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03/01/2020

The Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department are clashing over the underlying rationale for the new regulations, which are aimed at reducing requirements set under the Obama administration, these people say.

The EPA and Transportation Department are clashing over the underlying rationale for the new regulations, which are aimed at reducing requirements set under the Obama administration.

02/29/2020

Trump acknowledged the first death in the United States due to the coronavirus during his own remarks and said that his administration expected more cases while insisting there was “no reason to panic.”

President Trump on Saturday further restricted travel from Iran and advised American citizens not to travel to specific regions in Italy and South Korea in response to the coronavirus.

02/29/2020

U.S. Central Command has also ordered a stop to all non-essential travel in the Persian Gulf region.

The Pentagon is taking care to prevent a slip in national security and readiness following the steady global spread of the coronavirus that has the Defense Department holding off on a military exercise, quarantining fleets and curtailing troop movement.

02/29/2020

Of the 10 transgender women at Chino who spoke to NBC News during a weekend visit last year, nine said they’d been sexually assaulted behind bars.

Out of 4,890 transgender state prisoners, NBC News was able to confirm only 15 cases in which a prisoner was housed according to their lived gender.

02/29/2020

Hundreds of miles from the battlefields of Afghanistan in a glitzy banquet hall in a five-star hotel in Qatar, the United States & the Taliban signed a landmark agreement that paves the way for U.S. troops to begin withdrawing from the desperately poor & war-torn Central Asian country.

The U.S. has greed to withdraw all forces from Afghanistan within 14 months and pull out of five bases in 135 days.

02/29/2020

A panel of 3 judges for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to overturn a federal judge's order that McGahn must comply with the subpoena, which was issued as part of Democrats' impeachment inquiry into Trump.

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the House cannot sue to enforce its subpoenas, delivering a win for President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Memo: Biden seeks revival in South Carolina Congress eyes billion to billion to combat coronavirus Sanders makes the case against Biden ahead of SC pri...

02/28/2020

"The court has finally affirmed what we always knew to be the case, that the provision on which the government is relying does not apply to asylum-seekers. Full stop," Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney at the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a block on the administration’s policy of forcing migrants seeking asylum to wait in Mexico while the cases play out.

02/28/2020

A ban on flavored e-cigarettes and to***co products passed the House Friday but divided Democrats, with some saying it unfairly targets African Americans.

02/28/2020

Federal prosecutors say Randy Ballengee operated a “pill mill” out of his former Tug Valley Pharmacy in Williamson. He was indicted last year, and his trial isn’t expected to start until summer at the earliest.

A judge has postponed a lawsuit filed by residents of West Virginia and Kentucky that accuses pharmacies and doctors of negligently prescribing pain medication.

02/28/2020

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by a federal judge in Grand Rapids, who said the plaintiffs’ claims under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act ran afoul of the so-called Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which bars federal courts from hearing an appeal from a state-court judgment.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned the dismissal of potential class...

02/28/2020

World Health Organization update on Coronavirus

02/27/2020

A pending lawsuit was settled with a Wyoming school board after they agreed to pay $230,000 over asbestos exposure at Kelly Walsh High School in Casper.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wyoming/articles/2020-02-26/wyoming-school-board-approves-230k-asbestos-settlement

02/27/2020

According to the company, someone gained access to a list of all of Clearview’s customers, the number of accounts used by those customers & the number of searches they have conducted.

A new facial recognition company, which claims to be used by over 600 law enforcement agencies, has suffered a data breach, according to the company.

02/27/2020

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Timothy Brodigan and his parents. Brodigan was then 16 years old and was paralyzed by the crash. It’s the latest in a string of lawsuits that have forced Amtrak to pay millions.

It was filed on behalf of the family of a teenager who was paralyzed in the 2017 crash.

02/27/2020

The flight attendant worked flights between Los Angeles International Airport and Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 19 and 20, the reports stated.

A Korean Air flight attendant tested positive for coronavirus after working on flights in and out of Los Angeles, according to reports from South Korean media.

02/27/2020

Milwaukee Police Department responded to reports of a shooting in the area just after 2 p.m. local time & found the suspect, a 51-year-old Milwaukee man, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities also found 5 employees of the "old Miller brewery" killed in the attack...

Five employees were killed in the shooting at the beer company's MillerCoors location, Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales said.

02/26/2020

Lawmakers have until March 15 to reauthorize expiring provisions under the USA Freedom Act, including a controversial phone records program known as Section 215.

Momentum is growing in Congress to reject the Trump administration’s request to reauthorize a controversial surveillance program.

02/26/2020

Anello, also known as Sam, initially pleaded not guilty to a negligent homicide charge from Puerto Rican authorities in October in the death of Chloe Wiegand in July.

Salvatore Anello, Chloe Wiegand's grandfather, will change his plea in a deal to avoid jail time, a family attorney told NBC News.

02/26/2020

A top U.S. health official said Tuesday the spread of coronavirus in the country appears to be inevitable, while warning that the disruptions could be “severe.”

02/25/2020

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Tuesday introduced legislation that would add a third gender designation to U.S. passport applications.

02/25/2020

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) slammed U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday for assigning prosecutors in his state to assess Rudy Giuliani’s debunked claims about Ukraine at the expense of addressing the very real problem of America’s opioid epidemic.

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey suggests Barr is serving Donald Trump's "political agenda" rather than addressing real safety issues in America.

02/25/2020

All but 2 states saw a decline in growth of real median household income under Trump – including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, & Florida, 4 states widely regarded as the key electoral battlegrounds that will likely determine the 2020 presidential election.

48 states saw a decline in growth of real median household income under Trump – including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Florida, four states widely regarded as the key electoral battlegrounds for 2020.

02/25/2020

The last time the planet experienced such high levels of the greenhouse gas was more than 3 million years ago, when conditions on Earth were unrecognizable from today and giant camels roamed a mostly ice-free High Arctic.

"We've done in a little more than 50 years what the Earth naturally took 10,000 years to do,” one scientist said.

02/25/2020

Weinstein was strapped down to a stretcher in the back of an ambulance, still wearing his suit.

The disgraced movie mogul was supposed to be transferred to Rikers Island after his sexual assault and third-degree r**e conviction.

02/25/2020

She said she would not make a decision in the city’s lawsuit based on people’s fears, but was also critical of state & federal officials for not doing more to allay people’s concerns.

She says she will not issue a ruling based on people’s fears but calls on federal and California officials to allay concerns by answering residents’ questions.

02/25/2020

“We want to hold these three companies accountable to Oklahomans in an Oklahoma courtroom,” Hunter said.

FEB 24, 2020 - In what is being described as a "strategic move," Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter dismissed the state's lawsuit against three large opioid distributors Friday, but said he plans to individually sue the companies later in state court. Hunter originally sued McKesson, Cardinal Hea...

02/25/2020

In that panicked moment, it dawned on Holmes that the detectives hadn’t told her the truth. They’d used her DNA to help build a case against her son.

A murder case raises the question: Is it OK for police to lie to get an innocent person's DNA?

02/25/2020

“It’s just like a little sq**rt gun,” she told the group of children, before passing around the small plastic device for them to hold and squeeze. At the end of the session, each child received a blue zippered bag containing two doses of Narcan to take home.

In rural Carter County, Tenn., health officials have embraced a strategy for stemming addiction: Teaching children as young as 6 how to administer Narcan, a nasal spray that can stop an opioid overdose from being fatal.

02/24/2020

Mike Bloomberg poked fun last year at a father and son who died from he**in overdoses at the same Brooklyn party, calling them “not a good family" to laughs from a crowd of business executives...

In a previously undisclosed video, the billionaire ex-mayor references a Daily News front-page story from October 2017 about the tragic deaths of the Brooklyn father and son.

02/24/2020

Lawsuit alleges Island Express Helicopters put the helicopter in the air when conditions were not safe for flying.

The lawsuit alleges Island Express Helicopters put the helicopter in the air when conditions were not safe for flying.