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Indian Man Gets 9 Years in Jail for Sexual Assault on US Flight
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DETROIT – December 14, 2018 A 34-year-old Indian man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman on a US flight early this year. Prabhu Ramamoorthy, who worked for an IT company for over two years, was accused of abusing a 22-year-old woman seated by the window next to him while his wife was on his other side on a Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit on January 3. He will be deported back to India after he serves his sentence, a federal court in Detroit said on Thursday as it sentenced him to nine years of imprisonment...
Heart in the Sky
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DALLAS – December 14, 2018 A flight to Dallas had to return to Seattle last weekend when it became known that someone forgot a heart on board, Southwest Airlines said on Thursday. Flight 3606 arrived in Seattle from Sacramento, California. Someone forgot to unload the heart before the flight left for Dallas, and the captain announced that they had to return as they flew over Idaho, reported the Seattle Times. The heart had traveled from California to Washington state, across Idaho and back to Washington, according to the Times. The Southwest flight spent about three ho...
Guatemalan Girl, 7, Dies of Dehydration, Shock in US Custody
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LAS CRUCES, NM – December 14, 2018 A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl died in Border Patrol custody last week after she was detained for illegally crossing into the US with her father, federal officials said on Thursday. The young unidentified girl was taken into custody with her father around 10pm on December 6 near Lordsburg, New Mexico, the US Customs and Border Protection agency said in a statement. The Washington Post reports the girl died of dehydration and shock more than eight hours after she was arrested. She was from Guatemala and was traveling with a group of 1...
December 14: Battle of Lake Borgne, Battle of Kinston, US Military Defeats, and Other Events of the Date
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Today we'll talk about some battles that didn’t bring us anything good. We'll focus on battles where the United States lost not only people but also its influence on the global level. Battle of Lake Borgne and British victory over the United States Lake Borgne appeared an eligible route for the British to head to New Orleans. There were several routes from it towards the city. The British strategists soon ruled out the one which ran through waterways to the English Turn, 14 miles below New Orleans, because the waterways were not navigable for anything but small boats, an...
Americans Everywhere Should Support the Gilets Jaunes
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American media seems to have taken painstaking effort to give the massive protests in Paris as little coverage as possible, but by now most people are aware of the facts. A protest over a hike in fuel prices by the exceedingly smarmy president Emmanuel Macron, has exploded into full scale civil disobedience relating to a number of grievances including mass migration and membership in NATO. This protest of men and women in yellow high visibility vests (leading to the name Gilets Jaunes) has gripped the country and brought its capital to a standstill as the president has du...
California Hopes to Tax Text Messages: What? Who? Why?
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California residents may be facing yet another tax….this time for every text they send. Soon, Californians may have to think twice before texting. The proposal was filed by California's Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), a group that regulates public utilities operating in the state. In addition to communications services, such as cell phone carriers, the group is also responsible for regulating energy, water, and transportation over rail systems, and passenger cars. “From a consumer’s point of view, surcharges may be a wash, because if more surcharge revenues come from...
A Feather in USA Really’s Cap, and Taking the Gov’t for All Their Worth!
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Hello, hello, and welcome to our USA Really daily podcast for December 13. Only 12 days until Christmas! I’ve said it before, but man! Time really is just flying. And as time flies, so does the news, so we’ve got a number of fun pieces for you today, and even some major news for our USA Really agency that you’ll definitely be interested in! And for all our regular listeners, you know the deal with our daily announcements: Don’t forget to check out our Global Democracy Award contest, on the theme of the US government’s interference in other states, and our Zuckerberg Wante...
Langley Air Force Base Employee Cheated the Department for 17 Years Until Trump's Audit
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VIRGINIA - December 13, 2018 A former employee at Langley Air Force Base admitted Wednesday that she bilked the federal government out of $1.46 million — mainly by faking the amount of overtime she worked over 17 years — 42,847 hours between December 2001 and July 2018. She came up with a way to bypass any checks that would refute her words. Michelle M. Holt, 52, was a civilian secretary at the base, where she worked in the communications support squadron of Air Combat Command. According to court records, in 2001 the woman used a co-worker's login information without th...
11-Year-Old Forced to Change “Trump” Last Name Due to Bullying at School
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An 11-year-old boy’s parents raised their fears with staff at Talley Middle School in Delaware about their son’s safety last week. The elementary school student had to leave school, get homeschooled for a year, and then change his “Trump” last name in order to stop relentless bullying that lasted for more than two years, his parents have revealed. Joshua Trump, a student at Talley Middle School in Wilmington who is not related to the 45th president, started getting teased by classmates when Donald Trump first announced plans to run for the White House in June 2015. Megan...