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UNITED STATES—Attorney General William Barr released the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Thursday, April 18. During a press conference on Thursday, Barr spoke about the release of the confidential report completed by Robert Mueller on March 22. A public version of the reported with redacted details was made available on the Department of Justice website after it...

SAN FRANCSICO—A high school in San Francisco is ready to become the first public school in the nation to offer an LGBT studies course. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts has developed a curriculum for the LGBT studies course and plans to offer it in fall 2015 for their students. Lyndsey Schlax, a teacher at Ruth Asawa since...

SEATTLE, WA−Authorities arrested two suspects in connection to a shooting in Seattle that killed one woman and injured several others on Wednesday, January 22. The shooting took place outside a McDonald’s during rush hour traffic near 3rd and Pine.  Witnesses told investigators that at least two males started shooting at one another. The suspects later fled the scene. The incident was...

UNITED STATES—O.J. Simpson, the former NFL Hall of Fame running back who pleaded not guilty to the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994, may be released on parole later this year. Simpson, 69, has served nine years of his 33-year sentence for robbing Alfred Beardsley and Bruce Fromong of nearly 800 pieces of sports memorabilia at...

UNITED STATES−Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attempted to hide abortion funding in a slush fund for the new Family First Coronavirus Response Act bill. The Hyde Amendment strictly prohibits federal funding to be used to pay for abortions. White House officials are  accusing  Pelosi of attempting to use a loophole in the Coronavirus funding set aside for the diagnostic...

NEW YORK CITY—Robert Trump, 72, President Donald Trump’s younger brother, has been hospitalized in New York City, the White House confirmed on August 14. The exact nature of Robert Trump’s condition is unknown, but officials have said that the president's brother is “very ill”. Earlier in June, Robert Trump was hospitalized in the intensive care unit for over a week...

UNITED STATES—The Biden Cancer Initiative, a cancer charity founded by former Vice President Joe Biden, gave no donations to research, and instead spent most of its contributions on staff salaries and vacations, newly released tax filings show. The Biden Cancer Initiative was created by Biden, after his oldest son, Beau passed away in 2015 due to complications from brain...

UNITED STATES—The first monthly Employment Situation Report of 2019 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicate an all time high for job increases. A report on The White House website indicates that the jobs in the United States are on the rise. The nonfarm payroll employment for January 2019 increased by 304,000 jobs passing market expectations by 165,000 and above...

UNITED STATES—On Thursday, September 3, T-Mobile launched a new project, “Project 10Million,” starting with a $10 billion, 5-year commitment to provide free wireless hotspots, free high-speed data, and access for K-12 students across the U.S. “Project 10Million gives eligible households 100GB of data per year and a FREE mobile hotspot for 5 years. Plus, participating school districts have the option...

PORTLAND, OR—On Thursday, August 15, over 60 emergency calls went unanswered in Portland as officers were dealing with hundreds of protestors downtown.  It was the 80th night of consecutive protests in Portland since the killing of George Floyd and the second night in a row that authorities chased protesters through residential streets as neighbors watched from their homes.  Hundreds of protesters...