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Aug 15 2023
News
Death toll in devastating Maui fires reaches 101 as search for the missing continues
A mobile morgue unit arrived Tuesday to help Hawaii officials working painstakingly to identify the remains of people killed in wildfires that ravaged Maui, as the death rose above 100 and teams intensified the search for more dead in neighborhoods reduced to ash. Gov. Josh Green announced the confirmed death toll had risen from 99 to 101 in an afternoon video address, saying, “We are
NBC Los AngelesAug 16 2023
News
Georgia DA sounds alarm on "very dangerous" aspect of political threats
DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston warned that any form of political violence cannot be taken "lightly" in response to reports of a Texas woman facing federal charges, accused of threatening to kill U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. Abigail Jo Shry, 43, has been charged with one count of transmitting a threat to injure another person after telling Department of Homeland Security
NewsweekAug 19 2023
Opinion
Don’t blame Eric Adams for New York’s migrant crisis
New York mayor Eric Adams has always been known for his quirky personality and tendency to say odd things. But even longtime Adams-watchers have taken a second look at some of his recent headscratchers. At a housing forum a few months ago, he told an octogenarian tenants’s advocate — who fled the Nazis with her family when she was a child — that she was talking to him as though he was “someone
UnHerdJul 25 2023
News
Abbott Responds To DOJ Border Demand
Governor Greg Abbott Monday defended Texas’ right to secure the border through the recent deployment of floating marine barriers in the Rio Grande River. In a letter to President Biden, the Governor counters threats by the U.S. Department of Justice to sue the state over the barriers by pointing out that the U.S. Constitution grants Texas sovereign authority to protect its borders because the
East Texas RadioAug 13 2023
News
Kansas police chief faces firestorm over newsroom raid
MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a firestorm of criticism after it raided the offices of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher and owner — a move deemed by several press freedom watchdogs as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution's protection of a free press. The Marion County Record said in its own published reports that police raided the
Daily KosOct 04 2017
Headline Roundup
House Passes New Abortion Bill
The House passed a bill on Tuesday making it a crime to have an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. If it passes in the Senate, those who perform or attempt an abortion would serve up to five years in prison.
The Hill Washington Times VoxJul 17 2023
News
Yankees vow to not let latest troubling loss linger
ANAHEIM, Calif. — A loss like the one the Yankees suffered on Sunday had the feeling of a game that could come with lingering effects. But in the immediate aftermath, the Yankees insisted they would not let that be the case, and they set out on Monday to try to prove it. “Morale is fine,” manager Aaron Boone said Sunday after the crushing 8-7, 11-inning loss to the Rockies at Coors Field. “
New York Post (News)Sep 13 2017
Headline Roundup
House Votes Against Asset Forfeiture
The House unanimously voted to reject a proposal by Jeff Sessions to ramp up the practice of civil asset forfeiture, which allows police officers to seize property from individuals suspected of committing a crime.
HuffPost The Hill Washington Free BeaconAug 15 2023
News
Tenn. Hospital Faces Federal Civil Rights Probe Over Trans Records
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, is facing a federal civil rights investigation regarding allegations it turned over private medical records of transgender patients to state Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. John Howser, chief communications officer for the medical center, said Tuesday they were contacted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’
Newsmax (News)Aug 15 2023
News
North Korea claims Fort Bliss-bound soldier bolted after 'mistreatment' in the Army
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea asserted Wednesday that a U.S. soldier who bolted into the North across the heavily armed Korean border last month did so after being disillusioned with the inequality of American society and racial discrimination in its Army. It was North Korea's first official confirmation of detention of Pvt. Travis King, who entered the North while on a civilian tour