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• Trump-Hating Robert De Niro Tries to Defend Biden but Only Ends Up Making Him Look Worse

  08-06-2022 23:57
  
  An Oscar-winning actor should be able to lie better.
  Hollywood celebrity Robert De Niro, the Tinseltown loudmouth who spent the Trump administration pretending he’s as tough as the characters he’s played on the screen, took to “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday to try to defend the current White House occupant.
  He ended up damning him instead.
  After host Colbert asked if De Niro was feeling better about the state of the country with President Joe Biden in off
  
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• Kyle Rittenhouse Goes on Tucker Carlson, Announces Total Nightmare for Media and Big Tech

  08-06-2022 23:34
  
  During an appearance Monday on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Kyle Rittenhouse and his attorney, Todd McMurty, had a message to send to the many establishment media hucksters who smeared his name.
  “We are going to make the media pay for what they did to me,” the 19-year-old Rittenhouse told Carlson.
  It won’t just be members of the media who will pay, however. According to both Rittenhouse and McMurty, the legal team will be zeroing in on some Big Tech pla
  
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• A man convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl nearly 38 years ago was executed in Arizona

  08-06-2022 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  An Arizona inmate convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl nearly 38 years ago was executed by lethal injection Wednesday morning, the state's attorney general announced in a news release.
  
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• Donald Trump and two adult children to be deposed by NY attorney general next month

  08-06-2022 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  Lawyers for former President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have reached an agreement for them to sit for depositions with the New York attorney general's office beginning July 15 unless a New York appeals court intervenes.
  
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• Jill Biden plays host at fraught diplomatic summit

  08-06-2022 23:18 via cnn.com
  
  First lady Jill Biden said last month as she wrapped a six-day trip to Latin America that she was not concerned about the threat of boycott from certain countries at the upcoming Summit of the Americas.
  
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• 'WJ Live': Biden Wants Your Guns and to Make You Drive an EV - That Would Be Disastrous

  08-06-2022 23:06
  
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• Video: GOP Candidate Puts BLM Protester on His Back After Things Get Physical at Republican Event

  08-06-2022 22:49
  
  Video from a Republican campaign event Saturday in Arizona appeared to show U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters helping put a man wearing a “Black Lives Matter” T-shirt on the ground.
  The meet-and-greet event with GOP candidates took place at the Continental Shopping Plaza in Green Valley, about 30 miles south of Tucson, according to the Green Valley News.
  Democrat Peter Jackson showed up at the event wearing a T-shirt that read, “Black Lives Matter More Than White Feelings, Ch
  
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• GM Official Bragged About Electric Car, Then Reporter Forced Her to Admit Where Charging Electricity Comes From

  08-06-2022 22:40
  
  The left has spent the last few months trying to shame Americans into buying electric vehicles.
  On Tuesday, Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat, bragged to colleagues during a Senate Finance Committee hearing about driving her electric car from her home state to Washington, D.C., unconcerned about the price at the pump. She said, “[I] drove it from Michigan to here this last weekend and went by every single gas station and it didn’t matter how high it was.”
  She was widely
  
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• Johnny Depp is Headed Back to Court - But Not for Amber Heard

  08-06-2022 22:24
  
  Right on the heels of winning his defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, Johnny Depp is heading back to court.
  This trial revolves around the alleged incident of Depp slugging a staffer on the set of “City of Lies,” Fox News reported.
  The trial is set to be held in Los Angeles in July, and Depp may have to testify in his own defense.
  In 2018, Depp was sued after a film crew member on the set of “City of Lies” claimed that the actor punched him, the Associated Pr
  
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• Matthew McConaughey understands what few Republican and Democratic leaders do

  08-06-2022 22:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  Matthew McConaughey pleading for lawmakers to reform gun laws after the Uvalde school shooting hit home in a way that no major politician has been able to do.
  
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• 6 members of Haiti Special Olympics soccer contingent missing, Florida authorities say

  08-06-2022 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  Six members of a Haitian Special Olympics contingent are missing, according to a news release from the Osceola County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Lia Thomas' Teammate Says School Pressured Athletes Into Silence: If 'You Say Anything Negative...Your Life Will Be Over'

  08-06-2022 21:55
  
  A former teammate of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas said the University of Pennsylvania relied on threats and bullying to keep the women’s team in line.
  The female swimmer appeared in The Daily Wire’s “What is a Woman?” documentary, in which commentator Matt Walsh goes on an “often comical, yet deeply disturbing journey, as he fearlessly questions the logic behind a gender ideology movement that has taken aim at women and children,” according to the film&rsquo
  
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• Chuck Schumer Accused of 'Clear Incitement of Violence' Following Arrest of Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin

  08-06-2022 21:41
  
  Following the arrest of an armed man outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, many people are pointing to 2020 comments from Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as a potential catalyst.
  According to CNBC, law-enforcement officers said Wednesday morning that a California man carrying a handgun, knife, pepper spray and burglary tools was arrested about one block away from Kavanaugh’s private residence in Maryland.
  After he was apprehended, he said his goal had b
  
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• Wall Street's top cop proposes massive changes to the stock market

  08-06-2022 20:57 via cnn.com
  
  The agency that oversees Wall Street has proposed major changes to the way millions of everyday investors buy and sell stocks. That could be bad news for so-called free-trading apps like Robinhood as well as the lesser known firms that underpin their business models.
  
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• 'Bewitched' statue in Salem, Massachusetts targeted by vandalism

  08-06-2022 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  The Salem witch trials may be long over, but at least one witch in Salem, Massachusetts, is still facing attacks.
  
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• New CNN Boss Hits Leftist Hosts with Major Bad News: It's Time to Update Those Resumes

  08-06-2022 20:18
  
  Even while the United States suffers under the Biden administration’s mismanagement, a rebellious quip is becoming truer all the time: “Get woke, go broke.” Former President Donald Trump even coined his own more scatological version of the gibe.
  Now the network stars of CNN, one of the establishment media’s citadels of wokeness, might be facing consequences for their reckless partisan agendas.
  Chris Licht, the network’s new president, is reviewing the performance of
  
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• First Time in History: All Patients in 100% Remission in Cancer Treatment Early Trial

  08-06-2022 19:45
  
  The medical community is abuzz over the results of a small but extremely promising experimental drug trial in which all 12 rectal cancer patients achieved remission within six months. The trial was conducted by oncologists at the revered Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
  The New York Times reported Sunday that cancer had “vanished” in each case. It was “undetectable by physical exam, endoscopy, PET scans or M.R.I. scans,” the outlet said.
  Following
  
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• Man Convicted of Child Abuse After Waitress Noticed Something Odd and Showed a Secret Note to Young Boy

  08-06-2022 19:25
  
  An Orange County, Florida, jury found a stepfather guilty of child abuse charges, Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Monique H. Worrell announced Monday.
  Thirty-six-year-old Timothy Lee Wilson awaits sentencing for false imprisonment of a child under the age of 13, three counts of aggravated child abuse with a weapon, four counts of aggravated child abuse and one count of child neglect, according to Worrel, WESH-TV reported.
  Wilson will receive his sentence on Aug. 19.
  Authorities were able t
  
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• Proof Gun Control Fails: Strict EU Country Reels After Supermarket Shooting

  08-06-2022 19:11
  
  In yet another reminder that sweeping gun control laws do not deter criminals, a disturbed gunman killed a woman and then himself at a supermarket in Germany in an apparent murder-suicide.
  The tragic incident took place on Monday in the small town of Treysa, according to a police report.
  Investigators said a 58-year-old man shot a 53-year-old woman in an Aldi store and then took his own life immediately afterward.
  There’s no evidence that any third parties were involved, and no one else wa
  
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• Forensic Expert Recovers 168,000 Deleted Files from Hunter Biden's Laptop: Report

  08-06-2022 18:51
  
  A new report issued Wednesday said that 168,000 deleted files from a copy of the hard drive of Hunter Biden’s former laptop computer have been recovered.
  The report by the Washington Examiner said the files relate to Hunter Biden’s activities in 2018 and early 2019.
  The Examiner report said Konstantinos “Gus” Dimitrelos, who it described as a former Secret Service agent, retrieved the files.
  “In order for user-created data — including personal photographs, ban
  
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• Former Democrat Who Turned Republican and Called Biden the 'Worst President' Ever Scores Decisive Election Victory

  08-06-2022 18:42
  
  Former Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, who has been very vocal in his criticism of President Joe Biden, beat several other Republican challengers in the congressional primary and won in a landslide.
  Van Drew has said that part of his success is due to those who believe, as he does, in “freedom,” “hard work” and obeying “the rule of law,” Fox News reported.
  These are not things that Van Drew has associated with the Biden administration.
  “Wors
  
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• Armed Man Who Allegedly Wanted to Kill Brett Kavanaugh Arrested Near Supreme Court Justice's Home

  08-06-2022 18:10
  
  Police arrested a man armed with a handgun, knife and pepper spray early Wednesday morning near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home.
  “At approximately 1:50 a.m. today, a man was arrested near Justice Kavanaugh’s residence. The man was armed and made threats against Justice Kavanaugh,” the Supreme Court confirmed in a Wednesday statement, CNBC reported
  “He was transported to Montgomery County Police 2nd District,” the Supreme Court said.
  Sourc
  
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• FBI Hit with $1 Billion Worth of Lawsuits from 90 Women, Including Olympic Gold Medalists

  08-06-2022 18:07
  
  High-profile female gymnasts who say the FBI’s bungling allowed a since-convicted sex abuser to prey on vulnerable girls for more than a year have filed a lawsuit against the FBI.
  The claims from more than 90 women total more than $1 billion, according to The New York Times.
  Those suing include Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and McKayla Maroney, national gymnastics medalist Maggie Nichols, former University of Michigan gymnast Samantha Roy and former gymnast Kaylee Lorin
  
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• Opinion: Black consumers like me want change — not Juneteenth-branded products

  08-06-2022 17:53 via cnn.com
  
  During a recent visit to Minneapolis, a colleague and I stopped by Cups Foods, the convenience store that served as the backdrop of George Floyd's murder. It was disheartening to see that, despite our national reckoning on racial justice, not much has changed over the past two years and, in a lot of ways, the surrounding streets looked exactly the same.
  
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• Illinois Now Allows Pregnant Minors to Undergo Abortions without Parents' Knowledge

  08-06-2022 17:39
  
  While attention was focused elsewhere last week, the repeal of an act in Illinois went into effect, allowing pregnant minors to procure an abortion without needing to notify their parents or guardians.
  The Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act, penned in 1995 and instituted in 2013, simply required pregnant, underage girls to inform their parents before going through with the abortion — though there were ways to get around that requirement through a judicial bypass.
  But since the Youth
  
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• Failing President Becomes Failing Grandfather: Biden Hasn't Provided Security for Endangered Grandchild - Report

  08-06-2022 17:39
  
  President Joe Biden is rarely shy to speak about his experiences as a grandfather. Yet a new report suggests his compassion does not extend to all of his grandchildren.
  According to an exclusive report from the U.K.’s Daily Mail, 31-year-old Lunden Roberts filed for a protection order from ex-fiance Princeton Foster for herself and her 3-year-old daughter, Navy Joan.
  Navy Joan was born in 2018 to Lunden Roberts and first son Hunter Biden. The Biden family has routinely avoided talking abou
  
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• Trump-Endorsed Candidates Appear to Notch Perfect Record on Busy Primary Day

  08-06-2022 17:28
  
  Although final results were not in early Wednesday, it appeared that former President Donald Trump would emerge with all 16 of the candidates he endorsed winning their Republican primaries.
  As noted by Politico, the list included some big names, including South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California. In all, seven states held primaries Tuesday night.
  Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who Trump appoin
  
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• Finally, an electric vehicle that makes financial sense

  08-06-2022 17:27 via cnn.com
  
  Gas prices that keep going up by the day have got a lot of people thinking about buying an electric vehicle. There is no question that electric vehicles cost much, much less to fuel than gasoline-powered models, especially with gas prices at around almost $5 a gallon on average, according to AAA.
  
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• An electric car finally makes financial sense

  08-06-2022 17:27 via cnn.com
  
  Gas prices that keep going up by the day have got a lot of people thinking about buying an electric vehicle. There is no question that electric vehicles cost much, much less to fuel than gasoline-powered models, especially with gas prices at around almost $5 a gallon on average, according to AAA.
  
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• Journalist Takes Road Trip in Electric Car, Spends More Time Charging Than Sleeping - Now Says Gas Smells So Sweet

  08-06-2022 17:19
  
  Electric vehicles are supposed to be the next big thing. So, why did one Wall Street Journal reporter, after taking a road trip with one, say that the fumes of expensive gasoline “never smelled so sweet”?
  In a piece published by the Journal on Friday, Rachel Wolfe described charging a Kia EV6 for more time than she spent sleeping during a trek from New Orleans to Chicago.
  Wolfe’s opening statement, which should serve as a portent to anyone who thinks the charging infrastructure
  
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• Exxon's stock is back from the dead

  08-06-2022 17:14 via cnn.com
  
  For years, ExxonMobil struggled to court investors as fears about the climate crisis and criticism of its business strategy kept would-be shareholders at bay. Now, the oil giant is staging a dramatic comeback.
  
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• Looking for a job? Watch out for these scams

  08-06-2022 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  The strong labor market has given us near record low unemployment, higher wages -- and an unfortunate uptick in the number of reports of job seekers getting scammed.
  
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• Amber Heard Responds to Johnny Depp's Social Media Post by Claiming 'Women's Rights Are Moving Backward'

  08-06-2022 17:10
  
  Having lost in a court of law, Amber Heard is taking her case to the court of public opinion.
  Heard emerged on the losing end of a high-profile court case involving ex-husband Johnny Depp. Heard had accused Depp of domestic abuse and physical violence, implying that Depp had abused her in a 2018 Washington Post article. Depp claimed that was defamation and sued.
  Although he may never collect the $15 million awarded by a jury, the trial was a vindication for Depp. Although the trial is over,
  
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• Conway: Same Two Issues Leading to '94 Red Wave Are at Top of Voters' Minds Now

  08-06-2022 17:06
  
  Former GOP pollster and 2016 Trump presidential campaign manager Kellyanne Conway says the same issues leading to the 1994 Republican Revolution are at the top of voter concerns now.
  “I think in 2022, if you’re a Democrat, reality bites because politics is often a game of perception,” Conway said on Fox News on Tuesday.
  Voters “know what they see, not what politicians say,” she explained.
  “In 1994, crime and the economy were the two most important issues going
  
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• Treasury bans Americans from buying Russian stocks and bonds

  08-06-2022 16:21 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration has issued new investment restrictions that prohibit Americans from buying Russian stocks and bonds.
  
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• Chinese hackers breach 'major' telecoms firms, US says

  08-06-2022 16:12 via cnn.com
  
  Chinese government-backed hackers have breached "major telecommunications companies," among a range of targets worldwide, by exploiting known software flaws in routers and other popular network networking gear, US security agencies warned Tuesday.
  
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• American Former Teacher Pleads Guilty to Training All-Female Islamic State Terrorist Unit in Syria

  08-06-2022 16:07
  
  This American turned her back on liberty and freedom.
  A Kansas-born former teacher pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization on Tuesday in a Virginia federal court, a felony that could land her 20 years in federal prison.
  The FBI and Department of Justice had sought Allison Fluke-Ekren’s arrest for seven years, according to The New York Times.
  The American citizen, now 42, converted to Islam and married a Turkish citizen in th
  
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• Thanks, Biden: National Gas Prices Surge 5 Cents in Just 24 Hours

  08-06-2022 16:05
  
  Thanks, Mr. President: Yet again, gas prices hit another dizzying record high on Tuesday.
  This time, data from the American Automobile Association showed the price for a gallon of regular gas surged 5 cents in just 24 hours nationally to hit a new peak (or valley, if you’re the one buying it) of $4.919.
  What’s more, the national average of a gallon of regular surged nearly 30 cents since a week ago and 10 cents between Saturday and Tuesday. A month ago, a gallon was more than 60 cent
  
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• White House warning of 'unacceptable tradeoffs' on Covid-19 response amid congressional inaction

  08-06-2022 16:00 via cnn.com
  
  The White House issued a new warning to Congress Wednesday on the continued urgent need for Covid-19 funding, highlighting new "unacceptable tradeoffs" as it reallocates and reprioritizes remaining funding toward new vaccines in the absence of congressional action.
  
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• Biles, Raisman and Maroney among victims seeking $1 billion from FBI over botched investigation

  08-06-2022 15:42 via cnn.com
  
  Attorneys for more than 90 women and girls who were sexually abused by disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar submitted claims for over $1 billion to the FBI, saying investigators could have ended Nassar's predation and protected other victims had they not mishandled the case.
  
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• ESPN Personality Rants Against 'Bigoted' Christian MLB Players Who Opted Out of Wearing LGBT Patch

  08-06-2022 15:31
  
  Tampa Bay Rays players who declined to wear special LGBT patches and caps as the team held a “pride month” event Saturday have been called bigots for acting out their Christian faith.
  Acting as a spokesman for the MLB players, Rays pitcher Jason Adam said they didn’t feel it was right for them to encourage the LGBT lifestyle, but they wanted to make it clear that “all are welcome and loved here.”Today, we wear our #Pride on our sleeves pic.twitter.com/bcOLJNhx6Y
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• Godless and Selfish: VP Harris Cuts God Completely Out of 'Faith' Speech, But Mentions Herself 21 Times

  08-06-2022 15:15
  
  When it comes to a faith-related speech and the first letter of reference to a specific individual is capitalized 21 times, you would think we were talking about “God.” To give Vice President Kamala Harris a very little bit of credit, it’s entirely possible she was — at least from her perspective.
  However, that’s not who Harris was referring to during the Monday speech at the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor in California before she had what was described as a
  
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• In Huge Setback for Soros, San Fran's Progressive DA Booted Out by Leftist City's Residents

  08-06-2022 13:35
  
  Voters in one of America’s most leftist cities sent a message Tuesday to progressive criminal justice reformers and their patron, billionaire financier George Soros: Enough is enough.
  After a campaign dominated by skyrocketing murder and burglary rates in the city, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was decisively recalled by voters. According to the Los Angeles Times, over 60 percent of ballots were cast to oust the DA, who eliminated cash bail, emptied jails and reportedly didn
  
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• Which Jurassic Park film has roared loudest at the ticket booth?

  08-06-2022 12:39 via cnn.com
  
  "Jurassic World: Dominion," the latest film in the Jurassic Park franchise, stomps into theaters this weekend. The sixth film in the dinosaurs-run-amok series could be one of the biggest of the summer — if not the entire year.
  
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• Credit Suisse warns of yet another loss

  08-06-2022 10:46 via cnn.com
  
  Credit Suisse warned on Wednesday of a likely group-wide second-quarter loss as volatility hits its investment bank, extending a losing streak stretching back to 2021.
  
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• China's BYD will supply EV batteries to 'good friend' Elon Musk 'very soon'

  08-06-2022 09:39 via cnn.com
  
  BYD, the Warren Buffett-backed Chinese electric carmaker, plans to supply batteries to Tesla "very soon," a senior executive from the company told a Chinese state-owned broadcaster.
  
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• Bass and Caruso advance to runoff

  08-06-2022 09:20 via cnn.com
  
  US Rep. Karen Bass, a longtime Democratic lawmaker who was on President Joe Biden's short list for a running mate during the 2020 campaign, could make history in California.
  
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• Skier Who Was China's Face of the Beijing Olympics Flips to Representing US Bid

  08-06-2022 07:52
  
  Eileen Gu, the California-born athlete who won two gold medals for China in freestyle skiing at the recent Beijing Olympics, has signed on to work for Salt Lake City’s bid for the 2030 or 2034 Winter Olympics.
  Tom Kelly, a spokesman for the bid committee, confirmed Gu’s participation to The Associated Press on Tuesday as an “athlete representative.” Gu made the announcement earlier at the Time100 Summit, calling herself an “ambassador.”
  “She is working w
  
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• Democratic Lawmaker 'Jokes' About Mandatory 'Drag Queen Story Time' for All K-12 Students

  08-06-2022 02:49
  
  A California state senator suggested making “drag queen story time” a public school requirement.
  Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, whose district covers San Francisco, tweeted his comment after Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton announced that he was filing a bill that would prohibit children from attending drag shows, according to Fox News.
  “This guy just gave me a bill idea: Offering Drag Queen 101 as part of the K-12 curriculum,” Wiener tweeted. “Attending Drag Quee
  
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• Biden's gaffes might actually be his selling point

  08-06-2022 02:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Biden approval rating and poll slump ahead going into midterm elections doesn't mean his advisers should rein him in. Presidents are good at messaging if nothing else.
  
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