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Ex-USCIS officer arrested in Texas for allegedly taking cash to approve, fast-track immigration benefits

USCIS officer arrested for charging money for approving immigration applications. A former US Citizenship and Immigration Services officer has been arrested in Texas after federal authorities accused him of taking illegal payments in exchange for manipulating immigration decisions and speeding up applications. Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, a former senior immigration services officer with USCIS, and Adeniyi…

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In 1956, California burned and demolished the town of Monticello before flooding the valley; 70 years later its streets and homes remain beneath Lake Berryessa

The town was flooded as part of a massive water project in California but its legacy has been much harder to wash away. Beneath the waters of Lake Berryessa rests the ghost town of Monticello, preserved in fragments: its roads, foundations and historic bridge still visible beneath the surface while photographs and memories keep its…

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In 2018, billionaire pharma heir Frank Binder paid $33 million for a Hollywood Hills mansion; now the Lenny Kravitz-designed home is listed for $35 million as he builds a $2 billion residential yacht

Billionaire pharma heir wants $35M for LA mansion as he prepares to build the world’s biggest yacht Swiss pharmaceutical heir and entrepreneur Frank Binder has listed his Hollywood Hills mansion for $35 million, eight years after buying the property. Binder, whose family made its fortune through Swiss pharmaceutical company Merck Serono, bought the mid-century modern…

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Quote of the day by Barack Obama: “Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would…” – a powerful message about failure and success | World News

Barack Obama (Image Credit: Instagram/ @barackobama) Barack Obama‘s words are a genuinely honest reminder that meaningful achievement rarely happens quickly, and almost never without a real setback along the way. “Making your mark on the world is hard,” he said. “If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it…

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Illinois Victorian Home: In 1894, a 4,000-sq-ft Illinois Victorian was built; 132 years later, a 67-year-old retiree bought it for $97,500 and has already spent $85,000 restoring just 1,000 sq ft

Rebecca Roucloux Avery, 67, had already done the thing most people aspire to: she owned a brand-new home in Austin, a city people pay premiums to move to. She was retired, financially stable, and living in a modern construction built to last. But then she left it all for a 132-year-old Victorian home in Vermont,…

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49ers broadcaster Greg Papa spent 78 days in intensive care after a bone marrow transplant; six months later his ‘impossible dream’ comeback begins

The damage to his lungs became so severe that he required supplemental oxygen simply to stand and walk short distances. At one point, even a trip to the bathroom left him struggling for breath, and he began considering whether he might eventually need a lung transplant. For much of the past year, the San Francisco…

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70-year-old Texas woman used $150,000 from her retirement savings to create an all-women tiny-home community spread across five acres for rent of $450 monthly

Be it a divorce, a breakup, widowhood or single parenting, women are often left in situations where they have nowhere to go, no other home that they have invested in and no other residence whose doors are open for them. This is why Robyn Yerian, a 70-year-old Texas woman spent about $150,000 from her retirement…

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