Several police forces in England have said they have handed out multiple fines after breaking up a number of large-scale illegal parties over the weekend. Police were called to at least four locations, including a university hall of residence in Nottingham where up to 200 people were discovered at one gathering. Nottinghamshire Police said in a…...
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The Daily BeastEx-Overstock CEO Says He’s Put Together an ‘Army of Various Odd People’ to Save TrumpFormer Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne left behind a cloud of confusion when he resigned in 2019 from the internet retailer he’d founded after panicking investors with his bizarre claims that he had romanced a Russian agent at the behest…...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday is set to take up President Donald Trump’s unprecedented and contentious effort to exclude illegal immigrants from the population totals used to allocate U.S. House of Representatives districts to states. The challengers to Trump’s July directive include various states led by New York, cities, counties and immigrant…...
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Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, a Democrat, said he hopes President Donald Trump and Republicans appeal their unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud to the U.S. Supreme Court, asserting that their arguments "get shredded" in every court.Efforts by Trump and Republicans to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania were again rejected by the Third Circuit…...
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CHICAGO (AP) — A new legal group will help people with marijuana convictions in Illinois clear their records. New Leaf Illinois launched earlier this month as part of the state’s law legalizing recreational cannabis. Under the law, people with low-level marijuana convictions can have their records expunged and state officials estimate hundreds of thousands of…...
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Satyanarayana Miryala allegedly developed the Tatkal Turbo software to exploit the IRCTC’s booking system.Central Railway (CR) on Saturday said its Railway Protection Force (RPF) arrested the mastermind of a nationwide ticket scam and uncovered the software he developed as well as his network of 540 associates. CR officials said Satyanarayana Miryala was arrested on November…...
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No results matched your search EconomyNov 27, 2020 07:30PM ET © Reuters. A bank employee counts pound notes at Kasikornbank in Bangkok LONDON (Reuters) - More than 200 British retail investors have lost nearly 10 million pounds ($13.4 million) in total to sophisticated investment scams since a government lockdown in March to fight the COVID-19…...
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A record number of people are expected to do their U.S. holiday shopping online because of the coronavirus pandemic — which means an increased risk of falling for online scams, experts say.Steven Merrill, the section chief of the FBI's Financial Crimes section, said in a phone interview that the agency expects cybercriminals to put in…...
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Online Christmas shoppers have been warned not to drink and click after a survey found they were more likely to fall victim to internet scams than if they were sober.It's a hidden risk this festive season, with a poll of 2000 Australians finding 55 per cent were more likely to click on promotional links or…...
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MELAKA: A Form Six student suffered losses amounting to RM10,540 after being deceived by an offer to purchase old currency through Instagram yesterday. State Commercial Crime Investigations Head Supt E Sundra Rajan said the male student got to know the suspect, who claimed to be an old currency collector from the United States, through the…...
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