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Fentanyl Maker Donates Big to Campaign Opposing Pot Legalization
US News - Sun Feb 10, 2019
AN EMBATTLED pharmaceutical company that sells the powerful painkiller fentanyl has donated $500,000 toward defeating a ballot initiative that would make recreational use of marijuana legal under Arizona law. More»

Report: Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Betsy DeVos Adoption Agency
Patheos - Thu Feb 7, 2019
The Trump administration says it can't reunite missing migrant children with their families; instead, many of the children are being shipped to a Christian adoption agency with ties to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. More»

Charges dropped for deputies accused of forcing inmates into 'fight club'
The Guardian - Fri Feb 1, 2019
The San Francisco district attorney's office on Friday dropped all charges against three San Francisco sheriff's deputies accused of forcing inmates to fight for their entertainment. More»

Texas pastor urges followers to stone a 'rebellious' student to death
Raw Story - Mon Jan 21, 2019
In a YouTube clip unearthed by the Friendly Atheist, a Texas pastor is seen exhorting his flock that the best way to control "rebellious " teens is to take one and stone him or her as a warning to other obstreperous youths. More»

4 Arizona Women Convicted for Leaving Water for Migrants
Time - Fri Jan 18, 2019
Four aid workers were convicted Friday on charges connected to their efforts to leave food and water for migrants in an Arizona wildlife refuge along the US-Mexico border. More»

Trump Orders FEMA To Cut Off Aid For California Wildfires
Huffington Post - Tue Jan 8, 2019
The president said the fire-ravaged state will receive no more money until "they get their act together". More»

Nearly half a million gallons of raw sewage spilled into local water after rain
WSB-TV - Tue Jan 1, 2019
DEKALB COUNTY, Georgia - Rain in the last several days caused 20 sewer spills in DeKalb County, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw sewage into local waterways. More»

New Year 2019: US military apologises for bomb tweet
BBC - Mon Dec 31, 2018
US Strategic Command, which oversees America's nuclear arsenal, has apologised for a tweet that said it was ready to "drop something much, much bigger" than New York's Times Square ball. More»

Georgia leads country in deaths from pregnancy-related issues
WSB-TV - Thu Dec 27, 2018
Georgia leads the country in a pretty sobering statistic: More women die here as a result of pregnancy-related issues than in any other state. More»

Alabama Police Department Blames Homicide Increase On Satan
Huffington Post - Thu Dec 20, 2018
A small-town Alabama police department this week alleged Beelzebub is responsible for a recent spike in homicides and it's all thanks to nonbelievers in the rural community. More»

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis resigns
BBC - Wed Dec 19, 2018
"Because you have the right to have a secretary of defence whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down," Gen Mattis wrote. More»

Russia's Putin Accuses US Of Raising Risk Of Nuclear War
Reuters - Wed Dec 19, 2018
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the United States of raising the risk of nuclear war by threatening to spurn a key arms control treaty and refusing to hold talks about another pact that expires soon. More»

Trump Lashes Out After His Foundation Shuts Down Over Claims of a 'Shocking Pattern' of 'Illegality'
Time - Tue Dec 18, 2018
President Donald Trump defended his embattled personal foundation after it agreed to shut down amid allegations the nonprofit misused funds on political and business purposes. More»

Russia 'meddled in all big social media' around US election
BBC - Mon Dec 17, 2018
Russia used every major social media platform to influence the 2016 US election, a report claims. More»

Minnesota parents say son died because he couldn't afford high cost of insulin
KTRK-TV - Sat Dec 15, 2018
ST. PAUL, Minnesota - The cost of insulin in the US is on the rise at an alarming rate. More»

Georgia middle school teacher pleads guilty to biting 14 year old girl in the buttocks
Daily Mail - Fri Dec 14, 2018
A former middle school teacher will serve 30 days in jail and four years probation for getting drunk, swimming underwater, and biting a 14-year-old girl in her buttocks. More»

National Enquirer admits to hush-money payments made on Trump's behalf
Washington Post - Wed Dec 12, 2018
The National Enquirer's parent company acknowledged paying hush money to a woman who alleged an affair with Donald Trump to "suppress the woman's story" and "prevent it from influencing the election. More»

Cohen gets 3 years, says Trump's 'dirty deeds' led him to 'choose darkness'
NBC News - Tue Dec 11, 2018
An emotional Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to nine federal charges stemming from his failure to report millions of dollars in income and making secret payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump. More»

Football players suspended from team for running naked with Oreos wedged in buttocks
Associated Press - Tue Dec 4, 2018
BYRON, Illinois - Ten football players at a Northern Illinois high school were suspended from the team for three games last month after they ran across a field naked with Oreo cookies wedged between their buttocks. More»

High cost has many diabetics cutting back on insulin
CBS News - Mon Dec 3, 2018
More than one-quarter of people with diabetes have skimped on needed insulin because of the drug's soaring price tag, according to a new small study. More»

Veterans Affairs Dept. tells Capitol Hill it won't repay underpaid GI Bill benefits recipients
NBC News - Thu Nov 29, 2018
For weeks, student veterans across the country have raised an alarm about delayed or incorrect GI Bill benefit payments, which the Department of Veterans Affairs has blamed on computer issues. More»

Jewish Professor Finds Swastikas Spray-Painted in Office at Columbia
New York Times - Wed Nov 28, 2018
Two swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur were spray-painted Wednesday on the walls of a Jewish professor's office at Columbia University, the latest in a surge of anti-Semitic incidents in New York this year. More»

University issues hockey pucks to defend against active shooters
WSB-TV - Tue Nov 27, 2018
ROCHESTER, Michigan - A Michigan university is training students and faculty to defend themselves against an active shooter - by using hockey pucks. More»

Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy
The Guardian - Mon Nov 26, 2018
Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump's campaign, the Guardian has been told. More»

A Georgia nightmare: This woman was jailed for 4 months for possessing cotton candy
AlterNet - Sat Nov 17, 2018
A Georgia woman has filed a federal lawsuit after she spent nearly four months in jail because a roadside drug test administered by untrained police officers falsely identified a bag of cotton candy as methamphetamine. More»

Trump Insists 'Raking' Will Help Stop Forest Fires
Huffington Post - Sat Nov 17, 2018
With 76 people dead and nearly 1,300 unaccounted for and feared dead in California wildfires, President Donald Trump had a word of advice about stopping future blazes: "Raking. More»

At Least 71 People Dead and More Than 1,000 Missing
CNN - Fri Nov 16, 2018
More than 1,000 people are unaccounted for and thousands of survivors are living in cars and tents as California's deadliest wildfire enters a second week. More»

Veterans aren't getting their GI Bill payments - because VA's 50-year-old computer system broke
Washington Post - Wed Nov 14, 2018
Daniel Gorman knows what it's like to return from war, and he wants to help fellow veterans come home, too: The former sailor turned New York National Guardsman is finishing a graduate degree in social work at Fordham University. More»

Matthew Whitaker: Acting Attorney General Said Judges Should Be Christian
The Guardian - Thu Nov 8, 2018
Donald Trump's new attorney general once said that judges should be Christian and proposed blocking non-religious people from judicial appointments. More»

Jeff Sessions Forced Out As Attorney General After Constant Criticism From Trump
NPR - Wed Nov 7, 2018
Jeff Sessions, the president's earliest and most fervent supporter in Congress, resigned under pressure as attorney general on Wednesday after brutal criticism from the president, bringing an abrupt end to his controversial tenure as the nation's top law enforcement officer. More»

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