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from AP (Associated Press)
LEFT-CENTER BIASED, VERY HIGH, News Agency in New York City
LEFT-CENTER BIASED, VERY HIGH, News Agency in New York City
President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was sworn in Wednesday to his sixth term in office at an inaugural ceremony that was not announced in advance amid weeks of huge protests of the authoritarian leader’s reelection, which the opposition says was rigged. One opposition leader called the secretive ceremony “a farce,” and several European countries reiterated that they don’t recognize the results of the election and refuse to regard Lukashenko as the legitimate president. In the evening, thousands of people took to the streets in the capital of Minsk to protest the inauguration and were met with a strong response from police.
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from The Atlantic Magazine
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him? There is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and lawyers and political strategists, who find themselves in the uneasy position of intelligence analysts in the months before 9/11. As November 3 approaches, their screens are blinking red, alight with warnings that the political system does not know how to absorb. They see the obvious signs that we all see, but they also know subtle things that most of us do not. Something dangerous has hove into view, and the nation is lurching into its path. The danger is not merely that the 2020 election will bring discord. Those who fear something worse take turbulence and controversy for granted. The coronavirus pandemic, a reckless incumbent, a deluge of mail-in ballots, a vandalized Postal Service, a resurgent effort to suppress votes, and a trainload of lawsuits are bearing down on the nation’s creaky electoral machinery. Something has to give, and many things will, when the time comes for casting, canvassing, and certifying the ballots. Anything is possible, including a landslide that leaves no doubt on Election Night. But even if one side takes a commanding early lead, tabulation and litigation of the “overtime count”—millions of mail-in and provisional ballots—could keep the outcome unsettled for days or weeks.
from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, British daily newspaper published in London UK
'Gales and bullying soldiers': 800-year-old note from pope tells all
from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Trump’s History Conference
President Trump’s remarks about the need to “restore patriotic education” at the White House Conference on American History have provoked a flurry of defenses and counterattacks from academic historians. The defenders dispute the notion that their teaching undermines patriotism, contending that any criticisms they might make of the United States are intended to improve the United States, not destroy it. The counterattackers denounce the President for threatening their academic freedom and advancing a version of history that ignores racism and pays too much attention to dead white males. ... The shunning of military history began during the Vietnam era, when students and junior faculty blamed nationalism and militarism for the alleged wrongs of the Vietnam War. Harvard historian Jill Lepore recently observed that the history of the American nation fell into decline among the faculty because “hatred for nationalism drove American historians away from it.” Political history and diplomatic history lost influence, but the field to suffer the most was military history, as it was deemed to be especially closely associated with nationalism and militarism. While not specifically named in this article, two common errors are at the root of historical revisionism: presentism and historian's fallacy.
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'Gales and bullying soldiers': 800-year-old note from pope tells all
Medieval clergymen are usually thought of as pretty tough sorts but an 800-year-old document that has gone on display at Salisbury cathedral suggests the great church’s early leaders were not keen on blustery weather and may have been more than a little intimidated by their neighbours. The document, a papal bull from the 13th-century head of the Catholic church, Honorius III, gave permission for the cathedral to be moved from its site at Old Sarum on the outskirts of modern Salisbury to its sheltered modern position. Pope Honorius stepped in after disgruntled clergy in Salisbury complained their services were being drowned out by the blustery conditions at Old Sarum.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Trump’s History Conference
President Trump’s remarks about the need to “restore patriotic education” at the White House Conference on American History have provoked a flurry of defenses and counterattacks from academic historians. The defenders dispute the notion that their teaching undermines patriotism, contending that any criticisms they might make of the United States are intended to improve the United States, not destroy it. The counterattackers denounce the President for threatening their academic freedom and advancing a version of history that ignores racism and pays too much attention to dead white males. ... The shunning of military history began during the Vietnam era, when students and junior faculty blamed nationalism and militarism for the alleged wrongs of the Vietnam War. Harvard historian Jill Lepore recently observed that the history of the American nation fell into decline among the faculty because “hatred for nationalism drove American historians away from it.” Political history and diplomatic history lost influence, but the field to suffer the most was military history, as it was deemed to be especially closely associated with nationalism and militarism. While not specifically named in this article, two common errors are at the root of historical revisionism: presentism and historian's fallacy.
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from New York Post
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden’s work in Ukraine. ... The probe also found that Baturina sent 11 wires transfers between May and December 2015 to a bank account belonging to BAK USA, a tech startup that filed for bankruptcy in March 2019. Nine of those 11 wire transfers were first sent to Rosemont Seneca Partners, the investment firm founded by Biden and Chris Heinz, stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, before being transferred to BAK USA.
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from POLITICO
LEAST BIASED, HIGH, news and opinion website in Arlington, Virginia
The CIA has made it harder for intelligence about Russia to reach the White House, stoking fears among current and former officials that information is being suppressed to please a president known to erupt in anger whenever he is confronted with bad news about Moscow. Nine current and former officials said in interviews that CIA Director Gina Haspel has become extremely cautious about which, if any, Russia-related intelligence products make their way to President Donald Trump’s desk. Haspel also has been keeping a close eye on the agency’s fabled “Russia House,” whose analysts she often disagrees with and sometimes accuses of purposefully misleading her.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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It will be a long recovery for Malden and Pine City residents. Don't forget them just because the flames are out and the smoke is gone.
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