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Continue reading →: New damage delays I-40 reopening in North Carolina closed by Helene
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. — The reopening of a section of Interstate 40 in western North Carolina that collapsed during Hurricane Helene’s historic flooding has been delayed after more asphalt from eastbound lanes fell this week, the state Department of Transportation said on Friday. The primary road connection between North Carolina and…
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Continue reading →: Report alleges Coast Guard leaders kept sexual assault investigation secret
HARTFORD, Conn. — Former top Coast Guard officials hid a yearslong investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the service’s academy from both Congress and the public after leaders debated the fallout from a potential disclosure, according to a U.S. Senate committee report released Friday. Coast Guard officials also took…
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Continue reading →: Minneapolis softens law on obstructing abortion clinics in response to free-speech lawsuit
MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis has softened an ordinance that prohibited the obstruction of entrances and driveways to abortion clinics after anti-abortion activists sued to challenge it on free-speech grounds. The City Council this month quietly amended the ordinance to exclude constitutionally protected activities and agreed to pay the plaintiffs’ legal fees.…
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Continue reading →: Homeland Security agent pleads not guilty to drug distribution conspiracy charge
SALT LAKE CITY — A Department of Homeland Security agent who the FBI says conspired with another agent to sell an illicit drug known as “bath salts” pleaded not guilty to a drug distribution conspiracy charge Friday in federal court. A grand jury in Salt Lake City brought the criminal…
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Continue reading →: Tennessee’s GOP governor is pardoning 43 more people. He stresses it’s not like what Biden did
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Friday announced he is pardoning 43 people who have served out their sentences, stressing that his actions are “very different” than President Joe Biden’s recent wave of commutations. Lee’s latest clemency moves are nearly double his next highest total for a…
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Continue reading →: Flood gates are dropped from a plan to protect the Jersey Shore’s back bays from catastrophic storms
MANASQUAN, N.J. — The federal government has dropped huge gates at the mouths of three inlets, as well as internal waterway barriers from a plan to protect New Jersey’s back bays from the type of catastrophic flooding they endured during Superstorm Sandy. Instead, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in…
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Continue reading →: Alabama profits off prisoners safe enough to work at McDonald’s, deems them too dangerous for parole
DADEVILLE, Ala. — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot and Wayfair. It didn’t matter that Jake Jones once had escaped or that he had…
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Continue reading →: Is the NORAD Santa tracker safe from a government shutdown?
The military’s tradition of tracking Santa Claus on his gravity-defying sweep across the globe will carry on this Christmas Eve, even if the U.S. government shuts down, officials said Friday. Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command to inquire about Santa’s location. Millions…
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Continue reading →: Alabama profits off prisoners safe enough to work at McDonald’s, deems them too dangerous for parole
DADEVILLE, Ala. — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot and Wayfair. It didn’t matter that Jake Jones once had escaped or that he had…
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Continue reading →: Stock market today: US markets poised to open lower as potential government shutdown looms
Wall Street was poised to open with significant losses on Friday as the possibility of government shutdown right before Christmas came closer to reality after the House resoundingly rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s new plan to fund operations and suspend the debt ceiling. Futures for the S&P 500 slipped 1% before…