GUN VIOLENCE, PTSD AND THE NEED FOR COMMONSENSE GUN CONTROL
Mass shootings create a growing network forged by trauma
Post-traumatic stress disorder was once largely associated with combat-weary veterans; now police and firefighters, tormented by the memories of the carnage they’ve witnessed, are seeking professional help. Healing centers have opened to offer survivors therapy and a place to gather. Support groups of survivors of mass shootings have formed. https://apnews.com/73d3cdd6ee5643449bab86c3fe301ce8

CHICAGO (AP) — Pardeep Singh Kaleka has surveyed the landscape of an America scarred by mass shootings. Seven years ago, a white supremacist invaded a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and killed six...

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Long list of troubled nursing homes revealed by senators

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government for years has kept under wraps the names of hundreds of nursing homes around the country found by inspectors to have serious ongoing health, safety or...

Secrecy surrounding poorly performing nursing homes undermines the federal commitment to ensure transparency for families struggling to arrange care for their loved ones, two U.S. senators say.

PRIVATE NURSING HOME SCANDALS HAVE OCCURRED IN THE USA SINCE THE FIFTIES AS DOCUMENTED IN EC HORROR COMICS AT THE TIME !!!



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Congress launches Big Tech antitrust probe

A U.S. House committee announces a sweeping antitrust probe of technology giants, as a backlash against the companies' reach and power grows.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal government may be warming up its antitrust enforcement machine and pointing it at Big Tech. On Monday, the House Judiciary Committee announced a sweeping...


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Fighting Germans and Jim Crow: Role of black troops on D-Day
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — It was the most massive amphibious invasion the world has ever seen, with tens of thousands of Allied troops spread out across the air and sea aiming to get a toehold in...
Roughly 2,000 African American troops are believed to have hit the shores of Normandy in various capacities on June 6, 1944. Serving in a U.S. military still-segregated by race, they encountered discrimination both in the service and when they came home. But on Normandy, they faced the same danger as everyone else.


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Woman accuses top US cardinal of dismissing sex abuse case

Woman accusing Texas Cardinal DiNardo of mishandling her sexual, religious abuse case tells AP: “They’re not going to play with my life like this. They just can’t get away with it.”

HOUSTON (AP) — When Cardinal Daniel DiNardo first met Laura Pontikes in his wood-paneled conference room in December 2016, the leader of the U.S. Catholic Church's response to its sex abuse...

THE TERRIBLE TRUTH IS CELIBACY IS A FAILURE IT LEADS TO PERVERSION

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Proposed cat declawing ban passes New York Legislature

Declawing a cat is illegal in much of Europe as well as in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver. Now New York State could ban the procedure too.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that would make the state the first in the U.S. to make it illegal to declaw a cat . The bill, which would subject..

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CANADIANS CAN GO TO CUBA NO PROBLEMO
Can Americans still go to Cuba? Yes, but it's more difficult

With the Trump administration's new restrictions, travel to Cuba has gotten more complicated. Here are some answers to common questions.

HAVANA (AP) — The Trump administration's new restrictions on travel to Cuba have made it harder, but far from impossible, for Americans to visit the island nation. Cruises offered easy,...



Trump administration halts cruises to Cuba under new rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday ended the most popular forms of U.S. travel to Cuba, banning cruise ships and a heavily used category of educational travel in an attempt to...

For travelers confused about the thicket of U.S. regulations governing trips to Cuba, cruises offered a simple, guaranteed-legal way to travel. That now appears to be over.

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Legendary Indian climber Manmohan Singh Kohli says modern mountaineering has become "high-altitude tourism," adding that "the adventure part of climbing has disappeared.

Famed Indian climber nearly died on peak where team was lost
NEW DELHI (AP) — To Manmohan Singh Kohli, who led the first Indian team to the peak of Mount Everest, modern mountaineering bears little resemblance to the expeditions he headed decades...

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Racist, violent posts by police: Departments investigating
Police departments in at least five states are investigating, and in some cases condemning, their officers' social media feeds after the weekend publication of a database that appears to catalog...

Police departments often have social media policies that limit what officers may say online, and most of the departments included in the Plain View database said this week they are launching investigations into their officers' Facebook feeds.

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UNREGULATED FREE MARKET
Boom in electric scooters leads to more injuries, fatalities

A count by The Associated Press of media reports turned up at least 11 electric scooter rider deaths in the U.S. since the beginning of 2018.

Andrew Hardy was crossing the street on an electric scooter in downtown Los Angeles when a car struck him at 50 miles per hour and flung him 15 feet in the air before he smacked his head on the...

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