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Allsides_political_bias_proper

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Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., speaks during a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington in August. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP Rep. Elijah Cu...	1
President Barack Obama narrowly won re-election, overcoming public doubts about his performance on the economy—doubts that challenger Mitt Romney appeared well-positioned to exploit.For Mr. Obama, the victory sets up a test of whether he can forge a productive second term in a divided p...	1
Infrastructure negotiations between President Biden and a group of Republicans led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) have officially broken down, and Biden now plans to turn his attention toward striking a deal with a separate, bipartisan group of senators, administration officials said Tuesday night.What we're he...	1
The breakneck pace of hiring slumped in February, a sign that U.S. growth is cooling, though strong wage growth and earlier robust job gains suggest the economy’s near decadelong expansion will endure. U.S. nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 20,000 in February, the Labor Department said Friday, marking the slo...	1
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellRepublicans take cheap shots at Fed nominees Republicans do not have a right to remain silent White House uses GOP's own rhetoric to rebut Supreme Court criticisms MORE (R-Ky.) said on Wednesday that he's barely spoken to President BidenJoe BidenCo...	1
The sentencing of one former ally of President Trump and the disclosure of a key agreement with another intensified the focus on Mr. Trump’s alleged role in coordinating efforts to suppress the stories of two women to protect his 2016 campaign. The dual developments on Wednesday came as part of a legal saga that has le...	1
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday that he plans to display battle tanks on Washington’s National Mall as part of a pumped-up Fourth of July celebration that will also feature flyovers by fighter jets and other displays of military prowess.The military hardware is just one new element in a U.S...	1
WASHINGTON—In striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act this past week, the Supreme Court not only rejected a longstanding rationale for laws disfavoring gays and lesbians—the welfare of children. The court turned it on its head.Backers had justified the 1996 federal law as a way to ensure children didn't grow ...	1
Media caption, President Trump confirms he's prepared to shut down the government for months or yearsUS President Donald Trump has said he could declare a national emergency to build a US-Mexico border wall without the approval of Congress.It came after he met senior Democrats, who refused his requests for funding.The ...	1
BURLINGTON, Vt. (Reuters) - A resolute Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday he would stay in the Democratic presidential race despite a series of big losses to front-runner Joe Biden, promising to keep up the public pressure for his sweeping economic and social justice proposals.Sanders acknowledged falling behind the form...	1
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama authorized his administration to provide arms to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, officials said Thursday, a major policy shift after the White House said it had confirmed that Damascus used chemical weapons in the country's civil war. The classified order d...	1
President TrumpDonald TrumpHillicon Valley — Cyberattack hits Ukrainian defense On The Money — GOP senators block Biden's Fed picks Florida county clerk's typo directed ticketed drivers to site selling Trump merchandise MORE's decision to block an overseas fact-finding trip planned by Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiOr...	1
By Max Greenwood - 01/23/17 08:42 PM EST © Getty Images The Obama administration sent $221 million to the Palestinian Authority on Friday as President Obama prepared to leave the White House for the last time, The Associated Press reports.The outgoing admin...	1
Progressive allies of Rep. Ilhan OmarIlhan OmarBlack women lawmakers commend Biden on commitment for Supreme Court nominee Congressional Black Caucus members press DOJ on voting rights: 'No lawsuit is too trivial' Omar seeking third term in Congress MORE (D-Minn.) are rushing to her defense as the House prepares to app...	1
(Reuters) - A candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump convincingly won a two-man Republican primary run-off for governor of Georgia on Tuesday in a race that became a proxy battle between the president and the state’s popular Republican governor, Nathan Deal.Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, whose hard lin...	1
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday met survivors of a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub and relatives of the 49 people killed and said the United States must act to control gun violence and fight what he called homegrown terrorism.“I held and hugged grieving family members and parents, and ...	1
Trump Picks Heather Nauert, Former Fox News Anchor, As U.N. Ambassador State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing last year. President Trump announced Friday that Nauert is his choice as the next ambassador to the United Nations....	1
Former presidential candidate Tom Steyer spoke at his Get Out the Vote rally in Columbia, S.C., on Friday, the day before the Democratic primary. Photo: mark makela/Reuters ...	1

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This is a copy of the "valurank/PoliticalBias_AllSides_Txt" dataset. This is just private repo for my use. I just read all the text files and made them into a csv file. Nothing is different apart from that.

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Dataset Description

~20k articles labeled left, right, or center by the editors of allsides.com.

Languages

The text in the dataset is in English

Dataset Structure

3 folders, with many text files in each. Each text file represent the body text of one article.

Source Data

URL data was scraped using https://github.com/mozilla/readability

Annotations

Articles were manually annotated by news editors who were attempting to select representative articles from the left, right and center of each article topic. In other words, the dataset should generally be balanced - the left/right/center articles cover the same set of topics, and have roughly the same amount of articles in each.

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