President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump
Talk about a hodge-podge. This week in politics was like a “pot-luck” dinner of a wide variety of food: some tasty, some God-awful. So much crazy stuff is going on, so let’s “brunch” on that this week!
“States Cut Unemployment Benefits” – As of Friday, eighteen states – West Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Montana, Iowa, Georgia, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming and Utah – have decided to end the weekly $300 state supplement to unemployment benefits. Too many workers, the governors say, are not going back to work because they can make more sitting at home collecting unemployment.
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Nearly 22.8 million Americans watched last month as a Minnesota jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd with a knee on his neck.
Hundreds of thousands of people listened to livestreamed audio last year as the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether then-President Donald Trump s tax returns should be turned over to investigators.
Even less well-known cases are drawing keen public interest. Roughly 350 people watched via Zoom on Tuesday as former nursing assistant Reta Mays was sentenced in federal court to seven life terms in prison for using insulin to murder aging patients in a West Virginia VA hospital.
Can Veterans Affairs officials spot another serial killer hiding in their midst? 3 hours ago This week, a former nursing assistant from the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.Va., (shown here in July 2020) was sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven patients with insulin injections in 2017 and 2018. (Gene J. Puskar/AP) Before former Veterans Affairs nursing assistant Reta Mays to life in prison for murdering patients at a West Virginia VA hospital, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Kleeh blasted her as a “monster,” a calculated killer who used available opportunities to commit “evil” against elderly, infirm veterans.
Louis A Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg
Lapses in oversight allowed veterans to be killed by a night shift nursing aide at a West Virginia veterans hospital, a federal probe concluded, but the leaders who allowed those lapses haven’t been fired. Instead, they have been shifted to jobs in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The VA announced last Christmas Eve that the hospital’s director, Glenn Snider Jr., would no longer serve in that role. Snider was reassigned and has been working at a regional office.
The medical center’s top executive for nursing was also reassigned to another job within the agency last Dec. 28.
Woman Who Murdered 7 Veterans In VA Hospital Gets Multiple Life Sentences
A former nursing assistant has been given multiple life sentences for the murder of seven elderly veterans after she admitted last year to intentionally using fatal injections of insulin to kill the men at a medical center for veterans in West Virginia.
Reta Mays, 46, received seven consecutive life sentences plus 20 years on Tuesday after she pleaded guilty in federal court in July to seven counts of second-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to commit murder.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh said that evidence showed she had conducted internet searches on female serial killers and watched the Netflix series Nurses Who Kill.