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Hastert paid $1.7 million over four years but stopped the payments after the FBI questioned him in 2014 about illegally concealing huge cash withdraws from his bank. After Hastert pleaded guilty to a banking charge and was sentenced in 2016, the victim sued for breach of contract.
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The plane was already taxiing out to the runway but had not taken off when it was rerouted.
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Williams, 54, was found dead in the living room of his Kent Avenue penthouse by his nephew, sources said.
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Wednesday's storm ultimately dumped over 9 inches (23 cm) of rain in parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and nearly as much on New York City's Staten Island.
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All of New Orleans lost power right around sunset Sunday and officials warned it could be weeks before power is fully restored.
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The blasts came hours after Western officials warned of a major attack, urging people to leave the airport. But that advice went largely unheeded by Afghans desperate to escape the country.
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The media dubbed him Public Enemy No. 1 after the 1929 "Valentine's Day Massacre" of seven members of a rival bootlegger gang in Chicago by his associates.
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The 17.02 inches (43.2 centimeters) of rainfall smashed the state's 24-hour record of 13.6 inches (34.5 centimeters) from 1982, according to the National Weather Service in Nashville.