Year: 2016

McClatchy DC

Donald Trump released a seven-point health care policy paper this week, boasting that his plank would reduce health care costs and dubbing his plan “healthcare reform to make America great again.”

The release comes one day before Thursday’s Republican debate. Trump was needled during last week’s debate, for being vague about his plans to reform health care. The policy paper released Wednesday is Trump’s sixth. In comparison, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has released two dozen.   Continue reading “Donald Trump has a 7-point healthcare plan”

Anti-Media – by Claire Bernish

Washington, D.C. —Monsanto has essentially been gifted a free pass with legislation intended to protect people and the environment. Monsanto will enjoy immunity from responsibility for one of the most noxious of all its toxic creations: PCBs.

Slipped into already-contentious reform measures of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act by the House of Representatives, the provision concerns now-banned polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which, in the United States, were manufactured nearly exclusively by Monsanto. Though the Environmental Protection Agency banned the substances in the 1979, from the early 1930s through 1977, the agrichemical goliath produced around 1.25 billion pounds — of which an estimated 10 percent continues to wreak havoc on human health and the environment.   Continue reading “Congress Sneaks New “Monsanto Protection Act” Into Sweeping Environmental Bill”

Reuters

New York State’s attorney general has determined that the Mount Vernon police were not criminally culpable for the death in jail of an African-American mother of eight who had been arrested on shoplifting charges, a source familiar with the investigation said on Thursday.

A seven-month investigation into the death of Raynette Turner, 42, found that she died of natural causes at the Mount Vernon police headquarters, the source said. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was expected to release a comprehensive report at a 1 p.m. news conference.   Continue reading “Police cleared in death of New York woman in jail: source”

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Union Leader

Federal agents have arrested Jerry DeLemus, a local Tea Party leader who stood with Cliven Bundy’s armed resistance at his ranch in Nevada in 2014, in connection with the standoff and alleged assault.   Continue reading “Bundy supporter DeLemus facing slew of federal charges”

Cleveland.com – by Olivia Perkins

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ohio lost 112,500 jobs in 2015 resulting from the United States’ trade deficit with countries that are part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.

That places Ohio sixth, in terms of the percentage of jobs lost to trade with TPP countries, among the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked in the report released Thursday by the liberal Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The lost jobs represent nearly 2.2 percent of employment in Ohio, according to the analysis.   Continue reading “Ohio lost 112,500 jobs due to trade with TPP countries”

Press TV

Syria has plunged into dark as the country’s electricity network is down for unknown reasons, state media reports say.

“The electricity network has been cut in all governorates,” official news agency SANA said on Thursday, quoting a source in the Ministry for Electricity.   Continue reading “Syria plunges into dark as nationwide blackout strikes”

Green Med Info – by Sayer Ji

Turmeric is hands down one of the, if not the, most versatile healing spice in the world with over 600 experimentally confirmed health benefits, and an ancient history filled with deep reverence for its seemingly compassionate power to alleviate human suffering.   Continue reading “How WHOLE Turmeric Heals The Damaged Brain”

True Activist – by Amanda Froelich

You have one life to live. So why sacrifice the sweetness of your later years when there’s still so much to explore and enjoy?

Such must have been the rationale of 90-year-old Norma, who learned while her husband was dying in hospice that she had cancer of the uterus.    Continue reading “90-Year-Old Woman Passes On Cancer Treatment To Explore The USA”

Yahoo News

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, will head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday.

Carter unveiled the new Defense Innovation Advisory Board with Schmidt during the annual RSA cyber security conference in San Francisco, saying it would give the Pentagon access to “the brightest technical minds focused on innovation.”   Continue reading “Former Google CEO Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board”

Mail.com

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas trooper indicted over his arrest of a black woman who was later found dead in jail has been formally fired, three months after his bosses first announced they would do so, state officials said Wednesday.

Former Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia can still appeal the decision to fire him, which came after a grand jury indicted him on a perjury charge in December. He is accused of lying about his July 2015 arrest of Sandra Bland and their confrontational traffic stop that was caught on dashcam video.   Continue reading “Texas trooper indicted over Sandra Bland stop formally fired”

Mail.com

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A hospital orderly pleaded guilty Wednesday to abducting and killing two Virginia college students, wrapping up a mystery that began in 2009 when one of the women disappeared from a Metallica concert. The other young woman, 18-year-old Hannah Graham, vanished five years later under similar circumstances, after a night of partying with friends.   Continue reading “Guilty plea ends case of 2 slain Virginia college students”

Mail.com

ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — A flight student from Egypt is facing deportation from the United States after being investigated by federal agents for posting on his Facebook page that he was willing to kill Donald Trump and the world would thank him.

While U.S. prosecutors have not charged 23-year-old Emadeldin Elsayed with a crime, immigration authorities arrested him last month at the Los Angeles-area flight school he attended and now are trying to deport him, attorney Hani Bushra said Wednesday.   Continue reading “Egyptian student may be deported after Trump threat”

RT

A nuclear power propulsion system could propel a spacecraft to Mars in just over a month, a huge step forward from the current 18 months required. Russia might test a nuclear engine as early as 2018, the head of the Rosatom nuclear corporation revealed.

Another advantage of a nuclear engine is that it enables a spacecraft to maneuver throughout the flight, whereas existing technology only makes a defined trajectory flight possible.   Continue reading “Zoom to Mars in 6 weeks with new Russian nuclear-fission engine”

Courthouse News Service – by Cameron Langford

HOUSTON (CN) – Houston cleared police officers of wrongdoing in 99 shootings between 2009 and 2012, and must now face claims it has an “unwritten policy” of protecting officers, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Audry Releford is the father of Kenny Releford, a schizophrenic Navy veteran who was shot dead by Houston police officer Jason Rosemon in October 2012.   Continue reading “Houston to Face Claims of Trigger-Happy Cops”

ABC News

A federal attorney argued Wednesday that officials in two Arizona and Utah cities routinely took orders from the leaders of a polygamous sect about who to appoint to government jobs in the communities where people were sometimes arrested on trumped-up charges after they left the church.

“How did we get to this in the United States of America?” Justice Department attorney Sean Keveney asked jurors during his closing argument at the civil rights trial involving Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah.   Continue reading “Jury Deliberations Start at Trial Against 2 Polygamous Towns”