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• Amy Schumer's revelation about her compulsive condition helps the rest of us

  23-04-2022 23:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Like the comedian Amy Schumer, I have trichotillomania, a compullsive hair-pulling condition like OCD. Including it in her Hulu show "Life & Beth" and talking openly about it helps those of us who have it.
  
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• Biden administration to renew Covid-19 funding push when Congress returns next week

  23-04-2022 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration will renew its push with lawmakers to secure Covid-19 funding next week when Congress returns from recess, a White House official told CNN, following inaction from the Senate on a $10 billion funding package before the two-week Easter break.
  
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• Texas National Guard soldier remains missing after helping rescue two migrants suspected of drug trafficking

  23-04-2022 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  A Texas Army National Guard solider who went missing Friday during a rescue mission along the border with Mexico has not yet been found, according to a release from the Texas Military Department (TMD).
  
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• Refuse Worker Spots Dog Buried in Trash Just Before Servicing Dumpster

  23-04-2022 22:29
  
  Dogs can find themselves in some pretty precarious situations, thanks to their curiosity and agility, but one person recently found a dog in a situation that would have been difficult for it to get itself into.
  Dave Carlson, who works for the Division of Refuse with the Columbus, Ohio, Department of Public Service, was just going about his normal duties last week when he spotted something that made him do a double-take.
  Carlson had been servicing the dumpsters at an apartment complex when a face
  
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• Cop Has Trouble Pulling Car Over; When He Looks Inside, the Reason Becomes Immediately Clear

  23-04-2022 22:23
  
  When you think of a police chase in San Francisco, flashes of iconic movies come to mind. “Bullitt.” “The Dead Pool.” “The Rock.”
  The most prominent San Francisco-based car chase in 2022, however, was a bit more sedate — and it had a lot more to do with Silicon Valley than with Hollywood.
  According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a police officer went viral earlier in April after he pulled over a car on the streets of the city — and found no one in
  
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• Maj. Gen. William Cooley guilty of sexual contact charge in first military trial of an Air Force general

  23-04-2022 22:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  An Air Force major general in Ohio has been convicted by a military judge of one of three specifications of abusive sexual contact in the
  
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• 'Brave' and 'Tragic': Heroic Teen Gives Life Trying to Save Driver of Submerged Car

  23-04-2022 21:48
  
  A community in Sunrise, Florida, is in mourning after losing two young men on Tuesday night.
  Officials had not yet revealed the names of the two teens, but classmates identified the driver, Venkata Krishnamurthy, 18, and the good Samaritan as Aden Perry, 17, according to WTVJ.
  At around 10:20 p.m. Tuesday night, Krishnamurthy’s car left the road, went across a median, hit and snapped a tree, ran over the sidewalk and then plunged into the lake.
  Perry was out walking with his mother at the
  
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• Miguel Cabrera reaches 3,000-hit milestone

  23-04-2022 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera entered the vaunted 3,000-hit club Saturday with an opposite field single in his first at-bat at home against the Colorado Rockies.
  
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• Joe Biden Announces Woke New Direction for US Military's Combined Assets

  23-04-2022 21:13
  
  The occasion was Earth Day. During remarks from Seward Park in Seattle, Washington, on Friday, President Joe Biden said the U.S. is spending billions of dollars to make “EVERY vehicle in the United States military … climate friendly.”
  I guess Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was serious last year when he told Americans that climate change represented the most serious existential threat we face.BIDEN: “EVERY vehicle in the United States military, every vehicle, is going to
  
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• Suspect in High-Profile Murder of NY Mom Was in the Country Illegally: Report

  23-04-2022 21:01
  
  The brutal murder of a Queens woman was committed by an illegal immigrant, according to a new report.
  Orsolya Gaal, 51, was stabbed almost 60 times April 16 in the basement of her Forest Hills home in Queens, according to the New York Post.
  David Bonola, 44, a handyman who did work at Gaal’s home, was arrested Wednesday in connection with her death. On Friday, officials said he had entered the U.S. illegally 21 years ago from Mexico, according to The New York Post.
  “One more person t
  
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• Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary Backs Musk's Twitter Bid, Calls It 'Dante's Hell,' Says 'Fire' Board Members

  23-04-2022 20:48
  
  The lowest layer of Dante’s hell isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s ice cold.  So is Twitter’s stock performance over the last ten years.
  Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary knows this. That’s why he’s backing Elon Musk’s bid to take over free speech enemy Twitter.
  In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, O’Leary told Andrew Sorkin that Twitter “is the most miserable investment you could have put your dollars into in social media. I
  
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• Philadelphia boy whose father used him as 'human shield' in drug deal dies at 3

  23-04-2022 20:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Philadelphia toddler shot multiple times three years ago after his father allegedly took him to a drug deal as a "human shield" has died.
  
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• Woman Has to Be Rescued After Falling Head-First Into Vault Toilet While Trying to Save Her Phone

  23-04-2022 20:04
  
  If you have a cellphone, you’ve probably misplaced it before. They end up in the strangest places sometimes — falling out of pockets, getting left on top of cars or simply being set somewhere and forgotten.
  Many of us have probably experienced the momentary panic that comes with nearly dropping our phones, but few of us have had an experience quite as visceral as one woman in her 40s from California who was visiting Washington earlier this week.
  The woman — who has remained unn
  
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• Secret Service Denies FOIA Request, Claims No Visitor Logs Exist for Location Where Biden Conducts Business

  23-04-2022 19:37
  
  Considering the enormous amount of time President Joe Biden spends at his Delaware residences, the U.S. Secret Service’s claim that no visitor logs exist for either of those locations is breathtaking. Given the multiple national crises, both foreign and domestic, that have occurred over the past 15 months, this response is more incredible still.
  According to a January report in The New York Post, Biden spent 28 percent of his first year in office at either his Rehoboth Beach house or his W
  
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• Biden Brags He's Spending Billions to Make US Military 'Climate Friendly'

  23-04-2022 19:22
  
  President Joe Biden said Friday he wants to make America’s military a happy place for the global climate.
  Biden appeared at an Earth Day event in Seattle where he talked about his plans to makes sure that the military would be eco-friendly.
  Biden last month proposed a $5.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2023 that set aside $773 billion for the Department of Defense and, according to Biden, would ensure that America’s military “remains the best-prepared, best-trained, best-equipped
  
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• Suspect Found Dead After 'Sniper-Type' Attack Rattles Washington DC

  23-04-2022 19:08
  
  At least four people, including a 12-year-old girl, were shot when a gunman unleashed a flurry of bullets in the nation’s capital, leading to lockdowns at several schools Friday.
  The injured were expected to recover and the suspect was found dead hours later.
  Police did not release the suspect’s name, pending notification to his family, after finding the suspect dead inside an apartment at the scene as Metropolitan Police Department officers conducted door-to-door searches of buildin
  
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• Christian Populist Movement Rising: Draws Overflow Crowd for Patriotic Event

  23-04-2022 19:01
  
  A gathering of Christian patriots in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Thursday lived up to its billing as a manifestation of a rising Christian populist movement.
  “Flashpoint” host Gene Bailey, whose program filmed live at the event, said over 9,000 were in attendance, with many having to watch from the overflow area outside the arena on the campus of Oral Roberts University.
  The Western Journal covered the “Flashpoint Live” events in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in September 2021, when there w
  
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• Video: Fed-Up Commuters Drag Climate Protesters Off Highway

  23-04-2022 18:36
  
  Commuters showed little tolerance for climate change protesters who tried to block a bridge during the Thursday-morning commute in Vancouver.
  Video shows that drivers who had stopped for the protesters blocking traffic dragged them to the side of the road so that they could be on their way.
  “I’ve got to get to work,” one commuter grumbles in a video posted to Twitter.Frustrated Vancouver commuters drag radical environmental protesters off the road.
  Some of these protesters have
  
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• Meadows was warned Jan. 6 could turn violent, former White House official says

  23-04-2022 18:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  A former White House official warned Mark Meadows, who served as former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, that the events of Jan. 6, 2021, could turn
  
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• Elon Musk Finds a New Target, Confronts Bill Gates Over Major Hypocrisy

  23-04-2022 17:35
  
  Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has upbraided tech guru Bill Gates over the investment strategy Gates has pursued concerning Tesla, which makes electric cars.
  Amid a Twitter conversation Friday, Musk said that he asked Gates why he was short-selling Tesla stock. Short-selling is a tactic used when investors expect a stock price to fall.
  “I heard from multiple people at TED that Gates still had half billion short against Tesla, which is why I asked him, so it’s not exactly top secret,&
  
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• Can red states regulate abortions performed outside their borders? A post-Roe landscape would test just that

  23-04-2022 17:14 via cnn.com
  
  If the Supreme Court reverses its long-standing abortion precedent later this year and lets states ban abortions within their borders, it will unleash a new legal and legislative fight over how far anti-abortion lawmakers can reach to target conduct that happens outside their state lines.
  
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• Can red states regulate abortions performed outside their borders?

  23-04-2022 17:14 via cnn.com
  
  If the Supreme Court reverses its long-standing abortion precedent later this year and lets states ban abortions within their borders, it will unleash a new legal and legislative fight over how far anti-abortion lawmakers can reach to target conduct that happens outside their state lines.
  
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• Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted over old social media posts advocating violence in court testimony

  23-04-2022 17:08 via cnn.com
  
  • Greene testifies for more than 3 hours in hearing about whether to disqualify her from seeking reelection
  • McCarthy to lead GOP lawmakers, including Greene, to southern border
  
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• In court, Greene confronted over old social posts advocating violence

  23-04-2022 17:08 via cnn.com
  
  • Greene testifies for more than 3 hours in hearing about whether to disqualify her from seeking reelection
  • McCarthy to lead GOP lawmakers, including Greene, to southern border
  
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• New Hampshire couple found shot to death in wooded area

  23-04-2022 16:23 via cnn.com
  
  The bodies of a New Hampshire couple were found shot to death in a wooded area in Concord, police say.
  
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• As Musk Secures Funds to Buy Twitter Outright, Here Are 2 of the Changes He'd Make to the Platform

  23-04-2022 16:12
  
  On the same day he listed a filing indicating he had secured the funds for his bid to buy Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at some of the changes he would make to the platform.
  The first change Musk said he would make had to do with “bots,” automated accounts not run by actual humans.
  “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!” Musk wrote in a tweet on Thursday.If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!
  &mdas
  
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• A library's canceled romance book club calls attention to growing censorship

  23-04-2022 15:40 via cnn.com
  
  A censorship battle at an Oklahoma library is calling attention to what critics say is the hypocrisy of legislative attempts to prohibit discussions and materials about LGBTQ issues.
  
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• Orthodox Christians Furious as Israel Places Restrictions on Traditional Site of Jesus' Death and Resurrection

  23-04-2022 13:53
  
  Christians celebrated their “Holy Fire” ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Saturday against a backdrop of rising tensions with Israel, which imposed new restrictions on attendance this year that it said were needed for safety.
  Israel says it wants to prevent another disaster after a crowd stampede at a packed Jewish holy site last year left 45 people dead. Christian leaders say there’s no need to alter a ceremony that has been held for centuries.
  In th
  
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• Nic Cage's fantastic new movie is a monument to an unhinged Hollywood legend

  23-04-2022 11:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Nicolas Cage’s self-aware new comeback movie, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” is a fantastic ride. No wonder Rotten Tomatoes (and reviewers) love it.
  
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• Robberies of mail carriers rise dramatically in U.S. with no signs of abating

  23-04-2022 11:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Criminals across the country are increasingly targeting mail carriers.
  
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• Major cities work to remove barriers for tree canopy coverage in underserved communities

  23-04-2022 10:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Cristina Velazquez says she never played outside as a kid because it was too hot and the parks were too dangerous.
  
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• Trump's J.D. Vance endorsement breeds more chaos in Ohio's GOP Senate primary

  23-04-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
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• Russia and Ukraine peace talks likely have nothing to do with 'peace'

  23-04-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Neither Vladimir Putin or Volodymyr Zelenskyy likely expects peace talks to end the war.
  
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• France's Marine Le Pen has American liberals worried

  23-04-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  American liberals are anxiously watching Sunday’s presidential election in France, where they fear a victory by the far-right Marine LePen would undermine the W
  
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• Aid groups helping Ukraine face both cyber and physical threats

  23-04-2022 06:00 via cnn.com
  
  Employees at Insecurity Insight, a Switzerland-based nonprofit, received a string of malicious links and pornographic material on their cell phones after publishing a report last month on Russian attacks on hospitals in Ukraine.
  
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• McCarthy’s leaked Trump remarks complicate quest to be House speaker

  23-04-2022 03:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Rep. Kevin McCarthy's bid to become speaker was complicated by tapes recorded of him saying Trump should resign after Jan. 6.
  
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• Fauci Furious After Court Steps In, Here's Where He Thinks CDC Should Be on the Hierarchy

  23-04-2022 02:41
  
  Disagreeing with a court ruling freeing public transportation passengers from required masking, Anthony Fauci this week revealed perhaps a bit more than he intended.
  Courts should not have a say on public health issues; only government agencies like the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should, according to Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
  What’s that, doctor? The CDC, your organization, the Biden administration and even the lowli
  
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• On First Walk with Family, New Puppy Digs Up Gold Coins Worth Thousands

  23-04-2022 02:02
  
  When most people bring a new purebred pup into the family, they end up splashing the cash. The price of the puppy, the cost of new supplies, vet care, food and the inevitable chewing damage add up.
  But one puppy in Blackpool, England, has turned those tables, stunning his new owners and people everywhere with his impressive talent for finding gold.
  Ollie is an adorable puppy, but he comes from a line of dogs that are serious about their work: He’s a Lagotto Romagnolo, an Italian breed know
  
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• DeSantis Seals Disney's Fate: 'I Don't Think Walt Would Appreciate What's Going on in This Company'

  23-04-2022 01:17
  
  It’s finally official. On Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill effectively terminating the Walt Disney Company’s special tax district, within which sits the famous Orlando theme park.
  The district allowed Disney to operate “as a largely autonomous entity” according to the New York Post. Now, those privileges are completely gone.
  The legislation will go into effect in June of 2023.
  “That partnership that developed early on with Walt Disney — I d
  
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• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene deflects in court hearing testimony about Jan. 6

  23-04-2022 00:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly deflected questions about her involvement in the Jan. 6 riot during a hearing about her eligibility to be on the ballot.
  
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• Lawyer for 'Libs of TikTok' Creator Goes off on 'Groomers,' Reveals He's the Perfect Man for the Case

  23-04-2022 00:31
  
  Intentionally confusing young schoolchildren by inundating them with gender identity nonsense and the like should be considered a crime against humanity. It is an attack against the Biblical truth of Genesis 5:2 that when God created humans, “male and female he created them. He blessed them and named them ‘human.'” The gender identity movement is also an affront to common sense.
  Ron Coleman, who was part of the Trump legal team and is a partner at Dhillon Law Group, h
  
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• Texas Military Department searching for soldier following operation on Rio Grande

  23-04-2022 00:26 via cnn.com
  
  A Texas Army National Guard soldier who was participating in a mission along the border with Mexico is missing, according to the state's military department.
  
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• Florida releases 4 examples from math textbooks it rejected for public schools

  23-04-2022 00:19 via cnn.com
  
  Florida education officials have released four images from some of the math textbooks the state rejected this month, citing what they said were references to critical race theory or other "prohibited" topics.
  
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