Thursday, October 10, 2019 On Monday, United States District Court Judge Victor Marrero issued a ruling against President Donald Trump finding that New York City prosecutors could view his tax records after a subpoena issued by a grand jury. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is investigating Trump over alleged hush money paid to two womenRead More
School stampede in China kills eight, injures dozens more
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 State media reported earlier today that a stampede in a school in China has killed at least eight people and injured an additional 26. The accident occurred at 21:10 local time at the Yucai Middle School, a privately-run institution in city of Xiangxiang, located in the Hunan Province. Reports say thatRead More
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Here’s An Opinion On: Business Tax Return Preparation La Submitted by: Nelli Tascheva Ms. Nelli Tascheva of Tascheva&Partner is a Congress member of the Association of Fellows of the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg. The Center examines issues confronting lawyers engaged in cross border matters. It promotes information sharing among members of theRead More
How To Dispute Overdraft Fees And Win
Here’s An Opinion On: Financial Adviser By Everett Maclachlan The advent of personal banking represents a great modern convenience. One product of the personal banking concept is overdraft protection. Rather than protect customers, instead it often results in the charging of copious overdraft fees. Here is how to dispute overdraft fees and win. The adventRead More
Wikinews Shorts: February 5, 2007
A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, February 5, 2007. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews_Shorts:_February_5,_2007&oldid=775171”
South Australia enters week-long lockdown to contain COVID-19 Delta variant spread
Friday, July 23, 2021 With five active cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, South Australia begun a one-week lockdown on Monday. Announcing the lockdown, state Premier Steven Marshall declared “we have no alternative but to impose some fairly heavy and immediate restrictions”. The first case out of South Australia’s active cases was presented toRead More
President of National Association of Evangelicals resigns over gay sex scandal
Sunday, November 5, 2006 On November 2, Ted Haggard resigned from the presidency of the National Association of Evangelicals and his pastorship in the New Life Church after allegations that he repeatedly engaged in homosexual sex with a prostitute (Mike Jones) and used methamphetamine. Haggard, a critic of gay marriage and homosexuality, is a leadingRead More
History Of The Violin
Here’s An Opinion On: Top Kids Party Entertainers Perth Submitted by: Samantha Clark Violin The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of violin family. A violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, a term originated from instrument s use in folkRead More
BDSM as business: An interview with the owners of a dungeon
Sunday, October 21, 2007 Torture proliferates American headlines today: whether its use is defensible in certain contexts and the morality of the practice. Wikinews reporter David Shankbone was curious about torture in American popular culture. This is the first of a two part series examining the BDSM business. This interview focuses on the owners ofRead More
Toxic chemical spills in the Ohio River
Thursday, March 1, 2007 At least 10,300 gallons of a toxic chemical, Cumene, also called isopropyl benzene, which is generally used in paint thinner, fuels, and rubber, spilled from a barge after it hit a wall of an underwater moveable dam in the Ohio River between Illinois and Kentucky, according to the United States CoastRead More