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Man sentenced to federal prison for fraud targeting ex-wife’s family and friends

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A Portland man was sentenced to federal prison Monday for two separate fraud schemes that targeted his ex-wife’s family and his own friends, resulting in losses exceeding $650,000. Joseph D. Galvan, 46, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison and 3 years’ supervised

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Opioid crisis escalates in Nashville

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — In Nashville there’s been a 32 percent increase in the number of deadly overdoses. “We went from a bad and dangerous situation to a worse situation,” said Trevor Henderson with the Metro Health Department. According to the latest report, 619 people overdosed and died

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UN Special Rapporteur says top Saudi official issued death threat against her for role in Khashoggi investigation

A top Saudi official issued a death threat against Agnès Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur behind the investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to Callamard’s office. Callamard told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday that she was informed by UN colleagues in January 2020 that a senior Saudi official had threatened

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Biden is botching his first crisis

What’s the old saying? The first step to fixing your problem is admitting you have one. And yet President Joe Biden’s administration just can’t take the first step when it comes to the crisis unfolding on our southern border. Tens of thousands of immigrants from Central America and Mexico, including thousands of unaccompanied minors, are

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Thousands in Tennessee overdue for second vaccine dose

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE,Tennessee (WSMV) — Some thousands of Tennesseans are overdue for their second COVID-19 vaccination that’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to CDC, 3.2 % of Tennesseans are overdue for their second COVID-19 vaccination. That’s ten thousand people. “A dose delayed, is often never

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Some providers turning down doses

Click here for updates on this story     CLAYTON, North Carolina (WRAL) — Only 13.9 percent of adults in North Carolina have been fully vaccinated, while another 7 percent have received the first of their two required doses. Yet, vaccination providers in nearly two dozen North Carolina counties declined new doses of coronavirus vaccine last week,

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