ICE Nurse Revealed That A Georgia Detention Center Is Performing Mass Hysterectomies
Yahoo News - Tue Sep 15, 2020
On Monday, a nurse at a private immigration detention center in Georgia came forward about a range of dangerous medical practices at a US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. More»
Post-COVID Heart Damage Alarms Researchers
Yahoo News - Fri Sep 11, 2020
Shelby Hedgecock contracted the coronavirus in April and thought she had fought through the worst of it - the intense headaches, severe gastrointestinal distress and debilitating fatigue - but early last month she started experiencing chest pain and a pounding heartbeat. More»
Thick wildfire smoke blocks sun, turns Bay Area sky orange
San Francisco Gate - Wed Sep 9, 2020
Just when Bay Area residents thought the world outside couldn't get stranger, the sky Wednesday dimly glowed a pumpkin orange color you'd expect to see on Mars. More»
Georgia ACLU Published Its 7-Year Study of Republicans' Unconstitutional Voter Disenfranchisement Scheme
Hill Reporter - Mon Sep 7, 2020
The state of Georgia has been quietly and illegally purging hundreds of thousands of valid registered voters from the state rolls for the better half of a decade, according to a blockbuster report from the American Civil Liberties Union, which was commissioned in 2013 by the ACLU and conducted by the Los Angeles-based non-partisan Palast Investigative Fund. More»
Surveillance video shows bags of USPS mail being dumped in parking lot
KTLA-TV - Sun Sep 6, 2020
Piles of mail were found in two separate locations in Glendale Thursday morning, including one incident where a rented truck was captured on surveillance video dumping bags of unopened letters and packages in the parking lot of a business. More»
Trump: Americans Who Died In War Are ‘Losers’ And ‘Suckers’
The Atlantic - Thu Sep 3, 2020
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic. More»
Exxon Dropped From Dow Jones After Almost a Century
NPR - Fri Aug 28, 2020
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is the classic blue-chip stock index. More»
American Airlines to lay off 17,500 front-line workers due to coronavirus travel slump
USA Today - Tue Aug 25, 2020
American Airlines warned in July that it would have to lay off up to 25,000 flight attendants, pilots and other front-line workers this fall due to the steep decline in travel brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. More»
Longtime Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway to leave White House
NBC News - Mon Aug 24, 2020
Kellyanne Conway, the longtime adviser to President Donald Trump and wife of outspoken Trump critic George Conway, is leaving the White House at the end of August, she said in a statement Sunday. More»
Motorists desperately try to escape California wildfires that have killed
Daily Mail - Sat Aug 22, 2020
A dashcam has captured people making the terrifying drive through the California wildfires that have now killed six with two of the blazes now in the top ten biggest ever seen in the state, as Governor Newsom pleads with Canada and Australia to send help. More»
California's wildfires double in size with tens of thousands forced to flee
Daily Mail - Fri Aug 21, 2020
At least five people have died and two are missing after dozens of lightning-sparked California wildfires spread rapidly on Thursday, doubling in size in the state's wine country alone while expanding by nearly a third near Palo Alto. More»
Trump advisor Steve Bannon arrested on charges of defrauding donors in fundraising scheme
CNBC - Thu Aug 20, 2020
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been arrested after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through their campaign "We Build the Wall. More»
NYC Preparing to Lay Off 'Hundreds' of EMTs Amid COVID Budget Crisis
WNBC-TV - Wed Aug 19, 2020
The FDNY EMS union said that City Hall is looking to eliminate 400 emergency medical response jobs, just months after first responders were dealing with call volumes as high as 6,500 a day during the peak of the pandemic. More»
Postal Service warns 46 states their voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots
Washington Post - Fri Aug 14, 2020
Anticipating an avalanche of absentee ballots, the US Postal Service recently sent detailed letters to 46 states and DC warning that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be counted - adding another layer of uncertainty ahead of the high-stakes presidential contest. More»
Bald eagle attacks $950 government drone, sending it to bottom of Lake Michigan
KING-TV - Fri Aug 14, 2020
ESCANABA, Michigan - A bald eagle launched an aerial assault on a drone operated by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy - known as EGLE - ripping off a propeller and sending the aircraft into Lake Michigan. More»
Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election
Vice - Fri Aug 14, 2020
The United States Postal Service is removing mail sorting machines from facilities around the country without any official explanation or reason given, Motherboard has learned through interviews with postal workers and union officials. More»
Trump signs executive order forcing Chinese owner of TikTok to sell US assets within 90 days and destroy all American user data
Daily Mail - Fri Aug 14, 2020
President Donald Trump on Friday gave the Chinese company ByteDance 90 days to divest itself of any assets used to support the popular TikTok app in the United States. More»
Postal service seen hauling mailboxes away in trucks as Trump's pick for USPS makes controversial changes before election
The Independent - Fri Aug 14, 2020
New reports of US Postal Service workers hauling away mailboxes in flatbed trucks and locking shut convenient drop slots have caused widespread concerns among Oregon residents about mail-in voting during the presidential election in November. More»
Tribune Closing 5 Newsrooms Including NY Daily News
NBC NY - Thu Aug 13, 2020
Tribune Publishing Company, which owns some of the most storied newspapers in American journalism, said Wednesday that it is closing the newsrooms at five of them, including New York's Daily News and The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. More»
Memphis woman, 56, still recovering from COVID-19 after a hospital stay is evicted from her home over her mother-in-law's medical debt
Daily Mail - Sun Aug 9, 2020
A Memphis woman who is recovering from COVID-19 was evicted from her home last week over medical debt belonging to her mother-in-law. More»
Deutsche Bank gave Trump financial records to New York prosecutors
The Guardian - Wed Aug 5, 2020
New York prosecutors investigating Donald Trump's finances previously issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank, one of the foremost lenders to the president's business, as part of their inquiry - and the bank complied, according to the New York Times. More»
Donald Trump got suspended on Twitter
Raw Story - Wed Aug 5, 2020
President Donald Trump was banned from Tweeting on Wednesday after Twitter told the president he had to delete the misinformation about children not getting the coronavirus. More»
Judge Calls It ‘Discriminatory’ To Deny Puerto Rico Access To U.S. Aid
PBS - Tue Aug 4, 2020
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal judge on Monday ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny Puerto Ricans living in the US territory access to three federal welfare programs in a major decision cheered by many. More»
Thousands Ordered To Evacuate As Wildfires Scorch Southern California
Huffington Post - Mon Aug 3, 2020
BANNING, California - Thousands of people were under evacuation orders Sunday after a wildfire in mountains east of Los Angeles exploded in size as crews battled flames in triple-digit heat. More»
More Than 600 Sickened by Bagged Salad Mixes
WRC-TV - Sat Jul 25, 2020
The number of people sickened by a parasite infection linked to Fresh Express bagged salad mixes has risen to 641 cases in 11 states, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday. More»
"Man. Woman. Camera. Person. TV.": Noam Chomsky responds to Trump bragging he aced a dementia test
Democracy Now - Sat Jul 25, 2020
Is the United States being run by a madman? "What can you say about a person who, before speaking before an adoring crowd, raises his eyes to heaven and calls himself the chosen one?" says Noam Chomsky, responding to President Trump's boast that he aced a mental acuity test. More»
Georgia governor files lawsuit to "restrain" Atlanta mayor from talking about face masks
Raw Story - Sun Jul 19, 2020
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) revealed on Sunday that Governor Brian Kemp (R) is trying to use the court system to "silence" her because he opposes the face mask mandate she has put in place. More»
GOP congressman charged with multiple counts of voter fraud in Kansas
American Independent - Sun Jul 19, 2020
Freshman Representative Steve Watkins (R-KS) was charged with three felony counts of voter fraud on Tuesday, after prosecutors alleged that he used an address of a UPS storefront and not his home address to register to vote - a violation of the law. More»
Georgia Hospital Worker Sounds Alarm: 'I Have Never Ever Seen Anything Like This'
NPR - Fri Jul 17, 2020
The emergency room overflowed with patients. More»
US Coronavirus Data Has Already Disappeared After Trump Shifted Control From CDC
WNBC-TV - Thu Jul 16, 2020
Previously public data has already disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website after the Trump administration quietly shifted control of the information to the Department of Health and Human Services. More»