Most Puerto Ricans will be without electricity for the foreseeable future after a controversial contract to rebuild the island’s power grid was cancelled. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) on Sunday cancelled a $300 million contract to rebuild the ...
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No Surgery For The Obese & Smokers, British Nationalized Health Care Proposes
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is under fire for a proposal that would prohibit non-essential surgeries on people who are overweight or who smoke. Patients must quit smoking for eight weeks or lose weight to qualify for non-emergency surgery at ...
Read More »Business Owner Was Never Convicted. But Police Kept 130 Of His Computers Anyway
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Frank Ranelli is still waiting for the return of thousands of dollars’ worth of computers police took from his business in 2010, even though charges were dismissed years ago. “Here I was, a man, owned this business, ...
Read More »Insect Populations Plummet 75 Percent; ‘Cascading Effects’ On Food Chain
More than 75 percent of the flying insects in German nature reserves have been wiped out in the past 27 years according to a published in the scientific journal PLOS that also asserts the problem – if worldwide – could ...
Read More »Puerto Rico: 85 Percent Still Without Power; People Drinking Dirty Water With Animal Urine; Hospitals Struggling
Puerto Rico has become “generator island,” as most residents of the commonwealth still lack electricity, running water and healthcare nearly a month after Hurricane Maria. The New York Times painted a grim picture of life on the island. “Because of ...
Read More »Town Bans The Tossing Of Candy In Parades Because Kids Might Get Hurt
Overly aggressive trick or treaters have brought an end to a holiday tradition in West Chester, Penn. Halloween Parade participants will no longer be able to toss candy to kids because – officials fear — they might fight over the ...
Read More »Senators: ‘Time To Take Trump Seriously’ About War With North Korea, WW3
Two U.S. senators from opposite sides of the aisle say President Trump is serious about going to war with North Korea. “Many of us have begun to hear whispers of more serious war talk in and near the White House,” ...
Read More »America, 2017: Police Are Guarding Christopher Columbus Statues Against Vandals
The crusade against Christopher Columbus and American history took another turn in the past week, as a statue of the famous explorer was given police protection. A squad of police was assigned to protect the monument in Manhattan’s Columbus Square, ...
Read More »ISIS May Have Had Ties To Vegas Shooter, NYT Reporter Says
The possibility that ISIS has ties to Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock may be greater than many think. A New York Times reporter who covers the terrorist group says she isn’t discounting claims by ISIS that it helped orchestrate the ...
Read More »‘Repeal The Second Amendment,’ NYT Columnist Argues
A Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative writer is calling for repealing the Second Amendment to the Constitution. New York Times op-ed columnist Brett Stephens wrote Oct. 5 that he wants to abolish the right to bear arms in the name of public ...
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