Keeping up with America

Bank of America has been ordered to pay $250 million in fines and customer compensation for deceptive practices that harmed "hundreds of thousands of consumers," according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Millions of people in New England are under flood watches this morning as torrential rains pounded the region, causing major flooding in Vermont, where more than 100 rescues have been made, forecasters said.

President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as America’s top military officer warned senators of the difficulties posed by any potential conflict in Asia and described how he would use lessons learned from the Ukraine war to help the U.S. military prepare.

The head of a US thinktank has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent of China, as well as seeking to broker the sale of weapons and Iranian oil, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said.

Leslie Van Houten, a former follower of notorious cult leader Charles Manson, was released on parole after serving more than five decades of a life sentence for two brutal murders.

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The drug cartel violence that citizen self-defense leader Hipolito Mora gave his life fighting flared anew, just one day after he was buried, as shootings and road blockades hit the city of Apatzingan, a regional hub in Mexico’s hot lands.

Some three dozen South African firefighters, clad in their bright yellow jackets and dark blue pants, danced, sang and cheered in a sprawling parking lot close by the majestic woods of central Alberta.

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