Immigrants are avoiding government assistance programs, forsaking baby food and nutritional necessities to appease the Trump administration. Under the guise of an August proposal, immigrants—legal and illegal alike—could be barred from obtaining green cards and citizenship if they’ve recently availed welfare benefits. The Trump administration casts a wide net on its definition of public assistance,
The State Department is refusing thousands of passport applications from people born along the border, accusing Hispanic applicants of citizenship fraud. Texas legislators say the government’s policy is a systematic problem, demonstrative of bias against the United States’ large Hispanic minority. Antipathy toward individuals of Mexican, Central and South American backgrounds has featured prominently throughout
Late last month, Buffalo Wild Wings agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit for $1.55 million. The suit itself was filed by two former employees, Zachary Barton and Ethan Forness, who worked at a Buffalo Wild Wings location in Athens, Ohio. Both of the employees worked as servers and bartenders and alleged in their suit that Lancaster Wings, Inc., “which owns seven BWWs in Ohio and three in Arizona, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act in at least four ways, largely related to tipped employees allegedly performing ‘non-tipped’ work and being underpaid for that work.”
When most people visit an urgent care clinic for treatment, there’s an expectation that they will receive whatever care they need. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Last year on August 31, 2017, Trenton Twidwell visited an urgent care clinic in Overland Park for a wound on his left foot. At the time, the wound was small, according to a lawsuit filed in Johnson County Court. However, two weeks after visiting the clinic, Twidwell’s leg was “gangrenous and dying and had to be amputated.”
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Some popular Type 2 diabetes drugs could have a deadly side-effect, warns the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). They have been linked with Fournier’s gangrene, a flesh-eating bacterial infection of the genital area. Twelve patients are known to have developed the condition, and there may be even more, the agency noted. All were hospitalized and
A lawsuit was recently filed on behalf of a Kentucky couple after they and their “240 wedding guests were exposed to hepatitis A during an August reception at the banquet hall.” Kentucky attorney Donald L. Nageleisen filed the suit against the Newport Syndicate on behalf of Jeff and Kameron Slavey, “their wedding guests and two other couples who hosted weddings at the Syndicate between July 25 and Aug. 11” after an employee fell ill with hepatitis A.
Parents beware. BSN Sports recently issued a recall of “tens of thousands of rubber critter toys in the shapes of animals” amid concerns that they may be contaminated with “excessive lead levels in their orange and yellow paint.” According to the recall notice, the Farmers Branch-based company sold the “31,200 recalled units nationally through catalogs and online at Amazon.com, Athleticconnection.com, Bsnsports.com, Esportsonline.com and Usgames.com” between February 2017 to June 2018. The recall was announced earlier this week by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.