by Marty Kassowitz | Sep 18, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
The news has been awash with commentary about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his expensive stunt of flying 50 Venezuelan migrant refugees to Martha’s Vineyard and dumping them there. Maybe he thought this stunt would “annoy the liberals” living...
by KFF Health News | Sep 11, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
A federal judge’s ruling in Texas has thrown into question whether millions of insured Americans will continue to receive some preventive medical services, such as cancer screenings and drugs that protect people from HIV infection, without making a copayment. It’s the...
by The Conversation | Sep 1, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
A court filing by the Justice Department just minutes before midnight on Aug. 30, 2022, was a sharply worded attack on former President Donald Trump’s request for a so-called “special master”—a neutral arbiter—to review the documents the FBI seized at his estate,...
by Colorado Newsline | Aug 30, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
The deputy Mesa County clerk who served under Clerk Tina Peters has agreed to testify against Peters as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors who are investigating an election security breach. A Mesa County District Court judge accepted the plea agreement during a...
by The New Lede | Aug 29, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
Bayer AG CEO Werner Baumann can be required to provide testimony in ongoing Roundup litigation despite efforts by Bayer to block such action, according to a recent court order. A judge in Arkansas ruled that lawyers for plaintiffs in the litigation may travel to...
by KFF Health News | Aug 25, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
When Dani Yuengling felt a lump in her right breast last summer, she tried to ignore it. She was 35, the same age her mother had been when she received a breast cancer diagnosis in 1997. The disease eventually killed Yuengling’s mom in 2017. “It was the hardest...