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• USC awarding honorary degrees to Japanese American students whose education was disrupted during WWII

  01-04-2022 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  Kristina Hayashi was a teacher's assistant in a US history class when she saw a picture of her great uncle for the first time in 2013.
  
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• Former US Women's Soccer Star Arrested on Child Abuse and Other Charges

  01-04-2022 23:48
  
  Former U.S. women’s national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside, police said.
  A police report said Solo was arrested on Thursday in a shopping center parking lot in Winston-Salem and charged with driving while impaired, resisting a public officer and misdemeanor child abuse. She has been released from jail and has a court date of June 28, the report indicated.
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• Fact check: Ad from Ohio Republican Josh Mandel falsely claims party rival Mike Gibbons said military service isn't real work

  01-04-2022 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  A new television ad from Ohio Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel is centered on a false claim that Republican primary rival Mike Gibbons, a businessman, said that military service isn't "real work."
  
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• Gay substitute teacher says he was fired after handing out Pride bracelets to students

  01-04-2022 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  A gay Ohio substitute teacher was fired last week after handing out Pride bracelets to high school students, the latest example of LGBTQ discussion in schools sparking controversy amid heated debates in school boards and states around the country.
  
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• Small-Town Baker Makes Big Impact with 'Peace Bread' Fundraiser for Ukrainian Refugees

  01-04-2022 23:27
  
  Every person is unique in his or her gifts, and when people tap into those strengths to help others, a beautiful and creative variety of charitable outreaches are born.
  For Matteo Cunsolo, that was through baking. Cunsolo hails from Parabiago, a small town near Milan in Italy, and when he saw the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, he wanted to help — but he wasn’t quite sure how at first.
  But then he saw something on television that stirred him: Ukrainian refugees pouring into Poland, wel
  
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• City of Los Angeles agrees to provide thousands of beds in homelessness crisis lawsuit settlement

  01-04-2022 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  The city of Los Angeles has agreed to provide thousands of permanent beds for members of its unsheltered population, ending one part of a years-long battle with the LA Alliance For Human Rights over the homelessness crisis.
  
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• 'A Matter of Life and Death': Man Donates Kidney to Ailing Single Dad, the Two Become Fast Friends

  01-04-2022 23:17
  
  In July 2021, a woman came across a moving post online that prompted her to ask her husband a question: Would he be willing to donate a kidney to a total stranger?
  After considering it, Chris Perez said, “Sure, why not?” Nearly a year later, he’s short a kidney but has gained a friend.
  That post was by 46-year-old Steve Sanders, a single father of two, who was struggling with uromodulin kidney disease, a rare condition that was slowly claiming his kidneys.
  Doctors told him his
  
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• DeSantis Plays His Trump Card: Special Privileges Soon Could Be Ripped from Woke Disney

  01-04-2022 23:07
  
  Although the inability to instruct students in kindergarten through third grade on sexual orientation or gender identity seems like a rather stupid hill to die on, the woke Walt Disney Co. has decided to go all in.
  Following the Florida Legislature’s passage of the Parental Rights in Education bill — which critics disingenuously call the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — Disney CEO Bob Chapek issued an apology to his employees for not being a “stronger ally”
  
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• Hope Solo arrested in Walmart parking lot on DWI, child abuse charges in North Carolina

  01-04-2022 23:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former U.S. national goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested in a North Carolina parking lot for alleged impaired driving while she was with her children, officials
  
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• Police say 5 fetuses found in a DC home where anti-abortion activist is believed to live

  01-04-2022 23:00 via cnn.com
  
  Police say they found five fetuses in a home in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, days after the indictment of several anti-abortion activists -- including a woman believed to live in the home where the fetuses were discovered -- on charges of blocking access to a reproductive health clinic in 2020.
  
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• Mob hitman who killed 3 in the 1990s escapes from federal custody

  01-04-2022 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Dominic Taddeo, 64, escaped from federal custody in Florida earlier this week, officials said Friday.
  
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• Shock Statistic Reveals How Many Illegals Have Slipped Past Border Patrol Into America

  01-04-2022 22:44
  
  A disturbing new statistic reveals how many illegal aliens are infiltrating the United States without being caught.
  Fox News border reporter Bill Melugin revealed that Customs and Border Protection has accounted for 300,000 ‘gotaways’ since the start of the 2022 fiscal year in October.
  Melugin cited three sources within the agency.BREAKING: Three high level CBP & Border Patrol sources tell me there have been over 300,000 recorded gotaways since October 1st, including more than 62
  
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• Georgia Senate passes bill that would limit discussions about race in classrooms

  01-04-2022 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  The Georgia Senate has approved a measure that would prohibit local school boards and administrators from discriminating "on the basis of race" by promoting or encouraging "divisive concepts" in classrooms.
  
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• Letts: 30 Days Later, Here's What Biden Really Meant When He Promised to Fund Police

  01-04-2022 22:38
  
  During his March 1 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden put another nail in the coffin of the Defund the Police movement, stating, “We should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police. The answer is to fund the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.”
  Well, it’s now one month later, and time to fact-check ol’ Joe.
  While it was good to hear him say those words a month ago, were they serious or just another April Fool&
  
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• Why California officials are preparing for water shortages this summer

  01-04-2022 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  Snowpack in the California Sierra this winter is just 38% of normal, California water officials said Friday, in the latest sign the state's drought is growing more devastating by the month.
  
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• Why Marvel's 'Morbius' is a missed opportunity — and not just for vampires

  01-04-2022 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  'Morbius' is Marvel's MCU take on vampire heroes. But the new Jared Leto blockbuster movie opportunities to stick up for LGBTQ and other marginalized voices.
  
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• Watch: Ukrainian Civilians Greet Their Liberators with Joy as Troops Take Back Village from Russia

  01-04-2022 22:19
  
  Residents of a village east of Kyiv in Ukraine were liberated from Russian occupation on Thursday, according to reports.
  A video widely shared on social media purportedly showed how the people of the village, identified as Nova Basan, were overwhelmed with joy to greet their country’s servicemen and women.
  The village, located in the Chernihiv region, is about 55 miles east of Kyiv.Ukrainian forces reportedly entered Nova Basan in Chernihiv Oblast pic.twitter.com/zgadq47nd3
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• The job market is on fire. Why it doesn't feel like it

  01-04-2022 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  America's economic recovery from the historic shock of the pandemic has been nothing short of extraordinary.
  
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• America's job market is on fire. Here's why it doesn't feel like it

  01-04-2022 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  America's economic recovery from the historic shock of the pandemic has been nothing short of extraordinary.
  
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• Cracked cockpit windshield forces Delta flight to make unscheduled landing

  01-04-2022 21:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  A windshield cracked on a Delta flight Thursday from Salt Lake City to Washington D.C., prompting it to make an unscheduled stop in Denver, Delta said.
  
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• Babylon Bee Nails It on April Fool's Day with Official 'Apology' for Calling Rachel Levine a Man

  01-04-2022 21:50
  
  Many companies attempt to play practical jokes on their customers and social media followers when April Fool’s Day rolls around. Most of them are rather ill-conceived and end up falling flat.
  But The Babylon Bee has made a living off of comedy, so it’s no surprise that its April 1 prank stood above the rest.
  On Friday, The Babylon Bee published an article entitled, “Rachel Levine Is 100% Woman And We Are Sorry For Calling Her A Man.”
  For context, the Bee was banned from T
  
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• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recognizes April as Arab American Heritage Month

  01-04-2022 21:36 via cnn.com
  
  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recognized April as Arab American Heritage Month in a statement Friday, the first time Blinken himself has recognized the month since the State Department designated it last year.
  
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• Kelli Ward: Governor's Signature on Election Security Law Was Barely Dry When Democrats Executed Their Plan

  01-04-2022 21:32
  
  This week, Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill ensuring that only U.S. citizens vote in Arizona elections.
  State Rep. Jake Hoffman brought House Bill 2492 to the Legislature, requiring federal-only voters, who are only eligible to cast a vote in Arizona’s federal elections, to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Without the required documentation, they will not be eligible to vote. County recorders must also reject state voter registration applications that do not include proof of citizenship.
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• Ford Announces Major Vehicle Recall Due to Dangerous Defects on Numerous Models

  01-04-2022 21:30
  
  The Ford Motor Company announced on Friday that it was recalling over 700,000 vehicles.
  Ford made the move after determining that the recalled cars might have either a faulty part that could cause oil leakage or a software bug that could inhibit safe braking.
  Ford customers can check if their vehicle is being recalled through a portal on the company’s official website.
  Among the 737,000 recalled vehicles are 345,451 of the 2020 to 2022 Ford Escape and 2021 and 2022 Ford Bronco Sport vehicl
  
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• GOP to Release New 'Contract with America' - Original Led to Historic Landslide in 90s

  01-04-2022 21:29
  
  House Republicans are putting together a “Commitment to America” policy agenda to run on this fall in the spirit of the “Contract with America” that led to a historic GOP landslide in the 1994 midterms.
  In those elections, Republicans gained 54 seats and the House and the GOP took control of the Senate, marking the first time the party had held both chambers since the 1950s.
  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who helped craft the ’94 contract, is working with House
  
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• Analysis: Booming job growth is a double-edged sword for Biden

  01-04-2022 21:12 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden faces a paradox that no recent predecessor has: Booming job growth can signal problems, as well as benefits, for American workers.
  
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• Garland says the only pressure DOJ feels on Jan. 6 probes is to 'do the right thing'

  01-04-2022 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  After several recent developments in the January 6 investigations that put the Justice Department in the center of the political whirlwinds, Attorney General Merrick Garland saidFriday that the only pressure his agency feels is to "do the right thing" by following "the facts and the law."
  
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• Game-Changer: 'Rigged' Film on 2020 Election Proves We Were Right - See the Preview Here

  01-04-2022 20:53
  
  This article was sponsored by Citizens United Productions.
  Despite what the establishment media may say, there is a mountain of evidence that the 2020 presidential election was influenced by outside forces.
  Two of the most influential people who likely affected the outcome were Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. (Zuckerberg’s company was known at that time as Facebook; he rebranded it as Meta in late 2021.)
  “Rigged” exposes just how Zuckerberg and Chan used
  
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• Xcel Energy named in lawsuit alleging power lines were 'substantial factor' in Colorado fire

  01-04-2022 20:52 via cnn.com
  
  A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Xcel Energy Inc. in Colorado, alleging its power lines and equipment "were a substantial factor in the cause, origin, and continuation of the deadly Marshall Fire," according to a court filing.
  
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• Transgender Cyclist Booted from Championship Race After Female Opponents Threaten Boycott

  01-04-2022 20:36
  
  A man who identifies as a woman has been ruled ineligible to participate in a women’s championship cycling race in the United Kingdom after female competitors reportedly discussed boycotting the event.
  Emily Bridges, 21, competed against other men as Zach Bridges before coming out as transgender in October 2020.
  He had been planning to participate as a woman in this week’s National Omnium Championships in Derby.
  However, because Bridges was registered as a man, the Union Cycliste Int
  
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• No Joke, Pal

  01-04-2022 20:32
  
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post No Joke, Pal appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• White House press secretary Jen Psaki plans to leave for an on-air role at MSNBC

  01-04-2022 20:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, is planning to leave the White House to take an on-air role at MSNBC, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC.
  
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• Biden administration announces official end to Title 42, the Trump-era pandemic restrictions at the US border

  01-04-2022 20:14 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration will end Trump-era pandemic restrictions that effectively blocked migrants from entering the United States on May 23, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.
  
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• See the gap in Trump's January 6 call logs

  01-04-2022 20:10 via cnn.com
  
  Official White House records from January 6, 2021, show a gap of more than seven hours in phone calls placed to or from former President Donald Trump as the riot at the US Capitol was unfolding.
  
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• US fuel economy rules will soon require 49 mpg average

  01-04-2022 19:51 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration Friday rolled out final emissions rules that will require cars and trucks to have an average fuel economy of 49 miles per gallon in just a few years.
  
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• Acting DHS intelligence chief steps down as Biden appointee still awaits confirmation

  01-04-2022 19:51 via cnn.com
  
  The temporary head of the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence division, John Cohen, is stepping down this month as President Joe Biden's appointee awaits confirmation, according to an internal memo sent to the workforce and obtained by CNN.
  
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• Get ready for even bigger rate hikes from the Fed

  01-04-2022 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  The jobs market is still healthy and paychecks are growing at a solid rate — although not fast enough to make up for surging prices on just about everything. That means that the Federal Reserve is increasingly certain to raise interest rates in May by a half-point to halt inflation in its tracks.
  
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• House passes bill to federally decriminalize marijuana

  01-04-2022 19:43 via cnn.com
  
  The House has voted with a slim bipartisan majority to federally decriminalize marijuana.
  
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• Biden Approval Among Hispanic Voters Plunges to 32% in New Poll, Portends Electoral Disaster for Dems

  01-04-2022 19:29
  
  A Quinnipiac University national poll just handed Democrats some very bad news.
  For years, Democrats could count on the loyalty of a large majority of Hispanic voters. But this group has been steadily turning away from President Joe Biden in big numbers.
  The survey, released Wednesday, asked 1,462 American adults if they approve or disapprove of Biden’s job performance. Just 32 percent of Hispanic voters approved, compared with a whopping 54 percent who disapproved. Fourteen percent were u
  
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• Report: Jen Psaki Is Headed for the White House Exit

  01-04-2022 19:12
  
  White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is leaving the White House and heading for a job with MSNBC News, multiple reports are now saying.
  Psaki, who has been with the Biden administration since the beginning, is in exclusive talks with MSNBC, Axios reported.
  Sources say that she plans to leave the White House around May.
  There had already been speculation over Psaki’s possible move and rumors that she was looking at either MSNBC or CNN.
  As Paski and deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
  
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• The US job market is roaring back

  01-04-2022 19:01 via cnn.com
  
  The US jobs market has come a long way since the worst days of the pandemic when more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs. Now, the recovery is moving into a new phase -- one that will likely be slower.
  
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• America added 431,000 jobs in March

  01-04-2022 19:01 via cnn.com
  
  The US jobs market has come a long way since the worst days of the pandemic when more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs. Now, the recovery is moving into a new phase -- one that will likely be slower.
  
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• Amazon workers in New York vote to unionize for the first time in company’s history

  01-04-2022 19:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  For the first time in Amazon’s 27-year history, a group of U.S.-based workers have voted to unionize.
  
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• Biden's New Anti-Semitism Envoy Made Numerous Comparisons Between Trump and Nazis

  01-04-2022 18:53
  
  I don’t know what the set of prerequisites should be for appointing an “anti-Semitism envoy,” but here’s one I’m pretty sure should be on the list: didn’t compare Donald Trump or the United States under the Trump administration to Nazi Germany.
  Guess where President Joe Biden’s nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Deborah Lipstadt, falls short?
  Despite several instances where Lipstadt made inappropriate comparisons between the f
  
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• Biden admin secures release of Afghan-American Naval reservist who was held by Taliban

  01-04-2022 18:46 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration on Friday secured the release of Safi Rauf, 27, an Afghan-American Naval reservist who was doing humanitarian work in Kabul and who had been in captivity under the Taliban since December.
  
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• CDC Coordinated with Teachers Unions, Allowed Line-by-Line Edits of COVID Guidelines: Shocking Report

  01-04-2022 18:38
  
  Americans didn’t elect teachers unions to the White House, but a new report indicates they’ve been making plenty of policy in President Joe Biden’s administration.
  An interim report from House Republicans indicated emails between the American Federation of Teachers, the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed the union’s “cozy relationship with the Biden administration’s political leadership at the CDC positioned the union to impo
  
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• Man who brought 'small armory' to Capitol on Jan. 6 sentenced to 46 months in prison

  01-04-2022 18:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  An Alabama man who brought a truckload of weapons, ammunition, and Molotov cocktails near the U.S.
  
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• Is the Senate bill to end clock changes the best idea or the worst?

  01-04-2022 18:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  A writer who loves the Senate's move to make daylight saving time permanent and a writer who loathes it make their cases.
  
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• Jen Psaki to depart White House for MSNBC

  01-04-2022 18:07 via cnn.com
  
  White House press secretary Jen Psaki plans on departing the Biden administration in the coming weeks and heading to MSNBC, two people familiar with the matter told CNN on Friday.
  
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• 11 Foster and Personal Dogs Stolen from Rescuer's Home; Now She's Offering $10K for Their Return

  01-04-2022 18:06
  
  Jeanine Nesvik has a heart for animals — specifically, dogs. Even more specifically, “problem” dogs that no one else seems to want to work with.
  As a result, along with her own four personal pets, her home has become a refuge for dogs with medical and behavioral issues. According to one Facebook post, desperate people have even dumped their pets on her by putting them over the fence and leaving them in her yard. She has done her best to help them all.
  But on March 23 while she
  
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