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Economic Impact of a Shortage of Plumbers Should Concern Everyone

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 03/29/2024 - 4:00am

CORAOPOLIS, Pennsylvania -- Ed Bigley, the business manager for the Pittsburgh Plumbers Union Local 27, says the organization has been serving the region since the dawn of the industrial revolution in the 1870s, when it came under the umbrella of the Knights of Labor.By July of 1890, it had formed its own stand-alone union, even holding its first convention in the city, with the Pittsburgh Post reporting the event had a "sumptuous banquet" for the visiting delegates of plumbers from across the country as the 100 members

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Gaza War: Is UN Security Council ‘Demand’ For A Ceasefire Legally Binding? Here’s What International Law Says

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 03/29/2024 - 2:00am

Despite the groundbreaking adoption of a UN security council resolution demanding a immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the war continues. The reaction from Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the passing of the resolution has been ferocious.

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Many Drugs Are Prescribed For Conditions They Weren’t Tested For – Here’s What You Need To Know

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 03/29/2024 - 1:00am

All prescription drugs need a licence from a regulator to treat a specific condition. But licensed drugs can be prescribed for conditions they haven’t been tested for in a clinical trial. This is known as “off-label” prescribing – and it’s very common.

The UK doesn’t have current figures on overall off-label prescribing, but a US study found that one in five prescriptions was off label.

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Trump Wouldn’t Be The First Presidential Candidate To Campaign From A Prison Cell

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 03/25/2024 - 5:00am

Udall, right, presents the proclamation to, from left, Ned Bush; A. Philip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Debs Foundation President Patrick Gorman.
(AP Photo / Tribune Star)

The first trial ever of a former president, the so-called “hush money” case against former president and likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, is scheduled to begin with jury selection in New York on March 25, 2024, though that may be delayed by a month. Trump faces 34 felony charges related to alleged crimes involving bookkeeping on a payment to an adult film actress during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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Watch Out For China Buying U.S. Farmland, Noem Tells U.S. House Panel

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 03/25/2024 - 4:00am

WASHINGTON — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told the U.S. House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday to be vigilant about Chinese ownership of farmland in the United States.

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AI VS. Elections: 4 Essential Reads About The Threat Of High-Tech Deception In Politics

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 03/25/2024 - 4:00am

It’s official. Joe Biden and Donald Trump have secured the necessary delegates to be their parties’ nominees for president in the 2024 election. Barring unforeseen events, the two will be formally nominated at the party conventions this summer and face off at the ballot box on Nov. 5.

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Obscenity Bill That Could Criminalize Nebraska Librarians, Teachers Fails To Advance

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 03/25/2024 - 3:00am

State Sen. Joni Albrecht of Thurston, center. May 22, 2023. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

Three days of tense debate ended Wednesday with lawmakers falling three votes short of advancing a bill that received national attention after a senator read an explicit rape scene on the legislative floor

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‘Tough-On-Crime’ Policies Are Back In Some Places That Had Reimagined Criminal Justice

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 03/22/2024 - 5:00am

Fueled by public outrage over the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and other high-profile incidents of police violence, a seismic shift swept across the United States shortly afterward, with a wave of initiatives aimed at reining in police powers and reimagining criminal-legal systems.

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Omaha Businessman Pleads Guilty To Selling Unregistered ‘Anti-Microbial’ Falsely Marketed As Effective Against Covid-19

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 03/22/2024 - 4:00am

LINCOLN — An Omaha businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of mail fraud and selling an unregistered pesticide for marketing a product it falsely claimed was “EPA-approved” and effective against the COVID virus.

Matthew Petersen, 39, of Omaha, the president of Quin Global, is scheduled to be sentenced along with his company on July 19 before U.S. District Judge Robert Rossiter.

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Biden Cannot Easily Make Roe V. Wade Federal Law, But He Could Still Make It Easier To Get An Abortion

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 03/22/2024 - 3:00am

President Joe Biden promised during his State of the Union address on March 7, 2024, that he would make the right to get an abortion a federal law.

“If you, the American people, send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again,” Biden said.

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Legal News

Economic Impact of a Shortage of Plumbers Should Concern Everyone

Gaza War: Is UN Security Council ‘Demand’ For A Ceasefire Legally Binding? Here’s What International Law Says

Many Drugs Are Prescribed For Conditions They Weren’t Tested For – Here’s What You Need To Know

Trump Wouldn’t Be The First Presidential Candidate To Campaign From A Prison Cell

Watch Out For China Buying U.S. Farmland, Noem Tells U.S. House Panel

AI VS. Elections: 4 Essential Reads About The Threat Of High-Tech Deception In Politics

Obscenity Bill That Could Criminalize Nebraska Librarians, Teachers Fails To Advance

‘Tough-On-Crime’ Policies Are Back In Some Places That Had Reimagined Criminal Justice

Omaha Businessman Pleads Guilty To Selling Unregistered ‘Anti-Microbial’ Falsely Marketed As Effective Against Covid-19

Biden Cannot Easily Make Roe V. Wade Federal Law, But He Could Still Make It Easier To Get An Abortion

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