A Trump administration official responsible for combating discrimination in finance has a virtual history which doesn’t quite coincide with what’s expected from his post. Eric Blankenstein, policy director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has purportedly penned blog posts questioning whether the ‘n-word’ is actually offensive. Blakenstein’s also claimed that most reported hate crimes are
The Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy is endangering a Pentagon initiative to offer citizenship in exchange for service. According to POLITICO and the Associated Press, Pentagon officials had been hoping to revamp a critical services program. Under its purview, individuals with ‘critical medical or Asian and African language skills’ would be allowed to joined the
Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is at the center of rape allegations filed by a Nevada woman who claims Ronaldo raped her back in 2009 and then “dispatched a team of ‘fixers’ to obstruct the criminal investigation and trick her into keeping quiet for $375,000.” The woman’s suit was filed after she requested police to reopen the criminal case last month. Earlier today, Las Vegas Police confirmed that they had indeed reopened the sexual assault case.
About two dozen beef suppliers and cattlemen recently decided to join a federal Packers and Stockyards Act lawsuit filed by “livestock sellers that claim Kane Beef Processors LLC owes them millions of dollars.” It turns out, Kane Beef Processors LLC, based in Corpus Christi, has been paying $500,000 each month to settle with the cattlemen and beef suppliers, but new businesses have stepped forward arguing they have a “cause to join the case.”
Michigan’s roads are so bad, Gov. Snyder considered deploying the National Guard. Can our eroding tax base afford roads? It’s time to question the system.
VA Pathologist Works While Intoxicated, 30,000 Files Reviewed for Errors
Drug Companies Try to Hijack $4 Billion, Reduce Medicare Discounts
If you’re a parent with a child in daycare, chances are you have a level of expectation that your child will be well cared for while you’re away. Unfortunately, accidents happen, and sometimes those accidents result in lawsuits. For example, the family of a toddler who drowned back on October 16, 2016, at an unlicensed Pittsfield Township daycare filed a lawsuit yesterday against “a number of people connected to the property.” The toddler was 22-month-old Annie Mae Flynn.
Facebook said on Friday that a recent data breach has compromised the personal information of some 50 million users. The company says it discovered the breach this week. Hackers purportedly exploited a feature in the social media website’s code that allowed them to take over individual accounts en masse. Facebook claims it’s already fixed the
California Gov. Jerry Brown is facing a Sunday deadline to approve or veto a measure that’d reinstate Obama-era net neutrality regulations. Last month, reports the Wall Street Journal, ‘California Republicans joined Democrats in the state legislature to approve what experts say are the nation’s strongest net-neutrality provisions.’ The bill would, among other things, prevent internet