New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced lawsuits against eight pharmaceutical companies yesterday, accusing them of aiding and abetting an opioid crisis that has claimed 1,000 lives in New York City in 2016 alone. “Big Pharma helped to …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump signed an executive order imposing new tariffs on solar panels and washing machines yesterday in a move, the president said, will lead directly to American jobs. “You’re going to have people getting jobs again and we’re going to …
Continue ReadingSenator Chuck Schumer is withdrawing his offer to negotiate funding for a wall along the southern border as part of an immigration compromise, he said yesterday. “We’re going to have to start on a new basis and the wall offer …
Continue ReadingJPMorgan Chase has announced $20 billion in new spending directed at employee pay raises, as well as the hiring new employees. The company announced the investment was a direct result of the tax legislation passed last month by the …
Continue ReadingFormer FBI Director James Comey was questioned last year by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation into Russian meddling. The interviews with James Comey occurred last year and were hitherto undisclosed. The Justice Department confirmed this …
Continue ReadingThe Russian government has banned a film about Soviet leader Josef Stalin on the basis that it makes a mockery of the former leader’s death. “Many elderly people…will see it as an insulting derision of the Soviet past, of …
Continue ReadingA couple of weeks ago President Trump held a meeting at the White House with a bipartisan group of congressmen and women and asked them to come up with a deal on immigration. Democrats wanted a deal on DACA, Republicans …
Continue ReadingAt least five people have been shot, one of them fatally, at a high school in Kentucky, authorities say. The shooting took place this morning at Marshall County High School in Benton, a town in southwestern Kentucky. Officials say …
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department confirmed today that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigation Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The meeting took place week and lasted several hours according to a spokeswoman. …
Continue ReadingA tsunami warning was issued and then cleared for Alaska, the Canadian and U.S. West Coasts and Hawaii after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake jolted Alaska’s Kodiak Island in the early morning hours on Tuesday. The warning was canceled by the …
Continue ReadingA man from Michigan has been arrested after calling CNN headquarters in Atlanta twenty-two times and threatening violence. Nineteen-year-old Brandon Griesemer made the calls about a week ago.
Griesemer allegedly told a CNN operator “Fake news. I’m coming to …
Continue ReadingAttorney General Jeff Sessions has been pressuring FBI Director Christopher Wray to fire FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The pressure has gotten so bad that Wray threatened to resign if McCabe was removed, sources say.
Apparently, the White House, …
Continue ReadingThree hundred and eighty-four pages of text messages between two “anti-Trump” FBI agents seem to suggest that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew in advance of former FBI Director James Comey’s July 2016 press conference that he would recommend no …
Continue ReadingA draft of the Trump administration’s infrastructure plan leaked to the press on Monday. The document reveals the details of a plan to revamp America’s roads, bridges and transit systems, as well as its water infrastructure and Veteran’s Affairs …
Continue ReadingA working group has been created to develop an ancillary agreement to the Iran nuclear deal. That addition is aimed at easing President Trump’s concerns about the pact, according to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. “We will be discussing that …
Continue ReadingThe Senate voted to reopen the government today. The list of Democrats who voted against the measure reads like a who’s who of Democratic presidential hopefuls for 2020.
Senator Cory Booker released a statement prior to the vote that read, …
Continue ReadingA new report released today says that 82% of the wealth created in 2017 went to the world’s richest 1%. The report, published by Oxfam International, an advocacy group dedicated to the eradication of world poverty, also estimated that the …
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