(Headline USA) Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims from insurers and health care funds that its work with drug companies helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis. The agreement was revealed late Friday in documents filed in federal court in San Francisco. The settlement must still be approved…

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(Headline USA) An off-duty police officer was shot and killed in North Carolina after witnessing a crime at a gas station and approaching the two suspects, officials said. The police sergeant, whose name hasn’t been released, was a 22-year veteran of the Greensboro Police Department, Chief John Thompson said during a news conference Saturday night.…

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T-Mobile’s new terms of service (TOS) policy will fine companies advertising guns over its network using A2P messaging (SMS, MMS, Short Code, Toll-Free, and 10DLC). The prohibition does not only apply to guns; peer-to-peer (P2P) messaging is unaffected. P2P messaging goes between a minimum of two retail clients. The new restriction only applies to third-party…

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(Kevin Bessler, The Center Square) – A new animal welfare law going into effect in California Jan. 1 that mandates space requirements for pigs, cows and chickens has some livestock farmers on edge. Proposition 12 prohibits sales in California of pork, veal and eggs from livestock whose confinement doesn’t meet certain minimum space rules. Those…

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A 9-1-1 operator who tells a terrified woman that she is unable to send any police officers to her location effectively illustrates the importance of gun ownership. The woman who barricaded herself inside her house and told the operator that her violent and enraged ex-boyfriend, who had previously put her in the hospital, was outside…

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(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A Democratic lawmaker drew a comparison between the insurrection clause of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. citizenship requirement to defend efforts preventing former President Donald Trump from being on multiple state primary ballots.  House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., claimed on Sunday that blocking Republican voters from supporting Trump…

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(David Mastio, The Center Square) – In 2024, as the possibility of a Donald Trump/Joe Biden presidential rematch looks more and more possible, the University of California system will take on a prominent role in national politics, not for cutting edge political science research, legal theories or technology, but as a cash cow. Donations from…

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(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Christians in Nigeria are reportedly being killed in masse by armed militants in the region segregated between the majority-Muslim north and the predominately south, harrowing reports alleged.  According to Fox News, over 100 Christians fell victim to a massacre on Dec. 25, worsening a growing number of atrocities in the West African country.…

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(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recent report revealed that Washington, D.C., had the highest percentage of LGBT individuals per capita, making it the gayest place in the country. According to a study by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, 14.3% of the present population of the District of Columbia openly charted…

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(Headline USA) Maine’s leftist secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Trump remains eligible to continue his campaign. The decision by Secretary of State Shenna…

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