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• Elderly Woman's Electric Scooter Goes Missing Until Good Samaritan Spots It in Middle of Road

  04-05-2022 23:51
  
  Misplacing items is a fact of life for most of us. It’s bound to happen sooner or later. But there are certainly different levels of panic that ensue depending on how valuable the item is.
  Keys and wallets go missing fairly often. Phones disappear. Pets run away. Electric scooters aren’t generally an issue, but sadly, that’s exactly what Millie Anderson of Guam experienced on Monday.
  Anderson was out with her daughter on Monday, her scooter on a platform on the back of her daug
  
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• Bird Flu Explodes in US: Hundreds of Thousands of Chickens Dead All While Bizarre Disasters Hit Food Plants

  04-05-2022 23:44
  
  One can almost understand how pharaoh might have felt as God sent plagues of locusts, frogs, darkness and more upon Egypt.
  Of course, things are not that bad, but seemingly daily news items of fertilizer shortages, transportation and fuel issues, food processing plant fires, continued concern about COVID and talk of the unmentionable — nuclear war — make one say: What is going on?
  Now you can add one more “plague” to the list: bird flu. It’s killing millions of chic
  
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• Op-Ed: The Ukraine War Is Allowing Israel to Continue Bringing Jews Back to Their Homeland

  04-05-2022 23:36
  Alla Oleshko, an 86-year-old Jewish woman living in Kharkiv, Ukraine, remembers when the bombs began to fall. The Russians were aiming for the TV tower right in front of her house.
  “The first time, only the windows of the house blew out. The second time, the front door was demolished by a blast,” Oleshko told us. She lost both of her legs a few years ago, making it difficult to escape to a shelter.
  This is not the first time Oleshko has found herself in the middle of a war. She lived
  
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• DeSantis Single-Handedly Turns Tide in Culture War - Execs Terrified They'll Become the 'Next Disney'

  04-05-2022 23:31
  
  When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stripped Disney of its special districting privileges, he wasn’t merely holding the powerful corporation accountable for its far-left partisan antics.
  He was also sending a message.
  According to a Sunday report from the Wall Street Journal, American CEOs heard that message loud and clear.
  In recent years, Disney has fully inserted itself into politics to the point of blacklisting conservatives and condemning various bills that don’t support a left-wing,
  
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• Donald Trump Jr. testifies before House panel probing Jan. 6 riot

  04-05-2022 23:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Donald Trump Jr. testified before the House panel probing last year's attack on the Capitol, according to a person close to the former president's oldest son.
  
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• 'WJ Live': What's Going on with the Food Processing Plant Disasters? We Have the Truth

  04-05-2022 23:15
  
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• Secretary of State Blinken tests positive for Covid

  04-05-2022 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
  
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• Secretary of State Antony Blinken tests positive for Covid-19

  04-05-2022 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
  
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• New Mexico governor asks Biden for more wildfire help

  04-05-2022 23:02 via cnn.com
  
  New Mexico's governor has asked for a presidential disaster declaration to help get more money into her state as it battles the largest wildfire burning in the US.
  
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• Op-Ed: Abortion Isn't a States' Rights Issue - It's Already 100% Illegal Under the 13th Amendment

  04-05-2022 22:56
  
  The leaked draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and published by Politico has raised a storm of controversy in its argument to overturn Roe v. Wade and “return authority to the people and their representatives.”
  But which representatives? The states or Congress?
  A trending view has emerged that should the Supreme Court overturn Roe, the right to enact pro-abortion laws would return to the individual states. Such an outcome, unfortunately, would only further complica
  
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• Wife of judge who dismissed Strauss lawsuits had $313K flag contract with OSU

  04-05-2022 22:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  A company owned by the wife of the federal judge who outraged Ohio State University sex abuse victims last year when he dismissed the remaining lawsuits
  
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• Abortion clinics are bracing for protests, harassment and violence if Roe falls

  04-05-2022 22:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Security, a major concern for abortion clinics, gained urgency with the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
  
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• Dave Chappelle attacked onstage during performance at Hollywood Bowl

  04-05-2022 22:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage on Tuesday night after a man ran up and tackled the stand-up comedian during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
  
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• Inside the GOP effort to scrub a Trump-backed candidate from Tennessee's ballot

  04-05-2022 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  It wasn’t long after former President Donald Trump announced his endorsement for Morgan Ortagus in Tennessee’s newly drawn 5th Congressional District that a
  
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• Covid's toll in the U.S. reaches a once unfathomable number: 1 million deaths

  04-05-2022 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. on Wednesday recorded its 1 millionth Covid death, a once unthinkable toll even for the country with the world's highest recorded toll from the virus.
  
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• Biden Rips MAGA Supporters as 'Most Extreme' Political Group in Recent American History

  04-05-2022 22:33
  
  President Joe Biden outlined a highly questionable interpretation of American history during White House remarks on Wednesday.
  After originally referring to those who support the “Make America Great Again” movement as the “most extreme organization” in history, the 79-year-old Democrat backtracked to clarify that he meant the most extreme in “recent American history.”
  But even there, he wasn’t even close to being right, and any American who’s follo
  
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• How higher interest rates will impact you

  04-05-2022 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  The Covid era of free money is over, and the Federal Reserve is stepping up its fight against inflation.
  
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• Here's how higher interest rates will impact you

  04-05-2022 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  The Covid era of free money is over, and the Federal Reserve is stepping up its fight against inflation.
  
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• Alabama officer accused of helping inmate escape no longer employed by sheriff's office

  04-05-2022 22:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Vicky White, 56, is wanted on a charge of permitting or facilitating the escape of inmate Casey White in Alabama on Friday.
  
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• Elon Musk Sets His Sights on Groups Backed by Soros and Clinton Operatives: 'Let's Investigate'

  04-05-2022 22:07
  
  With Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, there has been a call for major brands to boycott the company if Musk goes through with his plan to end content policies, which are supposedly meant to limit hate speech and misinformation.
  But when Musk became aware of this call for a boycott, he tweeted that he wants to investigate who is behind the idea.Who funds these organizations that want to control your access to information? Let’s investigate …https://t.co/dBFsGjOMC
  
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• 'They're still coming': More cases of unusual liver damage reported in kids in the U.S.

  04-05-2022 22:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hepatitis cases causing liver damage in children are on the rise in the U.S. Doctors at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Ohio say they have treated at least six cases of severe hepatitis in previously healthy young children.
  
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• After Rescue Saves 29 Golden Retrievers from Meat Trade, It Finds 26 More Left at Farm to Starve

  04-05-2022 21:47
  
  There are few dog breeds that have captured the American heart like the golden retriever and the corgi. They’re everywhere — online, in ads, in viral videos — and people tend to find them irresistible.
  They’re also popular picks for participation in the cruel Yulin Dog Meat Festival and as a meat source in general in China.
  Thankfully, there are organizations in China and around the world dedicated to ending this cruel practice. However, with the renewed lockdowns in Shan
  
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• Third Oath Keepers defendant pleads guilty to sedition in Capitol riot case

  04-05-2022 21:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  A North Carolina member of the Oath Keepers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding in connection with
  
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• Old Video Shows Trump Predicting He Will End Roe v Wade - He's Keeping Promises 1 Year After Leaving Office

  04-05-2022 21:27
  
  Before he won the 2016 presidential election, former President Donald Trump promised to appoint Supreme Court justices who were unabashedly pro-life. Almost six years later, his commitment is reportedly about to pay off.
  During an October 2016 debate with Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Trump told moderator Chris Wallace his commitment to appointing pro-life justices would end in Roe v. Wade being overturned.
  “If we put another two, or perhaps three, justices on … t
  
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• CRT Book for Kids Depicts Racism as a Person Whose Head Is Put on Concrete Curb and Then Stomped

  04-05-2022 21:20
  
  An anti-racism book given to young children at one Washington, D.C., elementary school tells them white people “hold all the power in America.”
  The book also includes a recommended lesson for parents titled “Throat Punching Racism In Schools.” Another lesson is titled “Curb Stomping Racism In The Workplace,” referring to a bit of urban violence in which a victim’s head is laid upon a curb to be stomped upon by an aggressor.
  In November, Janney Elementary
  
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• Elon Musk says fees for some users may be coming to Twitter

  04-05-2022 20:50 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk said Twitter might soon charge fees for certain users, as the billionaire continues to tease how he might change the platform as its new owner.
  
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• Mayorkas pushes back on Republican concerns about DHS disinformation board

  04-05-2022 20:43 via cnn.com
  
  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday defended his agency's new working group dubbed the "Disinformation Governance Board" against criticism that it would censor or investigate free speech.
  
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• Musk Wants Answers: 'Where Is Their "Client" List? Shouldn't at Least One of Them Go Down!?'

  04-05-2022 20:38
  
  Elon Musk is calling for the release of the “client” lists of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
  In a series of tweets this week, the mega-wealthy Tesla CEO, who is in the process of buying social media platform Twitter, hit back hard at an MSNBC host who derided him as a “petulant and not-so-bright billionaire.
  Musk first dredged up NBC’s own recent, high-profile embarrassments. And when a supporter chimed in to slam the mainstream media’s priorities
  
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• CNN Legal Analyst Melts Down, Says Overturning of Roe Means SCOTUS Might Ban Interstate Travel Next

  04-05-2022 20:26
  
  There is no end to the examples of members of the media misleading viewers about the leaked Supreme Court abortion ruling, but comments by CNN’s Lauren Coates stand right up there as some of the worst.
  Billed as a CNN “senior legal analyst,” during Tuesday’s edition of CNN Newsroom, Coates jumped onto a panel about the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft decision that was leaked Monday by Politico. With her comments, this “legal analyst” proved that she didn&rsqu
  
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• Bill to Dissolve Biden's 'Unconstitutional' Disinformation Board Hits the Senate

  04-05-2022 20:16
  
  The Biden administration is rolling out a new initiative to target “disinformation.” But the plan is facing massive backlash from Republicans, and a bill has been introduced to dissolve the new Disinformation Governance Board.
  The Department of Homeland Security announced the interagency team at the end of April. The executive director of the board is Nina Jankowicz, a “disinformation expert” at a Washington, D.C., think tank.
  On Wednesday, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of
  
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• Biden praises Team USA in first White House visit since pandemic for 'your endurance and your state of mind'

  04-05-2022 20:10 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden praised US Olympic and Paralympic athletes at the White House on Wednesday for not only their "incredible athleticism, but your endurance and your state of mind."
  
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• Federal Reserve Announces Most Aggressive Interest Rate Hike in Over 20 Years as Inflation Soars

  04-05-2022 20:03
  
  The Federal Reserve intensified its fight against the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by a half-percentage point Wednesday — its most aggressive move since 2000 — and signaling further large rate hikes to come.
  The increase in the Fed’s key rate raised it to a range of 0.75 percent to 1 percent, the highest point since the pandemic struck two years ago.
  The Fed also announced that it will start reducing its huge $9 trillion balance
  
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• Video: Police Rescue Husky and Maltese Found Running in HOV Lane on Busy Texas Freeway

  04-05-2022 20:00
  
  Drivers on the North Freeway in Houston, Texas, on Saturday morning were witness to an unusual sight as two dogs trotted along in the protected HOV lane.
  It’s unclear how the dogs got there — whether they were abandoned on the road or somehow found their way into the HOV lane — or how long they’d been there, but at some point, the police were involved and approached the wandering pair.
  One of the dogs was a small, female maltese, and the other was a male husky, and video
  
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• Judge overseeing Derek Chauvin civil rights case accepts plea deal

  04-05-2022 19:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  The judge overseeing the federal civil rights cases of four former Minneapolis police officers in the killing of George Floyd said Wednesday that he has accepted the terms of Derek Chauvin’s plea agreement and will sentence him to 20 to 25 years in prison.
  
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• Trump Endorsement Proves Game Changer as JD Vance Completes Comeback Ohio Primary Win

  04-05-2022 19:30
  
  J.D. Vance, a populist conservative endorsed by former President Donald Trump, completed a comeback win in the Ohio Republican primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday night.
  Polling had shown that Vance slightly trailed in the race as recently as mid-April, just before he received a key endorsement from the former president.
  Vance would go on to secure a definitive win, taking the three-way primary with nearly a large cushion over his closest competitor, former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel.
  With 95 per
  
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• Mother of Miss USA Cheslie Kryst reveals pageant queen had attempted suicide before

  04-05-2022 19:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  The mother of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, who died by suicide in January, revealed she learned of her daughter's death while on a plane to New York to be by her side.
  
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• Will 'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Be Canceled Over New Character Woke Movement Will Despise?

  04-05-2022 19:21
  
  “Dilbert” became popular because the cartoon’s creator, Scott Adams, mocked absurdity.
  At first, this was universally popular; the strip lampooned the absurdities 1990s corporate orthodoxy was on. The comic, for the unaware, revolves around the eponymous engineer Dilbert, his co-workers and superiors at a nameless mega-corporation, and his anthropomorphic pets.
  Because the strip attacked shallow cultural trends, Kafkaesque corporate bureaucracy and the kind of facile jargon tha
  
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• Biden says 'MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that's existed in American history'

  04-05-2022 19:09 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Wednesday sharpened the contrast between his policies and what he derided as an "ultra-MAGA agenda" on the right as he looks to hone his midterm message heading into a high-stakes campaign season.
  
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• Biden says 'MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization' in US history

  04-05-2022 19:09 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Wednesday sharpened the contrast between his policies and what he derided as an "ultra-MAGA agenda" on the right as he looks to hone his midterm message heading into a high-stakes campaign season.
  
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• Biden goes after the 'ultra-MAGA agenda' as he sharpens his midterm message

  04-05-2022 19:09 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Wednesday sharpened the contrast between his policies and what he derided as an "ultra-MAGA agenda" on the right as he looks to hone his midterm message heading into a high-stakes campaign season.
  
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• Kamala Harris Goes Off the Deep End and Declares War on Supreme Court and GOP: 'How Dare They'

  04-05-2022 18:59
  
  Reminiscent of young environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s bratty “How dare you!” denunciation of world leaders, Vice President Kamala Harris railed against Republican leaders who she claimed are trying to “weaponize” the law against women on Tuesday evening.
  Speaking at an event for EMILY’s List, a political action committee that works to elect pro-abortion female candidates, Harris declared war on the Supreme Court over a draft opinion showing that a major
  
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• Missing 7-year-old girl's safety and well-being 'were not prioritized,' report finds

  04-05-2022 18:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Harmony Montgomery has not been seen since 2019. New Hampshire police were made aware of her disappearance late last year.
  
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• New Mexico governor asks Biden for more wildfire help: 'I have 6,000 people evacuated. I have families who don't know what the next day looks like'

  04-05-2022 18:54 via cnn.com
  
  New Mexico's governor has asked for a presidential disaster declaration to help get more money into her state as it battles the largest wildfire burning in the US.
  
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• Scary Poppins

  04-05-2022 18:53
  
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• Family of 'Toddlers & Tiaras' star Kailia Posey reveals her cause of death

  04-05-2022 18:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Kailia Posey, the 16-year-old star of "Toddlers & Tiaras," died by suicide, her family confirmed in a statement Wednesday.
  
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• DC Elites' White House Correspondents' Dinner Turns Into Superspreader Event as Journalists Test Positive

  04-05-2022 18:46
  
  When the media elites gathered for the White House Correspondents Dinner, they spread more than good gossip, as news reports emerge of multiple journalists being infected with the coronavirus.
  The event, as noted by The New York Times, packed 2,600 people into one large room. The potential for the event to be a playground for the coronavirus was touched upon by jokester Trevor Noah in his remarks.
  “It is my great honor to be speaking tonight at the nation’s most distinguished supersp
  
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• Body of one of three children last seen entering the Mississippi River has been found

  04-05-2022 18:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  The body of one of three children last seen entering the Mississippi River near New Orleans was found Monday, according to the coroner's office and a family spokesperson.
  
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• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Announces Dolly Parton Will Be Inducted Even Though She Didn't Want In

  04-05-2022 18:06
  
  Country music legend Dolly Parton has been outvoted.
  Parton, who in March said she did not think she should be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, was among those voted into the hall this year, according to the Los Angeles Times.
  Parton will join Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, Eminem, the Eurythmics, Lionel Richie and Carly Simon, the Hall of Fame announced Wednesday.
  “I never considered myself a rock artist,” Parton said.
  In March, Parton said that although she was “ext
  
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• CNN Let Disgraced Legal Analyst Provide Tons of Roe Coverage Even Though He Pressured Mistress to Abort Love Child

  04-05-2022 17:40
  
  Jeffrey Toobin has a history of getting into trouble of a romantic nature with people he probably shouldn’t be so enamored with.
  The most high-profile example of this phenomenon happened in 2020, when he proved on a Zoom call with colleagues that prurient infatuation needn’t involve two people. Having forgotten to turn the camera off, the legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker had sexual relations with someone he holds in inordinately high regard — namely, himself. Toobin los
  
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• You Can Thank Donald Trump for Coming Defeat of Roe v. Wade

  04-05-2022 17:16
  
  Former President Donald Trump looks to have pulled a Babe Ruth, calling a home run, so to speak, in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
  And he did it all the way back in a presidential debate in October 2016.
  Moderator Chris Wallace asked then-Republican nominee Trump, “Do you want to see the court overturn Roe v. Wade?”
  “Well, if we put another two or perhaps three justices on, that’s really what’s going to be &m
  
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