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Ex-FBI informant Smirnov will remain in jail while he awaits trial, judge rules
Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov will remain in jail while he awaits trial, a federal judge in California ruled Monday.
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Tyler Loudon eavesdropped on phone calls made at home by his wife, who was a mergers and acquisitions manager at BP. Mandatory Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty …
Published on February 26, 2024
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Texas man eavesdropping on wife’s phone calls faces criminal charges/divorce — plots for $1.76 million insider trading
A Texas man is facing insider trading charges and jail time after he used information gleaned from eavesdropping on his wife’s work-from-home calls, netting him $1.76 million from an upcoming oil industry acquisition.
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Houston PetSet & Council Member Mario Castillo Unite for Pet Welfare: Event Update
In a joint effort to combat Houston's homeless animal crisis and celebrate Love Your Pet Month and World Spay Day, Houston PetSet and District H City Council Member Mario Castillo had planned to host a transformative free Spay/Neuter and Parasite Prevention event on February 27, 2024. Regrettably, this event has been canceled.
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Kellogg’s CEO faces backlash; says people should eat cereal for dinner to save money
“Let them eat Corn Flakes” appears to be Kellogg’s CEO Gary Pilnick’s advice to cash-strapped shoppers who are spending the highest portion of their income on food than at any point in the last 30 years.
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Judge rules: Ex-FBI informant Smirnov remains in jail; awaits trial
Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov will remain in jail while he awaits trial, a federal judge in California ruled Monday.
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Amid measles outbreak, Florida ‘deferring to parents’ whether to send unvaccinated kids to school
Family physician and public health specialist Dr. George Rust has warned some of his colleagues about a potential measles outbreak in Florida “for at least the past year,” he said, because of the rise in vaccine hesitancy in pockets of the community.
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Federal government begins formal process of preparing partial shutdown – again
Congress is quickly approaching a pair of government funding deadlines, with less than a week to go before a potential partial shutdown and lawmakers at an impasse with no clear plan in place to avoid it.
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One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water
Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days.
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Supreme Court hears landmark cases; could upend what we see on social media
The US Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Monday in two cases that could dramatically reshape social media, weighing whether states such as Texas and Florida should have the power to control what posts platforms can remove from their services.
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Trump’s plan to use Judge Cannon to block Judge Chutkan and avoid trial
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers see a major opportunity this week to use his criminal document mishandling case in Florida to create an impasse on his calendar for the two federal judges overseeing his major criminal cases.
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Warren Buffett: Berkshire’s boom days may be over; company approaches $1 trillion in value
Berkshire Hathaway neared a $1 trillion market valuation Monday after a record-breaking year, but CEO Warren Buffett warned in his annual letter to investors that more skyrocketing performances are likely a thing of the past.
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Sweden clears final hurdle in bid to join NATO after Hungary approves accession
Hungary’s parliament overwhelmingly approved Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Monday, clearing the way for the Nordic nation’s accession to the alliance after nearly two years of intense negotiations and dealing a geopolitical blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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In photos: The ‘Dune: Part Two’ cast’s red carpet looks out of this world
With Zendaya one of the leaders of red-carpet method dressing when promoting her movie roles, the expectations for the “Dune: Part Two” press tour have been high.
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Actor Chris Gauthier in 2017. Mandatory Credit: Andrew Chin/Getty Images via CNN Newsource
Published on February 26, 2024
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Chris Gauthier, ‘Once Upon a Time/’Hallmark movies actor, dies at 48
Chris Gauthier, an actor whose credits included roles in “Once Upon a Time,” “Eureka” and several popular Hallmark Channel projects, died on February 23, according to a statement posted by his agent.
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2024 Houston Rodeo Championship Bar-B-Que Contest
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) has truly outdone itself this year, not only …
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New book reveals ‘overlooked’ chapter in Abraham Lincoln’s story
On a Tuesday evening in the nation’s capital, a clock chimes loudly just as Harold Holzer is about to make a point.
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When will Caitlin Clark break all-time NCAA men’s/women’s basketball record?
After recently becoming the all-time leading scorer in NCAA women’s basketball history, Caitlin Clark is chasing another record.
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Zelensky says Trump doesn’t understand Putin because he never fought him
Former US President Donald Trump will be “against Americans” if he chooses to support Russia over Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN Sunday, in a stark warning as his country enters a third year of full-scale war.
