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FBI: Truck Driver Threatened Mass Shooting At Memphis Church
A truck driver has been arrested after saying he would commit a mass shooting at a church in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities say in newly filed court records. Thomas Matthew McVicker was apprehended i...
Syndicated Author Aug 20, 2019

Records: Epstein Signed Will 2 Days Before Jailhouse Suicide
NEW YORK - Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a long battle over the financier's fortune. ...
Syndicated Author Aug 20, 2019

Brand-name drug prices rising at slower pace, lower amounts
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to. That’s according to an Associated Press...
Syndicated Author Aug 19, 2019

Pentagon conducts 1st test of previously banned missile
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon says the U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned ...
Syndicated Author Aug 19, 2019

Virginia school board will keep defending transgender policy
GLOUCESTER, Va. (AP) – A school board in Virginia says it will keep fighting in court to defend its transgender bathroom ban. The Gloucester County School Board said it intends to appeal a recen...
Syndicated Author Aug 19, 2019

NYPD Fires Officer For Death Of Eric Garner
NEW YORK - After five years of investigations and protests, New York City's police commissioner on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of an unarmed black man whose dying crie...
Syndicated Author Aug 19, 2019

US Extends Ban On Passports For North Korea Travel
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is extending a ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea for another year.A State Department notice released Monday says the ban will remain in p...
Syndicated Author Aug 19, 2019

Ex-Metro Chair Threatened Jobs, Tried To Hide Ethics Issue
WASHINGTON – Confidential documents show the former chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority sought to limit an ethics investigation and prevent its findings from being mad...
Syndicated Author Aug 19, 2019

Afghanistan Vows To Crush Islamic State Havens After Attack
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's president on Monday vowed to "eliminate" all safe havens of the Islamic State group as the country marked a subdued 100th Independence Day after a horrific wedding a...
Syndicated Author Aug 19, 2019

‘Easy Rider’ star and writer Peter Fonda has died at 79
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Peter Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right both writing and starring in counterculture classics like “Easy Rider,” has die...
Syndicated Author Aug 16, 2019
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