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• White House Immediately Walks Back Closing Statement of Biden's High-Profile Poland Speech

  26-03-2022 23:40
  
  The White House’s damage control office was working overtime again Saturday after President Joe Biden strongly implied that America wants a regime change in Russia.
  At the close of a speech in Poland during which Biden called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a “butcher” and denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Biden said, “for God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” according to The New York Times.
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• GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry says he will resign from Congress

  26-03-2022 23:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry announced Saturday that he would resign from Congress, saying in a statement to constituents, "Due to the difficulties of my current circumstances, I can no longer serve you effectively."
  
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• Fox News Host Says He's 'Hearing' That Hunter Biden Will Be Indicted

  26-03-2022 23:22
  
  There is nothing but bad news ahead for the Biden family, according to Fox News host Jesse Watters.
  “We all see that emperor Joe Biden has no clothes,” he said during a Friday episode of “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
  “Joe Biden’s not making anybody happy. He’s not delivering for Republicans or Democrats or anybody. And his polling numbers are terrible. And Democrats are about to get wiped out and America knows it.”Watters said “the media has too
  
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• California man charged with smuggling hundreds of reptiles from Mexico, Hong Kong

  26-03-2022 23:19 via cnn.com
  
  A California man has been charged with smuggling more than a thousand reptiles, some endangered, into the United States.
  
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• Boy Dies After Falling from 'Landmark' 400-Foot Tall Orlando Amusement Park Ride

  26-03-2022 22:51
  
  A 14-year-old boy died Thursday after he fell from a ride at ICON Park in Orlando.
  Tyre Sampson was visiting Florida from Missouri, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.
  Sampson’s death on the FreeFall ride  “appears to be just a terrible tragedy,” Orange County Sheriff John Mina said Friday, according to WFTV-TV.
  Mina said “absolutely no criminal charges” have been filed, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
  “We can’t imagine the pain and an
  
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• City Experiencing Highest Inflation in the Nation Likely to Move State Back Into Solid Red Column in November

  26-03-2022 22:24
  
  The Phoenix metropolitan area experienced the highest inflation rate jump in the nation of the 21 largest metropolitan areas, and it’s likely to have a significant impact on the midterm elections.
  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the Consumer Price Index for the Phoenix area for February 2022 went up 10.9 percent over the last 12 months, compared to the national average of 7.9 percent.
  Energy prices are up a whopping 29.6 percent from last year, shelter increased 12.4 percent, and f
  
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• Biden's Sanctions Backfire: He Admits We're All Now Headed for a Very Frightening Place

  26-03-2022 22:08
  
  President Joe Biden’s sanctions against Russia will likely come at a high price — not just for Russians, but for Americans, too, as even he now admits that food shortages loom in our near future.
  Biden proudly touted the heavy sanctions after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine. In late February, he even claimed the sanctions were designed not to hurt America.
  “We have purposefully designed these sanctions to maximize the long-term impact on Russia
  
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• Teddy bears in Cologne for Ukraine children

  26-03-2022 22:06
  Protesters laid down teddy bears in front of the famous cathedral in the western german city of Cologne on Saturday, for the children who have been killed in Ukraine war since February 24. (March 26)      
  
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• FBI Busts ISIS-Inspired Teens Allegedly Plotting Major Terror Attack in Chicago

  26-03-2022 21:21
  
  According to court documents unsealed Friday, three teenagers planned to carry out a terror attack at a Chicago mosque.
  The FBI intercepted 18-year-old Xavier Pelkey of Waterville, Maine, and a 15-year-old and 17-year-old from Chicago and Kentucky who were allegedly conspiring to meet in Chicago during spring break to carry out mass murder, NBC News reported.
  The three planned to enter a Shia mosque “and separate the adults from the children, then murder the adults” in the name of th
  
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• Russia Signals They May Scale Back Scope of War; Is Putin Looking for an Off-Ramp?

  26-03-2022 20:55
  
  As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth week, we’re hearing words like “stalled,” “stalemate” and “bogged down.” Clearly, this wasn’t where Russian President Vladimir Putin had expected to be by now.
  Bloomberg reported on comments made by Sergei Rudskoi, the first deputy chief of the Russian armed forces’ General Staff, during a military briefing on Friday.
  His words signal that Putin may be searching for a way out of the military and humanita
  
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• Chairman Cuts Ted Cruz Off, Stops Biden Nominee from Answering Damning Question

  26-03-2022 20:32
  
  At the beginning of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, the Democrats portrayed the president’s Supreme Court nominee as so unimpeachable that she could withstand any line of query.
  By the end of the three days, the chairman of the committee was cutting off GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas so that she didn’t have to answer questions about her lenient sentencing of child porn offenders.
  In viral video from the final day of que
  
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• Sex Offender Expresses Gratitude to Biden's SCOTUS Nominee for Only Giving Him a 3-Month Sentence

  26-03-2022 20:11
  
  Sex offender Wesley Hawkins is now in the corner of the judge who once sentenced him to jail as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson undergoes her Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
  In 2013, Hawkins pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, a felony. Jackson sentenced him to three months in jail, far below the sentencing guidelines of eight to 10 years and below the prosecution’s call for a two-year sentence.
  The case has emerged as a major point of concern for Senate Republicans, who ha
  
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• Jury awards $14 million to demonstrators injured in Denver during protests over George Floyd's death

  26-03-2022 19:37 via cnn.com
  
  A federal jury Friday awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to 12 people who were injured by Denver police officers while protesting the death of George Floyd in 2020, according to court documents.
  
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• Biden: Battle for Ukraine will 'not be won in months'

  26-03-2022 19:16
  President Joe Biden on Saturday called for Russian leader Vladimir Putin's removal. (March 26)      
  
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• 'People ought to get used to seeing us': More Black women are running for office

  26-03-2022 18:44
  As more Black women run for office, there's a growing effort to better train, support and encourage them when they jump into the political arena.      
  
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• Justice Thomas' Wife Advised Trump White House to 'Make a Plan' and Overturn the 2020 Election: Report

  26-03-2022 18:38
  
  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Virginia Thomas, has now become the latest right-wing figure to be targeted in the ongoing Congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, incursion on Capitol Hill, as it has been revealed she sent text messages to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the days leading up to the incident.
  On Thursday, one day before the Supreme Court announced that Justice Thomas had been released from the hospital following a week-long stay afte
  
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• 'Shocked and heartbroken': 14-year-old dies in fall from massive drop tower in Florida

  26-03-2022 17:48
  
  Following the tragic incident, loved ones remembered the boy — Tyre Sampson — as an aspiring athlete, a good student and a caring son.      
  
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• Biden meets Ukraine refugees in Warsaw

  26-03-2022 17:27
  U.S. President Joe Biden met Ukrainian refugees at humanitarian centre in Warsaw on Saturday alongside Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. (March 26)      
  
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• White House Celebrates Radical Maoist Who Openly Admired Osama bin Laden After 9/11

  26-03-2022 17:11
  
  An activist who embraced the teachings of Mao Zedong and held up Osama bin Laden as a hero is being celebrated by the Biden White House as an example for American women.
  The White House on Friday tweeted that it was honoring activist Yuri Kochiyama as part of Women’s History Month, saying that she “spoke out about oppressive institutions and injustice in the United States.”Today, for our #WomensHistoryMonth Spotlight, we honor political and civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama.
  
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• Fort Hood soldiers sentenced in Texas human smuggling operation

  26-03-2022 17:07 via cnn.com
  
  Two active-duty soldiers with the US Army stationed at the Fort Hood base in Texas were ordered to federal prison on Friday for "conspiring to transport" undocumented immigrants within the state, US Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery said in a statement
  
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• NATO deputy on Putin, chemical weapons, nuclear

  26-03-2022 16:56
  NATO Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana says that President Vladimir Putin's month-old "barbaric war" against Ukraine is a war he cannot win. (March 26)      
  
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• Pope: Ukraine war 'shameful for all humanity'

  26-03-2022 16:41
  Pope Francis called the war in Ukraine "shameful" during an audience with volunteers at the Vatican on Saturday. (March 26)      
  
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• Fast-moving, furry and ferocious, the fisher cat doesn't really like fish. And it's not a cat.

  26-03-2022 16:06
  
  New Englanders have spotted the elusive fisher cat recently. What to know about this cute but proficient predator. Does it make weird sounds at night?      
  
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• Ukrainians in Poland make plea as Biden visit ends

  26-03-2022 16:01
  Refugees arriving in Poland from war-torn Ukraine pleaded for more help from the United States to end the crisis. (March 26)      
  
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• Ceremony for Biden at Polish presidential palace

  26-03-2022 15:41
  US President Joe Biden was welcomed with a short ceremony by his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda at the Warsaw presidential palace on Saturday. (March 26)      
  
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• Biden meets Ukraine foreign, defence mins in Poland

  26-03-2022 15:30
  U.S. President Joe Biden held a meeting in Warsaw with Ukrainian foreign and defence ministers as part of ongoing international efforts to support the country under attack. (March 26)      
  
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• Republicans are backing Ukraine in the war. So why is there support for Russia on America's far right?

  26-03-2022 15:28
  
  Russia invasion of Ukraine was condemned by the GOP. So why is the political far right including QAnon spreading Kremlin propaganda on social media?      
  
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• Is a recession coming? Alan Greenspan says the answer is in men's underwear

  26-03-2022 13:42 via cnn.com
  
  Former Federal Reserve head Alan Greenspan has a keen interest in men's underwear.
  
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• Trump's endorsement power will be put to the test as May primaries approach

  26-03-2022 13:05 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has raised an unprecedented sum of money in his post-presidency. He has maintained powerful alliances with top Republican leaders. And he has continued to attract large crowds as he holds rallies across the country.
  
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• Why Amazon makes you click a box to redeem coupons

  26-03-2022 12:34 via cnn.com
  
  Saving money can take a little extra effort: clipping coupons, searching for a promotional code, signing up for an email list....
  
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• Here's how Amazon stops shoppers from abandoning their virtual carts

  26-03-2022 12:34 via cnn.com
  
  Saving money can take a little extra effort: clipping coupons, searching for a promotional code, signing up for an email list....
  
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• GOP's hypocrisy on dark money was on full display during Judge Jackson's hearing

  26-03-2022 11:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  The GOP’s hypocrisy on donor transparency has been on full display since President Biden announced Ketanji Brown Jackson as his Supreme Court justice nominee.
  
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• Remains of a woman who went missing 33 years ago are identified. Now authorities look for her killer

  26-03-2022 11:20 via cnn.com
  
  For more than 33 years, investigators in Norton Shores, Michigan, tried to figure out what happened to Stacey Lyn Chahorski, a young woman who left home to travel the country and last spoke to her mother in September 1988.
  
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• As more marijuana dispensaries get targeted by robbers, SAFE Banking Act lingers in Congress

  26-03-2022 11:00
  
  Marijuana dispensaries are cash-only businesses making pot shops lucrative targets for robbers in states with legal weed.      
  
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• How Sandra Bullock's new rom-com acknowledges an offensive Hollywood obsession

  26-03-2022 10:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  “The Lost City” doesn’t exactly defy white savior adventure tropes, but it does try to soften and deflate them.
  
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• Reservists in Kharkiv train to defend their country

  26-03-2022 08:56
  Reservists in Kharkiv train to defend their country      
  
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• Russia shifts focus in Ukraine; Biden arrives in Poland, expresses support for refugee effort: Live updates

  26-03-2022 03:51
  
  President Joe Biden traveled to Poland for a briefing on the humanitarian crisis sparked by the month-old war in Ukraine. Friday updates.      
  
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• Jury awards more than $10 million to family of Gilbert Flores, who was fatally shot by deputies

  26-03-2022 03:11 via cnn.com
  
  Jurors in a federal civil trial awarded $10.37 million to the family of Gilbert Flores, who was shot and killed outside his home by Bexar County, Texas, sheriff's deputies in 2015.
  
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• Montana hiker found dead after suspected grizzly bear attack

  26-03-2022 03:04 via cnn.com
  
  A hiker who had been reported missing in Montana earlier this week was found dead Friday after a suspected encounter with a grizzly bear.
  
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• In Ukraine war, subway cars become home

  26-03-2022 02:26
  In most of Ukraine, the reality of war was impossible to ignore on the conflict's 30th day. (March 25)      
  
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• Grammys winner Hit-Boy still at 'top of the top'

  26-03-2022 01:36
  Multiple Grammy winner Hit-Boy is headed back to music's biggest night, this time with a producer of the year nomination. (March 25)      
  
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• GSA approves sale of Trump Org's Washington hotel lease

  26-03-2022 01:09 via cnn.com
  
  The General Services Administration has approved the buyer of the lease for the Trump Organization's luxury hotel in Washington, paving the way for the deal to move forward.
  
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• Left-Wing Utopias of Manhattan, Los Angeles Lead the Nation in Population Decline

  26-03-2022 01:03
  
  If you’ve thought about escaping a dysfunctional left-wing American city, you’re not the only one.
  New Census Bureau data reveals Americans are leaving big cities en masse.
  Manhattan and Los Angeles take the number 1 and 2 spot in population decline in 2021.
  Los Angeles County lost a whopping 179,757 residents, according to the Census Bureau’s Thursday press release.
  New York County – coextensive with the borough of Manhattan – lost 113,642 people.
  The governments o
  
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• Desperate scenes at damaged Mariupol hospital

  26-03-2022 00:56
  A hospital in Mariupol whose basement was used by staff and residents as a shelter is currently under the control of Russian-backed separatists from Donetsk. (March 25)      
  
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• Utah enacts anti-trans sports ban after Republican lawmakers override GOP governor's veto

  26-03-2022 00:17 via cnn.com
  
  Young transgender athletes in Utah have been banned from competing on women's and girls' sports teams after GOP state lawmakers on Friday overrode a veto from their Republican governor to enact the controversial measure.
  
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• Six high school-aged girls killed in a crash with semitruck had come to rolling stop, witnesses say, as first victim is identified

  26-03-2022 00:16 via cnn.com
  
  The car driven by six high school-aged girls who died in a crash with a semitruck on Tuesday came to a "rolling stop" at a stop sign before entering the highway, witnesses said, according to an ongoing National Transportation Safety Board investigation, as the first victim was identified on Friday.
  
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