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• Wikipedia Deletes Entry for Rosemont Seneca Partners, Claims Hunter Biden-Linked Page Is a 'Magnet' for Conspiracies

  24-04-2022 23:38
  
  An investment firm linked to Hunter Biden now has only a stub of an entry on Wikipedia after its editors decided it was “not notable.”
  An archived discussion preserved on Wikipedia and reported about by the New York Post shows that the final decision to delete the page was made only days before a report in the New York Post would have brought attention to the firm.
  Eric Schwerin, who at the time was president of the since-dissolved Rosemont Seneca Partners — which Hunter Biden
  
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• Pastor Mocked by Ilhan Omar for Worshipping God Responds in Powerful Way

  24-04-2022 23:34
  
  The Christian pastor attacked by Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for singing worship songs on a plane during his return from helping refugees in Ukraine has responded to the congresswoman’s mocking and said that he had no intentions of making a political statement with his joyful song.
  Pastor Jack Jensz Jr. shared his response to Omar’s attack in an interview published Wednesday by The Christian Post, saying that his singing was posted as a way for friends to follow his trip to help U
  
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• Zoo Claims Animals Receiving COVID Vaccine of Their Own Free Will: 'These Are Voluntary Inoculations'

  24-04-2022 23:29
  
  Claiming that its animals have a choice in the matter, the Toronto Zoo has begun vaccinating animals against COVID-19.
  The zoo is using Zoetis, which is a coronavirus vaccine made for animals, according to Canadian TV station CP24.
  “These are voluntary inoculations. The animals choose to come over and interact with the animal care staff and then are delivered the vaccine. Some days they participate. Some days, they don’t. So we’ll keep working at it until we get all 120 inocula
  
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• Texas officials identify missing National Guard soldier as rescue efforts remain underway

  24-04-2022 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  Texas officials have identified Bishop E. Evans as the National Guard soldier who went missing on Friday as he attempted to rescue two migrants who were crossing the Rio Grande River.
  
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• Elon Musk Appears to Massively Smack Down Bill Gates Via Text Message for Disrespecting Him

  24-04-2022 22:48
  
  If there’s one thing the worlds of big business and social media have learned over the past three weeks, it’s that it’s a bad idea to sell Elon Musk short.
  Selling Musk short and admitting it to him directly is evidently an even worse idea, especially when you’re asking him for money at the same time.
  That’s true even if you’re one of the wealthiest men in the world.
  Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft who now devotes his time to philanthropic
  
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• Unstoppable Musk: Elon Locks Twitter Execs Down in Sunday Meeting That Can Clear Way for Takeover

  24-04-2022 22:30
  
  Elon Musk is now closer than ever to owning the social media giant Twitter, according to recent reporting from sources with insider knowledge.
  While Twitter refused to hear out Musk’s initial offer, apparently the company is warming up to his proposition.
  After the self-made billionaire announced he had acquired $46.5 billion in financing for his bid for the company last week, Twitter decided to take “a fresh look at the offer” and is now “more likely than before to seek
  
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• Leaked Photos of Lawmaker in 'Drag' Going Viral: Report

  24-04-2022 22:22
  
  A news website has published undated images of what it says show Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina wearing women’s clothes.
  Cawthorn later tweeted a reply suggesting the images were from a pre-politics cruise ship game, and their publication is part of a political smear.
  The website Politico published the images Friday, setting them in context of Cawthorn’s past expressions of his Christian faith and his disdain for what he’s criticized as the loose moral princ
  
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• This food company will pay you $10K to be its Chief Taco Officer

  24-04-2022 22:14 via cnn.com
  
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• Israel Seizes Goat, Terrorists Furious as Extremist Splinter Group's Sacrifice Plot Is Exposed

  24-04-2022 21:29
  
  It sounds like a bit of a lark when the seizure of a goat by authorities likely precluded plenty of bloodshed.
  Unfortunately, in Israel, these matters are deadly serious — especially when it could lead to violent clashes between religious fanatics on both sides of the fence.
  According to the Times of Israel, six men, all in their 20s were arrested by authorities on Thursday on suspicion they planned to sacrifice a goat on top of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in advance of Passover.
  (Here
  
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• Latest Trend in Public Schools: 'Secret Gender Transition Closets'

  24-04-2022 21:18
  
  Activist teachers understand how painful it can be for students whose parents won’t allow them to dress as the gender they identify as. And they’ve come up with a solution — “secret gender transition closets.”
  Unbeknownst to their unenlightened parents, a student can arrive at school, enter a transition closet, which is equipped with a wide variety of gender appropriate clothing and accessories, and walk out dressed anyway he or she wishes. Obviously, before they re
  
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• Man at Dentist Feels Slight Cough, Team Halts the Procedure and Comes to a Nightmarish Realization

  24-04-2022 21:14
  
  Visits to the dentist can leave your mouth feeling mighty sore. Your lungs, usually, not so much.
  Unfortunately, Tom Jozsi wasn’t so lucky in that department.
  According to WISN, Jozsi was admitted to a Kenosha, Wisconsin, hospital after a one-inch dental drill bit became lodged in his lung.
  (The Western Journal is committed to bringing you the health news and analysis you need to make informed decisions about your care — even if it’s odd cases like this. If you support our repo
  
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• Analysis: Democrats see chance to expand economic opportunity slipping away

  24-04-2022 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  In the dwindling days remaining to salvage something from President Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda, Democratic economists see the flickering of a decades-old dream.
  
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• US Coast Guard in Louisiana searching for 3 minors last seen entering Mississippi River

  24-04-2022 20:52 via cnn.com
  
  The US Coast Guard is searching for three missing minors who were last seen entering the Mississippi River in Louisiana on Saturday evening, according to the law enforcement service.
  
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• Data Reveals 2020 Spike in LA Homeless Deaths Wasn't Caused by COVID

  24-04-2022 20:45
  
  A massive spike in deaths among homeless people took place in Los Angeles County during the first year of the pandemic, but COVID-19 was not the leading cause of the spike, according to new data.
  The 56 percent increase in deaths was largely due to drug overdoses, according to Fox News.
  “The findings in this report reflect a true state of emergency,” said First District Supervisor Hilda L. Solis in a statement. “In a civil society, it is unacceptable for any of us to not be pro
  
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• AZ Gov. Candidate Kari Lake Sues to Ban Electronic Voting Machine Tabulators

  24-04-2022 20:16
  
  Two candidates in Arizona are looking to the future after the troubled 2020 election, with a lawsuit looking to ban the use of machines to count votes in the Grand Canyon State.
  Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake filed the lawsuit seeking the ban, contending that the machines are too easily hacked making them vulnerable to criminals hoping to corrupt elections, according to the Arizona Daily Star.
  Lake is joined in the lawsuit by Secretary of State hopeful Mark Finchem, also a Republic
  
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• Fire crews rescue Washington woman after she falls headfirst into toilet

  24-04-2022 20:08 via cnn.com
  
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• Beloved College Track Star Dead at 21, Friends and Fans 'Shocked and Grief Stricken'

  24-04-2022 19:59
  
  Amid all the accolades heaped upon her for her athletic achievements, something went horribly wrong for college track star Sarah Shulze.
  Despite being only 21, with so much life and potential ahead of her, Shulze took her own life earlier this month, her family announced on a website created to honor her memory.
  Shulze had earned academic all-Big Ten honors in 2020 and 2021 for cross country and in 2021 for track while running for the University of Wisconsin.The Wisconsin Athletics com
  
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• Former Sen. Orrin Hatch has died at 88

  24-04-2022 19:07 via cnn.com
  
  • KFILE: Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted over old social media posts advocating violence in court testimony
  • Florida releases examples from math textbooks it rejected for schools
  • McCarthy to lead GOP lawmakers to southern border
  
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• Watch: 3 Videos of Illegals Having Fun as They Stream Across River Show Invasion Is Worse Than We Thought

  24-04-2022 19:06
  
  New video evidence shows the extent to which illegal immigrants casually troop into America as border officials brace for record-setting numbers.
  “Good morning from Eagle Pass, TX where illegal crossings continue nonstop. This group just walked across the Rio Grande as it runs lower in the AM hours. Just a few miles away is where a TX National Guard soldier presumably drowned. Still not found after nearly 48 hours,” Fox News reporter Bill Melugin tweeted.
  “Several men in the gr
  
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• DeSantis Effect? Exxon Bans LGBTQ Rainbow Flag from Being Displayed During Pride Month

  24-04-2022 18:44
  
  Has Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ opening salvo in the war against wokism sent a shiver throughout corporate America?
  Ron DeSantis’ signature last month on Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill followed by Friday’s passage of legislation to dissolve the Reedy Creek Improvement District, Disney’s special self-governance and taxation privileges granted by the state in 1967, sent the very clear message that powerful corporations will pay a price for trying to force
  
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• Kerry tries to convince the world to act on the climate. Russia's war makes it harder

  24-04-2022 18:13 via cnn.com
  
  John Kerry has a mission: To convince the rest of the world to embrace renewable energy and slash their planet-warming emissions. But the US Climate Envoy's job isn't getting any easier in year two.
  
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• Kerry tries to convince the world to act on the climate crisis. Russia's war makes it harder

  24-04-2022 18:13 via cnn.com
  
  John Kerry has a mission: To convince the rest of the world to embrace renewable energy and slash their planet-warming emissions. But the US Climate Envoy's job isn't getting any easier in year two.
  
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• Animal Rights Activist Disrupts Basketball Game, Can Only Get a Single Foot on the Court Before Learning Painful Lesson

  24-04-2022 18:05
  
  An animal rights activist trying to disrupt an NBA basketball game barely made it onto the court before she was taken down by security guards and quickly removed.
  The stunt was the third animal rights protest at Minnesota’s Target Center in the past 10 days, according to the New York Post.
  Protesters are targeting Glen Taylor, a major stockholder of the Minnesota Timberwolves, over conditions at an Iowa chicken farm owned by Taylor.Timberwolves were just awarded 10 more free throws for the
  
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• Food Network's 'Worst Cook in America' Allegedly Beat 3-Year-Old Foster Child to Death, Now We Know the Stomach-Turning Reason Why

  24-04-2022 17:48
  
  A South Carolina woman who won season 20 of Food Network’s “Worst Cooks in America” beat the child she is accused of killing because the child did not eat her food fast enough, the woman’s husband said at his trial.
  Jerry Robinson pleaded guilty to homicide by child abuse/aiding and abetting in connection to the death of 3-year-old Victoria Rose Smith in January 2021, according to the Greenville News. The girl had been a foster child the family was planning to adopt,
  
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• Autistic Teen Missing Over Two Years Found Living on Street; Mom Reveals He Likely Was Given Flawed Advice Before Leaving

  24-04-2022 17:43
  
  In late September of 2019, 16-year-old Connerjack Oswalt went missing from his home in Clearlake, California.
  His parents looked everywhere for Connerjack, who has autism. He was spotted in the California city of Willows a week after going missing, but there was no sign of him after that.
  His parents continued to search, checking morgues and reports of unidentified individuals.
  “We’ve had a lot of false hope over the last 2 1/2 years,” Oswalt’s stepdad, Gerald Flint, told
  
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• American Citizen Sentenced to Death in China

  24-04-2022 17:32
  
  The Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court sentenced an American citizen to death Thursday over the 2021 stabbing death of a woman described as his former girlfriend.
  Shadeed Abdulmateen had taught English at Ningbo University of Technology, according to the South China Morning Post.
  Abdulmateen, of Los Angeles, had told the woman, whose name was only given as Chen, that he was divorced when he was not, state broadcaster CCTV said.On Thursday, the Intermediate People’s Court of Ningbo Ci
  
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• 'I had to get out of there.' Former inmates find new lives as firefighters

  24-04-2022 17:20 via cnn.com
  
  John Reyna peeled off protective gear at the firefighter Ventura Training Center (VTC), and reflected on dark days in prison.
  
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• Former inmates find new lives as firefighters

  24-04-2022 17:20 via cnn.com
  
  John Reyna peeled off protective gear at the firefighter Ventura Training Center (VTC), and reflected on dark days in prison.
  
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• Visitor Logs Show Joe Biden Met with Hunter's Business Partner at the White House: Report

  24-04-2022 16:57
  
  A new report says that White House visitor logs confirm that a business partner of Hunter Biden met with President Joe Biden in the White House while Joe Biden was vice president during the Obama administration.
  The president has insisted on multiple occasions that he was never involved in or aware of the business activity of his son, which included contacts in Ukraine, Russia and China.
  Eric Schwerin, who at the time was president of the since-dissolved Rosemont Seneca Partners — which Hu
  
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• No Twitter Purchase? Elon Musk Shocks World with Message About Moving on as Supporters Beg Him to Stay and Fight

  24-04-2022 16:22
  
  The very public rabbit hole into which the world has been merrily dragged as Elon Musk has set his sights upon Twitter took a new direction Sunday.
  Or perhaps not.
  Musk, who has perfected the art of Twitter trolling, offered two words on Sunday that led to keyboards clicking across the Twittersphere to say it ain’t so.
  “Moving on …” Musk tweeted, without a clue whether that meant he was leaving behind his quixotic attempt to buy Twitter or simply felt in a particularly p
  
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• Yankees Fans Labelled 'Worst Fan Base on the Planet' After Pelting Opposing Players in Ugly Incident

  24-04-2022 15:46
  
  In words that showed they consider New York Yankees fans to be an infestation of worms in the Big Apple, Cleveland Guardians players sounded off angrily after they were hit with debris from Yankee Stadium stands on Saturday.
  “Worst fan base on the planet,” center fielder Myles Straw said after the game, according to the New York Post
  New York won 5-4 after Gleyber Torres hit a walk-off single.
  Then chaos erupted as beer and debris rained down from the right-field bleachers.
  “Th
  
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• Yankees Fans Labeled 'Worst Fan Base on the Planet' After Pelting Opposing Players in Ugly Incident

  24-04-2022 15:46
  
  In words that showed they consider New York Yankees fans to be an infestation of worms in the Big Apple, Cleveland Guardians players sounded off angrily after they were hit with debris from Yankee Stadium stands on Saturday.
  “Worst fan base on the planet,” center fielder Myles Straw said after the game, according to the New York Post
  New York won 5-4 after Gleyber Torres hit a walk-off single.
  Then chaos erupted as beer and debris rained down from the right-field bleachers.
  “Th
  
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• Meet the Columbus Zoo's newest Humbolt penguin chick with a big personality

  24-04-2022 14:58 via cnn.com
  
  The Columbus Zoo welcomed the birth of a "cute bundle of feather floof," as one keeper described the zoo's newborn Humbolt penguin.
  
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• 'He Really Slapped Me': Chris Rock's Mom Speaks Out on Oscars Slap with a Message for Will Smith

  24-04-2022 14:11
  
  Like most viewers who saw the Oscars, Rose Rock wasn’t sure just what happened during the most infamous moment of this year’s Academy Awards.
  But when she saw her son slapped on national TV, she felt the impact.
  Rose Rock is the mom of comedian Chris Rock, who was slapped by actor Will Smith after a joke he made about Jada Pinkett-Smith, who is Will Smith’s wife.
  “[W]hen he slapped Chris, he slapped all of us,” Rock said Friday, according to WIS-TV.
  “He really
  
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• We have a way to prevent mass shootings

  24-04-2022 11:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  DC shooting and NYC subway attack show common signs in mass shootings. We could do more to prevent them if we paid attention.
  
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• Elon Musk's next massive payday looms

  24-04-2022 11:30 via cnn.com
  
  Does the richest person on the planet need another massive pay package? That's the decision facing the Tesla board of directors.
  
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• Macron vs Le Pen: France votes in tense presidential runoff

  24-04-2022 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  France began voting in a presidential runoff election Sunday with repercussions for Europe’s future, with centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron the front-runner
  
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• Crypto booms opens door to a new class of landlords

  24-04-2022 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The rising crypto economy is opening the door for a new class of landlords and a new way of investing in real estate using blockchain technology.
  
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• Why a tiny Pacific nation’s China deal is getting global attention

  24-04-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  China and the Solomon Islands defended a security pact between the two countries that the U.S. and its allies say threatens stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
  
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• The Twitter account giving a window into China’s internet

  24-04-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Great Translation Movement aims to give non-Chinese speakers a window into Chinese social media discussion on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and other issues.
  
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• 'Robert Pattinson' TikTok account is latest unlikely celebrity profile raising questions

  24-04-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  When someone who appeared to be the actor Robert Pattinson showed up on TikTok about a month ago, fans couldn't believe it."I was like, crawling out of my
  
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• No, Black and Asian people do not resent ‘Western achievements.’ We made them possible.

  24-04-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  UPenn law professor Amy Wax's claim that Black and Asian people resent Western people's outsized achievements is, at its core, inaccurate.
  
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• ‘It was killing me’: Mother accuses Russia of forcibly deporting her son from Ukraine

  24-04-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Natalia Demish escaped the horrors of besieged Mariupol last month.
  
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• Amy Wax is entitled to her opinion of Black and Asian people. There’s just one problem.

  24-04-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  UPenn law professor Amy Wax's claim that Black and Asian people resent Western people's outsized achievements is, at its core, inaccurate.
  
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• 9 people found from tour boat that sent distress call in northern Japan

  24-04-2022 07:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  A tour boat with 26 people aboard was missing in the frigid waters of northern Japan on Saturday, hours after sending a distress call that it was sinking, the coast guard said.
  
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• Orrin Hatch, longest-serving Republican U.S. senator, dies at 88

  24-04-2022 06:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Orrin Hatch, the longtime Republican senator from Utah, died Saturday in Salt Lake City at the age of 88, the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation announced.
  
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• Why young voters probably won't cost Democrats in 2022

  24-04-2022 06:01 via cnn.com
  
  It was hard to escape the headlines this past week about President Joe Biden and young voters.
  
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• Analysis: Why young voters probably won't cost Dems in 2022

  24-04-2022 06:01 via cnn.com
  
  It was hard to escape the headlines this past week about President Joe Biden and young voters.
  
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• Michigan GOP endorses Trump-backed election denier in secretary of state race

  24-04-2022 03:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Michigan Republicans on Saturday endorsed Kristina Karamo, a contender backed by former President Donald Trump, to be their party’s candidate for secretary of
  
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• Long-serving Utah Senator Orrin Hatch dies at age 88

  24-04-2022 03:30
  
  Orrin G. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history who was a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades, died Saturday at age 88.
  His death was announced in a statement from his foundation, which did not specify a cause.
  A staunch conservative on most economic and social issues, he also teamed with Democrats several times during his long career on issues ranging from stem cell research to rights for people with disabilities to expanding children’s health insurance.
  
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