Wisconsin man, 22, dead from asthma attack after price on inhaler skyrockets from $66 to over $500, parents claim in explosive lawsuit

A Wisconsin 22-year-old man died from an asthma attack when the price of his inhaler skyrocketed to over $500 and he was forced to choose to pay for rent over the “life-sustaining medicine,” his parents claim. Cole Schmidtknecht’s family is demanding damages from Walgreens Pharmacy and United Health Group’s OptumRx for their alleged actions leading … Read more

FBI provides the Trump Justice Department with details about 5,000 employees who worked Jan. 6 cases: reports 

The FBI complied with an order from President Trump’s Justice Department on Tuesday and provided DOJ officials with information about more than 5,000 employees who worked on investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, according to multiple reports.  The demand, made by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove last week, … Read more

Home-schoolers rally to Huckabee

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee calls his cadre of loyal volunteers “Huck’s Army.” And one of his premiere battalions is a tight network of Christian home-schooling families who view the campaign as a civic — and educational — duty. Huckabee has spent roughly $400,000 campaigning in Iowa and has hired enough full-time workers in recent … Read more

Bilingual education has been absent from California public schools for almost 20 years. But that may soon change

Elena Marqueto–Kelly teaches an advanced Spanish class for first- to third-graders at Grupo Educa School in Pasadena. (Axel Koester / For the Los Angeles Times) Ricardo Lara was in college when California voters approved a law that required public school students to speak and learn only in English. It was a debate, the now-state-senator remembers, … Read more

St. John’s winning with style that’s throwback to what defined Big East: ‘Incredible violence’

Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post The only thing that could have made all of this better is if somehow, for one night, the great John F.X. Condon could’ve been transported back to his old seat, courtside, behind the public-address microphone at Madison Square Garden. “Welcome to Madison Square Garden, the world’s most famous arena!” … Read more

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