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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott threatened to override the governor’s orders with legislative action if Gov. Larry Hogan does not restore the $300 federal unemployment benefit in Maryland. The letter was issued by Mayor Scott, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby and Baltimore City Comptroller Bill Henry. The group strongly urged the governor to reconsider. he letter …

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A Reisterstown man was shot during an altercation at a car in an Ocean City hotel parking lot overnight, said police. The victim, whose injuries are not life-threatening, allegedly walked on top of a vehicle in the parking lot of a downtown hotel, and fell through the sunroof. It happened at about 2:52 a.m. The …

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The late Fred DeLuca, known for building Subway Restaurants into the biggest fast-food chain in the world, was a hard-partying boss who pursued store owner’s wives and posed half naked for a company calendar, according to a new report. DeLuca, who co-founded Subway in 1965 and largely ran it up until his 2015 death, distributed a …

Late Subway founder Fred DeLuca was fresh with women: report Read More »

In the past few months, Colorado has passed a series of laws aimed at supporting and protecting undocumented people after the pandemic revealed wide disparities and exacerbated inequalities in Colorado and elsewhere. Gov. Jared Polis has signed into law measures aimed at expanding access to housing, jobs and state benefits to undocumented immigrants. Supporters say the laws …

Colorado is smashing down barriers to help undocumented immigrants live and work Read More »

Mehran Mossaddad has spent much of the pandemic scared and lying awake at night. He’s a single dad with an 10-year-old daughter living outside Atlanta. “I get panic attacks not knowing what’s in store for us,” he says. “I have to take care of her.” Mossaddad drives Uber for a living, but when the pandemic …

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After a brief hiatus last year, 7-Eleven’s Free Slurpee Day is back and better than ever. Normally, the convenience store hands out free Slurpees on its birthday (July 11), but this year, it’s giving shoppers the chance to cash in on the sweet offer at any point during the month of July. 7-Eleven’s 94th birthday celebration kicks off on …

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They may not be terminating pandemic unemployment benefits like their GOP peers, but Democratic governors are also prodding Americans to go back to work amid a surging number of job openings. And so is President Joe Biden. More than a dozen Democrat-led states have reinstituted work search requirements, many of them in the past few weeks, according to data compiled …

Here’s how Democratic states are pushing people to go back to work Read More »

Vice President Kamala Harris is “not the right person for the job” to handle the US border crisis, an Arizona sheriff said Wednesday, as he blasted her for still refusing to visit the crossing months after she was tapped as border czar. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, whose turf sits about 200 miles north of …

Kamala Harris not fit to handle border crisis, Arizona sheriff says Read More »

Unaccompanied migrant children were transported to Iowa and Tennessee this spring without any notice from federal agencies, Gov. Kim Reynolds said Thursday in a call for transparency. Reynolds and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee also claim that federal officials initially denied their involvement. Why it matters: Now the two Republican governors — who both denied the Biden administration’s requests …

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Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, should realize the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic “isn’t about his feelings” and insisted the doctor “ought to buy an emotional support pony.” On June 1, more than 3,200 pages of Fauci’s emails were released via a Freedom of Information Act request by …

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