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• What the collapse of Build Back Better would mean for climate change

  19-12-2021 23:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Manchin said he won't vote for Biden's social safety net and climate bill. If it fails, there is no clear path for the U.S. to meet its climate goals.
  
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• A day after dropping its price, YouTube TV raises it right back after new Disney deal

  19-12-2021 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  Disney and Google reached an agreement Sunday to distribute the media company's channels on YouTube TV.
  
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• Sea Glows Red as Navy Fires New Laser Weapon in the Middle East

  19-12-2021 21:38
  
  The Navy tested a high-energy laser weapon system Tuesday in the Gulf of Aden near Yemen. Photos released by Naval Forces Central Command showed the sea glowing red as if […]
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• Purple Heart Recipient and GOP Candidate Locked Out of Facebook for His Statement on Courage

  19-12-2021 21:37
  
  Facebook is once again the focus of allegations of censorship after a Republican candidate was muzzled by the social media giant. Teddy Daniels, who is seeking to represent President Joe […]
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• Retired Generals Urge Military to 'War-Game' Against US Citizens

  19-12-2021 21:34
  
  With the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 incursion into the United States Capitol less than a month away, three retired Army generals  called on leaders to take preventive measures, […]
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• A Year After Biden's Promise to 'Shut Down the Virus' and Not the Country, Look What's Happening in America

  19-12-2021 21:29
  
  From sea to shining sea, the doors are closing in the United States as a new wave of lockdowns emerges 11 months into the administration of President Joe Biden, who […]
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• Dog Alerts Mom To Struggling Baby, Makes Unbelievable Rescue

  19-12-2021 21:16
  
  When Henry the Boston terrier kept disobeying his owner’s commands, Kelly Dowling thought it was just a streak of naughtiness, but she soon discovered he was trying to tell her […]
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• CNN Producer Reportedly Tried to Bribe Victims in DUI Crash

  19-12-2021 21:02
  
  Former CNN producer John Griffin, who is currently facing sex crimes charges, tried to buy his way out of a drunk-driving incident that took place last fall, according to Fox […]
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• Former Sen. Johnny Isakson dies at the age of 76

  19-12-2021 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  Former Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson, a Republican who held a long career in politics, has died at the age of 76.
  
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• Chevrolet's Powerful Christmas Commercial Is Based on True Events

  19-12-2021 20:45
  
  Heartbreak and hope merge in a new holiday ad from Chevrolet. Chevrolet’s “Holiday Ride” captures the melancholy of loss, the power of memories and the spirit of love in a […]
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• Twitter censors account that alleged another CNN pedophilia scandal

  19-12-2021 20:40 via rt.com
  
  Twitter has suspended an account linked to Project Veritas after the media outlet posted a video accusing a CNN producer of soliciting nude photos of an underage girl and fantasizing about molesting another child.The account, called ‘@investigatecnn’, was suspended on Saturday for unspecified violations of Twitter’s rules. The move came two days after Project Veritas released a video in which former sex worker Janine Bonanni alleged that a CNN producer – later identified
  
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• Retiring NIH director issues warning to ‘tired’ Americans

  19-12-2021 20:39 via rt.com
  
  National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins has called holiday travel for unvaccinated Americans “not a great idea” and left a dire warning about Omicron cases in his final days on the job.Whether vaccinated or not, those traveling for the holidays must do so “very carefully,” Collins told CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday, amid a rise in Covid-19 cases, as well as the potential threat of the Omicron variant. 
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• As Biden's Border Crisis Rages, Armed Texans Arrive to Round Up Illegal Aliens

  19-12-2021 20:29
  
  A new Texas law is attracting armed groups with body armor, long guns and high tech drones to the border. Some local officials are welcoming them, according to The Wall […]
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• European Union Leader Floats Terrifying Idea: Europe Would Never Be the Same Again

  19-12-2021 20:19
  
  In America, we love to complain — and for very good reason — about President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Practically speaking, they’re needless and serve only to antagonize people […]
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• Report: Navy Deploys Futuristic 'Ghostbusters' Off California Coast Amid Suspicious Sightings

  19-12-2021 20:09
  
  After drone swarms buzzed Navy ships off the Pacific coast, the Navy brought out the so-called “ghostbusters.” But layers of mystery still shroud the episode in July 2019 when multiple […]
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• Big Pharma Holding Up Refugee Vaccination Initiative Over Liability Issues

  19-12-2021 19:56
  
  From what I am routinely told about the COVID-19 vaccine, it is perfectly safe and effective, and any possible side effects are only experienced by an infinitesimal percentage of patients. […]
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• Kinzinger says January 6 panel is investigating Trump's involvement in insurrection

  19-12-2021 19:51 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Sunday the House panel investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection is looking into whether former President Donald Trump committed a crime with his involvement in the deadly riot.
  
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• Kinzinger: Jan. 6 panel investigating Trump involvement

  19-12-2021 19:51 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Sunday the House panel investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection is looking into whether former President Donald Trump committed a crime with his involvement in the deadly riot.
  
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• Sandmann Racks Up Another Settlement; This Time NBC Goes the Way of CNN and Washington Post

  19-12-2021 19:43
  
  Nicholas Sandmann, the Kentucky teenager who was vilified by the mainstream media after a January 2019 interaction at the March for Life, announced Friday he has settled his lawsuit with […]
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• Kamala Harris Slips in Interview: White House Didn't Anticipate COVID Mutations

  19-12-2021 19:40
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that the Biden administration was floored when variants rained on the administration’s parade after President Joe Biden declared COVID-19 under control in July. “We […]
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• 'The Squad' Rages as Manchin All But Kills Build Back Better

  19-12-2021 19:24
  
  ’Twas the days before Christmas with Build Back Better dead; when gaggles of liberals called for Joe Manchin’s head. To Twitter they dashed, their invective to flow; Because one Democrat […]
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• Watch: Pelosi Instantly Becomes Champion of the Free Market After Someone Threatens Her $120 Million Fortune

  19-12-2021 19:08
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, perfervid capitalist? When it suits her, yes. Last week, Business Insider reported that 52 members of Congress and at least 182 high-level staffers had violated the […]
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• Trump says he had ‘a great relationship’ with ‘killer’ Xi

  19-12-2021 19:05 via rt.com
  
  Former president Donald Trump has said that although he thinks Chinese President Xi Jinping is “a killer” who “destroyed the world” with Covid-19, he had a “great relationship” with China’s premier.In an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, Trump said that “once Covid came along, or the China virus as I call it,” his “great” relationship with Xi nosedived.
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• 'War on Reality': Biden Admin Sends Out Ridiculous Propaganda Pamphlet to US Media

  19-12-2021 18:38
  
  ‘Tis the season to bend reality — at least if you’re at the White House. After all, 2021 wasn’t anything to brag about. Inflation was has reached record highs. Our […]
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• Watch: Kamala Harris Lashes Out During Interview After Being Asked Who 'The Real' President Is

  19-12-2021 18:10
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris, who has made a name for herself as not only the first black, female, and black female vice president, but also the least popular vice president […]
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• Shameful: LeBron Promotes Disgraced Businessman Who Allegedly Shot Innocent Woman at Close Range

  19-12-2021 17:53
  
  Moral relativism, the notion that a person, any person, can dictate what is right and what is wrong, is a losing proposition. Take Lebron James, for example. On Dec. 11, […]
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• Joe Manchin to kill Biden’s signature bill

  19-12-2021 17:35 via rt.com
  
  West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has announced that he won’t support the mammoth ‘Build Back Better’ bill. His refusal dooms the Democratic Party’s efforts to pass a key piece of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda.“I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation, I just can't. I tried everything humanly possible, I can't get there,” Manchin told Fox News host Bret Baier on Sunday, adding, “This is a no, on this legislation.” "
  
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• US Air Force embraces gender pronouns

  19-12-2021 17:27 via rt.com
  
  The US Air Force has authorized the use of gender pronouns in electronic signature boxes, further embracing the controversial woke lexicon that other branches of government were criticized for adopting earlier this year.The military division authorized using gender pronouns in a piece of correspondence earlier this month, which was made public over the weekend. The document states that while the “use of pronouns (he/him, she/her, or they/them) in an email signature is authorized,” it
  
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• Manchin Drops Biggest Announcement on Bidens' Build Back Better

  19-12-2021 16:42
  
  Build Back Better just went bust. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who had cautioned for months that he was not in favor of the trillions of dollars President […]
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• Alleged Serial Killer Finally Caught After Virginia Murder Spree

  19-12-2021 16:41
  
  Virginia police said that they have identified the man they believe to be a serial killer known as the “Shopping Cart Killer.” At least four victims in Fairfax County and […]
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• Watch: Twitter Explodes After Biden Admin Makes Ridiculous Claim About Afghanistan Withdrawal

  19-12-2021 16:33
  
  I’m starting to think that the term “safe and effective” has lost all meaning in the Biden era. National security adviser to President Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, has declared that […]
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• CNN closes offices to most workers over Omicron fears

  19-12-2021 16:12 via rt.com
  
  CNN has announced it is closing its offices to non-essential staff amid a surge in Covid cases and not long after critics highlighted a ‘maskless’ holiday network party.If an employee’s job does not require them to be in the office, then they should work “elsewhere,” network head Jeff Zucker said in a Saturday memo, first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The decision has been made out of “an abundance of caution.” 
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• Emails reveal Fauci’s effort to ‘smear’ anti-lockdown scientists

  19-12-2021 16:02 via rt.com
  
  Newly released emails show Anthony Fauci and his boss at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to conduct a “quick and devastating” take-down of health experts who proposed a lockdown-free Covid-19 control strategy.The emails, released on Friday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, show retiring NIH Director Francis Collins telling Fauci in October 2020 to discredit the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) – a statement that proposes working tow
  
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• Rapper’s stabbing cancels LA music festival

  19-12-2021 15:30 via rt.com
  
  Rapper Drakeo the Ruler was reportedly stabbed to death backstage at the Once Upon a Time in LA music festival. The festival, featuring artists like Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, was canceled in response.Drakeo, whose real name is Darrell Caldwell, was allegedly stabbed in a backstage brawl at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park on Saturday night. Video footage posted to Instagram showed a group of men fighting, while another shot showed Caldwell lying on the ground in a pool of blood.
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• Why the mask mandate on planes is good for business

  19-12-2021 15:09 via cnn.com
  
  Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly stirred up some controversy Wednesday when he suggested that wearing masks on planes did little to prevent the spread of Covid.
  
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• Months after Ida flooded NYC, some residents have no homes for the holidays

  19-12-2021 15:00 via cnn.com
  
  Mario Gamiño was startled awake by the panicked-sounding bark of his pet cockapoo. When he got up, he realized water was rising quickly in his basement apartment in Flushing, Queens, so he immediately shook his wife awake.
  
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• Photos: Contractor Who Was Building Trump's Wall Officially Builds 1st Section of Border Wall for Texas

  19-12-2021 13:51
  
  Even though the Biden administration halted construction of the border wall in January, Texas decided to take matters into its own hands. Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin shared photos of […]
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• Santa Claus Ripped from Christmas Market, Detained by Police over His Reaction to COVID Measures

  19-12-2021 13:21
  
  Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus — and he got arrested when he participated in a COVID-19 protest in Germany. In the latest example of pandemic hysteria combined with zero […]
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• New Report Reveals Origins of Biden Daughter's Diary

  19-12-2021 12:54
  
  A report from The New York Times last week revealed how the conservative investigative journalism group Project Veritas got its hands on a diary written by President Joe Biden’s daughter, […]
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• Why these former Stanford students are building an app to change your accent

  19-12-2021 12:01 via cnn.com
  
  The Stanford students heard the sadness in their friend's voice when he shared the news.
  
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• California snow drought ends dramatically

  19-12-2021 11:51 via cnn.com
  
  Thanks to multiple atmospheric river events, average snowpack in California has gone from 18% to 98% in just two weeks.
  
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• I regret feeding my children the myth of Santa

  19-12-2021 11:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  I should have thought more critically about the messages I was sending by going all-in on this problematic but culturally accepted story.
  
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• How a little Christmas horror can bring lots of delight

  19-12-2021 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Whether you're just seeking a twist on holiday entertainment or have a rightful need to say “bah humbug” to the season, creepy films are always a fun way to let off some steam.
  
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• Teacher raised more than $100K to help keep thousands of children from going hungry

  19-12-2021 06:21 via cnn.com
  
  Turquoise LeJeune Parker ends every class by telling each of her students she loves them.
  
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• NYT investigation reveals ‘hundreds’ of civilian deaths uncounted in US strikes

  19-12-2021 05:34 via rt.com
  
  An investigation by the New York Times has found that the Pentagon severely downplayed civilian death toll from its “precision” strikes in Syria and Iraq while failing to investigate reports of possible civilian casualties.The New York Times investigation, first part of which was released on Monday, draws on over 1,311 casualty assessment reports that were previously kept under wraps by the Pentagon. Having reviewed the files and visited “nearly 100 casualties sites” in I
  
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• Henry Orenstein, the Holocaust survivor who created 'Transformers,' has died

  19-12-2021 04:18 via cnn.com
  
  The creator of the human-like robot toys Transformers, Henry Orenstein, died Tuesday at the age of 98 due to complications from Covid-19, his wife Susie Orenstein told CNN Saturday.
  
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• Biden to deliver Tuesday speech on omicron variant as Covid cases rise

  19-12-2021 03:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden will deliver a speech Tuesday to address the omicron variant and unveil new steps the administration is taking to help communities in need.
  
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• Washington state Sen. Doug Ericksen dies at 52 after Covid-19 battle

  19-12-2021 02:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Washington state Sen. Doug Ericksen, a staunch conservative, has died at age 52.
  
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• ‘Covington teen’ settles with another US outlet over bogus hate crime story

  19-12-2021 01:04 via rt.com
  
  Nicholas Sandmann has reached a settlement with US TV network NBC after suing the corporation for $275 million, charging the outlet had concocted a phony narrative that made him look like the aggressor in a viral video.Sandmann announced the settlement via Twitter on Friday, noting that the terms were confidential. He has previously reached settlements with the Washington Post and CNN, whom he sued for $250 million and $275 million, respectively. Lawsuits against the New York Times, CBS, ABC, Ro
  
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• Gas explosion in sewer kills 12 in Pakistan’s largest city

  19-12-2021 00:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  A powerful gas explosion in a sewage system in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, killed at least 12 people and injured 11 others Saturday, police and a health
  
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