Shelter worker sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing migrant boys. Levian Pacheco, 25, of Phoenix was convicted last year on seven counts of abusive sexual contact with a ward and three counts of sexual abuse of a ward.
The abuse occurred between August 2016 and July 2017 at Southwest Key's Casa Kokopelli facility in Mesa, court records show. It was part of the US government's network of privately run facilities intended to care for unaccompanied minors, according to court documents. Pacheco began working there in May 2016. The seven boys he was convicted of abusing, some on multiple occasions, were between 15 and 17, according to court documents. Lindsey Graham’s Brett Kavanaugh rant, and history with Trump, explained. After hours of emotional testimony from both Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh Thursday, Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was ready to take a stand — and become Kavanaugh’s most impassioned Republican defender. In a lengthy, often-shouted statement, Graham declared that Democrats wanted to “destroy this guy’s life” and put him through “hell,” called Kavanaugh’s treatment “crap,” dubbed the hearing “the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics,” and said Republicans who vote no would be “legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen.” As for Ford — of whom Graham said, 11 days earlier, “I would gladly listen to what she has to say” — he dubbed her a “victim.” That is, a victim of Democrats, who weren’t “protecting” her.
Lindsey Graham’s Brett Kavanaugh rant, and history with Trump, explained. The NRA is being supported by these companies. As the National Rifle Association grows increasingly out of touch with most American gun owners, the organization still claims “more than five million members.”
A number of corporations are making membership to the group, which opposes nearly all gun safety legislation, more enticing by partnering with the NRA. After paying the gun lobby’s $40 annual fee, members are offered access to a range of discounts and “five-star savings.” Much like AARP or AAA offer discounts for their own members, the NRA promotes its discounts for members as a selling point for why people should join.
The “valuable 5-star benefits” promised include not just a subscription to an NRA magazine and a gun-owner liability protection policy but also savings on insurance, identity theft protection, hearing aids, car rentals, moving vans, shipping, and even wine. Walmart Officials Plan To Cut Thousands Of Jobs Through Store Closures, Automation. Netanyahu son bragged about gas deal outside strip club, tape reveals. Lawyers for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanayhu, tried to stop the broadcast of an embarrassing audiotape in which Netanyahu’s son Yair suggested his father helped push through a $20bn deal to the benefit of a gas tycoon.
The recording of the conversation, which took place outside a strip club, is the latest revelation to cast light on the Netanyahu family’s relationships with wealthy tycoons, which have so far spawned two corruption investigations into the prime minister’s activities. According to the Israel Television Channel, the tape features the voices of Yair Netanyahu and Ori Maimon, a son of the gas tycoon Kobi Maimon. Maimon Sr is a shareholder in Isramco, which owns the Tamar gas fields. According to the reports, Yair and friends, with his government-provided security guard and driver in tow, were going from one strip club to another. This old drug was free. Now it's $109,500 a year. Health Insurance Still Skimps On Mental Health Coverage, Study Finds.
A coalition of mental health advocacy groups is calling on federal regulators, state agencies and employers to conduct random audits of insurers to make sure they are in compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.
Roy Scott/Getty Images/Ikon Images hide caption toggle caption. Sinclair's vast media merger threatens democratic ideals. Congress must fight it. Many liberals and progressives fear that Sinclair Broadcast Group’s attempt to buy Tribune Media will result in a new, all-powerful, Trump-aligned national TV network and deepen the conservative movement’s existing dominance of radio.
To be sure, Sinclair’s existing programming is to the right of Fox News. But this is not the right reason to challenge the deal. Neither liberals nor conservatives should allow the government to approve or disapprove of media mergers based on the corporation’s political ideology. The right reason to oppose this deal is that Sinclair’s size and market dominance already threatens the open marketplace of ideas upon which our democracy depends. Allowing Sinclair to combine with another media giant would only make the threat worse.
Does The Republican Tax Bill Include a Loophole Benefitting Golf Course Owners? The Republican-sponsored Tax Cuts and Jobs Act includes a deduction benefitting golf course owners.
Even before it passed the House and headed to Senate on 16 November 2017, criticism mounted around one provision retained as part of in the Republican-sponsored Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Though it is true the deduction in question benefits golf course owners like President Donald Trump, it precedes his administration. Roy Moore's former colleague says it was "common knowledge" he dated teens. Actually, John Kelly, the failed ‘compromise’ to avoid Civil War would have enshrined slavery.
Laura Ingraham's interview with John Kelly, annotated White House Chief of Staff John F.
Kelly called Robert E. Lee “an honorable man” and said that “the lack of an ability to compromise” led to the Civil War White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly called Robert E. Lee “an honorable man” and said that “the lack of an ability to compromise” led to the Civil War (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post) The Congress Members Receiving the Most N.R.A. Funding - The New York Times. Most Americans support stronger gun laws — laws that would reduce deaths.
But Republicans in Congress stand in the way. They fear alienating their primary voters and the National Rifle Association. Honest Government Advert - Visit Puerto Rico. Las Vegas survivor describes chaos after shooter opened fire: 'Everything hit the fan' After gunfire broke out late Sunday night during the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas, concertgoer Adam Payne carried his wounded friend to safety.
Payne said he and his girlfriend were able to flee unharmed after a gunman opened fire from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, killing at least 50 people. Payne's friend, who was shot in the stomach, is now in stable condition after doctors removed the bullet. Nursing Home Voicemail to Governor Deleted. Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter Hollywood (CBSMiami) – The voicemail messages left on Gov. Rick Scott’s personal cellphone by a Hollywood nursing home where at least 11 people have died following Hurricane Irma, were deleted, according to the governor’s office. There were a total of four voicemails left during the 36 hours before the first patient died, and they would have been a critical piece of evidence in the ongoing investigation into the patient deaths. Natasha Anderson, a vice president with The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, says she called the governor’s cellphone to say the nursing home needed “immediate assistance” in restoring the power to their air conditioning system.
Equifax And Other Credit Bureaus Avoid Oversight In Washington, D.C. Equifax spent over $1 million last year on lobbying efforts, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Mike Stewart/AP hide caption toggle caption Mike Stewart/AP Equifax spent over $1 million last year on lobbying efforts, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Border Patrol Arrests Near Safe Zones Worry Immigrant Advocates. Irma and Oscar Sanchez were apprehended by the Border Patrol when they took their infant son, Isaac, to a children's hospital to have emergency surgery. John Burnett/NPR hide caption toggle caption. Trump's 'election integrity' group is waging war on the right to vote. The Trump presidency is opening up a new battlefront in the intense and controversial war over American voting rights. After a decade of wrangling between Democrats who have sought to expand voting opportunities and Republicans who have invoked the specter of voter fraud to restrict them, the focus is now on purging registration lists – even at the risk of kicking large numbers of eligible voters off the rolls. Both Trump’s justice department and his newly formed Presidential Commission on Election Integrity are involved in broad data collection and new policy proposals to “clean up” the voter rolls in ways that critics fear will have a disproportionate impact on blacks, Latinos and newly naturalized citizens.
Keep on Truckin’ — No, Seriously Trump Wants You To. Keep on Truckin' — No, Seriously Trump Wants You To We’ve talked before about how President Trump has never met an Obama-era regulation that he’s liked. That’s never been more true than for labor regulations. As we reported in May, Secretary of Labor Martin Acosta has already slashed worker health and safety and job training, repealed overtime protections for up to 13 million people and rolled back fiduciary rules designed to protect workers and retirees from investment advisers’ conflicts of interest. According to the Department of Labor (DOL) Statistics, trucking is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. Fatalities from truck accidents accounted for more than a quarter of all workplace deaths in 2015, the last year for which the DOL has figures. Soul Snatchers: How the NYPD’s 42nd Precinct, the Bronx DA’s Office, and the City of New York…
These Wall Street millionaires literally plotted to overthrow the president. How Conservatives Manipulated the Mainstream Media to Give Us President Trump. Under Trump Rule, Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able To Sue After Abuse. Socialism, fascist-style: hostility to capitalism plus extreme racism. Bannon departs – but ‘Trump whisperer’ could have more influence from outside.
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GOP senators worry bill they vote for could become law. The “Skinny Repeal” Will Lead to Broader ACA Repeal & Medicaid Cuts. 5 Ways White House Can Use Its Muscle To Undercut Obamacare. The Senate health care bill plays a sinister joke on the poor. GOP Effort To Make Science 'Transparent' Worries Scientists. Trump campaign’s Russia ties: Who’s involved - Washington Post. The Trump administration is reportedly using taxpayer dollars for PR campaign undermining Obamacare. Republicans Scramble For A Health Care Endgame Strategy. Someone should remind Donald Trump the president shouldn't let the health system fail. Subscription Psycho : Analysis Of The Subscription Economy & It’s Bad Actors. Book Excerpt: Democracy in Chains.
James McGill Buchanan’s terrifying vision of society is the intellectual basis of the far-right. Krauty Alarmed - Rumors Of Sessions Resignation: 'This Is Really Bad!' Tillerson is as bad a Secretary of State as you’d expect the CEO of Exxon Mobil to be. Here are the hidden horrors in the Senate GOP's new Obamacare repeal bill. Will Republicans ask HHS to score the health care bill instead of CBO? Chechen Leader on Torture Claims: Gays Are ‘Not People’
Ted Cruz claims his health care plan protects sick Americans. Nope. Here's How The Oil Industry Is Influencing Science Lessons In Public Schools. Allen’s Mostly False claim about crime in California. Paul Ryan mocks senior citizen who wants to keep his medicare. Says "I hope he's on his blood pressure medication as he's dragged out of the town hall. Doctors And Lawmakers Say Senate's Proposed Medicaid Cuts Put Child Health Care At Risk. Trump’s Trolls Are Waging War on America’s Civil Servants. The Senate health care bill is brutal on older Americans. Senate conservatives react to the health care bill. Corrupt Republican Congressman Just Got Caught In A Courtroom Scandal Trumpcare Could Impose ‘Lifetime Limits’ on Millions. What They Want to Hide Tells You Who They Are.