Parliament speaker says its clear that there were casualties its been more than 2 weeks since young people began demonstrating against Police Brutality the manufacturer of a powerful painkiller that helped to set off an Opioid Epidemic in the u. S. Will plead guilty to criminal charges as part of an 8000000000. 00 settlement Purdue Pharma makes the Prescription Drug oxycontin which is linked to an addiction crisis thats killed more than 400000 people in the past 20 years but the deal does not release any of the companys executives or owners including members of the wealthy secular family from criminal liability. The unlawful dangerous scheme put profits over people by seeking to increase scripts for addictive jaros even when they were not medically appropriate and at the height of the u. S. Opioid crisis a time when in vermont where im from and across the country people were suffering under opioid addictions that sometimes ended and and so many of those addiction stories began with oxy
Unions saying they too have a right to a family. And drumming home an Anti Government message Indigenous People join the thousands of protesters in the colombian capitol. Nigerian protesters have defined a curfew and faced off against Security Forces in the countrys biggest city as demonstrations against Police Brutality threaten to paralyze the nation a 24 hour curfew has been imposed in lagos the financial heart of africas largest economy thats where Security Forces fired at protests as late on tuesday drawing International Condemnation the Rights Group Amnesty International says at least 12 people were killed that night but i mean the violence on the military the government has not confirmed that but the Nigerian Parliament speaker says its clear that there were casualties its been more than 2 weeks since young people began demonstrating against Police Brutality after a video of a man being beaten by offices allegedly from the special anti robbery squad known as saws went viral repo
A powerful painkiller will plead guilty to aiding the start of the u. S. Opioid epidemic is part of an 8000000000. 00 set. And in some of the clearest language to date the head of the Roman Catholic church says same sex relationships should be protected by law. Nigerian protesters have defied a curfew during a face off with Security Forces as demonstrations against Police Brutality threaten to paralyze the nation the Rights Group Amnesty International says at least 12 people were killed on tuesday night leaving the violence of the military up and it drew support in the capital abuja. And Early Morning fire set by arsonists burns park to be coarse at a government bus station in lagos Officials Say 30 buses were destroyed. In lekki while Security Forces opened fire on protesters the previous night the standoff continues. The latest state governor who visited victims of tuesdays attack in hospital said more than 2 dozen have been hospitalized so you know chance. For. You. Well. We have no
Gunshots in the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by shooting legendary by nigerias Security Forces. Im told me all of the ball welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comments in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Im now joined by chicago based journalist Michael A Laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt
Speaker pelosi and secretary mnuchin set to talk this morning after House Democrats roll out a new scaled down pandemic aid bill and calling it a propagator of disinformation, why the Biden Campaign is blasting facebook ahead of tonights president ial debate jim, david, good to see you guys, welcome back im taken aback, jim, by your tweet a moment ago about stimulus and sort of a fatalist i can view of what the restaurant sector is facing in this country. I will be candid, we ran out of ppp about three months ago, some of us have just decided to pay lots of employees to do nothing and its been its done they had a chance. I think they made a decision that you would have to keep these people on until we had a vaccine, so Neither Party agreed to anything and its too late. Theres nobody to give ppp to for the most part in restaurants except look, the winners were darden in the Small Business side, we know that they were viewed as nonessential, they never snapped back unless they had someth