Appeals Court Panel Allows DOJ to Continue Reviewing Documents from Trump Raid
September 21, 2022 Just the News
A panel of three judges for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed the Department of Justice to continue reviewing documents the FBI seized from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, upending part of an earlier ruling from the district court judge.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon earlier this month enjoined further federal review of the documents and appointed New York Judge Raymond Dearie as special master to independently review them.
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Amazon Spends Big to Keep Drivers from Leaving
After years of high turnover that left some employees feeling expendable, Amazon is spending just shy of half a billion dollars for delivery partners to raise pay and provide benefits for drivers amid growing concerns of a labor shortage.
The $450 million investment into Amazon's Delivery Service Partners (DSP) network gives money to partnered companies to offer drivers pay increases, alongside funding for new benefits such as a 401(k) plan and education and training programs, according to Amazon's announcement. The announcement, which Amazon said is part of efforts to build and retain "great teams," comes less than four months after internal documents were leaked revealing Amazon's concern that if its current hiring practices and treatment of employees continued, it would run out of people willing to work for the company by 2024, according to Vox.
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Profits Plummet, Vehicles Left Unfinished as Ford Struggles with Inflation
As Ford grapples with nearly $1 billion in elevated expenses from suppliers due to inflationary pressures, those same suppliers have been unable to provide parts for nearly 45,000 trucks and SUVs, forcing them to be left unfinished in the third quarter.
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'Dismantling Capitalism': California School District Sponsors Activist Training Facility
A California school district features a "social justice academy" to teach kids to be activists and challenge capitalism, homophobia and white supremacy, according to the academy's website.
San Leandro High School in San Leandro, California, uses their Social Justice Academy to educate students on how to "disrupt systems of power and oppression," according to the academy's website. The academy is a three-year program aimed at students in 10th through 12th grade and requires the students to run an activist "campaign" as their final project.
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Report Reveals 'Shocking Long-Term Gaps in Federal Oversight' over Prison Deaths
September 21, 2022 September 20, 2022 The Center Square
The Department of Justice's tally of how many people died while in custody missed hundreds of deaths over the past couple of years, a 10-month U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations probe revealed.
The problems spanned many years over multiple administrations, and committee staffers said there is widespread blame for the oversight. The investigation found that changes to the methods for collecting the data and a transition of the agency within the Justice Department responsible for carrying out the act's requirements led to the problems.
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California Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon
September 21, 2022 September 20, 2022 Just the News
California Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Wednesday an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, claiming that the retail giant "stifled competition and caused increased prices" in the state.
"Amazon coerces merchants into agreements that keep prices artificially high, knowing full well that they can't afford to say no. With other e-commerce platforms unable to compete on price, consumers turn to Amazon as a one-stop shop for all their purchases," Bonta said. "This perpetuates Amazon's market dominance."
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Commentary: Advances in Medical Testing Making Health Challenges Easier to Diagnose
September 21, 2022 September 20, 2022 RealClearWire
You may suffer from autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, or aPAP, but you might not know it yet. Importantly, your doctor may not know it either.
Thousands of Americans suffer from aPAP, a rare autoimmune lung disease caused by the progressive build-up of an oily substance normally present in the lungs called surfactant. In healthy people, surfactant forms a thin layer that lines the tiny air sacs (alveoli) of the lungs and helps them function while we breath. In people with aPAP, the surfactant over-accumulates, making the layer thicker in some air sacs and filling others, blocking oxygen from moving out of the air sacs and into the bloodstream.
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Breaking: New York Attorney General Files Fraud Lawsuit Against Trump, Three Eldest Children
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on Wednesday filed a civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump, court records show.
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Fetterman Campaign Says Nominee's Calls to 'Free' Second-Degree Murderers 'Taken Out of Context'
The campaign for Pennsylvania Democrat Senate nominee John Fetterman on Tuesday walked back the candidate's apparent call to release all second-degree murderers with life sentences.
A spokesperson for Fetterman's campaign told Fox News that the lieutenant governor's comments "are being taken out of context," and the nominee does not support freeing all convicts serving life without parole for second-degree murder.
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New York State Board of Regents' Regulation Requires Private Schools to Provide Education 'Substantially Equivalent' to Government Schools
September 21, 2022 September 20, 2022 Susan Berry, PhD
A new regulation announced by the New York State Board of Regents requires all of the state's 1,800 private and religious schools to provide an education that is "substantially equivalent" to that offered by public, government-run schools.
The Board of Regents passed the new regulation last week unanimously and without debate, reported WABC.
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Commentary: Justice Department Desperate to Conceal 'Classified' Records
With one sentence, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon spoke for the majority of Americans who no longer have faith in the nation's top law enforcement agency. "It is also true, of course, that even-handed procedure does not demand unquestioning trust in the determinations of the Department of Justice," she wrote in her September 15 order denying the government's request to prevent a third-party review of allegedly "classified" documents seized by the FBI during the raid of Mar-a-Lago last month.
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Pro-Lifers Pleased with Enthusiasm at Second Annual Pennsylvania March for Life
September 21, 2022 September 20, 2022 Bradley Vasoli
Pennsylvanians who support legal protections for innocent life including the unborn resoundingly celebrated the enthused showing at Monday's Pennsylvania March for Life in Harrisburg, the Keystone State's second such annual event.
Thousands of residents marched to the Capitol Building in support of legislation to prevent abortion, an issue that has seen a resurgence of interest since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide was nullified earlier this year. Pro-abortion activists held their own rally for Democratic state Attorney General Josh Shapiro's gubernatorial candidacy the day afterward, drawing few attendees.
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Whistleblower: FBI Deliberately Miscategorizing January 6 Cases to Boost 'Domestic Extremism' Claims
On Monday, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) claimed that a new whistleblower from the FBI told him that the bureau is "cooking the books" when it comes to cases related to the peaceful protests of January 6th, deliberately miscategorizing them so they can add to an apparent increase in "domestic extremism" cases.
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Migrants Whom DeSantis Flew to Martha's Vineyard File Class Action Suit Against Him
Some of the migrants whom Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis flew to Martha's Vineyard have filed a lawsuit against him and state officials.
These migrants allege that the group boarded the planes under false pretenses. The governor sent two planes of illegal migrants to upper crust liberal enclave Martha's Vineyard late last week, prompting horror from the area's residents and outrage from Democratic politicians. Authorities promptly relocated the migrants from the wealthy area to a military base near Cape Cod.
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Commentary: Polling Errors Threaten Public Confidence in Elections
The polling industry has faced criticism for underestimating Republicans through several cycles. Pollster Nate Cohn recently wrote that the 2022 polls could do it again. These continued misjudgments can undermine public faith in how the media covers elections. Worse still, they can affect the result of close races.
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Federal Appeals Court Reverses Ruling on January 6 Subpoena to RNC, Dismisses Case
A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling ordering the Republican National Committee to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee, poking the Democrat-led investigation for vacillating on key issues and acknowledging there were "important and unsettled constitutional questions" about whether the panel is lawfully constituted.
The U.S. Circuit Court for Appeals or the District of Columbia said it was dismissing the case because the Jan. 6 committee withdrew the subpoena to the RNC seeking records of its dealings with a digital fund-raising vendor Salesforce.
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TikTok Lawyer Says Left-Wing Nonprofit Offered Him $400 to Post Propaganda About Trump and January 6
An attorney with a popular TikTok account has exposed a corrupt left-wing influence operation that pays social media personalities to post disinformation about former president Donald Trump and January 6.
Atlanta-based attorney Preston Moore claimed on Saturday that he was offered $400 by the nonprofit "Good Information Foundation" to post manipulative "propaganda" ahead of the 2022 mid term elections.
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