[Law Newz] A government watchdog group found that six members of the national service program, AmeriCorps, took pregnant women to abortion clinics in New York City, according to a report on TheHill.com. Helping to facilitate abortions is a direct violation of federal rules as they relate to grants used to fund the program which is overseen by The Corporation for National and Community Service.
The Hill reports that the volunteers served as "abortion doulas" and would provide help, transportation and emotional guidance to women seeking abortions. A full inspector general’s report is expected to be released later today. The small group who allegedly violated the rules was part of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). They are the ’largest health-focused national AmeriCorps program that promotes health care for America’s undeserved, while developing tomorrow’s health care workforce."
The Corporation for National and Community (CNCS) released this statement to The Hill: "Although the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) investigation concluded the misconduct occurred on an extremely limited scope, the grantee broke the law and violated the spirit of national service."
The association’s chief operating officer told The Hill that they they self-reported the issue to the appropriate authorities after learning about the potential violation. The program has been stopped, and NACHC have made their staff undergo training on "all relevant rules and regulations related to AmeriCorps prohibited activities."
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), who is currently facing more than two dozen corruption charges that include bribery and racketeering, has lost his congressional primary in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania State Representative Dwight Evans defeated Fattah by six percentage points, according to election returns.
Fattah first entered Congress in 1995 and has easily won each of his elections since. However, four Democratic challengers jumped into the 2016 race, sensing vulnerability stemming from his current legal troubles.
A PPP poll conducted in January showed he trailed Evans by 16 points. Much of his trouble stemmed from his legal charges, as only 39 percent polled said they had a favorable view of the Fattah.
Fattah and four associates were indicted in July of last year on 29 corruption charges that stemmed from their roles in a racketeering conspiracy that included schemes to "further their political and financial interests" by misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal, campaign, and charitable funds.
The Department of Justice said that Fattah took an illegal $1 million loan from a wealthy supporter during his failed Philadelphia mayoral campaign in 2007 and disguised the funds as a loan to his consulting company.
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Since the implementation of Twitter's new algorithmic timeline back in February of this year, conservatives, libertarians and anti-establishment dissidents alike have been waiting for the social media platform to interfere in the current U.S. election cycle. Now it seems that there is clear evidence of Twitter censoring the current Republican front-runner, Donald Trump.
A tweet sent from Trump's account at 3:04 PM EDT yesterday is not visible from his timeline, even when showing "Tweets and replies." That message included a video wherein Trump declared that "the establishment and special interests are absolutely killing our country." At the time of this writing, the tweet is still publicly accessible via a direct link and thus has not been deleted either by Twitter or by someone operating on the Trump account. Today its Trump - tomorrow you? Whether you support him or oppose him (as I do), preemptively silencing him is simply evil.
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This is the beginning of the end of Twitter. The yahoos who use it will migrate to something more trendy. There are a lot of conservative young people out there.
#2
What is going to be funny is if/when trump wins, watching the abject volte face and craven bootlicking of the man they truly despise will almost be worth the mess he is going to make.
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If Twitter is privately owned the owners can do whatever they want. But when a rival to Twitter starts operating the users can do whatever they want. In the meantime Trump can start campaigning in a more traditional style by buying TV ads. He'll reach a wider audience that way. Can't wait for those ads to start showing up during episodes of The View and Good Morning America.
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Should Trump win the Whithouse, bet he tears it down and builds a Presidential highrise.
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He IS from NYC.
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He can sue. He should. Private or not, they can't do that
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If Trump moved to MySpace and got his followers they'd become a growing concern overnight. Any tech guys out there with a Facebook or Twitter-like produce ready to go should give him a call pronto.
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[Law Newz] A government watchdog group found that six members of the national service program, AmeriCorps, took pregnant women to abortion clinics in New York City, according to a report on TheHill.com. Helping to facilitate abortions is a direct violation of federal rules as they relate to grants used to fund the program which is overseen by The Corporation for National and Community Service.
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), who is currently facing more than two dozen corruption charges that include bribery and racketeering, has lost his congressional primary in Philadelphia.
Since the implementation of Twitter's new algorithmic timeline back in February of this year, conservatives, libertarians and anti-establishment dissidents alike have been waiting for the social media platform to interfere in the current U.S. election cycle. Now it seems that there is clear evidence of Twitter censoring the current Republican front-runner, Donald Trump.
