The Justice Department announced an $8 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, the OxyContin maker widely accused of fueling the nation's opioid crisis that has been blamed for more than 400,000 American deaths in the last 20 years. The settlement resolves criminal ...
Pope Francis, in a new documentary, has called for the creation of civil union laws for same-sex couples, in what amounts to his clearest support to date for the issue.
In the documentary, according to the Catholic News Agency, Francis is quoted as saying...
A southwestern Minnesota man whose passionate support for President Donald Trump took him to dozens of political events around the country and recently to the White House was killed in a highway crash while returning from a political celebration in Florida.
An anonymous grand juror who considered charges in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor said Tuesday that prosecutors did not walk the jury through Kentucky's homicide laws or explain why they decided the two officers who shot Taylor were justified.
Hey Kentucky you deserve better than this asshole, the country deserves better, this asshole makes over $225,000 a year off the tax payers and then he whines about helping people in this country, he seem to forget who pays his bills and and then when we ask for some of it back..................he hi...
SALINA, Kan. — Kansas Senate candidate Barbara Bollier was a life-long Republican, but in 2018 she decided she’d had enough: Fed up by the party’s lurch to the right in Washington and Topeka, the 62-year-old state legislator divorced the GOP and became a Democrat....
Older workers are facing higher unemployment rates than younger individuals for the first time in half a century, according to a new study released Tuesday by the New School university in New York City.
The study found that while people of all ages have suffered...
So, the latest State unemployment numbers are not good for Trump, yet folks want him to continue to try to run on the economy? He might as well as run on expanding voting rights while he is at it....
This latest disclosure just confirms that Trump is psychopath in that he is again "playing it down" and packing in his supporters into super spreader events even though the White House knows that COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have been going up since Labor Day.
The article goes on to quote what Stahl had previously said Trump told her off-camera in 2016 -- that he attacks the press to demean and discredit them so that no one will believe them when they do negative stories about him....
Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, has advised the White House not to strike a deal with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a new stimulus bill before Election Day, he told Republican senators privately on Tuesday, cautioning agains...
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Juan Cole er professor i historie og leder for Global Americana Institute.
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