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Month: August 2024

Mississippi seafood distributor pleads guilty to decadeslong fish mislabeling scheme

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi seafood distributor and two managers pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to mislabel seafood and commit wire fraud by marketing frozen imported fish as more expensive local species, federal authorities said. Quality Poultry and Seafood Inc., the largest seafood wholesaler on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, agreed to forfeit $1 million

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Detienen a Perkins Rocha, aliado de María Corina Machado y representante del Comando con Venezuela

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El abogado Perkins Rocha, aliado de la líder opositora venezolana María Corina Machado, coordinador jurídico y representante del Comando con Venezuela ante el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), fue detenido este martes, según denunciaron Machado y el movimiento Vente Venezuela en sus cuentas de X. Vente Venezuela dijo que

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Mark Zuckerberg’s election-season gift to Republicans

Analysis By Jon Passantino, CNN (CNN) — Mark Zuckerberg is handing Republicans political victories ahead of the 2024 presidential election, acquiescing to years of GOP grievances over his company’s policies. In recent days, the Meta chief executive has made newsworthy public statements implicitly supporting right-wing “censorship” narratives and offered praise for Donald Trump as “badass” –

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Takeaways from the new indictment against Donald Trump in the January 6 and election subversion case

By Marshall Cohen, John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith provided the latest twist in the 2020 election subversion case against former President Donald Trump, filing a retooled indictment Tuesday that he hopes comports with the US Supreme Court’s controversial immunity ruling and will let the case move forward. The

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Coyote believed to have attacked jogger

WBZ By Neal Riley Click here for updates on this story     MARBLEHEAD, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A jogger was believed to have been attacked by a coyote in Marblehead on Monday evening. The incident was initially reported as a dog bite to a person jogging along Brown Street by the Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary. Animal control

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US hopeful that likelihood of wider conflict breaking out between Israel and Hezbollah has reduced, officials say

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — Days after Hezbollah and Israel exchanged some of the heaviest cross-border fire in years, US officials are tentatively hopeful that the threat of a larger conflict between the two sides has, at least for now, been forestalled, though they are still closely watching Iran to see whether it strikes Israeli

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US Justice Department says Kentucky may be violating federal law for lack of mental health services

Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky is likely violating federal law for failing to provide community-based services to adults in Louisville with serious mental illness, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a report issued Tuesday. The 28-page DOJ report said the state “relies unnecessarily on segregated psychiatric hospitals to serve adults with serious

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Barni, K-9 officer at San Francisco International Airport, voted TSA’s Cutest Canine of 2024

By Carlos Castañeda Click here for updates on this story     SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Barni, an explosives detection K-9 at San Francisco International Airport, was voted the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Cutest Canine of 2024. The 5-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer was the top draw in the TSA’s annual nationwide social media contest among four finalists,

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Maduro anuncia cambios en su gabinete: Delcy Rodríguez será ministra de Petróleo y Diosdado Cabello ministro de Interior

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, anunció este martes una serie de cambios en su gabinete con el propósito de lograr lo que calificó como una “renovación profunda” de su gobierno. Maduro dio a conocer más de una docena de movimientos durante un acto público, a unas horas

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Lowe’s changes some DEI policies amid legal attacks on diversity programs and activist pressure

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Home improvement chain Lowe’s is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining the ranks of several other companies that altered their programs since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions or after facing a conservative backlash online. In an internal memo shared by Lowe’s

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