Overstreet's Law

10/20/2021

Seems like this has taken forever. Once this is scaled up, organ failure may be a thing of the past.

The kidney, which came from a genetically altered pig, worked normally and showed no signs of rejection. It's seen as a significant step toward using animal organs for life-saving transplants.

10/12/2021

Some synthetic chemicals called phthalates in consumer products may linked to early death, especially from heart disease, a new study has found.

08/25/2021

07/20/2021

You can get a dui while on the job, crash into someone, and still not get fired?

A Tulsa police officer is on restricted assignment after allegedly causing a collision while under the influence of alcohol.

06/27/2021

"This is the end of the case against Julian Assange," tweeted NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, adding, "If Biden continues to seek the extradition of a publisher under an indictment poisoned top-to-bottom with false testimony admitted by its own star witness, the damage to the United States' reputation on press freedom would last for a generation. It's unavoidable."

"Now it’s time to have an international inquiry on how Sweden, UK, US, Ecuador and Australia have handled the Julian Assange case. My FOIA provides evidence nothing is normal in this case," tweeted investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi.

It just says so much that the most powerful government in the world, with all its essentially limitless resources, needed to build its case against Assange on false testimony from a diagnosed sociopath and convicted child molester. That's how strong their case was against a journalist whose only "crime" was telling the truth about the powerful."

Listen to a reading of this article: The Icelandic newspaper Stundin reports that a key witness in the US prosecution of Julian Assange has admitted in an interview with the outlet that he fabricated critical accusations in the indictment against the

05/07/2021

People are proven innocent after being put to death or after serving 20 years ALL THE TIME. One of the reasons we call it the “injustice system”.

Lawyers’ request to conduct additional DNA testing before Ledell Lee was executed had been denied.

04/27/2021

Police station surveillance video shows Colorado officers laughing while watching footage from the body camera. One officer said, "I love it."

04/26/2021

Not a single shot fired in all of 2020. What this headline doesn’t quite say is that community organizations are doing AMAZING work in Newark to address the root causes of violence.

04/25/2021

I’ve seen a lot of judges get overruled, but never this. Her decision was based on the new U.S. Supreme Court decision which struck down Florida’s death penalty. Yet, instead of just an appeal, they suspended her.

In a 109-page complaint filed on April 6, 2021, the Commission charged Judge Tracie Todd (pictured), a criminal court trial judge in the Birmingham Division of the Jefferson County Circuit Court, “with multiple incidents of abuse of judicial power and abandonment of the judicial role of detachment...

04/16/2021

Cure for Cancer #13,490

ANSTO has contributed to a comprehensive investigation of a promising type of nanoparticle that could potentially be used for intractable brain cancers in a combined therapy.

04/15/2021

Fired for trying to stop an officer from using a chokehold on someone in handcuffs...
THAT’S what gets cops fired, which is why bad apples are still spoiling the barrel.

"I had five children and I lost everything but [the suspect] did not lose his life," Horne said then. "So, if I have nothing else to live for in life, at least I can know that I did the right thing and that [he] still breathes” said former Officer Horne.

A Black police officer in Buffalo, New York, who was fired in 2008 for intervening when a White colleague employed a chokehold will be given back pay and a pension, a New York judge ruled.