Feds busted a $1.2-billion Medicare scam that targeted seniors…
April 10, 2019
...they’ve broken up a $1.2-billion Medicare scam that peddled unneeded orthopedic braces to hundreds of thousands of seniors via foreign call centers.
The Justice Department announced charges against 24 people across the United States, including doctors accused of writing bogus prescriptions for unneeded back, shoulder, wrist and knee braces. Others charged include owners of call centers, telemedicine firms and medical equipment companies, including two people from Glendora in the San Gabriel Valley...
Tiny bees found in woman’s eye, feeding off tears…
April 10, 2019
The miniscule insects, known as sweat bees, are 3 to 4 millimeters (0.12-0.16 inches) in length... "I saw something that looked like insect legs, so I pulled them out under a microscope slowly, and one at a time without damaging things inside," said Hung Chi-ting, the head of the ophthalmology department.
Sweat bees, also known as halictidae, "nest near graves and in fallen trees, so it's easy to come across them while hiking in mountains," Hung explained.
Canada’s golden boy Trudeau sinks in polls as scandal takes toll…
April 10, 2019
When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office in late 2015, he was a political golden boy who seemed destined to build on the legend of his father. But six months ahead of an October election, polls suggest the 47-year-old politician could become the first prime minister to lose power after a single majority mandate since the 1930s.
These tree-planting drones are firing seed missiles to restore the world’s forests…
April 10, 2019
In a remote field south of Yangon, Myanmar, tiny mangrove saplings are now roughly 20 inches tall. Last September, the trees were planted by drones. It’s early proof of technology that could help restore forests at the pace needed to fight climate change.
The Daily Beast gets triggered after learning that a QAnon Believer Is Running for Congress…
April 10, 2019
Matthew Lusk says he is not a ‘brainwashed cult member.’ He just has some questions.
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Matthew Lusk, a Florida bookseller who launched his House campaign for Florida’s 5th congressional district last month, appears to be the first QAnon follower to run for federal office. His candidacy was first reported by Florida Politics, a state politics blog. According to FEC registrations, he is currently the only Republican in the contest to run in the general election against, in all likelihood, Rep. Al Lawson (D-FL).Arizona family cashes checks for years after killing grandmother, storing body in home…
April 10, 2019
When police questioned Briar Aven, who lived next door to the elderly women with her mother, who is Sandra’s daughter, she said her grandmother was "out of town and unavailable," police said.
Investigators found several inconsistencies in both women’s stories and entered the home, where they found the body of a deceased person believed to be Sandra Aven, the Arizona Republic reported.
CBP Officers Discover 126 Packages of Methamphetamine worth over $200k Hidden in SUV…
April 10, 2019
At approximately 9:13 p.m., on Friday, April 5, CBP officers encountered a 2002 Ford Sport Trac SUV driven by a 48-year-old woman. Her passengers were her daughters, a 20-year-old and a five-year-old. The CBP officer detected inconsistencies with their travel itinerary and referred the occupants for a more in-depth inspection.
A canine team screened the vehicle and the detector dog alerted to the inside of the passenger cabin. During an intensive search, officers uncovered 126 wrapped packages of methamphetamine stashed inside the SUV’s rear seats, cargo area, spare tire and inside the quarter panels.
Watch: Acting Defense Sec. Patrick Shanahan Being Interviewed on Fox News…
April 10, 2019
The Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Looks Very Friendly To Capital Punishment…
April 10, 2019
The Supreme Court seems poised for a forceful shift on the death penalty, after a recent 5-4 decision unexpectedly signaled an important change to the justices’ approach to capital punishment and the Eighth Amendment.
Though it is too premature to make definitive statements about the Court’s direction, the April 1 decision in Bucklew v. Precythe suggests the newly entrenched conservative majority may well be the most execution-friendly bench in decades.
Warner Bros. to sue over Trump tweeting a campaign video with ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ music…
April 10, 2019
“The use of Warner Bros.' score from ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in the campaign video was unauthorized,” Warner Bros. said in a statement. “We are working through the appropriate legal channels to have it removed.”
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By 1:20 a.m. EST the video had been disabled "in response to a report by the copyright owner," Twitter wrote. Before it was removed, the video had garnered more than two million views. The White House has yet to comment on the suit.
Debris From Missing F-35 Found In Pacific Ocean, Japan Says…
April 10, 2019
Creating more eerie parallels to the safety crisis that has prompted the grounding of Boeing's 737 MAX 8, Japanese officials have confirmed that debris from a missing F-35A fighter jet, the newest generation of the signature jet manufactured by American defense contractor Lockheed Martin, has been found in the Pacific Ocean not far from where it disappeared from Japanese radar on Tuesday.
Central America aid will be conditional, Mike Pompeo says…
April 10, 2019
“We have not yet been able to convince El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to take seriously this need to control their own borders and to keep their people from moving into Mexico and ultimately across our southern border, that we should stop, take a time out,” Pompeo told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs. “We have ceased allocating new funds inside of those three countries.”...
Dalai Lama recovers from chest infection in hospital…
April 10, 2019
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was admitted to hospital in the Indian capital of New Delhi with a chest infection, but is doing fine, an aide said on Wednesday, as social media users prayed for the Buddhist monk’s fast recovery.
Ocasio-Cortez’s voters approve of her performance, if not her ‘Democratic Socialist’ label…
April 10, 2019
The poll shows the 29-year-old freshman congresswoman, whose outspokenness and media savvy have catapulted her to stardom on the left and drawn scorn on the right, has a 52-33 percent favorability rating in the 14th Congressional district, several months into her term.
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She has the highest net favorability rating out of a group of eight high-profile politicians, including New York’s Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, President Donald Trump, and former Rep. Joe Crowley, whom she defeated in last year’s June Democratic primary elections.Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu appears headed for record 5th term…
April 10, 2019
Israel's conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared headed Wednesday for a record fifth term despite a neck-and-neck finish in parliamentary elections with his main challenger Benny Gantz, a centrist former military chief.
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If Netanyahu's re-election is confirmed, later this year he will become Israel's longest-serving leader, surpassing the nation's founding father David Ben-Gurion. It will come as the 69-year-old braces for likely criminal charges in a series of corruption scandals.White House To TARGET Illegal Alien Money Transfers to Mexico…
April 10, 2019
The White House plan to go after remittance payments falls in line with a proposal from former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is being considered to replace outgoing DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Kobach told Breitbart News on Tuesday that this will be an effective way for President Donald Trump to compel the Mexican government to take more enforcement action against Central Americans trafficking through their country...
Canadian government says it’s considering regulating Facebook and other tech giants…
April 10, 2019
Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould told the Star and BuzzFeed News that “all options are on the table” when it comes to applying domestic rules to international social media and tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Twitter.
“We recognize that self-regulation is not yielding the results that societies are expecting these companies to deliver,” Gould said in an interview Monday. “We are actively talking to partners around the world, we’re actively talking to experts here in Canada as well in terms of what can be done. And I remain open to many different options as to how we can ensure better behaviour.”PewDiePie ditches YouTube and Twitch by announcing an exclusive live-streaming contract with DLive (Blockchain) and Will Donate Up to $50,000 to Other Creators
April 10, 2019
PewDiePie, YouTube’s most popular individual creator, is throwing his weight behind DLive — a live-streaming video service that promises far better economic terms for creators than other major platforms.
The vlogger-gamer-comedian, whose name is Felix Kjellberg, says he will use DLive exclusively (for the next several months, anyway) to present weekly live-streams. PewDiePie is slated to kick off his first official DLive stream on Sunday, April 14, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, at dlive.tv/pewdiepie and the DLive app.
Pentagon awards nearly $1B in border-wall contracts…
April 10, 2019
SLSCO Ltd. was awarded a $789 million contract for “border-replacement wall construction,” which will be done in Santa Teresa, NM.
The work is expected to be completed in October 2020, according to a list of contracts published by the US Department of Defense.
Doctor who was paid by Purdue to push opioids to testify against drugmaker…
April 10, 2019
Dr Russell Portenoy, who many experts believe did more than any other specialist to erode longstanding caution within the medical profession over prescribing opioids because of addiction fears, has agreed to cooperate with lawyers for cities and counties suing drug makers, distributors and pharmacies in return for dropping legal actions against him.
In a newly released statement to an Ohio court hearing a combined lawsuit of more than 1,600 cases, Portenoy accuses drugmakers of underplaying the dangers of opioids and of pushing them on patients who did not need them. The doctor said the industry overstated the benefits of narcotics painkillers and “understated the risks of opioids, particularly the risk of abuse, addiction and overdose”.