State Dept inspector general requests ‘urgent’ Ukraine briefing on Capitol Hill…
October 2, 2019
The State Department’s inspector general is expected to give an "urgent" briefing to staffers from several House and Senate committees on Wednesday afternoon about documents obtained from the department’s Office of the Legal Adviser related to the State Department and Ukraine, sources familiar with the planned briefing told ABC News. Details of the briefing, requested by Steve Linick, the inspector general at State, remain unknown. Linick is expected to meet with congressional staff in a secure location on Capitol Hill.
Federal judge blocks Georgia ‘heartbeat’ abortion ban, which was supposed to take effect January 1st….
October 2, 2019
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, an Obama appointee, sided with the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, who filed a complaint on behalf of abortion providers in June... The law, signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in May, would make exceptions in cases of rape or incest, or if the mother's life was at risk. Federal judges have issued injunctions against similar six-week bans in several states, including Kentucky and Ohio.
Rudy Giuliani wants to sue Congress…
October 2, 2019
Dead Deutsche Banker’s Son Peddled Trump Financial “Dirt” To The Highest Bidder – Which Adam Schiff Promptly Subpoenaed – And Moby is involved…..
October 2, 2019
Johnson & Johnson settles with two Ohio counties for $20.4 million in opioid cases…
October 2, 2019
The deal with Cuyahoga and Summit counties comes a little more than a month after an Oklahoma judge ordered the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based health care conglomerate to pay $572 million over its marketing of opioids in that state.
It was announced less than three weeks before the scheduled start of the first federal trial over the opioid crisis. Four other opioid makers also have reached settlements in recent months and will not be defendants in the trial, scheduled for federal court in Cleveland. Like most of the others, Johnson & Johnson still faces some 2,000 other lawsuits related to the nation's opioids epidemic.
The U.S. Cities With The Most Homeless People…
October 2, 2019
Virginia doctor convicted in May of illegally prescribing more than half a million opioid tablets will be sentenced to federal prison…
October 2, 2019
Joel Smithers, who was convicted of 859 counts of illegally prescribing drugs, faces between 20 years and life in prison, the US Department of Justice said in a news release. He also faces a possible fine of more than $200 million. Smithers prescribed more than 500,000 opioid tablets in 19 months before federal agents arrived at his Martinsville office in March 2017 with a search warrant, prosecutors said... The doctor had been prescribing Schedule II drugs -- fentanyl, hydromorphone, oxycodone, and oxymorphone -- to people who drove hundreds of miles to his office in the small town in southern Virginia.
Trump Acknowledges The Coup…
October 2, 2019
....People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2019