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[ad_1] Migrants are brought to Dover harbor by Border Force in Dover, England, August 12, 2020. (Matthew Childs/Reuters) Despite the British public’s appetite for tighter borders, addressing the problem has proven difficult. According to the U.N.’s 1951 Refugee Convention, a refugee is a person who has “a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of
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[ad_1] Attorney Steven Donziger speaks with reporters outside the United States Court of Appeals in New York City, April 20, 2015. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Steven Donziger, the attorney with connections to the Obama and Cuomo administrations who was at the center of a massive effort to extort billions of dollars out of Chevron, has been disbarred
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[ad_1] Students walk on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., October 7, 2009. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) A two-year long Justice Department investigation has found that Yale University illegally discriminated against Asian American and white applicants in violation of federal civil rights law. In a letter to the college’s attorneys Thursday, the department said
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[ad_1] The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a preliminary injunction that a lower court had placed on several pro-life laws in Arkansas, sending the case back to the district judge for reconsideration in light of the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on abortion policy. The Arkansas provisions in question would prohibit a second-trimester abortion
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[ad_1] A pro-life demonstrator outside the Supreme Court during the the 47th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The Nebraska legislature on Thursday passed a ban on dismemberment abortions in the state, except in emergency situations. The bill, LB814, passed 33-8 and allows for professional injunctions and civil action against
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[ad_1] School bus drivers lead a caravan through the downtown to demand that legislators provide more funding for COVID-19 re-opening procedures in Los Angeles, Calif., August 13, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) California parents held a press conference Thursday to discuss their lawsuit against the state over Governor Gavin Newsom’s new coronavirus restrictions ordering most school districts
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[ad_1] Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) addresses a rally in Detroit, Mich., June 6, 2020. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) slammed the Israel-U.A.E. agreement announced on Thursday, which commits the two countries to establishing full diplomatic relations and commits Israel in particular to suspending its annexation of territory in the West Bank. The
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[ad_1] Chevron fracking site near Midland, Texas, August 22, 2019. (Jessica Lutz/Reuters) Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter (coming soon) about finance and economics. On the menu today: SPACs & the Resurgence of Public Markets, Kamala & Fracking, and Automation in China. The Coronavirus Made Public Markets Cool Again During the last technology boom,
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[ad_1] Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris attends a coronavirus briefing during a campaign stop in Wilmington, Del., August 13, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The “center” of American politics will always be wherever the Democratic Party’s nominees happen to stand. By the end of the 2020 campaign, president-in-waiting Kamala Harris will have been transformed into the
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[ad_1] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks at the State Department in Washington, D.C., December 19, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday that the State Department has designated the Confucius Institute U.S. Center as a “foreign mission.” Confucius institutes, present on college campuses throughout the world, have the stated
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[ad_1] People line up outside a temporary unemployment office at the State Capitol Annex in Frankfort, K.y., June 17, 2020. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters) The U.S. Labor Department reported on Thursday that 963,000 workers filed for unemployment benefits last week, the first time jobless claims have fallen below 1,000,000 since March. The drop in claims may fuel
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[ad_1] (Pixabay) Bjorn Lomborg offers a practical approach to climate change. Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm (Basic Books, $20) does not “deny” the likelihood of global warming as set out in the United Nations’ Reports on Climate Change. Lomborg expresses belief in the U.N.’s central estimate of a temperature increase of 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial
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[ad_1] Red flags outside the Great Hall of the People during the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing, China, March 13, 2019. (Reuters) The U.S. State Department could move as early as Thursday to announce that Chinese “Confucius institutes” will be required to register as foreign agents, Bloomberg reported. Confucius
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[ad_1] Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull (John Parrot/StockTrek Images/Getty Images) Americans have natural rights all wrong, Cameron Hilditch maintains: How do we know which rights are “natural” to human beings? This is an important question to ask because, as the [Pompeo] Commission’s report itself concedes, there is now “widespread disagreement about the nature and
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[ad_1] HHS Secretary Alex Azar listens during a roundtable discussion in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 15, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar visited Taiwan earlier this week, meeting with its president and other key officials. The trip came amid troubling developments in Hong Kong,
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[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., July 28, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Democratic nominee should enjoy this moment — because everything gets harder now. For Joe Biden, life is looking pretty sweet right now. After stumbling badly in the first three Democratic-primary contests, he mounted arguably the
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[ad_1] Kamala Harris, U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful, speaks at the Polk County Democrats’ Steak Fry in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. September 21, 2019. (REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage) Senator Kamala Harris has said that she is “open” to increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court, in order to reverse the conservative majority (as she
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[ad_1] Senator Ron Johnson (R., WI) questions Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of Homeland Security, at a committee hearing in Washington, D.C., August 6, 2020 (Toni Sandys/Reuters) Update 4:30 p.m.: Senator Johnson’s committee said his comments with Hugh Hewitt earlier on Wednesday were based on a misunderstanding, and that no Republican committee members are currently blocking
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[ad_1] (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Skepticism of TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing app, reached its peak with President Trump’s signing an executive order that would ban the social-media software from the United States after September 20. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, which is based in Beijing, is in late-stage acquisition talks with Microsoft and has reportedly also explored a
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[ad_1] (Dominick Reuter/Reuters) The American Heart Association has warned marijuna smokers that they could be significantly endangering their health. From the Association’s statement: Some studies have found that within an hour after cannabis  is smoked, THC may induce heart rhythm abnormalities, such as tachycardia, premature ventricular contractions, atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrythmias. Acutely, THC also
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[ad_1] Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks at the scene were George Floyd died in Minneapolis, Minn., June 3, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Representative Ilhan Omar defeated a well-funded challenger in the Minnesota Democratic primary on Tuesday to informally secure a second term as congresswoman to Minnesota’s historically Democratic-run 5th district. Omar beat out Antone Melton-Meaux, an
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[ad_1] Senator Kamala Harris (D., CA), Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Democrats hold a news conference at the U.S. Capitol before the start of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, January 31, 2020. (Amanda Voisard/Reuters) There is no power Harris has held that she hasn’t abused. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he New York Times contends
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[ad_1] (Illustration: Dado Ruvic/Reuters) President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the U.S. government has signed a $1.5 billion deal to purchase 100 million doses of Moderna’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine. “We are investing in the development and manufacture of the top six vaccine candidates to ensure rapid delivery. The military is ready to go, they’re
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[ad_1] Sen. Kamala Harris speaks during the Presidential Gun Sense Forum in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) Someone might want to remind Joe Biden, who’s just picked progressive California senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, that his vice-president-to-be believes Catholics are unfit to serve in our nation’s courts. (Biden, of course,
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