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U.S. Cuba

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U.S. limits how much money Americans can send to Cuba

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The United States is restricting travel to Cuba and how much money Americans can send to family members in the Caribbean nation, national security adviser John Bolton said Wednesday. The announcement, made at a Bay of Pigs Veterans Association event in Miami, is a reversal of President Barack Obama's attempts to loosen restrictions and normalize relations with Cuba. Under the new policy, Americans may send up to $1,000 per person every three months. Under the Obama administration, […]

todayApril 17, 2019 39

Democrat Republican political parties

Commentary

The critical failure of political parties

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. – George Washington We as Americans often look back to our Founding Fathers for guidance when grappling with […]

todayApril 16, 2019 54

Fordham University

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Fordham student dies after fall from campus clock tower

NEW YORK (UPI) -- A student died after she fell from the campus clock tower at New York City's Fordham University, school officials said Monday. Senior Sydney Monfries, 22, fell late Sunday at the tower, officials said. She and some friends were taking pictures of the New York City skyline when she fell. Monfries lost her footing and fell about 30 or 40 feet, officials said. University officials said they're investigating how Monfries and her friends got inside the tower. […]

todayApril 15, 2019 36

California MediCal smoking

Business & Lifestyle

UCSF study: Quitting smoking could save California’s MediCal program $2.6 billion per year

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Researchers say they think cutting smoking in each state by 1 percent in a year would lower the cost to taxpayer-supported Medicaid by $2.6 billion the following year, according to findings published Friday in JAMA Network Open. "While 14 percent of all adults in the U.S. smoke cigarettes, 24.5 percent of adult Medicaid recipients smoke," said Stanton Glantz, who runs the tobacco research center at University of a California at San Francisco and study author, in […]

todayApril 12, 2019 38

Nipsey Hussle

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Nipsey Hussle: 1 dead, 3 injured in ‘senseless violence’ during funeral procession

LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Four people were shot, one fatally, in Los Angeles Thursday during the funeral procession for slain rapper Nipsey Hussle, police said. Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said three men and one woman were shot near the intersection of 103rd Street and Main Street in the neighborhood of Watts. He did not specify who had died but only that the victims were black and between the ages of 30 and 50 years old. The suspects […]

todayApril 12, 2019 81

Massachusetts conversion therapy

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Massachusetts bans conversion therapy for minors

BOSTON (UPI) -- Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law a ban on conversion therapy for minors, making Massachusetts the 16th state in the nation to institute such a measure against a practice critics say is harmful. The conversation therapy ban prohibits state-licensed healthcare providers from participating in "sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a patient who is less than 18 years of age." The bill was forwarded to Baker's desk after the Massachusetts Senate voted 34-0 in its […]

todayApril 9, 2019 33

Joe Biden Lucy Flores

Decision 2020

LUCY FLORES: Former VP Biden denies ever ‘acting inappropriately,’ will listen to allegation

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Joe Biden responded to accusations of inappropriate touching on Sunday, saying he didn't believe he had "acted inappropriately" but would listen to suggestions that he had. Biden issued a statement responding to a piece former Nevada assemblywoman Lucy Flores in New York magazine's The Cut on Friday in which she said Biden approached her from behind, grabbed her shoulders, leaned in and "inhaled my hair," then kissed her on the back of the head while she was […]

todayMarch 31, 2019 46

alligator Florida

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Alligator weighing about 750 pounds removed from Florida parking lot

JUPITER, Fla. (UPI) -- An alligator weighing around 750 pounds was removed from a business park's parking lot in South Florida last week. The 12-foot reptile, estimated to be at least 60 years old, was spotted Thursday in the Jupiter Commerce Park, officials said in a Facebook post. "He was carefully removed without harm from the area and relocated to a safe place," police reported on Facebook. The post drew several hundred responses. "He has been around for a long […]

todayMarch 31, 2019 25

Midwestern flood losses farmers

Business & Lifestyle

Midwestern farmers devastated by massive, uninsured flood losses

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (UPI) -- Hundreds of millions of dollars of crops destroyed in this month's massive Midwestern flooding events were not insured, farmers say. And the losses could leave many without sufficient income to continue farming. "This uninsured grain issue is really starting to affect people," said Jeff Jorgenson, a western Iowa corn and soy grower whose farm flooded when the Missouri River broke over its banks March 12. "It could end a farming career," he said, his voice was […]

todayMarch 29, 2019 80

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