A judge dismissed criminal charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in the Flint water crisis, months after the state Supreme Court said indictments returned by a one-person grand jury were invalid. Snyder, a Republican who left office in 2019, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of misconduct in office. He …
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Four Navy sailors appear to have died by suicide over the course of less than a month in the same Navy command in Norfolk, Va., according to a Navy official. All of them were assigned to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC), which repairs and maintains military ships. Most of …
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President Joe Biden urged Congress Monday to intervene to avert a “potentially crippling national rail shutdown,” after multiple rail labor unions shot down an agreement brokered by the White House in September. American consumers and virtually all industries could take a hit at the beginning of the holiday season if …
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A federal judge in Maryland said Wednesday that there is a “very high likelihood” he will order a mental evaluation for a California man charged with trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. District Judge Peter Messitte said during a brief hearing that he believes a mental evaluation will …
Read More »The campaign manager for Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist has been dismissed after being arrested earlier this week in Maryland on a domestic violence charge, according to court records reviewed by CBS News. According to Maryland court records, 43-year-old Austin Durrer was arrested Oct. 18 on a count of …
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Washington — Former President Donald Trump has reached a settlement with Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee and his accounting firm, Mazars, in a lengthy court battle over a 2019 subpoena for years of his financial records, according to a court filing Wednesday. Lawyers for the former president …
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The Secret Service has returned about $286 million in wrongfully obtained COVID-relief loans to the Small Business Administration, the agency announced Friday. The federal small business loan program was set up to help small businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impacts. Conspirators fraudulently obtained Economic Injury Disaster Loans with …
Read More »Atlanta — A federal appeals court on Sunday agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court’s order requiring that Sen. Lindsey Graham testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating plots to overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss in Georgia. The South Carolina Republican had received …
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Washington — The House on Tuesday passed the Respect for Marriage Act, which would protect marriage equality by repealing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and providing federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples. The bill passed 267-157, with 47 Republicans joining every Democrat voting in favor of the bill. …
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Washington – A federal grand jury has indicted the 19-year-old White man accused of killing 10 Black people and wounding others at a Buffalo, NY supermarket in May on hate crimes and weapons charges, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Prosecutors allege Payton Gendron opened fire outside and inside the Tops …
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