Massachusetts has become the latest state to allow law enforcement officials to remove firearms from individuals it deems to be a danger to themselves or to others. Governor Charlie Baker signed H. 4760 into law today, making The Bay State …
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A record 46.9 million Americans are expected to travel by car, train and plane this 4th of July holiday, according to the American Automobile Association. The number will mark the fifth consecutive year in which 4th of July travel by …
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The National Basketball Association’s most coveted free agent, LeBron James, is leaving his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers and heading west – to Los Angeles. The announcement was made via tweet by his agency, Klutch Sports Group.
“LeBron James, four time …
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The Treasury Department has unveiled the 2019 IRS Form 1040 – the form many Americans use to file their taxes – and there is a peculiar twist to the new version: it’s the size of a postcard.
It is the …
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A lone gunmen opened fire in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, today, killing five and gravely injuring an unspecified number of others. A suspect, 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos, is in custody.
Authorities have called it a targeted …
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The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory today upholding its travel ban against majority-Muslim countries. The decision was split 5-4, with the Court’s conservative-leaning justices voting to uphold the ban while its liberal-leaning justices voted to …
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Harley Davidson is about to be an unintended causality in the President’s growing trade war with the European Union. The company has announced it will be moving some of its iconic motorcycle production out of the U.S. in order to …
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A Canadian real estate developer has won approval to build what would be the most expensive and largest mall ever built in the U.S. The mall, to be built in the Miami, FL, area would be a massive 6.2 million-square-foot …
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Ride-sharing giant Lyft has announced a partnership with the American Cancer Society by which rides for cancer patients to their treatment appointments will be free of charge. The rides are the product of a partnership with ACS’s Road to …
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, last night because she works for the Trump administration. Sanders confirmed the reports this morning on Twitter.
“Last night I was told …
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Tesla has told CNBC that an employee the company claims is disgruntled has made threats against it. The employee, a former technician, threatened violence against the company’s Gigafactory in Nevada, according to a company spokesperson.
“Yesterday afternoon, we received …
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President Trump has signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to reverse its policy separating young children crossing the U.S. border from their families. According to DHS, some 2,000 children have been separated from their parents and …
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The U.S. announced its withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council this afternoon. The announcement was made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley from State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C.
“We have …
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A federal judge has OK’d the proposed mega merger between AT&T and Time Warner, clearing the way for the $85 billion deal to go through. The U.S. Justice Department had sued to the prevent the transaction from going through citing …
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A third stolen letter written by Christopher Columbus was returned to the Vatican today during a repatriation ceremony at the Vatican Library in Vatican City. The letter had been stolen and later purchased by an art collector for $875,000.…
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President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un met for a momentous summit in Singapore yesterday. It was the first ever meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a leader of the isolated nation. The goal, President Trump said, was …
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A Tennessee store owner has re-posted as sign that reads “No Gays Allowed” in the front window of his shop in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling last week in a case involving a baker who refused to bake …
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