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Lawyer says he lobbied Mnuchin and a congressman to reduce Bernie Madoffs sentence CNBC 1/19/2021 Brian Schwartz Its unlikely President Donald Trump will grant clemency to Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, according to a lawyer who has been trying to get the disgraced financiers 150-year sentence commuted. Yet the attorney, James Craven, told CNBC he sent letters to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., for that purpose. © Provided by CNBC Bernard Madof...

Motorists who didn’t make new year resolutions should sign on to some lifesaving, commonsense vows: They can pledge to slow down, focus on task more, and to halt the record road carnage...

Times are turbulent, but last week was a slap to the face. People are finally acknowledging what is occurring. For four years there has been an intentional erosion of our democratic norms permitted because those who had the ability to “check and balance” the executive branch were more interested in

The brutal data slip in and out of the headlines. But the terrible toll of the coronavirus on the aged, injured, and sick in institutions is increasing in unceasing and unacceptable fashion. Not long ago, HIV-AIDS activists crusaded against the public’s ignoring a lethal infection with the stark saying: Silence=Death. Is it becoming necessary to intone this about the relentless but seemingly tacitly accepted, coronavirus-related mortality, sickness, and suffering of those in long-term care? ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As the Wall Street Journal reported, the Trump Administration successfully battled with hospitals to get them to disclose previously secret pricing data, in the hopes that disclosing this key information will benefit the U.S. health care system, notably in curbing costs. Here’s why, as the newspaper reported: “Those who pay for health-care premiums and medical bills — employers, workers and patients — were long in the dark abo...

Supporters of US President Donald Trump, including member of the QAnon conspiracy group Jake A, aka Yellowstone Wolf (C), enter the US Capitol on Wednesday. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she had spoken with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about “preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the [nuclear] launch codes” amid increasingly widespread calls for President Trump’s removal fr...

Hit the floor: Himes, DeLauro were in House chamber, breached by Trump mob FacebookTwitterEmail 1of53 People gather inside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of53Lead by a Georgia State Trooper, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, center, exits the Georgia State Capitol building after hearing reports of threats, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)Alyssa Poi...

Jury clears teen driver over triple fatal crash They deliberated for just under six hours Flowers laid at the scene in tribute to the Welton Cliff crash victims. | Photo: Connor Creaghan for The Lincolnite A newly qualified driver has been cleared of causing the deaths of three of her passengers after her overloaded car left the road and collided with a tree. Kasey Boulton, 19, who had passed her driving test less than a month before the collision, had five passengers in her Vauxhall Astra incl...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The stain of the nation’s opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis has spread now to Bentonville, Ark., as federal prosecutors have sued Walmart, accusing the nation’s largest retailer of improperly allowing its pharmacists to fill millions of suspicious prescriptions for potent painkillers. The pharmacists themselves complained to their corporate bosses that they were delivering opioids in far too great quantities to too few custome...

People need to reach out for support, as Lincoln counsellor sees anxiety and depression increase during pandemic Anxiety and depression during lockdowns Steven Lean launched Lincoln Counselling in April 2020. A Lincoln counsellor launched his own support service during the coronavirus pandemic and has seen an increase in demand in recent months, even over the Christmas period. Steven Lean, 42, started Lincoln Counselling after spending eight years training and working in the industry. Lincol...