She Said Her Husband Was Abusive. A Judge Took Her Kids and Ordered Her Arrest.
After the judge in her Wisconsin divorce case ruled that her ex-husband — a man who had sought treatment for anger and alcohol issues — would get legal custody of and equal time with their four children, Julie Valadez vowed to fight back. But in every key ruling that followed, the Waukesha County Circuit Court […]
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Paul Farmer Leaves Behind the Legacy of a Global Public Health Movement
Image Credit: Twitter @PIH We remember Dr. Paul Farmer’s life and legacy. He was a public health icon who spent decades creating community health networks that helped millions of poor people in Sierra Leone, Haiti, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and elsewhere. He was 62 when he suddenly died on Monday. We feature Farmer’s past interviews with […]
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As Honduras’s New President Seeks End to Narco-State, Will US Stand in Her Way?
Honduras was awash with political history when Xiomara Ciudad Sarmiento Zerala, a member from the Liberty and Refoundation Party, was inaugurated in January. Castro become the Central American country’s first female president, winning 51.12 percent of the vote, compared to her closest rival Nasry Asfura who garnered 36.93 of votes in November’s election. She has […]
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Promised Debt Relief, Some Black Farmers Instead Get Collection Notices
This text was initially revealed by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative information group primarily based in Washington, D.C. After amassing greater than $100,000 in debt over greater than 20 years of farming, a Georgia-based farmer named Denver bought welcome information final 12 months from the U.S. Division of Agriculture. Farmers like him […]
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Calls to Reform the CIA Are Misplaced. It Shouldn’t Exist at All.
The CIA not too long ago declassified elements of a letter written by two U.S. senators that exposed the existence of a beforehand unknown bulk spying program that collects and shops People’ knowledge. The letter, written by Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich, requires the CIA to disclose the main points of this system. It […]
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US Fatal Overdoses Top 100,000 Annually While NY Injection Sites See Zero Deaths
Jess Tilley works on the entrance traces of the U.S.’s overdose disaster. She runs a cell syringe change in Northampton, Massachusetts, delivering clear needles to intravenous drug customers. It’s a job that routinely brings her into conditions of life or loss of life. Tilley has responded to many overdoses over time, and whereas she has […]
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Biden and Putin Agree “in Principle” to Ukraine Summit Amid Rising Tensions
U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday agreed “in precept” to carry a summit on Ukraine as international fears of a struggle involving the 2 nuclear-armed powers stay excessive. In a statement, the workplace of French President Emmanuel Macron — who spoke individually with Putin and Biden on Sunday — stated […]
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Billionaire Trump Donor John Malone Could Soon Be Calling Shots at CNN
What’s going to CNN turn out to be below John Malone? “I want to see CNN evolve again to the form of journalism that it began with, and really have journalists, which might be distinctive and refreshing,” the media billionaire Malone informed CNBC (11/18/21) in November. “I do imagine good journalism may have a task […]
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Students Say Yale, Stanford and MIT’s Fossil Fuel Investments Are Illegal
College students at 5 main universities have filed authorized complaints accusing their faculties of breaking a little-known regulation by investing within the fossil gas corporations liable for the local weather emergency. The scholars from Yale, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Vanderbilt wrote to the attorneys normal of their respective states on Wednesday asking authorities to research […]
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Congressional Leaders Raise Millions Ahead of 2022 Midterm Elections
Congressional leaders persistently pulled in thousands and thousands of {dollars} from donors in 2021, marketing campaign finance disclosures present. Their campaigns and management PACs took in over $90 million throughout 2021. Political committees aligned with Home Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who recently confirmed she’d run for reelection, raised probably the most amongst occasion leaders […]
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