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Month: May 2023

Army Air Force pilot from Pennsylvania killed during WWII accounted for, authorities say

WILLIAMSPORT An Army Air Force pilot from Pennsylvania killed during World War II has been accounted for almost eight decades later, military authorities said. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said last week that 2nd Lt. James Litherland, 25, of South Williamsport was accounted for in March. In February 1944, Litherland was co-piloting a B-17F Flying

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Government tries to claw back money so Jan. 6 rioters don’t profit from online appeals

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Less than two months after he pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol, Texas resident Daniel Goodwyn appeared on Tucker Carlson’s then-Fox News show and promoted a website where supporters could donate money to Goodwyn and other rioters whom the site called “political prisoners.” The Justice Department now wants Goodwyn

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Debt ceiling deal: What’s in, what’s out of the agreement to avert US default

By KEVIN FREKING and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Both sides can point to some victories in the debt ceiling deal reached between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But some conservatives already are expressing concerns that the compromise doesn’t cut future deficits enough. And Democrats have been worried about proposed

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Debt ceiling tests Speaker McCarthy as he rides breezily through high-wire act of his career

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin McCarthy was never Washington’s bet to become House speaker. But the 58-year-old California Republican persevered and now he’s leading the House GOP in the high-wire act of his career. He’s just negotiated a deal with President Joe Biden over raising the nation’s debt limit, and

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Not long after Memorial Day weekend

Jersey Shore town to crack down on the ‘mere existence of any kind of alcohol’ on beach and boardwalk

by Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Officials in New Jersey are banning the possession of alcohol on a popular beach and boardwalk after city commissioners unanimously passed the “stricter” ordinance. Introduced during a Board of Commissioners meeting in Wildwood in early May, the new ordinance “not only prohibits the drinking and/or open display of alcohol,

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Voters in Turkey choose between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu in presidential runoff election

By SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country’s longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade or is unseated by a challenger who has promised to restore a more democratic society. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,

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