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- - Muslims Help Restore Vandalized Jewish Cemetary (CNN News)
"Once again, dozens of Jewish headstones have been vandalized, stoking fears of heightened anti-Semitism. And once again, members of the Muslim community are rallying to help." 03-17
- -001 U.S. Security Agencies: Russia Tried to Discredit Clinton (NBC News)
"In 'Key Judgments,' the report says, 'We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election. Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.' "
"The report also says that the Russian hacking campaign targeted or compromised 'elements of multiple U.S. state or local electoral boards,' but not systems involved in vote tallying."
Editor's Note: Despite false claims by Donald Trump, the report made no assessment on what extent the Russian effort influenced the election results. 01-17
- -01-17 Editorial: Pruitt Not an Advocate for Environmental Protection (Time.com)
"As the Senate prepares for Scott Pruitt’s Jan. 18 confirmation hearing, much of the debate over Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has centered on Pruitt’s doubts about global climate change. And though it would be genuinely appalling to have an EPA Administrator who doesn’t accept basic climate science, the trouble with Pruitt goes deeper. As the Attorney General of Oklahoma, Pruitt has shown he is not only a relentless opponent of EPA standards for climate pollution. He has been a relentless opponent of basic pollution limits as well, the kind that protect us from mercury, smog, arsenic and other deadly air toxics. He questions whether toxic mercury pollution is hazardous to public health. He shut down his office’s Environmental Protection Unit. And now he wants to do for the United States what he did for Oklahoma." 01-17
- -01-21 Fact Checking Inaugural Speech (ABC News)
"During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump made a number of claims about the state of the nation as he takes office." 01-17
- -01-23 Trump Ends TPP Trade Agreement (Time.com)
"President Trump took his first steps toward implementing his economic agenda Monday, signing an executive action removing the U.S. from a planned free trade deal and meeting with some of the country’s top business leaders."
"On Monday, Trump fulfilled a core campaign promise to end U.S. participation the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the accord negotiated by the Bush and Obama administrations that has been held up by bipartisan opposition in Congress amid renewed populist and protectionist fervor." 01-17
- -03-01 Record High Temperatures in Antarctica (Time.com)
"Antarctica's record high temperature registered at 63.5° F (17.5° C) at the Esperanza research base on the Antarctic Peninsula, according to a data review released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Wednesday." 03-17
- -03-06 Replacement for Obamacare (New York Times)
"House Republicans released on Monday legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare."
"It fundamentally changes how health care is financed for people who do not have insurance through work, and it eliminates the mandate requiring most Americans to have health insurance, a centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act." 03-17
- -03-11 New Health Care Bill Gives Billions in Tax Breaks to Wealthy (New York Times)
"Two of the biggest tax cuts in Republican proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act would deliver roughly $157 billion over the coming decade to those with incomes of $1 million or more, according to a congressional analysis." 03-17
- -03-13 Nonpartisan Review: New Trumpcare Proposal Insures 24 Million Fewer People (New York Times)
"The House Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would cause 24 million people to lose health insurance within a decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Monday." 03-17
- -03-23 No Deal on Health Care (ABC News)
"After seven years of fervent promises to repeal and replace 'Obamacare,' President Donald Trump and GOP congressional leaders buckled at a moment of truth Thursday, putting off a planned showdown vote in a stinging setback for the young administration." 03-17
- -03-25 Editorial: "Is Truth Dead?" (Time.com)
"Like many newsrooms, we at TIME have wrestled with when to say someone is lying. We can point out, as we often do, when a President gets his facts wrong. We can measure distortions, read between lines, ask the follow-up question. But there's a limit to what we can deduce about motive or intent, the interior wiring of the whopper, as opposed to its explosive impact. Even the nature of coverage becomes complicated: social scientists have shown that repetition of a false statement, even in the course of disputing it, often increases the number of people who believe it." 03-17
- -03-26 Editorial: "What Went Wrong With Trumpcare?" (Time.com)
"For one, the centerpiece of the Republicans’ healthcare plan was to scrap the requirement that everyone buy insurance or pay a penalty. By removing that requirement, it would reduce the number of people buying coverage, which, in turn, would make prices continue their climb upward. The Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan referee of policy and money, estimated that some 24 million fewer people would have coverage under the plans the GOP considered."
"At the same time, Trump’s promise to make care cheaper ran into stiff headwinds in the House. In a bid to win over conservative lawmakers, Trump agreed to scrap provisions of the bill that covered emergency room care, prescription drugs and mental health coverage. (In the end, the play wasn’t enough and alienated many moderates who hail from states plagued by the opioid crisis.) And the promise to bring drug prices down through government edict ran afoul of legislative rules. Eventually, costs would come down, according to the budget chiefs—because older Americans, who require more care, couldn’t afford to buy coverage in the first place." 03-17
- -03-26 Paper: Climate Disruption Proceeding Rapidly (Truth-Out.org)
"Last month, a paper titled The Anthropocene Equation revealed that anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) is causing the climate to change 170 times faster than it would if only natural forces were affecting it. 'The human magnitude of climate change looks more like a meteorite strike than a gradual change,' one of the authors of the study said." 03-17
- -04-08-17 Neil Gorsuch Appointed to the Supreme Court (NBC News)
"The Senate confirmed judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court Friday in a mostly party-line 54-45 vote that reflected weeks of bruising political fighting which deepened congressional divides and changed the nature of high court appointments in the future." 04-17
- -04-24-17 France Votes for a New Political Reality (Time.com)
"No matter whether centrist economist Emmanuel Macron or far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen wins France's presidency in two weeks' time, Sunday's first-round election made history in France — ripping up the political system that has governed for generations over the world's sixth biggest economy and a powerhouse of the European Union." 04-17
- -05-07-17 French Investigating Election Hack (Time.com)
" France's election campaign commission said Saturday 'a significant amount of data' — and some fake information — has been leaked on social networks following a hacking attack on centrist Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign. It urged citizens not to relay the data on social media to protect the integrity of the French vote." 04-17
- -05-07-17 Macron Becomes France's Youngest Leader (Time)
"Emmanuel Macron's astonishing rise from provincial straight-A student to Rothschild banker, to civil servant, to Sunday's victory as President of the sixth-biggest economy in the world seems like one of the mythic tales of success familiar to all French children, in which a gallant young hero overcomes impossible odds to achieve giant success." 05-17
- -06-12-17 Court Rules Against Travel Ban (New York Times)
"A second federal appeals court on Monday ruled against President Trump’s revised travel ban. The decision, from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, was the latest in a string of court rulings rejecting the administration’s efforts to limit travel from several predominantly Muslim countries." 06-17
- -06-13-17 President Trump Calls Republican Health Care Bill "Mean" (New York Times)
"President Donald Trump told Republican senators Tuesday that the House-passed health care bill is 'mean' and urged them to craft a version that is 'more generous,' congressional sources said." 06-17
- -Fact Check for President's Speech to Congress (PBS.org)
"TRUMP: 'We will provide massive tax relief for the middle class.' ”
"THE FACTS: Trump has provided little detail on how this would happen. Independent analyses of his campaign’s tax proposals found that most of the benefits would flow to the wealthiest families. The richest 1 percent would see an average tax cut of nearly $215,000 a year, while the middle one-fifth of the population would get a cut of just $1,010, according to the Tax Policy Center, a joint project by the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute." 03-17
- -U.S. Security Agencies Report on Russian Attempt to Discredit Clinton (DNI.gov)
Provides the report.
Editor's Note: Despite false claims by Donald Trump, the report made no assessment on what extent the Russian effort influenced the election results. 01-17
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