Jon Batiste earns 11 Grammy nominations
Entertainment Tonight's Kevin Frazier joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero with a look at the 2022 Grammy Awards nominees, including Jon Batiste. He is nominated for 11 awards, including an album of the year nod for "We Are" and for record of the year with "Freedom," a feel-good ode to the city of New Orleans. His nominations span several genres including R&B, jazz, American roots music, classical and music video. The 64th Annual Grammy Awards will take place on January 31, 2022, and will air on CBS and Paramount+, which are divisions of ViacomCBS.
news.yahoo.comProtesters say French anti-radicalism law is anti-Muslim
An activist holds a placard reading Freedom guides all people during a gathering in Paris, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Activists rallied Sunday in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say could trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)PARIS – Activists rallied Sunday in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say could trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects. French lawmakers hold a key vote Tuesday on the draft law, which is expected to win approval in both houses of parliament. 2 religion even though the majority of French Muslims do not espouse extremist views.
Lessons from the trip Martin Luther King Jr. took to Michigan State University in 1965
DETROIT – On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, many will remember that Detroit was the rehearsal for the civil rights icon’s I Have a Dream speech. Not much is known about the two visits Dr. King made to Michigan State University in the 1960s. Dr. King spoke passionately about achieving a world brotherhood perspective, abolishing the notion of superior and inferior races, and ridding the world of segregation. Don’t let the bullies with the rifles and shotguns intimidate you,” said Dr. Green. And both Dr. Green who is now 87 and Washington, 76, more than 50 years later believe that much of what King spoke about in that speech is still being fought for today.
Compound Ingredient Supplier Fagron Holding USA LLC to Pay $22.05 Million to Resolve Allegations of False and Inflated Average Wholesale Prices for Ingredients Used in Compounded Prescriptions
We will not allow the systematic abuse of federal healthcare programs through pricing schemes designed to enrich a few at the expense of federal taxpayers, said Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the Department of Justices Civil Division. Freedom knew that compound prescription reimbursement under these federal programs was based in part on the AWPs it reported to various price listing agencies for its ingredients. Freedom knowingly inflated the AWPs for its ingredients in order to increase the reimbursement that its pharmacy customers received from federal healthcare programs for using Freedoms ingredients. Freedoms fraudulent pricing scheme for its ingredients enabled its pharmacy customers to bill federal healthcare programs thousands of dollars per prescription for some compound formulations. Under the False Claims Act, private parties may sue on behalf of the government for false claims for government funds and to receive a share of any recovery.
justice.govMore than 3,000 prisoners released under First Step Act
They were released from prisons and halfway houses across the country under the First Step Act signed into law by the president last year. For non-violent drug offenders like Norah Yahya, the new law is a new beginning, allowing some prisoners like her to be released early. "It was very challenging, and a lot of the programs at that time weren't geared toward release," Yahya said. The new law is also designed to help inmates transition back into society and the largest group of released inmates are drug offenders. After spending 18 years of her life in prison, Yahya said she was to do better.
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