Tag: US Features

‘I Couldn’t Just Sit on the Sidelines Anymore’: North Carolina Parents Run for Local School Boards

April 28, 2022
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Like many parents who chose to run for their district school boards this year, Crissy Pratt had never been involved in local politics. That changed during the COVID-19 lockdowns when Pratt began watching the live-streamed Guilford County Board of Education meetings in North Carolina to keep up with the ever-changing COVID restrictions. What she saw…

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Reliance on Russian Uranium Worries Lawmakers, Nuclear Experts

April 28, 2022
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As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, the United States and wider world’s dependence on uranium from Russia and its allies is raising serious questions, all the more so because of rising worldwide interest in nuclear power. According to the Energy Information Administration, 47 percent of the uranium used by civilian reactors originates in Russia or two…

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Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Creating Nation’s First Office of Election Crimes and Security

April 27, 2022
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During a packed April 25 press conference in Spring Hill, Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 524 into law, strengthening voting rules in the state and establishing the nation’s first Office of Election Crimes and Security at the Department of State, specifically formed to investigate and prosecute voter fraud. While most legacy media news…

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Hunter Biden’s Failure to Register as Foreign Agent Could Be Case for Indictment: Investigative Journalist

April 27, 2022
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Hunter Biden not registering as a foreign agent during his business dealings involving a Chinese energy giant with ties to the Chinese Communist Party could support an indictment, said Natalie Winters, an investigative reporter at National Pulse. When the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop—abandoned by him at a computer repair shop—had been confirmed, media coverage…

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Academic Cheating Surged 13-Fold During Pandemic, Study Shows

April 26, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in academic cheating’s biggest increase in 16 years, according to Jarrod Morgan, the founder of test supervision company Meazure Learning. A new study by Meazure shows that from 2019 to 2021, confirmed cases of academic cheating during online monitored tests increased by about 13 times. “We’re catching them definitely trying to…

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Bearing Witness to a Historic Appeal, Campaign of Terror in Communist China

April 25, 2022
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NEW YORK—Fears of police harassment and arrests have plagued 23-year-old Zhang Minghui ever since she turned one, the year Chinese police officers beat her father with wooden planks until his feet swelled up and turned a dark purple color, and burned his arm with a lighter. When she was not yet two years old, police…

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Plastic Grocery Bag Bans Actually Boost Sale of Small Plastic Garbage Bags: Study

April 25, 2022
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Researchers have discovered that bans and fees on plastic carryout grocery bags (CGB) could have serious unintended consequences. The investigators found that both bag fees and outright prohibitions boosted the sale of 4-gallon and 8-gallon plastic bags—in line with the view that many consumers reuse their supposedly single-use bags as garbage bags around the house….

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Rep. Biggs Warns of ‘Border Catastrophe’ After Ending Title 42

April 24, 2022
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After Title 42 ends, the volume of illegal border crossings will more than double, straining the already overburdened Border Patrol and leading to an “almost impossible to believe scenario of a border catastrophe,” said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) on April 19. Biggs recently took about 45 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives—many from…

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Russia–Ukraine Explained: The War, China, Globalism, and America

April 23, 2022
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“Most people, unfortunately, human nature being what it is,” Victor Davis Hanson said, “are more apt to be impressed with displays of power than they are with humanity, and that’s where we are.” In two recent episodes of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek sat down with classicist, historian, and commentator Victor Davis Hanson to…

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Quiet Buzz Building for the Return of Donald Trump in Ohio’s Delaware County

April 22, 2022
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DELAWARE COUNTY, OHIO—A buzz is building among the silent majority throughout Ohio’s Delaware County near Columbus for the return of Donald Trump. At 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, Trump will be making a stop on his Save America Tour at the Delaware County Fairgrounds on Saturday, April 23. The event, which will be outside…

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