After years of waiting, veterans who had been exposed to contaminated drinking water while assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina may now be able to receive a portion of government disability benefits totaling more than $2 billion. Beginning in March, the cash payouts from the Department of Veterans Affairs… Read More
[Consumer Alert] Major airbag recall
Toyota Motor Corp. says it is recalling another 543,000 vehicles in the U.S. for defective front passenger air bag inflators made by Japan’s Takata Corp. Takata is at the center of a massive recall of inflators that can explode in a crash, spewing metal shrapnel inside the vehicles. Toyota said… Read More
Trump vs. CNN: The truth they WON’T show you
by Stephen Dietrich, Managing Editor For years, the mainstream media has controlled the narrative on politics. Americans only heard what the media wanted them to hear, nothing more. Now that President-elect Donald Trump is changing that, the corporate media is furious. Wednesday, after Trump refused to answer CNN’s questions at… Read More
Justice! Crooked auto executive arrested
Six high-level Volkswagen employees from Germany have been indicted in the U.S. in the automaker’s emissions-cheating scandal as prosecutors made good on efforts to charge individuals in a corporate corruption case. Now, one is in handcuffs after flying into Miami for a luxurious vacation — and authorities say he’s so… Read More
James “Mad Dog” Mattis SCARES Obama
Retired Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis is poised to take over as secretary of defense — and it has President Barack Obama terrified. For years, the Obama administration worried about Mattis because of his no-nonsense attitude, and his uncompromising beliefs. And according to The Associated Press, the Obama administration fears… Read More
[Must see] Prison riot turns into “war zone”
Rioting inmates armed themselves and “were getting ready for war” during a disturbance at a maximum security prison in Massachusetts, the state’s top public safety official said Tuesday. The riot at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center began with a Monday afternoon fight between two inmates and quickly escalated when 47 inmates… Read More
It’s happening! The death of Obamacare
Republicans rejoice! After years a failing healthcare system, the Senate has finally passed a measure to take the first step forward on dismantling President Barack Obama’s health care law. The nearly party-line 51-48 vote early Thursday came on a nonbinding Republican-backed budget measure that eases the way for action on… Read More
Trump CIA nominee to face Senate questioning
Donald Trump’s pick to run the CIA faces a Senate confirmation hearing amid a testy standoff between the president-elect and the spy community. Rep. Mike Pompeo, a four-term conservative Kansas Republican, is a member of the House intelligence committee and also served on the partisan committee to investigate the deadly… Read More
Rare photo of Lincoln inauguration to be unveiled
A Maine college is set to unveil a rare photograph of President Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration from 1861. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick acquired the photo at auction in October and will unveil it Thursday. It’s the first inauguration to be captured by photographers, and took place just… Read More
Woman pleads guilty to felony for self-abortion attempt
A Tennessee woman accused of trying to end her pregnancy with a coat hanger has pleaded guilty to a felony and was released after more than a year in jail. Anna Yocca, 32, pleaded guilty this week to attempted procurement of a miscarriage, according to Rutherford County Criminal Court documents…. Read More