5/24/2017: Terrorist or Hero, Puerto Rican Nationalist Set to Be Freed - Should Oregon Tax Bicycle Sales to Help Pay for Roads?

Today's Article: Terrorist or Hero, Puerto Rican Nationalist Set to Be Freed
From: Los Angeles Times
Readability Score: 10.3

His 70-year sentence was commuted in January by President Obama

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Today's Alternate Article: Should Oregon Tax Bicycle Sales to Help Pay for Roads?
Readability Score: 9.3

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9/28/2016: Obama Vetoes Bill To Allow Sept. 11 Victims To Sue Saudi Government - Superintendent Says Former Worker’s ‘Lunch Shaming’ Story Is False

Today's Article: Obama Vetoes Bill To Allow Sept. 11 Victims To Sue Saudi Government
From: NPR
Readability Score: 10.0

In a three-page statement that accompanied the veto, Obama spelled out his reasons for seemingly defying the wishes of the grieving families.

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Today's Alternate Article: Superintendent Says Former Worker’s ‘Lunch Shaming’ Story Is False
Readability Score: 8.3

Exciting news at izzit.org! Our videos are now aligned with the National Standards for Family and Consumer Science. Let the Family & Consumer Science teachers in your school know.

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9/22/2016: Patient Diplomacy And A Reluctance To Act: Obama's Mark On Foreign Policy - Couple Overhears Racist Comments at Restaurant, Pays for Their Tea

Today's Article: Patient Diplomacy And A Reluctance To Act: Obama's Mark On Foreign Policy
From: NPR
Readability Score: 10.6

For nearly eight years, President Obama has been putting his stamp on U.S. foreign policy both by what he's done and by what he chosen not to do.

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Today's Alternate Article: Couple Overhears Racist Comments at Restaurant, Pays for Their Tea
Readability Score: 8.6

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4/7/2016: Pentagon's Evolving Strategy: Treat The Islamic State Like A State - Detroit Hits Residents on Water Shut-offs as Businesses Slide

Today's Article: Pentagon's Evolving Strategy: Treat The Islamic State Like A State (11.4)
From: NPR

American leaders from President Obama on down reject the Islamic State's core claim of being a caliphate...

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Today's Alternate Article: Detroit Hits Residents on Water Shut-offs as Businesses Slide (8.9)

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3/28/2016: What's at Stake in US Saying ISIS Committed Genocide - American Teen Survives Attack in Brussels, His Third Brush With Terrorism

Today's Article: What's at Stake in US Saying ISIS Committed Genocide (11.4)
From: ABC News

Why does it matter that the Obama administration uses the word “genocide?”

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Today's Alternate Article: American Teen Survives Attack in Brussels, His Third Brush With Terrorism (8.9)

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3/23/2016: Obama, Castro Hold Unprecedented Joint News Conference - Nine Cuban Migrants Die, 18 Rescued off Florida

Today's Article: Obama, Castro Hold Unprecedented Joint News Conference (11.8)
From: Associated Press

The exchanges underscored deep divisions that still exist between the two countries despite rapidly improved relations...

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2/9/2016: Obama to Propose a $10-a-Barrel Fee on Oil - "I Was Being a Parent": Father Found Not Guilty After Taking Away Daughter's iPhone

Today's Article: Obama to Propose a $10-a-Barrel Fee on Oil (12.6)
From: New York Times

The proposal to further increase costs for fossil fuel production is part of a broader effort by Mr. Obama to fight climate change.

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Today's Alternate Article: 'I Was Being a Parent': Father Found Not Guilty After Taking Away Daughter's iPhone (8.0)

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2/5/2016: Obama Moves to Close Gender Wage Gap - Down Syndrome Couple Gets Their Happily Ever After

Today's Article: Obama Moves to Close Gender Wage Gap (12.2)
From: Los Angeles Times

The first bill President Obama signed after taking office in 2009 was designed to help close the pay gap between men and women.

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Today's Alternate Article: Down Syndrome Couple Gets Their Happily Ever After (6.2)

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1/7/2016: Obama's Executive Actions Could Open a Door for Successors - E.P.A. Broke Law with Social Media Push for Water Rule, Auditor Finds

Today's Article: Obama's Executive Actions Could Open a Door for Successors (13.3)
From: Yahoo News (AP)

Obama backers could rue the day they cheered his "pen-and-phone" campaign to get past Republican opposition in Congress...

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Today's Alternate Article: E.P.A. Broke Law With Social Media Push for Water Rule, Auditor Finds (8.1)

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10/9/2015: President Obama's Statement on the Shooting in Oregon - This Man 'Owned" Google.com -- for One Minute

Today's Article: President Obama's Statement on the Shooting in Oregon (9.5)
From: whitehouse.gov

This is something we should politicize.
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Today's Alternate Article: This Man 'Owned' Google.com -- for One Minute (8.4)

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