313 |
Republicans finally got their chance Thursday to publicly question senior FBI agent Peter Strzok about his politically charged text messages with Lisa Page , a former FBI attorney he was personally involved with . It did not go exactly as the lawmakers hoped .\nIf the House GOP β s goal in grilling Strzok at length was... | allsides-corpus-314 |
The minute that self-appointed militiamen stepped onto the property of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge , liberals started worrying that these folks would not be held accountable for their criminal behavior . The group , led by the two sons of right wing radical Cliven Bundy , took over the refuge , demanding that ... | allsides-corpus-315 |
In a single moment , the Orlando shooting brought together three of the most contentious issues in the United States .\nWithin 12 hours of the attack , President Obama disparaged lax gun laws , Donald Trump tweeted about radical Islamic terrorism , and gay and lesbian celebrities decried a hate crime that took the live... | allsides-corpus-316 |
Senate liberals know they are going to lose the battle over fast-track trade authority . But they β re doing all they can to prolong the fight β perhaps even past the Memorial Day recess into June β in hopes that a long delay will damage the bill β s already difficult prospects in the House .\nA coalition of Senate Dem... | allsides-corpus-317 |
Democratic congressional leaders are loath to acknowledge it , but President Trump has them cornered with his threat to terminate NAFTA if his new trade deal with Mexico and Canada isn β t approved .\nScrapping the North American Free Trade Agreement without a replacement would deliver a heavy blow to the U.S. economy ... | allsides-corpus-318 |
As the president β s trade agenda approaches reality this week , misconceptions about it abound β partly because the noisy arguments for and against it have obscured the issue , and partly because of the emotionalism that trade stirs up .\nThe trade debate is a combination of both factual information about what β s act... | allsides-corpus-319 |
Abe to Congress : Japan wo n't shy away from reforms needed for trade pact\nJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country will not shy away from domestic reforms vital for its participation in a massive Asia-Pacific trade deal Tokyo is trying to close with the U.S. and other Asia-Pacific countries .\nβ Japan β s ... | allsides-corpus-320 |
We hear quite a bit of misleading rhetoric against China these days . Let 's grant , for argument 's sake , that the Chinese overproduce steel , dump some of that steel into Canada and Europe before it makes its way to the United States , pilfer intellectual property and have a plan to dominate the world by 2025 . It '... | allsides-corpus-321 |
CLOSE After a week of hints and uncertainty , President Donald Trump on Thursday announced tariffs on imported steel and aluminum but with temporary exemptions for Canada and Mexico as he seeks to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement . ( March 8 ) AP\nWASHINGTON β Despite warnings by allies that a trade war w... | allsides-corpus-322 |
In a move met by applause from at least one congressman , the Energy Department announced a pilot program for research into domestic mining of rare earth elements .\nRare earth elements are a series of seemingly obscure elements on the Periodic Table that are crucial for production of electronics , military equipment a... | allsides-corpus-323 |
Americans are being subjected to a massive public relations assault attempting to persuade them that β fracking β for natural gas and oil is the key to America β s energy future and that this change will free them forever from the bondage of oil imports .\nWhat has really changed is the nation β s energy conversation .... | allsides-corpus-324 |
Lawmakers are pushing to impose federal standards for protecting the country 's electric grid from attack in the wake of a new report about a sniper assault on a California electrical substation last year that has raised fears the power grid is vulnerable to terrorism .\nThe Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that S... | allsides-corpus-325 |
The Senate on Monday confirmed Dan Brouillette as the next U.S. energy secretary . Brouillette succeeds Rick Perry , who leaves the job as questions swirl in the impeachment inquiry about whether his dealings with Ukraine .\nBrouillette , 57 , has served as the Energy Department 's deputy secretary since 2017 , and he ... | allsides-corpus-326 |
Some who follow the issue say Keystone remains a tough call for the administration . Keystone foes pin hopes on Obama\nGreen activists aren β t resigned to losing the Keystone battle . But Friday β s latest blow was yet another disappointment in their often strained relationship with President Barack Obama .\nThe new S... | allsides-corpus-327 |
After spending more than five years and billions of dollars trying to re-create the U.S. shale boom overseas , some of the world β s biggest oil companies are starting to give up amid a world-wide collapse in crude prices .\nChevron Corp. CVX -0.02 % , Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM -0.78 % and Royal Dutch Shell PLC have packed... | allsides-corpus-328 |
Brussels ( AFP ) - Europe 's refugee and migrant crisis has escalated over the summer , leaving the continent divided over how to deal with a flood of people led by Syrians fleeing war in their homeland .\nA record surge in numbers , and the opening up of new routes over the Balkans in addition to the Mediterranean sea... | allsides-corpus-329 |
The EU β s chief negotiator , Michel Barnier , has welcomed Dominic Raab to Brussels with a thinly veiled critique of Theresa May β s Chequers plan and a 13-week deadline in which to solve the problem of the Irish border .\nAppearing with Barnier for the first time in the Belgian capital , the new Brexit secretary , cl... | allsides-corpus-330 |
β She doesn β t just believe in Europe , she embodies that and radiates it , β says Jan Techau , a political analyst at The German Marshall Fund of the United States . β That is a huge part of the deal . β\nBut Dr. von der Leyen , the first woman to take the European Union β s top job , has impeccable credentials for t... | allsides-corpus-331 |
Elchingen , in the German state of Bavaria is not used to foreigners . And when townspeople in the village , hemmed in by corn fields , found out in late 2013 that they were going to be hosts to dozens of asylum seekers , many fought back , going door-to-door gathering some 800 signatures to say β no . β\nβ I felt so a... | allsides-corpus-332 |
BUDAPEST , Hungary ( AP ) β Hungary on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in two of its southeastern counties in response to the migration crisis , a move that paves the way to deploy the army to the border with Serbia to stop the flow of migrants that has been entering the country .\nThe state of emergency gives au... | allsides-corpus-333 |
Boris Johnson faces a fresh pummeling in the Commons today as he tries to win support for a snap General Election .\nA furious Mr Johnson last night called for Britain to go to the polls , handing the future of Brexit back to the public after Remainers seized control of Parliament in a bid to rule out No Deal .\nThe Pr... | allsides-corpus-334 |
( CNN ) -- Did waterboarding and other coercive interrogation techniques that were used on al Qaeda detainees in CIA custody eventually lead to the Navy SEAL operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan early in the morning of May 2 , 2011 ?\nThe Senate Intelligence Committee report released Tuesday has a simple a... | allsides-corpus-335 |
Meet Gina , a spy for over 30 years , a devoted public servant and a devotee of Johnny Cash . β She β s dedicated her life to protecting our nation. β Meet Gina , a spy for over 30 years , an overseer of torture , and a destroyer of valuable documents . β She believes that waterboarding should be something that we use.... | allsides-corpus-336 |
CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell is stepping down and being replaced by White House lawyer Avril Haines , who will be the first woman to hold the post .\nWhen President Barack Obama named a successor to former CIA Director David Petraeus in January , Morell was passed over in favor of the White House counterterrorism... | allsides-corpus-337 |
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of βββ.com .\nMany debates over politics and policy begin with a battle over language . Before all sides can hash out their differences , there must be an understanding of what their words mean .\nFrom the months following 9/11 right up t... | allsides-corpus-338 |
WikiLeaks on Tuesday released what it said is the full hacking capacity of the CIA in a stunning 8,000-plus page disclosure the anti-secrecy website contends is β the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency . β\nThe 8,761 documents and files -- released as β Vault 7 Part 1 β and titled β Year Z... | allsides-corpus-339 |
While the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel , R-Neb. , to be secretary of defense has drawn opposition from groups who question his views on policy toward Israel and Iran , the nomination of White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to be CIA director may be delayed by senators who want to know more about l... | allsides-corpus-340 |
A year after the deadly `` Unite the Right '' rally in Charlottesville , Va. , white nationalist groups are treading cautiously into the anniversary weekend .\nThe violence in Charlottesville sparked damaging lawsuits against the organizers and a crackdown from tech companies that has complicated recruitment and fundra... | allsides-corpus-341 |
More than 45 million Americans live under the poverty line , and roughly 30 million more are near-poor ( defined as 1 to 1.5 times the poverty line ) , according to the latest Census Bureau data .\nthinking about poverty as being only about income levels obscures the important dimension of income uncertainty\nPoverty ,... | allsides-corpus-342 |
The places that have the very highest rates of mobility for black men , like Boston , actually have lower rates of upward mobility than the very worst places of upward mobility for white men , like Charlotte .\nChetty 's research showed that job growth and investment happening in Charlotte and Atlanta , for example , a... | allsides-corpus-343 |
Across America , there are pockets of poverty , communities that have been left behind or deprived of the basics needed to develop , like Pembroke Township , a small community south of Chicago along the Indiana border . In this community , one-third of the families live below the poverty line . It is one of the poorest... | allsides-corpus-344 |
Despite lingering gloom from the economic recession , life is getting much better for the most distressed people all over the world . Since the 1980s , the share of people living on less than $ 1.25 day has plummeted from 53 % to just 17 % in 2011 . Globally , those at the bottom of the economic ladder is β falling fas... | allsides-corpus-345 |
The notion that racism is solely about institutionalized white power simply doesn β t compute for most Americans .\nA couple of weeks ago , the New York Times editorial board hired a technology writer , Sarah Jeong . When it was revealed that she had tweeted barbs against white people , conservatives formed a Twitter m... | allsides-corpus-346 |
Feeling maligned by the media , Donald Trump is threatening to weaken First Amendment protections for reporters if he were president and make it easier for him to sue them .\n`` I love free press . I think it 's great , '' he said Saturday on βββ Channel , before quickly adding , `` We ought to open up the libel laws ,... | allsides-corpus-347 |
A major insight into human behavior from pre-internet era studies of communication is the tendency of people not to speak up about policy issues in publicβor among their family , friends , and work colleaguesβwhen they believe their own point of view is not widely shared . This tendency is called the β spiral of silenc... | allsides-corpus-348 |
Gloria Alvarez , the young woman from Guatemala I wrote about last week , just got blocked by Facebook . Why ? Because she criticizes socialism .\nAfter Alvarez joined me in my American studio to make a video we titled `` Socialism Fails Every Time , '' she flew to Mexico City to make a speech .\nA few days later she w... | allsides-corpus-349 |
If CNN reporter Jim Acosta is such a troublous force inside the White House Briefing Roomβa β rude , terrible person β as President Donald Trump recently put itβdeserving of being banned from White House grounds , then why did Trump and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders routinely call on him during the televised q... | allsides-corpus-350 |
President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon signed his much-hyped executive order on campus free speech β which he deemed a `` historic action to defend American students and American values '' that have `` been under siege '' on campuses .\n`` Under the guise of speech codes and safe spaces and trigger warnings , the... | allsides-corpus-351 |
Twitter 's verification program put the company at the center of another political headache this week , with the social media giant stuck between liberals who demand stricter rules about hate speech and misinformation and conservatives who fear the site will target them for their political views .\nTwitter 's `` blue c... | allsides-corpus-352 |
Earlier this month , I wrote a column asking what Democrats should do about sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden , the party 's presumptive nominee for president . My answer ? Not much . The accusation made by Tara Reade , a former Biden staffer from his days in the Senate during the early 1990s , did n't strik... | allsides-corpus-353 |
The head of US media giant CBS , Les Moonves , has resigned with immediate effect following allegations of sexual misconduct .\nCBS had been investigating Mr Moonves since allegations appeared in the New Yorker in July - and fresh accusations from six more women appeared on Sunday .\nMr Moonves , 68 , denies the allega... | allsides-corpus-354 |
Speaker Ryan On Sexual Harassment : 'We Are Having A Watershed Moment In This Country '\nHouse Speaker Paul Ryan , R-Wis. , says the rash of sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations coming to light could end up being a `` watershed moment '' in changing the culture β including on Capitol Hill β that has covered... | allsides-corpus-355 |
A new piece of evidence has emerged buttressing the credibility of Tara Reade β s claim that she told her mother about allegations of sexual harassment and assault related to her former boss , then-Sen. Joe Biden . Biden , through a spokesperson , has denied the allegations . Reade has claimed to various media outlets ... | allsides-corpus-356 |
Former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids , Iowa , April 30 , 2019 . ( Jonathan Ernst/Reuters )\nIt β s just basic American due process , so why is Betsy DeVos getting slammed ?\nWhy should Joe Biden get due process , but not others accused of sexual misconduct ?\nThat β s the question ... | allsides-corpus-357 |
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is facing a backlash for defending Rep. John Conyers and even questioning those accusing him of sexual harassment during a Sunday interview .\nPelosi , D-Calif. , touted Conyers , D-Mich. , on NBC β s β Meet the Press β as an American icon .\nβ John Conyers is an icon in our country... | allsides-corpus-358 |
Yesterday the New York Post reported that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is having an affair with Democratic strategist Tim Mynett . The allegation was made in divorce papers filed by his wife . In July , Omar filed for divorce from her current husband . A refresher :\nDr. Beth Jordan Mynett says her cheating spouse , Tim My... | allsides-corpus-359 |
Judge Rules Fewer Political Groups Can Keep Their Donors Secret\nA U.S. district court judge awarded a victory to campaign finance reform advocates on Tuesday when she ruled the Federal Election Commission was too loosely enforcing a campaign finance regulation passed in 2007 , allowing some big-money donors to remain ... | allsides-corpus-360 |
More trouble is looming for Sen. Robert Menendez ( D ) of New Jersey : According to an Associated Press investigation , the embattled New Jersey Democrat sponsored legislation that , if passed , would have aided one of his biggest donor 's investment in a natural gas vehicle conversion company .\nThe report , published... | allsides-corpus-361 |
Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has made her opposition to pricey fundraisers a staple of her presidential campaign . β I don β t do big-dollar fundraisers at all , β she told β Tonight Show β host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday .\nBut Warren has carved out a workaround to her pledge by speaking at high-dolla... | allsides-corpus-362 |
Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo has dipped into her campaign fund to buy more than $ 2,000 in gifts for her good friend and fellow Californian , House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi , from swank stores such as Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman .\nRep. Henry Cuellar ( D-Texas ) has dropped nearly $ 3,400 in campaign cash serv... | allsides-corpus-363 |
Several key nuances were lost in Donald Trump β s boasts about his fundraising haul on Tuesday , nearly 24 hours after the debate . | AP Photo Trump fundraising record not all it appears While the GOP nominee raised big money after debate , he may not be able to use much of it .\nWAUKESHA , Wis. β Donald Trump β s camp... | allsides-corpus-364 |
A protestor outside the location for the 2017 β Congress of Tomorrow β Joint Republican Issues Conference in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , January 25 , 2017 . REUTERS/Mark Makela\nConservatives who enter progressive domains like the academy or elite media are quite familiar with the idea of tolerance . Such institution... | allsides-corpus-365 |
A hair βββ owner in Dallas , Texas ; then , armed protestors in Michigan and other states ; recently , images of packed boardwalks and swimming pools ; and now the `` mass debate '' urging parishioners to attend regular religious services .\nAll of this in the face of dire consequences for public health amid an unrelen... | allsides-corpus-366 |
β The 360 β shows you diverse perspectives on the day β s top stories and debates .\nDebates over masks and other face coverings have been at the center of discussion since the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. For much of that time , the conversation focused largely on practical matters , like how eff... | allsides-corpus-367 |
Remember when the scariest kid in your neighborhood was the football jock who terrorized the high school with his minions in tow , and got bailed out by his rich parents when he went too far ? Or it was the gothic malcontent with the switchblade and the swagger . Either way , what made these high-status alphas so terri... | allsides-corpus-368 |
Below are some further comments and our speculations on how the tribes will evolve in Culture War 2.0 .\nWhile this tribe engages in full-out war with other tribes , they continue to make gains in legacy media , corporate HR and PR departments , and government institutions . With increased embeddedness of SJA values in... | allsides-corpus-369 |
Manson and his β family β became notorious for the murder of Sharon Tate and six others during the summer of 1969\nCharles Manson , the pseudo-satanic sociopath behind a string of killings that shocked California out of its late 1960s cultural reverie , died on Sunday after almost a half century in prison .\nThe 83-yea... | allsides-corpus-370 |
Donald Trump likes to deliver big promises on infrastructure . Delivering an actual infrastructure plan , though , is a different matter . ( Sound familiar ? ) Trump β s problem is that while strengthening the nation β s infrastructure would be very popular with voters , who would benefit from the improved transit and ... | allsides-corpus-371 |
Story highlights `` Too early to conclude pilot error , '' NTSB chief says\nThe agency is also looking to see if the plane 's computer was handling landing\nSaturday marked the pilot 's first time landing a Boeing 777 at the San Francisco airport\nAsiana Airlines Flight 214 was flying far slower than recommended as it ... | allsides-corpus-372 |
The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that slammed into the Alps appears to have practiced for the deadly descent by setting controls to dangerously low altitudes during a flight earlier that day , French investigators said Wednesday .\nThe revelation contained in a 30-page interim report from the French accident inves... | allsides-corpus-373 |
Trump β s proposal would be a step in the right direction .\nIf you think about the businesses you really hate , you β ll notice that many of them have something in common : They are in industries with a big federal footprint β banks , cable companies , health-insurance providers , and , bane of my personal existence ,... | allsides-corpus-374 |
The Trump administration on Tuesday ended the most popular forms of U.S. travel to Cuba , banning cruise ships and a heavily used category of educational travel in an attempt to cut off cash to the island 's communist government .\nCruise travel from the U.S. to Cuba began in May 2016 during President Barack Obama 's o... | allsides-corpus-375 |
WASHINGTON ( βββ ) - Democrats in Congress will press U.S. President Donald Trump at a White House meeting on Wednesday for details on how to pay for a massive boost in U.S. infrastructure spending after agreeing in April to try to win approval of a $ 2 trillion package .\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democrat... | allsides-corpus-376 |
The left generally supports the deal as a marginal improvement on NAFTA and a win for organized labor .\nβ While this measure has some things not to like , it has others that are worthy . The USMCA would do away with a back-channel dispute resolution mechanism that corporations have used to demand concessions from the ... | allsides-corpus-377 |
The Trump administration has quietly altered its handling of visas granted to immigrants who cooperate with criminal investigations , allowing people to be deported even while they are waiting for their visas .\nThe change to U visas will make immigrants far less likely to report serious crimes , say immigration attorn... | allsides-corpus-378 |
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico for immigration court hearings while the policy is challenged in court , handing the president a major victory , even if it only proves temporary .\nThe 9th U.S . Circuit Court of Appeals β a frequent target of th... | allsides-corpus-379 |
WASHINGTON β Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said President Trump is β deadly serious β about imposing tariffs on Mexico to push the country to stop the flow of migrants crossing the US southern border .\nβ He is absolutely , deadly serious , β Mulvaney said on β Fox News Sunday. β β I fully expect thes... | allsides-corpus-380 |
The Trump administration has reportedly found a way to force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico during the months , or longer , that it takes to apply for protection in the US , making the tens of thousands of Central Americans and others who flee northward to the US each year essentially Mexico β s problem to solve .\nO... | allsides-corpus-381 |
The US and Canada struck a last-minute NAFTA deal Sunday night .\nHours before the midnight deadline , the two countries agreed to a framework for a renewed trilateral agreement between the United States , Mexico , and Canada . Newly dubbed the β USMCA β β the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement β it β s basically an updated ve... | allsides-corpus-382 |
A defiant Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged Greeks on Wednesday to reject an international bailout deal , wrecking any prospect of repairing broken relations with EU partners before a referendum on Sunday that may decide Greece 's future in Europe .\nLess than 24 hours after he wrote a conciliatory letter to creditor... | allsides-corpus-383 |
While many Americans have used their stimulus checks to cover basic needs such as groceries , mortgage or rent , there β s evidence people are also spending the money on non-essentials including electronics , clothes and toys , according to major retailers .\nβ Call it relief spending , as it was heavily influenced by ... | allsides-corpus-384 |
Tony ( last name not included for fear of reprisal on the job ) has worked at Bank of America for 11 years as a customer service associate . He takes phone calls from customers whose needs range from a simple change of address to a family crisis that leaves the caller unable to pay their bills , and he tries to help th... | allsides-corpus-385 |
The storm clouds of the next global financial crisis are gathering despite the world financial system being unprepared for another downturn , the deputy head of the International Monetary Fund has warned .\nDavid Lipton , the first deputy managing director of the IMF , said that β crisis prevention is incomplete β more... | allsides-corpus-386 |
NEW YORK ( βββ ) - Wall Street sold off sharply on Wednesday as recession fears gripped the market after the U.S. Treasury yield curve temporarily inverted for the first time in 12 years .\nAll three major U.S. indexes closed down about 3 % , with the blue-chip Dow posting its biggest one-day point drop since October a... | allsides-corpus-387 |
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. , speaks about the so-called Heroes Act , Tuesday , May 12 , 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington . Pelosi unveiled a more than $ 3 trillion coronavirus aid package Tuesday , providing nearly $ 1 trillion for states and cities , β hazard pay β for essential workers and a new round of ... | allsides-corpus-388 |
Washington ( CNN ) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face voters on Tuesday , just two weeks after he took a major political gamble by giving a controversial speech to the U.S. Congress against the Obama administration 's wishes .\nThe White House , clearly angered by an address criticizing its Iran deal-m... | allsides-corpus-389 |
Israel 's Election : Exit Polls Show Netanyahu 's Likud , Opposition In Tight Race\nExit polls released after the close of voting in Israel 's national election show that the race is too close to call .\nIsrael 's Channel 1 and Channel 10 both said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's Likud party and Isaac Herzog 's Zi... | allsides-corpus-390 |
In a parting , spiteful shot at Israel , the Obama administration permitted a U.N. Security Council resolution to pass that seeks to permanently change the international legal status of so-called Israeli β settlements β in Jerusalem and the disputed West Bank . Departing from almost 50 years of bipartisan American prec... | allsides-corpus-391 |
Egypt 's president on Thursday issued constitutional amendments that placed him above judicial oversight and ordered the retrial of Hosni Mubarak for the killing of protesters in last year 's uprising .\nMohammed Morsi also decreed immunity for the Islamist-dominated panel drafting a new constitution from any possible ... | allsides-corpus-392 |
Story highlights President Obama is visiting Israel , will meet with Benjamin Netanyahu\nAaron David Miller : Obama 's attempt to repair relationship with Netanyahu is smart\nHe says Netanyahu is mindful of his legacy to avoid being seen as a do-nothing leader\nMiller : Fighting has n't worked before ; Obama and Netany... | allsides-corpus-393 |
Iran has backed Syria 's `` right to defend itself '' after Israel launched strikes on what it said was Iranian military infrastructure inside Syria .\nIn the first comments by Iran since Thursday 's wave of strikes , the foreign ministry condemned the `` blatant violation of Syria 's sovereignty '' .\nThe strikes were... | allsides-corpus-394 |
ROMEβJust when you thought the Vatican β s image problem couldn β t get any worse , what with endemic clerical child abuse and a near bankrupt American arm of the church , it does . A new report pulls back the red velvet curtain on a bizarre new tidbit about the Vatican β s other dirty little secret : its finances .\nT... | allsides-corpus-395 |
As leaders sitting on two of Donald Trump 's business councils took stock of Trump 's repulsive defense of neo-Nazi and white supremacist violence , many concluded they just could n't stomach a continued alliance with Trump 's administration and decided to cut ties .\nBut what of religious leaders who also prize their ... | allsides-corpus-396 |
Media that focus on scandals and spread fake news to smear politicians risk becoming like people who have a morbid fascination with excrement , Pope Francis said in an interview published on Wednesday .\nFrancis told the Belgian Catholic weekly Tertio that spreading disinformation was β probably the greatest damage tha... | allsides-corpus-397 |
Religion is apparently weakening in America . A new report from the Pew Research Center shows that the percentage of Americans who say they believe in God , pray daily and attend church regularly is declining .\nThe share of Americans who say they are `` absolutely certain '' that God exists has dropped 8 percentage po... | allsides-corpus-398 |
A striking display of compassion from the brother of a murder victim to his killer was , to some , a heart-wrenching example of empathy . But to others , it was a painful example of African Americans forced to respond to acts of violence with understanding , writes Barrett Holmes Pitner .\nOn Wednesday , former Dallas ... | allsides-corpus-399 |
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