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1 month ago | 
factcheck.org | Robert Farley |D'Angelo Gore |Ben Cohen |Alan Jaffe |Jessica McDonald |Catalina Jaramillo | +2 more
In his first address to a joint session of Congress in his second term, President Donald Trump distorted the facts on fraud, immigration, aid to Ukraine, the economy, autism and more.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
jstribune.com | Robert Silverman |Ben Cohen |Toby Dershowitz |Seth J. Frantzman
Not since Grover Cleveland won non-consecutive terms in 1884 and 1892 has an American president duplicated this feat. Now Donald Trump, at 78 years old, has come back to win a second term. With it, he has loomed large over American politics for well over a decade. Will Trump’s second term become a success? Or will it, like Cleveland’s, turn into a cautionary tale? In his inaugural address, Trump indicated that his years away from office have not altered his approach to national politics.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
factcheck.org | Ben Cohen
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In a Fox News interview, House Speaker Mike Johnson was spinning the facts when he claimed Republicans would have won a larger majority in the House in the 2024 election if not for Democrats’ gerrymandering of districts. Johnson failed to mention that many states with Republican legislative majorities also gerrymander districts for partisan advantage.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
jewishpress.com | Ben Cohen
After more than a year of bloody conflict in the Middle East sparked by the Hamas pogrom in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, it’s becoming clearer as to which of the multiple parties involved have registered net gains and which net losses. Let’s start with the Palestinians. The enduring achievement of the Hamas rapists and murderers has been to thrust the Palestinian question back into the heart of the world’s consciousness.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Ben Cohen
The 2016 animated Disney film has become the most popular movie in streaming—and a massive surprise.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Ben Cohen
Hit Marvel show quietly renewed with filming on season 2 slated to begin in 2025It seems a second season of a hit Marvel Disney+ show is set to begin filming in 2025! Since the launch of Disney+ in 2019, there have been 10 …
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Ben Cohen
The characters Moana and Maui in the original 2016 movie. - Walt Disney Co./Everett Collection It didn’t make a billion dollars at the box office. It didn’t bring home any Oscars, either. It wasn’t even the most popular Disney animated movie in the year it came out. So how did “Moana” become the biggest movie in America? “Moana” was released in 2016, but it’s much bigger on streaming than it ever was in theaters.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Bob Cesca |Ben Cohen
by Bob Cesca WASHINGTON, DC – I can’t stop thinking about the people of Ukraine. Imagine having zero say in an election thousands of miles away – an election that will determine whether your country will be taken over by an authoritarian kleptocrat after so many of your friends and family have been killed in the effort to fight back.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Ben Cohen
by Ben CohenDominating the news cycle today is a very insidery Axios article claiming “a growing number of top Democrats” believe Kamala Harris is going to lose the election: Allen and VandeHei also spoke to “top Republicans” who they claim “seem shockingly confident, given the consistent 50-50 polls.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Bob Cesca |Ben Cohen
by Bob CescaWASHINGTON, DC – By now we’ve all taken at-home COVID tests. For many of us, it’s a particularly stressful 15 minutes waiting for that second line to appear – or not. We also remember a time when home tests didn’t exist. We’d have to wait in line to use pop-up testing locations in parking lots using special machines – machines that during most of 2020 were scarce, not nearly enough to adequately handle thousands of new daily cases in the United States.
