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Justice Alito pushes back on report detailing travel, trip with billionaire

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ProPublica said the man later had business before the court. Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday issued a public rebuttal to a new report detailing a luxury vacation he took with a wealthy hedge fund manager who later had Business before the Supreme Court. According to ProPublica, Alito accompanied billionaire Paul Singer on a fishing trip in 2008. Alito was flown there on a private jet provided by Singer, which the investigative outlet said would have cost more than $100,000 one-way. The trip went undisclosed on his financial disclosures for 2008, the report said, and Singer's business later went before the court at least 10 times, including a 2014 case in which Alito sided with the majority in Singer's favor -- raising ethical concerns, ProPublica said. MORE: Chief Justice John Roberts defends Supreme Court's 'highest standards of conduct,' offers no new rules Justice Alito declined to answer questions posed by ProPublica, the outlet said, and instead tried t...

Submersible on Titanic tour reported missing off Newfoundland

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A submersible has gone missing while on a tour of the wreckage of the Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A submersible with five people aboard has gone missing while on a tour of the wreckage of the Titanic off the coast of New found land, Canada, according to officials. The Coast Guard was notified Sunday afternoon that a vessel belonging to the deep sea exploring company OceanGate was overdue, and crews immediately launched search and rescue operations, Rear Adm. John Mauger, U.S. Coast Guard 1st District Commander, told Fox News. The capsule is advertised to have 96 hours of oxygen for survival, which "gives us some time to continue searching and continue to using all our means to try and locate the crew members," Mauger said. He noted that this is in a remote part of the Atlantic Ocean. Missing submersible ABC News "This is on the site of a wreckage, the wreckage of the Titanic, and so there's a lot of debris on the bottom, and locating an object on ...