by Dean Paxton | May 31, 2020 | Misc, News, News Briefs
Police nationwide responded to protests against police violence by deliberately targeting demonstrators, journalists, and bystanders with pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets, and excessive use of force. The ongoing protests following the killing of George Floyd by...
by Dean Paxton | May 30, 2020 | News, News Briefs
Trump announces U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Alarmed health experts said the move will set back global efforts to fight the pandemicThe Trump administration’s initial distribution of remdesivir went to – in some cases – the wrong hospitals, to...
by Dean Paxton | May 21, 2020 | News, News Briefs
Mitch McConnell promised House Republicans that enhanced unemployment benefits enacted earlier this spring “will not be in the next bill.”The United States could have prevented about 36,000 deaths if social distancing had been put in place seven days earlier — about...
by Dean Paxton | May 7, 2020 | News, News Briefs
“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make”- Lord Farquaad What now?Trump said his administration will urge the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare, maintaining its all-out legal assault on the health care law amid a pandemic...