Colorado Springs, Colo. — As bullets tore through a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people and wounding many more, one patron who’d been partying moments before rushed into action, grabbing a handgun from the suspect, hitting him with it and pinning him down until police arrived just minutes …
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November, 2022
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14 November
DEA’s most corrupt agent says he’s not the only one who laundered money for Colombia cartels
José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sports cars, Tiffany jewels and paramours around the world. But as he used his final hours …
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14 November
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California governor, takes stand at Harvey Weinstein trial
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, burst into tears a few minutes into her testimony Monday when asked to identify Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand at his trial. Siebel Newsom spent 15 minutes on the stand in the downtown Los Angeles …
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11 November
Twitter brings back “official” label after verified impersonator accounts run wild
Twitter on Friday brought back its gray “official” label to verify some accounts, just days after CEO Elon Musk scrapped it. Twitter Support said they’ve re-added the feature to “combat impersonation.” Since the revamped Twitter Blue went live on Wednesday, users are now able to obtain a blue tick as long …
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10 November
Biden federal loan forgiveness plan blocked by federal judge in Texas
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan, which was already on hold after the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay last month. A conservative group called the Job Creators Network Foundation filed a lawsuit in federal court in Fort Worth in October, …
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4 November
Ransomware crimes netted more than $1 billion last year
Victims of cybercrime shelled out a record $1.2 billion to have their data returned last year as ransomware attacks have grown in size and intensity, according to newly released federal data. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, reported that banks processed a billion-plus dollars last year in what were likely ransomware …
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3 November
Michael Sharpe, ex
A Connecticut man who was linked to the sexual assaults of four women in 1984 by information on a genealogy database was convicted Wednesday of all eight kidnapping charges against him. A state jury in Hartford took less than an hour of deliberations to unanimously convict Michael Sharpe after a …
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2 November
Federal Reserve lifts interest rates another 0.75 percentage point
The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate another three-quarters of a percentage point as it battles the hottest inflation in decades. The move by the central bank’s rate-setting committee, announced Wednesday after a two-day meeting, marks the sixth rate hike this year and the fourth consecutive 0.75 percentage point …
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October, 2022
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31 October
Winning numbers for $1 billion Powerball jackpot announced
11/2 Update: If no one has tonight’s Powerball numbers, the jackpot could grow to a record-breaking amount The winning numbers for Monday night’s Powerball drawing are: 13-19-36-39-59 and a Powerball 13. The estimated jackpot had surged to just under $1 billion, the second highest prize in the game’s history. People showed …
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25 October
Global WhatsApp outage resolved
Tech giant Meta says it’s resolved a WhatsApp outage that turned out to be brief. It had prevented many of the billions of users of the popular service from connecting or sending messages. Meta issued a statement to CBS News saying, “We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp …
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