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Rand Paul Confronted on Mitt Romney Endorsement

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
Luke Rudkowski | Is playing politics a good enough reason for endorsing a Goldman Sachs-funded, flip flopping, warmongering Bilderberg puppet?

Niagara Falls crowd builds for Wallenda wire walk

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The Wallenda family likes challenges.

Nik Wallenda will have plenty of them Friday night when he attempts what nobody has done before: A high wire walk directly over the precipice at Niagara Falls and 190 feet above the churning torrent below. Though tethered to the wire ...

US reveals accusations against Secret Service

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government has revealed details of serious allegations against Secret Service agents and officers since 2004, including claims of involvement with prostitutes, leaking sensitive information, publishing pornography, sexual assault, illegal wiretaps, improper use of weapons and drunken behavior. It wasn't immediately clear how many of the accusations were confirmed to be true....
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Correction: Western Wildfires-Tanker Planes story

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- In a June 14 story about U.S. Forest Service plans to modernize the nation's fleet of tanker planes for fighting wildfires, The Associated Press, relying on incorrect information from the Forest Service, erroneously reported the slurry capacity of seven tanker planes to be contracted. The new planes will have a minimum capacity of 3,000 gallons, not 2,400 gallons....
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Report: Don't worry much about quakes and fracking

WASHINGTON — The controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas does not pose a high risk for triggering earthquakes large enough to feel, but other types of energy-related drilling can make the ground noticeably shake, a major government science report concludes.

Even those man-made tremors large enough to ...

Mont. authorities say hitchhiker shot himself

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A West Virginia man who claimed to be a victim of a drive-by shooting along a rural Montana highway while working on a memoir called "Kindness in America" has confessed to shooting himself, authorities said Friday....
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Report: Don't worry much about quakes and fracking

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas does not pose a high risk for triggering earthquakes large enough to feel, but other types of energy-related drilling can make the ground noticeably shake, a major government science report concludes....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Former Goldman Sachs director convicted in NYC

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former Goldman Sachs director was found guilty Friday of feeding confidential information to a corrupt hedge fund manager, becoming the most prominent defendant convicted so far in a wide-ranging probe conducted by investigators armed with wiretaps....
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Former Goldman Sachs director convicted in NYC

NEW YORK — A former Goldman Sachs director was found guilty Friday of feeding confidential information to a corrupt hedge fund manager, becoming the most prominent defendant convicted so far in a wide-ranging probe conducted by investigators armed with wiretaps.

Rajat Gupta — born in India, educated at Harvard and ...

Official: Body found near home of missing NY doc

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A body was found Friday near the home of a special forces soldier-turned-trauma surgeon who was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the killing of his ex-girlfriend in a Buffalo hospital, a law enforcement official said....
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In many statehouses, GOP confronts dissention

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republicans set out a bold conservative agenda after taking control of state capitols across the Midwest and South in the last general election. They wanted to cut taxes and spending, put new limits on labor unions, crack down on illegal immigrants and give parents more alternatives to traditional public schools....
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Mont. authorities say hitchhiker shot himself

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Authorities say a West Virginia man who claimed to be a victim of a drive-by shooting along a rural Montana highway has confessed to shooting himself....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Former Goldman Sachs director convicted in NYC

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former Goldman Sachs director accused of feeding confidential information to a corrupt hedge fund manager has been convicted of conspiracy and three counts of securities fraud....
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73-year-old gets life term in old grudge killing

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
MADISON, S.D. (AP) -- A jockstrap pulled over his head in a high school locker room more than 50 years ago provoked a 73-year-old South Dakota man to fatally shoot his long-ago classmate, a prosecutor said Friday....
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US reveals accusations against Secret Service

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:23
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government has revealed details of serious allegations against Secret Service agents and officers since 2004, including claims of involvement with prostitutes, leaking sensitive information, publishing pornography, sexual assault, illegal wiretaps, improper use of weapons and drunken behavior. It wasn't immediately clear how many of the accusations were confirmed to be true....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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