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Is Election Day a federal holiday? What you should know about voting in 2024

What we now know about key non-presidential elections in November While the presidential race gets most of the attention, here's what we know about other important races this fall. Every four years, Americans go to the polls to vote in the presidential election. This year, America could vote for a Kamala Harris-Tim Walz or Donald […]

By Andrew Jack

October 22, 2024October 22, 2024

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Travel expenses paid by Trump supporters for Jan. 6 rally: new evidence

Following the SCOTUS ruling, Trump filed a new charge of election interference The new indictment aims to distinguish Donald Trump's private actions, which could be charged, from public duties, which would be immune. WASHINGTON – A trove of new records released in the federal election interference case against former President Donald Trump detail how money […]

By Andrew Jack

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024

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The FBI has quietly revised 2022 crime data to show that violent crimes have increased rather than decreased

Former President Donald Trump faced numerous “fact checks” during the campaign that used FBI statistics to claim that violent crime in America was declining. However, in recent weeks the office has quietly adjusted its numbers for 2022 – and the new numbers show that crimes overall have actually increased. The bureau's seemingly secret editing of […]

By Andrew Jack

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024

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Olympian accused of smuggling cocaine into Canada via LA – NBC Los Angeles

An Olympic snowboarder and 15 others have been accused of running a massive international drug smuggling operation that involved smuggling cocaine from Colombia to Canada through Mexico using Los Angeles as a transportation hub, federal authorities announced Thursday. Ryan Wedding, a Canadian citizen who competed for Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake […]

By Andrew Jack

October 17, 2024October 17, 2024

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How strong is the Eric Adams case? The opinion of a SDNY prosecutor

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams Photo: Alex Kent/Getty Images New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been in the spotlight for months, and now he himself is in the firing line. We've never seen anything like this: just a few blocks away, the government is bringing charges against the […]

By Andrew Jack

September 26, 2024September 26, 2024

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Luis Armando Albino, who was kidnapped as a boy, is said to have been found alive

Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old when he was kidnapped from an Oakland park in 1951. His family found him more than 70 years later on the East Coast, local news reports. A man who was abducted from a California park as a boy more than 70 years ago was recently reunited with his […]

By Andrew Jack

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024

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Congressman denies Matt Gaetz’s “sex party” allegations

PNJ headlines: This was Friday’s news “One pill will kill” is the fentanyl warning for Santa Rosa students, and Escambia has two offers from unnamed companies for parcels of the OLF 8 property In a sex scandal that made headlines, three sealed witnesses claim that Congressman Matt Gaetz attended a party in 2017 that included […]

By Andrew Jack

September 21, 2024September 21, 2024