Feds indict two men for alleged $6 million ‘porno-trolling collection’ extortion scheme; Miners found a huge 3,100-carat diamond roughly a century ago. A new study reveals how it formed.; Bolton suggests Russian election hacks were ‘false flag’ by Obama administration; Worker dies in huge water tower as teen son watches from the ground; How GPS monitor data helped convict a ‘cold, calculated, serial killing machine’; The fentanyl crisis is so deadly in Canada that even funeral directors need the antidote; Dead at 99, Pearl Harbor’s ‘national treasure’: If you’ve visited the memorial, you know his face; Corpus Christi’s tap water off limits after chemical leak. Schools, restaurants close.;
 
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Post-election ‘Subway Therapy’ sticky notes taken down — but not thrown out
The sticky notes were taken down just a few days before the electoral college was set to convene to formally elect Donald Trump the 45th president of the United States.
Feds indict two men for alleged $6 million ‘porno-trolling collection’ extortion scheme
Ex-attorney Paul R. Hansmeier is accused, along with another man he used to share a law practice with, of buying copyrights for pornographic films, uploading the films to file-sharing sites, then suing people who downloaded them.
 
Miners found a huge 3,100-carat diamond roughly a century ago. A new study reveals how it formed.
Supersized diamonds are created hundreds of miles deeper than the typical gem, scientists found.
 
Bolton suggests Russian election hacks were ‘false flag’ by Obama administration
The former UN ambassador questioned the CIA's conclusion that Russians hacked Democratic organizations and individuals to boost Trump's chances, claiming the Obama administration had “politicized” intelligence.
 
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Worker dies in huge water tower as teen son watches from the ground
Responders in Braintree, Mass., had to drain the 1 million-gallon tank before the diver's body could be recovered.
 
How GPS monitor data helped convict a ‘cold, calculated, serial killing machine’
The data helped solved three missing person cases that had stumped local authorities for months.
 
The fentanyl crisis is so deadly in Canada that even funeral directors need the antidote
In the first 10 months of 2016, 622 people died of apparent illicit drug overdoses in British Columbia. About 60 percent of the deaths were linked to fentanyl.
 
Dead at 99, Pearl Harbor’s ‘national treasure’: If you’ve visited the memorial, you know his face
"Everyone's saying it was his last wish,” said his daughter-in-law. But “his last wish, of course, would be working at Pearl Harbor as a volunteer forever."
 
Corpus Christi’s tap water off limits after chemical leak. Schools, restaurants close.
The Gulf Coast city's 320,00 residents were told to avoid all contact with tap water after a corrosive industrial chemical contaminated water supplies.
 
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