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Unidentified drone in New Jersey. Source: MSNBC The FBI and Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that they had seen “no evidence” that mysterious drone sightings over New Jersey and adjacent areas in recent weeks “pose a national security or public safety threat.” The agencies also said they had no evidence of a “foreign nexus”
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Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of BGC Partners Inc., speaks during the Piper Sandler Global Exchange and FinTech Conference in New York City, U.S., June 8, 2022.  Brendan McDermid | Reuters WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald with violating laws related to regulatory disclosures by
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Industry groups have written a 21-page letter to Trump asking him to roll back Biden’s environmental regulations so that they can pollute the air and water. The Los Angeles Times reported: In a 21-page letter addressed to Trump and his presumptive Cabinet, the groups requested changes to dozens of “burdensome regulations that are stifling investment,
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Sunday December 8th the world was hit with a massive surprise. The government of Syria had fallen.  Syria’s dictator for life, Bashar al-Assad, had fled to Moscow.  In a mere eleven days, rebels had swept through the cities of Aleppo and Hama and had taken Syria’s capital, Damascus. Syria had been in the hands of dictators from
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Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks at the Anti-Corruption Champions Award Ceremony at the Department of State in Washington, D.C, on Dec. 9, 2024. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty Images Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized after being injured while traveling with a congressional delegation in Luxembourg, her office said Friday. Pelosi, 84, “sustained an
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said while talking about Trump’s nominees that everything can’t be a freakout, or people will tune out, which is what many Democrats have already done. Fetterman told CNN’s Manu Raju: If you really, really want to freak out, that’s your prerogative, but you’re going to have plenty of time to do
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WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of wealthy Americans are not complying with recently revamped Internal Revenue Service efforts to get them to file tax returns, according to data obtained exclusively by CNBC. A quirk in federal tax law may be incentivizing wealthy people who want to avoid paying taxes to simply not file their returns.
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