
Self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui gets 30 years in US prison for fraud conviction
NEW YORK (AP) — A self-exiled billionaire Chinese business tycoon once believed to be among China's wealthiest men was sentenced Monday to 30 years in a U. S. prison for a massive financial fraud that a federal judge said cost over 1,000 people worldwide hundreds of millions of dollars. Guo Wengui, who fled China a decade ago and reinvented himself as a U. S. -based Communist Party critic, was sentenced in a Manhattan courtroom packed with his supporters by Judge Analisa Torres. She said he...
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- Self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui gets 30 years in US prison for fraud conviction
- 3 firefighters killed in Western wildfire were trying to shield themselves from flames
- Nursing gains professional label for student loans after judges ruling, but theology now dropped
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Trump nominates acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling to be agencys permanent chief
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will nominate Keith Sonderling to be the secretary of labor, elevating him from the agency's acting director two months after Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned amid abuse-of-power allegations. Sonderling, a lawyer who has held a variety of acting positions and leadership roles across Trump's government, was previously the deputy labor secretary and a Republican member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. “Throughout his career,...
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- Trump nominates acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling to be agencys permanent chief
- Nursing gains professional label for student loans after judges ruling, but theology now dropped
- Colorado court rejects November ballot initiatives aimed at redrawing congressional districts
- Supreme Court ruling gives a reprieve to states with grace periods for receiving mail ballots
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A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica is found tucked away in a drawer
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer. The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur. Scientists haven't yet identified the species it belongs to. It was discovered in 1985 during an expedition to Antarctica's James Ross Island and collected by geologist Mike Thomson. Working with the British Antarctic Survey, Thomson was mapping the area's rock layers and collected to...
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- NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission
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