news2019-01-18
WASHINGTON - A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows VA significantly reduced wait times for Veteran patients in primary care and three specialty care services between 2014 and 2017. Source: VA.gov....Read more
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Significant numbers of Transportation Security Administration agents have not been coming to work, either because of financial hardship or to underscore their opposition to being forced to work without pay. Three major airports -- Atlanta, Houston and Miami -- are operating under contingency plans. ....Read more
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President Trump directed his attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, two federal law enforcement officials tell BuzzFeed News. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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Eight times over 12 days this month, the president argued for his proposed wall on the southern border by claiming that traffickers tie up and silence women with tape before illegally driving them through the desert from Mexico to the U.S. Experts say they have never seen an example. Source: The C....Read more
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Many more chidren were separated from their parents by federal officials at the southern border than the Trump administration has acknowledged, says a new inspector general report. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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A week after Florida’s governor ousted the sheriff over his department’s handling of last February’s Parkland massacre, the head of Broward County, Fl., schools, unveiled a set of security measures that included installing safe spaces in all 20,000 classrooms by the end of February. Source: T....Read more
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Nearly 100 protesters, many holding signs and shouting at police, gathered outside Tempe, Az., Police Department headquarters on Thursday night to protest the fatal shooting by an officer of a 14-year-old boy holding an airsoft gun. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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In an unequivocal defense of how Chicago police handled Laquan McDonald’s murder, a judge acquitted three officers Thursday of charges they conspired to justify the shooting by falsifying reports and claiming the teen was the aggressor. Jason Van Dyke, the officer who shot McDonald, will be senten....Read more
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"The community has every right to say, ‘This is a really screwed-up police department.’,” says federal consent decree monitor Kenneth Thompson. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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The nation’s most populous state has been a trailblazer in justice reform, but it lags behind others in its failure to abolish capital punishment. Gavin Newsom, sworn in this month as the new governor, could change that, writes a reform advocate. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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