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KUALA LUMPUR: Anti-crime activist Datuk R. Sri Sanjeevan has claimed that he was assaulted while in police custody and alleged he was denied medical treatment for internal bleeding. Sanjeevan, 32, who is chairman of non-governmental organisation myWatch, was produced in the Seremban Sessions Court at 12.30pm today and later, in the district's Magistrate's Court.
In 1952, a massive fire - fueled by oil and industrial waste - engulfed Ohio's Cuyahoga River. Was that the inspiration for the platform Republicans just adopted in Cleveland? AP file photo The Republican Party's 2016 platform , released on Monday at its national convention in Cleveland, has sections called "A New Era in Energy" and "Environmental Progress."
A federal appeals court says the Justice Department does not have to turn over a prosecution training manual to defense attorneys. The ruling Tuesday covers the so-called Blue Book that instructs prosecutors about their duty to turn over certain documents to defense lawyers.
As the state's most closely-watched primary race enters its waning weeks, the campaigns of U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp and Roger Marshall are touting disparate poll results and national groups are dropping substantial sums of advertising dollars into the largely rural district.
Despite several attempts to target Hillary Clinton for possibly mishandling classified information, none of the remaining investigations is likely to uncover new information or hurt the presidential hopeful before the election. Lawmakers have asked the Department of Justice to look into whether Clinton committed perjury, but it's highly unlikely it will conduct another examination after deciding against criminal charges.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responds to questions about the police shootings during a news conference at City Hall in Dallas in early July. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants the targeted killing of a police officer to be deemed a hate crime in Texas and urged lawmakers to send him such a bill to sign during next year's legislative session.
Well, it seems like the public option, a long coveted provision by liberal Democrats on health care is making a comeback. President Obama announced that he would like to see a government-run option to compete with private insurance, which represents another step towards socialized medicine : "Public programs like Medicare often deliver care more cost-effectively by curtailing administrative overhead and securing better prices from providers," Obama writes in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Few people were covered under President Barack Obama's health care law when the GOP held its last convention in 2012. Now, Donald Trump's plan to replace the program would make 18 million people uninsured, according to a recent nonpartisan analysis.
Two open U.S. House seats highlight the primary election in Michigan, where the Republican winner of a Thumb-area seat will have a clear path to Congress while the victors in the state's expansive northern district will contend in a competitive race in November. The Aug. 2 primary also will set the stage this fall for control of the state House, which Democrats are eager to win after years of GOP rule.
Much like their House counterparts, Connecticut's Democratic senators pushed for immediate funding aimed at opioid addiction. But in the end, they settled for the Republican majority's measure that puts the money on hold until later this year.
Retired LAPD dectective Mark Fuhrman's racism was a big problem for the prosecution in the OJ Simpson trial. But it certainly isn't problematic for Megyn Kelly who, after the latest police shootings, trotted out Fuhrman for more of his patented race baiting reaction and Fox validation.
House Republicans on Wednesday approved legislative language aimed at keeping the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing President Obama's signature environmental regulation on a voluntary basis while it's blocked by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court blocked the Clean Power Plan, the EPA's program for setting carbon emission cut goals for existing coal power plants, in February.
The House backed legislation designed to circumvent a California order that requires health insurance companies to pay for elective abortions. The legislation passed 245-182 on a mostly party-line vote on Wednesday.
Florida Republican Congressman Dennis Ross is demanding Attorney General Loretta Lynch immediately resign for stonewalling when questioned Tuesday about the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton's email practices as Secretary of State. "After witnessing Attorney General Lynch's lack of concern for her authority and unresponsiveness to the questions asked yesterday during the House Judiciary Committee hearing about her investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, it is abundantly clear she must immediately step down from her position," Ross, the Senior Deputy Majority Whip, said in a press release late this afternoon .
The five-year-old case that redefined the legality of the controversial labor practice may be coming to an end. A major labor lawsuit over unpaid internships in the entertainment and media industry has reached a proposed settlement.
One of the most popular punching bags on the presidential campaign trail this year is America's bio-pharmaceutical industry. Bashing drug companies was telegraphed early on as a key Democratic strategy to shift the blame for the failure of Obamacare to contain health care costs away from the Democratic/insurance industry alliance that wrote the law.
A controversial new federal court ruling could make sharing your passwords for subscription services a federal crime punishable with prison time. It found certain instances of sharing passwords are prosecutable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act - legislation predominantly concerned with hacking, and described as 'the worst law in technology'.
President Barack Obama is laying out a blueprint for addressing unsolved problems with his signature health law, including a renewed call for a "public option" to let Americans buy insurance from the government. Obama's assessment of the Affordable Care Act comes in an eight-page article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a peer-reviewed publication.
In arguing that Mrs. Clinton should not face felony charges of grossly negligent mishandling of classified information, the director illustrated that Mrs. Clinton is overwhelmingly guilty of grossly negligent mishandling of classified information. It made me wonder how many dozens - scores? hundreds? - of defendants Comey, in his 15 stellar years as a federal prosecutor, had convicted on a bare fraction of the proof he outlined against the former secretary of state.