Joshua J. Friedman: It's terrific news, but for the record, the major US sources covered it! www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/u... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... apnews.com/article/bide... www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

This is good actually. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Biden pardons veterans convicted under military ban on gay sexwww.bbc.com The announcement, which came during Pride month, will affect thousands of veterans.

I notice I had to go to a UK source to find coverage from a major outlet.

It's terrific news, but for the record, the major US sources covered it! www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/u... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... apnews.com/article/bide... www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Oh good. Google failing me, then. The top hits they have me were Bloomberg and the Washington Times.

Ugh, Google is getting worse and and worse for search, I'm afraid. I hope better alternatives come along!

DuckDuckGo did a better job.

Duck Duck Go yields consistent news results for mainstream national stories such as this. Local stuff, not so much.

DuckDuckGo doesn't provide Google Books results. Ok, for news stuff it's not relevant, but I'm wedded to Google for my historical interests.

That’s all Google does anymore.

I didn’t get a push alert on iPhone from either NYT or WaPo on this. (I subscribe to both). Did get several on opinionists’ speculation regarding how his debate performance would land with voters.

Likewise

Yes - I first saw it here, posted as an AP link last week. apnews.com/article/bide...

Biden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex banapnews.com President Joe Biden is pardoning potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex.

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