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Apr 09 2015
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Video of Walter Scott Shooting Reignites Debate on Police Tactics
Nothing has done more to fuel the national debate over police tactics than the dramatic, sometimes grisly videos: A man gasping “I can’t breathe” through a police chokehold on Staten Island, a 12-year-old boy shot dead in a park in Cleveland. And now, perhaps the starkest video yet, showing a South Carolina police officer shooting a fleeing man in the back.
New York Times (News)Jul 22 2021
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Overdose Deaths Increase
“Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase.” (AP News)
“A group of state attorneys general unveiled on Wednesday a landmark $26 billion settlement with large drug
The Flip SideFeb 04 2021
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GameStop Mania Drives Scrutiny of Payments to Online Brokers
The Reddit-fueled frenzy in stocks such as GameStop Corp. GME -11.54% and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC -7.47% is prompting calls for regulators to reconsider a decades-old practice in the U.S. stock market: payment for order flow.
The practice, in which high-speed trading firms pay brokerages for the right to execute orders submitted by mom-and-pop investors, has long been
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 18 2015
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The prescription painkiller and heroin epidemic, explained
The drug epidemic currently tearing through large parts of the US began with the best intentions from doctors and a profit-driven campaign from pharmaceutical companies.
Back in the 1990s, doctors agreed — and many still do — that America has a serious pain problem: Tens of millions of Americans experienced debilitating pain, and it was left untreated. So they looked for a solution —
VoxMay 07 2016
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Gundlach: Trump Would Use Debt Like Reagan for Growth
DoubleLine Capital’s Jeffrey Gundlach said Donald Trump, if he’s elected president, would help the U.S. economy recover by going further into debt, just as Ronald Reagan fueled growth in the 1980s.
“Trump is going to win, and Trump is going to increase the deficit,” Gundlach said during a panel discussion Thursday in New York. Reagan “did it by taking three or four decades of stable
Newsmax (News)Jan 24 2016
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John Kasich wooing Iowans mostly from New Hampshire
John Kasich was killing it with these Iowa voters.
He bantered with Larry, a Coralville voter, about the University of Iowa's hot hoops team. Iowa had better take advantage of Ohio State University, he said. "Our basketball team is down this year."
Kasich’s signature down-home small talk over, Larry asked the Republican presidential candidate if he supports the Renewable Fuel
USA TODAYJan 29 2021
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RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is trying to hold together a party that Donald Trump might want to tear up
Air Force One was fueled and ready for the final flight.
This was the end for Donald Trump, the last hours of a progressively more noxious and isolated presidency. But as he was poised to fly south from Joint Base Andrews into the uncertainty of his after-times, Ronna McDaniel was able to get him on the line.
McDaniel, the unfailingly amiable chairwoman of the Republican National
Washington PostJan 14 2015
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Obama's climate plan won't work if he can't cut down on methane leaks
Obama needs to cut methane for his climate plan to work
Over the last six years, the Obama administration has been trying to address global warming with a flurry of rules aimed at reducing US carbon-dioxide emissions. First there were stricter fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks. More recently, the EPA proposed sweeping carbon regulations for coal-fired power pl
VoxJan 28 2021
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'We love this stock': GameStop effect spreads as calls for probe build
The battle between small-time traders and hedge funds that has shaken U.S. and European stock markets moved into Asia on Thursday, with surges in several Australian companies joining a list of social-media hyped moves that have cost financial institutions billions of dollars.
Heavily shorted Australian shares, including Webjet and Tassal Group, climbed more than 5% even as Sydney’s
ReutersFeb 10 2020
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‘We have to have hope, right?’ Democrats grasp for momentum.
For the past three years, Democrats have drawn fuel from a collective sense of outrage. But as New Hampshire prepares to register its choice for the Democratic nominee on Tuesday, there are signs that some of that anger may be fading into something more like weary resignation.
“So many people, myself included, have gotten to the point where it’s like, ‘Trump did this!’ and I’m just like
Christian Science Monitor