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PORTLAND, Ore. — A new law ensures the Holocaust will always be taught in Oregon schools.
Gov. Kate Brown signed Senate Bill 663 into law Monday morning.
The bill requires that the Holocaust and genocide be taught to age-appropriate students, starting at the beginning of the 2020 school year. Continue reading “Governor signs bill ensuring Holocaust taught in Oregon schools”
San Francisco Chronicle – by Bob Egelko
The judge in the first federal court trial of lawsuits by cancer victims who used Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide criticized the company’s apparent indifference to health and safety Monday but said he was legally required to reduce a jury’s damage award.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of San Francisco lowered the award from $80.2 million to $25.2 million for a Sonoma County man who sprayed the weed-killer on his property for more than 26 years before becoming ill. Continue reading “Judge lowers Monsanto damage award to Sonoma man by $55 million”
The Bureau of Land Management will relocate its headquarters to Grand Junction from Washington, D.C., U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner announced on Monday.
“This is a very big deal for Grand Junction,” the Colorado Republican told The Colorado Sun. “I think this is a signature accomplishment for Grand Junction. They have positioned themselves as a public lands community and economy.” Continue reading “Bureau of Land Management to move headquarters to Grand Junction, Cory Gardner says”
In what we suspect will be immediately greeted by an avalanche of “we’re a nation of (legal) immigrants” and calls of ‘racism’ and ‘hitler’, AP reports that the Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants.
According to a new rule published in the Federal Register, asylum seekers who pass through another country first will be ineligible for asylum at the U.S. southern border. Continue reading “Trump Ends Asylum Protections For Most Migrants At US-Mexico Border”
Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump agreed to a 90-day trade truce to allow for further talks to address US concerns after China committed to buying a “very substantial” amount of American exports, the White House said in a statement late on Saturday.
Chinese officials said that the country would buy more US products in an effort to narrow the wide bilateral trade gap. Continue reading “US and China reach 90-day trade tariff ceasefire after China agrees to buy ‘very substantial’ amount of American goods”
Police in Washington state say an armed man was shot and killed early Saturday after trying to attack a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center.
The Seattle Times reported that the unidentified man appeared outside of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma with a rifle and threw incendiary devices at both the facility and nearby propane tanks, at one point setting a vehicle on fire. Continue reading “Armed man shot, killed after throwing incendiary devices at Washington ICE detention center”
The Air Force has issued a stern warning to the over half of million people planning to storm a top-secret US military base in the Nevada desert who are on a hunt to “see them aliens.”
Over 600,000 people have signed up to an event called “Storm Area 51, they can’t stop all of us” which invites attendees to gather en masse before going into the air force base, which has long obsessed alien conspiracy theorists. Continue reading “Storm Area 51: US military ‘ready’ to confront 600,000 alien-hunters threatening to break into top-secret base”
Authorities in Colorado restored an American flag to its place Friday evening after protesters demonstrating outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility pulled down the star-spangled banner and flew the flag of Mexico in its place.
The protesters also removed a “Blue Lives Matter” flag, honoring law enforcement, spray-painted it with the words “Abolish ICE,” then raised the flag upside-down, on a pole next to the Mexican flag, according to local media. Continue reading “Anti-ICE protesters pull down American flag, raise Mexico flag, vandalize ‘Blue Lives Matter’ flag”
The Democrat-led House voted Friday to block President Trump from taking military actions against Iran without first seeking Congressional approval – a vote which had the support of more than two dozen Republicans, much to John Bolton’s chagrin.
According to the Washington Post, the vote will likely ensure a showdown with the GOP-controlled Senate over whether the restriction will be included in the final bill negotiated between the two chambers. Of note, the House version contains an exception for cases of self-defense. Continue reading “House Votes To Block Trump From Iran War As Senate Showdown Looms”
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake shook Seattle and the Puget Sound region just before 3 a.m. Friday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.
The shaking emanated from Three Lakes, Snohomish County, about nine miles east of downtown Everett. The earthquake was relatively shallow, and originated about 14 miles beneath the surface, according to a USGS map. Continue reading “4.6 earthquake shakes Seattle region overnight”
GUATEMALA CITY, July 11 (Reuters) – Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales will travel to Washington next week to discuss migration, and sources said he may sign an agreement declaring the Central American country a safe destination for asylum seekers.
Morales will visit President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, and “meet with U.S. Government officials to address security, migration and economic issues,” the Guatemalan government said in a statement on Twitter on Thursday. Continue reading “Asylum deal at the fore as Guatemalan president visits White House”
Scientists have identified a radiation leak on the wreck of a Russian nuclear submarine that sank in Arctic waters in 1989.
The Soviet-era Komsomolets submarine sank off Norway’s Bear Island following a fire on board, which resulted in the loss of life of 42 of the 69 crewmen on board. Resting at a depth of 5,577 feet, the submarine’s nuclear reactor and two nuclear warheads are still on board. Continue reading “Scientists discover radiation leak ‘100,000 times normal level’ from Russian nuclear sub wreck”
President Trump, speaking at the White House on Thursday, announced that he would “immediately” issue an executive order to get an accurate count of non-citizens and citizens in the United States — a measure Trump said would be “far more accurate” than relying on a citizenship question in the 2020 census.
The move would make use of “vast” federal databases and free up information sharing among all federal agencies concerning who they know is living in the country, Trump said. Continue reading “Trump, ‘not backing down’ in effort to count citizens amid census fight, announces executive order”
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit that aims to protect asylum seekers from an immigration enforcement operation expected to start this weekend.
The lawsuit argues that those individuals weren’t allowed a fair chance to request asylum and their deportation orders aren’t valid. Most of them are from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Continue reading “ACLU files lawsuit ahead of anticipated raids”
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Britain said Thursday that three Iranian vessels had unsuccessfully tried “to impede the passage” of a British commercial vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz, but Tehran denied it. A statement issued by the British Ministry of Defense said a Royal Navy warship, the frigate HMS Montrose “was forced to position herself” between the Iranian vessels and the oil tanker, called the British Heritage. Continue reading “U.K. says Iranians tried to block British tanker in Strait of Hormuz”
(July 8, 2019 / JNS) U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton took a victory lap over the Trump administration’s pro-Israel accomplishments, as did Vice President Mike Pence, at the Christians United for Israel conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Continue reading “Bolton, Pompeo take victory lap over Trump’s pro-Israel accomplishments”
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., signed a bill into law on Tuesday making young illegal immigrants eligible for the Medicaid program in California, making it the first state to offer such taxpayer-funded health benefits to low-income adults age 25 and younger regardless of their immigration status.
State officials said they expected the plan to cover about 90,000 people and cost taxpayers $98 million. California already covered children 18 and younger regardless of immigration status. Continue reading “California becomes 1st state to give taxpayer-funded health benefits to illegal immigrants”
Walmart will reportedly stop selling guns at its New Mexico stores later this month.
The retailer’s decision came after the state passed a new law expanding background checks, which was put into effect on July 1, CBS News reported. Continue reading “Walmart will stop gun sales in New Mexico over background check laws: report”
An indictment alleging sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy was unsealed Monday morning against billionaire financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who is set to make his first appearance in a New York City federal court later in the day.
Prosecutors allege Epstein, the 66-year-old wealthy hedge fund manager arrested on Saturday, preyed on “dozens” of victims as young as 14. Continue reading “Jeffrey Epstein due in federal court after sex trafficking arrest, preyed on young girls, prosecutors say”