Month: August 2022
A jury tags Alex Jones with $45.2 million in punitive damages for 2 Sandy Hook parents
Jones, the creator and face of the conspiracy-peddling website InfoWars, is on the hook for a total of $49.3 million for spreading falsehoods about the 2012 mass shooting at an elementary school. (Image credit: Briana Sanchez/AP)
Read MoreJury awards $45.2 million in punitive damages in Alex Jones Sandy Hook trial – Reuters
Jury awards $45.2 million in punitive damages in Alex Jones Sandy Hook trial Reuters A jury finds Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim CNN Alex Jones ordered
Read MoreBreonna Taylor supporters relieved by charges against police involved in her killing
Louisville activists who put in long hours protesting the death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of police say they felt relief this week when federal officials charged four officers.
Read MoreNews Wrap: Israeli airstrikes pound Gaza killing at least 10, wounding dozens
In our news wrap Friday, Israeli strikes pounded Gaza killing at least 10 including a militant commander, Russia’s foreign minister says Moscow is open to discussing a prisoner exchange involving American WNBA star Brittany Griner, deadly house fire in Pennsylvania
Read MoreNews Wrap: Israeli airstrikes pound Gaza killing at least 10, wounding dozens
In our news wrap Friday, Israeli strikes pounded Gaza killing at least 10 including a militant commander, Russia’s foreign minister says Moscow is open to discussing a prisoner exchange involving American WNBA star Brittany Griner, deadly house fire in Pennsylvania
Read MoreThe Carried Interest Loophole Survives Another Political Battle
The latest effort to narrow the preferential tax treatment used by private equity executives failed after Senator Kyrsten Sinema objected.
Read MoreShells hit power lines at Ukraine nuclear plant, fighting in east
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Friday of shelling Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant as fighting raged again in the crucial border region of the Donbas and three more ships left ports carrying
Read MoreHiring surged in July as U.S. economy exceeds expectations despite inflation, rate hikes
The U.S. has now regained all the jobs it lost during the COVID pandemic, in spite of concerns about rising inflation and a possible recession. Employers added 528,000 jobs last month, more than double what economists predicted. Meanwhile, unemployment fell
Read MoreDemocrats move closer to sweeping tax, climate change and health care bill
Senate Democrats are one step closer to passing a sweeping tax, climate change, and health care bill now that Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema voiced her support. The last Democratic holdout agreed to vote for the package after party leaders altered
Read MoreCongress tries to cap insulin costs as diabetics ration supplies
There is another proposal that could make it into the Senate budget deal that would cap the cost of insulin. More than 7 million Americans with diabetes use insulin and about 1 million put an enormous amount of their paycheck
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