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Battleground Poll
Politics and Civility: Join Us for a Conversation About the First Poll from the New Battleground Poll What: An in depth conversation about the results from the first poll of the newly relaunched Battleground Poll, a national bipartisan survey of registered voters in the United States measuring voter sentiment and opinion. This reliable bellwether of national opinion will ask traditional polling questions related to U.S. electoral politics and oter attitudes, as well as gauge voter opinion on the state of civility in our national political conversation. Who: Republican pollster Ed Goeas of…
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Exclusive Briefing: New Report on Progress for Children since 2000 Worldwide, and the Innovative Aid that Helped Achieve it
Exclusive Briefing: New Report on Progress for Children since 2000 Worldwide, and the Innovative Aid that Helped Achieve itEmbargoed report preview, discussion with Save the Children CEO and Devex Editor-in-Chief Later this month, Save the Children will release its annual Global Childhood Report, which ranks the best and worst countries for children by examining factors that rob children of their childhoods around the world such as child labor, adolescent pregnancy, exclusion from education, and children living in and fleeing from conflict zones. The report includes an analysis of progress…
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Is Higher Education at a Tipping Point?
Tuesday, March 26, 20196:00 p.m. — light reception in First Amendment Lounge7:00 p.m. — panel discussion in The Murrow Room Please join UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief David Lauter, education law expert Elizabeth Meers, and UCLA vice provost for enrollment management Youlonda Copeland-Morgan for a live conversation on the future of public higher education. Topic: Most agree the pursuit of higher education increases opportunities, but questions of access, quality and affordability continue to arise. Some believe the four-year, on-campus experience should…
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Nigerian Judiciary and the Imo State Election Crisis
Organization: U.S. Council on Nigeria Title: The Nigerian Judiciary and the Imo State Election Crisis - Symposium on the Collapse of Democracy”. Media Contact: Mr. Zoobee Chukwurah, (240) 308-5097; Bar. Lloyd Ukwu, +234-802-0317-4444 Speakers: Bruce Fein, Esquire, Constitutional Lawyer and Former Assoc. Deputy U.S. Attorney General; W. Bruce DelValle, Esquire, Constitutional Litigator and Nigerian Legal Expert; var. Nigerian Legal Experts to be announced; and others
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Response to the Deal of the Century
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Beyond Brexit: UK-US Trade
Beyond Brexit Trade and the Future of an Independent Britain (Including the Outlook for an Agreement with the United States) Tuesday, January 28, 2020 9:30 - 11:00 A.M. (Registration from 9 A.M.) The National Press Club 529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor Washington, DC 20045 With the UK's membership in the European Union due to end on January 31, and Boris Johnson expected in Washington in February, these questions are now front and center: What will the UK's trade arrangements be with the EU? And with the rest of the world? What is the outlook for a U.S.-UK trade agreement? What would it…
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The Case for Extening New START
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NPC Press Briefing: Debra Tice, mother of detained journalist Austin Tice
Debra Tice, the mother of detained journalist Austin Tice, will hold a news conference on Monday, Jan. 27 at 10:00 a.m. at the National Press Club to provide an update and to be part of the announcement of the second annual Night Out For Austin Tice, a national awareness campaign. Unjustly detained in Syria since August 2012, Austin Tice is a freelance journalist who worked for both McClatchy and The Washington Post. Debra Tice, who spent 83 days in Syria looking for her son, has been advocating for his release for more than 7 years. Austin is the only American journalist currently being held…
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Deconstructing the Solemani Killing
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Reporter Jerry Mitchell - "Race Against Time"
Reporter Jerry Mitchell, who spent years investigating the most infamous murders of the civil rights movement, will speak at a National Press Club Headliners event on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020 about his upcoming book, Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Race Against Time chronicles Mitchell’s quest to unearth the truth behind some of the most gruesome and harrowing unsolved murders of the civil rights era. Mitchell’s reporting is credited with helping to bring killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of…
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