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• Mercedes issues 'Do not drive' advisory for 292,000 SUVs

  12-05-2022 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  Mercedes-Benz is recalling 292,000 SUVs and advising owners of the vehicles to stop driving them until a potential problem, which could cause the power brake system to fail, can be fixed, if needed.
  
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• White House struggles for answers on infant formula shortage

  12-05-2022 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday will speak with companies that manufacture and sell baby formula as well as announce new actions to address supply shortages, a White House official said.
  
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• ESPN Touts New Female NHL Commentator, But There's One Major Problem: Many Fans Can't Stand Her

  12-05-2022 23:20
  
  This season, ESPN acquired the rights to broadcast NHL games for the first time in 16 years. Despite initial excitement, many fans have been displeased with the product, and one play-by-play broadcaster in particular has drawn immense criticism.
  The network announced its seven-year rights agreement with the NHL in March 2021, according to The New York Times. It came after the league’s decade-long agreement with NBCUniversal expired.
  A couple of months later, ESPN hired broadcaster Leah Hex
  
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• Why breastfeeding isn't a solution to the formula shortage

  12-05-2022 23:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Baby formula shortage leaves mothers wrongly shamed for not breastfeeding.
  
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• Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Kevin McCarthy, other Trump House allies

  12-05-2022 23:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Republican Reps. Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Mo Brooks and Andy Biggs.
  
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• Map: See which states use solar panels the most

  12-05-2022 22:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  More than 3 million households and businesses have connected their solar panels to the grid, with California, Arizona and Hawaii leading the nation.
  
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• In 'unprecedented' move, Louisiana lawmakers revive anti-LGBTQ school bill

  12-05-2022 22:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Louisiana House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to revive a bill that would prohibit "topics of sexual orientation or gender identity in any classroom
  
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• Dow falls for a sixth straight day after another wild session

  12-05-2022 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Stocks fell on Thursday as the market sell-off continued after another failed rebound attempt.
  
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• Breaking: Twitter CEO Fires Two Execs, Cuts Costs Ahead of Elon Musk Takeover

  12-05-2022 22:22
  
  Social media giant Twitter will stop hiring new employees and implement cost-cutting measures, according to an internal memo from Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal that was obtained by Bloomberg.
  Additionally, two of Twitter’s top executives are leaving the company ahead of Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk’s takeover of the corporation, the outlet reported.
  The internal memo Thursday said the company is going to freeze hiring and might withdraw the offers it had already sent out.
  
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• Trump, GOP rivals unload on Kathy Barnette as she rises in Pa. Senate primary

  12-05-2022 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Kathy Barnette has gone from virtual nobody to virtual front-runner in Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate contest — and now she's facing the heat.
  
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• Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike won't run in Preakness, ending Triple Crown bid

  12-05-2022 22:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike will not run in the Preakness.
  
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• Meme mania returns. GameStop and AMC soar

  12-05-2022 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  Apes of Reddit, rejoice! Shares of meme stock darling GameStop soared more than 20% in midday trading Thursday, prompting trades to be halted several times due to volatility. But there was no specific news to justify or explain the big pop.
  
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• Ted Cruz Gives Elizabeth Warren a Math Lesson After Her Bizarre Abortion Claim Draws Criticism

  12-05-2022 22:04
  
  Is this how math works in Massachusetts?
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the fire-breathing Democrat with Native American cheekbones, has made ostentatious outrage her calling card in American politics, but in an interview after Wednesday’s Senate vote on national abortion legislation, she advertised her contempt for voters’ intelligence even more.
  And she put the dishonesty of her party and its mainstream media supporters on full display in the process.
  Speaking to reporters after a vote to
  
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• Record diesel prices, tight supplies could be next blow to the US economy

  12-05-2022 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  Diesel prices are soaring to record levels, and record low inventories of the fuel in parts of the United States are sparking fears of worse to come.
  
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• Amy Coney Barrett's Neighbor Has a Message for Leftist Protesters Picketing Her House

  12-05-2022 21:41
  
  Protesters won’t stop hassling Supreme Court justices at their homes, upset about the leaked draft ruling that would overturn the Roe v. Wade precedent.
  One man who has witnessed the brunt of the protests is sick of it.
  Amy Coney Barrett‘s neighbor spoke out against the harassing protests in an impromptu interview on Wednesday.
  The unnamed neighbor spoke with Douglas Blair of the Daily Signal.
  “It’s none of their business. Why are they here?” the man said of the str
  
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• Twitter CEO pushes out executives, freezes hiring ahead of Musk takeover

  12-05-2022 21:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Twitter's CEO said he was pushing out two executives, imposing a hiring freeze and slashing other expenses as the company prepares for an acquisition by Elon Musk.
  
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• N.J. teacher's aide charged after he's accused of 'viciously' assaulting 7-year-old student with autism

  12-05-2022 21:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  A teacher's aide at a north New Jersey school has been charged after he was accused of assaulting a 7-year-old student with autism.Corey D.
  
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• Texas AG Celebrates 'Big Win Against Big Tech' as Appeals Court Makes Key Ruling

  12-05-2022 21:02
  
  A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Texas can enforce its new law prohibiting social media companies from banning users based on their political beliefs.
  A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-sentence order granting Texas a stay of a December injunction from a federal judge that had suspended the law’s implementation.
  The judges, however, did not rule on the law’s constitutionality. Instead, their order permits the law to remain in effect
  
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• Woke NBA Jacks Up Ticket Prices During US Inflation Crisis as Fans Abandon Games: Report

  12-05-2022 20:38
  
  Even though there are fewer fans at the games and TV ratings are lower, the NBA is still pulling in more cash than it was pre-pandemic, thanks to higher ticket prices. But this is just not a sustainable option as inflation keeps damaging the country and people have less money to spend.
  The New York Post obtained internal NBA data that showed that the average income from ticket sales rose 10.2 percent compared to the 2018-2019 season, which was the last pre-pandemic season.
  That means fans are no
  
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• Woman Finds Box of Over 100 Mail-in Ballots on LA Street, Authorities Say It's Not Their Problem

  12-05-2022 19:28
  
  The left has insisted that recent elections were the most secure in history, but one woman’s experience proves that widespread mail-in balloting has created a weak and vulnerable link.
  Christina Repaci was walking her dog Saturday in an East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles when she made a startling discovery that highlights a massive risk to elections security.
  “I turned the corner and I just saw this box of envelopes, and it was a USPS box,” Repaci said, according to KTT
  
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• After Breaking Into Pet Rescue Van, Thief Pulls Gun on Pet Rescue Founder, Vandalizes Car

  12-05-2022 18:42
  
  Like many rescues, the Denver-based Red Fern Animal Rescue is run by a small group of dedicated volunteers. They don’t have extensive funds or an influx of donations, so much of the work they do is out-of-pocket and from the heart.
  Gregg Bartlett and his wife, Melissa, are the founders of the rescue and have a heart for needy dogs — especially abused and neglected dogs from overpopulated areas of Texas, which is the focus of their operation.
  But on Friday, the rescue suffered a massi
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Finland's leaders back NATO bid

  12-05-2022 18:36 via nbcnews.com
  
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• Video: Coast Guard Rescues Four Sailors Injured After Mast Broke During Storm

  12-05-2022 18:33
  
  On Sunday, four sailors were out on a 52-foot sailboat about 100 miles away from New York’s Long Island when they encountered a life-or-death situation.
  Rough water and huge waves threatened the craft until an especially large wave crashed over the boat, knocking off the mast and leaving the boat disabled.
  In the process, all four aboard the boat were injured and needed rescue, so a helicopter with the Cape Cod Coast Guard set out in their direction.
  “On the evening of May 8, ASCC wa
  
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• Analysis: Europe is running out of time to find alternatives to Russian gas

  12-05-2022 18:28 via cnn.com
  
  Europe was hit this week by yet another abrupt interruption to its supply of natural gas from Russia — the latest incident underscoring the vulnerability of the continent's energy supply.
  
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• Manhattan rents have never been this expensive

  12-05-2022 18:27 via cnn.com
  
  Manhattan rents just hit an all-time high -- again. For the third straight month, rents have reached new record highs.
  
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• Congresswoman Alleges Government Is Sending 'Pallets of Baby Formula to the Border' as Parents Scour Empty Shelves

  12-05-2022 18:16
  
  A Florida congresswoman says that at a time when America is suffering a shortage of baby formula, the administration of President Joe Biden is shipping vast quantities of it to the nation’s southern border to cater to illegal immigrants.
  “Empty shelves in America but full shelves at the border. Biden is sending pallets of baby formula to the border. This is what America last looks like,” Republican Rep. Kat Cammack wrote on Facebook.
  “They are sending pallets — pall
  
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• American Babies First

  12-05-2022 18:12
  
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  The post American Babies First appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Biden to speak with infant formula companies and announce steps to address shortage

  12-05-2022 18:03 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday will speak with companies that manufacture and sell baby formula as well as announce new actions to address supply shortages, a White House official said.
  
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• Biden mourns 1 million US Covid deaths as 'irreplaceable losses'

  12-05-2022 18:03 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday mourned 1 million American deaths from Covid-19, using the occasion to again urge Congress to pass additional funding to control the pandemic.
  
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• FAA suspends licenses of two pilots involved in failed Red Bull stunt

  12-05-2022 17:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Federal Aviation Administration revoked the licenses of two pilots for their "careless" and "reckless" conduct during a failed mid-air stunt last month.
  
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• Disney Actress and Husband Convicted of Child Sex Charges

  12-05-2022 17:25
  
  Actress Zara Phythian and her husband have been convicted in Britain in a trial that involved the sexual abuse of two underage girls.
  Phythian, 37, who appeared in the 2016 film “Doctor Strange,” was convicted of abusing a girl who was 13 when the three years of abuse began, according to the Times of London. In all, she was found guilty of 14 counts of abuse.
  Produced by the Disney-owned Marvel Studios, “Doctor Strange” is now available on Disney+.
  Phythian’s husban
  
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• Coastal Fire destroys at least 20 homes in Orange County, California, amid ongoing mega-drought

  12-05-2022 17:17 via cnn.com
  
  A rapidly moving brush fire destroyed at least 20 homes and forced the evacuation of nearly a thousand homes in a tony neighborhood in Orange County, California, on Wednesday in a foreboding sign of the new normal for the region.
  
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• Former Top Kamala Harris Staffer's New MSNBC Show Gets Off to a Dismal Start

  12-05-2022 17:08
  
  America reacted with a disinterested shrug this weekend as Symone Sanders, who fled the strife of Vice President Kamala Harris’s office, debuted her new show on MSNBC.
  Sanders had been a senior adviser and press secretary for Harris until she left the vice president’s office in December – part of a flood of staffers who left Harris behind.
  MSNBC signed her to a deal — much as it has outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki — with a show titled “Symone.&r
  
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• Federal Appeals Court Rules California Gun Restriction Is Unconstitutional

  12-05-2022 16:50
  
  On Wednesday, in a 2-1 ruling, a federal appeals court struck down the California law that prohibited the sale of semiautomatic firearms to anyone under 21 years old.
  The law came into effect on July 1, 2021, and also restricted the purchase of semiautomatic weapons to one per month, CNN reported.
  “America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army. Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their
  
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• Mortgage rates continue to climb

  12-05-2022 16:49 via cnn.com
  
  Mortgage rates moved higher this week, continuing an upward trend that has kept rates above 5% since mid-April.
  
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• Kissinger Weighs In on Ukraine War, Says We Are Now in a 'Totally New Era'

  12-05-2022 16:32
  
  As we enter the 11th week since Russia invaded Ukraine, the war is morphing into a tragic grind of death and destruction amid dwindling hopes of an imminent end to the conflict.
  Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believes the war President Vladimir Putin ignited could be the death knell of Russia’s reign as a global superpower.
  “The obvious question is … how long will this escalation continue and how much scope does he have for further escalation?” the 98-year-old
  
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• How a passenger with no flight experience landed a plane in a nosedive after the pilot passed out

  12-05-2022 16:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Air traffic controller Robert 'Bobby' Morgan explains how he guided passenger Darren Harrison to make a miracle landing in Florida with no experience.
  
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• The GOP culture wars are causing this unexpected political realignment

  12-05-2022 16:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Florida Gov. Ron Desantis and other MAGA-inspired cultural warriors in the GOP are pushing Big Business to the side of the Democratic Party.
  
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• Biden Attempts to Slam Trump with a New Nickname, But Trump Embraces It

  12-05-2022 15:54
  
  With the November midterm elections less than six months away, President Joe Biden is continuing his spree of attacks on the MAGA movement and former President Donald Trump
  “Under my predecessor, the great MAGA king, the deficit increased every single year he was president,” Biden said Wednesday at a meeting of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Chicago.Biden refers to Trump as “the great MAGA king.” pic.twitter.com/tkONV6dbxf
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• Ashley Judd speaks out about her mother Naomi's suicide in new interview

  12-05-2022 15:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ashley Judd spoke out about the death of her mother, Naomi Judd, in a new interview Thursday.
  
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• As water runs short in California, commission will vote on whether to allow another costly desalination plant

  12-05-2022 15:50 via cnn.com
  
  As California battles a historic drought and a water crisis looms, the state's coastline protection agency is poised to vote Thursday on whether it will allow a $1.4 billion desalinization plant in Huntington Beach that would convert ocean water into municipal water for Orange County residents.
  
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• Washington Post Publishes Call to Rename Historic American University, But There's One Big Problem

  12-05-2022 15:41
  
  Donald Trump was right again. As early as 2017, when he was president, he told us leftists would come after commemorations to America’s Founding Fathers.
  On Monday, The Washington Post published a radical article demanding that George Washington University be renamed because of presumed racism.
  While it was happy to distribute a smear of the D.C. college, the Post didn’t seem to notice the same name emblazoned on its own masthead — or the name of the place where it is headquart
  
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• Justices to meet for 1st time since leak of draft Roe ruling

  12-05-2022 15:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Supreme Court justices gather for their first meeting since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade and curtail abortion rights in about half the states.
  
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• Another key inflation measure slowed in April

  12-05-2022 15:19 via cnn.com
  
  Economists and investors are hopeful that we're past the pandemic inflation peak, as another key price index showed a slower increase in April.
  
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• Republican senator’s push to arrest abortion protesters meets GOP resistance

  12-05-2022 15:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  GOP Sen. Tom Cotton wants the abortion-rights protesters outside the homes of Supreme Court justices to be arrested and prosecuted by the Justice Department.
  
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• Some parents now want e-reader apps banned – and they're getting results

  12-05-2022 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  E-reader apps that expand access to books for students are now under fire by conservative parents in a culture war over book bans in schools.
  
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• As water runs short in California, commission will vote on whether to allow another costly desalinization plant

  12-05-2022 14:59 via cnn.com
  
  As California battles a historic drought and a water crisis looms, the state's coastline protection agency is poised to vote Thursday on whether it will allow a $1.4 billion desalinization plant in Huntington Beach that would convert ocean water into municipal water for Orange County residents.
  
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• US Producer Prices Surge Upward, Signaling More Pain Is Coming for Americans

  12-05-2022 14:58
  
  U.S. producer prices soared 11 percent in April from a year earlier, a hefty gain that indicates high inflation will remain a burden for consumers and businesses in the months ahead.
  The Labor Department said Thursday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — climbed 0.5 percent in April from March. That is a slowdown from the previous month, however, when it jumped 1.6 percent.
  The report included some signs that price increases are moder
  
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• Biden Administration Cancels Oil Lease Sales as Gas Prices Hit Another All-Time High

  12-05-2022 14:58
  
  The Biden administration has announced that it will not go forward with planned lease sales that would have opened up areas in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska for oil and natural gas exploration.
  The action comes as, on Thursday, AAA noted the third consecutive day in which gas prices set a record. The average price of a gallon of regular gas was $4.418 Thursday, according to AAA. The average price of diesel was $5.557 per gallon, also a record for the third straight day.
  According to The Hill, th
  
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• Panic in the crypto market has Janet Yellen's attention

  12-05-2022 14:30 via cnn.com
  
  Investors in stocks, bonds and commodities are all on edge right now. But in the market for cryptocurrencies, unease has morphed into full-on panic, catching the attention of regulators in Washington tasked with maintaining financial stability.
  
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