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Couple Who Tortured 12 Children in Their California Home Are Sentenced to Life

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 2:49pm

The couple starved, beat and shackled their children to their beds. Their crimes were only discovered when one child found the courage to escape and call for help....

Safeway to Pay $75,000 to Settle EEEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

News Source: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 2:33pm

National grocery store chain Safeway, Inc. will pay $75,000 and make significant changes to its policies and hiring practices to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal a......

Joe Biden Begins Taking Money for a 2020 Presidential Campaign

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 2:28pm

Major Democratic donors in Pennsylvania and California are soliciting big checks for Joe Biden, who is expected to launch his 2020 campaign next week....

Mueller Report Likely to Renew Scrutiny of Steele Dossier

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 2:23pm

The special counsel revealed that some claims in the dossier appeared to be false while others were impossible to prove. Republicans have vowed to investigate....

Before Fisher-Price’s Rock ’n Play Recall, Safety Fears and Dubious Marketing

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 1:59pm

The company knew for years about potential risks linked to its popular sleeper and about pediatricians’ objections to the way the product was being pitched to parents....

Americans Agree on One Thing About the Mueller Report: Disgust With the Country’s Leaders

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 1:56pm

People of all political persuasions shared one feeling: disgust with the country’s leaders and a sense that important issues, such as health care, continued to be ignored....

Mueller Did His Job. Now It’s the Democrats’ Turn.

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 1:37pm

Don’t collaborate in the lie that Trump hasn’t earned impeachment....

The Long Run: Pete Buttigieg Fired South Bend’s Black Police Chief. It Still Stings.

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 1:33pm

Mr. Buttigieg’s firing of popular black police chief Darryl Boykins unleashed a blizzard of claims, counterclaims, lawsuits and anguish in the minority community....

Clare Bronfman Is Expected to Plead Guilty in Nxivm ‘Sex Cult’ Case

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 1:33pm

The heiress to the Seagram’s liquor fortune is one of two women scheduled to enter pleas in the racketeering case against the cultlike group that branded members....

Nipsey Hussle Was Hailed as a Hero. But to California Officials, He Was Still a Gangster.

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 12:57pm

“No one ever makes it off that list,” one expert said of the state’s gang database, which can be used to revoke parole and enhance punishments. “No one.”...

Chinese Immigrants Are Converting to Catholicism. Local Churches Have Adapted.

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 12:34pm

The night before Easter is a traditional time to complete the sacraments of initiation. In New York, many Chinese immigrants are baptized into the church and experience religious freedom for the first time in their lives....

3,000 flights delayed, 700 canceled across the US as severe weather moves east

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Post Date: Friday - April 19, 2019 - 12:19pm

A multi-day storm system is hitting the East Coast and causing flight delays and cancellations during a busy travel day ahead of Passover and Easter. ...