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  • NewsThe Daily Beast

    Trump Tower: Take a Tour of the Saddest Building in NYC

    Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyFor the duration of his criminal trial, Donald J. Trump has moved back into the penthouse of Trump Tower at the corner of 5th Avenue and 56th Street. With the owner and former president back in residence, you might think they’d spruce up the abutting commercial and retail space. You’d be wrong. The Daily Beast dropped in earlier this week for a tour of the “crown jewel of The Trump Organization.”FIFTH AVENUE ENTRANCEMetal barriers tak

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Operation Zufolo: Australia deployed a ‘charade’ to sustain indefinite immigration detention – it failed

    Exclusive: The federal government set out to show it was trying to deport non-citizens, knowing there was a risk a key high court ruling could be overturned. But an insider says it was purely symbolic

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  • NewsABC News

    More than 2 dozen reported tornadoes in 3 states amid outbreak in the Plains

    Twenty million Americans, from Texas to Iowa, are on alert Friday for tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds, as severe weather is expected to impact the Heartland into the weekend. The highest tornado threat exists from the Dallas region north to Des Moines, Iowa. There have been at least 25 reported tornadoes in Nebraska, Texas and Kansas so far on Friday, with some damage reported in northeast Texas and central Nebraska.

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  • NewsThe Packet - Falmouth

    Major incident declared over bad batch of drugs causing serious illness

    There is “significant concern for welfare” and anyone who thinks they may have taken the drug has been told to call 999 for advice.

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  • NewsLA Times

    4 more L.A. County probation officers put on leave in connection with 'youth-on-youth violence'

    The discipline against the four probation officers at the Los Padrinos juvenile hall in Downey was in connection with 'youth-on-youth violence,' officials said.

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  • BusinessAssociated Press

    Regulators close Philadelphia-based Republic First Bank, first US bank failure this year

    Regulators have closed Republic First Bank, a regional lender operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday it had seized the Philadelphia-based bank, which did business as Republic Bank and had roughly $6 billion in assets and $4 billion in deposits as of Jan. 31. Fulton Bank, which is based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, agreed to assume substantially all of the failed bank's deposits and buy essentially all of its assets, the agency said.

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  • NewsAccuWeather

    Large tornado spins toward Nebraska community

    Video shows the scary moments as a massive tornado spins toward the town of Elkhorn, Nebraska, on April 26.