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Here’s a look at the life of consumer advocate and former candidate for president Ralph Nader. Personal Birth date: February 27, 1934 Birth place: Winsted, Connecticut Birth name: Ralph Nader Father: Nathra Nader Mother: Rose (Bouziane) Nader Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1955, Harvard Law School, L.L.B., 1958 Military: US Army, 1959 Other Facts Writer and

The former rogue FBI informant handler for mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger will be released from a Florida prison on a conditional medical release, a spokesman for the Florida Commission on Offender Review told CNN. John Connolly was released because he has terminal cancer, his attorney, James E. McDonald, told CNN. “We are pleased,” McDonald

As millions across Texas battle power outages and freezing temperatures during the massive winter storm, one element has proved especially problematic — water. Whether it’s too much water or too little, high pressure or low pressure, or simply just the wrong form, water has been a huge issue for Texans during this ongoing catastrophe. “A

Click here for updates on this story     CARROLL, IA (WQAD) — Several fire departments spent hours late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning putting out a fire at a propane business in rural Carroll County. According to a volunteer firefighter on the scene, crews worked the fire from 10 p.m. Tuesday to 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. People

Click here for updates on this story     MAGAZINE, AR (KFSM) — A man was found dead after trying to rescue a calf from a frozen pond in the Magazine area. According to the Logan County Sheriff’s Office, Jesse Roberts, 69, of Magazine, died after falling into his frozen pond while attempting to free a calf

Click here for updates on this story     DES MOINES, IA (WQAD) — Anonymous racist trolls on Saturday crashed a public meeting of Iowa state lawmakers on the video conferencing service, Zoom. The “Zoom bombing” of a virtual legislative forum hosted by four Des Moines area lawmakers comes one week after a similar incident on a

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is investigating after video footage shows multiple police officers assaulting a Muslim Arab American teenager. Osamah Alsaidi, 19 at the time, was assaulted and arrested by police officers with the Paterson Police Department in New Jersey in December, his lawyer Diego Navas said in a pre-lawsuit notice of claim.

Click here for updates on this story     Hartford, Connecticut (WFSB) — Drivers were warned to brace for higher gas prices in the coming days and months. GasBuddy blamed the effects that a stretch of extremely cold weather has had on refineries across the country. GasBuddy said millions of barrels of refining capacity went offline because

Click here for updates on this story     Los Angeles (KCAL/KCBS) — The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Tuesday voted to cut 133 positions from the L.A. School Police Department, ban the use of pepper spray on students and divert $25 million in funding cut from the department to better support Black students.

Click here for updates on this story     Dallas (KTVT) — Now that we are past the preparedness phase of the winter blast we are experiencing in North Texas, hundreds of our neighbors are reporting being stranded in their homes without power, gas, or running water. For many of them, survival mode has kicked in. Retired