May 2, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
2016, amazon, AP, Bridge Scandal, business, Business News, Chris Christie, Chris Christie Bridge, Chris Christie George Washington Bridge, Election 2016, Elections 2016, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, N.J., NEWARK, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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The charges handed down against three former allies of Gov. Chris Christie in the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal provide mixed news for the Republican governor as he tries to regain momentum in support of an expected presidential bid.
Christie appears to have been cleared of any allegations that he personally participated in a scheme to shut down access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in September 2013. But the charges brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey still hit close to home: His former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, and his former top appointee to the authority that controls the bridge, Bill Baroni, have both been indicted. David Wildstein, another ally, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy.
The charges also return focus to a famously bruising political style associated with Christie’s administration. The documents unveiled Friday paint the trio as vindictive and petty bullies who plotted — and then covered up — a scheme to gridlock the town of Fort Lee to punish its Democratic mayor for not endorsing Christie’s re-election bid.
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May 1, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
amazon, Baltimore Protests Baltimore Riots, business, Business News, Criminal Charges Freddie Gray, Freddie Gray Baltimore, Freddie Gray Death, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Marilyn Mosby, Marilyn Mosby Freddie Gray, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby gave an update on the investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old who died after suffering a spinal cord injury while in police custody in April, calling his death a homicide.
“We have probable cause to file criminal charges,” Mosby said in a press conference Friday.
Charges including second degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and assault, among others, will be filed against the officers involved in Gray’s arrest, Mosby said.
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May 1, 2015
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Science
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This isn’t your average science project.
High school student Anya Pogharian volunteers at a hospital dialysis unit where she’s gained experience with the machines that work like kidneys and filter patients’ blood. During her time there, the 17-year-old decided to try to invent a similar machine that would cost less for her senior science project.
According to CBC News, a typical dialysis machine costs 30,000 Canadian dollars (approximately 24,000 American dollars). Anya invented one for 500 Canadian dollars (approximately 400 American dollars) making it cheap enough for a patient to buy and keep at home.
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April 30, 2015
Mohenjo
Crime, Political
amazon, business, Business News, Columbia University, criminal justice reform, David N. Dinkins Leadership, fundamental changes, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign, Hillary Clinton Baltimore, Hillary Clinton Body Cameras, Hillary Clinton Criminal Justice, Hillary Clinton Criminal Justice Reform, Hillary Clinton Freddie Gray, Hillary Clinton Mass Incarceration, Hillary Clinton Police Body Cameras, Hillary Clinton President, Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Washington
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Hillary Clinton will deliver a major speech on criminal justice reform Wednesday, calling for fundamental changes to how the United States punishes its citizens and an end to a system that disproportionately targets black men.
Clinton is scheduled to keynote the 18th Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University Wednesday morning. It will be her most significant policy address since she launched her 2016 presidential bid this month.
Clinton will lay out her vision for criminal justice reform, centering around an “end to the era of mass incarceration,” according to an aide who provided a preview of her remarks. Those changes include addressing probation and drug diversion programs, increasing support for mental health and drug treatment and pursuing alternative punishments for low-level offenders.
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April 29, 2015
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Breaking News, Political
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The U.S. Supreme Court was set on Wednesday to hear arguments in a case brought by three death row inmates challenging Oklahoma’s method of execution by lethal injection as a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The three-drug process used by Oklahoma prison officials has been under scrutiny since the April 2014 botched execution of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett. He could be seen twisting on the gurney after death chamber staff failed to place the intravenous line properly.
Richard Glossip, John Grant and Benjamin Cole, the inmates challenging the state’s procedures, argue the sedative used by Oklahoma, midazolam, cannot achieve the level of unconsciousness required for surgery, making it unsuitable for executions.
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April 24, 2015
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Breaking News
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On April 24, 1915, Ottoman Turkish authorities hauled off Daniel Varoujan, a leading Armenian poet of the time, along with over 200 other intellectuals in the capital Constantinople. To the crumbling Ottoman Empire, the poets, painters, writers, booksellers and politicians at the beating heart of the Armenian community posed too much of a threat.
Soon, much of the empire’s Christian Armenian population would be targeted and nearly wiped out, accused of conspiring against the empire with the Russians. Many Armenians say the genocide was collective punishment for the actions of a few.
In August, after a wave of deportations began that would force hundreds of thousands of Armenians on brutal death marches toward the Syrian desert, Varoujan was tortured to death, according to eyewitnesses at the time. Varoujan was just one of many men, women and children who lost their lives.
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Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks during the Armenian Genocide in 1915.
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April 24, 2015
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Crime
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A man found guilty of killing four people in Nebraska allegedly attempted to carve the number “666” into his forehead, but ended up botching the job.
According to the Omaha World-Herald, 28-year-old Nikko Jenkins told Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon during a recent telephone hearing that he “self-mutilated” by trying to carve the symbolic number — known as the “number of the beast” in the Biblical book of Revelation — into his forehead.
Jenkins did this “because he is not receiving treatment for his purported mental illness.”
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Nikko Jenkins is led by deputies at the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. | ASSOCIATED PRESS
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April 22, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
amazon, business, Business News, Campaign Finance, Center for Political Accountability, Chamber of Commerce, Citizens United, Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Political Spending, Corporate Transparency, Dean Foods, Disclosure, disclosure policies, Eastman Chemical, H&R Block, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, National Association of Manufacturers, research, Science, Science News, Shareholder Resolutions, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, Transparency, travel, vacation, Valero Energy, Washington
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This spring, shareholders in more than 100 companies will introduce resolutions calling for greater disclosure of corporations’ political and lobbying activity. Six major companies — Dean Foods, Eastman Chemical, H&R Block, Marathon Oil, U.S. Steel and Valero Energy — have already reached agreement with New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who oversees the third largest pension fund in the nation, to adopt political spending disclosure policies in exchange for the comptroller’s office withdrawing its resolutions.
But don’t consider that a sign that corporate America is learning to live with transparency. Over the past two years, three of the usual suspects — the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable and the National Association of Manufacturers — have joined together to try to discredit the purpose of disclosure policies and the advocates calling for them.
Aided by the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, the three big business groups have sought to undercut activist investors and pro-disclosure groups through public campaigns and private meetings with corporate executives.
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April 22, 2015
Mohenjo
Human Interest
amazon, Breastfeeding, business, Business News, Glamour, Glamour magazine, Hotels, huffingtonpost, huffpost live, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Wilde Breastfeeding, Olivia Wilde Mom, Olivia Wilde Otis, Public Breastfeeding, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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Critics aren’t going to get an apology out of Olivia Wilde for that photo of her breastfeeding son Otis, featured in a spread in September’s Glamour magazine.
Speaking with HuffPost Live on Friday, the “Meadowland” actress explained the genesis of the picture, for which a Los Angeles Times blogger chastised her for making “motherhood look effortless and easy.”
“They were making a portrait of me for Glamour magazine, and I am a working mother. Shooting a cover shoot for a magazine is work, and during that day my son had to eat, and so I had to feed him,” Wilde recounted. “I thought, if you’re taking a portrait of me, this is part of me.”
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April 21, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
420, amazon, business, Business News, Drug War, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Legalization, Marijuana, Marijuana Legal Weed, marijuana legalization, Marijuana Prohibition, medicine, mental-health, recreational marijuana, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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A majority of Americans support the legalization of recreational marijuana, according to a new poll from CBS News — and it’s the highest percentage in support since the news organization began asking the question in 1979.
Just in time for 4/20, the annual marijuana holiday, CBS News released a poll showing 53 percent of Americans are in favor of marijuana legalization.
Although that’s the highest amount of support for marijuana legalization CBS has ever polled, it isn’t the highest level of support ever found. And because survey methods can vary, it’s useful to look at a number of national polls to get a fuller picture of the issue.
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