The following is a transcript of an interview with Dr. Deborah Birx, former President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response coordinator, that aired Sunday, May 1, 2022, on “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: It’s been more than a year since we last spoke with Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Task …
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Numerous men have dropped dead around Catherine Shelton. She’s never spent a day in jail. Is she responsible for any of their deaths? Journalist Jenna Jackson has been trying to find an answer to that question for years. WATCH PARTS 1 and 2 2002: A journalist’s obsession begins More than …
Read More »Dollar Tree manager posted sign against hiring Generation Z workers
A Dollar Tree manager is no longer with the company after posting a sign at a Bremen, Indiana, store warning that it wouldn’t hire Generation Z workers. The sign complained that the store was forced to close after two young workers quit. “My 2 new cashiers quit because I said …
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Bethlehem Steel casts a long shadow over Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. The blast furnaces remain, even though they went silent more than 20 years ago. The mill’s closing took with it a big chunk of the region’s high-paying blue-collar jobs, and the news at the time made it sound very final. …
Read More »Orrin Hatch, longtime Republican senator, dies at age 88
Orrin G. Hatch, who became the longest-serving Republican senator in history as he represented Utah for more than four decades, died Saturday at age 88. His death was announced in a statement from his foundation, which did not specify a cause. He launched the Hatch Foundation as he retired in …
Read More »Marcus Lillard, boyfriend of Georgia professor Marianne Shockley, acquitted in her death 3 years after sheriff called it “one of the strangest cases” ever
The boyfriend of a University of Georgia professor has been acquitted in her May 2019 death at a friend’s house in central Georgia. After Marianne Shockley was found dead outside a hot tub and the homeowner apparently took his own life, the county sheriff called it “one of the strangest …
Read More »Latest report on state of Black America paints grim picture, with many troubling historic trends continuing almost unabated
Atlanta — The National Urban League released its annual report on the State of Black America on Tuesday, and its findings are grim. This year’s Equality Index shows Black people still get only 73.9 percent of the American pie white people enjoy. While Black people have made economic and health …
Read More »As the price of gas soars, some fill up by stealing it
Gas prices across the U.S. are so high that some people are stealing fuel from service stations to fill up their own vehicles or resell it to other motorists. Members of a criminal ring in Tampa, Florida, were arrested last month after six men stole $60,000 worth of fuel from …
Read More »EPA upholds Trump
Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants. The agency said the Trump administration’s decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available …
Read More »Target to accept food stamps for online food purchases
Retail giant Target will let shoppers pay for online orders of food using SNAP benefits starting later this year, joining competitors Amazon and Walmart. Target customers will receive their food orders through the company’s delivery service arm Shipt, and the option to pay with food stamps will likely begin in …
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