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• Kentucky governor vetoes bill incorporating 'anti-critical race theory,' calling it a step backward

  07-04-2022 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a bill that contains elements of an "anti-critical race theory" bill that he says "tries to police classroom discussions on topics such as race."
  
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• Unprecedented Effort to Whip January 6 Into Nation's Top Priority Hidden in Biden's Budget Request

  07-04-2022 23:56
  
  Democrats believe that when something isn’t working, they simply must do more of it.
  After more than a year of mining the political fool’s gold of the Jan. 6 incursion at the U.S. Capitol, the new Department of Justice budget proves they’re still not ready to give up on that narrative.
  According to the White House budget release, the DOJ requested $37.7 billion in its discretionary funding, an increase of more than $4.2 billion that amounts to 13 percent more than what it recei
  
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• How Elon Musk could change the course of the 2024 election

  07-04-2022 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  Twitter and former President Donald Trump are together in the news again.
  
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• Even NBC News Journalists Don't Want to Be Associated with White House Press Sec. Jen Psaki: Report

  07-04-2022 23:39
  
  As White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki reportedly mulls her exit from the White House, her potential new co-workers are already trying to avoid her.
  On April 1, Axios reported Psaki was planning to leave her post in the Biden administration and had entered into exclusive talks to become a host for MSNBC.
  Speculation has continued to swirl about this move for the past week, but not everyone is pleased with the idea.
  According to CNN, multiple NBC News journalists expressed dismay at the possibi
  
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• Biden's Bizarre Economy Has American Airlines Offering On-the-Ground Connecting 'Flights'

  07-04-2022 23:10
  
  “Welcome aboard American Airlines to Atlantic City. We’ll be traveling at an average speed of 55 miles an hour at an altitude of 18 inches above the pavement.”
  It’s come to this.
  Pilot shortages and fuel costs have put some American Airlines “flights” on the ground with service being provided by bus, according to Airline Weekly.
  Some of it stems from the missteps in dealing with the pandemic. But there’s more.
  Buses might go beyond being a temporary solu
  
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• Storms are causing major flight delays on the East Coast

  07-04-2022 22:47 via cnn.com
  
  Thunderstorms and low clouds over the East Coast are complicating air travel as many Americans are heading to airports during the busy spring break season.
  
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• US consumer debt jumped by $40 billion in February

  07-04-2022 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  Americans got into a lot more debt in February as rampant inflation kept up the pressure, the Federal Reserve's consumer credit report showed Thursday.
  
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• Police chief who took over Colorado department during fallout over Elijah McClain's death is fired

  07-04-2022 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  The chief of the embattled Aurora, Colorado, police department -- who took over during the fallout over death of Elijah McClain -- was fired Wednesday amid concerns that the city's manager said were about management and leadership.
  
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• Even Obama's Economic Adviser Is Predicting a Recession Before Biden Leaves Office

  07-04-2022 22:19
  
  All signs point to some very troubling times ahead thanks to President Joe Biden’s spiraling economy, and even former Obama adviser Larry Summers is blasting Biden and the Democrats for their continuing failure to address the coming crisis.
  Summers, a Harvard-trained economist who was President Bill Clinton’s secretary of the Treasury and President Barack Obama’s director of the National Economic Council, recently said that he thinks it is possible to get inflation under contro
  
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• Dem Senators Turn on Biden in Bill to Keep Trump-Era Border-Protection Policy in Place

  07-04-2022 22:08
  
  President Joe Biden is getting the cold shoulder from members of his own party on his dismal border policies.
  Five Democratic senators are backing a bipartisan bill to block Biden’s termination of Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that allows the quick expulsion of illegal aliens on coronavirus public health grounds.
  The Public Health and Border Security Act of 2022 was drafted by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Republican Sen. James Lankford of Ohio, according to Axios.
  Sinema
  
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• AZ AG Releases Report Finding 'Fraud' and Problems with Handling of Over 100K Mail-in Ballots in Maricopa County

  07-04-2022 21:48
  
  Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich released an interim report Wednesday on the 2020 election in Maricopa County, concluding that fraud did occur and uncovering serious issues concerning the handling of over 100,000 mail-in ballots.
  Brnovich said in a letter to Senate President Karen Fann that his Election Integrity Office found  “instances of election fraud by individuals who have been or will be prosecuted for various election crimes.”
  The review is ongoing, so “we ar
  
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• Police Post Warnings About Stupid New Challenge That Could Get Kids Arrested, Shot or Killed

  07-04-2022 21:38
  
  There’s generally a collective sigh when some new, horrible “challenge” sweeps through social media and captures young people’s attention.
  It always seems to be heavily dependent on risk and nuisance, and less on good-natured fun.
  A current groan-worthy fad called the “Orbeez Challenge” has police departments posting notices about just how dangerous it can be.
  Orbeez are small, colorful gel balls — also called water beads or gel beads — that absorb
  
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• Three GOP Senators Join Democrats in Confirming Biden SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

  07-04-2022 21:19
  
  The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court on Thursday.
  Brown Jackson was confirmed in a 53-47 vote, with three Republicans joining Democrats by voting in favor.
  Mitt Romney, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted for Brown Jackson.BREAKING: The Senate votes 53-47 to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. Jackson becomes the first African-American woman ever confirmed to sit on the country’s highest
  
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• Good Samaritans Spot Suspicious Behavior at Denny's, Make Citizen's Arrest and Save Minor from Rape

  07-04-2022 21:14
  
  April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and nowhere was that better respected than in a citizen’s arrest that took place on Sunday thanks to an observant civilian who realized something happening nearby wasn’t right.
  According to the Long Beach Post, it was during the very early hours of the morning on Sunday that an unnamed good Samaritan at a Denny’s spotted an interaction between a man and girl that flagged as suspicious.
  After the individual rallied others nearby, the grou
  
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• Barry's 3rd Term

  07-04-2022 21:04
  
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Barry's 3rd Term appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• China Warns It Will 'Take Strong Measures' in Response to Nancy Pelosi's Potential Trip

  07-04-2022 20:49
  
  China warned the U.S. that there will be consequences if Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan.
  Pelosi had plans to lead a congressional delegation to Asia next week but tested positive for COVID-19. The trip has been “postponed to a later date,” Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, tweeted on Thursday.
  Pelosi’s possible stop in Taiwan has not been confirmed. It would mark the first time since 1997 that a U.S. speaker of the House has visited the island
  
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• Why many Republican senators were right to oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson

  07-04-2022 20:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  On Thursday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was confirmed by a 53-47 vote in the Senate. The Republicans who opposed her had (some) good reasons.
  
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• Former Reddit CEO Tries to Make 'Free-Speechers' Label an Insult

  07-04-2022 20:31
  
  Whether or not you think Elon Musk’s 9.2 percent stake in Twitter will stop or at least reduce the company’s undisguised efforts to censor conservative content on its platform, this news has certainly catapulted the issue of free speech into the national conversation.
  Simultaneous admissions from major media outlets that the Hunter Biden laptop stories they dismissed and Big Tech suppressed ahead of the November 2020 election are real make the issue even more relevant.
  If the social
  
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• Leftists Shut Down Venue After Christian Group Organizes School Board Candidates Event

  07-04-2022 20:07
  
  A California progressive group managed to pressure a business to back out of being the venue for a Christian-led political action committee’s school board candidates event.
  Tim Thompson, pastor of 412 Church Murrieta, in southern California, formed the Inland Empire Family PAC to support school board candidates who hold to Judeo-Christian, conservative values.
  Some main issues of concern for the PAC are the sexualization of children through school curricula, the teaching of critical r
  
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• Suspected Member of 'South American Theft Group' Picks the Wrong California House to Burglarize

  07-04-2022 20:02
  
  A California homeowner who showed up at the right time managed to stop a burglary at his home and helped police arrest one man officials say is part of a group committing crimes across the region.
  On April 1, a resident of Oak Park in Ventura County came home at about 6:30 p.m. to find an SUV idling in front of his house and burglars within.
  One burglar got away, despite being struck by the resident, but the second did not, according to a news release from the Ventura County District Attorney&rs
  
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• Top Scientists Stunned by New Discovery: 'Something Fundamental in Our Understanding of Nature Is Wrong'

  07-04-2022 20:01
  
  The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works might have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass than scientists thought.
  “It’s not just something is wrong,” said Dave Toback, a particle physicist at Texas A&M University and a spokesperson for the U.S. government’s Fermi National Accelerator Lab, which conducted the experiments. “It literally means something fundamental in our understanding
  
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• FBI Arrests 2 Men Who Allegedly Fooled Secret Service Agent on Jill Biden's Security Detail

  07-04-2022 19:52
  
  Two men have been arrested for allegedly impersonating federal agents in a scheme that included a plan to buy a weapon for a Secret Service member who was part of first lady Jill Biden’s protective detail.
  The FBI arrested two men accused of impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for longer than two years, according to CNN.
  Along the way, according to an affidavit, they gave federal agents gifts and apartments.
  Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali allegedly provided “rent-fr
  
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• House Dems Target Longtime Trump White House Staffers in Partisan Witch Hunt

  07-04-2022 19:36
  
  Did you think the Democrats who run Congress might be working on solutions to insane gas prices, a torrent of illegal migration, and Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine?
  Sorry, they’re more focused on ramming through partisan prosecutions of Trump White House staffers who haven’t been in government for a year and a half.
  The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to hold Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro in contempt of Congress on Wednesday.
  The two men, who served as senior
  
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• Feckless White House Throws Border Patrol Under Bus Instead of Correcting Reporter

  07-04-2022 19:32
  
  White House press secretary Jen Psaki had the opportunity to refute an egregiously false claim made against the Biden administration’s own Border Patrol in the form of a question from a reporter — but, without batting an eye — or busting the claim — she punted it right on over to the slandered law enforcement agency.
  During her Tuesday briefing, Psaki was asked about the notorious “whipping” of Haitian illegal immigrants at the hands of mounted Border Patrol a
  
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• Hundreds of Protesters Show Up at Disney Headquarters with 'Boycott' Message

  07-04-2022 19:23
  
  Disney has been more vocal recently about politics and its social agenda and now it is facing a backlash.
  Protesters arrived outside of Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., on the evening of April 6 to speak out against the entertainment giant’s left-leaning stances, KTTV News reported.
  Organized by a group called “Hold the Line,” the protest was related to Disney’s response to Florida’s Parental Rights Education bill, popularly mislabeled the “Don’t
  
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• Merrick Garland is bolstering Jan. 6 witnesses' defiance of the House committee subpoenas

  07-04-2022 19:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  The House’s vote to hold Trump aides Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt may be in vain if the Attorney General Garland refuses to prosecute — again.
  
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• Man Breaking Into Truck Gets More Than He Bargained for When Special Surprise Left Just for Him Detonates

  07-04-2022 19:05
  
  The rule of law is under assault in the United States. Crime and corruption start at the highest levels and filter down into our everyday lives.
  When there is a lack of justice, the temptation grows to create our own justice.
  One New Orleans man frustrated with car break-ins did just that. He booby-trapped his truck with an explosive device.
  The subsequent surveillance video of a brazen burglar getting blasted went viral.
  WDSU-TV shared the footage Tuesday on Twitter.Wild video: NOPD urges resid
  
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• Poll: Biden's Move on Title 42 to Let in More Illegal Aliens Isn't Going Over Well with Americans

  07-04-2022 19:01
  
  For a rare moment, President Joe Biden seems to have united the country. Republicans loathe his decision to end Title 42 legal provisions in May, meaning illegal immigrants can’t be summarily returned to Mexico or their country of origin due to the pandemic if they’re caught by U.S. border security officials. Democrats aren’t entirely fond of it, either.
  And the rest of America? They’re not too keen on the whole thing, with well over half protesting the move.
  In a poll re
  
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• Russia has lost 79 planes to sanctions

  07-04-2022 18:57 via cnn.com
  
  Sanctions put in place in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine have caused the nation's air carriers to lose 79 of their commercial jets, nearly 10% of their combined fleets.
  
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• Breaking: Photo Shows Biden Compromised, Illness Could Mean Harris in Office in Days

  07-04-2022 18:26
  
  President Biden may have been directly exposed to COVID-19 on Wednesday.
  On Thursday morning, it was announced that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had contracted the disease.
  It was then revealed that, just one day prior, the two had touched hands during a bill signing ceremony.Pelosi was on stage, unmasked with POTUS yesterday at the postal service reform act bill signing – inches away from him https://t.co/Jm27sX4rGL
  — Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) April 7, 2022“Pelosi
  
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• Breaking: Nancy Pelosi Diagnosed with COVID-19

  07-04-2022 17:54
  
  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a spokesman on Thursday.
  The California Democrat tested negative earlier in the week but has since received a positive test.
  At this time, she remains symptomless.After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic. The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided. (1/2)
  — Drew
  
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• Leftist Threats of Violence Force UCLA to Provide Security Escort for Conservative Student

  07-04-2022 17:41
  
  While the political left often boasts tolerance and inclusivity, it appears that liberals on UCLA’s campus aren’t quite living up to those ideals.
  Christian Walker, a conservative influencer and student at UCLA, claims he is being escorted around the Los Angeles campus by security officers due to violent threats from liberal students.
  Walker is the son of former athlete and winner of the 1982 Heisman Trophy, Herschel Walker, the Trump-endorsed candidate running to represent Georgia i
  
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• 'I'm Calling You Out': GOP Senator Uses Biden Nominee's Own Tweet Against Her During Confirmation Hearing

  07-04-2022 17:33
  
  The adage says revenge is a dish best served cold, but there was plenty of heat Wednesday when Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa avenged a 7-year-old insult.
  Ernst acted during what had appeared to be a routine confirmation hearing for members of the Tennessee Valley Authority when she focused upon nominee Beth Geer.
  Geer has been chief of staff for former Vice President Al Gore since 2012, according to The Washington Times. Her paperwork talked about the importance of teamwork and civility.
  Er
  
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• Chilling: Obama Issues Thinly Veiled Call for More Social Media Censorship

  07-04-2022 17:27
  
  It’s been a big week for Barack Obama, and the former president has been singing some showstoppers during his return to the spotlight.
  On Tuesday, Obama traveled back to the White House for the first time in years to buttress Obamacare. Then, on Thursday, the former president appeared at an event hosted by The Atlantic magazine and the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. It was a lower-profile gig, but what he said there was more infuriating — and more dangerous &mda
  
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• Former Clinton Adviser Predicts Hunter Biden Is About to Be in Huge Trouble

  07-04-2022 17:19
  
  How deep is the mess that Hunter Biden finds himself in? Deep enough that former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris says he expects a special prosecutor to be appointed.
  Morris, who was one of Clinton’s former chief strategists before breaking with the Democrats, said in a video published Wednesday that despite the media’s best efforts to spike the Hunter Biden laptop story, they were finally beginning to report on the contents of the computer.
  (Since the beginning, The Western Journal
  
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• Audience Explodes in Applause After Amy Coney Barrett's Sharp Response to Immature Heckler

  07-04-2022 17:08
  
  Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered the perfect riposte to shut down a heckler during comments in Simi Valley, California, on Monday.
  Barrett was speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Sadly, not everyone in the audience was a respectful spectator.
  Still, Barrett’s rapier wit was enough to cut the creep down to size in short order.
  Frederick J. Ryan Jr., chairman of the library’s board of trustees, had asked Barrett about what she and her family went throug
  
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• Mortgage rates rise, inching closer to 5%

  07-04-2022 16:32 via cnn.com
  
  Mortgage rates rose again this week, inching closer to 5%. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.72% in the week ending April 7, up from 4.67% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. That's the highest since December 2018.
  
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• Milwaukee Officials Took 'Zuck Bucks' from Zuckerberg, New Filing with Election Commission Reveals What Began Popping Up Right After

  07-04-2022 16:31
  
  Three city officials of Milwaukee are being accused of election bribery for accepting “Zuck bucks” to beef up in-person and absentee voting and to fund illegal privately-funded absentee ballot drop boxes, according to the Thomas More Society.
  Zuck bucks are monies from the Chicago-based Center for Tech and Civic Life, which was funded by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, and his wife, Priscilla Chan.
  As a result of a CTCL Zuck bucks “bribery scheme,” the W
  
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• Disney to Run Ad Featuring Transgender Children for Activist Group

  07-04-2022 16:23
  
  Disney will run a public service announcement about transgender children on its networks from the LGBTQ activist group GLAAD.
  The ad features Amber Briggle, a Texas mom, explaining that her transgender child wants the same equality as everyone else but that certain politicians are trying to tear her family apart because her child is transgender. Comcast, NBCUniversal, Paramount, WarnerMedia and The Walt Disney Company will run the ad on their networks, according to GLAAD.
  You can watch the ad be
  
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• Biden Administration Is Handing Out Smartphones to Illegal Immigrants Entering the Country

  07-04-2022 16:13
  
  With a touch of snark, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Wednesday that the Biden administration is doling out cellphones to illegal immigrants.
  With reports coming from the border that illegal immigrants were being handed devices that taxpayers are forced to purchase, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked about the initiative at a press briefing Wednesday.
  “Our team in Texas is saying that you guys are starting to give smartphones to border crossers, hoping th
  
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• Analysis: The GMC Hummer EV is a brilliant execution of a terrible idea

  07-04-2022 15:58 via cnn.com
  
  With the GMC Hummer EV, General Motors designers and executives wanted to create a vehicle that would destroy stereotypes about electric vehicles and what they're capable of doing. On that count, the GMC Hummer EV is a remarkable success. It is unlike any EV -- or really, any vehicle with any form of power -- before it.
  
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• Man Arrested 6 Years After Faking His Own Death to Avoid Child Pornography Charges

  07-04-2022 15:33
  
  An Iowa man wanted on child pornography charges who left a fake suicide note before vanishing in 2016 has been arrested.
  Jacob Greer, 28, was arrested in Spanaway, Washington, on Monday, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
  “The arrest of Jacob Greer after six years is a testament to the tenacity of Deputy U.S. Marshals and our investigative partners,” U.S. marshal Ted Kamatchus said in a news release. “Even though the case went cold, they would not quit.”
  In April 201
  
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• Zuckerberg Has Creepiest Reaction Possible When He Discovers Facebook Employees' Nickname for Him

  07-04-2022 15:30
  
  Big Tech overlord Mark Zuckerberg haplessly tried to put a positive spin on a derisive moniker his employees gave him and was hilariously trolled on Twitter for his farcical pretzel logic.
  “Some of the folks who I work with at the company — they say this lovingly — but I think that they sometimes refer to my attention as the Eye of Sauron,” Zuckerberg told bestselling author Tim Ferriss during a March 24 podcast.
  The Eye of Sauron refers to the primary antagonist in the &
  
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• Louisiana AG Detonates 2020 Election Bomb, Investigates Zuckerberg-Funded Plan to Flip Election for Biden

  07-04-2022 14:24
  
  This article was sponsored by Citizens United Productions.
  During the 2020 election cycle, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, poured hundreds of millions of dollars into election efforts.
  “Rigged” exposes how this money directly contributed to President Joe Biden’s win, and you can buy the film here right now for just $4.99.
  Even though Zuckerberg claimed his money was simply an effort to help every eligible citizen be able to vote, not believed that.
  As soo
  
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• Warren Buffett is buying big again

  07-04-2022 14:10 via cnn.com
  
  For years, billionaire investor Warren Buffett has been sitting on a mountain of cash. But with stocks at record highs, he struggled to find deals that caught his eye.
  
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• Puerto Rican crews scramble to restore power after island-wide outage

  07-04-2022 14:06 via cnn.com
  
  Puerto Rico's power grid suffered an island-wide outage Wednesday, utility officials said, leaving an untold number of people without electric service overnight as workers scrambled to restore it into Thursday morning.
  
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• Air Force delays hypersonic missile program after flight test 'anomalies'

  07-04-2022 13:45 via cnn.com
  
  The Air Force delayed its hypersonic missile program by up to a year after "recent flight test anomalies" pushed back the schedule for the weapon's completion, according to a statement from the Air Force.
  
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• 'It's All Crap!': Trump Lets Loose as New Evidence Zuckerberg Helped Rig Election Comes Out

  07-04-2022 13:40
  
  This article was sponsored by Citizens United Productions.
  When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg poured private money into the 2020 election, he said he was doing so in order to open up voting access for everyone.
  Former President Donald Trump said Zuckerberg actually had a different goal in mind.
  You can see exactly how Zuckerberg used his money in power to influence the 2020 election when you buy the new film “Rigged” here. It’s available right now for just $4.99.
  In the film, Trump
  
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• Supreme Court Reinstates Trump-Era Rule Despite Objection from Biden Administration

  07-04-2022 13:05
  
  The Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated a Trump-era rule on enforcing the Clean Water Act. The rule limits the authority of states to block federal permits, including for fossil fuel projects.
  The court ruled 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining liberal Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in dissent.
  According to The New York Times, the court’s unsigned order gave no reason for the reinstatement, as is typical of rulings on emergency applications. The applica
  
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• Biden probably didn't expect Russia's invasion to last this long. That's a problem.

  07-04-2022 10:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Biden will be weakened politically the longer Russia's invasion of Ukraine goes on, and that would be a win for Putin.
  
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