Month: August 2022

Former Attorney General Bill Barr called the most recent federal grand jury subpoenas to investigate the Jan. 6, 2020 Capitol riot “a major event,” suggesting government prosecutors are investigating senior officials and allies. from the Trump administration, and even former President Donald. trump “That suggests to me that they’re taking a look at the group at the top, including the president and the people immediately around him who were involved in this,” Barr told CBS News’ Catherine Herridge in an interview Friday . The grand jury met weekly; at the end of July, Mark Shortformer Vice President Mike Pence’s chief…

Time to keep up with a newly single Kim Kardashian. The Kardashian star and Pete Davidson have split and decided to just be friends, sources close to the couple exclusively tell E! news Insiders shared that while the couple has “a lot of love and respect for each other,” they found that the distance and their demanding schedules “make it very difficult to maintain a relationship.” The split happened sometime this week. Pete has spent part of the summer in Australia working on the movie Wizards!. As for Kim, she continues to raise four children – North, Psalm, Chicago and…

While the focus is on transfers and the transfer market, Chelsea’s search for a sporting director is also taking a back seat, with the hope of having someone in place, if not very soon, then certainly sooner of the next January transfer window. However, our main target, Michael Edwards, is unavailable, despite leaving Liverpool at the end of the season. While he’s said to have been impressed by Chelsea’s new ‘project’, and there’s no non-compete clause or anything like that preventing him from joining, he’s simply not stopping his planned sabbatical. He had decided to take a break and spend…

Beverly Chase has been promoted to vice president of programming and current development for Vice News and Vice World News, Variety has learned exclusively. Chase was previously the long-form executive producer of Vice News. In her new role, Chase will continue to serve as executive producer and showrunner of “Vice” on Showtime. He will now also oversee original programming, specials and long-form projects as he expands his role on “Vice News Tonight.” “Bev’s superb visual sense and masterful command of story make much of our award-winning work at Vice News,” said Subrata De, executive vice president and global head of…

The City Council voted unanimously Thursday to allow Measure 109 without asking city residents to vote on a ban. A vendor packs psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles in 2019. The Medford City Council decided Thursday not to seek a ban on the medicinal use of the mushrooms. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) Medford will allow psilocybin treatment centers next year, the City Council decided unanimously Thursday night. A proposed November ballot measure asking Medford voters to approve either a two-year ban or a permanent ban on psilocybin therapy was rejected. Instead, Medford staff will develop time, place…

Ashland fire chief says too many calls, not enough staff Rescue personnel from Ashland Fire & Rescue and Jackson County Fire District No. 5 practice extrication. [Mail Tribune/ file photo] Ashland Fire and Rescue Chief Ralph Sartain appeared before the Ashland City Council Tuesday and painted a picture of a fire department under fire. Ashland Fire & Rescue personnel are often in the position of responding to overlapping calls — fire and medical calls coming in at the same time, Sartain said. Ashland Fire & Rescue is the ambulance and fire service for the city of Ashland, responding to both…

AUSTIN, Texas – (AP) – A Texas jury ruled Friday Alex Jones of Infowars to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a slain first grader the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacrewhich the conspiracy theorist falsely called a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten US gun laws. The amount is less than the $150 million sought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 children and six educators killed in the deadliest classroom shooting in US history united The judgment is the first time Jones has…

Today, the FDA approved darolutamide in combination with docetaxel chemotherapy for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). This means that patients with mHSPC (prostate cancer that has spread beyond the prostate and is responding to hormone therapy, or who have not yet received hormone therapy) have an additional treatment option. Darolutamide (Nubeqa) is a new hormone therapy that works by blocking the androgen receptor. Androgens are the hormones that act as the “fuel” for prostate cancer. The approval is based on the results of a large phase 3 clinical trial called ARASENS. This trial compared outcomes between 1,300 patients…