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Jun 07 2019
News
Job growth sputters in May, but Wall Street rallies as investors bank on Fed rescue
Hiring cooled in May, the Labor Department reported Friday, as firms appeared more hesitant to bring on new employees amid the uncertainty and concern over President Trump escalating the trade war with China.
The U.S. economy added 75,000 jobs in May, a significant pullback from 224,000 jobs added in April that is likely to heighten fears that the trade war is taking a greater toll. The
Washington PostApr 25 2015
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A boss often can fire you while you're hospitalized
Five days — that's how many sick days Tom McLaughlin took to lose his job at a carton manufacturer.
McLaughlin was in the hospital for three of those days, being treated for a potentially life-threatening flare-up of an infection in two sores on his right leg.
His doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., pleaded last week with Bell Inc. to keep McLaughlin, saying his
USA TODAYJan 14 2020
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Oklahoma files suit against three major opioid distributors
The state of Oklahoma, which last year won a court verdict against opioid manufacturer Johnson & Johnson, filed suit Monday against three mammoth drug distributors, accusing them of contributing to the drug crisis by indiscriminately sending billions of painkillers across the country.
Oklahoma State Attorney General Mike Hunter (R) said the three companies — McKesson Corp., Cardinal
Washington PostApr 29 2021
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Biden urges ban on 'assault weapons,' claiming 'it worked' before. No, it didn't.
In his first speech before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden urged the legislature to reissue a ban on so-called "assault weapons" and "high-capacity" magazines while arguing that it "worked before."
Yet the most widely sourced data shows that it did not, in fact, work before.
Biden declared gun violence "an epidemic in America" before saying, "
The BlazeOct 18 2019
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FAA says Boeing withheld ‘concerning’ pilot messages about the safety of 737 Max
The Federal Aviation Administration said Boeing withheld “concerning” messages from 2016 between employees about a flight-control system implicated in two crashes of the 737 Max, deepening the manufacturer’s crisis over the jets that have been grounded worldwide since March.
A Boeing test pilot complained in one of the messages that a flight control system, known as MCAS, was difficult
CNBCNov 11 2020
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U.S. prepares for worst four months of the pandemic as it stares down the ‘darkest’ days yet
Ohio has had an “unprecedented spike” in Covid-19 hospital admissions. ICU beds in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are full. North Dakota’s hospitals don’t have enough doctors and nurses. And hospital administrators in Iowa are warning that they are approaching their limits.
The U.S. is heading for a “dark winter,” a “Covid hell,” the “darkest days of the pandemic.” However you describe it, the next
CNBCJan 24 2015
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Supreme Court to Review Lethal Injection Protocol in Oklahoma Executions
The Supreme Court said Friday it would examine Oklahoma’s lethal-injection protocol, bringing new scrutiny to drug formulas states have adopted as pharmaceutical manufacturers have refused to provide narcotics for U.S. executions.
Among other issues, the court will examine whether Oklahoma’s drug protocol—a new formula the state adopted after a bungled execution in April 2014 drew
Wall Street Journal (News)May 27 2021
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We're Seeing A Spike In Workplace Shootings. Here's Why
Workplace mass shootings are rare, but the killing of eight people by a fellow employee at a Northern California rail yard on Wednesday marks the third such rampage in under two months.
That could foreshadow a rise in this type of violence after the nationwide shutdown of businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, says Jaclyn Schildkraut, associate professor of criminal justice at the
NPR (Online News)Apr 15 2021
Fact Check
Underselling the Infrastructure in Infrastructure Plan
President Joe Biden has taken an arguably expansive view of infrastructure to justify some of the proposed spending in the $2.7 trillion American Jobs Plan. But some Republicans have gone too far with claims about how little in the bill qualifies as infrastructure.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday” on April 11, for example, Republican Sen. John Thune claimed “only about 6% of the
FactCheck.orgAug 07 2020
Analysis
Beirut's accidental cargo: how an unscheduled port visit led to disaster
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The chemicals that went up in flames in Beirut’s deadliest peace-time explosion arrived in the Lebanese capital seven years ago on a leaky Russian-leased cargo ship that, according to its captain, should never have stopped there.
“They were being greedy,” said Boris Prokoshev, who was captain of the Rhosus in 2013 when he says the owner told him to make an unscheduled
Reuters