Articles by Valerie Richardson
Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff is fighting Republican attacks over his business ties to China as the Georgia runoff election nears, but the Hunter Biden and Eric Swalwell scandals involving Beijing aren't making it any easier.
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December 27, 2020
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If you blinked -- or if you watch CNN -- you may have missed Lindsey Boylan's harassment allegations against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, another sign that the #MeToo movement has lost its mojo when it comes to Democratic political luminaries.
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December 27, 2020
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Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff is fighting Republican attacks over his business ties to China as the Georgia runoff nears, but the Hunter Biden and Eric Swalwell scandals involving Beijing aren't making it any easier.
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December 26, 2020
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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected late Thursday a San Diego-area church's request to lift a state ban on indoor worship for Christmas, all but extinguishing the last hope of California churches hours before the Friday celebration.
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December 24, 2020
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If you blinked -- or if you watch CNN -- you may have missed Lindsey Boylan's harassment allegations against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, another sign that the #MeToo movement may have lost its mojo when it comes to Democratic luminaries.
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December 22, 2020
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was outraged Monday when Sen. Rand Paul told her she should have waited her turn for the novel coronavirus vaccine, even though Rep. Ilhan Omar said essentially the same thing.
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December 21, 2020
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The Washington Post unveiled "Democracy Dies in Darkness" a month after President Trump was sworn into office, but even though Mr. Trump may be on the way out, the slogan is staying.
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December 21, 2020
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A powerhouse coalition of pro-life advocates on Monday urged the Senate to reject Xavier Becerra's nomination to head the Health and Human Services Department, citing his absence of health care experience and his "disregard for people of faith."
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December 21, 2020
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A growing list of companies are bowing to pressure from climate-change groups to stiff-arm the oil-and-gas industry, but as far as Adam Anderson is concerned, The North Face shouldn't be one of them.
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December 17, 2020
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Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue have a message for Georgia baseball fans: Go, Braves.
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December 16, 2020
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Jill Biden holds a doctorate in education, but her insistence on being referred to as "Dr. Jill Biden" has touched off a political and media uproar over whether that makes her a courageous feminist role model or a pretentious credential snob.
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December 16, 2020
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President-elect Joseph R. Biden pledged during the campaign to eliminate oil-and-gas permitting on federal lands in the name of combating climate change, but if he does, the impact would be "devastating," Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon warned Tuesday.
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December 15, 2020
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has split from the Democratic Party on a key issue with her bill to bar transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports, calling it the "height of hypocrisy" for women's rights advocates to deny biological differences between males and females.
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December 14, 2020
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If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo can win an Emmy for his coronavirus pandemic briefings, maybe Rep. Dan Crenshaw should be submitting his election ads for Oscars.
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December 14, 2020
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A webinar on combating anti-Semitism featuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Democrat, has prompted Israel advocates to sound the irony alert and accuse progressives of seeking to redefine anti-Jewish bigotry.
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December 14, 2020
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Presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden reiterated his vow Saturday to reenter the Paris climate agreement on the first day of his administration, but that could become a problem if the accord's foes can ferry it to the Senate first.
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December 13, 2020
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Democrat Raphael Warnock was already struggling to beat back allegations of anti-Semitism, and then Linda Sarsour and Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib jumped into the Georgia Senate election picture.
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December 13, 2020
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Even as other states tighten their pandemic rules, Nebraska is lifting some novel coronavirus restrictions, citing a decline in hospitalizations and other encouraging indicators.
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December 12, 2020
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A California judge has blocked Gov. Gavin Newsom from enforcing pandemic-related restrictions on a Catholic priest and his Southern California parishes, holding that the public-health order discriminates against houses of worship.
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December 11, 2020
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Major media outlets and platforms that dismissed, ignored or sought to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell are taking a beating in the wake of this week's disclosures, accused of covering up an important story in the weeks before a critical election.
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December 11, 2020
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