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• Ford Dealerships Fret Over 'Brutal' Changes Coming with Electric Vehicle Rollout

  29-06-2022 23:53
  
  Car manufacturer The Ford Motor Company plans to change how it will sell electric vehicles. The changes have alarmed some dealers in the traditional franchise model.
  Ford CEO Jim Farley suggested at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference on June 1 that the company wants to move to a 100 percent online sales system for electric vehicles, according to TechCrunch and the Wall Street Journal.
  Farley said at the conference that Ford dealers will have zero inventory going forward, TechCrunch rep
  
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• R. Kelly Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison After Sex Trafficking Conviction

  29-06-2022 23:42
  
  Robert Kelly, better known as R. Kelly, learned his prison sentence on Wednesday.
  The Grammy-winning singer was convicted on sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of a child and numerous racketeering charges last year, according to The New York Times. He was also found guilty of violating the Mann Act, a federal law that criminalizes transporting women or girls across state lines for purposes of prostitution.
  He was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison and given a $100,000 fine for his crimes.
  
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• USC coach who created fake athletic profiles for children of wealthy parents sentenced to time served

  29-06-2022 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  The University of Southern California coach who created fake athletic profiles for the children of wealthy parents, including Lori Loughlin's daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli, was sentenced Wednesday to time served, according to court records.
  
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• Running Down Rumors: The Truth About Johnny Depp's Return to 'Pirates of the Caribbean'

  29-06-2022 23:24
  
  Johnny Depp’s spokesperson just broke a lot of hearts.
  On June 7, Poptopic reported that the Walt Disney Co. was preparing a hefty deal of more than $300 million to plead for Depp’s return to the popular “Pirates of the Caribbean” film franchise.
  The little-known Australian pop culture website cited a “trusted source close to Disney.”
  Unfortunately for fans of Captain Jack Sparrow, the actor’s spokesperson has declared the report “false,” Peo
  
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• In 1922, Klondike bars sold for just 10 cents apiece. They're technically cheaper now

  29-06-2022 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  It has a square shape, no stick, and will make your fingertips cold and sticky as you gingerly bite into its thin chocolate covering to reach the delicious vanilla ice cream encased inside.
  
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• Liz Cheney's Jan. 6 Committee Witness Could Find Herself in Jail After Trump WH Attorney Drops Bomb

  29-06-2022 23:16
  
  Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a debilitating disease that disconnects the afflicted from reality. Although most are either born with or have developed a natural immunity to this sickness, there are still those who attempt to spread the infection.
  It now appears that Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the Trump administration, has come down with an acute case of TDS. The only cure might just be some time in jail.
  Rep. Liz Cheney displayed a hand
  
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• Missouri authorities identify 4 people killed in Amtrak derailment

  29-06-2022 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  Missouri authorities on Wednesday identified the four people who were killed when an Amtrak train crashed into a dump truck at a crossing near the town of Mendon earlier this week.
  
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• Ep. 275 | Leftists Unhinged: Racism, Sexism on Full Display After SCOTUS Decision

  29-06-2022 23:06
  
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• First on CNN: Environmental groups sue Biden administration over climate and wildlife impact of drilling lease sale

  29-06-2022 23:02 via cnn.com
  
  As President Joe Biden's administration prepares to hold its first onshore oil and gas drilling lease sales, environmental groups have filed a new lawsuit to attempt to stop the largest of these sales, in Wyoming. It's the second lawsuit in a week to challenge the administration on its drilling plans.
  
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• Environmental groups sue Biden administration over climate and wildlife impact of drilling lease sale

  29-06-2022 23:02 via cnn.com
  
  As President Joe Biden's administration prepares to hold its first onshore oil and gas drilling lease sales, environmental groups have filed a new lawsuit to attempt to stop the largest of these sales, in Wyoming. It's the second lawsuit in a week to challenge the administration on its drilling plans.
  
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• Most presidents have temper tantrums. Why Trump is different.

  29-06-2022 22:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Donald Trump and his Jan. 6 outburst per White House aide Cassidy Hutchison's testimony before the House committee, in historical context
  
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• Dog That Fell Down 30-Foot Sinkhole Trapped Until Rescue Squad Shows Up

  29-06-2022 22:51
  
  The Hawkins County Rescue Squad was formed in 2019 in order to respond quickly and effectively to emergency situations that require rope rescue in Tennessee’s Hawkins and Hancock Counties.
  Anyone involved in a public safety agency in either of those counties is welcome to join the group, which currently features members from Hancock County Rescue Squad, Goshen Valley Volunteer Fire Department and Mount Carmel Fire Department, according to the group’s website.
  While most of their resc
  
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• Woman Is Arrested After Infant Locked in Hot SUV Was Rescued by Firefighters and Off-Duty Nurse

  29-06-2022 22:30
  
  Whenever you hear a sad story about a child or pet being left in a hot car, it’s easy to jump to conclusions and assume their guardians are just bad people — but even good parents can find themselves at fault for forgetting to check the back seat.
  And then there are cases that seem like more clear-cut instances of horrible parenting, which this case appears to be.
  On June 13, someone at a Kroger in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, noticed a woman standing next to an SUV and acting strangely
  
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• Biden's Rotting Economy - Bragging 2021 WH Tweet About Low July 4 Prices Has Aged Like Milk

  29-06-2022 22:21
  
  One year ago, President Joe Biden and his administration were bragging about minuscule savings for the average American as they purchased food for a Fourth of July cookout.
  What a difference a year can make.
  In a July 1, 2021, tweet, The White House bragged that Americans would pay an average of 16 cents less for a Fourth of July cookout than the previous year. The tweet also included some of the worst puns imaginable.
  “Planning a cookout this year?” the White House wrote. “Ket
  
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• R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years in prison in sex trafficking case

  29-06-2022 22:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  R. Kelly "preyed upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification” for decades,prosecutors have said.
  
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• Nipsey Hussle murder suspect attacked with razor in holding cell

  29-06-2022 22:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  The man accused of killing rapper Nipsey Hussle was attacked with a razor the day before jurors were expected to begin deliberations in his murder trial.
  
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• What digital information could prosecutors use in abortion-related cases?

  29-06-2022 22:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Period trackers, location data, search histories, text messages: There is a veritable mountain of digital information that privacy advocates are now worried
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Makes His Retirement Date Official

  29-06-2022 21:52
  
  Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer sent a Wednesday letter to President Joe Biden saying he will be retiring effective Thursday at noon.
  No, this doesn’t mean that Biden is going to nominate another justice.
  Breyer will be replaced by Ketanji Brown Jackson, having announced in January that he’d be retiring at the end of the Supreme Court’s summer session. The court is slated to issue its final opinions of its current term on Thursday.
  Nominated by then-President Bill Cli
  
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• Massachusetts' highest court rules lawsuit against Harvard over photos of half-naked slaves can proceed

  29-06-2022 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  Massachusetts' highest court has ruled that a woman claiming to be the descendant of enslaved people can proceed with some of the claims in her lawsuit against Harvard University.
  
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• After Jan. 6 Committee Witness Accuses Trump of Assault, Secret Service Source Issues a Denial

  29-06-2022 21:30
  
  After a Jan. 6 Committee witness claimed that former President Donald Trump physically assaulted a Secret Service agent, a source within the agency responded with a denial.
  Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, recounted a story of Trump lunging at his security on Jan. 6 in a Tuesday committee hearing.
  Hutchinson said she had heard about Trump lunging for the steering wheel of the presidential limousine.
  She also claimed witnesses saw Trump reaching
  
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• Empty-Skull and Crossbones

  29-06-2022 21:27
  
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• Analysis: Ted Cruz just picked a fight with a Muppet. Again.

  29-06-2022 21:12 via cnn.com
  
  On Tuesday, Elmo -- yes, the perennially joyful red Muppet who loves, literally, everyone -- got vaccinated against Covid-19.
  
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• ISIS fanatic found guilty of murder and terrorism in 2015 Paris terrorist attacks

  29-06-2022 20:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  A court in France found 20 men guilty of involvement in the Islamic State terrorist attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and the national stadium.
  
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• I Can't Say It, We're Being Recorded: HHS Sec Almost Leaks Illegal Plans for Abortion, Clams up When He Notices Camera

  29-06-2022 20:09
  
  During a Saturday interview with NBC News’ Kate Snow at the Aspen Ideas Health conference, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra suggested his agency is considering providing taxpayer-funded transportation to women seeking out-of-state abortions.
  Snow asked Becerra what steps the administration is taking “to help women” in response to the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.
  “Well, we’re working with centers like
  
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• Another Food Processing Plant Closes Amid Potential Food Shortages, Over 200 Jobs Gone

  29-06-2022 19:57
  
  Another major food producer is joining the long list of facilities shutting down or experiencing mysterious mishaps just when grocery prices are soaring, and our food chain is under more pressure than ever.
  According to local authorities, George’s Prepared Food is closing down its Caryville, Tennessee, facility after operating there for decades. More than 200 jobs will be lost once the plant closes its doors in September, according to WBIR-TV.
  “We just got the notice of the actual le
  
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• Out of Character: Elon Musk Refuses to Respond After Mom Tweets Happy Birthday Wish - Is Something Wrong?

  29-06-2022 19:45
  
  Public speculation over Elon Musk’s Twitter silence continued this week after the tech entrepreneur did not respond to his mother’s tweet wishing him a happy birthday.
  “Happy birthday @elonmusk,” his mother, Maye Musk, wrote in a Tuesday post.
  “Thank you for making the world a better place in the past 1/4 century #ProudMom,” she added.Happy birthday @elonmuskThank you for making the world a better place in the past 1/4 century #ProudMom pic.twitter.com/PjetPUz
  
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• For anti-abortion LGBTQ groups, Roe's reversal is a 'human rights victory'

  29-06-2022 19:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  A seemingly small but vocal minority of LGBTQ folks say concerns about the infringement of LGBTQ rights in the wake of Roe’s reversal are unfounded.
  
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• Former Jan. 6 investigator launches Senate bid in Missouri

  29-06-2022 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  John Wood, a former senior investigator for the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, launched on Wednesday a Senate campaign in Missouri as an independent, calling for a "commonsense alternative" to the field of Republican and Democratic candidates.
  
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• Op-Ed: On This Day of the Christian Martyr, Let's Honor John Chau and Ask Ourselves Some Uncomfortable Questions

  29-06-2022 19:28
  
  John Chau’s murder by tribesmen on North Sentinel Island in 2018 drew worldwide media attention, most of it critical if not downright mocking. The young Christian missionary was called a fool, a colonialist and an adventure bro. He was mocked in memes and ridiculed by comedians for cheap laughs.
  And the criticism didn’t come only from unbelievers. Christians piled on, too, passing on the memes and arguing that John’s approach to fulfilling the Great Commission was outmoded and
  
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• Top UK supermarket stops selling Heinz baked beans in dispute over rising prices

  29-06-2022 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  It's getting harder for shoppers in the United Kingdom to find Heinz baked beans. Blame food price inflation.
  
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• SCOTUS says states can be sued for discriminating against veterans

  29-06-2022 19:10 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court said in a 5-4 ruling Wednesday that state agencies are not immune from private lawsuits brought under a federal law meant to protect employment rights of returning veterans.
  
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• State abortion bans trigger confusion over what happens to frozen embryos

  29-06-2022 18:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Abortion bans raise questions about whether it could become illegal to discard an embryo created as part of the in vitro fertilization process in some states.
  
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• Pro-Abortion Nancy Pelosi Receives Communion at Vatican Mass, Where Pope Was Presiding

  29-06-2022 18:54
  
  Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took Communion at a Mass on Wednesday presided over by Pope Francis in Vatican City’s St. Peter’s Basilica, according to news reports.
  Pelosi was in Rome on a family vacation when she had a visit with the pope and attended a Mass for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, sources told Catholic news outlet Crux Now, a newspaper that covers the Vatican.
  The top House Democrat was seated in the VIP diplomatic section of the basilica during the service,
  
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• After 6 months, law improving mental health care for U.S. service members has not been implemented

  29-06-2022 18:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. military has not yet put a six-month-old federal law designed to improve how service members get mental health care into effect, despite a recent rash
  
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• NYC to announce lawsuit against ghost gun retailers who illegally sell parts

  29-06-2022 18:45 via cnn.com
  
  New York City officials are scheduled to announce Wednesday the city is filing lawsuits against five retailers of so-called ghost guns.
  
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• After Leftist Mob Cancels Christian Bakers, Christian 'Mob' Shows Up and Saves the Day

  29-06-2022 18:36
  
  When the world cancels you, God often has better plans.
  Melissa and Aaron Klein had to shut down their Oregon bake shop, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, after refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. The Christian business owners faced $135,000 in discrimination fines in 2013.
  The Christian couple is now raising funds to relaunch their business in Montana while their court case could soon be heard by the Supreme Court.
  In 2013, a crippling discrimination fine forced the Kleins to shut down
  
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• Ben and Jerry's sells its Israeli business

  29-06-2022 18:35 via cnn.com
  
  Unilever has sold its Ben & Jerry's business in Israel to its distributor in the country, following ongoing controversy related to its activities in Israel and the West Bank.
  
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• Pelosi receives Communion in Vatican amid abortion debate

  29-06-2022 18:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and received Communion during a papal Mass in St.
  
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• Two Mexican Citizens Charged After Dozens of Dead Bodies Found in Semi-Truck in Texas

  29-06-2022 18:00
  
  As the death toll from a deserted tractor-trailer packed with illegal immigrants that was found on Monday topped 50, officials announced that two Mexican nationals in the United States illegally have been charged in connection with the incident.
  The dead illegal immigrants were found in an area of San Antonio. Police took 46 bodies out of the trailer, with others dying despite being taken to local hospitals.
  On Tuesday,  Juan Francisco D’Luna-Bilbao and Juan Claudio D’Luna-Mende
  
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• Where's the Outrage? Instagram Censors Photo of Black Man Exercising Constitutional Right

  29-06-2022 17:57
  
  When can you censor the photo of a black person exercising a constitutional right?
  When that right is conferred by the Second Amendment, of course.
  According to a conservative writer, Instagram censored his post celebrating black gun owners, slapping a “sensitive content” warning on it despite the fact it merely showed a black man holding a handgun.
  (At The Western Journal, we’ve chronicled how Big Tech is biased against conservatives and conservative causes — particularl
  
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• Supreme Court restores Oklahoma authority over crimes on reservations

  29-06-2022 17:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Supreme Court scaled back the effect of its own ruling two years ago that blocked Oklahoma authorities from prosecuting some crimes on Native American reservations.
  
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• Liz Cheney Appears to Hint at Criminal Prosecution of Trump

  29-06-2022 17:34
  
  After Tuesday’s hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming suggested that the case for prosecuting former President Donald Trump had been bolstered.
  In a tweet on Tuesday, Cheney shared an article by anti-Trump commentator David French headlined “The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump Just Got Much Stronger.”The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump Just Got Much Stronger https://t.co/qFm2fiJZsM
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• Hype-notism

  29-06-2022 17:26
  
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• Texas Attorney General Launches Investigation of Walmart

  29-06-2022 17:23
  
  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday announced he has launched an investigation into Walmart to determine whether it filled prescriptions improperly and failed to report suspicious prescriptions for opioids.
  Paxton said he filed a Civil Investigative Demand that requires extensive documentation from the retailer.
  According to a news release on his website, Paxton said his office is investigating potential violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
  Paxton is demanding Walmart
  
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• 'It's a brick wall': The end of Roe will be 'horrific' for incarcerated people

  29-06-2022 17:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Access to abortion care in prison is even more severely limited now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.
  
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• University That Employs Clarence Thomas Shuts Down Students' Attempt to Remove Him from Teaching Position

  29-06-2022 17:10
  
  The college at which Justice Clarence Thomas teaches law will not cave into a petition calling for his removal as an adjunct professor.
  George Washington University on Tuesday said it will not boot Thomas, who last week concurred in the Supreme Court opinion that overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling, according to The Hill.
  “Because we steadfastly support the robust exchange of ideas and deliberation and because debate is an essential part of our university’s academic and educational mis
  
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• Biden Announces Major US Military Expansion in Europe, Russia Declares He's Under an 'Illusion'

  29-06-2022 16:57
  
  As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, the U.S. has just announced that it will be making a significant military expansion in Europe.
  “We’re stepping up. We’re proving that NATO is more needed now than it ever has been,” President Joe Biden said at the opening of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit, the Wall Street Journal reported.
  The U.S. will now have a permanent troop presence in Poland and will add 100,000 troops to what it now has in E
  
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• NATO expansion is 'direct result' of Putin's 'colossal strategic mistake,' experts say

  29-06-2022 16:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  NATO invited Finland and Sweden to join the alliance in the wake of Putin's war as Biden announced new American military deployments at a Madrid summit.
  
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• Coast Guard and NYPD Activate After Massive Brawl Breaks Out on Cruise Ship Bound for New York

  29-06-2022 16:44
  
  A Carnival cruise ship to the Caribbean ended up with a brawl on the way back to New York City.
  The fighting broke out on the ship’s dance floor early Tuesday, when a dispute between two people grew into a massive melee involving between 40 and 60 combatants, according to WNBC-TV.
  Due to the fight, the Coast Guard provided an escort for the vessel, the Carnival Magic, as it made the final leg of its journey, WNBC reported. New York City police were waiting at the dock when the ship arrived
  
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• Expert Notices Coded Message in Lightfoot's Remarks - Justice Thomas Now Needs 24/7 Security

  29-06-2022 16:22
  
  Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell slammed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot after the Democrat directed a vulgar diatribe at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over his opinion in the high court’s landmark reversal of Roe v. Wade.
  Terrell suggested that Lightfoot’s profane rant — where she shouted “F*** Clarence Thomas!” during an LGBT “pride” event — was essentially a dog whistle inciting left-wing violence against the conservative justice.
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