The Benefits of Being Good-
A camper was seen floating down a river in Pennsylvania amid floods and heavy rains this week. According to AccuWeather, heavy rain inundated Bloomsburg in Columbia County, prompting the Fishing Creek to overflow its banks. “Residents of the West end of Bloomsburg need to Evacuate immediately. Fishing Creek is crossing the road on Route 11/West […] -
Recovery efforts for the body of a missing 12-year-old girl in San Diego continued for the fourth day on Aug. 14. The girl, who was visiting from Canada with her family, is believed to have fallen overboard from a ski boat into the San Vicente Reservoir in Lakeside on Aug. 11. Police said the girl […]
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President Donald Trump removed the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan for lying, leveraging his clearance, and “erratic conduct.” Former heads of intelligence and law enforcement agencies can usually keep access to classified information after leaving office “so that they can consult with their successors regarding matters about which they may have special […]
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The United States on Aug. 15 announced new sanctions on Chinese and Russian firms for facilitating illicit shipments on behalf of North Korea, adding to the already existing U.N. and U.S. sanctions. The U.S. Treasury Department said they imposed the designations against one individual and three companies—China-based Sun Moon Star International Logistics Trading Co., Ltd.; […]
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WASHINGTON—Profit margins of S&P 500 companies have soared to their highest level in a decade, as businesses start to see the effects of U.S. tax reform. The blended net profit margin of companies in the index rose to 11.8 percent in the second quarter, the highest level since financial data provider FactSet began tracking the […]
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A bear could be seen jumping out of a parked car and running for its life on a video released by the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office on Aug 14. Deputies responded to a call saying the bear was trapped in a car in South Lake Tahoe. To set free the animal, deputies used a […]
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Voters are more trusting of President Donald Trump rather than Democratic Party leaders to keep the U.S. economy growing and protect national security, according to a new poll. About 45 percent of likely voters said they trusted Trump to “grow the U.S. economy,” compared with 34 percent who said they trusted Democratic leaders to do so, […]
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On August 15 2018, the Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD) celebrated the finished expansion project at Jeffrey G. Hansen Water Recycling Plant in Pleasanton. The plant’s expansion will provide more recycled water in the Tri-Valley. Therecycling plant is currently in operation. The recycling plant has been operating since 2005. As California is in its […]
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s move to double the tariffs on a range of American imports is “regrettable and a step in the wrong direction,” a National Security Council spokesperson told The Epoch Times. Erdogan signed a decree on Aug. 15 that raises tariffs on American cars to 120 percent, on alcoholic drinks to 140 percent, […]
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One of the adults arrested for child abuse at a makeshift compound in the desert in New Mexico has been transferred to the custody of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency responsible for adjudicating immigration cases. The transfer of 35-year-old Jany Leveille, also called Maryam Leveille, was announced on Aug. 14 by the Taos […]
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An Arizona father was charged with second-degree murder after killing a man who tried to enter a bathroom stall that his daughter was using, said police. Melvin Harris III faces the second-degree murder charge in the beating death of Leon Leevon Armstrong, according to AZFamily.com in an Aug. 14 report. He was taken into custody […]
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A growing number of Catholic church leaders and diocesan officials are responding with sadness and shame to the sweeping state grand jury report released on Aug. 14 that details widespread sexual abuse by priests in Pennsylvania and the Roman Catholic Church’s systematic efforts to ignore, obscure, or cover up allegations. Leaders from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops […]
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Fueled by the opioid crisis—particularly the flood of powerful synthetic opioids such as fentanyl from China—drug overdose deaths increased by at least 6.6 percent in 2017, according to provisional data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 71,500 Americans died of a drug overdose, with at least 68 percent of those […]
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Deputies in Pinellas County, Florida, are looking for a driver who apparently intentionally drove over a protected Gopher Tortoise near an elementary school. “On Saturday, August 11, 2018 at about 3:20 p.m., we received a call for service from a citizen who observed a badly injured Gopher Tortoise at the bus circle of San Jose […]
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A man opened fire in the checkout line of a Pennsylvania Walmart, shooting three people, and then fought with police before being arrested. Surveillance video from the Walmart in the Cedarbrook Plaza Shopping Center shows a man identified as Keenan Jones, 30, and a female companion waiting in line to check out around 6 p.m. […]
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A New York high school teacher from Long Island has been charged after images and videos of child pornography on his Google account and on electronic devices were obtained through a search warrant at his residence, officials said citing an unsealed indictment. Joseph M. Zanco, 43, was charged with transportation and possession of child pornography. If convicted he faces a […]
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Shequaga Falls in Montour Falls, New York, turned into a raging torrent of water on Aug. 14 after continuous heavy rains and flash flooding in the region. The video, filmed by Ernest Spitzer Frenshaw, shows Shequaga Falls thundering down into a fortified plunge pool behind a home as the rain kept falling. A small park […]
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Costs related to new government regulations are on pace to decline for the first time on record as a result of President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda. New regulations finalized by the federal government so far this fiscal year will save American taxpayers $5.8 billion, according to federal data reviewed by the American Action Forum (AAF). With two […]
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Officials have confirmed that the human remains found inside the airplane stolen from Sea-Tac International Airport as those of the thief, 29-year-old Richard Russell. FBI investigators found the remains while searching the Horizon Air plane after Russell crashed it on Ketron Island on Aug. 10. The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office examined the remains and […]
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Security camera footage captured the moment a bear tried to wander into the Crazy Bruce Liquor store in Bristol, Connecticut. On Aug. 13, the black bear can be seen walking on the sidewalk before making its way to the liquor store through an open door. The animal was not able to get inside the store […]
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The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the United Kingdom’s third-largest bank, has been fined $4.9 billion dollars for alleged financial misconduct after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) found that the bank misled investors with its residential mortgage-backed securities between 2005 and 2008. The penalty is the largest settlement imposed by the Justice Department towards […]
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An ingredient used in Monsanto’s Roundup has been found in a number of breakfast cereals, according to an environmental group. An activist group said that glyphosate has been found in Cheerios, Lucky Charms, and Quaker Old Fashioned Oats, Fox Business reported. It comes days after a California jury awarded a school groundskeeper more than $289 […]
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State Highway 1 in Marin County just north of the Sonoma County line is closed until around 7 p.m. today for bridge construction, Caltrans officials said. The highway will be closed from Valley Ford Road to the north to Tomales Petaluma Road to the south. Workers are pouring concrete on a section of a bridge […]
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Recently released police body camera footage shows Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers shooting a man armed with a knife after he lunged at them. In the video, police fired a Taser at him, but the man, identified as Spurgeon Daniels in local media reports, kept moving forward. When he approaches the entrance of a motel, […]
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Approval of President Donald Trump among black likely voters has risen to 36 percent in a Rasmussen poll, apparently unaffected by allegations of racism from a former White House staffer. That’s up from the 29 percent reported by Rasmussen two weeks ago. A year ago, that number stood at 19 percent. The result of the […]
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Four girls, ages 11 to 14, fought back after a man attempted to kidnap one of them. Surveillance cameras captured 22-year-old Bruce Hipkins watching the four girls inside of a Speedway gas station in Millington on Aug. 10, around 10 p.m. After they left the Speedway, the girls noticed Hipkins following them, so they crossed […]
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San Francisco has rolled out a task force to clean up the city’s fecal matter-ridden sidewalks. The city’s 311 service has received nearly 14,600 calls about poop, other types human waste, and dog feces since the start of 2018, KGO-TV reported. The news about San Francisco’s feces problem has sparked a number of jokes and […]
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