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• Paratrooper Crashes Into House During Training: Locals Spot Him Off-Course and Race to Help

  13-05-2022 23:39
  
  Locals in Fayetteville, North Carolina, were shaken up when two paratroopers from nearby Fort Bragg missed their drop zone and ended up crashing into a neighborhood.
  Special Forces paratroopers dropped from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter in windy conditions on Tuesday and were swept toward the residences.
  Locals saw the paratroopers and many concerned citizens, realizing they weren’t on course, tried to track the men as they careened earthward.
  One landed and sustained only minor injuries.
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• John Fetterman looks to November as primary day in Pennsylvania approaches

  13-05-2022 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  Can a Bernie Sanders-supporting advocate for legal marijuana and lower prison sentences flip a Republican Senate seat in Pennsylvania and help keep the Senate in Democratic hands?
  
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• 'WJ Live': Meet Democrats' Nightmare: A Candidate Who Can Help GOP Take Senate in Fall

  13-05-2022 23:06
  
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• First on CNN: Record-high gas prices slash US spending by $9 billion a month

  13-05-2022 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  Pain at the pump may be forcing Americans to cut spending elsewhere.
  
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• Elon Musk Has 1-Word Response to Biden's 'Minister of Truth's' Horrifying Plan for Twitter

  13-05-2022 22:47
  
  Though Republicans are trying to dismantle Biden’s “Disinformation Governance Board,” the head of the board, Nina Jankowicz, seems to have her own ideas about reining in free speech and Twitter, specifically.
  Most recently, the Post Millenial tweeted a video of a Zoom meeting in which Jankowicz aired some ideas about handling Twitter.
  But Elon Musk, who is in the midst of buying Twitter, had a word to say about her plan.
  In a recording of the Zoom meeting (presumably separate f
  
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• Biden dismisses the idea that his administration should have acted sooner on baby formula shortage

  13-05-2022 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Friday defended the White House's response to a months-long shortage of infant formula in the United States and dismissed the idea that his administration should have acted sooner, saying they "moved as quickly as a problem became apparent to us."
  
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• Netflix Goes Scorched Earth, Fires Warning Shot at Woke Employees with 'Culture Memo'

  13-05-2022 22:24
  
  Perhaps finally heeding the saying “Go woke, go broke,” streaming giant Netflix has updated its corporate culture with a memo taking a new direction on employees working to silence artistic expression.
  Many were outraged back in 2020 when Netflix added the movie “Cuties,” which sexualized preteen girls, and the service saw a large spike in cancellations during the backlash.
  The company has alienated consumers with other “woke” content, including “Q-Force
  
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• Red Alert: Ag Secretary Warns That '61,670 Farm Families in America Today... Are on the Brink'

  13-05-2022 22:10
  
  Farmers probably know better than anyone that “it” rolls downhill. A shoddy presidency tends to do the same.
  They’re one of the pillars of any country’s economy and under President Joe Biden’s ancient, liver-spotted thumb, farmers are getting pinched. Hard.
  In a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak expressed his concern for farmers.
  “There are 61,670 farm families in America today that are on the brink. 61,670
  
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• Delaware State University intends to file a formal DOJ complaint over traffic stop they believe was racially motivated

  13-05-2022 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  Delaware State University intends to file a formal complaint with the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division regarding allegations the women's lacrosse team was racially profiled during a traffic stop in Georgia.
  
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• Louisiana lawmakers pull back from classifying abortion as homicide

  13-05-2022 22:06 via cnn.com
  
  Louisiana House lawmakers on Thursday pared down a controversial bill that included language seeking to classify abortions as homicides and potentially allow for women to be criminally charged for terminating their pregnancies.
  
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• GOP looks to marginalize Cawthorn if he wins Tuesday primary

  13-05-2022 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  Republicans are publicly and privately rooting for Rep. Madison Cawthorn to lose his North Carolina primary race on Tuesday. But they're also preparing for an alternate scenario: how to deal with the embattled freshman if he returns to Congress after becoming a party pariah.
  
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• Biden administration scrambles to ease the burden of baby formula shortag

  13-05-2022 21:42 via cnn.com
  
  White House chief of staff Ron Klain told a member of Congress this week that the White House is "absolutely" and "strongly" considering having President Joe Biden invoke the Defense Production Act to address the urgent baby formula shortage problem plaguing the country.
  
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• 'Friday the 13th horror show:' Elon Musk says he put Twitter deal on hold

  13-05-2022 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk said he is putting his bid to acquire Twitter on hold, weeks after agreeing to take the company private in a $44 billion deal.
  
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• Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is on hold

  13-05-2022 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk said he is putting his bid to acquire Twitter on hold, weeks after agreeing to take the company private in a $44 billion deal.
  
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• Barnette's quick rise has Republicans reeling over potential upset and what it could mean for November

  13-05-2022 21:21 via cnn.com
  
  Republicans are watching conservative candidate Kathy Barnette's sudden rise in their party's upcoming Pennsylvania US Senate primary with a mix of unease, wonder and dread.
  
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• Musk's Twitter Deal Falling Apart? Don't Worry, It's All Part of His Plan

  13-05-2022 21:13
  
  The talk about Elon Musk’s Twitter deal just keeps buzzing as new developments hit the news cycle again and again.
  On Friday morning, things took another turn when the billionaire tweeted that his deal to buy the social media giant was “on hold.”
  That had some asking whether the deal will fall through — but it could be a tactical move on Musk’s part.
  His tweet said the deal was “temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts
  
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• Analysis: Jen Psaki signs off as White House press secretary: 'Thank you for making me better'

  13-05-2022 21:04 via cnn.com
  
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• CNN Gave Canned CNN+ Staffers 'Gift Boxes' After Mass Layoffs

  13-05-2022 20:50
  
  As if getting fired by CNN wasn’t bad enough.
  The establishment media network soothed over mass firings of CNN+ employees with patronizing ‘gift boxes,’ according to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal.
  Hundreds of new employees hired for the ambitious CNN streaming service were let go abruptly last month, with CNN+ shaping up as a ratings and financial disaster.
  Many of the same staffers had been left “aghast and furious” by the development, having left stab
  
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• A Rare Blood-Red 'Eclipse for the Americas' Will Hit the Sky This Weekend - Here's How to See It

  13-05-2022 20:35
  
  A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer-than-usual thrills for stargazers across North and South America.
  The celestial action will unfold Sunday night into early Monday morning, with the moon bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours, one of the longest totalities of the decade.
  It will be the first so-called blood moon in a year.
  Observers in the eastern half of North America and all of Centra
  
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• Here's What Happens to Amber Heard if Johnny Depp Wins Defamation Trial

  13-05-2022 20:28
  
  Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are embroiled in one of the most public and disturbing court battles in recent memory. While the trial is far from over, many people are already wondering what would happen to Heard if she loses.
  According to CBS News, Depp is suing Heard for libel over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in 2018 about alleged domestic violence against her. While it did not mention Depp by name, his team said the article strongly implicated him and cost him mult
  
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• Tell us: How have rising prices caused you to cut back, from groceries to vacation plans

  13-05-2022 20:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  With the rate of inflation at a nearly 40-year high, many people in the U.S. are faced with figuring out how to make their paychecks stretch a little further.
  
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• White House 'strongly' considering using Defense Production Act to address infant formula shortage, lawmaker says

  13-05-2022 20:18 via cnn.com
  
  White House chief of staff Ron Klain told a member of Congress this week that the White House is "absolutely" and "strongly" considering having President Joe Biden invoke the Defense Production Act to address the urgent baby formula shortage problem plaguing the country.
  
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• Covid-19 vaccine boosters are critical for older adults. Why aren't more people getting them?

  13-05-2022 20:01 via cnn.com
  
  Even as top U.S. health officials say it's time America learns to live with the coronavirus, a chorus of leading researchers say faulty messaging on booster shots has left millions of older people at serious risk.
  
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• Record high temperatures this weekend 'are difficult for our firefighters'

  13-05-2022 19:55 via cnn.com
  
  Record temperatures expected in the fire-ravaged southwestern states will continue to worsen the deepening drought, as well as make for tough fire-fighting conditions, as an intense heat wave will be felt across most of the southern tier of the US this weekend.
  
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• Father Killed on Freeway Trying to Find 'Favorite Toy' After Kid Threw It Out Car Window

  13-05-2022 19:55
  
  It’s a scenario many parents have personally experienced or considered: Your kid tosses a toy out the window while you’re driving.
  For many people, that would be the end of the toy, especially if the area was dangerous. But what if the toy was one of the child’s favorites — would you go back to search for it later?
  Joshua Thomas Taylor did, and he lost his life in the process.
  Taylor, 32, and his family were driving along I-65 south in Nashville, Tennessee, when the Metro
  
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• Mom Abandons Husband of 14 Years for Man She Just Met, Then New 'Soul Mate' Drops a Bomb

  13-05-2022 19:48
  
  An Australian woman has come forward with a new book revealing how she abandoned her husband for her “soul mate.”
  But the book doesn’t end the way she’d imagined.
  Amanda Trenfield’s “When A Soulmate Says No” reveals how she was rejected by her so-called soul mate just after leaving her marriage of 14 years for the man.
  In the salacious account, Trenfeld recalls falling head over heels for “Jason” at a dinner party, according to the New York P
  
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• Opinion: Trust in the Supreme Court is grievously wounded

  13-05-2022 19:36 via cnn.com
  
  Renowned Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. compared the peaceful ambiance of the nation's highest court to "the quiet of the storm center." As anyone who has experienced a hurricane knows, howling winds and pelting rain prevail until an eerie calm signals that the eye has arrived. Then the storm recommences when the center moves on.
  
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• Court Reinstates Texas Transgender Child Abuse Law That Leftists Hate

  13-05-2022 19:24
  
  Texas government officials can continue to investigate parents who transition their children to the opposite sex for possible child abuse, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Friday.
  The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services determined that child sex-change surgeries constituted child abuse in August 2021 upon prompting by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
  The DFPS began investigations of families for potential child abuse over treatments their supposedly transgender children were rece
  
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• Athlete Discovers Tiny Dots on Her Skin Are Sign of Deadly Cancer

  13-05-2022 19:18
  
  A 20-year-old college athlete got the shock of her life after being diagnosed with deadly blood cancer during a routine hospital visit to check out some faint freckles on her skin.
  Helaina Hillyard of Burlington, Iowa, first noticed several benign-looking dots on her arms and legs after returning home from basketball practice in November 2021, according to the New York Post.
  At first, Hillyard, a freshman at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, thought nothing of the splotches because they w
  
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• Video: Mom Spots Officers on the Road and Jumps Out of Car Screaming That Her Baby's Not Breathing

  13-05-2022 19:09
  
  Officers Christopher Charles and Luis Rodriguez of the Springfield Police Department in Massachusetts graduated from the city’s police academy just last year, but they already have made a big difference in their community.
  On Monday, they saved the life of a baby girl who was choking.
  The two officers were posted at an intersection where construction was going on. At about 2 p.m., a car pulled over, a woman got out, and she started screaming that her baby wasn’t breathing.
  It was a s
  
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• Good Samaritans Save Woman After She Experienced Medical Emergency and Her Car Moved Into Intersection

  13-05-2022 18:54
  
  A woman from West Palm Beach, Florida, has a lot to be thankful for after a group of mostly strangers saved her from a medical emergency that could have ended her life.
  On May 5, the woman, Laurie Rabyor, had been fasting for a medical procedure and taking medication for high blood pressure. As she was driving in midday traffic in Boynton Beach, she suddenly felt dizzy and tried to pull into a nearby gas station.
  “When I started to pull in is when I went out and started to convulse and hit
  
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• Robinhood soars after 30-year-old crypto billionaire takes stake

  13-05-2022 18:38 via cnn.com
  
  It's been a brutal year for Robinhood. The twin plunges of stocks and bitcoin have crushed the online brokerage's sales. The company also reported a loss and drop in users. The stock has plummeted 40% this year and Robinhood recently announced a big round of layoffs.
  
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• First on CNN: Record-high gas prices are eating into Americans' spending, JPMorgan says

  13-05-2022 18:32 via cnn.com
  
  Pain at the pump may be forcing Americans to cut spending elsewhere.
  
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• Cars, cash, wigs and guns: How the Alabama jailbreak came to a deadly end

  13-05-2022 18:21 via cnn.com
  
  The chaotic 11-day escape started with a simple lie.
  
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• Federal Judge Orders Fusion GPS to Hand Over Emails Involving Clinton Campaign Lawyer

  13-05-2022 18:16
  
  In a mixed result for special counsel John Durham, a federal judge has allowed Durham to see emails from the political research firm Fusion GPS that related to its efforts to smear former President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.
  However, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper will not allow him to use the emails in the upcoming trial of lawyer Michael Sussman, according to Fox News. That trial is scheduled to begin Monday.
  Sussmann was indicted last year for allegedly concealin
  
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• Hunger Games

  13-05-2022 18:15
  
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• Top Congressional Dem Calls Out Clarence Thomas, Says Justice Is a 'Hater'

  13-05-2022 17:54
  
  Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, one of the most powerful and prominent black Democrats in Congress, doesn’t like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. That much has been proved by prior events.
  That said, I don’t think racially tinged speeches in which Thomas is called a “hater” because of his legal opinions on issues like abortion, election integrity laws and gay marriage is going to help his cause much.
  Unfortunately, that advice comes a bit too late for Jeffries, th
  
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• Stephen Colbert Has COVID for 2nd Time in 3 Weeks Just After He Thanked Vaccine Efficacy

  13-05-2022 17:41
  
  A man who once featured dancing syringes on his show to encourage people to get COVID-19 vaccines has seemingly gotten the virus for the second time in three weeks.
  Stephen Colbert — host of CBS’ “The Late Show” and a man who, at age 58, still looks and acts like the villain in a young adult novel set at a prestigious boarding school — announced earlier this week that he was down with the virus yet again.
  This was in spite of the fact he praised vaccine and booster
  
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• Company Charged with Fraud and Conspiracy in Connection to Deadly Corn Plant Explosion

  13-05-2022 17:28
  
  A federal grand jury has charged a milling company with fraud and conspiracy in connection with an explosion at a Wisconsin corn plant that killed five workers in 2017, the Justice Department announced Friday.
  The grand jury returned an indictment earlier this week against Didion Milling Inc. and company leaders, court records indicate.
  The indictment alleges that between March 2013 and February 2018, the company failed to keep up with cleanings at the Cambria plant as required by federal regula
  
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• Secret Project Filmed by Comedy Legend Norm Macdonald Shortly Before His Death Set to Be Released

  13-05-2022 17:22
  
  Comedian Norm Macdonald will be returning to TV soon with all-new material that he had recorded two years ago after learning he might not have long to live.
  The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member died in September at the age of 61. He had been fighting a long and undisclosed battle against cancer.
  Macdonald’s health had been faltering the year before his death, which prompted him to prepare what amounts to a final one-hour show, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
  The co
  
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• Consumers are feeling worse about the economy again

  13-05-2022 17:04 via cnn.com
  
  Americans are feeling worse about the state of the economy again and it's all because of rampant inflation.
  
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• Mike Pence Makes Most Significant Break from Trump Yet with Endorsement Announcement

  13-05-2022 17:01
  
  Former Vice President Mike Pence will campaign with Georgia’s incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp the day before this month’s GOP primary in his most significant political break with former President Donald Trump to date.
  Kemp’s campaign announced Friday morning that Pence will headline a get-out-the-vote rally for Kemp on Monday, May 23, the day before the vote. That puts Pence in direct conflict with Trump-endorsed candidate David Perdue, who has been trailing in the polls.
  
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• Biden's 'Ministry of Truth' Head Says as a Verified Twitter User She Should 'Edit' Others Tweets

  13-05-2022 16:59
  
  Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson made a statement that sums up the Biden administration: “If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
  The quote uses men as a stand-in for humanity in general, as weak women are just as dangerous as weak men.
  President Joe Biden’s newly minted “minister of truth” Nina Jankowicz appears to be such a woman. She cannot tolerate the expression of an opinion with which she does no
  
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• Calvin Klein Rolls Out Pregnant Transgender 'Man' in Mother's Day Ad Campaign

  13-05-2022 16:23
  
  If you needed something special to celebrate on Mother’s Day, luxury clothing brand Calvin Klein had you covered.
  The company used the occasion Sunday to share a marketing campaign that included images of a pregnant “man.”
  Photos in the Calvin Klein post on Instagram featured a very pregnant Roberto Bete, a woman who identifies as a man and sports a beard, along with her partner, Erika Fernandes, a man who identifies as a woman, according to Brazil’s VivaBem.
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• Pence joins other high-profile Republicans to support Georgia's governor in primary fight against Trump-backed challenger

  13-05-2022 15:15 via cnn.com
  
  Former Vice President Mike Pence will rally support for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp as the Republican incumbent seeks to fend off a May 24 primary challenge from Donald Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue.
  
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• Mike Pence to campaign for Gov. Brian Kemp ahead of Georgia primary

  13-05-2022 15:15 via cnn.com
  
  Former Vice President Mike Pence will rally support for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp as the Republican incumbent seeks to fend off a May 24 primary challenge from Donald Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue.
  
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• Elon Musk Announces His Twitter Acquisition Is 'Temporarily on Hold' Pending Bot Investigation

  13-05-2022 15:14
  
  Elon Musk kicked off a frantic Friday the 13th for the tech and business worlds by announcing that his deal to acquire social media giant Twitter was being held up.
  “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” the billionaire tweeted.Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuu
  
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• House Dems Reveal Sick Agenda, Circulate Orwellian Memo Telling Reps What Language to Use About Abortion

  13-05-2022 14:51
  
  Now that the Supreme Court seems set to overturn Roe v. Wade when it rules on the constitutionality of a Mississippi abortion law in the next few weeks, the battle over the unborn has shifted to Congress — and a group of Democrats wants to redefine the terms of engagement.
  According to Politico, a caucus of pro-abortion Democrats circulated a memo Thursday encouraging its members to use different language when discussing the issue, including scuttling the “safe, legal and rare”
  
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• Trump struggles to keep control of his own MAGA movement

  13-05-2022 14:48 via cnn.com
  
  It's becoming the MAGA midterms -- with or without former President Donald Trump.
  
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• Analysis: Trump struggles to keep control of his own MAGA movement

  13-05-2022 14:48 via cnn.com
  
  It's becoming the MAGA midterms -- with or without former President Donald Trump.
  
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