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#1 in U.S. News • 20 articles
Why is Delta Airlines proposing a federal no-fly list of unruly passengers?
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    Delta CEO wants federal support for national no-fly list of unruly passengers.
    USA Today (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 71% • 3 min read

    Delta CEO Ed Bastian, in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, asked for "the much-needed step" of a comprehensive list of "any person convicted of an on-board disruption." In November, Garland directed U.S. attorneys across the country to swiftly prioritize the prosecution of federal crimes that happen on commercial flights.
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    Unruly passenger cases spiked after the U.S. introduced a mask mandate on airplanes and in airports on Feb. 1, 2021. Some flights have been recently diverted due to unruly passengers. The rate of unruly passenger incidents has dropped about 50% since record-highs in early 2021.
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    In September 2021, flight attendants urged Congress to do more to reduce the number of air rage incidents. Ahead of that hearing, Delta's senior vice president of inflight service sent a memo to flight attendants saying the airline has asked other airlines to share their no-fly lists to further protect employees. "A list of banned customers doesn't work as well if that customer can fly with another airline," the memo said.
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    Delta seeks to put unruly passengers on no-fly list. [Free read link]
    Wall Street Journal (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 62% • 4 min read
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    Should U.S. airlines create their own ‘no-fly’ list? (2021)
    San Diego Union-Tribune (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 69% • 5 min read

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YESTERDAY'S POLL

Was GoFundMe right to end the Freedom Convoy fundraiser?

445 votes, 43 comments

Context: GoFundMe refunds $9M of donations supporting Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates.

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No - It's a double standard. GFM actively encouraged people to donate to the CHOP/CHAZ zones in Seattle and Portland. Both of which were complete lawless zones and multiple people died in them during the occupation of these zones. The only people claiming damage are news outlets and the Canadian government. There is video proof that the truckers are helping people too but no news media will show it.


Yes - Highways are critical in ways that we may not imagine, and many that we can. Blocking highways is a threat to public safety. The roads are paid for by taxpayers and they should expect that the roads are available. When a group interferes with public services and puts the public at risk, people or businesses can choose whether they want to aid that effort.


Unsure - Upon official request of law enforcement, or supported by the preponderance of evidence that an event does not meet its community guidelines, GoFundMe is right to take down a fundraiser. Furthermore, if the value of a fundraiser exceeds a certain amount, and there is not a valid governing body, or certified individual in place to manage the disbursement of funds any crowdfunding website would be right to withhold services. That said, GoFundMe and other crowdfunding sites have set a precedent for selective de-platforming that reveals partisan bias and tacit political endorsement.

#2 in U.S. News • 19 articles
How did a Navy SEAL candidate die after a training session?
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    U.S. Navy identifies SEAL candidate who died after ‘Hell Week’ training session.
    The Independent (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 67% • 3 min read

    Both the candidates were hospitalized soon after the symptoms emerged. One of them didn’t make it, while the other was listed in stable condition. [The Navy] stressed that the symptoms began “several hours” after the training session.
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    Both the candidates went through an extensive training session called Basic Underwater Demolition Seal which includes basic underwater demolition, survival and other combat tactics, the statement said. According to Navy seals website, the training also known as “Hell Week” consists of 5 and a half days of “cold, wet, brutally difficult operational training on fewer than four hours of sleep.”
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    On average, only 25% of Seal candidates make it through Hell Week. It isn’t yet clear how much Hell Week contributed to the deteriorated health of the trainees. However, this isn’t the first time a candidate has lost his life during rigorous training. In 2016, a candidate named Derek Lovelace died after he drowned during a pool exercise.
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    Navy identifies SEAL candidate who died after ‘Hell Week’ training.
    Fox News (Right) • Factual Grade 53% • 3 min read
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    What will decrease military training deaths? More training, Government Accountability Office says. (2021)
    Defense One (Center) • Factual Grade 71% • 7 min read

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#1 in World News • 53 articles
What diplomatic efforts are being pursued to avoid a war in Ukraine?
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    As U.S. predicts Russia could seize Kyiv in days, diplomatic efforts set to intensify this week. [Free read link]
    Washington Post (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 73% • 4 min read

    New U.S. intelligence assessments said Putin has 70% of the combat power he needs for an assault that — in the most extreme scenario — could take out [Ukraine's capital]. The Biden administration also warned that Moscow was considering filming a fake attack against Russian territory by Ukrainian forces as a pretext to invade.
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    Senior Russian officials dismissed new U.S. intelligence reports as alarmist. Some Ukrainian officials, including President Zelensky, have taken issue with Washington’s description of an “imminent” attack, fearing it will cause panic and hurt Ukraine’s economy. Zelensky’s office maintained that a diplomatic solution was more likely than war.
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    President Biden is set to meet Monday with new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has been accused of not doing enough to respond to Russian aggression. French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, and then travel to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
  1. Top from different political viewpoint
    Biden’s pointless troop deployment.
    American Conservative (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 73% • 5 min read
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    The sliding-doors approach to the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
    The Atlantic (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 79% • 5 min read
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    Should the US send troops to Ukraine if it's invaded by Russia?
    539 votes • 54 comments

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#1 in Business News • 26 articles
What drove Facebook's record drop in market capitalization?
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    For the first time in its history, Facebook is in decline. Has the tech giant begun to crumble?
    The Guardian (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 80% • 5 min read

    Facebook’s latest moment at the top of the news agenda had nothing to do with scandals and everything to do with its financial results, which were so unexpectedly bad that the shares dropped 25% at one point, taking $240bn off its market value, which in turn led to a 2% drop in the Nasdaq index.
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    Three factors stood out from reports of Mark Zuckerberg’s conference call with stock market analysts: the impact of TikTok; Apple’s move to require iPhone users to consent to being tracked by advertisers; and the revelation that the hitherto unstoppable growth in the number of Facebook users has stalled.
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    [Apple’s “app-tracking transparency” feature] required iPhone users to give explicit consent for user-level and device ID-based monitoring by apps. Users declined in droves. [Facebook has now lost] $10bn in advertising revenue. That’s 8.5% of the company’s 2021 revenues, but, more significantly, a quarter of its overall profit for the year.
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    Why Meta suffered biggest wipeout in history.
    Times of India (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 65% • 5 min read

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How will the expanded monitoring of wastewater help with pandemic tracking?
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    CDC launches Covid-19 wastewater surveillance dashboard.
    ABC News (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 75% • 4 min read

    The federal agency's National Wastewater Surveillance System connects more than 400 sites across 28 states and the District of Columbia. More than 34,000 samples have been collected representing 53 million Americans. Over the last 15 days, the dashboard shows that 98% of treatment facilities have detected the virus in all of their samples.
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    Between 40% and 80% of COVID-19 patients shed genetic material from the virus, or viral RNA, in their feces. Because people shed the virus when they are in the early stages of infection, increases in levels of viral RNA in wastewater are often seen before the number of cases rise.
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    "These can inform important public health decisions such as where to allocate mobile testing and vaccination sites," Dr. Ann Kirby, program lead for the CDC's National Wastewater Surveillance System said. Several countries overseas have used the tool to monitor polio outbreaks. In many European cities, public health officials have used wastewater surveillance to track opioid use.
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    In sewage, clues to Omicron's surge. [Free read link]
    New York Times (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 89% • 7 min read

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