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‘White dudes’ raise over $4 million for Kamala Harris, discuss women’s rights
By Stephanie Kelly July 30, 2024 7:34 AM CDT NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters) – A star-studded live video call urging white men to vote for Kamala Harris raised about $4 million on Monday night for the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, attracting over 190,000 people including ‘Star Wars’ actor Mark Hamill and singer Josh Groban. The…
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Pierce County at odds over how to allocate $2.5M in funding to combat homelessness
by Paul Rivera, KOMO News Reporter Wed, July 24th 2024 at 8:01 PM Updated Thu, July 25th 2024 at 12:46 PM PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Pierce County wants to use federal money to help those who are experiencing homelessness, but there’s a problem: they can’t agree on how to use it. $2.5 million is left from the county’s…
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Coconut Grove groups accuse City of Miami of housing discrimination against Black residents
Joshua Ceballos Jul 23, 2024 Updated Jul 26, 2024 Reverend Willie F. Ford’s church is emptier than it used to be. It’s not that his congregation doesn’t want to come in on Sundays, he says — it’s that they can’t. In the past decade he’s been ministering at St. Matthew Community Baptist Church, Ford has seen his…
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Florida has highest number of heat-related illnesses in the nation, new report finds
Ashley Miznazi Fri, July 26, 2024 at 4:30 AM CDT Florida’s record hot summers can be dangerous for some people and a new study puts numbers to just how dangerous those soaring temperatures can be. The Sunshine State leads the country in the number of emergency room and hospital visits from heat illness and has…
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‘It’s been devastating’: Teen with complex medical needs one of more than 500,000 children in Florida dropped from Medicaid
BY HEATHER WALKER, DANIEL COHEN JULY 25, 2024 To watch video report, Click Here. (WSVN) – More than a half million of Florida’s most vulnerable children have lost their Medicaid coverage in the past year, and for one Coral Springs teen, the stakes are literally life or death. Fourteen-year-old Maryanne cannot speak. But she smiles when her…
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Justice Department alleges sexual abuse of migrant children housed in nonprofit’s shelters
The allegations were made in a lawsuit, which Texas-based Southwest Key said “does not present the accurate picture of the care and commitment” it provides to migrant children. July 19, 2024, 10:12 PM CDT By Dennis Romero The U.S. government filed a lawsuit against its largest provider of temporary shelter for underage migrants, alleging widespread sexual…
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42 people arrested during human trafficking operation in Scottsdale
The multi-agency operation took place over two days on July 12 and 13 By: abc15.com staff Posted at 8:33 PM, Jul 17, 2024 and last updated 1:47 PM, Jul 18, 2024 To watch video report, Click Here. SCOTTSDALE, AZ — During a human trafficking operation in Scottsdale, 42 people were arrested. The multi-agency operation took place over two…
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Virginia lawmakers restore military tuition program funding, for now
By Charlotte Renee Woods, Virginia Mercury Friday, Jul 19, 2024 Legislators met on Thursday and passed bills to repeal changes to a college financial aid program for military veterans’ families and designate $90 million towards sustaining it for at least the next two years. The Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program (VMSDEP) provides education benefits to children and spouses of severely…
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Jon Stewart pushes VA to help veterans sickened after uranium exposure
By Tara Copp Jul 23, 2024, 01:00 PM Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that left out some of the first U.S. troops who responded after the Sept. 11 attacks and got sick after deploying to a base contaminated with dangerous levels of uranium. Special operations forces deployed to…
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