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An IMF Bailout Won’t Help The Iranian People Fight Coronavirus Iran Liberalism

An IMF Bailout Won’t Help The Iranian People Fight Coronavirus

As Iran’s leadership debates how to respond to the health and economic crises ensuing from the coronavirus (COVID-19), the country has put forth a request for a $5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Rapid Financial Investment fund. Since the United States is the largest shareholder, Washington has an effective veto over whether…
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March 31, 2020
10 major news events no one paid attention to last week because of the coronavirus pandemic Maduro

10 major news events no one paid attention to last week because of the coronavirus pandemic

A school of fish hoover over coral on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, which is experiencing its third mass bleaching event in five years. Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic has dominated headlines over the past two months, as countries scramble to contain their outbreaks…
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March 31, 2020
Iranian journalist Mohammad Mosaed tops ‘10 Most Urgent’ list of press freedom cases Jamal Khashoggi

Iranian journalist Mohammad Mosaed tops ‘10 Most Urgent’ list of press freedom cases

Journalist, who warned about pandemic, banned from work and social media. Freelance economic reporter Mohammad Mosaed awaits a court date, after intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested and interrogated him in February regarding social media accounts critical of government. The criticism included lack of preparedness to…
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March 31, 2020
Trump praised Robert E. Lee as ‘greatest’ military mind amid Charlottesville crisis Slavery Abolition

Trump praised Robert E. Lee as ‘greatest’ military mind amid Charlottesville crisis

President Trump praised Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as the 'greatest strategic military mind perhaps ever' in a meeting with top officials amid the Charlottesville crisis in 2017 - before taking them on a tour of the Lincoln Bedroom, a new book revealed.  In 'Front Row at the Trump Show,' ABC…
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March 31, 2020
Andy Ngo’s new Twitter banner was drawn by a Holocaust denier Holocaust

Andy Ngo’s new Twitter banner was drawn by a Holocaust denier

Andy Ngo temporarily uploaded a new Twitter banner on Tuesday created by a prominent white nationalist cartoonist. The self-described journalist, who gained widespread attention after being attacked while covering a left-wing protest last year, praised the image in a now-deleted tweet. “More accurate than most mainstream news stories I’ve read…
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March 31, 2020
Trump rejects Obamacare special enrollment period amid pandemic Obamacare

Trump rejects Obamacare special enrollment period amid pandemic

The Trump administration has decided against reopening Obamacare enrollment to uninsured Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, defying calls from health insurers and Democrats to create a special sign-up window amid the health crisis. President Donald Trump and administration officials recently said they were considering relaunching HealthCare.gov, the federal enrollment site,…
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March 31, 2020
Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s hold on power just got more costly, and harder Maduro

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s hold on power just got more costly, and harder

The coronavirus isn’t stopping the United States from continuing its maximum pressure campaign on Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela. On Thursday, the Department of Justice indicted Maduro and many of his cronies on a range of charges, all but guaranteeing they will not be part of any potential democratic transition…
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March 31, 2020
Teachers Spring Into Action to Help Medical Workers During Coronavirus Pandemic Computers in School

Teachers Spring Into Action to Help Medical Workers During Coronavirus Pandemic

Bill Van Loo, a technology and engineering teacher at A2STEAM, a themed K-8 school in Ann Arbor, Mich., takes a selfie while wearing one of the medical face shields that he and other teachers are manufacturing on the district’s 3-D printers. They’re donating them to local healthcare providers. —Photo courtesy…
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March 31, 2020