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Mar 29 2021
News
“The Ball Was Dropped by All”: How Cops Got More Than $400,000 in Unlawful Sick Day Payouts
In 2010, New Jersey lawmakers wanted to put a stop to the six-figure payouts police officers and other public employees could get by cashing in their unused sick days at retirement. They capped the sellbacks at $15,000 for anyone hired after the law took effect.
Six years later, Vernon Township, a small town in northern New Jersey, changed its police contract to allow officers to cash
ProPublicaJan 07 2021
News
McConnell: Trump election claims include 'sweeping conspiracy theories'
'We cannot simply declare ourselves a national board of elections on steroids'. Noting that the presidential election was "not unusually close," Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged his colleagues not to object to the electoral vote count.
The Senate leader, between a series of emotional remarks, said that the vote to certify the Electoral College results was the most important
Fox News DigitalSep 14 2021
News
Top Democrat threatens to subpoena Biden officials as Blinken testifies on Afghanistan
Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, facing a second day of interrogation from Republican lawmakers highly critical of the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Driving the news: The committee's chair, the hawkish New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez, pulled no punches in his opening statement, threatening to
AxiosAug 13 2020
News
How The South Botched Spanish-Language Outreach On COVID-19
“I don’t know how I’m going to do this,” the man on the phone stammered in Spanish, his voice cracking. “I’m asking you, please. Whatever you can ... I’m desperate for me and my family. I cannot help them. Please help us.”
María Cruz was already stretched thin. On that June morning, the community organizer had two laptops open and a phone ringing every few minutes with new callers
HuffPostJun 08 2015
Opinion
OPINION: Disney favoring foreign workers over Americans
With another week, we have another example of the immigration system harming American workers.
Washington TimesNov 01 2017
News
Uzbek man is focus of deadly New York truck attack
U.S. investigators on Wednesday were focused on an Uzbek immigrant they said killed eight people in New York by driving a rental truck down a riverfront bike path in an attack authorities said had all the hallmarks of terrorism.
ReutersNov 13 2019
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Coverage of Don Cherry's Firing Differs on Left and Right
Longtime TV personality Don Cherry, considered by many to be a legendary personality due to his 38-year career, was fired by Sportsnet Monday after he said not enough people (or immigrants, depending on whom you ask) in Toronto wear poppies to honor veterans on Remembrance Day. The subsequent coverage revealed significant media bias on the left and the right.
View Cherry’s comments in
Julie MastrineAug 26 2018
News
Accused Russian spy Maria Butina asks for house arrest
The alleged Russian spy Maria Butina should be released from jail and placed on house arrest, her attorneys argued in a court filing Friday that seeks to paint her as a humble student whose interactions with Americans and Russians are overblown by prosecutors who indicted her for acting illegally as a foreign agent.
CNN DigitalJun 04 2020
News
Steve King/Primary Elections
“Republicans in northwest Iowa ousted Rep. Steve King in Tuesday’s primary, deciding they’ve had enough of the conservative lightning rod known for making incendiary comments about immigrants and white supremacy… The nine-term congressman, shunned by his party leadership in Washington and many of his longtime supporters at home, lost to well-funded state Sen. Randy Feenstra.”( AP News)
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