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• Feds tracked potential for election violence as far back as August 2020

  02-05-2022 23:34 via cnn.com
  
  Federal law enforcement tracked the potential for election-related violence as far back as August 2020, which is earlier than previously known, according to a government report released Monday.
  
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• Princess Charlotte Turns 7, Celebratory Birthday Photos Feature Family Pet's Debut

  02-05-2022 23:25
  
  While much of royal life is kept under wraps and the family is quite private, Britain’s Prince William and Duchess Catherine have made a tradition of sharing new photos of their children on their kids’ birthdays.
  Generally, the photos are taken by the duchess herself and provide a rare glimpse into the children’s lives.
  “Seven tomorrow!” the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s account tweeted on Sunday with photos of the birthday girl, Princess Charlotte.Seven tom
  
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• Elon Musk Unleashes on NBC in Brutal Takedown, Drops Names of Hunter Biden, Weinstein and Lauer in 1 Tweet

  02-05-2022 23:14
  
  NBC News host Medhi Hassan, one of the most pompous and unappealing individuals on television, issued a warning Sunday about billionaire Elon Musk and his purchase of the social media giant Twitter.
  “It’s easy in American discourse to talk simplistically about the far left and the far right as two equally dangerous fringe blocks. Elon Musk has done it plenty of times just in the past week,” Hassan said on his MSNBC show.
  “But here’s the difference,” he said. &
  
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• 'WJ Live': Videos of Biden's 'Truth Minister' Surface, Show Why We Should All Be Horrified

  02-05-2022 22:55
  
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• Almost anyone can retire long before they're 60

  02-05-2022 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  There is no shortcut for saving money for retirement. But some people have found ways to do the hard work faster.
  
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• Missing Retired K9 'Haso' Found Dead a Half-Mile from Home, Criminal Investigation Underway

  02-05-2022 22:08
  
  A community in West Valley, New York, came together a week ago when a retired K9 from the Erie County Sheriff’s Office went missing.
  Haso, a German shepherd, was retired in 2020 after New York legalized marijuana, according to The Buffalo News. The dog was responsible for multiple busts and saved at least eight people’s lives during his time on the force, Erie County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Lundberg told the News.
  Lundberg, Haso’s handler when the dog was on active duty,
  
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• Supreme Court says Boston violated First Amendment rights of group seeking to raise a Christian flag outside City Hall

  02-05-2022 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that Boston violated the First Amendment rights of a group seeking to briefly raise a Christian flag atop a city flagpole outside of City Hall as a part of a city program celebrating Boston's greater community.
  
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• Trevor Noah Caught in Major Lie About DeSantis at White House Correspondents Dinner

  02-05-2022 21:49
  
  Liberals have been lying about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for so long, reporters don’t even notice it anymore.
  That was painfully evident in one of the more bizarre moments to come out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday, when the evening’s headline entertainer, Comedy Central host Trevor Noah, went on a riff about the Republican governor after “spotting” him in the audience.
  The only problem was, DeSantis wasn’t in the room. He wa
  
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• Biden will meet with parents of American journalist detained in Syria

  02-05-2022 21:40 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden said Monday he's meeting with the parents of detained American journalist Austin Tice "today," less than a week after another American imprisoned abroad was returned to the United States through a prisoner swap with Russia.
  
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• The S&P is having its worst start to a year since 1939

  02-05-2022 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  The S&P 500 fell more than 13% between January and April of this year. That's the worst four-month start to a year since 1939, when longtime legendary investor Warren Buffett was just nine years-old.
  
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• This is the most active spring in years for severe weather and southwest wildfire

  02-05-2022 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  May and June mark the peak of tornadic weather in the US. It is also the peak of wildfire season in the Southwest.
  
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• Here's how to retire long before your 60s

  02-05-2022 20:25 via cnn.com
  
  There is no shortcut for saving money for retirement. But some people have found ways to do the hard work faster.
  
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• Woke Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe Adds to Subway's Failure in 2021, Over 1,000 Stores Close Amid Backlash

  02-05-2022 20:20
  
  Subway has struggled in the year since it hired soccer star and left-wing activist Megan Rapinoe as a national spokeswoman, with hundreds of stores closing across the nation.
  The fast-food chain — whose best-known spokesman, Jared Fogle, went to jail for child pornography possession in 2015 — hired Rapinoe as a pitchwoman early last year.
  One commercial featured the purple-haired anthem protester knocking food out of a man’s hand with a soccer ball.
  Hiring Rapinoe didn’t
  
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• Kathy Boudin, 1960s radical imprisoned for fatal robbery, dies at 78

  02-05-2022 20:19 via cnn.com
  
  Kathy Boudin, a 1960s radical who was a member of the militant leftist group Weather Underground and who was imprisoned for her involvement in a fatal robbery, has died at the age of 78, according to her son, Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's District Attorney.
  
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• The latest in the investigations and lawsuits involving Donald Trump, his company and the 2020 election

  02-05-2022 20:18 via cnn.com
  
  The volume of investigations involving former President Donald Trump, the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the finances of the Trump Organization is staggering.
  
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• Georgia official texted Mark Meadows as Trump badgered secretary of state to 'find' votes

  02-05-2022 20:05 via cnn.com
  
  As Donald Trump badgered Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on an hour-long call to "find" the votes necessary to flip the battleground state to Trump's column after the 2020 election, a Raffensperger aide fired off a plea for help.
  
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• These numbers are bad news if you're trying to buy or refinance a house

  02-05-2022 19:52 via cnn.com
  
  Bad news for anyone trying to buy a house or refinance an existing loan: The yield on the benchmark 10-year US Treasury note, which influences how much consumers pay for mortgages and a variety of other loans, is flirting with the 3% level for the first time since December 2018.
  
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• Judge rules January 6 committee can obtain RNC and Trump campaign email data

  02-05-2022 19:52 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge has decided to allow the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection to obtain the Republican National Committee's marketing email data leading up to January 6, 2021.
  
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• Amber Heard Makes Massive Mistake Amid Johnny Depp Trial, Ditches PR Team Over Nightmarish Headlines

  02-05-2022 19:43
  
  Actress Amber Heard has suffered plenty of bad publicity over the last couple of weeks as her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, is suing her for defamation.
  Heard hoped her latest move could help that problem, but it appears to be backfiring spectacularly.
  According to Fox News, Heard ditched her entire PR team ahead of her testimony in the case in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia. The actress terminated her contract with Precision Strategies, the company that had been in charge of her public rel
  
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• Ohio's secretary of state once called it 'irresponsible' to say the election was stolen. Then came Trump's endorsement.

  02-05-2022 19:25 via cnn.com
  
  In the weeks after the 2020 presidential election, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose was clear: He had faith in Ohio's election results and little patience for politicians of either party who make baseless claims of election wrongdoing.
  
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• Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose walks tightrope in Tuesday's GOP primary

  02-05-2022 19:25 via cnn.com
  
  In the weeks after the 2020 presidential election, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose was clear: He had faith in Ohio's election results and little patience for politicians of either party who make baseless claims of election wrongdoing.
  
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• US Faces Looming Catastrophe as Price of Diesel Hits All-Time High, Threatening Trucking Industry

  02-05-2022 18:49
  
  The cost of trucks taking to the highway will be hitting Americans down the road as record diesel fuel prices are slamming the transportation industry.
  The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel was $5.321 on Monday, setting a record for the second day in a row, according to AAA.
  The price was a 72 percent increase from the average price of a year ago, which was $3.086 a gallon, according to AAA.
  “Things at the grocery store will be more expensive because of diesel. Take a cruise is goin
  
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• Grand jury selected in Fulton County probe of Trump election interference in Georgia

  02-05-2022 18:41 via cnn.com
  
  A special grand jury has been selected to hear evidence in an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and his allies committed any crimes in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
  
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• Trevor Noah Rips Biden to His Face Over Prices as Comedy Routine Cuts Too Close to the Bone

  02-05-2022 18:25
  
  President Joe Biden might have laughed just a little too hard at comedian Trevor Noah’s inflation joke during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night at the Hilton in Washington.
  “People have been so hard on you, which I don’t get,” the “Comedy Central” host told the president.
  “Ever since you’ve come into office, things are really looking up. You know, gas is up, rent is up, food is up. Everything,” Noah joked
  
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• The Latest Joe Biden Revelation from Hunter Biden's Laptop Is Raising Eyebrows: Report

  02-05-2022 17:56
  
  Does President Joe Biden fantasize about being a KGB spy?
  New information mined from the laptop computer once owned by Hunter Biden makes that theory at least a topic of conversation amid questions about the connections between Hunter Biden, whose international business deals have faced scrutiny, and his father, who has insisted he knew nothing about his son’s businesses.
  According to a report in the New York Post, Joe Biden has used the pseudonym “Peter Henderson” in emails to
  
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• January 6 committee sends letters to 3 more GOP House members seeking information

  02-05-2022 17:51 via cnn.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection sent letters Monday to three additional Republican congressmen, asking that they voluntarily cooperate with the ongoing probe.
  
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• Breaking: SCOTUS Hands Major Victory to Christians, Strikes Major Blow to Angry Atheists

  02-05-2022 17:21
  
  CORRECTION, May 2, 2022: The original headline for this article implied that Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were responsible for this decision, which was in fact a 9-0 Supreme Court decision. The liberal wing of the Supreme Court was every bit as responsible for this decision as any of the justices appointed by former President Donald Trump. In fact, the decision was written by liberal Justice Steven Breyer; if we were going to credit one justice with this decision,
  
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• Analysis: The most important line from the White House Correspondents' Dinner

  02-05-2022 17:15 via cnn.com
  
  For the first time in more than two years, official Washington gathered Saturday night for the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
  
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• NY teacher put on leave after parents allege he made 7th-graders pick seeds out of cotton

  02-05-2022 17:13 via cnn.com
  
  A Rochester, New York, teacher has been placed on leave, according to a statement from the Rochester City School District Board of Education, after parents alleged he made his students pick seeds out of cotton during a lesson one parent said was about slavery.
  
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• Biden Administration Puts Positive Spin on Food Shortages: 'Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste'

  02-05-2022 17:07
  
  I would have thought we would have retired Winston Churchill’s “Never let a good crisis go to waste” quote in the context of American politics after 2008.
  When Churchill reportedly uttered it, he was trying to create the United Nations. However, in 2008, Rahm Emanuel — the incoming White House chief of staff for then-President-elect Barack Obama — said a permutation of it during a speech about the financial crisis.
  “You never want a serious crisis to go to was
  
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• Axios: Former Secretary of Defense Esper in new book says Trump wanted to shoot protesters

  02-05-2022 16:58 via cnn.com
  
  Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says in his new book that then-President Donald Trump raised the idea of shooting protesters who took to the streets around the White House after the killing of Georgia Floyd in 2020, according to Axios.
  
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• Key Leftist Icon Shocks Everyone, Points to Donald Trump as Beacon of Reason in Current Crisis

  02-05-2022 16:42
  
  When President Donald Trump was in office, liberal activist Noam Chomsky called him “the worst criminal in human history.”
  But in a recent interview, as the conflict in Ukraine grinds on with no end in sight, Chomsky said that in all the world, Trump is the one man who has offered a reasonable way to find a solution to the war Russia launched with its invasion in February.
  The 93-year-old Chomsky is a long-time critic of American foreign policy who has espoused radical causes since b
  
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• Mike Lindell Returns to Twitter, Within Hours Gets Whopping Number of New Followers, Then Gets New Message from Company

  02-05-2022 16:24
  
  Mike Lindell is back – in the limbo on banishment, that is, after his return to Twitter lasted less than four hours on Sunday.
  Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow, outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump, and a leading critic of the conduct of the 2020 presidential election, was banned by Twitter last year. Despite that, Lindell has continued to advance his allegations of election misconduct.
  His effort to return came after Elon Musk reached an agreement to purchase Twitter, a move
  
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• Clip of Biden's 'Truth Minister' During Trump Years Is the Most Telling of All, Then Something Big Changed

  02-05-2022 15:47
  
  Imagine the White House being able to take an inconvenient story and label it as fake news — not just because the president or one of his allies said it, but because an official “Ministry of Truth”-like organization labeled it as “disinformation.”
  “I would never want to see our executive branch have that sort of power,” a prominent disinformation expert said in May 2020.
  That expert was Nina Jankowicz, then a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Institute
  
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• Mayorkas Readies for Half Million Illegals Per Month at Border Once Biden Nixes Title 42

  02-05-2022 15:18
  
  President Joe Biden’s administration says we could be facing up to half-a-million illegal immigrants per month being apprehended at the southern border when Title 42 protections are lifted later this month.
  But don’t worry, says Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — they’ve been prepping for this since last fall and, heck, it might not be that high.
  In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, the DHS secretary insisted
  
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• Harris Sent the Most Egotistical Message of All Time After Noticing 'Biden Staff Looked Down on Her'

  02-05-2022 15:02
  
  As Americans struggle with historic inflation, a raging border crisis and terrifying crime waves, Vice President Kamala Harris is outraged that White House staffers don’t dutifully stand when she enters a room.
  That’s one of the bizarre revelations from the book “This Will Not Pass,” co-authored by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
  The duo appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday to discuss some disturbing findings from th
  
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• Tennessee's governor has halted executions for an independent review into lethal injections following an inmate's last-minute reprieve

  02-05-2022 14:45 via cnn.com
  
  Tennessee's governor has announced a pause of executions in the state amid plans for an independent review into the lethal injection process.
  
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• Investing ethically won't buy protection in this market

  02-05-2022 14:17 via cnn.com
  
  As the economy began bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic, interest in investment products that promoted good environmental, social and governance practices took off.
  
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• Guess How Many Copies of Jill Biden's New Biography Sold Last Week - You're Too High!

  02-05-2022 14:05
  
  On April 13, the U.K.’s Guardian breathlessly broke a piece of presidential news: It had obtained a copy of Jill Biden’s biography, which was set to be released April 19, and it turned out she felt deep resentment for “all these men” pushing him to run in 2020.
  “All these men — and they were mostly men — coming to our home,” she said in the book, according to the Guardian. “You know, ‘You’ve got to run, you’ve got to run.&rs
  
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• EU says Apple Pay rules may harm competitors

  02-05-2022 13:58 via cnn.com
  
  The European Union is warning Apple about possible antitrust violations after an investigation into the iPhone maker's dominance in mobile retail payments.
  
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• EU says Apple Pay restrictions may harm competitors

  02-05-2022 13:58 via cnn.com
  
  The European Union is warning Apple about possible antitrust violations after an investigation into the iPhone maker's dominance in mobile retail payments.
  
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• Xiaomi is the latest big Chinese company to face the heat in India

  02-05-2022 10:33 via cnn.com
  
  India has seized more than $700 million from one of China's biggest tech companies after accusing it of moving money out of the country illegally.
  
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• Xiaomi is latest company to face the heat in India

  02-05-2022 10:33 via cnn.com
  
  India has seized more than $700 million from one of China's biggest tech companies after accusing it of moving money out of the country illegally.
  
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• They’re banned from Olympic sports. Why are they coaching children?

  02-05-2022 10:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  An NBC News review found at least 20 people who appear to be working with kids even though they were barred from participating in Olympic-affiliated events following abuse allegations.
  
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• The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial is spotlighting this harmful abuse theory

  02-05-2022 10:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial included couples counselor testimony on 'mutual abuse.' But experts say this theory is as real as the movies that made them stars.
  
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• Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and the harmful logical fallacy of 'mutual abuse'

  02-05-2022 10:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial included couples counselor testimony on 'mutual abuse.' But experts say this theory is as real as the movies that made them stars.
  
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• DeSantis looks to make 2024 statement with big Florida win this November

  02-05-2022 10:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Florida Gov.
  
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• Man fatally stabbed after fight breaks out at Dave & Buster's in Times Square

  02-05-2022 10:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  A man was fatally stabbed at a Dave & Buster's in Times Square on Saturday night after a fight broke out at the entertainment venue.
  
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• Analysis: The political environment is terrible for Democrats -- and it may get worse

  02-05-2022 06:03 via cnn.com
  
  Joe Biden's term has become a punchline -- even to the President.
  
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• Trump defends Nebraska gubernatorial candidate facing groping allegations

  02-05-2022 05:33 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump defended Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster at a rally on Sunday, dismissing recent sexual misconduct allegations against him as "malicious" and saying they were the main motivation for his decision to hold an event in the Cornhusker State ahead of the GOP primary later this month.
  
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