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• Famous Chinese Billionaire Blacklisted Overnight, Party Scrubs Her Existence from Internet

  30-08-2021 23:52
  
  How quickly can the Chinese Communist Party erase someone’s entire existence from the planet if they become problematic? Ask billionaire and famed Chinese actress Zhao Wei. I mean, once someone […]
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• 'Please help me': Trapped residents in LaPlace, Louisiana, plead for aid

  30-08-2021 23:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  "It's the worst that I've seen in the 20 years I've been in the parish," state Rep. Randal Gaines said Monday. "And we've seen several hurricanes."
  
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• Navy Veteran Working on Afghanistan Evacuation Says Biden's Claims Are 'False' and Americans 'Are Being Left Behind'

  30-08-2021 23:40
  
  A Navy aviator helping Afghan-Americans evacuate Afghanistan contradicted the Biden administration’s claims, saying that citizens trying to leave via the airport had been denied entry by Taliban officials. Retired Navy […]
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• Louisiana hospitals brace for victims of Ida amid regional Covid surge

  30-08-2021 23:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  "Ida was a rough ride yesterday," the chief of a Louisiana hospital system said.
  
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• Woman Forced to Surrender Exotic Pet She Had Living in Her New York City Apartment: Be Glad You Were Not Her Neighbor

  30-08-2021 23:23
  
  An 80-pound cougar was removed from a New York City apartment where it was being kept illegally as a pet, animal welfare officials said Monday. The owner of the 11-month-old […]
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• Did Biden Commit War Crimes by Slaughtering 7 Children When He Said He Was Targeting ISIS-K?

  30-08-2021 23:15
  
  President Joe Biden is being accused of committing war crimes after a drone strike — which was supposed to target terrorists from the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate — reportedly […]
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• Teacher faces backlash for suggesting student pledge allegiance to Pride flag

  30-08-2021 23:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  A California school district is investigating a teacher who posted a now-viral video in which she joked about telling a student that he could pledge
  
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• Last plane carrying Americans from Afghanistan departs as longest U.S. war concludes

  30-08-2021 23:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  The final flight capped a bloody and chaotic end to the conflict, as fighting and terror attacks amid the evacuation scramble left hundreds dead.
  
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• Power outages in Louisiana to last A MONTH after Hurricane Ida

  30-08-2021 23:05 via rt.com
  
  Battered by Hurricane Ida, parts of Louisiana will be without power for up to a month in the wake of the storm. The hurricane plunged New Orleans into darkness and toppled transmission towers across the state.Making landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane on Sunday, Ida brought howling 150mph winds, lashing rain, and up to 16 feet of water surging onto the Gulf Coast and up into New Orleans and beyond. 
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• Florida woman hospitalized with Covid returns home to find husband dead of same disease

  30-08-2021 23:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  "I can't get that picture out of my mind," Lisa Steadman said. "I wish I never would have found him like that."
  
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• 'WJ Live': Biden Disrespects Families of Service Members Killed in Kabul During Transfer Ceremony

  30-08-2021 23:03
  
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• Phone talks, chats of pro-Trump GOP & family may be preserved as Jan-6 committee demands HUNDREDS OF records from companies – CNN

  30-08-2021 23:02 via rt.com
  
  The House committee investigating the Capitol riot will demand to preserve telecom and social media records of the members of Congress and the Trump family it believes were involved in the January 6 rally, CNN has reported.The House Select Committee plans to ask telecom companies to preserve phone records from certain Republican lawmakers, including ex-president Donald Trump, and a group of Trump family members, CNN reported on Monday. All of those whose records have been targeted allegedly play
  
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• Man convicted of murdering Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts sentenced to life in prison

  30-08-2021 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  "You, and you alone, forever changed the lives of those who loved Mollie Tibbetts," the judge told Cristhian Bahena Rivera before handing down the sentence.
  
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• Hate crime reports in US surge to the highest level in 12 years, FBI says

  30-08-2021 22:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  More than 10,000 people reported to law enforcement last year that they were the victim of a hate crime because of their race or ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, religion or disability-- a number that has been on the rise in recent years, according to FBI's annual hate crime statistics report.
  
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• Pentagon announces final U.S. troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan

  30-08-2021 22:46 via nbcnews.com
  The  Pentagon held a briefing to announce that the last U.S. troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan as the August 31 deadline arrives. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie noted that even though the military evacuation was complete, diplomatic efforts were still underway.
  
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• 'Power outages for weeks'? New Orleans may be without power for a long stretch

  30-08-2021 22:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  As of 7 a.m. Monday local time, there were 888,000 power outages in New Orleans and the surrounding region, the utility company CEO said.
  
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• Supreme Court asked to block Texas' six-week abortion ban

  30-08-2021 22:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  In Monday’s filing, an advocacy group said the law would “immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access.”
  
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• Devastated Nation Rallies to Family of Fallen Marine, in a Matter of Hours Has Massive Gift for His Unborn Child

  30-08-2021 22:26
  
  More than half a million dollars has been pledged to help the family Marine Rylee McCollum left behind when he was killed in Afghanistan last week. McCollum, 20, was among […]
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• Trump Calls for 'Unequivocal Military Force' if Taliban Don't Return American Weaponry

  30-08-2021 22:17
  
  Former President Donald Trump on Monday called for the U.S. to use “unequivocal military force” against the Taliban if the terrorist group refuses to return billions of dollars in weaponry […]
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• Biden's Justice Department to Hire First Chief Diversity Officer

  30-08-2021 22:05
  
  The Department of Justice has posted a job opening for a chief diversity officer who would be tasked with leading the agency’s equity and inclusion initiatives. “The Chief Diversity Officer […]
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• Biden's Meeting with Gold Star Family Blows Up in His Face as Family Members Walk Out on Him

  30-08-2021 22:01
  
  On Sunday — three days after explosions wreaked havoc outside of Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai International Airport — President Joe Biden flew to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to receive […]
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• Man confronts NBC News' Shaquille Brewster on live TV during Ida coverage

  30-08-2021 22:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  "Like the consummate professional, he did not let someone intimidate him from doing his job," MSNBC President Rashida Jones said.
  
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• Resorts burn and fire tornadoes rage in blaze-ravaged California, as entire CITY ordered to evacuate (VIDEOS)

  30-08-2021 21:50 via rt.com
  
  Fresh evacuation orders have been issued in the resort city of South Lake Tahoe, California, as a devastating wildfire closes in. Meanwhile, fires to the south of Los Angeles have whipped up intense tornadoes of flame.Residents of South Lake Tahoe, a resort town on the Californian side of the lake straddling the state’s border with Nevada, were ordered on Monday to head east, as law enforcement officers went door to door to make sure everyone complied. Now that evacuations are mandatory in
  
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• Jan. 6 committee to ask phone records be kept of lawmakers who participated in 'Stop the Steal'

  30-08-2021 21:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The House Select Committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot is set to request that a group of telecommunications companies preserve the phone records of a group of GOP members of Congress and former President Donald Trump, as well as members of the Trump family, who played some role in the "Stop the Steal" rally that served as the prelude to the Capitol insurrection.
  
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• Convicted Rapist Who Was Previously Deported Ends Up in US After Boarding Kabul Evacuation Flight: Report

  30-08-2021 21:34
  
  A convicted rapist previously deported from the U.S. recently returned on an evacuation flight from Kabul, Afghanistan, according to a new report. The Washington Times reported Monday that Ghader Heydari, […]
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• Considering What Biden's State Department Just Handed Out, Will Terrorists Be Able to Simply Walk Onto Outbound US Planes?

  30-08-2021 21:19
  
  The Biden administration’s long series of unforced errors just keeps on growing. Former FBI Special Agent Kenneth Gray, who worked in the bureau’s counterterrorism division, warned that terrorists in Afghanistan, […]
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• Pro-Abortion Groups Ask SCOTUS to Block Pro-Life Texas Law from Going Into Effect

  30-08-2021 21:05
  
  Abortion groups asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a pro-life Texas law from going into effect Wednesday. “Texans, like everyone else in this country, should be able to […]
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• China Cuts Kids' Video Game Time to 3 Hours Per Week Amid Crackdown on Digital Entertainment

  30-08-2021 21:05
  
  China is forbidding children from playing more than three hours of video games a week as the country seeks to further regulate entertainment and social media. China’s National Press and […]
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• It's 7 Months Into Biden's First Term, And Nearly 8% of Humvees Ever Made Are Lost in Taliban's Afghanistan

  30-08-2021 20:45
  
  The Taliban inherited many American “gifts” amid their Afghanistan victory. We’ve seen the images of Islamic militants holding U.S.-made rifles and posing beside our own Blackhawk helicopters left behind in […]
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• Thousands of National Guard Troops Sent to Gulf Coast as Ida Death Toll Is Expected to Rise 'Considerably'

  30-08-2021 20:16
  
  More than 5,200 National Guard members from four states have been activated to serve in rescue and relief efforts following the destruction of Hurricane Ida across Louisiana and Mississippi. “Almost […]
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• Feds to investigate whether 5 states that ban mask mandates are violating student rights

  30-08-2021 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  “It’s simply unacceptable that state leaders are putting politics over the health and education of the students they took an oath to serve," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.
  
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• Abortion providers ask Supreme Court to block Texas' six-week ban

  30-08-2021 19:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Lawyers for abortion clinics in Texas raced to the Supreme Court Monday, asking the justices to block a controversial law that bans abortions at six weeks and allows private citizens to bring civil suits against anyone who assists a pregnant person seeking an abortion in violation of the law.
  
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• Massive Israeli Study Comes to Bombshell Conclusion About Natural COVID Immunity

  30-08-2021 19:47
  
  A new study out of Israel found the natural immune protection developed after a COVID-19 infection does “considerably” more to ward off the delta variant than two doses of the […]
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• Hospital patients are being evacuated as the rapidly growing fire edges closer to California's Lake Tahoe region

  30-08-2021 19:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The raging Caldor Fire in Northern California prompted evacuation orders and warnings in the Lake Tahoe Basin Sunday night after fire conditions resulted in rapid spread, causing at least one hospital to transfer all of its patients out amid the flames.
  
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• Hospital patients are being evacuated as the rapidly growing Caldor Fire edges closer to California's Lake Tahoe region

  30-08-2021 19:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The raging Caldor Fire in Northern California prompted evacuation orders and warnings in the Lake Tahoe Basin Sunday night after fire conditions resulted in rapid spread, causing at least one hospital to transfer all of its patients out amid the flames.
  
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• E.U. takes U.S. off safe travel list due to Covid surge, backs travel restrictions

  30-08-2021 19:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  The European Union recommended Monday that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions on tourists from the U.S. because of rising coronavirus infections there.
  
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• Video: Biden Appears to Check His Watch During Dignified Transfer of Service Members Killed in Afghanistan

  30-08-2021 19:21
  
  President Joe Biden got body-slammed on Twitter for a video in which he appeared to casually glance at his watch during a heartbreaking military ritual where the bodies of 13 […]
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• Air travel sees sharp decline as delta variant continues to derail vacation plans

  30-08-2021 19:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  “The summer travel boom is at risk of stalling out as we move into fall,” said one travel expert.
  
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• Biden's Education Department Announces Investigation, Accusing States That Ban Mask-Wearing in Schools of Discrimination

  30-08-2021 19:05
  
  The Education Department announced Monday that it is investigating five states that have banned mask requirements in schools, saying the policies could amount to discrimination against students with disabilities or […]
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• Ammo Will Likely Become Even More Expensive as Biden Admin Finds Sneaky Way to Bottleneck Supply Chain

  30-08-2021 18:48
  
  If the current ammunition shortage was not bad enough, prices may continue to rise after a recent move by the Biden administration. According to a State Department news release from Aug. […]
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• No Man's Plan

  30-08-2021 18:43
  
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• Biden's Poll Numbers Dropping in Afghan Chaos, GOP Kicks Up Calls for Impeachment or Resignation

  30-08-2021 18:10
  
  Only seven months into his four-year term, many voices are saying the country has had all it can take of President Joe Biden. According to Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of […]
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• While All Eyes Are on Afghanistan, North Korea Just Took a 'Deeply Troubling' Step: Report

  30-08-2021 17:53
  
  A new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons, which the group called […]
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• Pentagon knew about Kabul suicide bombing ‘hours in advance,’ report claims, but troops on the ground say they weren’t protected

  30-08-2021 17:48 via rt.com
  
  US military leaders knew in advance that a “mass casualty event” was planned at Kabul airport, a Politico report reveals. However, accounts from the troops in harm’s way suggest that nothing was done.A suicide bombing outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last Thursday killed more than 150 people, including 13 American troops. The bombing provoked the US into launching two drone strikes, one targeting an alleged “planner” and “facilitator”
  
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• Pentagon knew about deadly suicide bombing in Kabul ‘hours in advance’ but troops on the ground say they weren’t protected

  30-08-2021 17:48 via rt.com
  
  US military leaders knew in advance that a “mass casualty event” was planned at Kabul airport, a Politico report reveals. However, accounts from the troops in harm’s way suggest that nothing was done.A suicide bombing outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last Thursday killed more than 150 people, including 13 American troops. The bombing provoked the US into launching two drone strikes, one targeting an alleged “planner” and “facilitator”
  
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• RFK's oldest son condemns possible parole of his father's assassin

  30-08-2021 17:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  The California Parole Board recommended parole Friday after claiming that Sirhan Sirhan, 77, no longer poses a threat to society.
  
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• Inside Southlake: Texas suburb at center of a critical race theory battle looks forward

  30-08-2021 17:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  NBC News' new "Southlake" podcast goes inside the fight over a school diversity plan in a wealthy Texas community.
  
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• Fury Erupts Over 'Cargo' Put on a Plane Escaping Afghanistan

  30-08-2021 17:19
  
  There is a time and a place for animal rescue. That time and place isn’t Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021. In the capital of a failed state, citizens of Western […]
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• Mexican Troops in Riot Gear Stop Hundreds of Migrants Heading Toward US

  30-08-2021 17:17
  
  Mexican troops in riot gear stopped hundreds of migrants making their way toward the U.S. border, The Associated Press reported Sunday. Around 300 migrants from Central America, Cuba and Haiti […]
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• Biden's Panicked City-Center Airstrike Killed Young Children, Reports Say

  30-08-2021 16:49
  
  President Joe Biden’s airstrike campaign against terrorist elements in Afghanistan may end up going as well as his military strategy on the ground went. According to several reports, the drone […]
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