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42+ min ago   (711+ words) More than 60 UCLA law professors, joined by almost 300 others from law schools throughout the United States—the numbers are growing—have published open letters denouncing Chancellor Julio Frenk’s public statement critical of the School of Law’s symposium on “25 Years after…...

42+ min ago   (1029+ words) A year ago this month, more than 700 nurses and case workers at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan, walked off the job for enforceable nurse-to-patient ratios, improved wages and an end to conditions that made it increasingly impossible…...

44+ min ago   (469+ words) Early Sunday morning on September 13, a young truck driver was brutally assaulted and stabbed over a dozen times at a remote rest stop in Wyoming. The victim, Mr. Singh, is a 24-year-old man from Sacramento, California and a follower of…...

42+ min ago   (516+ words) In a frontal assault on the First Amendment, President Donald Trump ordered reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico barred from the White House for publishing “negative stories” about him. He announced the ban Friday afternoon on social media. When…...

39+ min ago   (297+ words) He also said other publications would follow suit if they don’t play by the rules. He stated, “Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the…...

53+ min ago   (734+ words) The chicken tenders looked cooked. It was crispy on the outside, and there was no obvious reason to think anything was wrong with it. Then a Florida girl took a bite. Her godmother, who posts on TikTok as @bostonnprincess, said…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago   (195+ words) “Inflation is throwing a wrench into Republican messaging on housing affordability,” Politico reports. ”GOP lawmakers went to great lengths this summer to draw bipartisan support for sweeping legislation to make housing more affordable, passing the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago   (161+ words) “When devotees of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement meet for a summit Sept. 29 in Washington, titans of American industry will pay the bill,” Politico reports. ”Walmart, America’s biggest retailer and a leading purveyor…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (287+ words) “You have a little higher. It’s a very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done. Remember that. It’s a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more.” — President Trump, quoted by the Associated Press, downplaying higher gas…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago   (144+ words) “The White House has begun drafting a new executive order that could further cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants and expand the administration’s pressure campaign against elite universities,” the New York Times reports. “Discussed…...