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• Texas Police Get It Right: Teen Arrested Before Mass Shooting, Had Called Uvalde Shooter 'An Idol'

  28-06-2022 23:51
  
  A San Antonio teen who allegedly planned a mass shooting has been arrested.
  Rodolfo Valdivia Aceves, 19, has been charged with a count of communicating a terroristic threat, according to KSAT.
  The youth is being held in the Bexar County Jail.
  One of Aceves’ coworkers at an Amazon warehouse reported his interest in violence to the police.
  When a fire alarm went off at their workplace on Friday, Aceves allegedly told the witness that a fire alarm would be an opportune moment for a mass shoot
  
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• FTC sues Walmart for allegedly allowing money transfer services for fraud

  28-06-2022 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it sued Walmart, alleging the company had allowed scam artists to use its money transfer services for fraud that cost consumers "hundreds of millions of dollars."
  
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• Texas law banning abortion temporarily blocked by court

  28-06-2022 23:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Harris County judge granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday to block a pre-Roe v.
  
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• Disney CEO gets new three year contract

  28-06-2022 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  Bob Chapek isn't going anywhere.
  
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• 'Where Is Elon?' Musk's Sudden Uncharacteristic Silence Raises Eyebrows

  28-06-2022 22:28
  
  Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has not posted anything in a week on Twitter despite crossing the 100 million followers mark on the microblogging platform.
  The celebrity tech entrepreneur’s last post on Twitter was a June 21 reply to CNBC Space Reporter Michael Sheetz’s report on a legal battle between SpaceX and the Dish network over broadband frequency use.
  “Their attempt to bait and switch satellite spectrum for cellular spectrum is super shady and unethical,” Musk wrot
  
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• California Sheriff 'Infuriated' After Suspects His Department Arrested with 150,000 Fentanyl Pills Are Promptly Released

  28-06-2022 22:22
  
  A California court ordered the release of two alleged drug traffickers less than a day after they were arrested with over 100,000 fentanyl pills, Fox News reported.
  Tulare County law enforcement arrested 25-year-old Jose Zendejas, and 19-year-old Benito Madrigal, both of Washington state,  after stopping their vehicle near Highway 99 and Tulare Avenue at about 7:30 p.m. Friday, according to KFSN-TV in Fresno.
  The two men were found with 150,000 fentanyl pills in their vehicle, the stat
  
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• CDC activates Emergency Operations Center for monkeypox

  28-06-2022 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Tuesday the activation of its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to respond to the US monkeypox outbreak.
  
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• Majorities disapprove of Roe v. Wade reversal and Democrats are motivated, polls show

  28-06-2022 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  Multiple polls conducted since the Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade find that broad majorities of the public disapprove and suggest that in the immediate aftermath of the ruling, the decision could be more motivational for Democrats than Republicans.
  
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• Former Clinton Pollster Throws Cold Water on Kamala Harris' 2024 Election Claim

  28-06-2022 21:49
  
  Kamala Harris has spent a vice presidency proving she can’t be trusted, so why should her predictions about 2024 be any different?
  In a sit-down interview with CNN’s Dana Bash that aired Monday, the always-certain-but-rarely-right VP declared boldly that President Joe Biden would run for re-election in two years, and that she would be his “ticket mate.”
  But on Fox News Tuesday, a polling expert who made a national reputation advising the campaigns of both Bill and Hillary
  
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• Community Throws Huge Celebration for 94-Year-Old Crossing Guard Who Served for 57 Years

  28-06-2022 21:46
  
  On Nov. 29, 1965, Claire Bauman set off for her first day as a crossing guard at Horace Mann Elementary School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
  “I said I’ll give you a week, and here I am 57 years later,” she told WTXF-TV in nearby Philadelphia.
  June 21 was her last day on the job, and the 94-year-old has certainly earned her retirement.
  But the community had a celebration in the works to honor the woman so many of them had encountered as they made their way to school. Even the
  
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• Pelosi's Response to Pushing Little Girl Makes It So Much Worse

  28-06-2022 21:24
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s seemingly rude treatment of the preteen daughter of Rep. Mayra Flores just got worse as her staff tried to explain away what she did.
  Pelosi stood with the Flores family for a photo op on June 21 after the newly elected Texas Republican congresswoman took her oath of office. But what she did to Flores’ daughter flew under the radar for a few days before people began to notice.
  As the speaker was standing between Flores’ husband and the couple’
  
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• Op-Ed: We Can't Lose This Virtue - The Fabric of Our Society Depends on It

  28-06-2022 21:07
  
  I’m sure you have lived long enough, as I have, to experience the fact that time and truth run hand in hand. Truth wins out in the end.
  Accordingly, the importance of truth in the Capitol community cannot be understated. In my Bible study “The Personal and Cultural Benefits of Truthfulness,” I quote verses from Proverbs that show the various benefits of being a man or a woman of truth. Understanding the benefits of being truthful versus the detriments of lying or bearing false
  
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• 'Tolerant' Leftists Now Fantasizing About Justice Barrett Being Raped

  28-06-2022 21:03
  
  Since the Supreme Court made the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday, the responses from many on the left have been wildly inappropriate in a myriad of ways.
  While the physical violence that has occurred is arguably the worst response, some comments made on social media have almost reached the same level of evil.
  Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been the subject of many inappropriate suggestions, and leftists have justified their disgusting comments by saying she lied about overturning Roe v
  
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• Los Angeles County to vote on returning beach property taken from Black owners in Jim Crow era

  28-06-2022 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  A plan to return a stretch of prime Southern California beachfront real estate to the descendants of its Black owners, nearly a century after the parcel was taken by the city of Manhattan Beach, is scheduled for a Tuesday vote by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
  
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• Airbnb makes its ban on parties permanent

  28-06-2022 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  Airbnb said Tuesday it will make permanent a ban on parties originally implemented in the early months of the pandemic, citing its effectiveness at curbing unauthorized gatherings.
  
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• Rookie Cop and Rookie Firefighter Help Save Autistic Boys from House Fire: 'I Would Do It Again'

  28-06-2022 20:51
  
  Michal Pietrusinski and his fiancee Sharon Navarro were out for a walk in their neighborhood in Zephyrhills, Florida, last week when they became inadvertent first responders.
  It was around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday when they came across a fire at a house a few doors down from their own home — and they were certainly the right people to help.
  Pietrusinski is an officer with the Plant City Police Department and had just been sworn in earlier this month. Despite his rookie cop status, thoug
  
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• Breaking: Judge Announces Ghislaine Maxwell's Sentence

  28-06-2022 20:48
  
  Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell learned her prison sentence on Tuesday.
  Judge Alison J. Nathan sentenced Maxwell to 20 years in prison, a sentence that ensures the 60-year-old will likely spend much of her remaining life in prison, The New York Times reported.
  Maxwell was convicted on five counts of federal sex trafficking in December.
  A federal jury decided that Maxwell committed the crimes as a leading figure in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. Epstein died in New York’s Metropo
  
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• Whoopi's Unhinged Rant - Threatens Justice Thomas 'Better Hope They Don't Come for You'

  28-06-2022 20:22
  
  Intended as a forum to deliberate the political issues of the day, ABC’s popular program “The View” has devolved into an arena for its co-hosts to attack anyone or anything they disagree with. The problem is they are far less informed and intelligent than they would like their viewers to believe. And as Democrats often do when backed into a corner, they immediately revert to ad-hominem attacks. Somehow, when they all fervently agree on something, their opinion suddenly becomes
  
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• 'I Had a Commitment with God': Praying Coach Reacts to the SCOTUS Verdict

  28-06-2022 20:13
  
  After the Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of high school football coach Joseph Kennedy, who was fired for his postgame prayers at midfield, he said he sees this as a victory for all Americans.
  “‘It is just incredible to know that I did nothing wrong. Everything I did was fine,” Kennedy told the U.K.’s Daily Mail in an interview Monday.
  Kennedy started coaching at Bremerton High School near Seattle in 2008 after a 20-year career in the Marine Corps.
  After games, the
  
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• Biden's Nominee for ICE Director Withdraws After Domestic Violence Allegation Stalls Process

  28-06-2022 19:43
  
  President Joe Biden’s pick for Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, Ed Gonzalez, withdrew from consideration for the role Sunday.
  The Harris County, Texas, Sheriff announced via a Monday post on Twitter that he had notified the Biden administration of his decision.1/5 On Sunday, I informed President Biden’s administration that I am respectfully withdrawing from consideration for the post of Director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
  — Ed Gonzalez (@SheriffEd_H
  
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• Wanda Sykes and Stephen Colbert Rage 'Those States in the Middle' That Don't Align with New York and California

  28-06-2022 19:32
  
  States that are not New York or California should stop getting in the way, according to comedian Wanda Sykes.
  Sykes appeared on Monday’s episode of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to complain that middle America should stop defying liberal blue states.
  “I’m a black, gay woman and I have a daughter. So I’m not doing so well right now,” she said.On #LSSC, @iamwandasykes complains U.S. “no longer a democracy,” justices “lie
  
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• Analysis: Former Republican senator just called Donald Trump a 'spoiled brat'

  28-06-2022 19:05 via cnn.com
  
  Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson isn't a big Donald Trump fan.
  
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• Hillary Clinton Accused of 'Playing the Angry Black Man Card' After Attacking Clarence Thomas

  28-06-2022 18:38
  
  Hillary Clinton on Tuesday vented her anger over the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion, facing social media rebuke for her attack on Justice Clarence Thomas.
  Thomas was among the justices who supported overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling. In a concurring opinion, Thomas also said the court “should reconsider” rulings that allowed same-sex marriage, endorsed access to contraception and supported same-sex relationships.
  That made him a t
  
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• Crypto winter has had a chilling effect on Coinbase and Robinhood

  28-06-2022 18:16 via cnn.com
  
  The prices of bitcoin and other top cryptocurrencies have been more than cut in half this year. Now the great crypto crash of 2022 is crushing leading digital asset brokerage firms Coinbase and Robinhood too.
  
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• Biden calls deaths of migrants in San Antonio 'horrifying and heartbreaking,' denounces 'political grandstanding around tragedy'

  28-06-2022 18:11 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden said Tuesday the discovery of at least 50 dead migrants in a truck in Texas is "horrifying and heartbreaking" and underscores the need to go after criminal trafficking rings.
  
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• HHS secretary pledges to protect access to reproductive health care

  28-06-2022 18:08 via cnn.com
  
  US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced multiple steps to protect access to reproductive health care in a news conference on Tuesday.
  
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• Body of 'ER' and 'Ray Donovan' Actress Mary Mara Discovered in New York River

  28-06-2022 18:06
  
  The body of actress Mary Mara was found on Sunday in the St. Lawrence River in Cape Vincent, New York, according to a news release Monday from the New York State Police.
  Authorities responded to a call on Sunday morning about a “possible drowning,” the release said.
  They arrived at the scene and “discovered a female deceased in the St. Lawrence River.”
  Police said there were no signs of foul play.
  “The preliminary investigation suggests the victim drowned while swim
  
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• Major Gas Station Chain Announces Huge Sale on Gas 'Effective Immediately'

  28-06-2022 17:39
  
  A major convenience store chain announced Monday that it will sell two gasoline blends below $4 a gallon through the Fourth of July weekend.
  “Effective immediately, Sheetz, a major Mid-Atlantic restaurant and convenience chain, will help reduce pain at the pump for consumers by reducing the price of fuel to $3.99 a gallon for Unleaded 88 and $3.49 a gallon for E85,” the company said in a news release on its website.
  “This is a limited-time offer that will be available through t
  
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• 'It Can't Be Replaced': Historic Church Burns to the Ground in Suspected Arson

  28-06-2022 17:28
  
  A historic church in Raleigh County, West Virginia, was burned down in what authorities said appears to have been an arson attack on Sunday.
  St. Colman Catholic Church was a small building also known as “the Little Catholic Church on Irish Mountain,” according to The Register-Herald in Beckley, West Virginia.
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the original structure dates back to 1877-1888, the Catholic News Register reported.
  But this historic place of wor
  
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• Overturning of Roe has 'significant implications' for Defense Department, but won't affect health care access for covered abortions

  28-06-2022 17:20 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have "significant implications" for the Defense Department, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, but service members and other Defense Department health care beneficiaries will continue to have access to health care for covered abortions.
  
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• Overturning of Roe has 'significant implications' for Defense Department

  28-06-2022 17:20 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have "significant implications" for the Defense Department, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, but service members and other Defense Department health care beneficiaries will continue to have access to health care for covered abortions.
  
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• French President Gives Biden Painful News About His Oil Strategy as Cameras Are Rolling

  28-06-2022 17:13
  
  French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to dash President Joe Biden’s hope that he can sweet talk Arab nations into increasing their oil output.
  Macron spoke to Biden Monday at the G7 summit in an informal interaction that was widely shared on video, according to Newsweek.
  Biden is seeking an increase in oil production to address the gas price hikes that have become a political albatross around Biden’s neck.
  “Excuse me, sorry to interrupt,” Macron said.
  “I had a c
  
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• 'A Horrific Human Tragedy': At Least 46 Dead Bodies Found in Semi-Truck Abandoned in Texas

  28-06-2022 17:04
  
  At least 50 people are known to be dead after the discovery Monday of a tractor-trailer packed with illegal immigrants in a sparsely developed area of San Antonio, Texas, according to news reports.
  At least 46 bodies were in the trailer, CNN reported, with a total of 48 dead at the scene. Two more died after being hospitalized, the network reported.
  Sixteen others, including four children, were hospitalized, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood announced, according to NBC News.
  The victims were b
  
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• Why Putin's latest weapon is so troubling

  28-06-2022 16:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  In Russia-Ukraine war, Putin has a new weapon: food. The Russian leader holds grain hostage as countries in Africa fear famine.
  
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• 'Close Friend' of Clarence Thomas Reveals How the Justice Responds to 'Racist' Attacks from the Left

  28-06-2022 16:45
  
  Clarence Thomas does not respond to criticism that he fails to hew the liberal line because he is black, according to a friend. The Supreme Court justice instead prefers to ignore it.
  There’s a lot to ignore in the aftermath of the ruling Friday by Thomas and others on the court overturning Roe v. Wade.
  Actor Samuel Jackson called the justice “Uncle Clarence” on Twitter, an apparent play on the “Uncle Tom” insult. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot shouted “F*** Cla
  
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• Electric Cadillac Lyriq is company's best SUV yet

  28-06-2022 16:24 via cnn.com
  
  General Motors has said that Cadillac, its luxury brand, will lead the automaker into the electric future. It will be the first GM brand to go all-electric and its first EV model is the Cadillac Lyriq, a crossover SUV that's one of the best Cadillacs I've driven in a long time.
  
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• Top accounting firm fined $100 million after employees cheated on CPA exams

  28-06-2022 16:16 via cnn.com
  
  Ernst & Young has been slapped with a record $100 million fine from the US government after regulators discovered that the company knew some of its auditors were cheating on exams for several years and did nothing to stop it.
  
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• Ex-CIA Officer Says Putin Could Be Put Down with 'a F***ing Hammer to the Head' by Inner Circle

  28-06-2022 15:45
  
  A former top official with the CIA thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin could be assassinated by members of his own inner circle over his botched invasion of Ukraine.
  Daniel Hoffman, a retired CIA Moscow station chief, said if Putin’s advisers turn on him, they’ll take him out with a speedy, fatal hit.
  “These guys that are going to do it are going to be so secret about it so that Putin doesn’t find them and kill them first,” Hoffman opined to The Daily Beast last
  
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• Hunter Biden Only Had 4 Words to Say to Damning Evidence About Russian Escorts

  28-06-2022 15:28
  
  At least for this week, the only famous individual I know who hated Monday as much as Hunter Biden did is Garfield.
  Granted, it’s not for the same reason. Garfield hated Monday because he’s a cartoon cat whose personality traits involve a) hating Mondays, b) loving coffee and c) loving lasagna.
  Hunter Biden hated Monday because two separate reports alleged that a) despite numerous denials, his father knew a lot about his business dealings in China and b) his father also unwittingly f
  
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• Analysts accuse Bed Bath & Beyond of turning off AC in stores to save money as sales plummet

  28-06-2022 15:27 via cnn.com
  
  Retailers typically want their sales numbers to be red hot, not their customers. But Bed Bath & Beyond is reportedly dealing with cooled momentum and heated customers at its stores.
  
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• The electric Cadillac Lyriq is the company's best SUV yet

  28-06-2022 15:18 via cnn.com
  
  General Motors has said that Cadillac, its luxury brand, will lead the automaker into the electric future. It will be the first GM brand to go all-electric and its first EV model is the Cadillac Lyriq, a crossover SUV that's one of the best Cadillacs I've driven in a long time.
  
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• Watergate Figure: Jan. 6 Surprise Witness Had Better Meet 'Big Deal Standard'

  28-06-2022 15:02
  
  There’s nothing — nothing — that generates interest in an official proceeding like an unexpected witness.
  The 1992 film “A Few Good Men” runs 2 hours and 18 minutes. What do most people remember about it? The exchange where Jack Nicholson’s character, Col. Nathan Jessup, is called to the stand at the end of the court-martial the plot is based around. (If you need your memory jogged, it’s the scene where Tom Cruise’s character yells that he wan
  
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• Audio: Biden's Leaked Voicemail with Hunter Raises Serious Questions About What We've Been Told

  28-06-2022 13:33
  
  During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden swore up and down that he never, ever talked to his son about his business dealings — whether they were in Ukraine, China, Mexico or elsewhere.
  It’s not as if the denial was peppered with weasel-words, either:  “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden said in September of 2019, according to USA Today. “Here’s what I know. Trump should be investigated.”
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• Analysis: Corporate America wanted to seem progressive. Roe showed us its limits

  28-06-2022 12:21 via cnn.com
  
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• Fossil fuel industry cut jobs in 2021 despite growth in production, Energy Department reports

  28-06-2022 11:04 via cnn.com
  
  Jobs in the renewable energy sector grew in 2021 as fossil fuel employment declined -- even as fossil fuel production increased -- according to a report released Tuesday by the Department of Energy.
  
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• Tencent's biggest shareholder is planning to dump more stock

  28-06-2022 10:12 via cnn.com
  
  Tencent's biggest shareholder will reduce its stake in the social media and gaming giant, just over a year after promising it would not sell the stock for three years.
  
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• Firefighters Called to Rescue Puppies After Giant Tortoise Holds Them Hostage

  28-06-2022 01:34
  
  While “curiosity killed the cat” is the better-known saying, felines aren’t the only ones capable of getting themselves into trouble because of their curiosity.
  Anyone who has been around puppies knows how mischievous they can be — and as young and inexperienced as they are, they are generally capable of getting themselves into far more trouble than they can get themselves out of.
  “Peo” and “Finn,” two shepherd pups, got themselves into an awkward
  
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• A generational fight roils Chicago Democrats as progressive challenger Kina Collins takes on longtime Rep. Danny Davis

  28-06-2022 01:15 via cnn.com
  
  Community organizer Kina Collins' first challenge to Illinois Rep. Danny Davis was a flop. In that four-way Democratic primary race in 2020, Collins barely finished second -- more than 45 points behind the victorious incumbent.
  
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• A 'Faint Whimpering' from the Sewers Halted a Weeklong Search for an 8-Year-Old Boy

  28-06-2022 01:12
  
  An 8-year-old child who disappeared on June 17 was found Saturday in a decidedly unusual location.
  According to The U.S. Sun, the boy was identified only as Joe. He was reportedly in his parents’ front yard in Oldenburg, Germany, before he went missing.
  Emergency services quickly launched a search for the boy “across the country,” but they were unable to locate him for over a week.
  On Saturday, a citizen contacted the police after hearing a “faint whimpering sound”
  
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• USCG Rescues Fishing Group Stranded 100 Miles off Coast After Lightning Strikes Boat, Starts Fire

  28-06-2022 00:55
  
  A boat carrying seven people on Saturday headed about 100 miles off the coast of Clearwater, Florida, as the crew prepared for a day of fishing.
  Group members were competing in a tournament, but they were the ones who needed to be thrown a line.
  As they started bringing fish aboard, the weather changed for the worse.
  It isn’t unusual to encounter storms at this time of year, but it is somewhat unusual to capture the ensuing natural disaster on film.
  As one of the passengers recorded the jo
  
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