Author: The Gazette
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Silver rises to all-time high, tracking gold’s record-breaking rally
(Reuters) -Silver soared to a record high on Wednesday, riding the coattails of gold’s unprecedented rally above the $4,000/oz level earlier in the session. Spot silver was up 3.5% at $49.54 per ounce by 1611 GMT. (Reporting by Anushree Mukherjee and Anjana Anil in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)
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Spanberger deflects questions of Jones’s texts as Republicans see momentum
Former Virginia Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger is directing her attention to federal worker back pay in an apparent attempt to pull focus away from Jay Jones’s violent text messages. At the same time, Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears‘s campaign blasts the Democratic ticket on Jones’s violent rhetoric. Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have called on Democrats to…
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Gold shatters $4,000 milestone as investors rush to safety
By Anmol Choubey and Anushree Mukherjee (Reuters) -Gold surged past the $4,000 an ounce level for the first time on Wednesday, building on a record-breaking rally as broader geopolitical and economic uncertainty, as well as expectations of U.S. interest rate cuts sent investors flocking to the safe-haven asset. Spot gold was up 1.6% at $4,045.19…
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Classified material will be introduced in Comey trial, prosecutors say
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to charges of making false statements and obstructing a 2020 congressional proceeding, as prosecutors signaled the case would introduce classified information in the discovery phase of legal proceedings. The prosecution, led by U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, argued this was a complicated case…
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C-SPAN picked as first America250 media partner
It might be time to add C-SPAN to the old-fashioned saying, “As American as baseball and apple pie.” That’s because the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, the bipartisan commission charged with leading the celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, has chosen the public service cable network as its first media partner. The nonpartisan Washington-focused…
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New EU border checks to take longer but won’t snarl peak travel, says Port of Dover
By James Davey DOVER, England (Reuters) -Britain’s Port of Dover is confident the EU’s new biometric border checks will not result in traffic congestion in the peak summer season despite warning it will take six times longer to process each car, its boss said on Wednesday. On Sunday, the European Union will start to phase…
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Suspect charged with igniting deadly Los Angeles Palisades Fire
By Sarah N. Lynch and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A man was arrested in Florida on charges of intentionally igniting what would become California’s devastating Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and wiped out a wealthy enclave of Los Angeles at the start of the year, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. According to…
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Exclusive-GM backtracks on plan to claim last-minute EV tax credits
By Mike Colias and David Shepardson (Reuters) -General Motors is scrapping a program aimed at allowing its dealers to continue offering a $7,500 tax credit for several months on electric-vehicle leases following the September 30 expiration of the federal subsidy, the company said on Wednesday. Toward the end of last month, GM devised a plan…
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Byron York ‘not surprised’ by FBI surveillance of GOP senators
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York suggested the surveillance of 10 Republican senators was another “novel” tactic of former special counsel Jack Smith. “If you just look at the specific indictments of Trump that Jack Smith engaged in, which was the [Jan. 6] indictment and the documents indictment, every story about this said, ‘Well,…
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Guyanese mining businessmen could be extradited to US, attorney general says
By Marianna Parraga GEORGETOWN (Reuters) -Guyanese businessman and politician Azruddin Mohamed and his father Nazar Mohamed will be extradited to the United States to face fraud and corruption charges, once U.S. authorities formally make the request, Guyana’s attorney general said. The businessmen, who own the gold-exporting firm Mohamed’s Enterprise, were indicted in a Florida court…