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Biden administration announces $1.5 billion loan for first reopening of a shuttered nuclear plant
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a $1.5 billion loan to restart a Michigan nuclear power plant. The loan, made through the Energy Department’s Loan Program’s Office with Inflation Reduction Act funds, will allow Holtec to restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township. The restoration, if approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, would be…
MyPillow, owned by election denier Mike Lindell, faces eviction from Minnesota warehouse
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A court plans to order the eviction of MyPillow from a suburban Minneapolis warehouse that it formerly used, but company founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said Wednesday that it’s just a formality because the landlord wants to take the property back.
Disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried faces up to 110 years in prison at sentencing on fraud charges today
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire entrepreneur who founded the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency company FTX, will appear in a Manhattan federal court today to be sentenced on a slew of fraud and conspiracy charges.Just four months ago, a jury determined that Bankman-Fried, 32, had lied to FTX investors, lenders and customers and used their money to build himself up as the “King of Crypto”. He was convicted on a total of seven charges: two counts of fraud and five counts of conspiracy.On Thursday, Bankman-Fried will return to court where District Judge Lewis Kaplan will hand down a sentence of up to...
An indicted Tennessee judge is sent to jail after her bond is revoked for positive cocaine tests
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee criminal court judge was sent to jail Wednesday after her bond was revoked for testing positive for cocaine while she was out of custody pending a trial on charges of coercion of a witness and harassment. Online records showed Shelby County Criminal Court...
Democrat to introduce bill that would bar Menendez, Trump from receiving classified information
New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D) has drafted legislation to bar federal officeholders and candidates who are charged with certain criminal offenses from having access to classified information, a bill aimed squarely at former President Trump and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.). Sherrill’s three-page bill, the Guarding United States Against Reckless Disclosures (GUARD) Act, would bar…
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