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Aug 07 2022
News
More than a million could die waiting for green cards as U.S. immigration buckles amid COVID
Milap Kashipara spent 16 years waiting for a green card that he hoped would lead to better opportunities for his three children than in India, as well as a chance to reunite with his siblings in California.
In 2019, his petition finally arrived at the front of the line. He completed the paperwork and had reached the final step — scheduling an interview with the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai
Los Angeles Times
Aug 06 2022
Fact Check
Fact Check: White House Says Teenage Layabouts Drove the Labor Force Participation Rate Down
Claim: The decline in the labor force participation rate fell in July because fewer teenagers were working.
On Friday, after the Department of Labor’s jobs numbers showed that the labor force participation rate declined from 62.2 percent to 62.1 percent despite employers taking on 528,000 new workers, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the decline as “about
Breitbart Fact Check
Aug 02 2022
News
US sues Idaho over abortion law, cites medical treatment
The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit that challenges Idaho’s restrictive abortion law, arguing that it conflicts with a federal law requiring doctors to provide pregnant women medically necessary treatment that could include abortion.
The federal government brought the lawsuit seeking to invalidate the state’s “criminal prohibition on providing abortions as applied to women
Associated Press Fact Check
Aug 02 2022
News
America’s new Most Wanted: Terrorist with key role in Black Hawk Down may be al Qaeda leader
The terrorist who played a “central role” in the “Black Hawk Down” attack in Somalia and facilitated the deadly U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa in the 1990s could be the next al Qaeda leader following Ayman al Zawahiri’s death in a U.S. airstrike in Kabul.
The State Department has a $10 million reward for Saif al Adel, considered al Qaeda’s second-in-command under Zawahiri and who could
Washington Examiner
Aug 03 2022
Analysis
What the $1.3 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot Reveals About the Economy
Two things tend to boost lottery-ticket sales: massive jackpots and economic downturns. Last week, both seemed to be in play.
On Thursday, the Commerce Department said the country’s gross domestic product, a broad measure of the goods and services produced, fell at an annual rate of 0.9% in the second quarter. This was the second quarter in a row to decline, a common definition of a
Wall Street Journal (News)
Aug 06 2022
News
China will refuse to take back illegal immigrants in retaliation for Pelosi visit
China said Friday that it will stop accepting deportees from the U.S. as part of its retaliation for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s visit this week to Taiwan.
The move was among nine steps announced by China‘s Foreign Affairs Ministry, along with ending cooperation on transnational crime and drugs, and halting talks on climate change.
It also raises the stakes for the Biden
Washington Times
Aug 06 2022
News
Fancy Farm crowd shouts ‘Breonna Taylor’ throughout AG Daniel Cameron’s speech
Fired-up Democrats in the Fancy Farm crowd refused to let Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron forget what they see as his biggest failure. Dozens of Democrats loudly chanted “Breonna Taylor,” the name of the 26-year-old Black woman killed by Louisville police in 2020, for the duration of Cameron’s speech at the 142nd Annual picnic hosted by St. Jerome Catholic Church. Taylor was fresh in
Lexington Herald-Leader
Aug 05 2022
News
Report: Biden WH Apprehends Nearly 250K Unaccompanied Child Migrants
The Biden administration has apprehended 243,850 unaccompanied immigrant children for entering the country illegally since February 2021, Breitbart reported on Friday.
Over that period, an average of 350 unaccompanied migrant minors have been apprehended daily by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and sent to the Department of Health and Human Services. In 2021, CBP transferred more
Newsmax (News)
Aug 05 2022
News
Man who threatened to kill Dr. Anthony Fauci in emails sentenced to 3 years in prison
GREENBELT, Md. — A West Virginia man was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison after he sent emails threatening Dr. Anthony Fauci and another federal health official for talking about the coronavirus and efforts to prevent its spread.
Using an anonymous email account based in Switzerland, Thomas Patrick Connally, Jr. threatened to kill Fauci or members of his family, the U
USA TODAY
Aug 02 2022
News
Biden Administration Sues Idaho Over Six-Week Abortion Ban
The Department of Justice sued the state of Idaho on Tuesday over its six-week abortion ban ― the first litigation filed by the Biden administration to protect reproductive rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday morning in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, states that Idaho’s six-week abortion ban is in direct violation
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