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A Texas businessman who is accused of securing $1.6 million in coronavirus relief funds and spending it on a Lamborghini, a Rolex and strip clubs has been charged with fraud. The man, Lee Price III, 29, was expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Houston on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, making false […]

Missouri voters approved an expansion of the state’s Medicaid program in Tuesday’s election, according to Vox’s partners at Decision Desk — making another success story at the ballot box for the program in a state where it had been stifled by Republican opposition. The ballot initiative expands Medicaid eligibility to 138 percent of the federal […]

8/04/20 8:00pm Read time: 0 minutes A spot-on take if Tweety McTreason were to cut an ad for Maine’s “very concerned” Senator. Some more funny -and uncannily accurate- impersonations of Trump by comedian JL Cauvin for The Lincoln Project. Cauvin also “cut ads for” Steve Daines in Montana and Dan Sullivan in Alaska. Open thread […]

Image copyright Reuters Image caption People from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds were more likely to report taking public transport People from ethnic minority backgrounds in Britain “face greater barriers” when trying to protect themselves from coronavirus, according to a report. The Runnymede Trust, a race equality think-tank, said Bangladeshi and black African people […]

Image copyright Alamy Image caption Some eight million children in England were sent home from school in March Schools should only close after pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops in any future lockdown, the children’s commissioner for England has said. Anne Longfield says children have a right to an education, must not be an “afterthought”, and […]

A man who tried to take his own life has been running with a 15kg (33lb) tyre on his back to symbolise the “heavy burden” of depression and anxiety. Ben, from Hadfield, Derbyshire, says he regularly runs in the Peak District to boost his mental health after his suicide attempt two years ago. He says […]

Earl Edwards left his farm in Jamaica in June, planning to spend a final season harvesting fruit in Washington state. The 63-year-old father of four had made the journey each summer for more than a decade, counting on the income to supplement his meager earnings raising ginger and sweet potato at home. He was one […]

The television has been called the “idiot box” and the “boob tube.” In Mexico, it will soon be the classroom. With the coronavirus outbreak showing no signs of abating here, officials have decided to keep public elementary and secondary schools closed indefinitely and have the nation’s 30 million students begin the new academic year at […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The husband of Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey has been charged with pointing a gun at Black Lives Matter members who demonstrated outside the couple’s home the day before she faced a primary election in March. The state attorney general filed three misdemeanor charges Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court […]

Public support for renewing expanded unemployment benefits far outweighs opposition to the expanded benefits that expired last Friday, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. Earlier this year, Congress passed a law giving people added federal unemployment benefits of $600 per week due to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. These payments lapsed over the weekend […]

The New York City Board of Elections has certified the final count in a contentious, drawn-out Democratic primary in the 12th Congressional District, with long-time incumbent Rep. Carolyn Maloney declaring a narrow victory over progressive challenger Suraj Patel, Salon can report. Though the Patel campaign acknowledged the certification of the vote to Salon, it did not concede defeat, citing […]

Three police officers in El Salvador have been found guilty of the 2019 murder of Camila Díaz Córdova, a transgender woman who sought asylum in the U.S. but was deported back to the Central American country a year before her death. A judge in El Salvador convicted the officers ― Jaime Geovany Mendoza Rivas, Luis […]

by Sam Manzella 6h ago Having a rough day? At least you’re not actor Kevin McHale, who accidentally gave his boyfriend salmonella. On Twitter, the Glee alum made an embarassing confession: He (unintentionally) served his BF, fellow actor Austin McKenzie, some undercooked chicken sausage, resulting in a bad bout of salmonella. At first, the couple […]

by Christopher Rudolph 8h ago Lifetime has gifted us an early Christmas present. The cable net has announced that their upcoming slate of holiday movies will include The Christmas Set-Up, the network’s first original movie focusing on a LGBTQ romance. “We are thrilled to continue our legacy of creating a holiday destination that is welcoming […]