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US Justice Dept hits 80 Swiss banks with penalties
Eighty Swiss banks have agreed to pay the US fines totaling $1.36 billion in order to avoid court prosecution, according to the US Justice Department. After the investigation has been completed all the banks are required to cooperate in related criminal or civil proceedings, said the department. The US Justice Department began...
FBI releases video of shooting death of Oregon protester
The FBI has released a video from the Tuesday traffic stop that led to the shooting death of one of the armed protesters who had been occupying the headquarters of a federal wildlife preserve in Oregon. The video is intended to counteract some of the contradictory accounts of what happened and give an unfiltered view of the...
Surprise! Workers uncover 10,000-year-old mammoth bones at Oregon stadium (VIDEO)
Freshly unearthed bones prove that mammoths once roamed at the home of the Oregon State University Beavers. Dozens of skeletal remains, possibly as old as 10,000 years, were all dug out of the college’s football stadium. “Some of the bones are not in very good shape, but some are actually quite well...
The Antipode: Flying from New York to London in 11 minutes
Remember the Skreemr, a concept for a supersonic plane that could travel at Mach 10? Scratch that, there's now a design for a plane that could cruise from London to New York in 11 minutes, traveling at Mach 24 — that's 12 times faster than the Concorde! Charles Bombardier, the industrial designer who came up with...
Blaming The Islamic State, The US Is Considering Fresh Military Actions In Libya
Pentagon looking at ‘military options’ to stop Islamic State from gaining more ground, four years after US air campaign helped topple Libyan dictator Gaddafi The Pentagon is considering fresh military action in Libya more than four years after conducting an air campaign that helped topple dictator Muammar Gaddafi, a...
Lightning bolt decimates tree at Texas school (VIDEO)
A flash of fire and branches turned into a smoking wreck – a dramatic video has captured the moment a tree was struck by lightning at a school parking lot in Texas. The startling video was recorded by a security camera at Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Catholic School in the city of Tyler on January 21, and later published by...
Chances of Obama closing Gitmo slim to none – human rights lawyer
President Obama’s final year in office marks the Guantanamo Bay detention facility’s 15th year in operation. RT interviewed David Remes, a lawyer who has advised over a dozen Gitmo inmates, about the rising stakes facing the remaining prisoners there. Remes, who left a lucrative position in corporate law in 2008 to...
Tornado touches down in central Florida (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Two people were reported injured and many vehicles were tossed about as a twister touched down in Coconut Creek, Florida. Heavy storms on Wednesday morning soaked the area, just a few miles inland from Florida's Atlantic coast, between Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. At Broward College, the twister picked up cars, tossing...
CIA releases X-files on aliens, flying saucers ‘for Agent Mulder to use’
The day has finally come for all UFO lovers and those who still believe ‘the truth is out there’. The CIA has released thousands of declassified documents on flying saucers. The agency humorously noted that X-Files’ Fox Mulder would certainly love to use them to prove the existence of extraterrestrials....
1 killed as Ammon Bundy, 4 others arrested in Oregon amid shots fired – FBI
Ammon Bundy, the leader of the armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge near Burns, Oregon, and four others have been arrested by law enforcement amid gunfire, according to the FBI. At 4:25 pm on Tuesday afternoon, the FBI and Oregon State Police “began an enforcement action to bring into custody a number of...
China warns George Soros: Don’t go to ‘war’ against our currency
China’s official newspaper warned billionaire investor George Soros not to bet against the Yuan in a front-page opinion piece, as China tries to boost confidence in its home currency, also known as the renminbi, which has dropped 5 percent since August. “Soros’s war on the renminbi and the Hong Kong dollar...
Johnny Depp Just Said the Sweetest Things About His Daughter, Lily-Rose
About Lily-Rose's brave step, Johnny said, "She's got thousands of followers on social media, and they were all taken completely by surprise," adding, "But not me. I already knew because she tells me everything — she's not afraid to say anything to me. We're super-tight and I'm...
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