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WASHINGTON – Pilots flying in the U.S. have filed at least five complaints on planes of the same model that crashed in Ethiopia on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board. Federal records contain at least five…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLNgNMAaO4w CALIFORNIA - Several people, including two TV stars, were charged for their alleged involvement in a nationwide college entrance bribery scheme Tuesday. “Desperate Housewives”…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC_g4lgYN7Y CALIFORNIA - A charity that allegedly laundered bribes from Hollywood actresses and other millionaires in exchange for getting their children into college on paper claimed to be helping the…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sghjAY_RywM JEFFERSON COUNTY - Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin weighed in on teachers intentionally calling in sick, forcing several schools to shut down in the state, in a Monday video. “There’s no reason…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJXn_he_sg WYOMING - Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney responded Tuesday after the University of Wyoming’s new slogan “The World Needs More Cowboys” drew criticism for being “racist” and “sexist.” …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZHMeur1nA8 NEW YORK - Many lawsuits related to the opioid crisis have focused on Purdue Pharma, but an Oklahoma suit against several drugmakers will paint Johnson & Johnson as an opioid “kingpin,”…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvbU9xuDyC8 WASHINGTON - Greenpeace is distancing itself from Green New Deal critic and ecologist Patrick Moore, dubiously claiming the former activist is not one of its co-founders. “Patrick Moore…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naiTmDv5cdM NEW YORK - An app developer launched a program designed to tell customers which restaurants and business are safe for Trump supporters following a slew of attacks on persons who support…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB_pu-K8g_o WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, frequently criticized by President Donald Trump for raising interest rates, said he does not believe the president can fire him, during…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI5hEPkZx98 INDONESIA - China and other countries are grounding planes following a crash that killed 157 people, including eight Americans, Sunday. Boeing’s stock went down by approximately 7 percent…

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration warned the German government that the U.S. may not share intelligence with Germany if the country continues using Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei to build up its fifth generation…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNIXdeAmE6M NEW YORK - Immigration activists see their campaign to get banks to divest from private prison companies as a backdoor way to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by taking…

SILICON VALLEY – Facebook removed several ads Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign published on the company’s social media platform, Politico reported Monday. The ads, which Warren’s…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwxETQ5a5I NEW YORK - A New York billionaire installed massive digital photos of himself and his new wife on the side of the city’s tallest residence, an apartment building he owns on Park Avenue where…

OHIO – Emergency workers were summoned to Amazon’s warehouses nearly 200 times for suicide attempts and other mental health crises over a five-year span. Employees say brutal working conditions at the company leave some to…

NEW YORK - A former Tesla employee filed a tip with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that company staffers were skeptical of CEO Elon Musk’s promise to take the company private, Business Insider reported Monday. …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xDxAA_Psns CALIFORNIA - Tesla is hiking the cost of its more expensive vehicle models to retain about half of the physical stores the company had planned to close, according to a Sunday blog post. …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDtX3zjMHhs NEW YORK - 2020 Democratic hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is facing a #MeToo reckoning in her own office after a female staffer resigned citing mishandling of her sexual harassment…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHVxm12NbrY WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump claimed that the recording of his “Tim Apple” gaffe was “fake news” during a meeting with Republican donors at Mar-a-Lago in Florida Friday night,…

CALIFORNIA - Rep. Devin Nunes of California appeared to associate his state’s ban on plastic straws to socialism in a tweet Saturday after visiting a nearby restaurant. “At restaurant tonight waitress asks if we want straws,” the…

Ann Coulter in 2016 talking about the election, as well as her new book, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! and how Donald Trump became the Republican presidential nominee. Photo credit: C-SPAN. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump…

NEW YORK - The lawyer for Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann will likely sue CNN next, and the stakes could be higher than their suit against The Washington Post. L. Lin Wood is representing Sandmann in another…

CALIFORNIA – Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a plan Friday to wallop big tech companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon as the Massachusetts Democrat works to differentiate herself among fellow presidential candidates. Her…

NEW YORK – Disney CEO Bob Iger said Thursday the company dealt “privately” with scandals involving two ABC hosts who wore blackface. Iger was asked at a shareholders’ meeting in St. Louis about revelations that Jimmy Kimmel…

WASHINGTON - More than 300 health care experts wrote to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday to urge the agency to re-evaluate its guidelines on opioid use for chronic pain. “Patients with chronic pain, who are…

VENEZUELA - Venezuela’s embattled socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro and his subordinates blamed the country’s widespread power outages on sabotage, cyberattacks and even Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Maduro’s rival Juan…

WASHINGTON - A rhetorical brawl over climate change broke out on the Senate floor as Democrats chided Republicans for criticizing the Green New Deal without proposing an alternative plan. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and…

WASHINGTON - Retired coal miners from three states traveled to Washington, D.C., to lobby lawmakers and put in place a federal safety net in case the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) pension fund fails. Coal industry veterans…

KANSAS - A University of Kansas professor was suspended from teaching a class after reportedly telling a student to “learn English” Tuesday. Engineering professor Gary Minden said the incident recently occurred in the beginning…