by Emily Wilkins WASHINGTON — A group of Democratic senators are sounding the alarm over T-Mobile’s proposal to acquire most of US Cellular, and asking the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission to closely scrutinize and consider challenging the deal. The $4.4 billion deal announced in May 2024 would allow T-Mobile to use part U.S. Cellular’s wireless spectrum to improveContinue reading “Warren sounds alarm on T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular deal with Justice Department, FCC”
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History Lesson Tuesdays: 1965: President Johnson signs Medicare into Law
On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare, a health insurance program for elderly Americans, into law. At the bill-signing ceremony, which took place at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, former President Harry Truman was enrolled as Medicare’s first beneficiary and received the first Medicare card. Johnson wanted to recognize Truman, who, in 1945, had become theContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: 1965: President Johnson signs Medicare into Law”
Delta cancels 600 more flights as it struggles to recover from tech outage
The carrier also scrubbed hundreds of flights over the weekend after a defective software update knocked out computer systems worldwide. by Aaron Gregg Delta Air Lines canceled more than 600 flights Monday as the fallout from a global tech outage extended into a fourth day. The Atlanta-based carrier had already scuttled hundreds of flights afterContinue reading “Delta cancels 600 more flights as it struggles to recover from tech outage”
Opioid Crisis Fridays: True Stories from Missouri – JayPee Luciano Morales, 2
JAYPEE LUCIANO MORALES, 2 Johnson County Died: November 14, 2020 He was just 2. Now his parents are in prison for his death First responders found 2-year-old JayPee Luciano Morales unresponsive inside a home in Merriam in mid-November 2020. Testing later showed that fentanyl was in the little boy’s system, and medical examiners concluded thatContinue reading “Opioid Crisis Fridays: True Stories from Missouri – JayPee Luciano Morales, 2”
History Lesson Tuesdays: 1999 – Woodstock ’99 Begins
The music festival Woodstock ’99 opens on July 23, 1999. The festival—timed to the 30th anniversary of the original Woodstock—attempts to bring the spirit of peace, music, and love to a new generation; instead it devolves into three days of scorching heat, raw sewage, misogyny and greed in upstate New York. Woodstock ’99 was organized by John Scher and MichaelContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: 1999 – Woodstock ’99 Begins”
History Lesson Tuesday: The First Atomic Bomb Test is Successfully Exploded – 1945
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project yields explosive results as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Plans for the creation of a uranium bomb by the Allies were established as early as 1939, when Italian emigre physicist Enrico Fermi met with U.S. Navy department officials at Columbia University to discuss the useContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesday: The First Atomic Bomb Test is Successfully Exploded – 1945”
Torn from her family at birth, a woman brings a skatepark to her homeland
Amy Denet Deal lived for decades not knowing her birth family. After leaving her high-paying fashion job to reconnect with her ancestral homeland in Navajo Nation, she is looking to give back. by Roman Stubbs NEWCOMB, N.M. — The wind rolled off the Chuska Mountains and along the desert floor, whipping red dust and tumbleweedContinue reading “Torn from her family at birth, a woman brings a skatepark to her homeland”
Opioid Crisis Fridays: The Supreme Court rejects a nationwide opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
by Mark Sherman WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids but also would have provided billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic. After deliberating more than six months,Continue reading “Opioid Crisis Fridays: The Supreme Court rejects a nationwide opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma”
US Puts Attention on Forced Organ Harvesting
by Eva Fu The House passage of the bipartisan Falun Gong Protection Act marks new U.S. attention on a human rights abuse that many lawmakers have described as barbaric: Beijing’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting. It was the first-ever such bill to directly address the abuse directed at practitioners of Falun Gong, a meditation practice centeredContinue reading “US Puts Attention on Forced Organ Harvesting”
Healthcare Awareness Mondays: What causes migraines? Study of ‘brain blackout’ offers clues
The blinding headaches are poorly understood — a mouse study suggests that the content of spinal fluid is a trigger for pain. by Miryam Naddaf For one billion people worldwide, the symptoms can be debilitating: throbbing head pain, nausea, blurred vision and fatigue that can last for days. But how brain activity triggers these severest of headachesContinue reading “Healthcare Awareness Mondays: What causes migraines? Study of ‘brain blackout’ offers clues”
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