Ryan Farrick is a freelance writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it’d opt not to take up a case on net neutrality. According to The Washington Post, the decision didn’t come as the result of outright rejection. Three of the high court’s justices—Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil M. Gorsuch—were in favor of accepting a review. If they don’t so,
Democratic pollsters claim that President Trump’s tough take on immigration may cost Republicans in today’s midterm election. Trump, for his part, has made immigration affairs a mainstay of his administration. In an attempt to drum up support for conservative candidates across the country, the president has honed in hot-button issues. Among the most prominent is
A Kentucky cardiologist will spend three and a half years in prison for coercing patients into unnecessary medical treatments. Kentucky.com reports that, on top of incarceration, Dr. Anis Chalhoub has been ordered to pay a total of $257,515 in restitution to insurance companies and taxpayer-funded healthcare programs. U.S. District Court Judge Gregory F. van Tatenhove
On Thursday, thousands of Google employees across the globe participated in a mass-walk in protest of the company’s handling of sexual harassment claims. CNBC reports the movement was dubbed the ‘Walkout for Real Change.’ It comes a week after a New York Times article laid out a series of accusations against former Google executive Andy
Two former college football players, both of whom were falsely accused of rape by a New York woman, are suing Sacred Heart University for forcing them out of school. Filed in a Bridgeport, CT, court, Dhameer Bradley and Malik St. Hilaire claim Sacred Heart violated its own ethics handbook. The athletes point to a passage
On Thursday, President Donald Trump said he’d order soldiers along the border to shoot migrants who throw rocks. “I will tell you, anybody throwing stones, rocks, like they did to Mexico and the Mexican military, Mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of Mexico, we will consider that a firearm, Trump said while
A California psychiatrist claims the state’s corrections department is misleading federal officials about the quality of mental health care in prisons. The whistleblower report, put together by chief corrections psychiatrist Dr. Michael Golding, was made public on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller. According to the New York Times, the report alleges that prison
An 11-year old black girl who was stun gunned by a Cincinnati police officer will be awarded $240,000 as part of a civil rights settlement. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported the award Tuesday, saying the city will pay $220,000 to 11-year old Donesha Gowdy. The remaining $20,000 will be signed over by Kroger Co. Use of
President Donald Trump claims Mexico is “unable, or unwilling” to halt the progress of a large migrant caravan heading to the U.S. border from Honduras. That announcement, writes POLITICO, came hours after Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Mexico is cooperating in impending the caravan’s progress. According to POLITICO, the White House has ‘continued
President Donald Trump still insists that that he has the authority to overturn a constitutional amendment that grants U.S. citizenship to anyone born on American soil. Writing in a Wednesday tweet, the president suggested that the 14th Amendment was meant only to apply to persons already subject to federal jurisdiction. Trump, who’s signaled that he