Accountability
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You Vote: With the Senate committee vote to hold Dr. Fauci in contempt, what is going to happen?
The committee vote Thursday is expected to initiate a process that would result in the Justice Department considering whether to charge him with a crime.
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Disgraced Cambridge professor appears to have stolen memoir title from old TV show
The same credentials, charity record, plagiarism and life story that Cambridge, Simon & Schuster -- and years of fawning press coverage -- were all accepted without checking. It all fell apart the moment one outside academic actually looked into it. The institutions' first instinct was to defend the man and attack the people asking questions, caling them conservative “activists” and racists.
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FCC scraps 22-year-old rule limiting broadcast television ownership
The 39% limit was implemented in 2004, when Congress boosted a previous 35% limit that was passed in the 1990s. The rule remained unchanged for more than two decades.
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Public university pounces on student media for 'racist and insensitive' April Fools' Day jokes
UNC Chapel Hill lawyer seemingly contradicts senior vice provost on whether comedy show was under investigation for sketch mocking "white lady liberalism." Newspaper pledges twice-yearly DEI training to atone for jokes.
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Mental health worsens after medicalized gender transitions, three-decade youth study finds
The "psychiatric morbidity" gap between "gender-referred adolescents" and controls, already wide before referral to gender clinics, got bigger after referral, Finnish study finds. Trans activists question methodology, discourage debate.
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Impeachment Bombshell: Secret memos expose Ukraine accuser’s bias, hearsay, and false claim
The new memos declassified by Tulsi Gabbard were not available to the public during the 2019 impeachment trial.
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Political pressure from Somali community hampered Minnesota fraud probes, whistleblower says
A key whistleblower in a Minnesota government fraud unit suggests politics may have played a role in undermining investigations into child care welfare rackets. Although being less than 2% of the total population, the Somali community is a major political force, having helped elect Ilhan Omar to Congress.
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Bill Ackman offers to purchase Universal Music Group for $64 billion
The billionaire proposed keeping Universal Music’s CEO Lucian Grainge in his current position while installing former Disney CEO Michael Ovitz as chairman of the board and adding two representatives from Pershing Square to the board.
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CBS announces Colbert replacement after show goes off air next month
CBS said the new program will debut on May 22, the day after Colbert's show is expected to release its final episode. The program will begin at 11:35 p.m. and feature two back-to-back, half-hour “Comics Unleashed” episodes on weekdays.
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Layoffs hit Associated Press as staff levels cut by dozens
The move comes in the wake of large-scale layoffs at the Washington Post, which began in February.
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Swalwell flip flops on transparency as he fights release of Chinese intel files that include him
Transparency for thee, but not for me: Rep Swalwell has long insisted that all files related to the Trump White House and financier Jeffrey Epstein be disclosed, on the basis that if Trump had nothing to hide, the files should be released. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, Swalwell fights disclosure of files detailing Chinese infiltration into American politics, which includes his own relationship with a suspected Chinese spy.
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NYT bungles NATO meaning as 'North American Treaty Organization' instead of 'North Atlantic'
The news outlet admitted that it was a mistake in a post on social media, stating it would run a print correction Saturday.
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Associated Press runs paid PR ads for Chinese telecom Huawei as CCP seeks to influence UN agency
The AP is taking cash from Huawei to run paid ads for the Chinese telecom which the U.S. has dubbed a national security threat.