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Health Secretary Tom Price Wasted $341,000 on Improper Travel, Inquiry Finds
The government should try to recoup the money improperly spent on 20 trips including Florida and Switzerland, the inspector general of the Health and Human Services Department said.
The forgotten Spanish diaspora in the US
During a heated debate on immigration in December 1920 in the House of Representatives, Washington D.C., Congressman Harold Knutson took the floor and launched into a diatribe.
PHOENIX — Transporter of Stolen Migrant Children was ‘Black Contract’ Operator in Iraq and Afghanistan

MVM secret black contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan were exposed when MVM was sued by an employee. Now in Phoenix, MVM was caught on video stashing migrant children in an abandoned office building. Photos 2 and 3: MVM advertised for youth care workers in Phoenix in June. In the photos, Native youths can be seen taking young migrant children into the black site in midtown Phoenix, including one
Key moments from Trump and May’s joint press conference – video
Murdoch will love him calling him a liar too.
Trump says his quotes in the Sun are ‘fake news’, Boris Johnson would make a great PM and the relationship between Britain and the US is ‘the highest level of special’. After Trump dismisses US immigration laws as non-existent, May says the UK has welcomed immigrants and immigration has been good for the UK
‘The highest level of special’: Trump praises US relationship with UK
First hand exposure to his false face, hair and lies
From Brexit and Boris to Putin and fake news, US president and Theresa May put on a show of unity after their Chequers meeting
Donald Trump’s press conference with Theresa May at Chequers lasted 50 minutes, and took in everything from transatlantic relations to immigration, Boris Johnson, attacks on the media and at least one outright lie by the US president.
No more denials. Jim Jordan must acknowledge what he knew: editorial
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan owes it to himself, to the athletes he knew and coached, and to Ohio State University to step forward and tell what he knows, what he saw and what he heard. No more denials, writes the editorial board.
Screening for infectious diseases in newly arrived migrants in Europe: the context matters
Friday Finds: Excerpt from ‘Shatila Stories’

The magazine Refinery 29 has published an extract from Shatila Stories, a commissioned novel that was written by nine Syrian and Palestinian refugees, edited by Suhir Helal, translated by Nashwa Gowanlock, and published by Peirene Press:
It opens:
Chaos everywhere. Thundering sounds rip through my ears. I blink and blink again. I take snapshots with my eyes. Racing feet, dragging feet; old people, young people; cars of different colours, of different shapes; grey sky, swaying trees. Hundreds, thousands are waiting at the closed gate, paperwork in hand, hoping to pass through. They want to cross the border. A scene worthy of the Day of Reckoning. Worry and fear are paramount. A pallor has settled across everyone’s face, no matter how dark or fair their complexion. Desperate eyes.
You can keep reading at Refinery 29, and you can also meet the nine writers in this YouTube interview:
Trump blasts UK PM May’s Brexit plan, says it puts trade deal in doubt
A disunited Europe is Putin’s goal and, hence, a must do for #PuppetTrump! U.S. President Donald Trump said a free trade deal with Britain might be impossible if it went ahead with Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposals for post-Brexit ties with the European Union, in a damaging intervention set to further criticism of her plans.
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