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Trump Eyeing NY Congresswoman As Veep Pick, Report Says Trump Eyeing NY Congresswoman As Veep Pick, Report Says
Trump Eyeing NY Congresswoman As Veep Pick, Report Says As campaign season heats up, rumors are swirling over former President Donald Trump’s pick to be his running mate should he clinch the Republican nomination. Among the names that Trump is strongly considering for his vice president is New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, NBC News reports. The 39-year-old House Republican Conference chair – whose 21st District represents several Capital Region counties, including Rensselaer – was brought up during a dinner at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home in December 2023, according to the outlet. Trump nodded approvingly and referred to Stefanik as “a ki…

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by Michael Mashburn
Business
'Pharmageddon': CVS, Walgreens Protests Spread As Workers Seek Better Conditions 'Pharmageddon': CVS, Walgreens Protests Spread As Workers Seek Better Conditions
'Pharmageddon': CVS, Walgreens Protests Spread As Workers Seek Better Conditions Around a thousand pharmacy workers across the country have walked off the job as part of a strike to protest conditions. The so-called "Pharmageddon" series of walkouts at pharmacy chains including CVS and Walgreens stores started Monday, Oct. 30, and is expected to continue at least through the middle of the week. Around 900 people from about 10 states could participate, organizers of the ongoing protest told NBC News. A growing workload and understaffing are the main reasons for the protest, organizers say, noting that the pharmacy workers are not unionized. In a statement to KDKA in Pi…

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by Joe Lombardi
News
Jan. 6: Ex-Boston Officer Attacked Police During Assault On US Capitol, FBI Says Jan. 6: Ex-Boston Officer Attacked Police During Assault On US Capitol, FBI Says
Jan. 6: Ex-Boston Officer Attacked Police During Assault On US Capitol, FBI Says The FBI arrested a retired Boston police officer on Thursday, March 30, and charged him with taking part in the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, including assaulting a police officer with a chair during the melee, authorities said.  Joseph Fisher, 52, is charged with felony counts of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, among other charges, according to court documents released by NBC News. Video taken during the riot shows Fisher allegedly shoving a chair into a police officer who was chasing someone who had sprayed …

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by Josh Lanier
News
Reports Of Child Poisonings Linked To Cough Medicine Increasing, Study Says Reports Of Child Poisonings Linked To Cough Medicine Increasing, Study Says
Reports Of Child Poisonings Linked To Cough Medicine Increasing, Study Says A new study from the Food & Drug Administration found that reports of pediatric poisonings involving prescription cough medicine have increased in recent years, NBC News reported. The news outlet said in a report published on Tuesday, Nov. 15, that the poisonings involving benzonatate, a prescription cough medicine, increased every year from 2010 to 2018. The FDA reports that the safety and efficacy of the drug for children younger than 10 years old have not been established. "Patients who are taking benzonatate should keep the medication in a child-resistant container and store i…

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by Nicole Valinote
News
Alex Jones Ordered By Jury To Pay Nearly $1B To Sandy Hook Families For Mass Shooting Lies Alex Jones Ordered By Jury To Pay Nearly $1B To Sandy Hook Families For Mass Shooting Lies
Alex Jones Ordered By Jury To Pay Nearly $1B To Sandy Hook Families For Mass Shooting Lies Far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered by a Connecticut jury to pay nearly $1 billion to the families of students killed in the December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown. In a unanimous decision Wednesday, Oct. 12, the jury said the Infowars founder must dole out $965 million in damages to eight families of students killed, as well as an FBI agent, for repeatedly claiming that the school massacre in December 2012, which killed 20 students and six staff members, was a hoax carried out by “crisis actors.” Earlier Report: Alex Jones Order…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Sandy Hook Shooting Victim's Family A Total Of $49M Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Sandy Hook Shooting Victim's Family A Total Of $49M
Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Sandy Hook Shooting Victim's Family A Total Of $49M Far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered by a Texas jury to pay nearly $50 million to the family of a young boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. In a unanimous decision Friday, Aug. 5, the jury said Jones must pay $45.2 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the parents of 6-year-old victim Jesse Lewis. That’s in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages the jury awarded the family the day prior. Jones had already been found liable in a default judgment for defamation and “intentional inflicti…

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by Michael Mashburn
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COVID-19: Return Of Mask Mandates? Uncertainty Surrounds Climb In Omicron-Fueled Reinfections COVID-19: Return Of Mask Mandates? Uncertainty Surrounds Climb In Omicron-Fueled Reinfections
Covid-19: Return Of Mask Mandates? Uncertainty Surrounds Climb In Omicron-Fueled Reinfections More places are bringing back indoor mask mandates as the now dominant COVID-19 Omicron strain is not only reinfecting many who have already had the virus but those who have been vaccinated and boosted. The BA.5 variant (the official name for Omicron) made up about 65 percent of US cases in the weeklong period ending Saturday, July 16, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And the wave is being felt nationwide. The Staten Island Ferry has reduced service due to an increasing number of workers being out sick. In Boston, with cases up around 40 percent in a…

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by Joe Lombardi