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Two regional pipeline companies have agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle claims under the Clean Water Act for oil spills in Montana and South Dakota. According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Belle Fourche Pipeline Company and Bridger Pipeline LLC – affiliated companies that own and operate a network of crude oil pipelines – have together agreed to the civil penalty

At a hearing in Delaware today, a federal judge questioned a plea deal that would have allowed Hunter Biden to avoid a prison sentence for failing to pay his income taxes and illegally buying a gun. Under that agreement, Biden would have pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses. The deal also called for pretrial diversion with respect to a felony gun charge: receipt or possession of a

WASHINGTON — Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order and searched Senate office buildings near the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon after a 911 call warned of a possible active shooter. But a floor-by-floor search of the three buildings found nothing, and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said the cause of the security scramble “may have been a bogus call.” “We found nothing concerning,” he

The operator of a submersible vehicle that went missing while trying to view the Titanic wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean said that it’s likely all five people on board have died, while U.S. Coast Guard officials said a “catastrophic implosion” likely occurred. “We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have