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• Cold Case Solved: Cops Crack Teen Girl Murder Mystery Over Decade Old

  25-05-2022 23:42
  
  A 17-year-old girl, who was once enjoying her spring break at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has been reported missing since April 25, 2009.
  That is, until now. More than a decade later, the body of Brittanee Drexel was discovered.
  The body was discovered May 11 in Georgetown County, near the original spring break vacation spot where Drexel was last seen, according to a May 16 press conference.
  Police used DNA testing and dental records to identify the remains, the New York Post reported.
  Drexel
  
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• Father of School Shooting Victim Has 3-Point Plan to Protect Schools - And It Doesn't Involve Banning Guns

  25-05-2022 23:28
  
  Andrew Pollack — the father of Meadow Pollack, who was murdered in the 2018 Parkland, Florida, high school shooting — said he was “so angry” after learning of Tuesday’s elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, because it could have been prevented.
  As Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have tried to use the tragedy that resulted in the deaths of 21 people to once again argue for more gun-control laws, Pollack countered that is not the answer.
  “We sho
  
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• Body of Boy, 6, Found in Trunk of Mother's Car During Traffic Stop After Family Warns He's in Danger

  25-05-2022 23:27
  
  A community in Minneapolis has been torn by grief and rage after police made a horrifying discovery last week.
  On Friday morning, police pulled over Julissa Thaler’s car with a flat tire and a smashed back window in Mound, Minnesota — but when they approached the vehicle, they spotted blood inside.
  As they continued to investigate, they found a shotgun shell, a spent casing and a bullet hole inside the car, according to USA Today.MOM CHARGED: The mother of 6-year-old Eli Hart has bee
  
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• Stacey Abrams Decries 'Voter Suppression' as Georgia Sees Record Turnout

  25-05-2022 23:18
  
  Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claimed during an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid that her state is experiencing voter suppression despite the record primary elections turnout.
  Abrams was an outspoken opponent of voter reform legislation passed last year in Georgia that, among other changes, required those applying for mail-in ballots to provide a driver’s license or voter ID number, WXIA-TV reported.
  Additionally, ballot drop boxes were moved inside polling
  
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• 'It's a Miracle': Dog Is Lone Survivor in Fatal Plane Crash, Vet Stunned by Her Condition

  25-05-2022 23:17
  
  On Sunday, two pilots and a dog took off from Erie Municipal Airport in Colorado.
  For reasons that are still being investigated and have not yet been made public, the plane went down in Broomfield, Colorado, shortly after taking off.
  Both pilots — 50-year-old Devon Williams and 59-year-old Lee Russell King — perished in the crash, according to KDVR-TV.
  Somehow, however, the dog, a 7-year-old pit bull named Chata, survived.Chata has a gash behind her ear and sore muscles, but is doing
  
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• 'WJ Live': Revealed - Attack on Texas School Was Not Killer's First Shooting, Police Say

  25-05-2022 22:58
  
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• Never Forget: Elizabeth Warren, Ilhan Omar, Others Tried to Get Cops Out of Schools to Make BLM Happy

  25-05-2022 22:38
  
  As the nation digests news about another mass shooting in a public school, the reaction of national Democrats has been politically predictable.
  There are the expected, strident calls for more gun control. The increasingly shrill demands from Democrats that the country disregard a core freedom guaranteed by the Constitution.
  And what’s equally predictable is the fact that some of the loudest voices among Democrats for gun control have a good deal less concern for student safety when it suit
  
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• Nurse Travels Cross-Country to Work at Children's Hospital, Then Thief Steals Her Camper and Dog

  25-05-2022 21:53
  
  When Mason Gray set out from her home in Florida to California, she was embarking on a new chapter of adventure with her best furry friend Bexley, an Australian shepherd, by her side.
  Headed for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Gray, a pediatric nurse, was looking to diversify her skill set and try the minimalist lifestyle after buying a camper and heading to the West Coast.
  But on Sunday morning, when she returned to her 1970s camper in Los Feliz after working an overnight shift, it w
  
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• Econocide

  25-05-2022 21:51
  
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• TX School Shooter Cut His Face with Knives, Creeped Out Co-Workers and Used BB Gun to Target Random People - Reports

  25-05-2022 21:50
  
  The 18-year-old who massacred 19 children and two adults Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, displayed a pattern of disturbing behaviors before carrying out the mass killing.
  Friends and family described gunman Salvador Rolando Ramos as someone from a dysfunctional home who suffered from childhood bullying that scarred him for the rest of his life as he descended a dark spiral of violence and aggressiveness over the years.
  “He was the nicest kid, the most shyest kid. He jus
  
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• Reality TV's Josh Duggar Sentenced to 12 Years in Child Porn Case

  25-05-2022 21:50
  
  Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was sentenced on Wednesday to about 12 1/2 years in prison after he was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography.
  Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks to give the maximum term of 20 years to Duggar — whose large family was the focus of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting.” They argued in a pre-sentencing court filing that Duggar has a “deep-seated, pervasive and violent sexual interest in children.”
  
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• Father of Parkland Victim Asks Why US Sends Billions to Other Countries But Won't Fund School Safety in US

  25-05-2022 21:50
  
  Andrew Pollack, who lost his daughter at the infamous Parkland school shooting in 2018, has a probing question on the tail of another mass school shooting, this one in Texas.
  After the terrible crime on Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 21 were murdered, Pollack brought up a salient point as everyone once again begins talking about school security.
  Pollack first had a few suggestions to improve security at schools.
  He suggested that we have armed guards, that schools only
  
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• What to know about the NRA's annual meeting in Houston

  25-05-2022 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  The National Rifle Association is set to hold its 2022 annual meeting in Houston on Friday, bringing together its top brass and several notable conservatives, including former President Donald Trump, for the first time in three years.
  
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• Brace for more rate hikes: Fed signals several half-percentage point hikes to come

  25-05-2022 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  The Federal Reserve means business when it comes to tightening monetary policy.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke Disrupts Abbott's Press Conference on School Shooting, Mayor Calls Him 'Sick Son of a B****'

  25-05-2022 21:31
  
  Beto O’Rourke disrupted a press conference in Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday in which state and local leaders responded to the tragic mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
  O’Rourke assailed Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, accusing him of “doing nothing.” O’Rourke is running for Texas governor.Beto interrupts pic.twitter.com/sh8wbJgQZh
  — Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) May 25, 2022The mayor of Uvalde responded to O’Rourke, rejecting his politicization of the t
  
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• Tucker Unleashes on Biden's School Shooting Speech: 'Desecrating the Memory of Recently Murdered Children'

  25-05-2022 21:10
  
  After the horrifying and heartbreaking shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, President Joe Biden is being criticized for his address following the tragedy.
  On Tuesday, a gunmen opened fire in a Texas elementary school and wreaked havoc on the lives of those in Uvalde, NBC News reported.
  After the shooting, Biden addressed the nation.
  “I had hoped when I became president I would not have to do this — again. Another massacre. Uvalde, Texas. An
  
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• House Sergeant at Arms believes lawmakers should not be allowed to carry guns inside the Capitol

  25-05-2022 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  House Sergeant at Arms William J. Walker, one of the top security officials on Capitol Hill, revealed that he does not believe lawmakers should be allowed to carry firearms in the US Capitol Complex, in a new letter provided exclusively to CNN.
  
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• Votes Are in for Georgia Primary - Now We Know if GOP Law Really Did Suppress Voter Turnout

  25-05-2022 19:29
  
  Georgia voters went to the polls Tuesday in the first test of an election law Democrats said would suppress voter turnout.
  Initial reports said turnout was high and problems were low.
  “Now we are seeing the hard evidence that as we all knew, the hysteria was never based on fact to begin with,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said, according to U.S. News and World Report.
  “It was a big lie, and the big lie is in the process of being disproven,” McConnell said, accor
  
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• Durham prosecutors rest case against Clinton campaign lawyer

  25-05-2022 19:26 via cnn.com
  
  Prosecutors working for special counsel John Durham rested their case Wednesday against Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann after seven days of testimony that relitigated some of the most controversial moments of the 2016 presidential race.
  
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• NBA Coach Demanded Police Removed from Schools During BLM Unrest, Now Shouts 'Do Something' After TX Shooting

  25-05-2022 19:07
  
  NBA coach Steve Kerr was denounced as a hypocrite Wednesday for demanding action in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, after two years ago insisting armed police had no place in schools.
  On Wednesday, 19 children and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School after a gunman entered the school and opened fire. The shooter was killed after a gun battle with responding law enforcement agencies.
  “When are we going to do something?” the Golden State Warriors
  
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• 'It Doesn't Exist' - Candace Owens Takes AOC Apart Over Outright Lie About School Shootings

  25-05-2022 19:04
  
  It took about a nanosecond for liberals to take aim at the gun lobby after news of the tragedy at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, broke on Tuesday.
  The gunman ended the lives of at least 19 children and two teachers before being gunned down himself by a Border Patrol agent.
  Few reactions, however, reached quite the level of vacuity as that from New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
  The ditsy, empty-headed Democratic socialist took to Twitter to attack conservatives for “supp
  
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• Get Woke, Go Broke: State Farm Exec Makes Panicked Promise as Trans Support Blows Up in Company's Face - Report

  25-05-2022 18:55
  
  Facing an uproar for its support of the transgender agenda, State Farm Insurance says it is dropping its alliance with a transgender group that wanted to supply indoctrination materials aimed at children to schools and libraries.
  State Farm had said it would support a group called GenderCool, which was targeting children as young as 5 with books titled “Being Transgender,” “Being Inclusive” and “Being Non-Binary.”
  On Monday, the conservative group Consumers&rs
  
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• Revealed: TX School Shooter Last Instagram Conversation - Absolutely Chilling

  25-05-2022 18:40
  
  The 18-year-old gunman behind the Tuesday shooting at a Texas elementary school sent disturbing messages to a female stranger before carrying out the massacre.
  “I’m about to,” Salvador Ramos messaged the user behind the Instagram handle @epnupues before heading to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where he would kill at least 19 children and two adults and wound several others, the New York Post reported.
  Instagram took down what is believed to be Ramos’ handle @sa
  
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• Biden's America: Californians Surrender Guns to Escape Punishing Gas Prices

  25-05-2022 18:32
  
  It’s almost like it’s intentional.
  Residents of Sacramento, California’s capital, are handing over their guns in return for $50 gas cards from their local police department.
  A gas card gun buyback transferred 134 guns from community members to the Sacramento Police Department, according to a department news release Sunday.
  More than 100 people participated in the deal.
  Some of the weapons violated California’s draconian gun laws, while others appear to have been completel
  
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• WATCH: Pioneer Trans Man Defies Current Trans Agenda, Warns Parents Everywhere

  25-05-2022 18:16
  
  Even a pioneering transgender activist thinks the modern trans movement has gone too far with transitioning children, warning parents of the dangers of therapies and the laxity of care in an interview with Fox News.
  Buck Angel, a woman who says she never felt female and began transitioning 30 years ago, told the network that when she began undergoing procedures, there were gatekeepers to ensure an individual was stable and certain about their gender identity.
  She then called the current system a
  
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• Tears for Uvalde, Texas

  25-05-2022 17:51
  
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• Justice: American All-Star Teaches Brutal Lesson to Spoiled Tennis Pro Who Gave up US Citizenship

  25-05-2022 17:48
  
  Last year, Naomi Osaka was the darling of the liberal media for withdrawing from the French Open because she refused to meet with the media. At this year’s French Open, happily, the decision to exit was made for her on Monday.
  Osaka — tennis’ face of left-wing activism, a four-time major winner who renounced her American citizenship to join the Japanese team for the Tokyo Olympics — was bounced in straight sets in the first round by 20-year-old American Amanda Anisimova,
  
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• Wendy's puts up the 'for sale' sign as costs rise

  25-05-2022 17:35 via cnn.com
  
  Wendy's may be up for sale.
  
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• Wendy's puts up a 'for sale' sign as costs rise

  25-05-2022 17:35 via cnn.com
  
  Wendy's may be up for sale.
  
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• TX School Gunman Killed Hero Girl as She Tried to Dial 911, Killed 19 4th-Graders All in Same Classroom

  25-05-2022 17:17
  
  As death stared Amerie Jo Garza in the face Tuesday, the 10-year-old tried to call for help — and became one of 19 children in her fourth-grade class to die.
  All of the children killed in Tuesday’s attack were in the same fourth-grade class at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, authorities said, according to The Associated Press.
  The shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was killed in a gun battle after law enforcement broke into the classroom.
  In an interview with The Daily Bea
  
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• New Numbers Show How High Gas Prices Skyrocketed Since Biden Began 'Major Effort' to Lower Them

  25-05-2022 17:10
  
  President Joe Biden’s plan to keep gas prices down seems to be failing as the nationwide average gas price has risen by 35 percent since he announced the program.
  “We’re launching a major effort to moderate the price of oil,” Biden said in a Nov. 23, 2021, address to the nation, according to the White House transcript. “An effort that will span the globe in its reach, and ultimately reach your corner gas station, God willing.
  “I’ve worked hard these past
  
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• Kamala Harris Lets Out Trademark Cackle After Supremely Awkward 'Let's Applaud!' Moment Mars Speech

  25-05-2022 17:02
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris is one of the most prominent examples of the Biden administration’s ineptness.
  It’s part of a politician’s basic skillset to speak in front of audiences. Harris can’t perform even that basic function.
  At a May 20 event in Virginia, Harris displayed a lack of leadership, misread her audience and lost the ability to manage her own performance — all at once. Harris punctuated the flub with misplaced and awkward laughter.
  In other words, it
  
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• Results: Marjorie Taylor Greene Wallops Primary Challengers, Wins 5x the Votes Required for a Landslide Victory

  25-05-2022 16:52
  
  Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia easily won her GOP primary Tuesday.
  The conservative firebrand, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, received 72,096 votes, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  Second place went to Jennifer Strahan with 17,571.
  Greene’s 70 percent of the votes against Strahan’s 17 percent represents five times the 10 percent level many political commentators use to describe a landslide.
  She also easily surpassed the 50 percent
  
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• Watch: Kellyanne Conway Takes On Turncoat Trump WH Official on 'The View'

  25-05-2022 16:11
  
  On Tuesday, there were two former Trump administration officials on “The View.” They couldn’t have been more different.
  One was former presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, who was promoting her new book. She’s never apologized for her role in the administration or for running Trump’s 2016 campaign.
  The other was Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former director of strategic communications in the Trump White House who has prostrated herself in front of the mainstream media
  
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• A Florida class president couldn't discuss being gay in high school graduation speech -- so he talked about his curly hair

  25-05-2022 16:06 via cnn.com
  
  The class president at a Florida high school says he wasn't allowed to share his experience as a gay student in his graduation speech or how the state's so-called "Don't Say Gay" law will affect students like him, so he talked about something else that makes him a little different from his classmates -- his curly hair.
  
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• Revealed: Attack on Texas School Was Not Killer's First Shooting, Police Say

  25-05-2022 16:03
  
  When Salvador Ramos reached Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, he had already shot someone, according to police.
  Authorities said that in addition to the 19 children and one adult shot to death there, the 18-year-old had shot and wounded his grandmother, according to KENS-TV in San Antonio.
  They said Ramos fled that scene and eventually crashed his car at the elementary school, The Associated Press reported.
  While some reports indicated the grandmother had died, others, includi
  
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• Alert: N. Korea Makes Massive Nuclear Move as Weak Biden Returns to US

  25-05-2022 15:07
  
  On Saturday, during his just-concluded Asian trip, President Joe Biden told South Korean leaders he was stepping up deterrence against North Korea.
  Four days later, as Biden returned to the U.S., North Korea launched what experts say is an intercontinental ballistic missile with a potential range that would cover much of the United States, according to The New York Times.
  The ICBM tested was accompanied by two other missile tests that are not thought to involve ICBMs, according to CNN. One was a
  
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• Who was George Floyd? New book captures full scope of his life and family's legacy

  25-05-2022 14:45 via cnn.com
  
  George Floyd. For the last two years, his name has been echoed across the nation from the streets of Minneapolis where protesters marched, to the halls of corporate America where major brands publicly denounced racism. His name is a symbol for the racial equality fight, and a rallying cry for justice and an end to police brutality against Black people. But who was the 46-year-old father?
  
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• Opinion: The US solar panel industry is on the verge of collapsing. Here's how to prevent it

  25-05-2022 14:27 via cnn.com
  
  In March, the US Department of Commerce opened an investigation to determine if four countries that supply the US with solar panels — Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam — have been using components made in China that should be subject to US tariffs. If the Commerce Department finds that to be the case, then the solar panels these four countries sell in the US could be subject to retroactive tariffs, which in turn would cause prices here in the US to spike.
  
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• Herschel Walker and the record-setting year for Black Republicans

  25-05-2022 14:25 via cnn.com
  
  It's been a record-setting year for the Republican Party, which is fielding 81 Black candidates in the 2022 primaries, according to the National Republican Congressional Committee.
  
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• Ahead of hearing on formula shortage, House committee lays out timeline of supply struggles

  25-05-2022 14:20 via cnn.com
  
  Congressional leaders will press baby formula manufacturers and government regulators at a hearing Wednesday in their efforts to find out what happened to the US baby formula supply and why it's taking so long to restock store shelves.
  
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• Hero Border Patrol Agent Raced to Engage, Neutralize Uvalde School Shooter

  25-05-2022 14:01
  
  Amid the unspeakable tragedy of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting on Tuesday, the courage of law enforcement and federal agents who responded to the scene stands out.
  But one Border Patrol agent from an elite unit was the man who brought down the gunman at Robb Elementary School, according to Fox News’ Bill Melugin.NEW: Border Patrol sources tell me an elite BORTAC Border Patrol agent is believed to have shot and killed the gunman at Robb Elementary School today. I’m told he entered
  
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• Majority of Americans say they disapprove of the Supreme Court, poll shows

  25-05-2022 12:09 via cnn.com
  
  A majority of Americans -- 54% -- now say they disapprove of the job the Supreme Court is doing following the leak of the draft opinion showing the justices are poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a new poll released Wednesday
  
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• Georgia's Warnock and Walker will face off in key US Senate race, CNN projects

  25-05-2022 03:52 via cnn.com
  
  Georgia Republicans have nominated former football star Herschel Walker to take on Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, CNN projects, in what's expected to be one of the most important US Senate races of the 2022 midterm elections.
  
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• Dogs Attack Boy on Way to School Bus, Owner Refuses to Turn Them Over: 'Tell the Family I'm Sorry'

  25-05-2022 02:56
  
  On May 11, six-year-old Abanoub Zakaria was on his way to the school bus stop with his mother when a neighbor’s dogs got loose.
  The two had barely left their home in Henrico County, Virginia, when two large rottweilers came barreling their way.
  First, the dogs investigated a different student walking along the street, circling before running toward Abanoub and his mother.
  As the dogs approached, Abanoub separated from his mother for a moment, and both screamed. The dogs saw their opportuni
  
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• Op-Ed: With Your Help, Israel Will Outlast These Barbaric Terrorist Attacks

  25-05-2022 02:05
  
  While the world is focused on the devastating war and horrifying civilian casualties in Ukraine, Hamas and other violent terrorists have seized the moment to inflict harm on innocent civilians in Israel in a new wave of terror.
  As Israelis go about our business, we are subjected to the most heinous acts of terror on a weekly and often daily basis. Stabbings, car rammings, ax attacks and shootings have become common this year, even during our Independence Day celebrations. Two weeks ago, 16 child
  
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• Op-Ed: While the World Watches Ukraine, Israel Is Subjected to Heinous Terror Attacks Weekly and Often Daily

  25-05-2022 02:05
  
  While the world is focused on the devastating war and horrifying civilian casualties in Ukraine, Hamas and other violent terrorists have seized the moment to inflict harm on innocent civilians in Israel in a new wave of terror.
  As Israelis go about our business, we are subjected to the most heinous acts of terror on a weekly and often daily basis. Stabbings, car rammings, ax attacks and shootings have become common this year, even during our Independence Day celebrations. Two weeks ago, 16 child
  
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• Op-Ed: If Abortion Is Good for the Economy, Why Did the Global Economy Explode After the Baby Boom?

  25-05-2022 01:35
  
  Pro-abortionists tend to see pregnancy as something like a mole to be removed at the discretion of the mother, even though a man is not involved in forming a mole and the mole can never live an independent life.
  With no moral component, the argument devolves into a discussion of whether new human life is worth the inconvenience to the mother.
  Janet Yellen, secretary of the Treasury, has decided to wade into the emotionally tangled abortion argument with a novel moral-free view. According to her,
  
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• Watch: Joe Rogan Literally Gasps as He Learns About Thomas Sowell's Teaching on 'Black Rednecks and White Liberals'

  25-05-2022 01:13
  
  If you haven’t heard of Thomas Sowell, consider this your very brief introduction to a truly great mind and scholar.
  Sowell has long been famous among certain conservative groups and thinkers. But his relevance and popularity are on the rise again as new mainstream influencers such as Joe Rogan are discovering his work.
  Sowell is an economist, historian, social theorist and senior fellow at Stanford University. He has long been known for his common-sensical and researched views — par
  
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• Indiana lawmakers override GOP governor's veto to enact anti-trans sports ban

  25-05-2022 01:08 via cnn.com
  
  Indiana banned transgender women and girls from competing on public school sports teams consistent with their gender after the state's Republican-led legislature voted Tuesday to override a veto issued earlier this year by their GOP governor in order to enact the controversial law.
  
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