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1. A Shut-Down Government The hugely polarized US politics have taken their toll on the government, which saw three shutdowns this year. All of them involved disputes over the thorny issue of immigration. On 20 January, US government agencies partially halted their operations for three days after the Republican and Democratic lawmakers disagreed over the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which prevented the deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. READ MORE: Real Impact of US Govt Shutdown Limited, Perception Has Larger Effect – Scholar The second shutdown stretched for less than a day on 9 February. The two parties again locked horns over Trump's proposed increase in spending on domestic and military programmes; Congress eventually passed a spending bill that included $300 … [Read more...] about From Stormy to Kanye: Top-13 Biggest US News in 2018

The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Denver Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Chicago Sun-Times have already pledged to join the effort, which also gained support among papers with relatively small circulations, the Boston Globe said on Tuesday. READ MORE: Turkey to Seek Legal Action Against Fake News Platforms as Lira Drops — Reports The newspaper noted that the ongoing confrontation between the White House and the media had reached its climax after Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to disavow Trump’s assertion that the media is the "enemy" of the US people. © CNNFake News: Donald Jr.’s Photoshopped Screenshot of CNN Trump Ratings Debunked (PHOTOS)On August 2, Sanders declined to refute Trump's comments, noting that he "has made his position known" and accusing the media of constant verbal assaults against the president and his administration. The … [Read more...] about Some 200 US News Outlets Join Campaign Against Trump’s ‘Attacks’ on Media

The New York Daily News now joins that number. The outlet, which operates in print and online, axed half its staff Monday. The New York Daily News (NYDN) was once the most widely circulated paper in the United States on a daily basis, employing hundreds in its newsroom. But readership dwindled. The newspaper, which was founded nearly 100 years ago in 1919, became the ninth-most widely circulated daily paper in the US in 2016. In a now-deleted Tweet, the organization posted just a GIF of the oft-used "confused John Travolta." — Maury Brown (@BizballMaury) July 23, 2018 — Maury Brown (@BizballMaury) July 23, 2018 And while newspaper dailies are declining, the alternative weekly format was eulogized in 2017 by Politico magazine, The Guardian, City Lab, the Washington Post and Reason. — JamesFromTheInternet (@JamesFTInternet) July 23, 2018 Pew also tallied layoffs at news websites with a monthly average … [Read more...] about Democracy Dies in Debt? US News Outlets Slashing Staff Left and Right