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Congressman Kevin McCarthy Scolded over Trump Audiotapes

April 24, 2022 Maja Popovska

After an audiotape surfaced showing Congressman Kevin McCarthy, declaring that then-President Donald Trump should hand in his resignation amid the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, the leading Republican in the House of Representatives […]

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LUNCHTIME POLITICS: Latest Numbers from France – Rating Multi-Billionaires, DeSantis – Pennsylvania, Missouri Primaries

April 23, 2022 John Ganjei

Your Daily Polling Update for Saturday, April 23, 2022 BIDEN JOB APPROVAL: AVERAGE 42%Up 1 from Thursday RON’S COMMENT: Today’s average is based on five polls, ranging from 40% (Trafalgar-R) to 43% (Reuters, Economist). Biden’s […]

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Nancy Pelosi Makes Second Cameo on RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars

April 23, 2022 Maja Popovska

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is gearing up to rejoin the Glamazons for a comeback appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars, The Hill reported. According to Paramount+, Pelosi will make a “special cameo” on the forthcoming […]

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COVID-19 is The Third Most Common Cause of Death in US: CDC

April 23, 2022 Maja Popovska

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy explained why he still wears a mask on aircraft despite the lack of a mandate in a Twitter conversation, noting that “our actions impact others,” The Hill reported. Today, we’ll look […]

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Biden Takes Dig at Republicans, Calls it ‘The MAGA Party’

April 23, 2022 Maja Popovska

During his Earth Day speech on Friday, US President Joe Biden called the Republican opposition the “MAGA party,” referring to the infamous slogan used by former President Donald Trump “Make America Great Again.” During statements […]

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House Committee Says Meadows Was Warned About Jan. 6 Riot

April 23, 2022 Maja Popovska

On Friday, the House committee probing the Capitol riot urged a federal court to execute its subpoena of former White House top staff, Mark Meadows, presenting new proof that the former White House chief of […]

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Strong Winds Spread Wildfires Across US Southwest

April 23, 2022 Maja Popovska

On Friday, howling winds drove wildfires near settlements in northern New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people to abandon their homes as fires raged across the arid United States Southwest, Reuters reports. According to local officials, […]

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Shanghai Lockdown Gets Even Stricter

April 22, 2022 Dime

Shanghai has further tightened its already strict lockdown, which has been ongoing for nearly a month. Chinese authorities further tightened the Covid restrictions and warned the massive city’s 25 million residents that strict measures would […]

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Earth Day: Now Or Never For The Planet

April 22, 2022 Dime

Today is Earth Day, and experts say the earth is hurting. This year’s Earth Day theme is “Invest in our Planet,” with a focus on encouraging world leaders, businesses, and individuals to invest and switch […]

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Federal Judge Halts Kentucky’s Restrictive New Abortion Law

April 22, 2022 Dime

Kentucky’s restrictive new abortion law has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge, handing a win to abortion providers challenging the harshest abortion restrictions in the country. Louisville-based U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings, an […]

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French Presidential Election is a Battle of Bad Reputations

April 22, 2022 Dime

The French presidential election is looming. The decisive election is to be held on Sunday, and in the run-up, posters across France for either of the top candidates have all been defaced, the BBC informed. […]

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Supreme Court Upholds Excluding Puerto Rico from Benefits Program

April 22, 2022 Dime

The Supreme Court has decided to uphold the differential treatment of Puerto Rico, ruling that Congress can exclude the U.S. territory from a benefits program that is available to all 50 states and the District […]

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Trump Blasts Biden’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan

April 22, 2022 Dime

In a speech on Thursday, former President Donald Trump stated that US President Joe Biden had left the US more vulnerable to its adversaries, particularly by evacuating US soldiers from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, […]

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Ocasio-Cortez Warns the Republicans Would Overturn Election

April 22, 2022 Dime

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, warned that if Republicans retake the House of Representatives this year, they would be able to overturn a future presidential election, Fox News informed. Thousands of Trump supporters left his […]

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Appeals Court Finds that Democrats Illegally Drew New Congressional Districts

April 22, 2022 Dime

Late Thursday, a New York State mid-level appeals court found that Democrats illegally created new congressional districts to unjustly benefit their own party, Fox News informed. Democrats created congressional districts unconstitutionally “to hinder competition or […]

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Democrats from Florida Protest Legislation on House Floor

April 22, 2022 Dime

Despite protests from Democratic members who staged a sit-in to put the legislative body into break, the Florida House of Representatives approved the state’s new congressional map on Thursday, Fox News informed. According to The […]

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Henry Cuellar Claims President Biden is Hurting Democrats ahead of Midterms

April 22, 2022 Dime

By pressing forward with his repeal of Title 42, Rep. Henry Cuellar claims that President Biden is hurting Democrats ahead of the November elections while also assisting the cartels, Fox News informed. Cuellar, a Democrat […]

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LUNCHTIME POLITICS: Macron Widens Lead – Ukraine Options – Presidential Debates – Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Hampshire Polls

April 21, 2022 John Ganjei

Your Daily Polling Update for Thursday, April 21, 2022 BIDEN JOB APPROVAL: AVERAGE 41%Up 1 from a week ago RON’S COMMENT: Today’s average is based on five polls, ranging from 35% (Quinnipiac) to 45% (Politico/Morning […]

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Chinese Official Who Praised CPC Visits Harvard

April 21, 2022 Dime

A Chinese government official gave a speech at Harvard University this past weekend, claiming that the Communist Party of China (CPC) is a “great party” and that human rights issues in China are “lies,” Fox […]

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Liz Cheney Raised More Funds from Blue States than from Wyoming

April 21, 2022 Dime

Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, profited from a large fundraising haul in the first quarter of 2022, but a close examination indicates that the great majority of the funding came from heavily Democratic […]

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Florida House Adopts Legislation to Strip Disney’s Self Governing Status

April 21, 2022 Dime

On Thursday, the Florida House of Representatives approved a bill dissolving Walt Disney World’s special governing authority in the state, Fox News informed. The action could have significant financial ramifications for Disney, whose theme parks […]

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Mexico-US Narcotics Unit Closed, President Confirms

April 21, 2022 Maja Popovska

Mexico’s president announced on Thursday that a special narcotics unit that collaborated with the US on drugs operations was shut down last year, confirming a Reuters report and stating that the squad had been infiltrated […]

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Putin Calls Off Storming Mariupol Plant, but Orders Blockade

April 21, 2022 Maja Popovska

Russian President Vladimir Putin said it would be “impractical” to attack the plant in Mariupol where Ukrainian forces were holding out, and tried to claim a victory in the besieged city even though his forces […]

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Wimbledon Bans Players from Russia and Belarus

April 21, 2022 Maja Popovska

Russian and Belarusian tennis players will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year, ESPN reports. The decision to ban players from Russia and Belarus makes Wimbledon the first Slam to ban players from […]

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Doctors and health experts echo the FDA’s advice that non-invasive prenatal genetic screening tests need to be analyzed by a qualified medical provider.

FDA Warns of False Results with Prenatal Genetic Screening Tests

April 21, 2022 Maja Popovska

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new warning about common prenatal genetic screening tests that are done for abnormalities, ABC News reports. The FDA warned people about the risks of “false results, inappropriate […]

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Student Loan Borrowers Will Get Help

April 21, 2022 Maja Popovska

The U.S. Department of Education says it will retroactively help millions of federal student loan borrowers who have been hurt and held back by its income-driven repayment plans, and called the plays’ longstanding flaws and […]

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Netflix Shares Dive 25% after First Lost Subscribers Report

April 21, 2022 Maja Popovska

For the first time in a decade, Netflix reported a subscriber loss. Shares of the popular streaming service tumbled more than 25 percent after the reported loss during the first quarter, CNBC reports. Netflix reported […]

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New Jersey Voters Approve Recreational Marijuana Use

April 21, 2022 Maja Popovska

New Jersey is preparing to start getting high on its own supply, more than a year after voters approved recreational marijuana, Reuters reports. Residents aged 21 and up will be able to legally purchase marijuana […]

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Boris Johnson’s Apology to Parliament Met with Calls to Resign

April 20, 2022 Elizabeta Bozinovska

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized for breaking his own Covid lockdown rules, but whether the public accepts this apology remains to be seen. Johnson made an apology in the House of Commons yesterday over […]

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Gov DeSantis Clears Way to Revoke Disney’s Special District in Florida

April 20, 2022 Elizabeta Bozinovska

In a move being labeled widely as sheer retaliation, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is making the way for the “termination” of the self-governing privileges that Disney World has held in his state for more than […]

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