“Three Americans with significant Russian business connections contributed almost $2 million to political funds controlled by Donald Trump, ABC News has learned.” More …
Month: September 2017
Timeline: US Intervention in Afghanistan 2001 to 2017
“Key developments of a 16-year conflict, from the 2001 US invasion after 9/11 to Trump’s latest strategy reveal.” More …
Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Database
“The Police Crime Database includes summary information on 8,006 criminal arrest cases from the years 2005-2012 involving 6,596 individual nonfederal sworn law enforcement officers, each of whom were charged with one or more crimes. The arrested officers were employed by 2,830 state, local, and special law enforcement agencies located in 1,302 counties and independent cities in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.” More …
U.S. Treasury Secretary Assures Private Equity It Has Nothing to Worry About
“Breathe easy, billionaires: the carried interest loophole isn’t going anywhere.” More …
How the Trump Administration Is Reshaping Healthcare — Without Congress
“While Congress tussles over Obamacare, the Trump administration is quietly pressing ahead with plans to gut major Obama-era rules and relax federal oversight of swaths of the health care industry. Top health officials have already signaled their intention to end mandatory programs making hospitals more accountable for their patients’ health, slowed the transition to a system that pays doctors based on quality rather than quantity, and indicated they will reverse a high-profile rule blocking nursing homes from forcing residents to sign away their right to sue.” More …
Stunning New Study Shows that Fox News Is More Powerful than Ever Imagined
“Fox News is, by far, America’s dominant tv news channel; in the second quarter of 2017, Fox posted 2.35 million total viewers in primetime versus 1.64 million for MSNBC and 1.06 million for CNN. Given that Fox was founded by a longtime Republican Party operative and has almost exclusively hired conservative commentators, talk radio hosts, and the like to host its shows, it would stand to reason that its dominance on basic cable could influence how Americans vote, perhaps even tipping elections.” More …
Russia: Background and U.S. Policy, August 2017
“This report from the Congressional Research Service provides background information on Russian politics, economics, and military issues. It discusses a number of key issues for Congress concerning Russia’s foreign relations and the U.S.-Russian relationship.” More …
Court Listener: Free Legal Research Web Site
“CourtListener is a free legal research website containing millions of legal opinions from federal and state courts. With CourtListener, lawyers, journalists, academics, and the public can research an important case, stay up to date with new opinions as they are filed, or do deep analysis using our raw data. Search millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation.” More …
Analysis Shows How Viral Fake Election News Stories Outperformed Real News on Facebook
“A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined.” More …
How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Threatens to Choke Idaho’s Dairy Industry
“Hispanic workers power the state’s farms. Without them, a ‘Made in America’ success story would collapse.” More …