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Month: November 2019

The Victoria’s Secret slump continues

Victoria’s Secret posted another quarter of declining sales as the brand continues to lose its grip on shoppers. Sales at Victoria’s Secret stores open for at least a year and its website dropped 7% during the latest quarter compared with the same period last year, parent company L Brands said Wednesday. L Brands, which also

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Homeland Security Department sued for allegedly tracking and interrogating journalists

The Department of Homeland Security violated the First Amendment when it allegedly tracked and interrogated five journalists between 2018 and 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit includes accounts by five freelance photojournalists, all of whom are US citizens and were stopped by Customs and Border Protection, an

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Supreme Court to take up military rape cases

The US Supreme Court on Friday accepted a Justice Department appeal to review the cases of three men in the Air Force whose rape convictions were overturned last year — including one whose confession the Air Force recorded — when the top military appeals court found a five-year statute of limitations existed for military sexual

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Guns & knives seized from children at middle school in Alamogordo; 2 students arrested on weapons charges

ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — Police seized guns and knives from two 13-year-old students at an Alamogordo school on Wednesday and arrested them on felony weapons charges. Authorities said the pair were reportedly overheard talking about possessing weapons at Chaparral Middle School around 11:20 a.m.; a school resource officer then searched their backpacks and discovered two

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Veteran receives new home in CT

Click here for updates on this story     GLASTONBURY, CT (WFSB) — A local veteran received quite the warm welcome home on Wednesday. Building Homes for Heroes held a special ceremony and a parade leading to a brand new home for Army Specialist Craig Hall in Glastonbury. Motivated by Sept. 11, Hall stepped up to serve

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How Apple’s Tim Cook built a relationship with Trump

President Donald Trump isn’t known for his warm relationship with Silicon Valley. He frequently rails against social media companies for what he sees as anti-conservative bias. Tech CEOs have left White House advisory board positions over opposition to Trump’s environmental and immigration policies. And one company, Amazon, has sued the Trump administration claiming a defense

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Teenage fugitive caught after 29 years

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE (WSMV) — Metro Police have arrested a Knox County man who escaped a youth detention center back in 1990 at the age of 19. James Darnell Patterson, now 48-years-old, was given permission to go to Nashville Tech, now Nashville State Community College, to go to school. He

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Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Felipe Vázquez hit with more charges in alleged sex assault case

Felipe Vázquez, the Pittsburgh Pirates closer facing allegations of statutory sexual assault and other crimes, was hit with 21 additional charges Tuesday, according to the district attorney’s office in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The All-Star pitcher is now facing 10 additional counts of unlawful contact with a minor, 10 child pornography counts and one additional count

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FBI says hackers are targeting US auto industry

The American automotive industry has been the target of malicious cyber actors since at least late 2018, according to an FBI report obtained by CNN. In the bulletin disseminated this week to a select group of private companies, the FBI warned of efforts by hackers to successfully compromise auto industry computer systems using sophisticated techniques

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Michelle Obama nominated for a Grammy Award

Michelle Obama could soon add another award to her mantel: a Grammy. The former first lady on Wednesday was nominated for the best spoken word album award for her work on the audiobook of her memoir “Becoming.” She will compete against John Waters (“Mr. Know-It-All”), Eric Alexandrakis (“I.V. Catatonia: 20 Years As A Two-Time Cancer

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