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TL/DR - Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York, is facing a vote for his expulsion from Congress, following allegations of fraud and ethics violations detailed in a House Ethics Committee report. If the resolution passes, he would be the first lawmaker in over 20 years to be expelled from the House, despite not being convicted of a crime.…

TL/DR - Silverton, a town in Colorado, experienced a political divide when its young, progressive mayor Shane Fuhrman, defeated the longstanding fire chief Gilbert Archuleta in the April 2020 election. The division was exacerbated when Fuhrman decided to stop the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at council meetings, drawing national…

TL/DR - Neil Mason Chapman, 88, of Ishpeming, MI, died on October 25, 2023. Born in 1934, he served in the U.S. Army from 1955-1957, married Joan Pepin in 1958, and worked at the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. for 27 years before retiring in 1992. He leaves behind three children, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and is predeceased by his…

TL/DR - The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Sinbad, a cryptocurrency service it accuses of laundering millions of dollars for North Korea, and the FBI and European law enforcement have seized its website. Sinbad, a "mixing service" that can obscure the source of cryptocurrency, has reportedly laundered large amounts from multiple…