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Aug 19 2019
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There could have been three more mass shootings if these men weren't stopped, authorities say
Authorities this weekend announced they had foiled three potential mass shootings after arresting three men in different states who expressed interest in or threatened to carry them out.
All three cases were brought to authorities' attention thanks to tips from the public.
Here's what we know about them.
Police say he had the motivation and the ammunition
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CNN DigitalMay 12 2019
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Booker hits Warren over proposal to break up tech giants
Cory Booker swatted at his Senate colleague and fellow 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren for her call to break up some of the country’s most powerful technology companies — bashing the proposal as not befitting a president and sounding “more like a Donald Trump thing to say.”
In an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl that aired Sunday on “This Week,“ the New Jersey Democrat
PoliticoAug 20 2019
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A $25B US counter-drug smuggling operation quietly thrives far south of the border
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Smugglers flying small cocaine-packed airplanes toward the United States from South and Central America might make it to Mexico thinking they went undetected by American forces staked out in international waters trying to interdict them.
But once on the ground in Mexico, from where they hope to smuggle their contraband into the United States, those tiny planes
Washington ExaminerOct 14 2019
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Family demands charges, firing after fatal police shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in her own home in Texas
The family of a 28-year-old black woman who was shot and killed by a white police officer in her Fort Worth home as she played video games with her nephew expressed outrage Monday that the officer has not been arrested or fired.
The Fort Worth Police Department said officers responded about 2:25 a.m. Saturday after a neighbor called a non-emergency line to report the home's front door
Chicago TribuneFeb 18 2019
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McCabe's shocking claims prove the bloodless coup rolls on
Disgraced former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe has provided clear evidence that in 2017 a small cabal of high-level officials inside the Department of Justice (DOJ) weighed whether to attempt to remove the duly-elected president of the United States. McCabe claims that he and others at the top of the FBI and DOJ held multiple discussions about invoking the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to
The HillJun 15 2019
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Trump Blocked Congress From Seeing These Emails About The Census Unredacted
The Trump administration left behind a long paper trail as it pushed to get a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Many of those internal emails and memos became public as part of the lawsuits over the addition of the question, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?" They revealed that the Justice Department did not initiate the request for the question to better enforce the
NPR (Online News)Mar 11 2020
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Hospitals’ Free Speech Argument on Prices Draws Wary Response
The legal fight over the Trump administration rule requiring hospitals to publicly list their prices and the discounts they give insurance companies is testing the bounds of free speech protections.
Health-care industry groups and two private hospitals are using the First Amendment to try and block the Department of Health and Human Services rule before it takes effect in January 2021.
BloombergJun 01 2018
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Federal Agencies Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Migrant Children Placed With Sponsors
A top official with the Department of Health and Human Services told members of Congress on Thursday that the agency had lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children it placed with sponsors in the United States, raising concerns they could end up in the hands of human traffickers or be used as laborers by people posing as relatives.
New York Times (News)Sep 05 2020
Analysis
Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover
To have a job without a workplace, you must build an office of the mind. Structure, routine, focus, socialization, networking, stress relief—their creation is almost entirely up to you, alone in a spare bedroom or on your couch, where your laptop might vie for attention at any given moment with your pets or kids. If the coffeepot runs dry, there is no one to blame but yourself.
The
The AtlanticJul 03 2020
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Senator warns of political pressure on U.S. probe into hackers of green groups
A Democratic U.S. senator says he has written to Attorney General William Barr outlining his concerns about potential “political interference” by the Trump administration in an investigation of a private espionage firm that targeted environmental groups in the United States.
Last month Reuters reported here that U.S. law enforcement was investigating aspects of a seven-year-long hack-
Reuters