Chattanooga, Tennessee — A shooting near a Tennessee nightclub early Sunday led to three deaths and 14 people suffering gunshot wounds and other injuries, police said. Fourteen people were hit by gunfire and three were hit by vehicles while trying to flee the scene, Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy said …
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June, 2022
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3 June
Make more than $100,000? Your IRS audit risk just doubled.
The Internal Revenue Service is auditing tax returns for the highest-earning taxpayers much more aggressively than it has in the past decade, the agency said in a recent report. For years, the rate at which the IRS audits the highest earners has fallen as the agency’s funding dwindled. However, that …
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May, 2022
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26 May
Biden’s nominee to lead national firearm regulator faces Senate committee less than a day after deadly shooting
Washington – Less than 24 hours after a gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the man nominated to lead the nation’s lead firearm regulation agency faced high stakes and even higher emotions on Capitol Hill. Steven Dettelbach, a former federal …
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24 May
Billionaire Robert Brockman ruled competent to stand trial in biggest individual tax fraud case
The largest tax-evasion case in the U.S. can proceed to trial, a judge ruled this week. Billionaire Robert Brockman, who faces multiple charges of tax evasion, wire fraud and money laundering, is mentally competent to stand trial, according to a decision issued Monday by Judge George Hanks, Jr., in the …
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21 May
Tiger Woods withdraws from PGA Championship
Tiger Woods produced a couple of firsts Saturday, neither cause for a fist pump. He posted his highest score ever in the PGA Championship, and later withdrew from a major for the first time in his pro career. Hours after Woods limped his way to a 9-over 79 in the …
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20 May
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Former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is running for Congress, he announced Friday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” De Blasio, a 61-year-old Democrat who served as New York City mayor from 2014 to 2021, will run in New York’s newly drawn 10th Congressional District. “Joe, the polls show people …
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17 May
Man charged with aggravated assault in in Dallas hair salon shooting
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city’s Koreatown, police said early Tuesday. Police identified the suspect on Tuesday afternoon as 36-year-old Jeremy Smith. Smith was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, …
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17 May
Party buses, robot deliveries and vacation bookings: Uber to roll out new features
Just ahead of summer, Uber plans on rolling out an array of new features for customers — including party bus booking options, robot food deliveries and new travel accommodations, according to the company’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. “Travel is coming back in a big way,” Khosrowshahi told “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday. …
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15 May
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says deadly Buffalo shooting was “white supremacy terrorism”
Washington — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Sunday that the shooting at a Buffalo supermarket that left 10 dead and three wounded was “white supremacy terrorism” and urged social media companies to step up their enforcement efforts against extremist content. “I’m calling on social media platforms to be making …
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10 May
Joseph Jermaine Brand, man police call confessed double murderer, spotted walking around free in small South Carolina town of Kingstree
Columbia, S.C. — The last thing the family of two sisters slain in a tiny South Carolina town had heard about the man who confessed to killing them was that he was headed to a mental hospital in 2012 to be treated for schizophrenia so he could later be tried …
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