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President Joe Biden was reportedly “stunned” and “plunged into sadness and frustration” after hearing that special counsel David Weiss intends to indict Hunter Biden. A court document filed last week by Weiss revealed that he plans to indict Hunter Biden before the end of September. The intention to indict the president’s son drew immediate criticism from legal experts and lawmakers, who viewed the filing of a potential indictment as another mechanism Weiss might use to shield Joe Biden’s son from justice.

The appraised value of Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her husband’s Atlanta mansion, known as ‘Descante’, dropped suddenly – and mysteriously - by more than $6 million in 2016, saving the couple tens of thousands of dollars in taxes every year since, according to the Daily Beast. Loeffler and her New York Stock Exchange CEO husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, bought the 15,000-square-foot mansion for $10.5 million in 2009, making it the most expensive private home purchase in the city’s history at the time. The property held its value steady for the next seven years, based on appraisals conducted by the Fulton...

Who put the lights out? Italy plunged into chaos by black-out By Robin Gedye, Bruce Johnston in Rome and Henry Samuel in Paris (Filed: 29/09/2003) A tree uprooted by storms in Switzerland was blamed yesterday for paralysing electricity supplies across Italy when it cut a vital power line over the Alps. All of Italy, except for the islands of Sardinia and Capri and small pockets of the mainland, along with areas of Switzerland and Austria, were hit by the 3.25am black-out. Car headlights pierce the pre-dawn darkness in Rome after electricity supplies across Italy were knocked out by a falling...