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• California governor pleads for more water conservation, warns of mandatory statewide restrictions

  23-05-2022 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  As California stretches into its third year of drought, Gov. Gavin Newsom is warning local officials that more needs to be done to save water, and to make sure all residents realize how urgent the crisis is.
  
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• Gen. Flynn Exclusive: I Visited the Border and Saw What Biden Is Prepping - Resist We Must, Resist We Will

  23-05-2022 23:37
  
  Late Friday afternoon, Americans were relieved to learn that a Trump-appointed judge in Louisiana’s Western District enjoined the Biden administration’s most recent plan to further fling open the nation’s borders. Biden’s Center for Disease Control ordered the rescission of the Trump policy established in March 2020, which gave border officers additional power to reject immigrants for COVID-19-related public health reasons. Now, Biden’s CDC reversal, scheduled for M
  
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• At This Point, Biden Is the Least-Popular President Since World War II

  23-05-2022 23:30
  
  After nearly a year-and-a-half in office, President Joe Biden has become historically unpopular.
  According to FiveThirtyEight’s daily polling average, only 41 percent approved of Biden on Monday, his 489th day in the White House. A whopping 54.6 percent disapproved.
  Few past presidents have seen such wide disapproval.
  In fact, Biden’s numbers are the worst since World War II, according to the FiveThirtyEight formula.
  Republican George W. Bush had a 72 percent approval rating on day 4
  
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• 'WJ Live': Biden Commits to War, White House Scrambles to Walk It Back

  23-05-2022 22:43
  
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• Texas showdown is clearest test of whether SCOTUS draft opinion will motivate voters

  23-05-2022 22:21 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Henry Cuellar, the long-time Laredo congressman backed by House leaders despite his status as the last Democratic opponent of abortion rights in the House, faces progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros for the third time Tuesday in a primary runoff in South Texas.
  
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• Joe and Hunter Biden Formally Placed on 'Black List,' Permanently Banned from Entering Foreign Nation

  23-05-2022 22:09
  
  Russia permanently banned President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, from entering the country, putting them on a “black list” of nearly 1,000 Americans released on Saturday.
  The list of 963 names includes both Democratic and Republican politicians and is a response to U.S. sanctions placed on Moscow because of its invasion of Ukraine, USA Today reported.
  The move also comes the same week the Senate passed and Biden signed into law a $40 billion military and humanitarian package
  
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• 'Absolutely a Miracle': Rescue After Teen Falls Off 50-Foot Waterfall, Gets Wedged Between Rocks

  23-05-2022 21:16
  
  For many lovers of nature, the thrill of the hunt is in reaching little-known attractions and pitting themselves against difficult terrain.
  And once they get there, victory is often not complete until they can get a photo of their accomplishment.
  Sometimes, however, that’s the most dangerous part of all.
  A 17-year-old hiker who made it to Raven Cliff Falls in Georgia on Friday afternoon found herself in quite the predicament after reaching the top of the falls, trying to snap a picture and
  
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• Davos: Central bankers say cryptos aren't real currencies

  23-05-2022 20:08 via cnn.com
  
  Stablecoins are unstable. Cryptocurrencies don't act like currency. Does digital money ever stand a chance of winning the establishment's embrace?
  
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• Latest maps show how voting power has shifted in 5 states headed to the polls today

  23-05-2022 19:44 via cnn.com
  
  Georgia | Texas | Alabama | Arkansas | Minnesota
  
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• Every decade, states redraw congressional boundaries. Here's how redistricting could shift voting power in 5 states headed to polls

  23-05-2022 19:44 via cnn.com
  
  Texas | Alabama | Arkansas | Minnesota
  
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• Trump Shares a Post on a New American Civil War: 'The Enemy Comes from Within'

  23-05-2022 19:31
  
  Former President Donald Trump doesn’t have to be on the largest social media platforms to cause a big stir.
  On the Truth Social platform he launched in February, the country’s 45th president reshared a post that included a comment from the president of El Salvador, highlighting how poisonous United States national politics have become under the Biden administration.
  And as usual when Trump spoke, the political world was listening.
  As Business Insider reported, Trump reposted a commen
  
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• Doomsday Machine

  23-05-2022 19:29
  
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• Thanks to Biden's Idiocy We're an Advanced Country That Can't Make Enough Baby Formula: Mark Levin

  23-05-2022 19:25
  
  Almost two years ago now, one of the most truculent, frequently combative leftists on my Facebook friends list spent about two weeks whooping it up on social media in ALL-CAPS FASHION!!! and promising to make the next few years blisteringly, exquisitely painful for all the Trump voters out there — who, after being jabbed and being perma-masked, would be permanently ostracized from political good company.
  As you can imagine, this individual and I don’t talk much directly. I haven&rsqu
  
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• Experts Issue a Warning as Biden Eyes Draining Nation's Emergency Heating Oil Stockpile

  23-05-2022 18:33
  
  President Joe Biden is mulling taking action to release federal diesel stockpiles in an attempt to curb the worsening supply shortage of the key fuel in New England, CNN reported Monday.
  Biden recently asked officials to begin preparing a plan to order a release of fuel from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve — a government stockpile of ultra-low sulfur diesel last tapped in 2012 during Hurricane Sandy — a senior administration official told CNN. The move reportedly reflected the
  
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• Monkeypox Being Identified in New State, Authorities Rushing to Confirm Point of Infection

  23-05-2022 18:31
  
  The third reported case of monkeypox in the United States has been discovered in Florida, officials said Sunday.
  The individual with presumptive monkeypox is in Broward County, the Florida Department of Health in Broward County said in a news release Sunday, according to ABC News.
  Previously, a Massachusetts man and an individual from New York City had become infected with the viral disease, which occurs mostly in central and western Africa.
  Officials said the Broward County case is related to i
  
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• Witnesses Describe Suspect's Odd Behavior Before the Unthinkable Happens on NYC Subway

  23-05-2022 18:25
  
  Police searching for an unidentified man who shot and killed another passenger on a moving New York City subway train asked for the public’s help Monday.
  “We need all eyes on this,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell tweeted. She posted two surveillance camera photographs of the unidentified suspect, a burly man dressed in a hoodie on a hot day.We need all eyes on this.@NYPDDetectives need your help identifying & locating this man who is wanted for homicide in the tragic, se
  
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• Bill Would Legalize Indoor 'Injection Sites' for Drug Addicts

  23-05-2022 18:18
  
  California lawmakers are debating a bill that would allow people to use illegal drugs in state-sanctioned sites.
  SB-57, introduced by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener in December 2020, would allow for supervised spaces where people could use illegal drugs with sterile equipment and receive emergency care if necessary.
  The “supervised injection sites” would be designed to prevent overdoses and give a space for drug use indoors rather than on the sidewalk, Wiener said, according to N
  
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• CNN's Dana Bash Reminds Viewers What Lefties Really Believe: Better to Kill Children Than Let Them Grow Up Poor

  23-05-2022 18:03
  
  CNN’s Dana Bash wants you to remember a very important feature of Roe v. Wade: It keeps poor kids from being born.
  On Sunday, Bash was interviewing Arkansas GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson on “State of the Union” about a law he signed in 2019 that would ban abortion if Roe v. Wade was overturned, including only an exception for the life of the mother.
  (As the Supreme Court nears its decision on a case that could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade, The Western Journal will be providing th
  
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• T-Mobile and AT&T are Wall Street bright spots; Verizon struggles

  23-05-2022 17:47 via cnn.com
  
  Inflation concerns have made it a brutal year for stocks, but wireless service is one area where prices aren't rising much — and the sector has been a bright spot on Wall Street.
  
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• T-Mobile and AT&T are Wall Street bright spots, but Verizon is struggling

  23-05-2022 17:47 via cnn.com
  
  Inflation concerns have made it a brutal year for stocks, but wireless service is one area where prices aren't rising much — and the sector has been a bright spot on Wall Street.
  
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• This Music Is So Menacing That NY Senate Passed Bill Preventing Lyrics from Being Used as Evidence

  23-05-2022 17:39
  
  While lawmakers ignore the terrifying crime waves roiling blue state New York, they took time to pass an inane bill that bars prosecutors from using rappers’ violent lyrics as evidence in rappers’ criminal trials.
  On Tuesday, the Democrat-majority New York Senate passed S7527 on a vote of 38-23.
  The House version of the legislation remains in committee.
  The Senate bill “limits the admissibility of evidence of a defendant’s creative or artistic expression against such defe
  
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• Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled sexual abuse allegations, report says

  23-05-2022 17:39 via cnn.com
  
  Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) mishandled allegations of sexual abuse, intimidated victims and their advocates, and resisted attempts at reform over the course of two decades, according to an explosive report released Sunday by a third-party firm.
  
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• Rubio Accuses Google of Directly Influencing Elections, Censoring Majority of Emails to His Supporters

  23-05-2022 17:03
  
  Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida says Google is putting its weight against him in the 2022 midterms.
  In a Twitter post Saturday, Rubio charged that his campaign’s emails are being blocked from reaching those who want to receive them.
  While the Democratic field in the Florida Senate primary includes eight contenders, Rubio appeared to highlight the campaign of Florida Democratic Rep. Val Demings, who is seeking the nomination to challenge him.
  “Marco Rubio for Senate is in 
  
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• NYPD releases photos of suspect in fatal shooting on subway

  23-05-2022 16:54 via cnn.com
  
  The New York City Police Department released two photos Monday of a suspect who is wanted for homicide in the fatal, unprovoked shooting on Sunday of a 48-year-old man on the subway.
  
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• Goldman Sachs CEO calls subway shooting of employee a 'senseless tragedy'

  23-05-2022 16:53 via cnn.com
  
  Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said he's "devastated" about the shooting Sunday on a New York City subway train that left one of his employees dead.
  
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• Monkeypox Outbreaks Being Linked to LGBT Pride Parade, Fetish Festival

  23-05-2022 16:19
  
  On the heels of news that a gay fetish event in Antwerp helped spread the monkeypox virus in Belgium, officials are homing in on an LGBT event in Spain as a potential superspreader event for the disease.
  The Gran Canarian pride festival was attended by about 80,000, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. Maspalomas Pride was held from May 5 to May 15.
  “Among the 30 or so diagnosed in Madrid, there are several who attended the event, although it is not yet possible to know if one of them is pati
  
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• How the new congressional map shifts voting power in Georgia

  23-05-2022 16:09 via cnn.com
  
  Texas | Alabama | Arkansas | Minnesota
  
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• Stacey Abrams Tells Georgians She's Running to Be Governor of 'Worst State in the Country'

  23-05-2022 15:42
  
  We’re pretty used to Democrats telling us — as New York’s Andrew Cuomo did back when he was better known for being a governor than a creepy old man who killed thousands of nursing home patients with a stroke of a pen — that America “was never that great.”
  They might not use precisely those words, but the message is clear: Don’t talk about making America great again, because it never even was.
  It takes a special kind of talent, however, to extrapolate thi
  
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• Fentanyl Is Killing in Record Numbers - Here's How Many Dealers San Fran's Leftist DA Says He's Convicted

  23-05-2022 15:09
  
  Drug overdoses reached a record high in 2021, with more than 107,000 Americans dead, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As NBC News noted in a report this month, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl drove much of the rise in fatalities.
  There were nearly 500 fentanyl deaths alone in San Francisco in 2021, according to a report in last week’s San Francisco Standard.
  Yet the publication said the California city’s hard-left district attorney, Chesa Boudin, hadn&r
  
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• Biden says recession is not inevitable

  23-05-2022 15:06 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden said Monday he believes a recession in the US is not inevitable but acknowledged the economic pain that Americans are feeling amid high inflation, supply chain shortages and the geopolitical earthquake caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• The bull market minted millions of day traders. They're in for a rough ride

  23-05-2022 14:33 via cnn.com
  
  In early 2021, in the midst of speculative stock market euphoria, a pair of day traders went viral on TikTok with a video explaining their winning strategy.
  
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• Pfizer CEO Intros Horrifying Wireless 'Compliance' Device

  23-05-2022 14:29
  
  The “mark of the beast” as described in the New Testament’s Book of Revelation can be interpreted as a mark that will regulate trade. But even the Book of Revelation didn’t include a pill you could swallow that would allow the government to see if you have complied with your orders. This is beyond sinister.
  A clip of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla describing his company’s new technology to a group of elites at the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, has gone
  
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• Jill Biden uses her soft diplomacy to make the case for partnering with the US during three-country Latin America tour

  23-05-2022 14:07 via cnn.com
  
  First lady Jill Biden on Monday wraps a six-day, three-country tour of Latin America with an agenda that focused -- at times with subtlety and others with direct intent -- on why a partnership with the United States has its benefits.
  
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• Jill Biden uses her soft diplomacy during three-country Latin America tour

  23-05-2022 14:07 via cnn.com
  
  First lady Jill Biden on Monday wraps a six-day, three-country tour of Latin America with an agenda that focused -- at times with subtlety and others with direct intent -- on why a partnership with the United States has its benefits.
  
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• Residents in Buffalo community traumatized by mass shooting say they feel isolated

  23-05-2022 13:27 via cnn.com
  
  Julie Harwell and Lamont Thomas were treated like celebrities as they weaved through the makeshift marketplace in Buffalo, New York.
  
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• People Starting to Go Hungry as Food Prices Soar, Some Barely Able to Afford One Meal a Day

  23-05-2022 13:19
  
  On the cusp of summer, the cold, hard edge of hunger is hitting North America.
  At a time when experts are warning about global food shortages, a new report from Canada says individuals living on government benefits are being forced to live with less.
  Stephen Jones, 56, told the Toronto Globe and Mail that Canada’s inflation has forced him to change his shopping habits with an eye on price. Sometimes, even that is not enough.
  “Sometimes, by the end of the month, before we’re get
  
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• First on CNN: White House explores tapping emergency diesel reserve to ease price spike

  23-05-2022 12:55 via cnn.com
  
  The White House is considering an emergency declaration that would enable President Joe Biden to release diesel from a rarely used stockpile in a bid to address a major supply crunch, a senior White House official told CNN.
  
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• Didi's disastrous foray onto Wall Street is nearly over

  23-05-2022 11:20 via cnn.com
  
  Shareholders will vote Monday on Didi's plan to quit the New York Stock Exchange less than a year after China's largest ride-hailing firm launched its $4.4 billion initial public offering.
  
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• Biden: Monkeypox less worrying than Covid

  23-05-2022 10:14 via cnn.com
  
  US President Joe Biden said Monday he doesn't believe an outbreak of monkeypox is as risky as the Covid-19 pandemic, tempering comments he made a day earlier that people should be "concerned."
  
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• Biden says U.S. will defend Taiwan militarily if China invades

  23-05-2022 09:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States would be willing to intervene militarily if China were to invade the self-governing island of Taiwan.
  
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• Man fatally shot on New York subway train in unprovoked attack; suspect at large

  23-05-2022 07:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  A man died after he was shot on a New York City subway train Sunday, just one month after 10 people were shot and even more were injured on a subway train.
  
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• Republicans look to Georgia for path beyond Trump's 2020 grievances

  23-05-2022 06:04 via cnn.com
  
  Republican voters in Georgia's primary on Tuesday could move the party -- at least temporarily -- out from under former President Donald Trump's shadow.
  
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• Maryland Sen. Van Hollen released from hospital after stroke

  23-05-2022 04:42 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Sunday he's been released from the hospital after suffering a "minor stroke" last week.
  
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• A Wisconsin couple survived after a bear charged through their window and attacked them

  23-05-2022 03:04 via cnn.com
  
  A couple was attacked by a bear inside their northern Wisconsin home Friday night after the animal broke through their window, authorities said.
  
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• Report: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled clergy sex abuse victims

  23-05-2022 02:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination, stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two
  
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• Docs From 2021 Int'l Security Exercise Showed Monkeypox Bio Attack on May 15, 2022

  23-05-2022 01:18
  
  In March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a global security organization “focused on reducing nuclear and biological threats imperiling humanity,” joined by members of the Munich Security Conference, conducted an exercise which involved a lethal, global monkeypox pandemic.
  In a November 2021 report, NTI looked at the outbreak of the monkeypox virus in the fictional country of Brinia on May 15, 2022, which was the focus of the March exercise. Under their imaginary scenario, &
  
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• Military aircraft arrives in U.S. with baby formula from Europe amid shortage

  23-05-2022 00:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  The first flight of baby formula from Europe arrived in Indiana on Sunday as the White House tries to address a crushing shortage.
  
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• Teacher Arrested and Charged After Heinous Discovery Is Made on Her Phone

  23-05-2022 00:14
  
  A Virginia middle school teacher was arrested last week and charged with two counts of possession of child pornography, according to police.
  Kristine Knizner, 28, a general science teacher at Irving Middle School in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Springfield, allegedly had child sexual abuse content on her Snapchat account, Fairfax County police said, WJLA-TV reported.BREAKING NEWS: A Fairfax County middle school teacher has been arrested and charged with two felonies, accused of possessing chi
  
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