Four people filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday demanding that Facebook prevent militias and hate groups from using the site, after a militia group used the platform to draw armed people to protests in Wisconsin last month that left two people dead. Prosecutors have charged 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse with shooting and… Read More
Two nuclear waste cleaning companies fined $58 million
Two companies that do work at a former nuclear weapons production plant will pay fines of nearly $58 million for improperly billing the federal government for thousands of hours of work that were not performed. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday afternoon announced the settlement involving the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a Manhattan… Read More
Biden bombshell uncovered by investigators
Two Republican-led Senate committees issued a bombshell investigative report Wednesday alleging that the work Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, did in Ukraine constituted a conflict of interest for the Obama administration at a time when Biden was engaged in Ukraine policy as vice president. The Biden campaign pointed… Read More
This coronavirus vaccine test has Trump cheering
Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus. The study starting Wednesday will be one of the world’s largest coronavirus vaccine studies so far, testing the shot in 60,000 volunteers in the U.S., South Africa,… Read More
Dems plan to pack Supreme Court
The prospect that President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans will fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before the year is out has ignited a call among Democrats to pack the high court — and unprecedented move by liberal lawmakers as a response to the first potentially conservative court… Read More
Global stocks up — investors watching for this news
World stocks mostly rose on Wednesday as investors digested new data showing Europe’s economic recovery may be slowing and looked ahead to a testimony by the Federal Reserve’s chairman. Surveys of purchasing managers by IHS Markit indicated business activity slowed in the region using the euro. Signs of strength in… Read More
Lizzie Borden’s infamous house up for sale
A home where Lizzie Borden lived in Fall River, Massachusetts, is on the market again, after being sold most recently in 2018. The current owners, Donald Woods and Leeann Wilber, also operate a Borden-themed museum and bed-and-breakfast at a different home where Borden was famously accused of killing her father… Read More
Grim milestone: 200,000 coronavirus deaths
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, hitting the grim milestone six weeks before an election that is certain to be a referendum in part on President Donald Trump’s handling of the crisis. “It is completely unfathomable that we’ve reached this point,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns… Read More
Witchcraft worshipping killer is executed by U.S.
The U.S. government on Tuesday executed a former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to kill a Georgia nurse he believed had put a spell on him. William Emmett LeCroy, 50, was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m. EDT after receiving a lethal injection at the same U.S…. Read More
City defunded police, shocked that crime skyrocketed
by Frank Holmes, reporter Last week, gunmen in Minneapolis shot down a 17-year-old campaign worker for the Republican trying to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar. Police say the murder wasn’t politically motivated; it was part of a historic spike in violent crimes that followed the city’s decision to “defund the police.”… Read More
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