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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...
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...
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...
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...
Christmas and New Year’s Are Best Time to Die
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GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA – December 13, 2018 Christmas and New Year’s are not only the best holidays, but also, perhaps, the most dangerous time of the year. People get injured decorating the Christmas tree and wind up in the hospital due to food and alcohol poisoning. Every year, the Christmas holidays takes dozens of lives. Such are the sad statistics not only in the US, but in the whole world. People often catch colds and get frostbite. Also scientists say that cold and cloudy weather could increase the risk of having a heart attack. For example, Swedish scientists...
The Silent Epidemic
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NEW YORK – December 13, 2018 Gun deaths in US have spiked to their highest level in 20 years. After some of the worst mass shootings in history, American gun laws are more flexible than ever. The ability to access, buy, and now, print guns is easy, even for criminals. No wonder that the rate of gun deaths in the US has spiked to its highest point in more than 20 years, with almost 40,000 people killed in shootings in 2017, according to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The credit for the success is largely owed to a steady rise in suicides...
December 13: The First US Military Units, U.S. and Mexico Settle Border Dispute, and Other Events of the Date
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The first US military units On December 13, 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony organized three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard. The Army National Guard predates the founding of the nation and a standing military by almost a century and a half, and is, therefore, the oldest component of the United States armed forces. Since that time, the Guard has participated in every U.S. conflict from the Pequot War of 1637 to our current deployments in support...