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• 'Adventurous,' 'Beautiful' Young Rural Pilot Dies in Shock Accident, Dad Blames Hazardous New Construct Across from Airport

  18-04-2022 23:51
  
  The father of a woman killed when her plane crashed in Idaho says obstructions on the ground near the airport could have been a factor in her death.
  Chelsea Brittney Infanger, 30, of Salmon, Idaho, died Wednesday when the single-engine Cessna she was flying crashed into the Gem State Processing Plant in Heyburn, Idaho, at about 8:35 a.m., according to East Idaho News.
  Although the investigation into the crash is ongoing, her dad, Jim Bob Infanger, said ground conditions have become worse as the
  
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• Denver formally apologizes for anti-Chinese riot in 1880 that left one dead

  18-04-2022 23:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Linda Lung, whose family owned businesses that were destroyed during an anti-Chinese riot in Denver in 1880, said a recent apology from the mayor for the riot
  
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• Major Durham Filing: CIA Called Clinton Campaign Attorney's Anti-Trump Data 'User Created'

  18-04-2022 23:45
  
  The bad news for former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann keeps coming.
  First, a federal judge last week denied Sussmann’s motion to dismiss special counsel John Durham’s case against him, as Fox News reported, leaving Sussmann still facing trial next month on a charge of making a false statement to a federal agent.
  Then on Friday, Durham filed a motion with the court that could make Sussmann look much worse than that.
  Sussmann’s trial is scheduled to begin on Ma
  
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• Dolly Parton's Charming Former Home Offered as Free Wedding Venue for Couples Affected by Wildfires

  18-04-2022 23:43
  
  Dolly Parton is as well-known for her humanitarian efforts as for her musical talent, and The Queen of Country’s characteristic giving has been carried on by the owner of her former home.
  The new, heartwarming offer is for engaged couples whose plans have turned to ash thanks to the recent Tennessee wildfires near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
  For the month of April, any eligible couple whose original venue was affected or destroyed by the wildfires will be welcome to use &ldquo
  
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• Viagra and nitrates don’t mix, so how are some men still taking both?

  18-04-2022 23:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Erectile dysfunction drugs should't be taken with nitrates, which are used for chest pain. Research from Denmark suggests some men are able to take both safely.
  
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• Alert: Dems Already Infiltrating for 2024 Election, Plan Will Deploy 5,000 Operatives, Likely More

  18-04-2022 23:11
  
  A Democratic group has launched a three-year program to recruit and train 5,000 candidates for local offices in charge of administering elections.
  Politico reported on the effort Monday, saying, “The program would recruit candidates in 35 states for everything from county probate judges in Alabama to county clerks in Kansas and county election board members in Pennsylvania — all offices that handle elections and will be on voters’ ballots between now and 2024.”
  “Spe
  
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• Company Must Pay Out $450K After Throwing Man a Birthday Party

  18-04-2022 23:08
  
  In the end, no one was celebrating.
  A jury ordered Gravity Diagnostics, a medical laboratory located in Covington, Kentucky, to pay compensatory damages of $450,000 for throwing a birthday party for an employee, Kevin Berling, who had expressly asked them not to do so, according to WLKY-TV.
  The company had a tradition of throwing employees birthday parties on their lunch breaks.
  A few days before his August 2019 birthday, Berling, who suffers from panic attacks, quietly approached the office man
  
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• Spring nor'easter could dump 10 inches of snow in Pennsylvania and New York

  18-04-2022 22:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  An unseasonal nor'easter is expected to lead to "treacherous" travel conditions late Monday and Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• 'WJ Live': Damning Video of Zuckerberg-Funded Election Fraud Scheme Explodes Online

  18-04-2022 22:48
  
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• Exclusive: Biden Manchurian Candidate? Whopping Percentage of DEMOCRATS Believe China Has Compromised POTUS

  18-04-2022 22:42
  
  Do a majority of Americans believe President Biden to be a real-life Manchurian candidate?
  According to a new poll from one of the country’s most accurate pollsters, at least two-thirds of the voting population have doubts as to whether the president’s business dealings with China have left him “compromised.”
  The results of the poll, which will be released on Tuesday, reveal that a whopping 63.7 percent of American voters — including 34.3 percent of expected Democra
  
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• Fire Crew Finds Homeless Puppy at Burning Debris Pile, Now He's Being Fostered by a Firefighter

  18-04-2022 22:29
  
  When firefighters in Sacramento, California, showed up to a blaze last week, they walked away from the scene with one more in their crew than they arrived with.
  A fire had broken out Tuesday under the eastbound Interstate 80 bridge. It was fueled by debris from the homeless people who gather there.
  As firefighters were battling the blaze, they noticed a small puppy with pieces of burnt plastic stuck to his dirty body.
  The dog had no tags and didn’t seem to be owned by anyone, and the crew
  
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• Even Twitter's Former CEO Is Lashing Out at Twitter's Board as Elon Musk Attempts to Buy Big Tech Company

  18-04-2022 22:10
  
  Elon Musk continues to rattle Twitter’s board, but last weekend he found an unlikely ally when former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey slammed his own company over its internal dysfunction.
  Musk has, of course, been making overtures about buying Twitter out, so he can reinstitute a policy of true free speech at the social media giant. But the board has been working overtime to shut him down and eliminate any possibility that he might have influence over the company.
  On Saturday, though, Musk got a
  
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• Hand Signal Made Popular on TikTok Saves Woman from Ex Who Kidnapped and Threatened to Kill Her

  18-04-2022 22:03
  
  These days if you see a story with “TikTok” in the title, you’re more than likely going to read about some ridiculous new challenge imperiling both teenagers and common sense.
  But here’s a positive story directly tied to a hand signal made popular across the social media platform to subtly let others know if you are in a dangerous situation. First: The signal itself.
  “This signal is meant for victims of domestic abuse and it allows them to reach out for help without
  
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• Death row inmate facing execution this week has appeal denied despite new evidence

  18-04-2022 21:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Oscar Smith, 72, was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons Jason and Chad Burnett, 13 and 16, at their Nashville home on Oct. 1, 1989.
  
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• Renters are growing pessimistic they will ever own a home as prices keep rising

  18-04-2022 21:40 via cnn.com
  
  Faced with a white-hot real estate market, renters are losing confidence they will ever own a home.
  
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• Ilhan Omar Mocked for Attacking Easter Worship on Plane: 'Stop with the Christianphobia, Congresswoman'

  18-04-2022 21:38
  
  Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from Minnesota is being criticized for anti-Christian bigotry after expressing outrage over a video of Christians singing on an airplane.
  In a tweet on April 16, the day before Easter, Omar posted a video of a worship leader with a guitar singing Christian songs on a plane.
  Omar’s tweet read, “I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end?”I think my family and I should have a prayer sessi
  
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• Ron DeSantis takes his culture war to the next level

  18-04-2022 21:17 via cnn.com
  
  • Florida rejects 41% of new math textbooks, citing critical race theory among its reasons
  • Opinion: The red-blue divide grows bigger
  • Opinion: Air passengers, keep your masks on
  
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• Armed Punk Ends Up in Slammer After 8-Year-Old Pulls Knife to Defend His Mom

  18-04-2022 21:12
  
  Octavious Rodgers, 35, allegedly threatened his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son with a handgun, telling them he would kill them before police got there.
  Did the young boy run and hide?
  No. He took a knife and defended his mother.
  And while he might have been disarmed by Rodgers — now facing a whole slew of charges, including attempted murder — he deserves a whole lot of plaudits he’s not getting.
  Here at The Western Journal, we believe in the value of well-reasoned self-de
  
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• Employees of the world's most valuable company are trying to unionize

  18-04-2022 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  Some employees at the Apple store at New York's Grand Central Station are seeking to form a union, the latest high-profile labor organizing effort to take root in the pandemic era.
  
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• Employees at a New York Apple store are trying to unionize

  18-04-2022 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  Some employees at the Apple store at New York's Grand Central Station are seeking to form a union, the latest high-profile labor organizing effort to take root in the pandemic era.
  
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• Apple employees are trying to unionize

  18-04-2022 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  Some employees at the Apple store at New York's Grand Central Station are seeking to form a union, the latest high-profile labor organizing effort to take root in the pandemic era.
  
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• 'They're Treating Him Like a Dog': Jill Biden Pats Joe Biden on Hand and Tells Him 'Just Stay'

  18-04-2022 21:02
  
  President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden hosted the first White House Easter Egg Roll since 2019. The annual event had been canceled for the last two years due to the pandemic.
  Flanked by two tall Easter bunnies, the Bidens addressed the crowd from the Truman Balcony. Biden said, “This year we’re finally getting together again and it’s so special. It means so much to see and hear the children and all the families show up to be here today.”
  “The presid
  
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• Natural gas spikes to highest level since 2008 as rare nor'easter looms

  18-04-2022 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  Natural gas futures surged on Monday to levels unseen since 2008 as the Northeast braces for a rare April blast of heavy snow.
  
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• Natural gas spikes to highest level since 2008

  18-04-2022 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  Natural gas futures surged on Monday to levels unseen since 2008 as the Northeast braces for a rare April blast of heavy snow.
  
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• Breaking: Trump-Appointed Judge Smacks Down Biden CDC's Mask Mandate for Travel

  18-04-2022 20:42
  
  Former President Donald Trump just won another victory over his successor.
  Thanks to a Trump-appointed judge, Americans may no longer be forced to wear mask coverings on airplanes and other forms of public transportation.
  U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle from Tampa, Florida, voided the national mask mandate on Monday.BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge in Florida has OVERTURNED the CDC mask mandate for public transportation.
  — Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 18, 2022
  JUST IN &nda
  
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• Secret Service on the defensive over allegations agents were duped by men impersonating feds

  18-04-2022 20:38 via cnn.com
  
  A series of embarrassing security lapses involving two men charged with impersonating federal agents have put the Secret Service on the defensive and angered at least one top national security official in DC, sources tell CNN.
  
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• Daughter Makes Special Request of US Fire Stations to Honor Her Retired Firefighter Dad

  18-04-2022 20:27
  
  It can be difficult to know how to commemorate a good father, how to come up with the perfect gift that acknowledges not only all the hard work they’ve put into providing for a family but the feats they’ve accomplished in their careers.
  But 23-year-old Alli Marois from Milo, Iowa, came up with the perfect gift thanks to the power of social media and the kindness of total strangers.
  Marois’ father, Bill Collins, closed out 38 years of work as a firefighter in September 2021, ret
  
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• Parkland shooting case will test death penalty opponents' resolve. But the act must end.

  18-04-2022 20:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  Nikolas Cruz's case will stir up the death penalty debate in the U.S. But capital punishment must end.
  
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• Californians at Mercy of Wildfire Season After True Scope of Newsom's Failure Becomes Apparent

  18-04-2022 20:19
  
  It looks like Californians may be in for another year of hell. In this rendition, the devil is played by Gov.Gavin Newsom.
  More than two years ago, Newsom signed an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service. Under that deal, both the USFS and California would be tasked with implementing 500,000 acres of fire prevention and forest management in the state by 2025, according to CapRadio.  Sounds like a good plan.
  The road to hell, of course, is paved — or in this case, burned — with g
  
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• Biden to visit New Hampshire harbor to highlight investments in nation's ports and waterways

  18-04-2022 20:03 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit a harbor in New Hampshire on Tuesday to highlight how billions of dollars from the bipartisan infrastructure law are being spent on rebuilding the nation's ports and waterways, a White House spokesperson tells CNN.
  
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• Border Patrol Stopped Chilling Number of People on Terrorist Watchlist at Southern Border in 2021

  18-04-2022 19:59
  
  Customs and Border Protection data from last year show that the Border Patrol apprehended at least 23 people at the southern border who are on the U.S. terror watchlist.
  Fox News’ Bill Melugin, who obtained the CBP data through a Freedom of Information Act request, reported Monday that between Jan. 20 and Dec. 27, 2021, the names of 23 individuals who attempted to come across the border matched individuals on the Terrorist Screening Database.
  The TSDB is a compilation of information about
  
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• Jury is deadlocked in murder trial of Ohio doctor accused of overprescribing fentanyl to the dying

  18-04-2022 19:32 via cnn.com
  
  Jurors in Ohio said Monday they are at an impasse and cannot reach a unanimous verdict in the murder trial of William Husel, the doctor accused of overprescribing the powerful opioid fentanyl to his critically ill patients and hastening their deaths.
  
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• State Supreme Court Tosses Democrats' Race-Based Election Map, Replaces It with Republican Alternative

  18-04-2022 19:23
  
  The Wisconsin Supreme Court delivered a serious blow to Democrats after rejecting the left’s redistricting map and adopting one drawn up by Republicans for the state’s upcoming elections.
  The state’s highest court made its decision last week after the U.S. Supreme Court in March threw out the voting map for state elective offices drawn up by Wisconsin Democrat Governor Tony Evers.
  With its 4-3 decision Friday, the state court issued its ruling so late that state Democrats will
  
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• Musk Makes Big Twitter Announcement: Board Salary Will Be $0 If I Take Over - That'll Save $3M Per Year

  18-04-2022 19:15
  
  As Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is seeking to buy Twitter, he announced that if his bid succeeds and he takes over ownership of the social media giant, board members will not be paid anything.
  “Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post Monday.Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 18, 2022This comes in the midst of Mu
  
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• Megyn Kelly Hammers Jen Psaki Over Peter Doocy Attack: 'It's Literally Your Job'

  18-04-2022 18:55
  
  Journalist Megyn Kelly pointed out the obvious with regard to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s recent comment that the questions provided to Fox News reporter Peter Doocy make him “sound like a stupid son of a b****.”
  “I know it’s annoying to be asked tough questions, but it’s literally your job to answer them in that role, and you’d do better to be honest,” Kelly told her audience on the April 15 edition of her talk show/podcast, “The
  
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• Biden admin to ban anti-satellite weapons tests to prevent space junk

  18-04-2022 18:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Biden admin is expected to announce a self-imposed ban on anti-satellite weapon tests, partly because of a Russian test that caused dangerous space debris.
  
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• Shady No-Bid Contract Reveals Something Rotten at Biden's ICE

  18-04-2022 18:39
  
  Just in case we haven’t lit enough piles of cash on fire during the first 15 months of President Joe Biden’s administration, an inspector general report found that it awarded a massive no-bid contract to a nonprofit organization to provide hotel rooms for illegal immigrants — only to see much of that money wasted.
  According to the Daily Wire, a report last week from the Office of the Inspector General revealed that $17 million of the $86.9 million awarded to the nonprofit to pr
  
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• Cost of Throwing Weapons Away to Ukraine Becomes Clear: US National Defense Stockpiles Depleted

  18-04-2022 18:26
  
  It’s impossible to watch the images of the carnage and destruction in Ukraine and not feel that America should be supplying more weapons to the embattled nation. But the truth is, contrary to popular opinion, U.S. supplies of the most essential missile systems such as anti-tank Javelins and anti-aircraft Stingers are rapidly shrinking.
  In a recent article, Mark F. Cancian, a senior adviser with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Wash
  
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• Why Tesla investors should worry about Elon Musk's Twitter distraction

  18-04-2022 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  Tesla is in a highly competitive electric car market. It has no chief operating officer. And CEO Elon Musk was already busy juggling leadership roles at SpaceX, The Boring Company and Neuralink before he launched an unsolicited takeover offer for Twitter. That's a lot of distractions. And it may be one too many for Tesla investors.
  
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• Why Tesla investors may need to worry about Elon Musk's Twitter distraction

  18-04-2022 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  Tesla is in a highly competitive electric car market. It has no chief operating officer. And CEO Elon Musk was already busy juggling leadership roles at SpaceX, The Boring Company and Neuralink before he launched an unsolicited takeover offer for Twitter. That's a lot of distractions. And it may be one too many for Tesla investors.
  
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• Tesla investors worry about Elon Musk and Twitter

  18-04-2022 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  Tesla is in a highly competitive electric car market. It has no chief operating officer. And CEO Elon Musk was already busy juggling leadership roles at SpaceX, The Boring Company and Neuralink before he launched an unsolicited takeover offer for Twitter. That's a lot of distractions. And it may be one too many for Tesla investors.
  
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• Western exodus could cost 200,000 jobs in Moscow, says mayor

  18-04-2022 18:18 via cnn.com
  
  The exodus of Western companies from Russia could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs in Moscow alone.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke: Title 42 COVID Illegal Immigration Restrictions Never Should Have Been Put in Place

  18-04-2022 17:54
  
  It’s a bit difficult to take Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s run at the Texas governor’s mansion too seriously these days, given that his likely defeat at the hands of GOP Gov. Greg Abbott this November will put him into the Harold Stassen ranks of great serial election losers.
  Therefore, if O’Rourke generates attention these days, it’s usually because he has either a) said something absurd or b) shown how desperate he is.
  On Sunday, he managed to
  
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• Wheel of Misfortune

  18-04-2022 17:52
  
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• New Tax Returns: 'Devout Catholic' Joe Biden Tithed 0.46% of His 2021 Income to the Catholic Church

  18-04-2022 17:48
  
  President Joe Biden, who has been characterized by the White House as a “devout Catholic” and calls himself a “good Catholic,” paid out less than $3,000 in church donations in 2021, according to the president’s tax returns.
  The president and first lady Jill Biden filed jointly, and in the return posted by the New York Post, they listed a gross income of $610,702.
  Many pages into the back of the filing, it shows that combined, the Bidens gave $2,800 to three Catholic
  
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• New Tax Returns: 'Devout Catholic' Joe Biden Gave 0.46% of His 2021 Income to the Catholic Church

  18-04-2022 17:48
  
  President Joe Biden, who has been characterized by the White House as a “devout Catholic” and calls himself a “good Catholic,” paid out less than $3,000 in church donations in 2021, according to the president’s tax returns.
  The president and first lady Jill Biden filed jointly, and in the return posted by the New York Post, they listed a gross income of $610,702.
  Many pages into the back of the filing, it shows that combined, the Bidens gave $2,800 to three Catholic
  
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• Is America Reaching a Tipping Point? Another Brazen Attack Stuns Onlookers

  18-04-2022 17:38
  
  Another kiddie league official has been attacked by an enraged adult in the type of episode that seems to be happening in youth sports all too often these days.
  An umpire in a baseball game for 10-year-olds in The Colony, Texas, suffered a concussion at the hands of a coach who went wild after the ump threw him out of the game.
  The altercation came after a close play at the plate in which umpire Sam Phelps called a player safe at home, according to KDFW-TV. The coach, who was not named in the re
  
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• Analysis: Trump is right where he wants to be

  18-04-2022 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump is an attention addict.
  
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• Supreme Court denies appeal from Black death row inmate who claimed racial bias

  18-04-2022 17:24 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court on Monday denied the appeal of Kristopher Love, a Black death row inmate in Texas who claimed that one of the jurors in his trial was racially biased.
  
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• FBI Gets Involved After Boston Police Uniforms Are Stolen Shortly Before Boston Marathon

  18-04-2022 16:41
  
  Nine years after Boston was scarred by a terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon, authorities are voicing concerns about stolen police uniforms ahead of this year’s marathon.
  The uniforms were stolen in late March from a store in Weymouth, a Boson suburb, according to Fox News.
  Now, the FBI is involved as well as Weymouth police, and a reward of $5,000 has been offered for information that helps police catch the thieves.
  Tom Nolan, a former Boston police lieutenant, said that while it wou
  
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