On Friday morning, the president of the United States tweeted about a two-day-old Washington Examiner article with an unsubstantiated claim from one anonymous rancher.
“There’s a lot of people coming in not just from Mexico,” the rancher had told the newspaper. Then, without offering further proof, the rancher said that “people, the general public, just don’t get the terrorist threats of that. That’s what’s really scary. You don’t know what’s coming across. Read More...
The mother of a tragic weight loss surgery victim says her daughter was ‘led like a lamb to slaughter’ by the clinic who did not even tell her she would have to fly to Turkey until after she’d paid the £2,500 fee.
Morgan Ribeiro was persuaded to have up to 80 per cent of her stomach removed in Turkey by a slick marketing operation describing the procedure as ‘all natural’. Read More...
with Brent D. Griffiths
It sounds like a bad joke: Conservative Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), self-described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s biggest bank, walk into a debate over what belongs in an economic relief package.
The punchline is they all agree. And it isn’t funny — it’s true.
The unlikely bedfellows want lawmakers to cut another round of direct checks to struggling Americans in the $908 billion measure they are racing to assemble before quitting town for the year. Read More...