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• Federal Agents Raid Home of Trump-Era DOJ Official in Move Decried as 'Soviet-Style Approach'

  23-06-2022 23:57
  
  Federal agents raided the home of former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark on Wednesday morning, sources familiar said.
  While it was not clear which agency the agents belonged to, a neighbor spotted officials entering and leaving Clark’s Lorton, Virginia, home, according to ABC News.
  From 2018 to 2021, Clark served under the Trump administration as Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.
  After the 2020 presidential elections, Cl
  
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• 'Revival is Coming': Cruz Heads to Milwaukee to Fix Biden's Mess - And You Can Join Him

  23-06-2022 23:43
  
  When President Joe Biden isn’t wiping out, you can bet he is wreaking some kind of unprecedented havoc on the country.
  Inflation, high gas prices, vaccine mandate-related job loss, the Afghanistan fiasco, the border crisis, baby formula shortages — take your pick, Biden has probably laid his destructive hand upon it.
  Despite currently holding control of the government, the Biden-led Democrats have continually failed to address these issues. Not everyone is sitting on their hands, how
  
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• California legislature passes bill to protect abortion providers and patients from civil suits

  23-06-2022 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  California lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill that aims to protect abortion providers and patients seeking abortion care in the state from civil action started in another state.
  
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• Mom Prays After Teen Pronounced Dead from Car Crash, Then She Sees Hand Move

  23-06-2022 23:13
  
  When a devastating accident claimed the life of a promising teenager, his mother cried out in faith, and God granted her request.
  Now she’s sharing their journey to encourage others to recognize God’s faithfulness in the midst of tragedy and the unknown.
  It was about a year ago when mom La’Kisha Brinson got the call that no mother wants to get: Her 15-year-old son, Torianto “Junior” Brinson, had been in a horrible car accident close to their house in Missouri City,
  
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• Was the Mysterious Explosion at One of the World's Largest Fuel Plants Intentional?

  23-06-2022 23:06
  
  Russia had the motive, the means, and perhaps the opportunity to sabotage an American liquified natural gas plant — but did it?
  Tom Rogan, national security writer at the Washington Examiner, made a compelling case that it just might have.
  In his report Tuesday, Rogan suggested Russian hackers may have had something to do with an explosion at the Freeport LNG plant on Quintana Island in Texas on June 8.
  Amid a burgeoning energy crisis across the globe spurred on by the war between Russia a
  
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• Op-Ed: There's an Emerging Reality About Russia That Nobody Wants to Address

  23-06-2022 22:52
  
  Is it just me, or is the U.S. sliding toward a major war without really any kind of debate?
  No declaration of war for sure, as such a thing as following the Constitution clearly cannot be considered by the leadership class of this nation. There has not been any kind of use-of-force resolution, either.
  Instead, $40 billion has been appropriated for Ukraine, and most Republicans signed on without hesitation. Democrats, once an anti-war party, ignominiously pulled out of one war in Afghanistan and
  
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• Biden Policy Creates Brand New Oil Disaster in Latin America - Good Luck Blaming Putin

  23-06-2022 22:52
  
  With the election of a left-leaning president in Colombia, President Joe Biden’s administration may soon find out just how impractical progressive climate policies can be for the American economy.
  Gustavo Petro just won the election in Colombia and his election marks a historical shift in Latin America as he becomes the first leftist president of Colombia, the New York Times reported.
  Petro ran on promises to tackle inequality in Colombia, the failed U.S.-led war on drugs and, especially,
  
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• Watch: Skydiving Catastrophe - Homeowners Shocked at what Front Door Camera Records

  23-06-2022 22:36
  
  What was supposed to be an exhilarating skydiving expedition has left two people with life-threatening injuries following an accident.
  According to WDJT-TV in Milwaukee, a 28-year-old woman from Racine County, Wisconsin, and a 49-year-old woman from Chicago were tandem skydiving on Sunday in Yorkville, Wisconsin.
  While their parachute did deploy, the women lost control when they were 20 to 30 feet above the ground, the station reported. This led to a crash landing that caused serious injuries fo
  
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• Senate committee moves to let intel agencies hire people who have used marijuana

  23-06-2022 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  The Senate Intelligence Committee has advanced legislation that would allow US intelligence agencies to hire applicants who have used marijuana in the past, according to committee aides.
  
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• Ben & Jerry's Anti-Israel Stunt Backfires as Police and Firemen Fund Announces Surprise Lawsuit

  23-06-2022 22:23
  
  A Michigan police and firefighter’s union pension fund is suing Ben & Jerry’s owner Unilever over the ice cream brand’s anti-Israel attacks, accusing the parent company of concealing Ben & Jerry’s actions from shareholders and causing severe financial loss.
  The saga began last year when the extremist, left-wing Ben & Jerry’s board issued a boycott of Israel that they claimed wasn’t a boycott of Israel with the announcement that it would stop sellin
  
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• I own a concealed carry gun license in NY state. The Supreme Court is wrong.

  23-06-2022 22:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Supreme Court expands gun rights in New York gun law case decision about concealed carry and the Second Amendment by rewriting history.
  
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• What has become beautifully clear to me while watching my autistic daughter

  23-06-2022 21:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Autism is a widely misunderstood condition, so it's important that neurotypical people see more accurate portrayals, like Vanessa Burghardt, on screen.
  
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• Biden proposes strengthening Title IX protections for transgender students

  23-06-2022 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration on Thursday proposed strengthening protections for transgender students under Title IX and overhauling controversial Trump-era guidance on how schools should handle sexual assault cases.
  
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• The Biden Administration Has Quietly Been Asking Elon Musk's Tesla for Advice: Report

  23-06-2022 21:18
  
  The Biden administration contacted electric car manufacturer Tesla, requesting help with formulating a new policy that would allow electric vehicles to receive benefits from the nation’s renewable fuel subsidies program.
  When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, Dallas Burkholder of the Environment Protection Agency had emailed Tesla lobbyist Rohan Patel, requesting a meeting, documents Reuters reviewed revealed.
  The meeting’s purpose was to discuss ways the government ca
  
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• Woman Being Held Hostage Sends Secret Note with GrubHub Order to Save Her Life

  23-06-2022 21:13
  
  The world of dating has changed dramatically over the past decade as more and more people have made the shift to online dating. There are plenty of perks to being able to cast a wider net through the online services that have become so popular, but with that comes danger — both old and new.
  One young woman from the Bronx, New York, had been talking to a man online for several months when they decided to meet up in person.
  Things did not go well. The 32-year-old man held the 24-year-old wom
  
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• There Are No 'Safe Spaces' in War, But the Navy Disagrees in Far-Left Propaganda Video

  23-06-2022 21:09
  
  Leftists are trying to destroy Western civilization by disconnecting it from reality. And it appears they are succeeding.
  The U.S. Navy has produced a training video on the use of personal pronouns, according to The Daily Signal.
  It is the first in a series called “NAVSpEAks” from the Naval Sea Systems Command Inclusion and Engagement Council. The training is supposed to “educate and empower employees to reach their full potential.”
  The video’s hosts are Conchy Vasq
  
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• CDC investigates 'one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease' in US history among gay and bisexual men in Florida

  23-06-2022 20:48 via cnn.com
  
  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Florida Department of Health are investigating "one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history," the CDC said Wednesday. So far, 24 cases and seven deaths among gay and bisexual men have been reported.
  
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• Toyota Forced to Recall Its First Mass-Produced Electric Vehicles Due to Dangerous Safety Issue

  23-06-2022 20:43
  
  These electric vehicles are getting rolled back.
  Toyota issued a recall for 2,700 of its first electric vehicles on Thursday, according to Reuters. The bZ4X SUV is Toyota’s first electric vehicle to be mass-produced, the news agency reported.
  The recall follows safety concerns that Japanese regulators communicated to the company.
  They’ve discovered sharp turns and sudden braking can lead to a hub bolt loosening, potentially allowing the vehicle’s wheels to roll away from the ve
  
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• FDA orders Juul Labs to remove products from US market

  23-06-2022 20:41 via cnn.com
  
  The US Food and Drug Administration ordered Juul products removed from the US market as the agency issued marketing denial orders for its vaping devices and pods.
  
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• Ex-Trump adviser calls for lifting Trump tariffs on China

  23-06-2022 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  Former Trump economic official Gary Cohn is in favor of President Joe Biden lifting some Trump-era tariffs imposed on China to address high inflation.
  
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• The Supreme Court just vastly expanded gun rights. Here’s what happens next.

  23-06-2022 20:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  One in 4 Americans will feel the impact of the Supreme Court's landmark decision to expand gun rights — a ruling that could also affect the Senate's bipartisan
  
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• Elon Musk Officially Builds the Two 'Most American-Made' Cars

  23-06-2022 20:18
  
  A political mantra for many in the U.S. is “buy American,” but with Tesla CEO Elon Musk so often in the news these days, many are completely unaware that one of his biggest businesses is an example of that very motto.
  The left has turned against Musk, of course. Where once he was the toast of their town, since he began looking to take over Twitter and spouting centrist rhetoric all over the place, he has become a major target for the left-wing cancel culture.
  Of course, he has also b
  
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• Chicago's Wealthiest Man Pulls His $22 Billion Company from the City Following Crime Complaints, Will Relocate to DeSantis' Florida

  23-06-2022 20:11
  
  Chicago’s wealthiest man is saying farewell to the Democrat-governed state of Illinois.
  Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin is moving his company to the state of Florida.
  Griffin, whose net worth is almost $29 billion, announced that he had personally moved his residence from Illinois to the Republican-governed sunshine state in a Thursday letter to his employees.
  Griffin said that Florida would become the new primary home of his company, Citadel Securities. The investor touted Florida&rsqu
  
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• SpaceX says 5G expansion would make Starlink 'unusable' for most Americans

  23-06-2022 19:56 via cnn.com
  
  SpaceX, Dish Network and other 5G providers are locked in a heated battle over radio frequencies, which SpaceX says it needs for its orbital internet service, Starlink, and which Dish says it needs for its own customers.
  
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• Clarence Thomas Celebrates His Birthday by Crushing Libs Who Push Gun Control and Fight Voter ID

  23-06-2022 19:48
  
  On his 74th birthday Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was the one giving gifts to the American people.
  In a landmark decision released Thursday morning, the court ruled 6-3 that a New York law requiring “proper cause” to carry a concealed firearm was unconstitutional.
  Thomas authored the majority opinion the case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, and was clear about what the decision meant for the interpretation of the Second Amendment&rsquo
  
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• Family Hears Their Dog 'Screaming for Her Life', But When They Rush Outside, Attacker is Long Gone

  23-06-2022 19:38
  
  A family in Huntington Beach, California, was recently shocked by a brazen attack on one of their beloved, four-legged family members while they were just feet away.
  The Patriarca family has five kids and three dogs, but they almost lost one of their smaller dogs, a Boston terrier named Sadie, recently.
  Freddy and Melissa were inside their California home, mere feet from the yard, the door to the backyard open. Their yard is well-protected, with a 6-foot fence around the perimeter — but th
  
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• Former NFL Star: We've 'Crafted Our Own Versions of God That Are Wrong'

  23-06-2022 19:34
  
  In a culture that tries to break apart family and Christianity, it can be hard to be a voice in the wilderness, speaking truth even in the midst of lies.
  Jeff Kemp has tasted worldly success, but he has a new mission: pointing people back to Christ, and doing it publicly.
  Kemp, who spent 11 seasons in the NFL, first dedicated his life to God as he began his pro football career.
  “God had got my attention at the end of college when I went to the NFL, and he led me to Christian teammates
  
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• Orange Wolf Bad

  23-06-2022 19:31
  
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Orange Wolf Bad appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Uvalde Schools Police Chief Pulled from Duty One Month After Massacre

  23-06-2022 19:25
  
  The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has placed its police chief, Pete Arredondo, on administrative leave, school district superintendent Dr. Hal Harell announced Wednesday.
  “From the beginning of this horrible event, I shared that the district would wait until the investigation was complete before making personnel decisions,” Harell said, according to a Wednesday news release from the school district.
  “Today, I am still without details of the investigations bein
  
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• Gas Station Owner Praised for 'Helping Humanity' by Keeping Prices Way Below Area Average

  23-06-2022 19:25
  
  A gas station owner in Phoenix, Arizona, went out of his way to help motorists grappling with soaring gas prices by selling fuel at a lower price.
  When fuel prices in Arizona went up to $5.66 a gallon on June 8, Valero Food Mart store owner Jaswiendre Singh sold gas for $5.19 a gallon, around 47 cents or half a dollar less than the price he purchased the fuel for from his supplier, KTVK-TV reported.
  “If you have something, you have to share it with other people,” Singh told NBC News.
  
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• VA Employee Arrested After Footage of an Elderly Vietnam Veteran Being Brutally Beaten Emerges

  23-06-2022 19:15
  
  An employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic at Fort McPherson in Atlanta has been arrested in connection with an incident in which a veteran was beaten at the clinic, and it was recorded on surveillance video.
  The VA employee Lawrence F. Gaillard Jr., was working as a patient advocate at the time of the April 28 incident, WSB-TV in Atlanta reported Monday.
  Video made public this week shows what happened to Vietnam veteran Phillip Webb, 73. WSB reported that it filed a Freedom of Inf
  
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• Elon Musk says he's worried about keeping Tesla out of bankruptcy

  23-06-2022 18:56 via cnn.com
  
  Tesla faces billions of dollars in losses from its new plants, supply chain problems and Covid lockdowns — enough for CEO Elon Musk to mention the possibility of bankruptcy in a recent interview.
  
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• Health Executive Warns Growing Food Crisis Will Contribute to 'Millions of Extra Deaths'

  23-06-2022 18:54
  
  The emerging global food crisis could lead to millions of deaths, according to the leader of a global health network.
  Russia’s war against Ukraine has severely disrupted global food supplies by taking grain grown in Ukraine and much of that grown in Russia off of the market.
  The food shortage produces a one-two punch that will take its toll on the world’s poorest people, according to Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria said this
  
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• How Redbox became a Wall St. darling again

  23-06-2022 18:51 via cnn.com
  
  It wasn't too long ago when some movie fans found that the easiest and cheapest way to watch movies in a post-Blockbuster world was to rent DVDs from Redbox kiosks at the drug store and other retailers. Ahh, the early 2010's. The rise of Netflix and other streaming services pretty much killed that business though.
  
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• Rapinoe Finally Says Out Loud What the Trans Agenda Won't Admit About Sports, Demands American Parents 'Get a Grip'

  23-06-2022 18:46
  
  American soccer star Megan Rapinoe has a message for the parents of female athletes trounced by transgender males in women’s athletics: Your child’s ability to compete on a level playing field is less important than genuflecting to wokeness.
  Oh, sure, she didn’t phrase it quite like that. Having heard her try to suss out progressive political points in her interviews, I doubt she knows what “genuflect” even means. (Note to Rapinoe: “to touch the knee to the fl
  
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• Trump Trolls AZ House Speaker Over Jan. 6 Testimony: He Better Hope There's No Tape of Our Conversation Re 2020 Election

  23-06-2022 18:27
  
  Former President Donald Trump issued a statement ahead of Arizona House Speaker Russell Bowers’ Tuesday testimony before the Jan. 6 committee suggesting Trump may have a recording of a phone conversation the two had in November 2020 about the last presidential election.
  During the hearing, Bowers testified about that call and another he had in December 2020 with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Trump regarding holding a hearing at the Arizona Capitol to review allegations of vo
  
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• NY Governor Kathy Hochul Melts Down After Supreme Court Strikes Down Her State's Unconstitutional Gun Restriction

  23-06-2022 18:18
  
  The Supreme Court just ruled that the Constitution allows individuals the right to carry a gun outside the home. This decision struck down New York state’s law, which required a special permit to carry a concealed handgun in public.
  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is furious over the court’s decision.
  “It is outrageous that at a moment of national reckoning on gun violence, the Supreme Court has recklessly struck down a New York law that limits those who can carry concealed weapons,
  
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• Is Congress Preparing for a New POTUS Before 2024? Revisions Made to US Code Have Some Wondering

  23-06-2022 18:11
  
  Although we’re told that President Joe Biden fully intends to run for reelection in 2024, many in his party are clearly opposed to that possibility. In the event he steps aside, Vice President Kamala Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota top the short list of candidates expected to compete for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.
  Given that the next U.S. president could be either a female or a gay
  
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• Kyle Rittenhouse Launches New Venture to Help Fund His Fight Against Mainstream Media Outlets

  23-06-2022 18:02
  
  Kyle Rittenhouse is stepping up his fight against the media with a video game that calls the media turkeys and invites players to shoot at them.
  Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of multiple charges against him in a trial that was the dramatic aftermath of the 2020 riots that took place in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is promoting a video game called “Kyle Rittenhouse’s Turkey Shoot.”
  The website Rittenhousegame.com, which markets the video game, invites gamers to “Play as Kyle Ritte
  
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• Breaking: Bombshell SCOTUS Right-to-Carry Ruling, Rules Across Entire Nation Just Changed

  23-06-2022 17:51
  
  Did the United States Supreme Court just set a national precedent for concealed carry in public?
  According to a majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas, that appears to be the case.
  “Nothing in the Second Amendment’s text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms,” Thomas wrote.
  “The definition of ‘bear’ naturally encompasses public carry.”The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN a New York gun-control law that req
  
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• US Swimmer Passes Out in Pool at World Championships, Forcing Her Coach to Make a Dramatic Rescue

  23-06-2022 17:24
  
  American swimming coach Andrea Fuentes made a dramatic rescue at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, after an American swimmer began sinking to the bottom of the pool.
  Artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez was doing a solo routine when the incident took place, according to AFP.
  “It was a big scare. I had to jump in because the lifeguards weren’t doing it,” the Spanish newspaper Marca quoted Fuentes as saying.
  Fuentes, dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, dove in and gra
  
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• Numerous Food Factories Across the Nation Catch Fire, Now 44K Lbs of Peanut Butter Won't Make it to Shelves

  23-06-2022 17:12
  
  Bizarre disasters of Biblical proportions have become characteristic of Joe Biden’s botched presidency, setting the stage for an unprecedented nationwide food shortage.
  The latest debacle occurred last week, when a truck hauling 44,000 pounds of Jif peanut butter mysteriously caught fire on an interstate roadway in Illinois.
  “Charred jars of peanut butter could be seen scattered across the side of the road,” according to WCIA-TV in Champaign. “Officials have not yet annou
  
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• Supreme Court Hands Republican Lawmakers a Major Win in Battle Over Voter ID Law

  23-06-2022 16:56
  
  The Supreme Court of the United States handed North Carolina Republicans a big win on Thursday.
  The case was Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP.
  In an 8-1 decision, the court found that Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have a right to “intervene in litigation to defend a state voter-ID law,” as reported by SCOTUSblog.
  Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only dissenting justice.Here’s the opinion from Neil Gorsuch in Berger v. North Carolina State Conferenc
  
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• Breaking: SCOTUS Decision Blows Gaping Hole in Gun Control Agenda, Massive Win for 2nd Amendment Freedom

  23-06-2022 16:43
  
  In a landmark decision from the Supreme Court, the interpretation and meaning of the Second Amendment has been clarified.
  The Second Amendment and more particularly, how states must interpret the constitutional guarantee of the “right to keep and bear arms,” came under scrutiny when the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen made it up to the Supreme Court.
  In a 6-3 decision that represented a massive win for the Second Amendment, the court decided that t
  
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• Warren Buffett must really love oil

  23-06-2022 16:34 via cnn.com
  
  Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is betting that the oil boom isn't going to end any time soon.
  
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• Prosecutors recommend Ghislaine Maxwell be sentenced to 30 to 55 years in prison for sex trafficking

  23-06-2022 16:34 via cnn.com
  
  Federal prosecutors asked a judge in a court filing Wednesday to sentence Ghislaine Maxwell to 30 to 55 years in prison for sex trafficking a minor and other charges related to a sprawling conspiracy to abuse young girls with the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Dozens of organizations sign letter calling on President Biden to strike deal for Brittney Griner's release

  23-06-2022 16:23 via cnn.com
  
  Dozens of civil and human rights organizations have joined Cherelle Griner, the wife of detained WNBA star Brittney Griner, in urging President Joe Biden to strike a deal for the athlete's release, according to a letter obtained by CNN Wednesday.
  
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• Mortgage rates rise again, pricing more buyers out of the housing market

  23-06-2022 16:05 via cnn.com
  
  Mortgage rates continue to climb as the Federal Reserve seeks to tame unwieldy inflation.
  
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• New GOP lawmaker spread false claims on social media about election fraud and Jan. 6

  23-06-2022 16:01 via cnn.com
  
  Newly elected Republican Congresswoman Mayra Flores spread conspiracies on social media that the January 6 riot at the US Capitol was caused by members of the far-left group Antifa and repeatedly used a hashtag of the QAnon conspiracy theory in tweets that have since been removed.
  
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• Federal Prosecutors Recommend Decades-Long Prison Sentence for 'Desperate' Ghislaine Maxwell

  23-06-2022 15:57
  
  Federal prosecutors want Ghislaine Maxwell locked up for at least 30 years over her participation in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation that involved underage girls.
  Maxwell’s attorneys have argued for a sentence of four years behind bars, citing her involvement with the Clinton Global Initiative as one reason why she merits a light sentence.
  Maxwell was convicted in December last year of five counts related to luring teenage girls and women into sexual exploitation.
  Th
  
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