Evie Fordham People between jobs and who need gap health insurance coverage will find an increasingly consumer-friendly market for short-term health insurance plans when a Trump administration rule allowing states more power to regulate the plans goes into effect on Oct. 2. “As more carriers participate in the market, benefits begin to get more robust…
Steve Birr Attorneys for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort tore into the reputation of his former business partner, Rick Gates, during court proceedings Tuesday, suggesting his testimony cannot be trusted. Leading the defense, lawyer Kevin Downing questioned Gates over previous testimony given to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in February that he admitted he knew was false. Gates’s false…
Jessica Kramer A severe hail storm hit the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on Monday, injuring 14 people, hospitalizing five, and killing a duck and a vulture. The zoo, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is closed due to damaged infrastructure, including windows and skylights, and it is uncertain if it will reopen by Wednesday, according to 9 News. Sixteen…
Elias Atienza Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the most visible figures of Black Lives Matter, has not ruled out running for president in 2020. Sharpton said he wasn’t currently exploring a presidential run but did not rule out running, BuzzFeed News reported Tuesday. “I never rule anything out,” Sharpton said. Sharpton was in Florida Sunday leading protests…
Grace Carr A dead fetus was found on an American Airlines flight at LaGuardia Airport Tuesday morning. The airport’s cleaning crew found the dead baby in the airplane’s bathroom Tuesday morning during a routine cleaning while the plane sat in a hangar at LaGuardia airport in New York, NBC New York reported. https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1026831964001759232?s=19 The cleaning crew…
Joshua Gill A Sikh man in California claimed two men attacked him and said “go back to your country” while he campaigned for a GOP lawmaker. Surjit Malhi said that he was posting signs in support of Republican Rep. Jeff Denham when two men allegedly threw sand in his eyes, hit his head repeatedly, screamed at…
Joshua Gill Saudi Arabia’s state media tweeted an infographic that seemingly threatened a 9/11-style attack against Canada over condemnation of Saudi Arabia’s imprisonment of women’s rights activists. The infographic, which Infographic KSA deleted shortly after tweeting, depicted an Air Canada passenger jet heading toward the Toronto skyline at low altitude. The picture also featured text…
Grace Carr Students who attend the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) must pay a hefty fee for the operation of a committee dedicated to combatting toxic masculinity on campus, and not all students are happy about it. Formed by a group of female UCLA students in spring 2018, the Toxic Masculinity Committee pushes back…
Kyle Perisic Facebook has begun meetings with some of the largest banks in the U.S. in order to develop its own online store on the platform and is asking the banks for customers’ financial data. Some of the banks include Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bancorp, and Wells Fargo — while other banks were reportedly in…
A man the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation identified as David–a pseudonym–is saving $91 every month on his car insurance. No, he didn’t switch to Geico. All it took was for David to identify as a woman on government forms. “I have taken advantage of a loophole,” said David, who reportedly is in his early 20s and…