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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS

Donald Trump retweets far-right group's anti-Muslim videos
Donald Trump has retweeted three inflammatory videos from a British far-right group. The first tweet from Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, claims to show a Muslim migrant attacking a man on crutches. This was followed by two more videos of people Ms Fransen claims to be Muslim. Responding to Mr Trump's posts, UK Prime Minister Theresa May's official spokesman said it was "wrong for the president to have done this". White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Mrs May and other world leaders knew that "these are real threats that we have to talk about". "Whether it's a real video, the threat is real," she said. The original video was shared by US conservative commentator Ann Coulter who Mr Trump follows.

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from The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)

Nonprofit spots discrepancy; county elections officials call it human error
Clark County is the only county in Washington targeted by a conservative legal group that’s threatened local jurisdictions across the country with legal action unless they can prove they’re properly scrubbing their voter rolls of people who’ve died, moved away or have become ineligible. Last week, the county released correspondence showing that in September Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey, who oversees elections, was sent a letter by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit that describes itself as a nonpartisan public-interest law firm. It has argued that neglected voter rolls attract fraud and undermine election integrity.

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from The Daily Caller
RIGHT BIAS

STUDY: Satellites Show No Acceleration In Global Warming For 23 Years
Global warming has not accelerated temperature rise in the bulk atmosphere in more than two decades, according to a new study funded by the Department of Energy. University of Alabama-Huntsville climate scientists John Christy and Richard McNider found that by removing the climate effects of volcanic eruptions early on in the satellite temperature record it showed virtually no change in the rate of warming since the early 1990s. “We indicated 23 years ago — in our 1994 Nature article — that climate models had the atmosphere’s sensitivity to CO2 much too high,” Christy said in a statement. “This recent paper bolsters that conclusion.”

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from Daily Wire
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American news and opinion website

WATCH: 'TODAY' Show Announces Matt Lauer Fired For 'Inappropriate Sexual Behavior'

On Wednesday morning, NBC News announced that it had fired "Today" show co-host Matt Lauer for "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace," which chairman Andrew Lack told employees in a memo "may not have been an isolated incident." An emotional Savannah Guthrie, who has co-hosted with Lauer for years, accompanied by Hoda Kotb for support, made the announcement on the show Wednesday, having just been presented with the news "moments ago".

WALSH: Men, The Best Way To Love Our Kids Is To Put Our Wives Ahead Of Them
It's pretty obvious just from watching the news that many of us struggle to understand how a healthy family must be ordered and sustained. In modern times, we tend to put the human relationship that serves as its foundation -- that between the husband and wife -- somewhere far down the list of priorities. We say that we "love our kids more than anyone," not realizing that the best way to love our kids is to love our spouse. The result is now several generations of kids who have been "loved" in broken and emotionally chaotic homes. They are loved but they do not feel it or see it because the love is absent precisely where it is most essential: between the husband and wife.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

The State's War on Student Debtors Is Heating Up
The government is using increasingly hostile tactics and illogical methods to get student loans repaid.

Property Rights Would Stop the Favelas from Burning
If you don't want the slums to burn down, stop incentivizing burning down slums. We all know the first and most basic lesson of economics: incentives matter. This is surely why, as a new investigation by The Guardian has revealed, fires in the favelas of Sao Paolo are happening where land values are greater. It’s true, as the authorities would have us believe, that those urban slums are built largely of wood with a treacherously hotchpotch electrical supply running through them – and it’s no surprise they so readily catch fire. But the underlying problem here isn’t one of unregulated building, it’s the absence of – the non-regulation if you like – property rights. That is why there are more fires where the land is of higher value.

Obama Was Right, Health Insurance Should Be Voluntary
You can be a liberal Democrat committed to affordable health insurance for everyone and still be against an individual mandate. This was Barack Obama's original position, and he reiterated it often during his 2008 campaign. "If a mandate was the solution," he said in an interview, "we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating that everybody buy a house. The reason they don't have a house is they don't have the money." It was a good argument then; it's an even better argument now.

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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper

Caesar's invasion of Britain began from Pegwell Bay in Kent, say archaeologists
Nearby excavations reveal remains of an ancient defensive base, bones and iron weapons, which suggest bay as most likely landing spot for Roman fleet.

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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)

Fossil fuels, the Church, and modern values
British historian Ian Morris, in his book Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (2015), provides a ruthlessly materialistic account of the evolution of human values that varying societies hold as given at any particular time in history. His answer to this question is probably not the kind of thing most people are looking for these days, as Morris essentially argues that human values depend upon our methods of energy capture and storage.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS

An open letter to Congress signed by 137 economists supporting GOP tax reform bill
Economic growth will accelerate if the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passes, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and a better standard of living for the American people. We firmly believe that a competitive corporate rate is the key to an economic engine driven by greater investment, capital stock, business formation, and productivity – all of which will yield more jobs and higher wages.

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from Public Discourse
Society & Culture Website

The Christian Baker’s Unanswered Legal Argument: Why the Strongest Objections Fail
The Supreme Court is about to decide whether a baker has a First Amendment right not to be compelled to design and create cakes celebrating same-sex weddings. The baker’s best legal argument is simple, and it survives the best objections filed by the ACLU and Progressive scholars.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Suspect identified in Hillyard police shooting
The man killed in a gunfight with Spokane Police on Tuesday night in Hillyard was 59-year-old James C. Danforth, as identified by a police dispatch recording and Danforth’s neighbor. Just before 6 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to a complaint from a caller who said that a short-time roommate, identified by dispatch as Danforth, was refusing to leave and had fired a gun in the house, at 2934 E. Rowan Ave., before fleeing on foot. When Danforth returned around 7:45 p.m. in the pouring rain, two officers who responded to the call were finishing investigative work in their patrol car in front of the house. Danforth opened fire on the car, police said. A firearm was later recovered at the scene.

Firefighters battle blaze at window company in east Spokane
The Spokane Fire Department worked for several hours to knock down a commercial building blaze near Riverside Avenue and Helena Street. The building, home to Tormino’s Sash and Glass, was occupied when the fire began but was not open for business, said John Tormino Jr., the current owner. The younger Tormino had taken over the business from his father, John Tormino, who died in May.

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from SubjectPolitics
Media/News Company

After Hearing News Of Matt Lauer Firing, Bill O’Reilly DESTROYS Him In The Best Way Possible
Lauer was one of the guys who interviewed Bill O’Reilly after the allegations came out against him. The irony is obvious in this one. “YOU WERE PROBABLY THE LAST GUY IN THE WORLD THAT THEY WANTED TO FIRE BECAUSE YOU WERE THE GUY THAT THE RATINGS AND THE REVENUES WERE BUILT ON, YOU CARRIED THAT NETWORK ON YOUR SHOULDERS FOR A LOT OF YEARS,” HE STATED.

After Joe Scarborough’s Dark History Gets Leaked, President Trump Revealed His WORST Nightmare
Trump tweeted: “SO NOW THAT MATT LAUER IS GONE WHEN WILL THE FAKE NEWS PRACTITIONERS AT NBC BE TERMINATING THE CONTRACT OF PHIL GRIFFIN?” TRUMP TWEETED, ADDING, “AND WILL THEY TERMINATE LOW RATINGS JOE SCARBOROUGH BASED ON THE “UNSOLVED MYSTERY” THAT TOOK PLACE IN FLORIDA YEARS AGO? INVESTIGATE!”

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from The Telegraph (UK)

Prince William on Harry's marriage:  'It will stop him scrounging all my food'
Prince Harry and bride-to-be Meghan Markle are "very caught up in the moment" of their engagement, the Duke of Cambridge has said. The Duke, who is on an official visit to Finland, spoke of the joy his family feels for Prince Harry and the American actress and wished them "all the happiness in this very exciting time". But he could not resist poking fun at the prince and quipped that he now expected his fridge to be safe from raids by his younger brother, who lives close to the Duke's Kensington Palace apartment.

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from Washington Examiner

Campus newspaper editorial: 'Your [white] DNA is an abomination'
A new opinion piece in a Texas State University student newspaper tells white students, “Your DNA is an Abomination.” “When I think of all the white people I have ever encountered - whether they’ve been professors, peers, lovers, friend, police officers, et cetera - there is perhaps only a dozen I would consider ‘decent,’” student author Rudy Martinez writes in the University Star. Without much biological explanation, Martinez informs white readers, “You were not born white. You became white… You don’t give a damn.” Later in his rant, he calls the police “fascist foot soldiers” and says a “white supremacist inhabits the White House.” The editorial also suggests that “whiteness in the United States” is a “construct used to perpetuate a system of racist power.”

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