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For Bernie Marcus, Philanthropy Brings Life’s Greatest Payoffs

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 7 years ago

Ask Bernard "Bernie" Marcus, co-founder of The Home Depot, why he decided to engage in philanthropy and he will say he never decided. "I just did it—you slide into it. I didn’t sit down one...

Virginia doctor could face life in prison for prescribing hundreds of thousands of opioids

Via: sandy-2021492 • News & Politics • 24 Comments • 7 years ago

Joel Smithers, a 36-year-old father of five, was arrested at his southern Virginia practice in 2017. In May, he was found guilty on more than 800 counts of illegally prescribing drugs, including...

How a Shadow Foreign Policy in Ukraine Prompted an Impeachment Inquiry

Via: ender • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

WASHINGTON — Petro O. Poroshenko was still the president of Ukraine earlier this year when his team sought a lifeline. With the polls showing him in clear danger of losing his re-election...

City bans calling someone an ‘illegal alien’ out of hate

Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 7 years ago

It’s now against the law in New York City to threaten someone with a call to immigration authorities or refer to them as an “illegal alien” when motivated by hate. The restrictions —...

6th Grader Says Classmates Cut Her Dreadlocks at School Where Karen Pence Teaches

Via: loretta-mashkawidee-kemsley • News & Politics • 215 Comments • 7 years ago

Three sixth-grade boys at a Christian school in Northern Virginia pinned down a black classmate and cut off some of her dreadlocks while telling her her hair was "nappy" and "ugly," she told...

'Used and dehumanized': Dozens of boys found chained in Nigeria

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 7 years ago

'Used and dehumanized': Dozens of boys found chained in Nigeria By Garba Muhammad and Bosun Yakusak, Reuters, reported by MSN, September 27 2019 © Reuters/Reuters...

Tests show bootleg marijuana vapes tainted with hydrogen cyanide

Via: perrie-halpern • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 7 years ago

Former Ukraine prosecutor says Hunter Biden ‘did not violate anything’

Via: john-russell • News & Politics • 19 Comments • 7 years ago

KIEV, Ukraine — A former top Ukrainian prosecutor, whose allegations were at the heart of the dirt-digging effort by Rudolph W. Giuliani, said Thursday he believed that Hunter Biden did not run...

A female reporter kissed on live TV says: 'This is not OK'

Via: loretta-mashkawidee-kemsley • News & Politics • 105 Comments • 7 years ago

Rivest said she wanted viewers to know that incidents like the one she experienced are "a violation and all-too-common occurrence." "Journalists in the field, especially women, again just trying...

Hillary Clinton laments losing despite '66 million letters of recommendation'

Via: kdmichigan • News & Politics • 112 Comments • 7 years ago

Hillary Clinton compared her millions of votes during the 2016 presidential election as a letters of recommendation while lamenting that President Trump won. "To me, it was like applying for a...

Home Depot co-founder will give 90% of his reported $4.5 billion fortune to charity

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 59 Comments • 7 years ago

Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus will donate most of his fortune to charity after his death. More doing, and more donating — that’s the power of this Home Depot co-founder. Atlanta...

Gun Violence Video PSA: "Back-To-School Essentials - Sandy Hook Promise"

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 65 Comments • 7 years ago

Survive the school year with these must-have back to school essentials. https://www.sandyhookpromise.org A chilling new ad spot by Sandy Hook Promise depicts kids showing off their...

Transcipt shows Trump prodded Ukraine leader to help in Biden probe

Via: kdmichigan • News & Politics • 240 Comments • 7 years ago

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, yielding to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided...

ABC’s Bombshell Ukraine Story Falls Apart

Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 7 years ago

An ABC News report that an adviser to the Ukrainian president said any communication with President Donald Trump had to include discussion of former vice president Joe Biden, published Wednesday...

What You Need to Know About Trump’s Crowdstrike Conspiracy Theory

Via: john-russell • News & Politics • 16 Comments • 7 years ago

Overlooked in all the attention paid to the Biden element in the transcript , was Trump's presenting a far right conspiracy to the Ukranian president. WASHINGTON — President Trump is...

'Joker' backlash: Aurora shooting victims' families express concerns to Warner Bros.

Via: perrie-halpern • News & Politics • 57 Comments • 7 years ago

Fox News' Judge Napolitano: What Trump has admitted to regarding contact with Ukraine is a crime

Via: john-russell • News & Politics • 121 Comments • 7 years ago

Fox News' Judge Napolitano: What Trump has admitted to regarding contact with Ukraine is a crime 9:31 p.m. It's probably a good thing that President Trump was busy at the United Nations on...

Trump Sleepwalks Through Speech To U.N.

By: john-russell • News & Politics • 39 Comments • 7 years ago

Donald Trump gave the most lethargic speech I have ever seen any American politician give. He was monotone, his eyes appeared to barely be open, he spoke very softly, and he was fixated on his...

'We have made history': Mexico's Oaxaca state decriminalises abortion

Via: freefaller • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 7 years ago

Women’s rights activists in Mexico are celebrating after the southern state of Oaxaca decriminalised abortion in a move that activists hope signals broader reforms to ensure reproductive rights...

On his way to receive an award for outstanding service, airman saves child's life

Via: loretta-mashkawidee-kemsley • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 7 years ago

While on his way to collect an award for being an outstanding airman, Air Force Tech Sgt. Kenneth O'Brien did something else deserving of accolades: He saved a baby's life. On Sept. 11, O'Brien, a...

Teen Climate Activist Shuts Down Re. Garret Graves Logic With Facts

Via: loretta-mashkawidee-kemsley • News & Politics • 221 Comments • 7 years ago

Graves decided to rephrase his argument framed in a metaphor about sailing across the ocean, picking up trash while the boat next to you dumps trash in the ocean. “If you were sailing across the...

The Ukraine 'Transcript' Illustrates How Foreign Leaders Handle Trump: Flatter Him and Pay Him

Via: tessylo • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 7 years ago

Politics The Ukraine 'Transcript' Illustrates How Foreign Leaders Handle Trump: Flatter Him and Pay Him Jack Holmes, Esquire 1 hour 43 minutes ago From...

Whistleblower Report Will Allege White House Covered Up Trump Call To Ukraine

By: john-russell • News & Politics • 110 Comments • 7 years ago

Multiple sources are currently reporting that the Whistleblower is alleging a serious White House coverup of the Ukranian phone call and implicates Attorney General Barr and numerous senior White...

Trump Is Too Stupid To Be President Of The United States

By: john-russell • News & Politics • 164 Comments • 7 years ago

Trump asked the president of another country to investigate his main political rival for 2020. He also asked that president of another country to work with Trump's personal lawyer in this...

Amazon announces a range of new products including Airpods competitor, Echo Buds

Via: perrie-halpern • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 7 years ago

By Annie Palmer, CNBC and Todd Haselton, CNBC Amazon announced more than a dozen new Alexa-enabled products at its annual hardware event in Seattle on Wednesday. There was no clear...

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