Senate Republicans are working against the clock to find a solution that’d save Dreamers from deportation and appease both Democrats and President Donald Trump. Key conservatives began private talks on a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) fix – an Obama-era program the current commander-in-chief curtailed near summer’s end. DACA shielded hundreds of thousands of
The murder trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate began Monday. Garcia Zarate is accused of shooting a young girl dead on a San Francisco pier just over two years ago. The crime prompted a fierce debate on local and state immigration policies – not only due to its appalling nature, but because the killer is
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After being told by doctors that she carried cancer-causing genes based on genetic tests, Elisha Cooke-Moore, a 36-year-old mother from southern Oregon, underwent a “double mastectomy and a hysterectomy.” Unfortunately for Moore, after the life-altering procedures, it was discovered that her doctors had made a mistake in reading the genetic test results. Turns out she didn’t really have cancer-causing genes, but it was too late. As a result, she decided to file a $1.8 million lawsuit.
Earlier this month on October 14th, an 8-year-old girl tragically fell from a cruise ship and died, raising concerns “about the safety of potential passengers traveling with children.” The young girl was Zion Smith, a native of the Bahamas. During the accident, she “fell two stories from an interior deck on the Carnival Glory to another deck below while the cruise ship was docked at Port Miami,” according to Miami Dade Police Department.
Many are aware that using lead paint in any way has been banned since 1978. However, some might be surprised to learn that, despite the ban, lead paint continues to pose a danger to “tens of millions of U.S. Homes.” How so? Well, because so many homes in the U.S. were built before the ban, a lot of them still have lead paint on their walls. In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “more than 87 percent of homes built before 1940 in the U.S. have lead paint,” leaving millions of people “vulnerable to lead exposure.”
Do the Harvey Weinstein scandal and #MeToo hashtag make you wonder why more people don’t speak up about sexual misconduct? There are plenty of reasons…
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed an executive order aimed at protecting the state’s LGBT residents from discrimination. In part a response to earlier controversy, the action restricts the state government and government-affiliated businesses from discriminating against a variety of groups. The order specifically makes it illegal to discriminate against persons on basis of their
A federal appeals court is avoiding setting any groundbreaking precedent in the case of an undocumented minor in need of an abortion. In a decision issued late Friday evening, the three judge panel ruled 2-1 to overturn a decision from a federal judge that would allow the 17-year old girl to immediately proceed with an