Washington Times,
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Jessica Chasmar
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Fox News co-host Juan Williams has accused a White PBS host of disinviting him from a discussion about racism in America after learning he’s from Panama. Mr. Williams, who co-hosts “The Five,” made the comments while giving a virtual acceptance speech Tuesday during the CultureX Awards, in which he claimed he was snubbed from a PBS show addressing the George Floyd unrest last year because he’s apparently not Black enough. “Before I responded to the invitation, it was withdrawn,” he said.(Snip) The White host said he is a fan of my work on television, but my background didn’t fit with a program about
Washington Times,
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Kery Murakami
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House Democrats on Thursday hailed the expected passage of two bills that would grant citizenship rights to millions of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it a sea change in the nation’s stance on immigration. “We say to the world we are making a very big difference in how we value the diversity of America,” she said at her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol. She was joined by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrod Nadler, New York Democrat, who said the bills “closed the book” on tougher immigration policies of the Trump administration. “Today we begin a new chapter,”
Washington Times,
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Valerie Richardson
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3/17/2021 11:18:37 PM
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis wanted residents to go a day without eating meat, but instead he spurred a stampede to the steakhouses. The Democratic governor’s “MeatOut Day” proclamation encouraging Coloradans to skip saturated fats on March 20 has backfired spectacularly, feeding resistance with a “Meat In Day” that has carnivores vowing to outdo themselves in celebration of the state’s livestock industry.(Snip) At least 26 of the state’s 64 counties have issued “Meat In Day” proclamations since Mr. Polis made his declaration last month, while more than 100 restaurants and vendors are offering specials and sales on burgers, bratwurst and barbecue.
Agence France-Presse,
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Denmark has announced plans to crack down further on disadvantaged neighbourhoods by reducing the number of “non-western” residents, scrapping the controversial term “ghetto” in its proposed legislation. In the bill–a review of existing legislation on combatting “parallel societies”–the interior ministry proposed that the share of residents of “non-western” origin in each neighbourhood be limited to a maximum of 30% within 10 years.(Snip) The four criteria are: more than 40% of residents unemployed; more than 60% of 39-50 year-olds with no upper secondary education; crime rates three times higher than the national average; residents having a gross income 55%
New York Daily News,
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David Matthews
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The Federal Communications Commission issued its largest ever fine to a pair of Texas telemarketers that made more than 1 billion robocalls falsely to sell health insurance. The fine is the largest ever issued by the government agency. John Spiller and Jakob Mears, who made the calls for their businesses Rising Eagle and JSquared Telecom, were fined $225 million for the calls where they claimed to sell insurance for companies like Aetna, Cigna, United HealthCare and Blue Cross Blue Shield after asking if listeners were interested in “affordable health insurance with benefits from a company you know?” If listeners pressed 3 to speak
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
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Ariel Zilber
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The video looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie—dozens of disheveled people shivering in the middle of a winter night as they camp out around a trash bin on fire among a street strewn with litter. But the footage isn’t a Hollywood production but a candid snapshot of Kensington Avenue in northeast Philadelphia—an area that has been likened to the infamous Skid Row section of Los Angeles. The neighborhood has previously been dubbed the 'East Coast's largest open-air drug market' by DEA officials, according to the New York Times. The new video, which was posted to YouTube
New York Post,
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Steven Nelson
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Tamar Lapin
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President Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry, sparked outrage Wednesday when he was reportedly spotted going maskless on an American Airlines flight to Washington D.C. The Tennessee Star, a conservative news website, published a photo of a bare-faced Kerry apparently flying first-class from Boston to D.C. on Wednesday. The airline requires all passengers wear masks on board, in accordance with directives from the CDC and TSA and Biden’s Jan. 21 executive order mandating face coverings during interstate travel.
“Consistent with U.S. government directives, individuals who refuse to wear a mask may be denied boarding, removed from the aircraft or subject to penalties
Washington Times,
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Seth Mclaughlin
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The White House said Wednesday President Trump’s description of the coronavirus as the “Wuhan virus” has led to increased discrimination against Asian Americans. “I think there is no question that some of the damaging rhetoric that we saw during the prior administration calling COVID the ‘Wuhan virus’ or other things led to perceptions of the Asian American community that are inaccurate, unfair, have… elevated threats against Asian Americans and we are seeing that around the country,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at the daily briefing. Ms. Psaki said President Biden was careful not to make a connection
New York Post,
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Georgett Roberts
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New York City mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang on Wednesday said that anti-Asian racism in the Big Apple is growing “far darker”—as he spoke out on the massacre of eight people, including six Asian women, at Atlanta-area spas in Georgia. “I grew up Asian-American in New York and I was always accustomed to a certain level of bullying of racism, but it took a form of mockery of invisibility, of disdain, but that has metastasized to something far darker—you can feel it on the streets of New York,” he told reporters in Times Square. “I’ve been walking the streets
Daily Mail (UK),
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Christopher Rogers
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Marvel Comics is making a big move with one of their most popular superheroes. The company announced the first gay Captain America on Tuesday. He will debut in the The United States of Captain America #1 during Pride Month in June. The new character is named Aaron Fischer and represents the first LGBTQ person to pick up the hero's shield in the comic's 80-year history.(Snip) Known as 'Captain America of the Railways', writer Joshya Trujillo described the character in a statement: 'Aaron is inspired by heroes of the queer community: activists, leaders, and everyday folks pushing for a better life.
Washington Times,
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Jessica Chasmar
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The Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple penned an opinion piece Tuesday slamming the newspaper’s “serious lapse” after it admitted to misquoting then-President Donald Trump during a January phone call with an investigator in the office of Georgia’s secretary of state. The Post reported in January, based on the account of one anonymous source, that Mr. Trump had instructed Georgia’s lead elections investigator, Frances Watson, to “find the fraud” and that she could become a “national hero” if she did.(Snip) Multiple major news outlets, including The New York Times, CNN, ABC News, and the Associated Press, echoed The Post’s incorrect reporting
Washington Times,
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Andrew Blake
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Reports of White supremacist propaganda, including racist flyers, stickers, banners and other signage, nearly doubled in 2020 compared to the previous year, a leading watchdog group said Wednesday. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported it was aware of 5,125 incidents last year involving the distribution or posting of White supremacist propaganda, up from 2,724 cases the year before. Hate propaganda is a tried-and-true tactic for White supremacists, and this on the ground activity is now higher than we’ve ever previously recorded,” ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said in a statement. “White supremacists appear to be more emboldened than ever, and the election
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Was that a Freudian slip? And where was he during "polar bear hunting" season?