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• 500 Laps of Dead Silence? NASCAR Considers Racing Electric Cars

  27-03-2022 23:35
  
  If Hollywood ever gets around to rebooting (as they’re wont to do) the 1990 Tom Cruise NASCAR flick “Days of Thunder,” will the new version be called “Days of Moderately Loud High-Pitched Buzzing Noises?” Or maybe just “Days of Silence?”
  If they wait long enough, they may have to. According to reports, the stock-car sanctioning body is considering the role electrification of cars will play going forward, with officials floating at least an “exhibit
  
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• Good Samaritans Pull Over and Jump Out to Help State Trooper Being Violently Assaulted on Highway

  27-03-2022 22:48
  
  When a Florida State Trooper got a call about a man walking on the left shoulder of eastbound Interstate 4, he had no idea that he was about to be the recipient of an act of violence, followed immediately by several acts of kindness.
  When the trooper approached the young man on the morning of March 18 at around 10 a.m., he told the pedestrian he shouldn’t be walking in that dangerous area.
  The pedestrian, later identified as 24-year-old Alexander Hernandez Delgado, said that his mom had ki
  
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• Police Officers Rush to Save Elderly Woman Trapped on Second Floor of Burning House

  27-03-2022 22:36
  
  A fire broke out in Willow Springs, Illinois, in the wee morning hours of March 21, but thankfully the residents were alerted to the danger.
  When police officers arrived on the scene at about 1:30 a.m., at least one man had been able to exit the house — but he said his mother was still trapped inside.
  The elderly woman, confined to using a walker, was trapped upstairs and couldn’t get out of the house, so the officers jumped into action.
  The Willow Springs Police Department shared a
  
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• Despicable Thief Targets Fire Department, Steals $8,000 Worth of Life-Saving Gear from Fire Engine

  27-03-2022 22:24
  
  Having property stolen is infuriating and wrong, no matter what the circumstances, but some cases hit even harder when the victims are generally considered selfless local heroes.
  Fire departments in Washington have seen a recent uptick in thefts, with criminals targeting the expensive life-saving equipment that first responders need to do their work.
  One of the more recent incidents took place on Wednesday, when a Graham Fire & Rescue team was parked at a Safeway supermarket. They had recent
  
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• Democrats clarify Biden's Putin remark as Republicans knock his 'mistake'

  27-03-2022 22:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  A day after President Joe Biden's nine-word comment about his Russian counterpart, which some said sounded like a call for regime change, Democrats took to Sund
  
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• Angry Zelenskyy Demands Fighter Jets, Tanks; Accuses the West of Cowardice

  27-03-2022 22:06
  
  As the war in Ukraine enters its second month, an angry and frustrated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took aim at the West in a video recorded late Saturday. He demanded tanks, fighter jets and missile defense systems.
  He said he is asking for just 1 percent of NATO’s current stockpiles of aircraft and tanks. “And we have already been waiting for 31 days. So, who is running the Euro-Atlantic community? Is it still Moscow, because of threats?” he told his supporters in
  
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• Left Celebrates a Woke First for America: Newsom Appoints Disabled Transgender Judge

  27-03-2022 21:55
  
  Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has made the state’s first appointment of a disabled transgender judge.
  Andi Mudryk, 58, was appointed to fill a vacancy in Sacramento County Superior Court, according to the Los Angeles Times.
  Alameda Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski became the first openly transgender judge in California after his 2010 election, according to the Daily Mail.I’m the elected one (the first one). Andi Mudryk is a great appointment and will be a wonderful
  
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• Prominent State Political Icon Arrested on Heinous Child Porn Charges; Insultingly Low Bail Set for the Rich Megadonor

  27-03-2022 21:43
  
  A former two-time candidate for governor of Maine was arrested Friday on child pornography charges.
  Eliot Cutler, 75, faces four counts of possession of unlawful sexually explicit materials, according to WCSH-TV.  The charge is a Class C felony, meaning those in the materials were younger than 12 years old, Matthew J. Foster, district attorney for Hancock and Washington counties, said.
  Foster said police began their investigation based upon a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exp
  
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• Siblings Allegedly Had One of State's Largest Trees Cut Down Illegally; Then It Was Sold for Lumber

  27-03-2022 21:29
  
  Authorities have charged a brother and sister duo, accusing them of working together to have a historic black walnut tree cut down on public land near Cleveland.
  The tree, located in Cleveland Metropark’s Mill Stream Run Reservation, was worth about $28,000 and was one of Ohio’s largest trees, according to police and park officials, Cleveland.com reported.
  The tree was believed to be centuries old.
  “We suspect the tree was possibly over 250 years old,” Jacqueline Gerling,
  
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• Soon Refusing a Vaccine May Not Be Enough: Scientists Developing Contagious 'Cure'

  27-03-2022 21:06
  
  Wasn’t this the plot to 2007’s movie “I Am Legend”?
  If you are among the many Americans who have reservations about the COVID-19 vaccines, you may find the idea of a self-spreading vaccine to be somewhat disconcerting.
  Scientists are working to develop a “contagious” vaccine “that could replicate in a host’s body and spread to others nearby, quickly and easily protecting a whole population from microbial attacks,” according to a new report in
  
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• Autopsy of Foo Fighters Drummer Reveals Grossly Enlarged Heart and Cocktail of Psychoactive Substances

  27-03-2022 20:43
  
  Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins was loaded with drugs when he died, according to an autopsy issued in Colombia, where he died Friday.
  Colombian officials said that the drummer’s heart weighed “at least 600 grams,” more than twice what a normal heart would weigh, according to the Mirror.
  Colombian media is ascribing Hawkins’s death to cardiovascular collapse brought on by an overdose of heroin, antidepressants and benzodiazepines.
  Colombian journalist Luis Carlos
  
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• Colorado firefighters make gains against a Boulder-area wildfire that forced thousands to evacuate

  27-03-2022 20:35 via cnn.com
  
  Just one day after a wildfire spurred evacuation orders for 19,000 people in Colorado, the inferno is already 21% contained, officials said Sunday.
  
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• Body of missing Montana man found after 'encounter with a grizzly,' officials say

  27-03-2022 20:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  The body of a Montana man, who appears to have died after being attacked by a grizzly bear, has been found by search and rescue teams.
  
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• Scientists Find New Pollutant in Human Blood for the First Time

  27-03-2022 20:12
  
  Plastic pollution has now reached into the human body, according to a new story.
  A Dutch study published in Environment International found microplastics in the bloodstreams of nearly 80 percent of 22 volunteers tested, according to the website phys.org.
  The results showed that half of those tested contained PET plastic, used for water bottles, while more than a third had polystyrene in their blood. That is used for disposable food containers
  “This is the first time we have actually b
  
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• Bill Gates Wants First-World Nations to Offer Only Synthetic Beef: 'You Can Get Used to the Taste Difference'

  27-03-2022 20:06
  
  On the grounds that real meat is real trouble for the environment, tech guru Bill Gates wants the world’s richest nations to have helpings of synthetic beef instead while leaving real meat for poor nations to eat.
  Gates expounded upon how people should eat in an interview with MIT Technology Review.
  “I do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over
  
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• Double Whammy for LeBron: NBA Star Given Humiliating Award After Study Finds Him the Most Hated Player in Basketball

  27-03-2022 19:42
  
  Fans who hated him on the big screen didn’t like LeBron James much better on the hardwood either.
  A new study from Betonline.ag compiled negative tweets about players and found that James was far and away the winner.We scoured the internet over the last days to figure out which NBA player is the most hated.
  The answer will *NOT* surprise you. pic.twitter.com/TskOKfXoGR
  — BetOnline.ag (@betonline_ag) March 24, 2022The news came even as James officially became the winner of several awa
  
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• Democrat Blames 'Right-Wing Clickbait' After Shocking Actions at Young Girls' Sleepover Comes Back to Haunt Her

  27-03-2022 19:16
  
  A few months ago, here at The Western Journal, I wrote about an Oklahoma congressional candidate named Abby Broyles.
  Broyles was a former reporter for KFOR-TV and a lawyer. She’d been the Democratic nominee in a 2020 election against GOP Sen. James Inhofe — which wasn’t even close, nor could it have been, but it was a sign she was climbing the political ladder. In 2022, she was tipped to be the nominee for Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District, which could plausibly be co
  
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• Experts Watch Kim Jong Un's Hollywood-Style Missile Launch, Notice One Fatal Detail North Koreans Missed

  27-03-2022 18:48
  
  What North Korea tricked out as a video of its triumphant launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile was actually a rerun, according to some experts.
  On Thursday, North Korea launched an ICBM that splashed into the ocean off the coast of Japan. Speculation emerged that this was North Korea’s Hwasong-17, first shown to the world in 2020. The rocket was supposed to be the successor to the Hwasong-15 and capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.
  But although no one contests that there wa
  
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• Woman dies after falling into rapids at Grand Canyon

  27-03-2022 18:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  A woman died last week after she appeared to fall into rapids during a river trip at the Grand Canyon.
  
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• Russian General Who Reportedly Bragged About Ease of Ukraine Invasion Gets the Ultimate Reality Check

  27-03-2022 18:33
  
  More than a month after Russia invaded Ukraine and many experts pictured the fall of the country as only days away, Ukraine added one more notch to its count of dead Russian generals.
  Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said Friday that Russian Lt. Gen. Yakov Rezantsev was killed near the southern city of Kherson, according to the BBC.
  The BBC reported that Ukraine’s military, intercepted a communication from a Russian soldier that four days after the Feb. 24 invasion, Rezantsev said the war
  
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• Wildlife officials catch 500-pound bear roaming near a Tennessee university

  27-03-2022 18:30 via cnn.com
  
  A 500-pound black bear prowling around a Tennessee university has been captured and relocated, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
  
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• A fire at an Exxon refinery draws firefighters from multiple departments

  27-03-2022 18:27 via cnn.com
  
  A structure fire broke out at an ExxonMobil refinery in south-central Montana, officials said.
  
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• Why Biden hasn't scored a win on student loans

  27-03-2022 18:10 via cnn.com
  
  Joe Biden has canceled more student loan debt than any other President -- a notable fact that's flown under the radar.
  
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• Chris Wallace says he left Fox News after people started to 'question the truth'

  27-03-2022 18:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Chris Wallace says he left Fox News after people at the news organization began to question matters of truth, like the Jan. 6 insurrection and the winner of the 2020 election.
  
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• Flashback: Ketanji Brown Jackson Had a Major Hand in 'Pizzagate' Trial

  27-03-2022 17:14
  
  In a rather interesting twist to the closely watched nomination of Judge Ketanji Jackson Brown to the U.S. Supreme Court, it turns out that President Joe Biden’s pick for the high court happened to be the judge on a case involving a man who shot up the Washington D.C. pizzeria implicated by “Pizzagate” conspiracy theories.
  Pizzagate arose in 2016, in the days leading up to the historic political standoff between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It posited, based on allegedly c
  
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• The AP Says GOP Is Attacking Biden SCOTUS Nominee for Showing 'Empathy'; Barely Mentions Who She's Empathetic To

  27-03-2022 17:10
  
  It wasn’t a difficult thing to call: If Republicans didn’t agree that President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, had a sterling record written in the milk of human kindness, they were absolute wretches — and the liberal media outlets were going to cover up any warts the GOP might have exposed.
  Thus came this story from The Associated Press on Friday: “Supreme Court nominee’s ‘empathy’ is flashpoint for Senate.”
  
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• Watch: Biden Travels to Europe, Straight-Up Lies to Faces of American Troops

  27-03-2022 16:59
  
  President Joe Biden traveled to Poland this week to meet with leaders and humanitarian workers working to facilitate the crush of refugees flooding across the border from war-torn Ukraine.
  Biden also visited U.S. troops that have been moved near Poland’s border with Ukraine to assist with the refugee crisis and appeared to inadvertently hint that they’d be sent into Ukraine. He also told them a patently false personal anecdote that he’s flubbed on more than one occasion —
  
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• Four people are dead after a driver crashed a vehicle into a homeless camp

  27-03-2022 16:55 via cnn.com
  
  Four people died early Sunday morning after a motorist crashed a vehicle into an encampment of unhoused people in Salem, Oregon, according to a news release from the Salem Police Department.
  
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• Hundreds of Ukrainian Refugees Determine the Easiest Way to Enter the US Is Through the Southern Border: Report

  27-03-2022 16:42
  
  With the Biden administration offering a stern rebuke to Ukrainian refugees who don’t get their paperwork done quite right, families wanting to enter the U.S. are beginning to follow the crowd and have been entering the country through America’s porous southern border.
  A recent report by Newsweek said that despite President Joe Biden’s words that refugees from Ukraine would be welcome in the U.S., refugees were being shunted to detention centers operated by Immigration and Cust
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war live updates: Biden denounces Putin as he ends Europe trip

  27-03-2022 16:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ukraine-Russia war live updates: Biden denounces Putin as he ends Europe trip
  
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• Here Are the Republican Senators Who Could Potentially Vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson

  27-03-2022 15:59
  
  Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is almost certain to become the next associate justice of the Supreme Court.
  Will Democrats be able to claim her confirmation was bipartisan?
  Probably yes.
  Moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced on Friday that he will vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee.
  “I met with Judge Jackson and evaluated her qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice. After meeting with her, considering her record, and closely monitoring her testi
  
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• A woman died after falling into whitewater rapids at Grand Canyon National Park

  27-03-2022 15:50 via cnn.com
  
  A woman died in Grand Canyon National Park on Thursday after falling into rapids on the Colorado River, according to the National Park Service.
  
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• Takeaways from Biden’s trip to Europe: Unity, reassurance and a memorable gaffe

  27-03-2022 15:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden returned to Washington early Sunday after three days of high-profile meetings in Europe where he sought to rally America’s allies for a
  
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• Nebraska GOP congressman says he will resign this month following felony convictions

  27-03-2022 15:07 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, who was convicted earlier this week in regard to an investigation looking into illegal campaign contributions, will resign from Congress, he announced in a letter to supporters on Saturday.
  
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• Biden's approval falls to lowest level of his presidency as Democrats fearfully eye midterms

  27-03-2022 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Seven in 10 Americans have low confidence in the president's ability to deal with Russia's invasion of Ukraine as Biden's approval falls to 40 percent in a new NBC News poll.
  
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• 'It was all me': Caregiver fatigue left millions suffering in silence during COVID

  27-03-2022 14:59
  
  For millions of Americans, the signs of caregiver fatigue have been there since the beginning of the pandemic but they're only now being recognized.      
  
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• House GOP pushes Wray for transparency on FBI misconduct in probing politicians, religious groups, journalists

  27-03-2022 12:46 via foxnews.com
  
  Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., contends Democrats have a stake in digging for more details about the FBI breaking its own rules to probe elected officials, political candidates, religious organizations and the news media
  
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• Stefanik says becoming a mother made her 'more effective leader,' says moms in Congress 'on a mission'

  27-03-2022 12:41 via foxnews.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: PONTE VEDRA, FLA.— House Republican Caucus Chair Elise Stefanik said becoming a mother has made her “a more effective leader” and told Fox News that she and other mothers in Congress are “moms on a mission” to strengthen the country for the next generation.
  
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• US special ops veterans, medical professionals training Ukrainian soldiers, civilians in combat care

  27-03-2022 12:37 via foxnews.com
  
  A group of American Special Operations veterans and medical professionals are on the ground in Ukraine, training Ukrainian forces, doctors and civilians in how to address a range of medicine and surgery issues, from treating front-line combat injuries to advanced trauma surgery interventions.
  
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• Oil facility in Lviv on fire after Russian attack

  27-03-2022 12:21
  Firefighters battled a blaze at a fuel depot in Lviv, as Russia confirmed its air-launched cruise missiles struck there Saturday. The strikes also hit a defense plant in the city, which has become a haven for an estimated 200,000 people who have fled their hometowns.      
  
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• MacKenzie Scott has donated more than $12 billion. Here's where some of the money has gone.

  27-03-2022 12:01
  
  Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has made multimillion dollar donations to more than 1,000 nonprofits.      
  
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• Some Starbucks workers forgo paychecks to access IVF treatments

  27-03-2022 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Leah Russell felt a surge of hope when she spotted Starbucks on a list of employers that offer fertility benefits in the summer of 2019.
  
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• Colorado wildfire forces evacuation of more than 19,000 residents

  27-03-2022 11:09 via foxnews.com
  
  Colorado authorities ordered the evacuation of more than 8,000 homes and 7,000 buildings, affecting more than 19,000 people in Bolder as a rolling wildfire threatened the area.
  
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• Fourth Sunday of Lent: Amid 'tragedy' of hopelessness today, reason to rejoice

  27-03-2022 11:00 via foxnews.com
  
  As Christians celebrate the fourth Sunday of Lent on March 27, 2022, Pastor Jesse Bradley of Seattle says that "people around the world are still drawing near to God," even amid the war in Ukraine, a global pandemic and hard times economically in the U.S.
  
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• Aided by many states, nursing homes fend off lawsuits filed by families over COVID deaths

  27-03-2022 11:00
  Nursing homes are seeking legal protections from states to shield liability. Still, families of lost loved ones press ahead with dozens of lawsuits.      
  
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• North Carolina police investigating double homicide after 2 found dead in car

  27-03-2022 10:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Two people were found dead inside their vehicle in Durham, North Carolina Saturday evening.
  
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• Russians who live abroad see friends, family in Moscow hardening their support of Putin

  27-03-2022 10:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Many Russians have fled the country as a result of the invasion and crackdown, but the views of those still in Russia have hardened in support of the Kremlin.
  
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• Researchers can't make sense of surprising temperatures in Antarctica

  27-03-2022 10:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  It’s been a strange stretch for the icy desert at the bottom of the world.   In mid-March, temperatures in parts of East Antarctica soared 70 degrees Fahrenheit
  
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• 'This war is savagery': Ukrainians see Russian attacks up close as they flee Mariupol

  27-03-2022 10:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mariupol has come to symbolize the brutal extremes of war. Many who have managed to get out describe almost miraculous escapes.
  
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• During WWII my parents' generation had the foresight to do what many Ukrainians are doing

  27-03-2022 10:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  The act of preserving art during war may be the last thing we think about, but the attempt to do so — rooted in a strong sense of national identity — has a long history.
  
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