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on March 2, 2017 in World News

Sen. Blunt: ‘Very Normal’ for Sessions to Meet with Russian Ambassador

by Kristina Wong Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) on Thursday defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak last year as “very normal” in his line of work as a senator, and said he’s had 20 such meetings himself in the last six weeks. “I know and have worked with Attorney General Sessions. He has said he had no discussions with Russian officials regarding the election, and I take him at his word. Part of the job of a United States Senator involves talking to the ambassadors of countries,” Blunt said in a statement. “I’ve talked to at… View Article

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on March 2, 2017 in World News

Study Finds 88 Percent of Media Coverage is Anti-Trump

by Warner Todd Huston A new study finds that 88 percent of coverage of President Donald Trump and his administration is negative. The study by the Media Research Center (MRC) found that the evening newscasts on the “Big Three” TV networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, were overwhelmingly hostile to Trump. In its study, the MRC found that over the president’s first 30 days in office, the networks dedicated 16 hours of coverage to President Trump, 54 percent of its total news coverage. MRC found up to 674 negative statements aimed at Trump while only a tiny 88 statements were deemed… View Article

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on March 1, 2017 in World News

Study: Moral Outrage ‘Alleviates Guilt’ over People’s Own Moral Failings

by Tom Ciccotta A recent psychological study concluded that moral outrage is sometimes a symptom of personal guilt rather than genuine empathy for the situation of others. The study, which was conducted by Bowdoin psychology Professor Zachary Rothschild and University of Southern Mississippi psychology Professor Lucas A. Keefer, concludes that the research on guilt suggests that moral outrage over hot-button issues is sometimes self-serving. According to the study: Feelings of guilt are a direct threat to one’s sense that they are a moral person and, accordingly, research on guilt finds that this emotion elicits strategies aimed at alleviating guilt that do not… View Article

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