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Chuck Ross Attorney General William Barr has formed a team to investigate how the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign began, according to CBS News. On Tuesday, Barr told Congress that he is “reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that…
Kevin Daley The Supreme Court seems poised for a forceful shift on the death penalty, after a recent 5-4 decision unexpectedly signaled an important change to the justices’ approach to capital punishment and the Eighth Amendment. Though it is too premature to make definitive statements about the Court’s direction, the April 1 decision in Bucklew v. Precythe…
Joshua Gill Cardinal Vincent Nichols of the Archdiocese of Westminster urged youths to get rid of their knives in the wake of the worst spike in violent knife crimes the U.K. has seen since 1946. Nichols also pleaded with youths to turn away from gangs, as he attributes the rise in violence to a breakdown…
Chris White Facebook executives did not provide many details during a congressional hearing Tuesday about why their algorithms are unable to distinguish the difference between hate speech and legitimate conservative content. Tech experts argue that the tools Facebook, Twitter and Google use to moderate content might not be up to the task. Google and Facebook…
Peter Hasson Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate, admitted Tuesday that he is a part of the millionaire class. Sanders often rails against millionaires on the campaign stump and opened his 2016 presidential campaign by bragging that he didn’t “have millionaire or billionaire friends.” But Sanders himself is now a millionaire, he acknowledged to The New York Times….
Grace Carr Walmart is adding hundreds of robots to its stores to help wash floors and perform low-level jobs that will free up workers to do other important work. Walmart will add robots to at least 300 of its stores this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. In another 900 of its stores, Walmart will put 16-foot-high…
Evie Fordham on April 9, 2019RepublishReprint New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency Tuesday and ordered vaccinations for some of the city’s residents amid a measles outbreak concentrated in one neighborhood’s Orthodox Jewish community. “There’s no question that vaccines are safe, effective and life-saving,” de Blasio said in a statement. “I urge…
Chuck Ross Attorney General William Barr told Congress Tuesday that the process of reviewing the Mueller report is going along “very well” and that he plans to release the document “within a week.” In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Barr also dealt a blow to a Democratic talking point regarding a letter he sent to Congress…
Evie Fordham U.S. measles cases are on track to set an alarming record, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data released Monday. The number of confirmed cases in a single year is approaching its highest number since public health officials declared measles eradicated in the country in 2000. The CDC has recorded 465 cases…
Neetu Chandak A Utah mom allegedly struck her son with a bag of frozen pizza rolls and kicked him multiple times in late March. Pictured is Kassie Tolman. Screenshot/ Cache County Sheriff’s Office Kassie Tolman, 28, allegedly kicked her 10-year-old son in the head several times before leaving the room and bringing a bag of…