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StoryGraph Biggest Story 2022-07-30 -- social reform (5), save jason (5), reform movements (5), press pool (5), pool congressional (5)

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social reform (5), save jason (5), reform movements (5), press pool (5), pool congressional (5)

Democrats Deliver As House Passes Assault Weapons Ban


By a narrow vote of 217-213, the House passed a bill reinstating the assault weapons ban.


Alex Jones Is Facing Financial Ruin As Infowars Parent Company Files For Bankruptcy


The parent company of Alex Jones's Infowars announced that they would be filing for bankruptcy as Jones faces defamation damages of potentially $150 million for defaming Sandy Hook families.


Ted Cruz Fist Bumps And Celebrates Blocking Healthcare For Vets


Sen. Ted Cruz was caught on video fist bumping fellow Senators and celebrating the blockage of expanded healthcare for vets.


New Poll Finds Trump Is Killing Republican Senate Hopes In Pennsylvania, Ohio, And North Carolina


A new poll from John Bolton's PAC found that Trump is hurting Republican Senate candidates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Carolina.


DOJ Said To Be Getting Closer To Trump As Cabinet Officials Flip On Former President


The DOJ is reportedly getting closer to Trump, as numerous cabinet officials are cooperating with the criminal probe into 1/6.


This story was constructed with the SHARI Process:

  1. The StoryGraph Toolkit extracted URIs from the biggest story of the day from the StoryGraph service
  2. Hypercane performed the following steps:
    1. It accepted the list of original resource URIs from the output of the StoryGraph Toolkit, and queried the Memento Aggregator to find as many mementos as possible
    2. For resources that were not already mementos, it submitted them to web archives with ArchiveNow
    3. It analyzed all mementos to automatically discover the most frequent sumgrams and named entities present in the overall story
    4. It analyzed all images in these mementos to automatically select the best image for the overall story
    5. It then formatted the data for the story based on all of this input
  3. Raintale took the input from Hypercane and rendered the final product with information supplied by MementoEmbed
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