Louisiana cops, firefighters and EMS officers will soon be given the same legal protections as minority groups under a divisive new bill, lawmakers say.
The separated parents of five children who continued attending Branchburg’s schools last year after they moved out of the township must reimburse the school district $55,000 in #tuition, an Administrative Law judge has ruled.
A “transmasculine” #teacher at an Oregon elementary school has been awarded $60,000 by her school district as compensation for harassment she claims to have suffered on the job, including being referred to by the wrong pronoun.
On Tuesday, Joey Sanchez stepped up to the counter of Leon’s Frozen Custard, a 70-year-old Milwaukee staple, and listened to the customer in front of him place his order in Spanish.
Facebook announced Monday it was sending employees out for retraining and would discontinue some of its practices as it sought to defend itself against charges of political bias against conservatives.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But if someone’s fixing it, then it’s difficult to believe it ain’t broke, right? Especially when that someone is a multibillionaire and the something is his Golden Goose:
Officials at Bates Middle School in Sumter, S.C. have suspended an eighth-grade boy for nine days — the rest of the school year — because he brought a tiny pouch of Carolina Reaper pepper flakes to school and gave some pepper flakes to friends.
The #smoking rate among adults in the U.S. fell to 15 per cent last year thanks to the biggest one-year decline in more than 20 years, a new report reveals.
An issue brief published on Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control claimed that that Southerners’ “#racism,” and “homophobia” may be causing high #HIV rates in the South that are disproportionately high among African-Americans and homosexuals.
“I am a lowly clerk at the IRS, looking at your application for tax-free status. I go to your web page to see the goals of your group and one of the goals of your group is to abolish the IRS.
Followers of the #biohacking movement, which emerged around the mid-2000s, believe that technology can be harnessed to enhance the human body. Some say these implants could provide new technology-based capabilities and render wallets and keys obsolete. Some even suggest that biohacking could offer a technological leap forward in human evolution.
Anyone who has ever smashed their iPhone’s screen or depleted a battery knows that devices are destined to deteriorate and eventually die. But what if they could one day heal themselves? That’s the vision Chao Wang, a polymer researcher and assistant professor in the chemistry department at the University of California, Riverside has for the future — and he helped invent a super-stretchy, self-healing polymer that could one day make it possible.
Talk about clout. When retired US Army #veteran Leonard K. Jackson talks of his years-long wait to secure #VA disability #benefits for a range of physical and mental health issues suffered while serving, he has the White House behind him. That’s right, the White House, as the Obama Administration has used Jackson as a poster boy of sorts for Obama’s efforts to simplify and speed up the veteranbenefits appeals process.
#Hillary Clinton stopped referring to herself as the potential “youngest woman president” during campaign stump speeches after polling showed that it was not helping with voters and donors.
It was the steak dinners, Ethan Brown says, that changed his life. He had embarked on a career in the clean-energy industry, a path befitting an environmentalist out to save the world. But the incongruity he perceived among his colleagues, who would lament environmental problems while eating beef, pushed Brown — a vegetarian since age 18 — in a different direction.
“Hillary [Clinton] screwed up; that’s not our fault. She doesn’t see the effect the event had on families and still has on families,” said Paronto.
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The former fiancee of Ambassador #Chris Stevens, who was killed in the 2012 #Benghazi terror attack, tells Newsmax TV that #Hillary Clinton didn’t do her job by ignoring Stevens’ requests for more security.
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Wendy’s will install self-serving kiosks at it’s over 6,000 locations later in the year, reports Investor’s Business Daily. Retailers and restaurants have already started exploring automation with many places replacing cashiers and other low-skilled jobs with computers and machines. Wendy’s President Todd Penegor hopes automation will help his company overcome a 5 percent inflation in wages.
The uncomfortable scene is a familiar one to anybody who has ever visited a #theme park: The overweight rider becomes increasingly embarrassed as the ride attendant pushes and shoves with all his might on the over-the-shoulder restraint that stubbornly refuses to click closed. Everybody waiting in line knows what comes next: the walk of shame.
Zimmerman put the 9mm on gunbroker.com, with the auction set to begin at 11 a.m. Thursday. The bidding was to start at $5,000. But now the link has vanished.
A federal #judge ruled Thursday for House Republicans in a challenge brought against the Obama administration over the legality of payments to insurers under #ObamaCare.
Your local police may use a controversial piece of technology—ominously dubbed a #stingray—to track your phone. But, the #FBI is taking pains to make sure you never find out. The agency encourages police to find additional evidence so that stingray technology never comes up in court, according to a new memo.
The RAID Act – Requiring Accountability and Inspections for Dining Service – would subject the #VA to the same health standards as private hospital kitchens, which includes shutting down the facility until problems are corrected. The bill was introduced by Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., after a #Conservative Review investigation revealed allegations of a cockroach infestation so massive that bugs were reportedly being served in food at a Chicago area VA hospital.
One of the nation’s leading e-liquid manufacturers is taking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to court over regulations that could wipe out 99 percent of the industry.
The Republican Party is unifying around Donald Trump, and far fewer than speculated plan to split the party to vote for Hillary Clinton come November, new polls show.
“A lot of people woke up [on Wednesday] and went, ‘Oh, gosh, this is not a dream,’” said Jeff MacKinnon, a #lobbyists out of DC told the Hill. “I don’t think downtown was really prepared for it happening so quickly. It did catch people off guard.”
Teacher forced to resign after student stole her phone, went through her pictures, stole nudephoto of her, posted her picture on social media, and texted it to other students. School blames her for ‘not securing her phone.’
After lawsuit, Subway will ensure your footlong sammich is actually a foot long.
It will take about a year to fire a VAnurse who operated on veterans while drunk.
People trust robots too much. Even after they’ve been told the robot is malfunctioning.
GOP front-runner Donald Trump now has more delegates that the four remaining candidates combined. Trump has 285 delegates. The remaining four candidates have 281 delegates combined.
CNN’s Dana Bash reported that the retired neurosurgeon — the only man left in the GOP race who has never finished first or second — will be encouraged Wednesday to run for Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat.
A teacher at Union County High School has resigned after a student spread a nude picture of her through text messages and social media, according to Union County School District interim superintendent David Eubanks.
You can leave your measuring tape at home — Subway has agreed to take all of the steps necessary to make sure its footlong sandwiches aren’t 11 inches, or even 11-and-a-half, but a full 12.
GOP Rep. Jeff Miller 75% has offered an alternative to the department’s byzantine disciplinary process, but the VA has opposed the legislation at every turn. The bill, called the VA Accountability Act, provides Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald with the authority to kick out employees for poor performance or misconduct. The bill passed in the House in July 2015 but has stalled in the Senate.
“People seem to believe that these robotic systems know more about the world than they really do, and that they would never make mistakes or have any kind of fault,” said Alan Wagner, a senior research engineer in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). “In our studies, test subjects followed the robot’s directions even to the point where it might have put them in danger had this been a real emergency.”
Taxing medical marijuana could generate tens of millions of dollars and sustain 10,000 jobs for the state of Michigan, according to an economic impact analysis.
An email containing the whereabouts and plans of murdered U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens passed through Hillary Clinton’s private server, dispatches released Monday in the final group of messages from Clinton’s emails reveal.
