Hundreds turn out for Lewiston vigil marking six months since mass shootings Nearly 300 people turned out Thursday night at the Simard Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston to mark the six-month anniversary of the worst mass shootings in Maine history. 04/26/2024 - 5:53 am | View Link
Lewiston marks six months since 18 people were killed in mass shooting It’s been six months since the mass shootings in Lewiston that killed 18 people and wounded 13 others. Thursday night, the Lewiston community will come together to honor all the victims of the tragedy ... 04/25/2024 - 3:26 am | View Link
Orange Mound community leaders search for answers after mass shooting leaves 2 dead Orange Mound residents said they remember the same type of block party at Orange Mound Park in 2023, also featuring young people carrying guns. 04/22/2024 - 12:24 am | View Link
Victims of Columbine school shooting remembered on 25th anniversary A vigil set up by advocates including gun safety organizations was the main public event marking Saturday's anniversary. 04/20/2024 - 1:30 pm | View Link
How Columbine Shaped 25 Years of School Safety Columbine ushered in the modern school safety era. A quarter decade later, its lessons remain relevant—and sometimes elusive. 04/17/2024 - 5:45 am | View Link
Roughly 4.3 million U. S. workers will now be eligible for overtime pay under a new rule finalized Tuesday by President Joe Biden's Labor Department—in stark contrast to his Republican predecessor's rules that severely limited the number of workers who were eligible for required compensation when they worked more than 40 hours per week.
Under the new rule, employers will be required to pay overtime premiums to salaried workers who work more than standard full-time hours if they earn less than $1,128 per week, or about $58,600 per year.
Former President Donald Trump, now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, may now have to defend his 2020 rule that set the overtime pay threshold at just $35,500 per year, leaving out millions of workers.
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Fox regular Andrew McCarthy whined about how terribly unfair it is that Trump's defense team isn't being allowed to know who the witnesses are until a day ahead of time in his election interference trial in Manhattan so that Trump can harass them ahead of the fact on his Truth Social network.
Here's more on that from the Independent:
Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial have refused to hand over a list of witnesses in the case in a bid to save them from Truth Social attacks by the former president.
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ATTENTION TO THE UNSEEN: "The protesters Netanyahu is afraid of are mostly young women defending human rights".
The Rectification of Names on Presidential immunity.
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Most GOP senators have fallen in line with Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign to return to the White House, starting from the top with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They’re with him despite everything, including Jan. 6 when he unleashed a mob on the Capitol that threatened their physical safety, if not their lives.
Wall Street Journal: “U. S. intelligence agencies have determined that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny to be killed at the notoriously brutal prison camp in February, a finding that deepens the mystery about the circumstances of his death.”
“The assessment doesn’t dispute Putin’s culpability for Navalny’s death, but rather finds he probably didn’t order it at that moment.