Tom GibsonU.S. Politics The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a rare rebuke Vox - Ian MillhiserThe Supreme Court handed down a brief order Friday evening saying that the Trump administration may not bypass the ordinary legal process governing appeals if it wants to execute four men. The case, Barr
Tom GibsonWorld News In A Warming Greenland, A Farming Family Adapts To Drought — And New Opportunities NPR - Jackie NorthamOn a pitch-perfect autumn afternoon, a remote sheep farm in southern Greenland is quiet. The only movement is from a little girl playing outside her house with a fluffy border collie puppy. The silence
Tom GibsonHigher Education Don't be fooled by anti-college rhetoric: College is indispensable to black empowerment USA TODAY - Kim TrentHigher education remains the greatest engine for social mobility in American society. Perhaps this is most important for African American students. Like his Biblical namesake, author Paul Tough has spent
Tom GibsonOpinion I live in my overdraft every month – and now the banks are exploiting my misfortune independent.co.uk - Megan Townsend The most disturbing part of this week's news that HSBC will be hiking up their arranged overdraft fee rate (from between 9 per cent and 19 per cent …
Tom GibsonPre-Exposure Prophylaxis HHS Pays For PrEP But Who Will Prescribe It? Forbes - Lisa FitzpatrickA few days ago the US Department of Health and Human Services launched Ready, Set, PrEP. The program provides medication for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV for people who are uninsured.
Tom GibsonTechnology When a DNA Test Says You’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away The New York Times - Heather MurphyThree months after his bone marrow transplant, Chris Long of Reno, Nev., learned that the DNA in his blood had changed. It had all been replaced by the DNA of his donor, a German man he had exchanged a
Tom GibsonOxyContin Tufts University severs ties with family behind OxyContin Boston.com - Associated Press The relationship spanned nearly four decades and brought $15 million to the school’s science and medical programs.
Tom GibsonLifestyle (Canada) A 5-year-old boy's entire kindergarten class showed up for his adoption hearing CNN - By Ryan Prior, CNN(CNN) — A boy in Michigan showed up at the courthouse in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Thursday for an adoption hearing with his foster parents, and he had a crowd of unusual supporters. Five-year-old Michael's
Tom GibsonLiberal View North Carolina towns forced to cancel Christmas celebrations over fear of violence from right wing extremist groups rawstory.com - David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement Two North Carolina towns are canceling their annual Christmas celebration parades “amid fears of violence due to Confederate groups’ participation in …
Tom GibsonU.S. Politics Senators urge Medicare to let seniors to change drug plans over inaccurate info pbs.org - Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading senators are urging Medicare to allow seniors concerned about their drug plan pick for next year to switch if they received …
Tom GibsonU.S. Politics Supreme Court keeps federal executions on hold pbs.org - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from re-starting federal executions next week after a 16-year …
Tom GibsonWorld News French Strike Aims to Save an Envied, but Convoluted, Approach to Pensions The New York Times - Liz AldermanPARIS — Stéphane Vardon has worked as a conductor on France’s high-speed and suburban rail network for 20 years. It is hard work, he says, and he’d like to retire before he turns 58, a privilege he now
Tom GibsonDisease Deadly mold infestation spurs class-action lawsuit against Seattle Children's Hospital wlwt.com - Madeline Holcombe Seattle Children's Hospital knew for years that a mold infestation in its facilities could be related to its air-handling system but "engaged in a …
Tom GibsonEnergy India has a looming air con headache. Does antiquity hold the solution? CNN - Amani Al-Aidroos and Tom Page, CNN(CNN) — As the climate crisis makes the world hotter, people are looking to stay cool. By 2050, there could be three times as many air conditioning units on the planet as there were in 2018. But are an
Tom GibsonMathematics A new way to make quadratic equations easy MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv Many former algebra students have painful memories of struggling to memorize the quadratic formula. A new way to derive it, overlooked for 4,000 …
Tom GibsonRenewable Energy This small German town took back the power – and went fully renewable The Conversation UK - Bertie Russell The case for ambitious and transformative environmental policy is being made with increasing fervour and a series of “Green New Deals” – a reference …
Tom GibsonDallas, TX Video Shows Dallas ISD Student Walking in Front of Bus That Refused to Let Him on nbcdfw.com - Hannah Jones A Dallas ISD student was seen on video standing in the middle of the street begging to be let on a school bus Tuesday. Now the bus driver is on …
Tom GibsonPolicing Police are disciplined for computer misuse wigantoday.net - Post reporter Greater Manchester Police has disciplined 17 officers over computer misuse, research has revealed. The data, which was obtained via the Parliament …
Tom GibsonRace & Ethnicity What Happened After Chicago Police Cut Down on Busting Drug Possession and Prostitution VICE - Rob ArthurCHICAGO — Soon after Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was sentenced to almost seven years in prison for gunning down 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, his colleagues did something fairly common to frustrated
Tom GibsonImmigration Here’s The Company Behind Trump’s Controversial Border ‘Tent Courts’ For Migrants Forbes - Deniz ÇamIt was over 90 degrees Fahrenheit on a mid-September day at the U.S. border when a group of migrants lined up for their immigration hearings for the first time in a prefabricated “tent court” in Brownsville,
Tom GibsonAdnan Syed A bad defense lawyer cost me six years of freedom. I'm still waiting on my appeal 12 years later. NBC News - By Chandra BozelkoBut I'm one of the lucky ones. Most people, like Adnan Syed, stay incarcerated as their cases wind through the courts. On Thursday, I have another oral argument scheduled in my fight through the Connecticut
Tom GibsonHealth Care Hospitals are going to war against Trump's price transparency push Axios - Caitlin Owens Hospitals sued the Trump administration yesterday over its requirement that they disclose their negotiated rates, the latest of the industry's moves …
Tom GibsonEducation The best students in the world, ranked by country weforum.org - Jenny Anderson • Asian countries have topped PISA's latest global test of 15-year-olds, with China and Singapore ranking first and second • The test measures performance …
Tom GibsonOpinion Too Many Electric Utilities Risk Obsolescence If They Don’t Modernize Forbes - Brian BradfordThe conventional business model of electric utilities is eroding. Alternative energy sources, energy-efficient devices, government deregulation, and savvier consumers translate to new competitive pressures,
Tom GibsonBusiness Hospitals Sue Trump to Keep Negotiated Prices Secret The New York Times - Reed AbelsonThe nation’s hospital groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over a new federal rule that would require them to disclose the discounted prices they give insurers for all sorts of procedures.
Tom GibsonLoans They Loan You Money. Then They Get a Warrant for Your Arrest Rolling Stone - Anjali Tsui ProPublica Cecila Avila was finishing a work shift at a Walmart. David Gordon was at church. Darrell Reese was watching his granddaughter at home. Jessica …
Tom GibsonOpinion The American Health Care Industry Is Killing People The New York TimesThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this column misstated the party affiliation of one of the Ohio and Montana state legislators who published op-ed
Tom GibsonU.S. Politics Report: Trump's new SNAP rules could push thousands off benefits Axios - Rashaan Ayesh The Trump administration is rolling out new rules in April 2020 that could cause 223,000 people to lose food aid benefits, The Wall Street Journal …
Tom GibsonIdentity Millennials weren’t the only ones gutted by the recession. Gen X has never recovered. Vox - Austin Channing Brown“It’s really time for y’all to settle down” is unsolicited advice I hear from older family members every three months or so. Generally kind, loving people — many of them boomers — feel a need to voice
