San Francisco is currently recruiting around 1,000 people to join a campaign called “Saverlife”, which will give citizens $60 if that citizen saves $20 a month for six months. A participant will link their bank account to Saverlife, which monitors the account’s activity and at the end of the six months you reap your reward.
Seven years into an economic recovery, nearly half of Americans didn’t have enough cash available to cover a $400 emergency, according to a new survey released Friday.
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
The Indianapolis Star reports that Indiana lawmakers passed a law this spring claiming the state has a right to collect sales taxes from companies using only online transactions.
One U.S. Navy veteran’s north Alabama business is celebrating Independence Day with an unusual special: a free AR-15 with every new roof. Yes, it’s legal.
Preston-Williams and those working with her on 100 Homes in 500 Days have asked the administration to seek council approval of $6 million — $3 million in each of the next two years — to fund a grant program for the home construction effort. She has said that many people in her west side district can’t find newer homes with three bedrooms, two baths and two-car garages. It might cost $160,000 to build the home, and yet it will appraise for much less than that when finished because of surrounding property values.
Yes it was a huge lobster, and yes it is a novelty that we all don’t see very often, but really the bigger picture was this is a TSA agent that is going through our personal property and taking selfies.”
A group of Republicans turned the tables on a Charlotte Starbucks Saturday, after its staff was accused of mocking a customer for wearing a Donald Trump tee-shirt.
“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came…” he tweeted continuing, “…to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”
The indictment alleges that Astarita knowingly and willfully made false statements to FBI Supervisory Special Agents, knowing that the statements were false and material to the FBI’s decision not to investigate the propriety of an agent-involved shooting. Specifically, Astarita falsely stated he had not fired his weapon during the attempted arrest of Mr. Finicum when he knew he had in fact fired his weapon. Astarita also knowingly engaged in misleading conduct toward Oregon State Police officers by failing to disclose that he had fired two rounds during the attempted arrest.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday, to the delight of rural America, that the Trump administration is moving to rescind the Obama era’s “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) regulatory rule.
People got license plates–except in Georgia, where it’s apparently been banned as a prohibited term for vanity plates, along with things like racial slurs, “KKK,” and sexual references. Interestingly enough, variations of “covfefe,” such as “c0vfefe” and “c0vf3f3,” are also banned.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-V) ducked questions from a Fox News reporter regarding the FBI‘s investigation into his wife, and instead pivoted to talk about healthcare.
Appearing on CNN last night, an agitated Sanders deflected and distorted when asked about the situation by anchor Erin Burnett. He laughs derisively when the subject is first broached, interrupts the question, refuses to answer it (twice), then claims this was all cooked up by a Trump supporter to “attack” his wife — which he calls “pathetic.”
So the Democrats, after opposing Donald Trump in the 2016 election partly out of what they claimed was concern about his incivility and coarseness, are now pursuing a debate about health care legislation in Washington by characterizing the Republicans who disagree with them about policy details as mass murderers.
