6/29/18: Anti-Trump cartoons killed by Pennsylvania newspaper to be displayed in new DC exhibit.
6/26: US Supreme Ct Upholds Trump's Most Recent Travel Ban. 6/25: Abbott v. Perez. 6/24: Walgreens pharmacist denies woman medication prescribed to remove stillborn child from her body. An Arizona mother who was told by her doctors that her baby had stopped developing and she would ultimately miscarry said in a heartbreaking Facebook post that a Walgreens pharmacist refused to fill her prescription for medication that would end her pregnancy because he thought it was unethical.
Nicole Mone, of Phoenix, said she went to a Walgreens in Peoria on Thursday night to fill a prescription her doctor gave her but was turned away by the store's pharmacist. Mone, who was roughly two months pregnant, explained that during a doctor's appointment on Tuesday she learned that her unborn baby had stopped developing.
6/23: Presley jet back on sale. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A private jet once owned by Elvis Presley that has sat on a runway in New Mexico for nearly four decades is back on the auction block.
The online auction site IronPlanet announced last week that the plane with red velvet seats had returned the market after its current owner bought it last year for $430,000. A previous auction house says Elvis designed the interior that has gold-tone woodwork, red velvet seats and red shag carpet. But the red 1962 Lockheed Jetstar has no engine and needs a restoration of its cockpit. The plane was owned by Elvis and his father, Vernon Presley. It has been privately owned for 36 years and sitting on a tarmac in Roswell, New Mexico.
6/23: Sanders asked to leave a Virginia restaurant. 6/22: How America Became a Divided Nation of the Protected and the Unprotected - Carnegie Endowment. Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, practically dismantled the unit in her department charged with investigating fraud at for-profit colleges.
The dozen or so lawyers and investigators who were looking at the predatory practices of some of these colleges were marginalized, reassigned or given more clerical tasks. The unit was left with only three employees, and the reorganization effectively killed investigations of the for-profit colleges suspected of misleading students about prospects for employment and salaries after graduation while burdening them with enormous debt. DeVry University is a good example of corporations with problematic behaviors. In 2016, it agreed to pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission and another lawsuit with the Education Department. Recently DeVos hired one of DeVry’s former deans. Moisés Naím More > “Tailspin” is full of examples of the moats that have proliferated in America. 6/22: Trump senses steak picnic on White House lawn inappropriate in context of his administration separating immigration children from families at the US border.
6/21: No Catholic women priests anytime soon. Pope Francis meets with a woman at the general audience in Paul VI Hall Jan. 13, 2016.
(Daniel Ibanez/CNA) Women must continue to be promoted, he said, in Vatican roles. VATICAN CITY — In an interview with Reuters, Pope Francis said more space has to be created for women to take on leading roles in the Roman Curia, but that priestly ordination is not an option. Responding to a question about women’s ordination to the priesthood, the Pope said that “there is the temptation to ‘functionalize’ the reflection on women in the Church, what they should do, what they should become.” “We cannot functionalize women,” he said, explaining that while the Church is referred to as a woman, the sacrament of holy orders is out of the question “because, dogmatically, it doesn’t work.” “John Paul II was clear and closed the door, and I will not go back on this. “Women know how to manage conflicts better. The conference, with the theme “Pro-Life Is Pro-Love,” will take place in St.
6/20: Trump signs executive order to end family separation today but says "zero tolerance" on illegal immigration to stay. President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to solve the issue of family separation at the border.
The policy keeps in place key components of the administration's "zero tolerance" policy of prosecuting illegal border crossings along the U.S-Mexico border. While the administration will continue prosecuting crimes of "improper entry," the administration will "maintain family unity, including by detaining alien families together where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources," according to the order's text. In a shift from previous policy, families will now be held together during the process of prosecution and deportation at the border. "We are keeping families together and this will solve that problem.
At the time we are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be a zero tolerance, we have zero tolerance for people that enter our country illegally," Mr. 6/18: Supreme Court sidesteps partisan gerrymandering cases, let maps stand for now. By Ariane de Vogue and Eli Watkins CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped two major cases concerning partisan gerrymandering, allowing controversial district maps to stand and be used in this fall's midterm elections.
The 9-0 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts in a Wisconsin case is a blow to Democrats who argued the Republican-drawn maps prevented fair and effective representation by diluting voters' influence and penalizing voters based on their political beliefs. While the ruling will let the maps be used, the justices dodged the question of whether they are legal.
The Supreme Court has a standard limiting the overreliance on race in map-drawing, except under the most limited circumstances. Trump Admin– National Borders. 6/15: 2K children separated from parents at US border over 6 weeks. 6/12: World Searches for Author of Ivanka's Chinese Proverb. 6/11: Latin America is fighting corruption by opening up government data. Anoush Darabi In June 2016, a man was caught throwing sacks over the wall of a nunnery in a quiet suburb of Buenos Aires.
After a neighbour called the police, he was arrested and identified as a secretary in Argentina’s public works department. Inside the sacks were banknotes worth $8.9million. Hardly a country in Latin America has been untouched by corruption scandals; this was just one of the more bizarre episodes. In response, using a variety of open online platforms, both city and national governments are working to lift the lid on government activity, finding new ways to tackle corruption with technology.
Profiting from public works Latin America’s corruption problem has centred on infrastructure projects, or public works: projects paid for by the state and built by contractors, from schools and hospitals to dams. • For more like this, see our digital government newsfeed. For Kathy Hochstetler, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, the problem is size. 6/9: Honduran Man Took His Life After Son Taken Away at US Border.
6/8: Trump's surprise G-7 pitch: 'We should at least consider no tariffs' LA MALBAIE, Quebec — President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of ending all tariffs and trade barriers between the U.S. and its G-7 allies — an unexpected pitch that comes amid a tit-for-tat trade war Trump recently launched.
Trump offered the aspirational proposal at the end of a contentious meeting on trade disputes at the G-7 summit in Quebec, an annual gathering of the leaders from seven major industrialized nations. During the private gathering, Europe’s major economic powers pushed back hard against Trump’s repeated assertions that the U.S. is a victim of unfair trade practices. Story Continued Below “We should at least consider no tariffs, no barriers — scrapping all of it,” Trump said, according to officials who were listening and taking notes. Trump floated the idea — which was received as somewhat rhetorical — as the meeting was breaking up and was quickly challenged by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who asked, “What about subsidies?” “Why is this happening?” 6/7: Billions in U.S. solar projects shelved after Trump panel tariff. 6/4: Trump cancels Eagles' White House celebration on eve of visit after fewer than 10 players planned to attend - Philly.
6/2: Customs seizes family's life savings at airport. 6/1: Top Yellowstone official retires so he doesn't get reassigned by Tump administration. Daniel Wenk, who as Yellowstone superintendent holds one of the agency's most coveted jobs, submitted a request to retire.
"It has been an honor and a privilege working for the National Park Service for the last almost 43 years," he wrote. A highly respected National Park Service executive who engineered the reopening of the Statue of Liberty after the 2001 terrorist attacks and settled the contentious issue of snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park announced his retirement Friday as Interior Department officials consider a proposal to reassign him to Washington. Daniel Wenk, who as Yellowstone superintendent holds one of the agency’s most coveted jobs, submitted a request to retire March 30 — a date that would allow him far more time at his Mammoth, Wyoming-based post than the 60 days he would have to vacate his office after a reassignment.
Wenk would not comment on why Interior identified him for a transfer. Wyoming Gov.