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(WASHINGTON) -- A Republican president-elect pledges support for expansive tariffs as a means of protecting U.S. businesses and hamstringing global competitors.That description may conjure up former President Donald Trump, but it also applies to Herbert Hoover, who led the country nearly a century ago during the onset of the Great Depression.Within months of the stock market crash, Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a 1930 measure that increased […]

(NEW YORK) -- Texas has the potential to become a major producer of green hydrogen due to its existing energy infrastructure, according to researchers.That infrastructure is making Texas a "valuable case study" in decarbonizing states that currently produce a high volume of fossil fuels, a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found.The Lone Star State already has an operational infrastructure for green hydrogen – a clean […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) -- Less than 24 hours after President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden and criticized his prosecution as a "miscarriage of justice," prosecutors in special counsel David Weiss' office defended the integrity of their work in a court filing and fiercely rebutted the president's allegation that their charges were motivated by politics."In total, eleven different [federal] judges appointed by six […]

Sarah Yenesel- Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Harvey Weinstein has been taken back to New York City's Bellevue Hospital for "emergent treatment due to an alarming blood test result that requires immediate medical attention," his attorney, Imran Ansari, said in a statement."It is expected that he will remain there until his condition stabilizes," Ansari said.The disgraced film producer is being held at Rikers Island while he awaits a new trial […]

Maine State Police (NEW SWEDEN, Maine) -- Authorities are pleading with the public to help them find a Maine teenager who has been missing for months.The FBI is offering a reward up to $15,000 for information leading to Stefanie Damron's safe return, or the arrest and prosecution of anyone involved in her disappearance, FBI Boston's Assistant Special Agent in Charge Kimberly Milka said at a news conference Monday."Any detail, no […]

(NEW YORK) -- Closing arguments began Monday in the trial of Daniel Penny over the May 2023 subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely.Penny, a 25-year-old former Marine, put Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man, in a six-minute-long chokehold after Neely boarded a subway car acting erratically, according to police. Neely entered a subway car on an uptown F train at the Second Avenue stop, and was described by witnesses as yelling […]

Clackamas County Sheriff's Office (WELCHES, Ore.) -- A man has been arrested and charged with murder after his estranged wife was found dead in the Oregon wilderness.Michel Fournier, 71, was taken into custody Friday on second-degree murder charges. He is now being held without bail, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.Earlier Friday, Susan Lane-Fournier was found deceased in Welches, a remote part of Clackamas County, after a multi-day search. […]

Kevin Carter/Getty Images (AMSTERDAM) -- Two Delta flight attendants were removed from their flight after failing a breathalyzer test in Amsterdam, officials said.The crew members were scheduled to fly to New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport when they failed the breathalyzer test on Friday, according to the airline and Dutch police.Dutch police said airline personnel are not allowed to drink alcohol 10 hours before a flight. The police's […]

L-R" John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of JonBenet Ramsey/Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post (BOULDER, Colo.) -- Progress is being made in the investigation into the unsolved murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey, those briefed on the investigation told ABC News.JonBenét was killed in her home in Boulder, Colorado, in December 1996.In the last years, a multi-disciplinary team of experts has been assembled to go through the remaining […]