Monthly Archives: January 2023

North Carolina to Legalize Marijuana Within Next Two Years

North Carolina to Legalize Marijuana Within Next Two Years: Gov. Cooper. North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper believes marijuana has a chance of being legalized in the state for medical use within the remaining two years of his term. In his interview with WXII 12 Tuesday, Cooper said the medical marijuana legalization bill "has an opportunity to pass" in the North Carolina General Assembly. The governor said he is also pushing to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana due to reports of discrimination. "I think medical marijuana has passed the Senate this past year, and I think that…

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Police say Indiana University student was targeted in bus by stabbing for being Asian

An 18-year-old Indiana University student was targeted and stabbed on a bus in Bloomington for being Asian, according to police. The 18-year-old from Carmel, Indiana told investigators that while waiting for the doors of a Bloomington transit bus to open, another passenger began to strike her repeatedly in the head, police said in a statement. Billie Davis, 56, told the Bloomington Police Department that she used a folding knife to stab the 18-year-old in the head and targeted her for “being Chinese,” adding “it would be one less person to blow up our country,” according to court documents. Police said…

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Trump is better than Biden in Handling documents, experts laments.

Security experts are sounding off about President Biden's handling of classified materials, suggesting that the documents could have been more susceptible to leaks than those found in former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last year. Under scrutiny from Republicans, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel Thursday to investigate the classified materials, which Biden claims were "inadvertently misplaced." The Justice Department escalated it to a special counsel investigation from a mere review after a second stash of classified documents was found inside the garage of Biden's Wilmington, Delaware, home. The first documents were found inside the Washington, D.C., offices…

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Ethics complaint was file against GOP Rep. George Santos of New York by House Democrats

Two New York Democratic congressmen filed a House Ethics Committee complaint Tuesday against Rep. George Santos, the freshman New York Republican who recently was found to have lied about and embellished details on his resume. Reps. Ritchie Torres and Dan Goldman, in a six-page letter, called on the panel to probe Santos for possibly violating the federal Ethics in Government Act “by failing to file timely, accurate and complete financial disclosure reports as required by law.” The letter, which the lawmakers hand-delivered to Santos’ office on Capitol Hill, called the financial disclosure reports filed for his 2020 and 2022 campaigns…

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