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The final resting place of an iconic U.S. Navy submarine that was sunk 80 years ago during World War II was located 3,000 feet below the ocean's surface, the Naval History and Heritage Command said Thursday. The USS Harder – which earned the nickname "Hit 'em HARDER" – was found off the Philippine island of Luzon, sitting upright and "relatively intact" except for damage behind its conning tower from a Japanese depth charge, the command said. The sub was discovered using data collected by Tim Taylor, CEO of the Lost 52 Project, which works to locate the 52 submarines sunk...

At the end of 2022, SVB had uninsured deposits in its US offices of $151.5 billion, versus total deposits of $173 billion. That's 88% of all SVB deposits that didn't have FDIC insurance.

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow used a Tuesday press conference to urge Congress to make it harder for people to buy “those crazy guns.” Fox News quotes Burrow saying, “With everything that’s going on, if you’re not going to outlaw everything, you’ve gotta at least make it harder to get those crazy guns that everybody is using.”

President Joe Biden acknowledged the difficulty of being a police officer in the current political and social climate during a speech at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on Capitol Hill on Sunday. “Being a cop today is a lot harder than it has ever been,” Biden said, alluding to rising crime in some of America’s biggest cities under his administration.

President Biden said Monday that he’d have “gone harder, quicker” to distribute COVID-19 tests if he’d known the Omicron variant was going to cause record-high rates of new infections — days after a report said the White House rejected expert advice for a pre-holiday testing surge. “We went from no over-the-counter tests in January to 46 million in October, 100 million in November and almost 200 million in December. That’s not enough. It’s clearly not enough. If I — we’d known, we would have gone harder, quicker if we could have,” Biden said during a virtual meeting with state governors.

Jill Biden recently revealed that being first lady of the United States is harder than she thought it would be. In an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning" set to air this weekend, she opened up about the challenges of her role. "I think it’s a little harder than I imagined," the first lady said. "It’s not like a job that you do, it’s a lifestyle that you live."

The parking lot at Stoneridge Mall was packed Saturday morning with trucks decorated with American flags, Trump flagsThe caravan of supporters of President Donald Trump started slowly filing out of the mall at about 11:30 a.m. to drive to Livermore.Organizers estimate that about 2,000 to 3,000 vehicles showed up from around the Bay Area, including Suzy West and her parents, who live in Brentwood."We want him to have four more years," she said.West said that her parents immigrated from El Salvador."When they came to this country, they wanted to become American citizens," she told KCBS Radio. "From the moment they...

More than 2,000 cars joined the second Trump Truck Rally, which led a caravan of conservatives to parade through Tri-Valley. A fleet of president Donald Trump's supporters paraded through Pleasanton and Livermore for the second time Saturday for the another "Tri-Valley Trump Truck Rally." Hundreds of trucks packed the Stoneridge Shopping Center Saturday morning, honking and revving engines in anticipation for the rally to start. Dripping in patriotic paraphernalia and MAGA flags, the conservative caravan was out in full force to show their support for the president, law enforcement and the military. "Huge Trump truck rally in Pleasanton, California. Thousands...

This is a Three'fer.First Video is provided by a buddy who put this together.https://youtu.be/waYvbiN9dAEWe were briefly covered by our local news NBCBAYAREA.com (Pleasanton Trump Supporters Rally Behind the Wheel)https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/supporters-of-president-trump-rally-behind-the-wheel/2385854/AndCovered by East Coast Raleigh, NC CBS17 News(shows when we just getting into parking lot and then as we began the Truck/Car Rally) RAW VIDEO: Trump supporters hold truck rally in Calif. https://youtu.be/6dnpTZEqJRMAt the end of the rally we ended up in Livermore at a park that couldn't hold all the vehicles and there was no way to get a height advantage to give you the scope but, it was freaking amazing!I'm...

The Democratic slaughter Tuesday will make it harder for President Obama to govern -- but might make it easier for him to win re-election in 2012. The Obama White House will shift into re-election mode in a few months, and the 2012 presidential campaign headquarters will be Chicago again, if all goes as planned. But for now, a lot of attention on the political front will have to be on dealing with a GOP-controlled House and a Senate where Republican gains will make it harder to get the 60 votes needed to get anything done.

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Winter temperatures are rising steadily across the European Alps but snow volumes have varied wildly, making it harder to assess the risk of avalanches, a Swiss climate expert said on Friday. Climatologist Christoph Marty said the cold winds and snow that greeted more than 2,000 members of the world's political and business elites in Davos this week masked a clear warming trend in the region, where winter had a very mild start. A reduction in snow cover generally means that the danger of avalanches decreases, but Marty said increased variability of snowfall made it hard to...

Bird flu viruses diversifying, making vaccine target harder to pick: WHO 19:23:04 EDT Aug 18, 2006 Canadian Press: HELEN BRANSWELL, The Canadian Press (CP) - The World Health Organization urged influenza vaccine makers Friday to use newer strains of virus when making vaccine to protect against H5N1 avian flu, saying the evolution of the microbe has led to increased variety in circulating strains. While the diversity creates challenges for vaccine manufacturers - and potentially additional costs for the governments paying them to make and test vaccine against H5N1 - it does not mean the worrisome virus has moved closer to...

Poor President Bush, so hated by "the world" and yet so incredibly popular at home. We all know why he's popular - he's a man of his word, he doesn't bend with political winds, he's willing to take the hard road and he means what he says. There's one other president in our hemisphere who resembles him, a man in the middle of another terror war whose inhumanly vicious enemies have tried to assassinate him two times in the past week, adding to a long string of other efforts. And his response has been like President Bush's - to defy...

Boston College professor Paul Lewis is an able writer and possessed of sharp wit; for instance, he coined the term "Frankenfood." His academic field of expertise is humor, but when Lewis wrote a caustic op-ed piece for the Toronto Globe and Mail last month, not everyone got the joke. Titled "Can We Democrats Be Your Next Province?" Lewis playfully suggested that the states that voted Democratic in the 2000 election might secede and join Canada. But his tone was bitter and corrosive -- e.g., "We new Canadians will (shortly) acquire a national leader capable of producing coherent sentences in at...

<p>The California Supreme Court on Monday made it tougher for residents suing alleged polluters to seek medical testing and treatment through class action lawsuits, a possible setback to San Martin homeowners now in a legal fight over their contaminated drinking water wells.</p>