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• Jussie Smollett's Last-Ditch Effort to Dismiss Criminal Trial Ends in Failure as Judge Delivers a Reality Check

  16-10-2021 23:37
  
  Jussie Smollett will finally face a trial for his 2019 stunt in which he claimed he was the victim of a racist, homophobic attack in Chicago. On Friday, Judge James […]
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• DC Department of Corrections Officials Held in Contempt for What They Did to Jan. 6 Detainee

  16-10-2021 23:26
  
  No matter what you think happened on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, there is no denying that it has been a gift, politically speaking, to the establishment left. It bolstered […]
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• 'They were ambushed': 1 deputy killed, 2 others wounded in shooting outside Texas bar

  16-10-2021 22:48
  
  Houston police say a suspect shot the deputies from behind with an AR-15 style rifle. Kareem Atkins, 30, was pronounced dead at the hospital.      
  
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• TX Public School Leader: Books on the Holocaust Should Be Balanced with 'Opposing' Views

  16-10-2021 22:42
  
  It’s another day ending in “Y,” so there’s more upside-down, crazy stuff from the left. As in — let’s all be Holocaust deniers. That’s what Gina Peddy last week told […]
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• AP Top Stories October 16 P

  16-10-2021 22:31
  Here's the latest for Saturday October 17th:Biden remembers fallen police officers; Slain history teacher remembered in France, Afghans bury victims of suicide bombing; NASA rocket takes off towards Jupiter      
  
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• Regime-change hawk John Bolton says Russia is making ‘BIG MISTAKE’ by getting closer with China rather than Western powers

  16-10-2021 22:30 via rt.com
  
  Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton told RT’s Going Underground that Moscow has chosen the wrong strategic path by building stronger ties with Beijing instead of mending relations with the US and Western Europe.“I think Russia’s greatest security lies in moving West, not moving East,” Bolton said in an interview that aired in full on Saturday. He added that it’s not in Russia’s long-term interest to ally closely with China, saying, “By splitt
  
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• George Takei Crosses the Line with Spiteful Response to Shatner's Spaceflight, So Captain Kirk Shows Him Why He's the Boss

  16-10-2021 22:28
  
  Who wouldn’t be jealous of William Shatner? The actor spent decades portraying the best Starfleet captain — no hate mail please, Picard fans — and inspired countless young Americans to […]
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• Abandoned by Biden and with Winter Fast Approaching, Desperate Afghans Do the Unthinkable to Their Own Children

  16-10-2021 22:22
  
  Two months after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, desperation is ravaging the people America left behind. In White House remarks after the last Americans left Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said […]
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• GOP Must Stop Schumer's New Bill Before It Makes the Federal Government Too Powerful

  16-10-2021 22:13
  
  Senate Democrats want to pass a new “voting rights” bill that would limit laws requiring voter identification and produce a federal framework for voting. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has […]
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• Real life Squid Games? Korean culture takes center stage at non-lethal events.

  16-10-2021 22:12
  Fans of Netflix's hit show "Squid Game" are joining real life reenactments of the show. But some are about highlighting Korean culture, not death.      
  
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• Assistant to House Sergeant-at-Arms charged with possession of child pornography

  16-10-2021 22:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An assistant to the US House of Representatives Sergeant-At-Arms has been arrested and charged with 10 felony counts related to the possession of child pornography, according to court records filed Wednesday.
  
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• French Diplomat Saves Afghan Refugee's Pet Bird, Then Something Amazing Happens

  16-10-2021 22:03
  
  Xavier Chatel is a French ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, a job that has increased in complexity as of late. But one thing that he’s now well-known for is […]
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• Buttigieg Hits Back at People Who Are Upset That He's on Paid Leave During a National Crisis

  16-10-2021 21:40
  
  Being on leave during a major crisis is a good thing, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday. The Department of Transportation let slip Thursday that Buttigieg, who adopted twins with […]
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• Ivermectin's 'Immeasurable' Impact Won Scientists Behind It the Nobel Prize for Medicine

  16-10-2021 21:14
  
  The drug Ivermectin has become commonly known amid the pandemic over controversial claims that it could be used as an effective therapeutic against the coronavirus. However, just a few years […]
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• Company sued for allegedly funneling 4.8 million scam robocalls to Indiana residents

  16-10-2021 21:12
  
  Startel Communication allegedly worked with companies in California to flood residents with automated calls from India, the Philippines and Singapore.      
  
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• Biden remembers service of fallen officers

  16-10-2021 20:51
  Framed by the Capitol, President Joe Biden paid tribute Saturday to fallen law enforcement officers and honored those who fought off the Jan. 6 insurrection at that very site.(Oct. 16)      
  
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• John Kerry Has Over $1 Million Invested in Chinese Company That Funds Xi's Uyghur Genocide

  16-10-2021 20:38
  
  U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has admitted that, at least in his role as the carbon-cutting evangelist to the world, he’s not terribly interested in China’s human rights abuses — […]
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• Hezbollah Threatens Civil War with Christians

  16-10-2021 20:10
  
  Threats filled the air of Beirut where gunfire raged Thursday as the terrorist group Hezbollah vowed to rachet up the violence that led to seven people being killed. On Thursday, […]
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• Indiana family says they were mistakenly given Covid vaccines. Mix-ups like that are rare

  16-10-2021 19:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An Indiana couple says they took their family to get their annual flu shot at the local Walgreens, but all of them, including their 4- and 5-year-old, were given a Covid-19 vaccine by mistake. Mistakes like this can happen, but they're incredibly rare, public health experts say.
  
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• Hertz files for a new IPO

  16-10-2021 19:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hertz is going public again.
  
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• Aussie Cop Quits Force, Issues Withering Statement on the Elite's Destruction of Freedom Under COVID

  16-10-2021 19:33
  
  There are few democratic governments that have been so capricious and petty with the power afforded to them by COVID-induced fear as Australia, a nation that has locked down China-style […]
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• Watch: Biden Breaks Into Strange Yelling, Mispronounces Multiple Simple Words

  16-10-2021 19:02
  
  It was a bad week for Biden gaffes. On Friday, the president traveled to the University of Connecticut to deliver a speech rededicating the Dodd Center for Human Rights. Named […]
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• Indiana AG sues companies over robocalls

  16-10-2021 18:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Three companies that allegedly helped initiate tens of millions of robocalls in the US -- including to people on Do Not Call registries -- are being sued by the Indiana attorney general.
  
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• Hillary, Chelsea Clinton arrive at Calif. hospital

  16-10-2021 18:25
  Hillary and Chelsea Clinton arrived at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center Saturday where former president Bill Clinton remains hospitalized, recovering from a urological infection. (Oct. 16)      
  
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• Fact-checking Kari Lake, serial promoter of election lies and early frontrunner in GOP primary for Arizona governor

  16-10-2021 18:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In September, Mike Lindell, the pillow businessman and promoter of wildly inaccurate conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, said Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was the first and only candidate he had endorsed.
  
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• Biden Vowed to End Trump's 'Dangerous, Inhumane' Policy; Now He's Begging to Reinstate It

  16-10-2021 18:05
  
  On the 2020 campaign trail, President Joe Biden repeatedly demonized then-President Donald Trump for his treatment of immigrants. Now that he is in office, Biden is realizing that securing the […]
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• DJ Debunks Leftist Lie That 'Racist' White Kids Refused to Dance to Latin Song During Homecoming

  16-10-2021 17:06
  
  Believe it or not, this week, a group of progressives got themselves all worked up over evidence of overt racism that turned out to be absolutely nothing of the sort. […]
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• Safeway spent hundreds of millions on renovating its stores and other things we learned this week in the Elizabeth Holmes trial

  16-10-2021 16:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  This week in the criminal trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, jurors heard from a second former lab director of the blood-testing startup, former executives of the two major retailers that inked deals with the failed company, as well as the beginning of testimony from a former employee who was involved in its critical Walgreens partnership and device demonstrations.
  
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• Revealed: Biden Has Allowed Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg to Take Months-Long Paid Leave as Crisis Rages

  16-10-2021 16:36
  
  Amid reports of dock worker and trucker shortages threatening the country’s critical supply chains, the federal government revealed Thursday that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been absent because he is […]
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• Texas administrator told teachers to include Holocaust books with 'opposing' views

  16-10-2021 16:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A school district superintendent in North Texas apologized Thursday night after one of the district's administrators told teachers that if they have books about the Holocaust in their classroom libraries, then they should also include books that have "opposing" views of the Holocaust.
  
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• NASA's asteroid hunter Lucy soars into sky

  16-10-2021 16:31
  A NASA spacecraft named Lucy has rocketed into the sky with diamonds on a 12-year quest to explore a record-setting eight asteroids. Lucy blasted off before dawn on Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Oct. 16)      
  
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• Biden DOJ Refuses to Accept Appeals Court Abortion Decision, Prepares Supreme Court Move

  16-10-2021 16:20
  
  President Joe Biden, who relied upon Planned Parenthood’s campaign cash a year ago, is now doing everything in his power to turn the abortion spigot back on in Texas. “The […]
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• Truck driver in fatal Colorado crash found guilty of vehicular homicide

  16-10-2021 16:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The driver of a semi truck that plowed into traffic along Interstate 70 near Denver, killing four people, was convicted Friday of vehicular homicide and other charges, prosecutors said.
  
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• Who is Glenn Youngkin, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia?

  16-10-2021 16:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, has pitched himself as a businessman and a political outsider.
  
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• McAuliffe fights to engage Democrats in close of Virginia campaign

  16-10-2021 16:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Terry McAuliffe did not mince words about what he needed from Virginia voters on Friday night.
  
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• Storage containers are scarce, so toymakers are focused on small, squishy toys for the holidays

  16-10-2021 15:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Jay Foreman, the chief executive of toymaker Basic Fun, was in a bind over the summer.
  
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• The global economy's 2020 hangover is far from over

  16-10-2021 14:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The global economy's 2020 hangover is far from over
  
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• The global economy is still recovering from the effects of 2020

  16-10-2021 14:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The global economy's 2020 hangover is far from over
  
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• Four train passengers are hurt in Amtrak crash with truck in Oklahoma

  16-10-2021 14:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An Amtrak train struck a truck near Thackerville, Oklahoma, on Friday, injuring four train passengers, a spokesperson for Amtrak told CNN.
  
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• A love story: One year after they met, his husband became his kidney donor

  16-10-2021 14:01
  
  In the span of approximately a year, Reid Alexander and Rafael Díaz met and got married – and Díaz donated a kidney to his new husband.      
  
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• Watchdog files Hatch Act complaint against Psaki

  16-10-2021 13:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a Hatch Act complaint against White House press secretary Jen Psaki, alleging that she appeared to have endorsed Terry McAuliffe during a White House press briefing on Thursday.
  
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• Watchdog files Hatch Act complaint against Jen Psaki

  16-10-2021 13:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  • 5 things we learned from the committee investigating January 6 this week
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• Black state trooper in Louisiana faces termination after accusing colleagues of murder

  16-10-2021 13:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A Louisiana state trooper who accused colleagues involved in the death of Ronald Greene of murder and an alleged internal coverup says he was notified he will be fired.
  
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• Police gunfire killed their dreams. The Jersey Four built new ones, 23 years later.

  16-10-2021 11:30
  
  The Jersey Four story is one of survival. Before social media and cell phones, itbrought light the conflicts between police and Black men.      
  
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• Many jail suicides are preventable, experts say. But they drive a death crisis in Indiana.

  16-10-2021 11:30
  
  Experts say many jail suicides should be preventable, but they're driving a death crisis in Indiana. "There is much we can do to reduce it," one said.      
  
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• What might be changing on aspirin guidance: An expert weighs in

  16-10-2021 11:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Wait, are we taking a break from aspirin?
  
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• Jonah Hill lost weight. He still doesn't want people talking about it — understandably so

  16-10-2021 10:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  We tend to think that pointing out dropped pounds is the ultimate way to compliment someone. Actually, it's none of our business.
  
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• Pentagon offers unspecified ‘condolence payments’ for 7 Afghan children & aid worker murdered in botched drone strike

  16-10-2021 07:07 via rt.com
  
  The US military is offering “condolence payments” to a family in Afghanistan after a badly planned drone strike killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in the country’s capital in August, though did not provide any numbers.Pentagon spokesman John Kirby revealed the offer on Friday, stating that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a “commitment” to the Akhmadi family for compensation following the August 29 drone strike, “including offering ex gratia con
  
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• Parents sue Minnesota charter school alleging racist behavior

  16-10-2021 06:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The parents of several Black and biracial students are suing the operator of a Minnesota charter school on behalf of their children, alleging that the school failed to prevent "racist, unfair, hurtful and at times dangerous interactions" at the hands of both students and staff.
  
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• An Ethics Complaint Has Officially Been Filed Against Jen Psaki

  16-10-2021 06:12
  
  An ethics complaint has been filed against White House press secretary Jen Psaki after she indulged in a bit of political cheerleading during a White House briefing. Citizens for Responsibility […]
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