Call shows the Republican party to be ‘more committed to the big lie than ever’, says Democratic lawyerThe Republican National Committee sent out a scripted robocall on behalf of its new co-chair Lara Trump, falsely claiming Democrats were guilty of “massive fraud” in the 2020 election.“We all know the problems,” the RNC call said, according to CNN, which also said the call was sent 145,000 times in the first week of April. Continue reading
The Bank of Canada's interest rate decision on Wednesday didn’t bring cuts, but it did bring new insight into where the central bank thinks interest rates may be headed. The bank kept its overnight interest rate steady at five per cent, but it raised something else: its nominal neutral interest rate. The neutral rate is the rate at which the central bank’s monetary policy is neither stimulating nor holding back the economy. It's essentially the "Goldilocks" interest rate, explained...
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Donald Trump is doubling down on his claim that babies are executed "after the ninth month" as part of his argument against abortion rights. Trump released a video Monday declining to outline a national abortion policy, and instead saying he believed it should be decided at the state level. In that video, he said that people are aborting babies after the ninth month — a claim that has been dismissed by experts.A few hours later, when the Biden campaign singled out pieces of Trump's video, he...
DONNA — Faced with more than $40 million worth of sorely needed infrastructure improvements that officials here can’t find outside funding for, Donna is instead trying to offset projected costs by raising utility rates.
The Global Terrorism Index ranks Nigeria eighth among the ten countries most impacted by terrorism, while, according to the Global Organized Crime Index, Nigeria has the world’s sixth highest criminality rate, far worse than the U.S., which is ranked 67th.
Afghan poet falsely claimed that Afghanistan’s Panshir region is part of Iran.
For International Fact-Checking Day on April 2, Eric Litke, the leader of the USA Today fact-checking squad, asked who should be fact-checking the fact checkers? His answer: “Everyone.” He argued: “Proper fact-checking requires critical thinking, deep reporting, precise writing and an obsession with fairness. But most importantly, it requires transparency.” As a website, PolitiFact is fairly transparent, but studying its work does not lead everyone to find an “obsession with fairness.” Instead,...
For International Fact-Checking Day on April 2, Eric Litke, the leader of the USA Today fact-checking squad, asked who should be fact-checking the fact checkers? His answer: “Everyone.” He argued: “Proper fact-checking requires critical thinking, deep reporting, precise writing and an obsession with fairness. But most importantly, it requires transparency.” As a website, PolitiFact is fairly transparent, but studying its work does not lead everyone to find an “obsession with fairness.” Instead,...
Donald Trump Monday lashed out at Lindsey Graham after the Republican senator dared voice dissent against the former president's stated position on abortion. Trump took to Truth Social to condemn Graham (R-SC) and issue a two-post defense of his take on legislating abortion."What he doesn’t understand, or perhaps he does, is the Radical Left Democrats, who are destroying our Country, will never approve anything that he or the Republicans want," Trump wrote. "They love this Issue, and they want...
Vermilion Parish Waterworks District No. 1 has announced it will raise its monthly minimum rate by $5, from $16 for the first 2,000 gallons used to $21