Deadly clash at Palestinian camp inflames region ahead of Blinken tripA deadly Israeli military raid Thursday in the occupied West Bank killed nine suspected Palestinian militants and sent regional tensions soaring ahead of a planned visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region in the coming days.
Blinken will travel to Mideast amid US concern over violenceSecretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend in his first trip to the Middle East this year, amid an escalation in Israeli-Palestinian violence, U.S. concerns over the direction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government and ongoing issues with Egypt’s human rights record. The State Department said Thursday that Blinken would leave Washington on Saturday for stops in Cairo, Jerusalem and Ramallah. The announcement came just hours after an Israeli raid on suspected terrorists in the West Bank city of Jenin that Palestinian officials say killed nine people in the deadliest such incident this year.
‘The state threw them to the wolves’: Health department struggles to manage massive medical marijuana programThe Health Department office charged with running Mississippi’s new medical marijuana program is steeped in disorganization, a Mississippi Today investigation found. Still don’t see $$ in this. The state powers will do everything possible to make this difficult because they attempted to ignore the will of 3/4 of our populace who support medical cannibis. In Mississippi there is disorganization? No, say it ain’t so 🤣🤣
State Justice Department hasn’t probed — or even logged — all police shootings of possibly unarmed peopleThe department told CalMatters it can’t say how many cases it chose not to investigate during the past 18 months under a new state law, which aimed to ensure state oversight of police shootings. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minnesota at police hands, CA stepped up with a plan: Put the state in charge of investigating police shootings of unarmed people. CalMatters is tracking these cases here:
Washington State Department of Health, Northwest Blood Coalition asking for blood donationsDonation opportunities are available through Red Cross, Bloodworks Northwest, Vitalant, and Cascade Regional Blood Centers.
20 Ways You Can Help Fight Human Trafficking – United States Department of StateAnyone can join in the fight against human trafficking. Here are 20 ideas to consider. Learn the indicators of human trafficking on the TIP Office’s website or by taking a training. Human trafficking awareness training is available for individuals, businesses, first responders, law enforcement, educators, and federal employees, among others. If you are in the United States and believe someone may be […]
