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Border Patrol Agents Assist Woman in Burning Vehicle
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- Written by Border Scope Border Scope
- Published: 16 September 2021 16 September 2021
Brownsville, Texas - U.S. Border Patrol agents from Brownsville Station agents helped a motorist escape from her smoking vehicle shortly before it was engulfed in fire.
NIH providing $185 million for research to advance understanding of how human genome functions
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- Written by Yuma News Now Yuma News Now
- Published: 13 September 2021 13 September 2021
Washington, DC - The National Institutes of Health is providing approximately $185 million over five years to the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) consortium, initiated and funded by NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). NHGRI will fund 25 awards across 30 U.S. research sites. IGVF consortium investigators will work to understand how genomic variation alters human genome function, and how such variation influences human health and disease.
Protecting Yourself from Health Care Fraud
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- Written by FBI Tech FBI Tech
- Published: 13 September 2021 13 September 2021
Phoenix, Arizona - In honor of National Report Medicare Fraud Day on Sunday, September 12, the FBI Phoenix Division is encouraging the public to be aware of health care fraud, and actions you can take to help prevent yourself from falling victim.
International Money Launderer Sentenced to over 11 Years in Federal Prison for Laundering Millions from Cyber Crime Schemes
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- Published: 13 September 2021 13 September 2021
Savannah, Georgia - A Canadian man was sentenced Wednesday to 140 months in federal prison for conspiring to launder tens of millions of dollars stolen in various wire and bank fraud schemes, including a massive online banking theft by North Korean cyber criminals that is part of a pending case in Los Angeles.
Justice Department Sues Texas Over Senate Bill 8
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- Written by Yuma News Now Yuma News Now
- Published: 11 September 2021 11 September 2021
Washington, DC - Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced Thursday that the Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to prevent the State of Texas from enforcing Senate Bill 8 (SB8), which went into effect on September 1 and effectively bans most abortions in the state. The complaint seeks a declaratory judgment that SB8 is invalid under the Supremacy Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment, is preempted by federal law, and violates the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity.