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ATLANTA: Unsafe. Unsanitary. Teeming with insects. When Donald Trump surrenders on Thursday to face charges he tried to overturn the 2020 he is expected to do so at an Atlanta jail where conditions are so notorious they are under investigation by the Justice Department. The 77-year-old former president and the 18 co-defendants in the election
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Tropical Storm Franklin was lashing the Dominican Republic on Wednesday morning, bringing heavy rain and potentially life-threatening flash flooding to the island of Hispaniola.As the storm moved north across the Dominican Republic early Wednesday afternoon, tropical storm warnings were in effect for the country’s southern and northern coasts and Turks and Caicos, meteorologists said. A
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COLUMBIA: The first Republican presidential debate provided an opportunity for candidates to make their cases directly to a national audience, and some of that attention is translating into fundraising boosts.Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has taken in $450,000 since Wednesday night’s debate, with an average donation of $38, campaign spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON: Two former precious metals traders at JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) were sentenced on Tuesday for engaging in fraud, attempted price manipulation and spoofing, the US Justice Department said in a statement.Gregg Smith, 59, of Scarsdale, New York, was sentenced to two years in prison and a $50,000 fine while Michael Nowak, 49, of Montclair, New
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PORTLAND: An 86-year-old man accused of assuming his brother’s identity decades ago and using it to double dip on social security benefits has been convicted of several charges, caught by facial recognition technology that matched the same face to two different identities, authorities say.Napoleon Gonzalez, of Etna, assumed the identity of his brother in 1965,
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The union representing 340,000 UPS workers said Tuesday that its members voted to approve the tentative contract agreement reached last month, putting a final seal on contentious labor negotiations that threatened to disrupt package deliveries for millions of businesses and households nationwide.The Teamsters said in a statement that 86% of the votes casts were in
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A Georgia sheriff pleaded guilty Monday to groping TV Judge Glenda Hatchett, who recalled being so stunned that she froze when the lawman grabbed and squeezed her breast at a hotel bar last year during a law enforcement conference. Bleckley County Sheriff Kristopher Coody pleaded guilty in Cobb County State Court to a misdemeanor charge
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A second person has died in wildfires in eastern Washington state that ignited on Friday during red flag conditions, burning hundreds of structures and closing a section of a major interstate for days, fire officials said.A body was found in the area burned by the Oregon fire north of Spokane on Sunday afternoon, fire officials
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The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Pfizer‘s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for use in women during the middle of the third trimester of pregnancy to protect their babies. The approval allows the vaccine to be given to women 32 to 36 weeks into a pregnancy to prevent lower respiratory tract infection
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ATLANTA: Donald Trump‘s bond has been set at $200,000 in the Georgia case accusing the former president of scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss, according to court papers filed Monday. The bond agreement was outlined in a court filing signed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Trump’s defense attorneys. Trump was charged
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