“Barred from use in U.S. court, lie detectors are still used today in other parts of the legal system.” More …
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Some Motel 6 Phoenix Locations Turned Over Guest Data to U.S. Immigration, and 20 People Were Arrested.
“Are other chains doing the same thing?” More …
Why Didn’t Trump Build Anything in Russia?
The art of the deal runs into the reality of “a really scary place.” More …
This Gift Voucher Might Just Get You a Kidney
“About 30 hospitals participate in this national program.” More …
Tax Cuts Quiet Once-Deafening GOP Call for Fiscal Discipline
“Republicans spooked world markets in their ardor to cut spending when Democrat Barack Obama occupied the White House. Now, with a GOP president pressing for politically popular tax cuts and billions more for the military, few in the GOP are complaining about the nation’s soaring debt.” More …
Another Potential Mueller Honey Pot: Spicer’s notebooks
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The Watergate resonance of the Bob Mueller probe rose this week with a CNN Report that the special counsel has details of wiretaps of ‘former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election.’ Now we can tell you about another potential honey pot for Mueller. Former colleagues of Sean Spicer tell Axios that he filled “notebook after notebook” during meetings at the Republican National Committee, later at the Trump campaign, and then at the White House.” More …
Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealthy Investors
“Let’s say you and I are neighbors. You’re an emergency room doctor, and I don’t work, thanks to a pile of money my grandparents left me. Let’s also say we both report $300,000 in income to the Internal Revenue Service this year. Who pays more in taxes? You do, by a lot.” More …
Betsy DeVos Tells Consumer Watchdog to Back Off on Student Loans
“… the Education Department quietly informed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that it would stop sharing critical information on $1.3 trillion of federal student loans, ending a partnership that has let the CFPB sue loan companies and force others to change their practices in the nation’s second-largest household debt market.” More …
University of Wisconsin and the Aftermath of Destroying Professor Tenure
“This past June, American academia went into an uproar over Gov. Scott Walker’s new budget in Wisconsin, which not only cut $250 million from higher education, but also severly weakened shared faculty governance and effectively destroyed professor tenure at state universities: Specifically, any professor in the system—tenured or not—could be dismissed or laid off by the 18-member Board of Regents using maddeningly vague criteria: ‘when such an action is deemed necessary due to a budget or program decision requiring program discontinuance, curtailment, modification or redirection.'” More …
News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2017
“As of August 2017, two-thirds (67%) of Americans report that they get at least some of their news on social media – with two-in-ten doing so often, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center.” More …