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CLEVELAND – A Cleveland police officer acquitted of a misdemeanor charge in the 2015 fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager after a store break-in has been fired for violating the department’s use-of-force policy.
City officials say 50-year-old Alan Buford was fired Thursday for using force “greater than necessary during the incident.” Continue reading “Cleveland police officer acquitted in fatal shooting fired”
The Intercept – by Sharon Lerner
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency has tasked a banker who was banned from the banking industry for life with oversight of the nation’s Superfund program.
In May, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation fined Oklahoma banker Albert Kelly $125,000. According to a consent order, which The Intercept obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the FDIC had “reason to believe that [Kelly] violated a law or regulation, by entering into an agreement pertaining to a loan by the Bank without FDIC approval.” Continue reading “Banned From The Banking Industry For Life, A Scott Pruitt Friend Finds A New Home At The EPA”
A small classroom down a hall at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Lincoln is a long way from Iraq, but this is where a group of Yazidi women find themselves. They’re part of a class led by volunteer Terri Hensley, a former teacher who’s helping them learn English.
“We are learning consonants and vowels and we are starting right from scratch, so it is a very slow process,” Hensley said. Continue reading “Yazidis From Iraq Find Welcome Refuge In Nebraska”
South central Kentucky is expected to have 22,000 open jobs in the next five years. That’s going to intensify the current shortage of workers in the state – an issue that’s facing the entire country.
One Warren County company saw refugees arriving at the International Center in Bowling Green as the way to get ahead of the competition for quality employees. Continue reading “Bowling Green Manufacturer Fills Jobs with Training and Translators for Immigrants”
Happy holidays everyone, the FCC, DHS and the Department of Justice just created a national Blue Alerts system.
Two weeks ago, the FCC created a national Blue Alert system that will notify everyone of a threat to law enforcement. Continue reading “FCC creates national Blue Alert system just in time for the holidays”
With the advent of Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and Amazon Prime, watching a series has never been easier. No longer do you have to wait a week for the next episode – it’s right there, ready when you are. (If you’re more of a movie buff, check out this list of prepper movies.)
Preppers tend to watch programs a little differently than the rest of the world. Most of us really enjoy survival-themed TV shows because we can really get into the whole analysis of it. It’s like the prepper version of a sporting event, where we can cheer on the smart moves, analyze the situation, and yell at the screen when the characters do something that is bound to get them killed. (And often, we can pick up a few tips or think of things we hadn’t previously considered.) Continue reading “Prepper TV: What Survival-Themed Series Should You Binge-Watch?”
Truckers take heed: more retail freight and new lanes may be coming to the Lone Star state within a year as Dollar General Corp. said it plans to build a new distribution center in Longview, TX, starting in 2018.
That new facility is expected to employ 400 at full capacity and serve approximately 1,000 of its retail locations in Texas and the southeast. Continue reading “Dollar General to open second distribution center in Texas”
The Oregonian – by Molly Harbarger
The number of homeless students in Oregon increased 5.6 percent in 2016-17, according to a new count released Wednesday. The increase to 22,541 students without a permanent home of their own represents four solid years of growth in such students — and the continuation of more than a decade-long trend.
Beaverton and Portland school districts have the most homeless students in the state, according to the latest count. Continue reading “Homeless students jump over 5 percent in Oregon, set new record high”
The Trump administration will take its final step to repeal the Obama administration’s 2015 rule setting standards for hydraulic fracturing on federal land.
A formal notice from the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) making the repeal final was posted publicly Thursday and is due to be published in the Federal Register Friday. Continue reading “Trump to repeal Obama fracking rule”
President Donald Trump sent 26 percent fewer Mexicans back home this year through November than Barack Obama did in the same period in 2016, despite vows to crack down on illegal immigration, Mexican government data show.
About 152,000 Mexican nationals were repatriated from the U.S. between January and November, according to data from Mexico’s Interior Ministry that were first reported by Milenio newspaper. That compares with just under 205,000 in the first 11 months of 2016. Continue reading “Trump Sends Fewer Mexicans Home Despite Deportation Talk”
The number of United States-born children who were given birthright citizenship despite at least one of their parents being an illegal alien living in the country now outnumbers one year of all American births.
A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report reveals the booming number of U.S.-born children to illegal aliens who are given automatic citizenship, forever anchoring their families in the U.S. Continue reading “Anchor Baby Population in U.S. Exceeds One Year of American Births”
American workers suing an India-based outsourcing firm accused of discriminating against its U.S.-born employees, while favoring Indian nationals, will get their day in court thanks to an Oakland, California federal judge.
This week, a California federal judge not only refused to throw out a case against Tata Consulting Services (TCS), one of the largest outsourcers in the U.S. of American jobs, but he also turned the case into a class-action lawsuit, according to Bloomberg. Continue reading “Laid Off American Workers Get Their Day in Court Against Outsourcing Firm Accused of Favoring Foreigners”
There were likely 1.8 million illegal and legal immigrants who entered the United States in 2016, a new analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies reveals.
A study by researchers Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler found that in the first six months of 2016, more than one million immigrants entered the U.S., an increase of 53 percent since 2011. In those six months, the data concludes that 1.03 million immigrants arrived in the country, more than the entire number of immigrants who entered the U.S. in 2011. Continue reading “Study: Likely 1.8 Million Immigrants Entered the U.S. in 2016”
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investigators in New York City searched early on Friday for the cause of a blaze that ripped through an apartment building in the Bronx and killed 12 people including four children, in the city’s deadliest fire in at least a quarter of a century.
The fire broke out a little before 7 p.m. (0000 GMT) on the first floor of a brick building and quickly spread upstairs, city Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro told a news conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio. The cause was under investigation. Continue reading “Fire in New York City apartment block kills 12 including four children”
Once again, Israel is supporting a repressive regime in the Global South, this time in the poor Central American nation of Honduras — and Israeli activists are protesting vigorously.
Just after the November 26 election in Honduras, the results started to show a commanding margin for the pro-democracy opposition — until the vote-tabulating computers mysteriously went down. Many days later, the incumbent president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, had miraculously gained the lead, and Hondurans poured into the streets in nationwide peaceful demonstrations against the obvious theft. Continue reading “Armed by Israel, Honduras’s illegitimate regime returns the favor at the U.N.”
Global Research – by Mark Karlin
In the October 30 edition of the New Yorker, reporter Patrick Radden Keefe writes a thorough examination of the role of one pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, in abetting the high number of deaths due to opioid overdoses in the United States. The connection is through the firm’s patent on one highly addictive pain killer, OxyContin. Although there are many factors that fuel the opioid crisis in the United States — including social injustice and economic inequality issues — Keefe’s thoroughly researched article is a telling reminder that the biggest drug pushers in the United States are legal ones: our pharmaceutical companies. Continue reading “Pharmaceutical Firm Makes Billions by Fueling Opioid Crisis”