Bloomberg Politics,
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Emma Kinery
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Joe Biden said he was vice president when the deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, took place. Except, it happened in 2018, more than a year after he left office -- the latest gaffe by the Democratic presidential front-runner. Biden told reporters in Iowa on Saturday that “those kids in Parkland came up to see me when I was vice president.” But when they visited Capitol Hill to talk with members of Congress, lawmakers were “basically cowering, not wanting to see them. They did not want to face it on camera.” The former vice president was making a point
Washington Post,
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Matt Viser
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DES MOINES —As Democrats descend on Iowa to kick off a six-month sprint to the first primary vote, party activists are increasingly anxious that former vice president Joe Biden, the consistent polling leader, has not disposed of persistent questions about whether he is well-equipped to take on President Trump. Adding to the Democrats’ nervousness is that a clear alternative has yet to emerge. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is rising in the polls and has a high-quality campaign organization, but doubts linger in some quarters about the appeal of her left-leaning policies in a general election. Sens. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.)
New York Post,
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Larry Celona
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Eileen AJ Connelly
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Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is dead of an apparent suicide, law enforcement sources said Saturday. A gurney carrying a man who looked like Epstein was wheeled out of the Manhattan Correctional Center around 7:30 a.m. The ambulance went to New York Downtown Hospital. The incident comes two weeks after Epstein, 66, was placed on suicide watch after he was found nearly unconscious in his cell with injuries to his neck. The multimillionaire financier is being held without bail pending trial on child sex-trafficking charges. Thousands of documents unsealed Friday in connection with a defamation case against the perv’s alleged recruiter
CBS News,
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Staff
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Friday marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. An unarmed black teenager, he was shot and killed by Police Officer Darren Wilson, who said Brown attacked him. A grand jury later chose not to indict Wilson. Brown's father, Michael Brown Sr., tells CBS News' Jeff Pegues he wants the case re-opened. Brown told Pegues he's not as angry as he once was, but it's going to be hard to revisit that moment five years ago today when he found out his son was gone. When asked what he recalls most vividly from that day
Fox Business,
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Staff
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Silicon Valley doesn't consider patriotism when making decisions, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel told "Fox & Friends" Friday morning. Instead, the big tech companies focus primarily on what will benefit themselves, Thiel said. “Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as sort of cosmopolitan or globalist, but I think that’s not actually what’s going on here,” he told “Fox & Friends.” “It is just sort of an insular form of parochialism. Maybe it’s borderline autistic, so it’s a complete incuriosity about the rest of the world.” Thiel, an early Trump supporter, has been critical of Google over its working relationship
WBAL-TV [Baltimore, MD],
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Vanessa Herring
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BALTIMORE — An off-duty police sergeant shot by a masked man Thursday afternoon in northeast Baltimore is on life support at Shock Trauma. Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said Sgt. Isaac Carrington, a 22-year veteran of the BPD, was talking to a neighbor around 3:24 p.m. in the 5600 block of Summerfield Avenue. (Snip) A witness said she saw a man trying to rob Carrington, who was dressed in plain clothes. She said there was a physical struggle before she heard gunshots. "They were kicking him and then they began to shoot him repeatedly ... They began to shoot, and I
Los Angeles Times,
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Janet Hook
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DES MOINES — Iowa, a decade ago, humbled Joe Biden. Now it has a chance to redeem him. His last presidential race ended abruptly in 2008 after he placed fifth in the state’s crucial Democratic caucuses, garnering less than 1% of the vote in the first contest of the primary season. (Snip) Biden, with his centrist political brand, faces a special challenge here: Iowa’s caucusgoers tend to be very liberal. They nearly delivered victory to Sanders in 2016. What’s more, the state is overwhelmingly white, so it does not play to Biden’s strength among African American voters, who are a
Yahoo! Finance,
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Kristin Myers
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said the U.S. could afford universal healthcare, canceling student debt and making tuition free at public colleges— by slapping higher taxes on wealthy individuals and big companies in order to pay for it all. Addressing a room in Miami on Thursday at the annual National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention, the 2020 Democratic presidential contender elaborated on his campaign proposal to cancel federal student loans for 45 million Americans, and make public higher education free. These proposals aren’t cheap: In total, both plans would cost American taxpayers somewhere in the range of $30- 40 trillion
Yahoo News,
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Dylan Stableford
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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday snapped at a reporter from a right-wing outlet who said he misquoted President Trump's statement on white supremacists who clashed with counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. Trump’s infamous response — that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the Charlottesville episode — drew widespread outrage among Democrats, Republicans and even members of his administration. Speaking to reporters at the Iowa State Fair, Biden was accused by Joel Pollak, host of “Breitbart News Tonight” on Sirius XM radio, of misquoting Trump. Pollak suggested Trump condemned the neo-Nazis who organized the rally.
USA Today,
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Kristin Lam
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As the residents of Dayton, Ohio, grapple with a mass shooting that killed nine and injured 27 last weekend, the city's mayor has been outspoken critic of President Donald Trump's response to the tragedy. On Tuesday, Mayor Nan Whaley described Trump's rhetoric as painful to many in her community ahead of the president's scheduled visit. "I'm disappointed with his remarks," Whaley said. "He mentioned gun issues one time. I think watching the president over the last few years on the issue of guns, I'm not sure he knows what he believes." The 43-year-old Democrat also took a jab at Trump
Fox News,
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Sam Dorman
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pledged that as president he would disclose government information about aliens and unidentified flying objects. Sanders, one of the leading 2020 Democrats, told podcast host Joe Rogan on Tuesday that his wife would "demand" he tell people about the mysterious phenomena. “Well I tell you, my wife would demand I let you know," he told Rogan who asked whether Sanders would disclose that information. When Rogan asked whether his wife was a UFO nut, he said she wasn't but said she has previously asked him about the information he might have as a senator. “No, she’s
CNBC,
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Tucker Higgins
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Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren unveiled a proposal to guarantee universal high-speed internet access on Wednesday as part of a new plan to invest in rural communities. “I will make sure every home in America has a fiber broadband connection at a price families can afford,” the senator from Massachusetts wrote in a post on the blogging platform Medium. “That means publicly-owned and operated networks — and no giant [internet service providers] running away with taxpayer dollars.” Warren said she would create a federal Office of Broadband Access to manage an $85 billion grant program. The grants would be awarded
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Another horrific shooting in Charm City. Using liberal logic, Cummings should be charged with the crime.