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• State Offers Concert Tickets to Encourage More Vaccinations

  25-06-2021 23:58
  The state of Connecticut is offering a new promotion - a concert ticket giveaway - to encourage residents, especially young people, to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
  
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• Nola Strikes Out 10 Straight Mets to Match MLB Record

  25-06-2021 23:58
  
  Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola has struck out 10 straight New York Mets batters, tying a major league record that stood alone for more than five decades.
  
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• Community members upset with Chauvin sentence

  25-06-2021 23:57
  Community members in Minneapolis watched outside the courthouse and in George Floyd Square Friday as former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. (June 25)      
  
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• Claims Fall Far Short of $10M Georgia Special Education Fund

  25-06-2021 23:54
  Georgia parents of special education students are on track to claim far less than the $10.1 million Gov. Brian Kemp set aside to cover unusual expenses caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• U.S. Senate Republicans Press CDC to End Mask Mandate on Airplanes, Transit

  25-06-2021 23:52
  
  By David Shepardson(Reuters) - A group of Senate Republicans urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday to stop requiring...
  
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• $10 Million Bail for Omaha Man Accused of Child Sex Abuse

  25-06-2021 23:52
  A 65-year-old Omaha man accused of sexually assaulting three boys for years is being held on $10 million bail.
  
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• Whitmer Vetoes Tax Breaks Related to Virus-Related Expenses

  25-06-2021 23:51
  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has vetoed two bills that would let businesses seek refunds for taxes paid on personal protective equipment, disinfectants and plexiglass barriers during the pandemic.
  
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• John McAfee’s widow insists husband was not suicidal, blames US government for death

  25-06-2021 23:51 via rt.com
  
  John McAfee’s widow, Janice, has insisted that her husband was not suicidal, fueling speculation among supporters who have been posting past tweets from the tech giant insisting he would never take his own life.“His last words to me were ‘I love you and I will call you in the evening,’” Janice McAfee told the press outside the penitentiary in Barcelona where her husband was incarcerated before he was found deceased this week. 
  Officials pointed to suicide as a
  
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• Biden vows 'sustained' help to Afghanistan

  25-06-2021 23:48
  President Joe Biden Friday promised top Afghanistan's top leaders a "sustained" partnership even as he moves to accelerate winding down the U.S.'s longest war amid escalating Taliban violence. (June 25)      
  
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• New 'Fast & Furious' sequel is exactly as eyeroll-inducing as you'd expect

  25-06-2021 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Whether you like the ninth installment will depend on whether you liked the seventh and eighth — in other words, hell yeah or yeah right.
  
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• Minn AG after Chauvin hearing: 'It's time to act'

  25-06-2021 23:47
  Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he's hoping a judge's 22 1/2-year sentence imposed on former police Officer Derek Chauvin will be a "moment for change" and he urged people: "It's time to act." (June 25)      
  
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• Fassi Angered by 2-Shot Penalty for Slow Play at Women's PGA

  25-06-2021 23:42
  
  Maria Fassi thought she had a birdie on the 18th hole in the KPMG Women's PGA Championship.
  
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• Harris Downplays Politics, Stresses Immigration Reform During Border Visit

  25-06-2021 23:41
  
  The vice president toured a pair of border facilities and spoke to migrants and stakeholders during a visit that came after intense criticism from Republicans.
  
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• Buffalo Mayor Considers Write-In Campaign After Primary Loss

  25-06-2021 23:40
  Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is considering running for re-election as a write-in candidate after losing a three-way Democratic primary to socialist India Walton.
  
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• Woke Restaurant Adds New Charge to Receipt, Sparking Outrage

  25-06-2021 23:36
  
  A Minneapolis-based restaurant is now charging customers a 15 percent “equity charge” on all guest checks. The reason for this new charge? Customers are too racist and too sexist to […]
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• Bullet Found in Remains in Search for Tulsa Massacre Victims

  25-06-2021 23:35
  
  Searchers looking for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have found a bullet with a set of human remains.
  
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• State Supreme Court Won't Hear Jail Nurse Manslaughter Case

  25-06-2021 23:34
  The Mississippi Supreme Court will not reconsider the case of a former jail nurse convicted in the 2014 death of a George County inmate.
  
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• Biden Vows 'Sustained' Help as Afghanistan Drawdown Nears

  25-06-2021 23:34
  
  President Joe Biden has promised Afghanistan’s top leaders a “sustained” partnership even as he moves to accelerate winding down the United States’ longest war amid escalating Taliban violence.
  
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• El Salvador Bitcoin Move Opens Banks to Money Laundering, Terrorism Financing Risks -Fitch

  25-06-2021 23:32
  
  (Reuters) - El Salvador's law making bitcoin legal tender means banks face higher risks, including of violating rules against money laundering and...
  
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• U.S. Releases UFO Report, Congress Criticizes ‘Inconclusive’ Findings

  25-06-2021 23:31
  
  A hotly anticipated report that delved into sightings of UFOs, or ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ as the military calls them, appears to have yielded more questions than answers.
  
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• Small Earthquake Shakes Baltimore Area

  25-06-2021 23:31
  The U.S. Geological Survey says a small earthquake shook the Baltimore area on Friday afternoon.
  
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• 'We're Gonna Stay Strong': Floyd Family Reacts to Sentence

  25-06-2021 23:29
  
  Some of George Floyd’s family members are calling Derek Chauvin’s 22 1/2-year sentence for murder in his death insufficient, while others are expressing optimism that it would be an impetus for change.
  
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• US Mortgage Rates Rise Over 3%; 30-Year at 3.02%

  25-06-2021 23:29
  Mortgage rates rose above the 3% mark this week for the first time in 10 weeks, as the economic recovery from the pandemic recession continues and inflation remains elevated.
  
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• Southwest Airlines Plans to Raise Minimum Pay to $15 an Hour

  25-06-2021 23:28
  Southwest Airlines says it will raise minimum pay to $15 an hour for about 7,000 employees.
  
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• All BLM Lands in Nevada Now Subject to Fire Prevention Order

  25-06-2021 23:26
  The Bureau of Land Management has issued a fire prevention order for all its lands in Nevada, including a ban on fireworks, exploding targets and ammunition with steel components.
  
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• Refs Facing New Pressure to Keep Count on Giannis at FT Line

  25-06-2021 23:24
  
  Giannis Antetokounmpo’s lengthy free-throw routine might be too long to be legal.
  
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• WVU Board OKs Tuition Hike, $1.1B Budget for Next Year

  25-06-2021 23:23
  West Virginia University's Board of Governors has approved a tuition increase this fall as well as a budget of about $1.1 billion for the next fiscal year.
  
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• Ohio House Approves Legislation Aimed at Protest Behavior

  25-06-2021 23:23
  The GOP-controlled Ohio House has approved legislation increasing penalties associated with behavior at protests.
  
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• Officer injured in Capitol riot asks McCarthy to denounce GOP January 6 conspiracies

  25-06-2021 23:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone told House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Friday that he should denounce conspiracies spread by Republican lawmakers about the January 6 insurrection and publicly condemn the 21 House Republicans who voted against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to officers who defended the Capitol.
  
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• NH Authorities Identify Officers Who Fired Guns in Standoff

  25-06-2021 23:20
  The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has named the six officers who discharged their weapons in a fatal conclusion of a 10-hour standoff.
  
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• Teacher Retaliates After CRT Banned in Iowa Schools

  25-06-2021 23:19
  
  Leaked documents from an Iowa education agency’s mandatory critical race theory teacher training program show that it really is as bad as we thought. Maybe even a little worse. In a […]
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• Bill Passes to Let Courts Hire Collection Agencies for Fines

  25-06-2021 23:16
  Common pleas and magisterial district judges would be allowed to hire private collection agencies to pursue overdue court fines and costs under a bill that's been approved by the Legislature.
  
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• Sununu Signs 2-Year State Budget Into Law

  25-06-2021 23:14
  Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has signed the two-year state budget passed by the Legislature into law that includes $13.5 billion in spending, but tax cuts and abortion restrictions.
  
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• AP Source: Mavs Hire Title-Winning Guard Jason Kidd as Coach

  25-06-2021 23:14
  
  Jason Kidd is coming back to Dallas again, this time to replace the coach he won a championship with as the point guard of the Mavericks 10 years ago.
  
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• Indiana DNR Recommends Removal of Birdfeeders Statewide

  25-06-2021 23:13
  The Indiana Department of Natural Resources recommends all Hoosiers statewide remove their birdfeeders after the agency received reports of sick and dying songbirds from 15 counties.
  
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• UN Envoy Calls for New International Talks on Syrian War

  25-06-2021 23:12
  
  The U.N. special envoy for Syria is calling for new international talks to discuss concrete steps to give impetus to ending the 10-year Syrian conflict, such as exchanging prisoners and a nationwide cease-fire.
  
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• On Border Tour, Harris Laments 'Infighting' Over Immigration

  25-06-2021 23:12
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris has used her first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office to call for an end to political “rhetoric” and “infighting” over immigration, an issue that Republicans have been eager to weaponize against her.
  
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• Mob Assaults Off-Duty Cop with Weapon in NYC, Investigators Believe Bold Daylight Attack Was Targeted

  25-06-2021 23:12
  
  I was briefly in New York City about two weeks ago. Although I didn’t see much besides the immediate vicinity of Penn Station, I could tell that New York wasn’t […]
  The post Mob Assaults Off-Duty Cop with Weapon in NYC, Investigators Believe Bold Daylight Attack Was Targeted appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Jury: Life in Prison for Florida Man in Double Slaying

  25-06-2021 23:11
  A Florida jury recommended life in prison without parole for a man convicted of killing his girlfriend and special-needs daughter and trying to kill his son.
  
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• ‘Not my first trip’: Kamala Harris snaps at press during border appearance after reporter asks why visit took so long

  25-06-2021 23:10 via rt.com
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris has defended herself from criticism that she took too long to visit the US-Mexico border by saying her Friday appearance was not her first trip there, prompting a new wave of condemnation.Speaking to the press after arriving in El Paso, Texas days after her visit had been announced, Harris was asked by Fox News’ Peter Doocy why now was the right time to make the trip, after months of both Democrats and Republicans calling for it.
  “It’s not my first
  
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• Kamala Harris Receives Hostile Reception as She Finally Visits the Border

  25-06-2021 23:10
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris did not receive the warm reception she was most likely expecting when she finally visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday. Protesters, many of them Hispanic, lined […]
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• Teen Dies Days After Receiving COVID Vaccine, Investigation Underway

  25-06-2021 23:09
  
  A Michigan 13-year-old’s death after receiving his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is being investigated for a possible correlation between his death and the vaccine. The teen died last […]
  The post Teen Dies Days After Receiving COVID Vaccine, Investigation Underway appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Jury Seated for Insanity Phase of Newspaper Shooting Case

  25-06-2021 23:08
  
  A jury has been seated for the second phase of a trial for a man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper.
  
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• No ET, No Answers: Intel Report Is Inconclusive About UFOs

  25-06-2021 23:07
  
  A long-awaited U.S. government report on UFOs released Friday makes at least one thing clear: The truth is still out there.
  
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• Get a Check Ready for $83,000: Mayors Push for Americans to Cough Up for Slavery Reparations

  25-06-2021 23:07
  
  On June 18, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti launched the national MORE campaign — Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity, a coalition of 11 mayors promoting reparations for the descendants […]
  The post Get a Check Ready for $83,000: Mayors Push for Americans to Cough Up for Slavery Reparations appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Arizona House OK's Big Loopholes for New Tax on Wealthy

  25-06-2021 23:06
  
  The Republican-controlled House has passed more legislation targeting Proposition 208.
  
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• Debate Over Missouri Medicaid Tax, Family Planning Drags On

  25-06-2021 23:05
  Missouri senators are locked in debate over a soon-to-expire tax responsible for a critical chunk of Medicaid funding.
  
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• Bail Reduced for Co-Defendant in Road-Rage Killing of Boy

  25-06-2021 23:05
  Bail has been reduced from $500,000 to $100,000 for a woman accused of being an accessory to the road rage killing of a little boy on a Southern California freeway.
  
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• Vermont Man Dies After Motorcycle Crash in Wells River

  25-06-2021 23:02
  Vermont State Police say a 31-year-old man has died after he was thrown from his motorcycle into oncoming traffic in Wells River.
  
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• Steve Stricker Opens 5-Shot Lead in Senior Players

  25-06-2021 23:02
  Steve Stricker increased his lead to five strokes Friday in the Senior Players Championship, following an opening 7-under 63 with a 68 at breezy Firestone.
  
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