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2023-01-28 18:34 |
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried, DOJ tussle over his communications... Federal prosecutors are trying to prohibit FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried from privately contacting current and former employees of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange to prevent potential witness tampering in a criminal case accusing him of bilking inves... |
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2023-01-27 17:04 |
US charges 3 in plot to kill Iranian-American author in NYC... The Justice Department has charged three men as part of an Iran-backed plot to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses, officials said Friday.... |
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2023-01-26 23:22 |
'Reading Lolita in Tehran' and other accounts of the oppression of women in Iran... Since the revolution, Iranian women have attempted to get the story of their oppression out to the world.... |
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2023-01-23 23:08 |
Former top FBI official in New York charged with aiding oligarch... A former high-level FBI official has been indicted in New York and Washington, D.C., on charges of taking money from a former foreign intelligence service agent and conspiring to violate US sanctions on Russia by taking secret payments from a Russian olig... |
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2023-01-23 17:40 |
Former FBI counterintelligence agent aided Russian oligarch, US says... Charles McGonigal, the special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York from 2016 to 2018, has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch in violation of US sanctions.... |
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2023-01-23 09:55 |
Russia expels Estonia ambassador amid 'destroyed' relations... Russia is expelling Estonia's ambassador and the country's diplomatic mission will be headed by a charge d'affaires, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.... |
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2023-01-23 08:00 |
Will the Republican Party ever play a meaningful role in state government again?... Or will Republicans forever be relegated to holding cardboard signs outside the State House while Democrats govern inside? Take heart, voters.... |
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2023-01-20 08:00 |
GOP grandstanding on the IRS... Republicans are shrugging off laws that target tax cheats. You could almost conclude that they don't have a problem with aggressive policing until it's their rich friends who are in the crosshairs — except that the rich are already less like... |
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2023-01-19 16:52 |
Providence Police chief to lead DOJ Office of Community Oriented Policing... Hugh T. Clements Jr. Clements will lead the COPS Office after 37 years with the Providence Police Department, where he worked in units throughout the department and spent the last 11 years as its chief.... |
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2023-01-19 09:51 |
Zelensky ramps up pressure on Western allies to send tanks... Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky bared frustration Thursday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in Davos about not obtaining enough tanks from some Western countries to help his country defend itself from Russia.... |
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2023-01-19 05:03 |
Hong Kong to scrap isolation rule for new COVID-19 cases... For most of the pandemic over the last three years, Hong Kong has aligned itself with China's "zero-COVID" strategy, requiring those who tested positive to undergo quarantine.... |
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2023-01-18 19:59 |
Boston man charged in plot to hire hitman to kill his wife and her boyfriend... A Boston man was arrested Tuesday on a federal charge alleging he unsuccessfully tried to hire a hitman to kill his wife and his wife's boyfriend, prosecutors said, at one point asking undercover FBI agents, "So how we gonna disappear his, uh, bod... |
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2023-01-18 17:30 |
'A danger to national security': Marjorie Taylor Greene's return to committees draws outrage... Nearly two years after Representative Greene was stripped of her committee assignments in the House for her incendiary remarks, the Georgia Republican is again set to serve on two major panels.... |
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2023-01-18 03:56 |
Embattled lawmaker George Santos assigned to two House committees... Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene will be seated on the House Homeland Security Committee and Representative Paul Gosar will be seated on the House Natural Resources Committee.... |
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2023-01-18 02:12 |
Mass. House declares Democrat winner in 7-vote race; a second contest remains under review... Margaret Scarsdale is scheduled to be sworn in Wednesday, exactly two weeks after nearly every representative-elect had taken the oath of office.... |
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2023-01-17 04:06 |
Ex-GOP candidate arrested in shootings at lawmakers' homes... Solomon Pena lost in November to incumbent state Rep. Miguel P. Garcia, the longtime Democrat representing House District 14 in the South Valley. Garcia won by 48 percentage points, or roughly 3,600 votes.... |
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2023-01-16 10:07 |
Kabul's mannequins, hooded and masked under Taliban rules... The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban's puritanical rule over Afghanistan. But in a way, they are also a small show of resistance and creativity by Kabul's dress merchants.... |
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2023-01-14 05:13 |
Hong Kong DJ who broadcast for six decades dies at 98... Ray Cordeiro, who interviewed music acts including the Beatles during a six-decade career on Hong Kong radio that earned him the title of the world's longest-working disc jockey, has died, his former employer announced.... |
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2023-01-13 21:48 |
Biden to deliver State of the Union address Feb. 7... House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, on Friday invited President Biden to deliver the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 7.... |
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2023-01-12 21:41 |
With FBI search, US escalates global fight over Chinese police outposts... The nondescript, six-story office building on a busy street in New York's Chinatown lists several mundane businesses on its lobby directory, including an engineering company, an acupuncturist, and an accounting firm. A more remarkable enterprise, on t... |
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2023-01-12 18:20 |
Former Takeda worker and boyfriend accused of defrauding drug firm of more than $2.3 million... The FBI alleges they ran a fake consulting firm to swindle the company, whose US headquarters is in Massachusetts.... |
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2023-01-12 16:34 |
Nebraska governor names predecessor to fill Senate seat vacated by Ben Sasse... Republican Jim Pillen surprised no one in naming fellow Republican Pete Ricketts to the seat vacated Sunday by Ben Sasse.... |
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2023-01-11 22:04 |
IRS backlogs continue as Republicans mount offensive... The National Taxpayer Advocate's annual report to Congress detailed how years of cuts to the IRS's budget have crippled its capacity to enforce the tax code and serve taxpayers.... |
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2023-01-11 00:23 |
Connecticut man sentenced to prison for cyberstalking, threatening Massachusetts woman... Marshall Nicholas Fain, 32, of New Haven, Conn., was sentenced to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release, US Attorney Rachael Rollins's office and the FBI's Boston Division announced in a statement Tuesday.... |
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2023-01-10 16:28 |
Representative Katie Porter of Calif. seeking Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat in 2024... Democratic Representative Katie Porter will seek the US Senate seat currently held by Senator Dianne Feinstein, a fellow Democrat and the oldest member of the chamber.... |
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2023-01-10 10:01 |
Lawyers for jailed Hong Kong publisher ask to meet UK PM... Jimmy Lai, the 75-year-old founder of the now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily, was arrested in 2020 during a crackdown on the city's pro-democracy movement.... |
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2023-01-09 23:46 |
DOJ reviewing potentially classified docs at Biden center... The Justice Department is reviewing a batch of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Biden's former institute, the White House said Monday.... |
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2023-01-09 05:36 |
House Republicans preparing broad inquiry into FBI and security agencies... The House plans to vote this week on a resolution to create a special Judiciary subcommittee on what it calls the "weaponization of the federal government," a topic that Republicans have signaled could include reviewing investigations into former ... |
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2023-01-08 11:17 |
Iraq reopens Baghdad's Green Zone to ease traffic jams... Iraqi authorities reopened Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Sunday in an attempt to ease traffic jams in the capital after it was closed and reopened several times in recent years.... |
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