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US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) sent letters to the leaders of five major accounting firms — Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG, and RSM — urging them to explain the unethical revolving door between their personnel and the federal government. Warren and Jayapal also demanded information on what safeguards are in placeContinue reading “Lawmakers seek to close unethical revolving door on top accounting firms”

A Paterson, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 55 months in prison for distributing fentanyl. Maurice Tisdale, 28, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Brian R. Martinotti in Newark federal court to an information charging him with knowingly and intentionally distributing fentanyl. Judge Martinotti imposed the sentence today by videoconference. According to U.S.Continue reading “Drug dealer sentenced to prison”

Four people were injured in a shooting at a high school in Arlington, Texas, on Wednesday morning, and authorities said the suspect remained at large. Arlington police said they received several calls around 9:15 a.m. about a shooting on the second floor of Timberview High School in Arlington, which is attended by about 1,900 students.Continue reading “Four injured in Texas school shooting”

Key U.S. lawmakers criticized Facebook on Tuesday after Frances Haugen, an whistleblower who worked at the company, claimed that the social media giant is harming young people, undermining democracy and contributing to political divisions the country . Haugen, who was a Facebook project manager for less than two years, held CEO Mark Zuckerberg responsible forContinue reading “Facebook fried on Capitol Hill”

A Keansburg police officer has been arrested and criminally charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman earlier this year, said Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey on Tuesday. Nicholas Thompson, 24, is charged with first-degree Aggravated Sexual Assault, second-degree Sexual Assault, and third-degree Aggravated Criminal Sexual Contact. An investigation by members of the Prosecutor’s Office revealedContinue reading “Keansburg police officer arrested for sexual assault of unconscious woman”

A Spirit Airlines flight from Atlantic City to Fort Lauderdale was delayed Saturday evening when it caught fire after a bird was sucked into the engine as the plane was taking off and 109 passengers and crew members were forced to evacuate the plane. The plane was set to take off from Atlantic City InternationalContinue reading “Foul & fire flummoxed Florida flight”

The Space Force, working with the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, has selected 670 active-duty service members and 259 civilians to transfer into the Space Force during fiscal year 2022. These volunteers come from the pool of candidates who applied in March 2021 and members who are currently assigned to Army and Navy units slatedContinue reading “900 personnel join Space Force”

Climate change is wiping out coral reefs and will kill more if oceans keep getting warmer, researchers warned on Tuesday in a new study thatspanned much of the globe. The world already lost 14 percent of its coral between 2009 and 2018 — or what amounts to more than all the coral now living inContinue reading “Climate change killed 14% of the world’s coral reefs in a decade”

An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted that he conspired to fraudulently obtain more than $700,000 through a variety of schemes intended to fleece the federal government and innocent individuals. Jefferson Robert, 31, of Newark, pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Julien X. Neals to an information charging him with conspiring toContinue reading “Con artist admits to fraudulently stealing more than $700,000”

The United States Capitol Police arrested a man after he illegally parked in front of the Supreme Court and refused leave. In August, the same man came to the Capitol Complex and made statements that concerned officials. The man, who has been identified as 55-year old Dale Paul Melvin of Kimball, Michigan, was arrested forContinue reading “Suspicious vehicle parked outside the U.S. Supreme Court leads to arrest”

Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of chaotic and apparently random phenomena. Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann laid the foundation of our knowledge of the Earth’s climate and how humanity influences it. Giorgio Parisi is rewarded for his revolutionary contributions to the theory of disordered materials and random processes.Continue reading “Princeton professor nabs Nobel Prize”

The Trenton City Council will consider a vote of no confidence in Mayor Reed Gusciora tonight, possibly urging him to resign, according to the meeting agenda. The resolution sponsored by Councilwoman Robin Vaughn lists increased gun violence, a whistleblower lawsuit that embarrassed the city and state investigation into his administration’s alleged corrupt procurement practices. TheContinue reading “Trenton City Council to consider ‘no confidence’ in effort to expel Mayor”

A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with murder in the deaths of her father and his girlfriend at a home in Surf City, Sherry Lee Heffernan, 55, of Landenberg, Pennsylvania, has been charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of John Enders and Francoise Pitoy in Surf City on or about September 29,Continue reading “Pennsylvania woman murdered her father, his girlfriend at Jersey Shore”

Polls show Gov. Phil Murphy with a big lead over former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, while Green Party nominee Madelyn Hoffman, Libertarian candidate Gregg Mele, and Socialist Workers Party contender Joanne Kuniansky appear to lack widespread support and almost nobody makes a voting decision based on a candidate for vice president or lieutenant governor, but NewContinue reading “Lieutenant governor: Who cares?”

A Philadelphia man is accused of going on a deadly crime spree Monday, killing a co-worker and shooting two police officers before he was finally stopped. Sources say 55-year-old Stacey Hayes drove to the hospital around 12:08 a.m. in a U-Haul, walked to the ninth floor wearing blue scrubs, and shot his coworker who wasContinue reading “Same old story: One dead after Philadelphia hospital shooting”

With as many as 53,000 Afghan civilians living across eight U.S. military installations, a certain amount of law enforcement issues are bound to arise — and such incidents have happened, said the commander of U.S. Northern Command, who noted that the refugees caused fewer dust-ups than comparably-sized U.S. populations across the nation. “For a populationContinue reading “Afghan refugees have fewer incidents than comparably-sized U.S. populations”

On Sept. 11, 2001, the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY) was transformed in a matter of minutes and Gregory P. Shea, Andre Kotze, and Paul Brown have taken a hard look at that metamorphosis in an essay in the Harvard Business Review. The piece examines lessons on leading through hard times, drawn fromContinue reading “Harvard looks at how tragedy transformed the FDNY”

A large oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach, California, has forced beaches all along the coast to close and pollution is expected to wash onshore for several days. Residents and business owners in the impacted region, say they reported a tar-like smell as early as Friday evening, but authorities did not raise theContinue reading “Massive oil spill scars California coast”

Since February 2020, nearly 1 in 5 health care workers, or 18 percent, have quit their jobs, according to new poll results from Morning Consult, a global privately held data intelligence company. The poll, conducted in September among 1,000 U.S. health care workers, also found that 12 percent of workers have been laid off or lostContinue reading “Health care workers quit, suffer various harms during coronavirus pandemic”

President Joe Biden told reporters that a lot has been going on recently, such as “hurricanes and floods,” which is why he says he hasn’t been promoting legislation that covers the bulk of his domestic agenda. Be that as it may, the president said he is confident that both his Build Back Better agenda andContinue reading “President Joe Cool: Amid chaos on Capitol Hill, Biden stays calm”