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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
When the world celebrated the dawn of a new decade with a blaze of firework parties and revelry on January 1, few could have imagined what 2020 had in store. In the last 12 months, the novel coronavirus has paralysed economies, devastated communities and confined nearly four billion people to their homes. It has been a year that changed the world like no other for at least a generation, possibly since World War II. ... The scale of the global disaster was scarcely imaginable when on December 31, Chinese authorities announced 27 cases of “viral pneumonia of unknown origin” that was baffling doctors in the city of Wuhan.
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LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, news website
How Trump caved on the coronavirus relief bill
Getting a cranky, stubborn President Trump to belatedly sign the COVID relief bill, after unemployment benefits had already lapsed, was like being a hostage negotiator, or defusing a bomb.
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from Huffington Post
LEFT BIAS, MIXED, news and commentary site headquartered in New York City
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., had blocked off room bookings during inauguration week, but finally released them.
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from Mother Jones
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, Media/News Company
“He also said that COVID was a conspiracy by the government to make the people submit under the government’s control.”
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from MSN News & Media Website
The relief package passed by Congress this month and signed by President Trump on Sunday should provide help. The $600 payments to individuals, criticized by the president and many progressives as too small, would go a long way where the typical household earns less than $40,000 a year. So would the $300 weekly supplement to unemployment benefits. And the bill includes provisions meant to help rural areas, including subsidies for broadband infrastructure and help for small farmers. But the aid would come over the objection of one of Kentucky’s Republican senators, Rand Paul, who was one of just six to vote against the package in the Senate, on the grounds that it amounted to handing out “free money.” And it would be smaller and later than it might otherwise have been because of the work of the state’s other senator, Mitch McConnell, who as majority leader fought to limit the package. Mr. McConnell in particular worked to exclude broad-based aid to state and local governments — help that many local officials in his state say they desperately need.
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from POLITICO
LEAST BIASED, HIGH, news and opinion website in Arlington, Virginia
A new, diverse class of Republicans preps for battle with the left — and hopes of winning back the House.
On the first day of Congress’ freshman orientation, four incoming GOP members realized they shared a special connection: All had first- or second-hand experience living in communist or socialist countries. The crew quipped that their family histories with brutal dictatorships and their aversion to Big Government basically made them the opposite of the liberal “Squad” that has surged to political stardom in the House.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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The nonprofit Feast World Kitchens is still under construction, but the kitchen is finished, up to code and operating. In a rotating schedule, former refugee and immigrant chefs take over the kitchen and sell food from their homelands. Carper, one of the organization’s founders, said Feast doesn’t just raise money for refugee families. It gets them connected in the community. It’s also a platform for cultural exchange.
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