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
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.
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.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 03/25/2024 - 5:00am
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.
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.
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.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 03/25/2024 - 3:00am
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
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.
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.
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.