Ruperto Garciaadded this to What’s He Up To Now?Puerto Rico Despite new law, Trump administration has not given Puerto Rico emergency food stamp aidThe Washington Post - By Jeff Stein, Arelis R. HernándezThe Trump administration has not yet given Puerto Rico $600 million in food stamp aid more than two weeks after the president signed the emergency funding into law, according to federal and territory Puerto
Ruperto Garciaadded this to ThoughtsPolitics Supreme Court to decide whether Congress can use riders to defund lawsRoll Call - Todd Ruger The court will decide a trio of cases dealing with $12 billion in payments to insurers related to the 2010 health care law's exchanges The Supreme …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to ThoughtsTaliban The Trump Administration Treats Detainees Worse Than Somali Pirates and the Taliban Didsplinternews.com - Samantha Grasso On a ranking of how awful the U.S. treats the people it detains and imprisons, you’d hope that we fall somewhere between the standards of other …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsU.S. Dept. of Defense GOP moves to block provision banning use of Defense funds for border wallthehill.com - Juliegrace Brufke A group of Republicans in the House are attempting to block a Democrat-led provision that would prevent Defense funding from being used to construct …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsPalestinian Authority U.S. Mideast Plan Rejected By Palestinian Leaders, Panned By Former U.S. EnvoysNPR - Daniel EstrinThe White House on Saturday published one-half of its long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan — a multibillion-dollar proposal to upgrade the Palestinian economy. The Palestinian leadership has already
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsDominican Republic Another American has died in the Dominican RepublicUSA TODAY - David OliverA 56-year-old man from Long Island, New York, has died in the Dominican Republic, according to multiple reports. Vittorio Caruso's family told News 12 Long Island about their relative's death on June His
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsU.S. Politics Oregon lawmakers sign 2 laws to deal with massive marijuana surplusFox News - Andrew O'ReillyAfter legalizing marijuana in 2015, officials in Oregon began liberally doling out licenses to growers in an effort to shift sales away from the black market toward the now-legalized industry. The plan
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsLiberal View Border vigilante arrested for impersonating CBP agentThinkProgress - Luke Barnes Jim Benvie is the second member tied to the group United Constitutional Patriots to be arrested. A member of a vigilante group that was filmed in …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to What’s He Up To Now?Politics Trump contradicts what Pompeo said just last weekCNN President Trump questioned why the US is protecting oil shipping lanes, contradicting what his own Secretary of State said about the Strait of Hormuz.
Ruperto Garciaadded this to Look, Up In The Sky . . .NASA Mysterious white light spotted on MarsNew York Post - By Chris Ciaccia NASA has released a photo taken by its Curiosity rover that shows a mysterious, unexplained white light on Mars. The black-and-white raw image was …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to Look, Up In The Sky . . .Methane Mars Rover Detects “Excitingly Huge” Methane Spikescientificamerican.com - Alexandra Witze, Nature magazine NASA’s Curiosity rover has measured the highest level of methane gas ever found in the atmosphere at Mars’s surface. The reading taken last week at …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to ThoughtsMike Pence Mike Pence Just Chuckles When Asked About Horrific Child Detention Conditionssplinternews.com - Rafi Schwartz Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence was given a chance to commit to improving the appalling conditions in which …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsKellyanne Conway Kellyanne Conway Just ‘Disregarded’ The Law, Trump-Appointed Watchdog to TestifyThe Daily Beast - Betsy Woodruff The Trump-appointed ethics official who called for Kellyanne Conway’s firing last week is set to defend that decision in Congressional testimony on …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to What’s He Up To Now?Liberal View Under Trump, Manufacturing Job Growth Slows to a...truthout.org - Dean Baker Donald Trump put manufacturing jobs at the center of his economic platform in 2016. He endlessly harped on the loss of relatively good-paying …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to NatureAtlantic Ocean A Massive Freshwater Sea Is Buried Beneath the Atlantic OceanLive Science - Laura Geggel A gigantic freshwater aquifer is hiding under the salty Atlantic Ocean, just off the northeastern coast of the United States, a new study finds. While …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to On ScreenArea 51 Is 'Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers' on Netflix for Real?Decider - Brett White If you dive deep into Netflix, beyond the carousels of recommendations the algorithm wants you to see, you’ll find a hive of documentaries about …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to NatureScience Hand-Reared Monarch Butterflies Don't MigrateThe Atlantic - Ed YongA scientist hoped commercially raised butterflies would be identical to their wild counterparts, but found their navigation abilities varied. Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies engage in one nature’s
Ruperto Garciaadded this to To our healthVibrio Apparently It Only Takes 10 Minutes in the Ocean for Bacteria to Cover the Bodytheinertia.com - Dylan Heyden It only takes 10 minutes in the ocean for your skin’s microbiome to change. Photo: Oliver Sjostrom It’s easy to get poetic about the pleasures of …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to Writing & LiteratureBooks 25 Challenging Books You Should Read This SummerBustle - Kristian Wilson Your vacation downtime is the best opportunity you'll have to tackle a big, difficult read this year, so I've picked out 25 challenging books you …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to NatureGeek Watch: Stunning, Rainbow-Colored Blanket Octopus Caught on CameraGeek - By Stephanie Valera The undersea world is home to odd but beautiful creatures. One of them, the rainbow-hued blanket octopus, glides through the water like a swimming, …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to NatureGeek Watch: Creepy ‘Gorilla Crow’ Strikes a Pose in Japan, Goes Viral on TwitterGeek - By Genevieve Scarano A Twitter user captured a crow that resembles a gorilla on video and it looks like something straight out of a horror film. The creature, which is …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to TechnologyNASA NASA's new plane will fly at supersonic speeds—without a windshieldPopular Science - Rob VergerPilots will see what's in front of them on a 4K screen. Here's how it will all work. In 2021, if all goes according to plan, NASA test pilots will take an experimental plane with a very long nose and it
Ruperto Garciaadded this to What’s He Up To Now?Liberal View Trump Tries to Take Credit for Delaying the ICE Raids He’d Planned Himselfmotherjones.com The president tweeted that the raids are on hold for two weeks. President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he would delay massive raids on …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsMalnutritionAmerican missionary, 35, hits back at African mothers suing her for treating starving babies despite not being a doctor saysdailymail.co.uk - Jennifer Smith An American missionary accused of contributing to African babies' deaths by treating them for malnutrition despite not being a doctor has hit back at …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsWorld News US missionary, 35, accused of killing ‘hundreds’ of babies in Uganda by ‘posing as doctor and performing treatthesun.co.uk - Lottie Tiplady-Bishop A US missionary with no medical qualifications caused the deaths of more than 100 babies while posing as a doctor in Uganda, a lawsuit claims. Renee …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsRobert Mueller Star-studded cast to perform live reading of the Mueller reportNBC News - VarietyThe cast includes Justin Long, Piper Perabo, Michael Shannon and Zachary Quinto, among others. Sigourney Weaver, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mark Hamill will also make appearances. LOS ANGELES — Haven't perused
Ruperto Garciaadded this to ThoughtsJake Tapper Trump’s lies need to be exposed in real timeThe Washington Post - By Jennifer RubinIn an interview on “Meet the Press,” President Trump repeated a whopper of a lie. Separation, President Obama, I took over separation. I'm the one that put it together. What's happened though are the and
Ruperto Garciaadded this to ThoughtsHouse Judiciary Committee Here's a list of the 77 members of House who now favor an impeachment inquiry on Donald Trumpboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin The latest tally on House members who favor beginning impeachment inquiry hearings against President Donald J. Trump is now at 77. NBC News reports …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsIran Pompeo arrives in Saudi Arabia as Iran threatens US dronesABC News - The Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived Monday in Saudi Arabia in a hastily arranged visit amid mounting tensions between Washington and Tehran …
Ruperto Garciaadded this to EventsMike Pompeo Pompeo in Mideast talks on building a coalition against IranAssociated Press - By AYA BATRAWY, Associated PressDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks Monday with leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates about countering the military threat from Iran by building
