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The United States Government's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is taking Kroger to court, alleging that they've violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The case centers around small, light blue, dark blue, red, and yellow embroidered hearts that Kroger implemented as part of its dress code in April 2019. A Twitter sleuth suggests that the hearts were part of a Kroger "promise campaign" and that its colors represented its four tenets: everyone friendly and caring, everything fresh, uplift every way, and improve every day. The supermarket chain itself has yet to formally confirm or deny this (via Arkansas Democrat-Gazette).  Whatever the...

There are all kinds of reasons to stay out of flood waters from Hurricane Sally and other storms on the Gulf Coast, snakes, gators, downed power lines. But there’s also a hidden hazard that could leave you burning for days, literally. Floating islands of fire ants sound like something out of a nightmare or a horror film. But they are real, and they are painful if you get mixed up with one. WKRG News 5 photographer Jason Garcia has been covering storms for decades. So it was no surprise to him that he was able to capture an island of...

A majority of likely U.S. voters believes the country is experiencing a war on police and that politicians should enact policy classifying attacks on cops as hate crimes, according to a new poll. Released on Thursday, Rasmussen’s polling came amid a wave of calls to defund police and a swell in anti-police sentiment. Since 2018, the percentage of likely voters who believes there’s a war on cops has increased from 43% to 59%. The latest data represented a slight uptick from the 58% high reported in 2015. Meanwhile, 29% disagreed with that view and 12% reported as undecided. The poll...

Six hundred stolen Native American ancestral remains and artifacts, held at a museum overseas, have officially been returned to U.S. soil. The U.S. has been trying for more than seven decades to secure the artifacts and remains from the National Museum of Finland to return to tribes of the Mesa Verde Region. President Donald Trump was joined by U.S. Ambassador of Finland Robert Pence and Native American leaders for the announcement. “How big is today? It’s huge,” said Pence. In 1891, a young Finnish professor traveled to Mesa Verde in Colorado to study the cliff dwellings. A few years later,...

Beer maker Anheuser-Busch is looking to hire a new CEO for their Michelob Ultra Pure Gold brand — and by CEO the company means chief exploration officer. According to the brand, the new “CEO” will be paid $50,000 to explore America’s national parks. Ohio starts issuing additional $300 in unemployment benefits The company touts that you’ll “get an office with the best view and get to travel for work … a lot.” The ideal candidate will have a “deep appreciation for nature” and be tasked with taking pictures, creating captivating social media content and repping Michelob Ultra Pure Gold while...

A nationally representative survey conducted by Axios/Ipsos in late July 2020 found that 37% of adults think the real number of C-19 fatalities in the U.S. is lower than reported, while 31% think the true death toll is greater than reported. The facts show that neither side has an airtight case, but the evidence is more consistent with the theory that less people have died from C-19 than the official figures indicate. Nevertheless, the extent of the possible overcount is unknown, and even if it were as high as 50,000, it would not make a marked difference in key measures...

by Laurie Azgard Note: The Supreme Court filings that may not be made available on their website at Supremecourt.gov are listed in this internet archive link https://archive.org/details/HillvUSDC-MDNC; Image of Justice Clarence Thomas was found on a public government website and is protected under fair use doctrine if it is not public domain. Brian D. Hill, formerly of USWGO alternative news had filed a letter to Justice Clarence Thomas by 24-hour express mailing urging him to grant his petition for writ of certiorari. Writ of certiorari is an order to review over the decision of a lower court and possibly...

This was awkward. 77-year-old Joe Biden participated in a CNN town hall Thursday evening with host Anderson Cooper. ..... Snip..... A Democrat from Pennsylvania told Joe Biden that when she looks out into her neighborhood she sees a “sea of Trump flags and yard signs.” Biden looked like he got punched in the gut.

A former Democratic aide has reportedly left his post as director of public policy at Twitter to join former Vice President Joe Biden's transition team. Carlos Monje left Twitter's Washington, D.C. office Thursday, according to Politico, after helping to host a fundraiser for the Democratic nominee this week. The outlet reported that Monje has served on Biden's infrastructure policy committee, although it's unclear what his role will be on the transition team.

The reviews are in for the CNN town hall featuring Joe Biden... and they aren't great. While Biden's performance has received praise for his ability to display empathy towards Pennsylvania voters selected to ask questions, what has been described as the "softball" treatment of the former VP by CNN was widely panned on Thursday night, especially following the grilling President Trump faced at the ABC News town hall on Tuesday. "In the first moments, the contrast between what Trump was asked and what Biden is being asked is striking," Politico columnist Jeff Greenfield tweeted, later writing. "Biden is doing very...

The team first studied the rules that the signs followed on the clay tablets and other accounting documents. Two problems had so far complicated the decipherment of Linear A fractions. First, all documents containing sums of fractional values with a registered total were damaged or difficult to interpret, and second, they contradicted uses of certain signs, which suggest the system changed over time. Thus, the starting premise had to rely on documents concentrated to a specific period (ca. 1600-1450 BCE), when the numerical system was in coherent use across Crete. To investigate the possible values of each fractional sign, the...

Two campaign staffers for Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s challenger, Lacy Johnson, were reportedly shot Monday in Minneapolis. One victim, a 17-year-old man, died at the scene, MPR News reported. The other victim was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A suspect was arrested Thursday morning in connection with the crime after a police pursuit, the Minneapolis Police Department told the Daily Caller. The two victims were standing outside of a service station Monday afternoon when they were approached and shot by the suspect or suspects, who then fled on foot, a preliminary police investigation found according to the Minneapolis...

Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider took to social media to condemn anti-maskers who went into a Florida Target store blaring the group’s hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It" while ripping off their masks. In a tweet Wednesday, Snider called the stunt “moronic," and shared a viral video that was recorded by an upset customer inside the Target at Coral Ridge Mall in Fort Lauderdale. The video had more than 30 million views. Snider said the group doesn't have his “permission or blessing to use my song for their moronic cause."

Billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s commitment of $100 million to help Joe Biden’s campaign in Florida is a huge boon for Democrats and it could put President Trump on defense in a state that is critical to his reelection. At the end of his presidential campaign in March, Bloomberg pledged to spend “whatever it takes” to help Democrats beat Trump in November. Billionaire donors have long played a central role in supporting both parties. Yet no one has proposed pumping in so much cash to support a presidential campaign in a single state. Bloomberg’s allies say the investment is in line with...

TACOMA, Wash. — A security guard at a downtown Tacoma building is facing charges Tuesday for allegedly lighting a firecracker in a men's bathroom toilet. A spokesperson for the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said a fire alarm was activated Sept. 13 just before 3:15 a.m. on the second floor of the County-City Building in downtown Tacoma. Firefighters entered the building and found smoke coming from the men's restroom. Investigators said it appeared that a firecracker was throw into a toilet. Surveillance video revealed one of the security employees using his access card to enter the building at 3:10 a.m. when...

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Dear Bishop: Fr. Altman deserves your praise, not threats, for telling Catholics they can’t be Democrats  'Tens of thousands of Catholics are anxiously and prayerfully watching this situation. We beg you to withdraw all threats from Fr. Altman.' Editor’s note: The following is an open letter from Mary Ann Kreitzer, President of Catholic Media Coalition, to Bishop William Patrick Callahan, Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, regarding his threat of  “canonical penalties” to Father James Altman after the priest released a video saying “You can’t be a Catholic and a Democrat.” The letter was penned to the Bishop on September 15,...

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The coronavirus pandemic has hit the world’s major economies four times harder than the financial crisis did a decade ago, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Monday. OECD said gross domestic product in most Group of 20 nations, which account for 90% of the global economy, dropped a record 6.9%. That compares to a 1.6% drop in the first quarter of 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. China was the only G-20 nation to record growth in the second quarter, 11.5%, while all other G-20 countries recorded an average 11.8% contraction. The pandemic ravaged China during...

In mid-September 1944, things looked great for the Allies. With their foothold in Normandy secured after D-Day and the successful invasion of Southern France in Operation Dragoon, Allied soldiers began an almost unstoppable advance into Nazi-occupied Europe. German forces were retreating to the safety of the Siegfried Line, a series of hardened defenses and fortifications stretching more than 390 miles along Germany's border with France and the Netherlands. The successes had Allied planners believing there was a serious chance to end the war by Christmas, and British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery devised a plan he thought would ensure it.