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Enron Fast Facts

Here’s a look at Enron, an energy trading company that collapsed after a massive accounting fraud scheme was revealed. Its 2001 bankruptcy filing was the largest in American history at the time. Estimated losses totaled $74 billion. Facts Enron was ranked as America’s fifth largest company by Fortune magazine in 2002, despite its 2001 bankruptcy

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Daytime Emmys Fast Facts

Here’s a look at the Daytime Emmy Awards, which recognize television programming from the hours of 2 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 25, 2021 – The 48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be presented in a virtual ceremony. June 26, 2020 – The 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards are presented virtually due to the coronavirus

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‘Funky pickles’ seized by Border Patrol turn out to be $4 million worth of meth

Customs and Border Protection officers recently seized more than $4 million worth of suspected methamphetamine at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge cargo facility, the agency said. On April 17, CBP officers examined a tractor-trailer hauling a commercial shipment of fresh cucumber pickles into Texas with a non-intrusive imaging system and found it was hiding 114 packages

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Are we numb? Handling the collective trauma of police violence, mass shootings and a pandemic

A reckoning with the deaths resulting from institutionalized racism, a resurgence of almost-daily gun violence and 3.1 million pandemic deaths worldwide, there has been trauma piled upon trauma upon trauma. It turns out these collective traumas are taking a toll on all of us, according to Roxane Cohen Silver, a professor of psychological science, medicine

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US School Violence Fast Facts

Here is a list of incidents of elementary, middle and high school violence with at least one fatality, from 1927 to the present. Suicides, gang-related incidents and deaths resulting from domestic conflicts are not included. If a perpetrator was killed or died by suicide during the incident, their death is not included in the fatality

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10-year-old boy dies in house fire

Click here for updates on this story     MILWAUKEE, WI (WDJT) — A 10-year-old male died in a house fire that happened near 118th and Florist Avenue at approximately 10 p.m. in Milwaukee. Milwaukee police say other occupants of the residence are being treated at a local hospital for smoke inhalation. According to officials from the

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CIA Leak Fast Facts

Here’s a look at the 2003 CIA leak involving then-operative Valerie Plame and senior members of the George W. Bush administration. After a lengthy investigation, one member of the Bush administration, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was brought to trial and convicted of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements. Timeline February 2002 – Joseph

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