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• Soros-Backed DA Facing Intense Backlash as Judge Reduces Bail for Bodega Worker Arrested for Self-Defense

  09-07-2022 23:36
  
  A George Soros-funded district attorney in New York has met with major backlash over his harsh treatment of an elderly bodega clerk who defended himself against an attacker.
  Jose Alba, a 61-year-old man who emigrated legally from the Dominican Republic 30 years ago, was working at a Manhattan convenience store on July 1 when Austin Simon, a 35-year-old career criminal who was already on parole for attacking a police officer, went behind the counter and began assaulting him.
  But Alba, who became
  
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• Mama Black Bear and Her Two Cubs Shot Dead After State Officials Think They're Getting Too Close to Homeless Camp

  09-07-2022 23:20
  
  A family of black bears is dead after Alaska wildlife officials determined the animals were getting too close to an Anchorage park populated by the homeless.
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced they’d killed four bears in a Tuesday statement.
  The animals had entered a tent in Centennial Park looking for food. This development led the authorities to deem the bears a threat to public safety.
  The park had been repurposed for use by the homeless, according to the Anchorage Daily N
  
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• Tragic: Two Arrested After 7-Year-Old Falls Out of Moving Car on Freeway and Dies

  09-07-2022 23:05
  
  Early on the morning of July 2, police in Southern California got a 911 call from a driver about an “unknown stationary object” blocking a freeway.
  When officers arrived, they found a horrible, heartbreaking scene. The “object” was a young girl, deceased.
  As the investigation began, the horrifying story began to come into sharp focus.
  “It was determined that the unknown object was a child which had been struck by several vehicles,” the California Highway Patro
  
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• 'Amazing' Video: Plane Forced to Make Emergency Landing on Busy Highway, Narrowly Avoids Catastrophe

  09-07-2022 22:19
  
  A pilot flying a single-engine aircraft made an emergency landing on Sunday morning on a highway in North Carolina.
  Vincent Fraser was flying with his father-in-law when the airplane’s engine began to fail, according to WLOS-TV.
  “I would go through my checklist and I was able to get the aircraft to restart and kind of fly a little bit, but she would only fly for about three to five seconds, and then she would come back down and start to sink again,” Fraser said.
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• 1 Bug Bite Attacked Young Woman's Brain, Coroner Reveals 'I've Never Seen a Case Like This Before'

  09-07-2022 22:09
  
  At age 21, Oriana Pepper was living her dream.
  A pilot, she was preparing to fly for one of Europe’s largest airlines. The young British woman had passed her flying theory exams and had traveled to Antwerp, Belgium, to complete her training for easyJet.
  Less than a month later, she was dead — all because of a simple mosquito bite that ended up decaying her brain. A coroner said he’d “never seen a case like this before.”
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• RI Dem Lawmaker Debases Herself Sexually on TikTok in Protest for 'Trans Rights' and 'Intersex Justice'

  09-07-2022 21:59
  
  And here I thought Rhode Island Democrats couldn’t get more embarrassing than Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.
  Whitehouse, you may recall, was forced to reveal last summer that he was a member of an all-white sailing club. The senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee — whose strange jihad against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, including a quixotic call to have him impeached, was derailed by the scandal — refused to resign from the organization, saying instead that he was
  
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• Sickening Video: Teens Brutally Beat Elderly Man to Death with Traffic Cone

  09-07-2022 21:47
  
  A 73-year-old Philadelphia man died on June 24 after being beaten with a traffic cone by a group of young people.
  James Lambert was crossing a street at around 2:40 a.m. when he was caught by the group, WCAU-TV reported.
  Police released surveillance footage of the attack and are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to those responsible.
  The footage appears to show three girls and four boys in their teens taking part in the beating.
  One of them threw the cone at Lambert as he crossed
  
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• Disgraceful Biden's Latest Border Victims are His Own Agents

  09-07-2022 21:08
  
  An internal Customs and Border Protection investigation found that horse-mounted Border Patrol agents did not whip Haitian migrants trying to enter the United States last year near Del Rio, Texas.
  However, the report on the investigation released Friday claimed that the agents exerted unnecessary force and behaved in an unsafe and unprofessional way while trying to stop the migrants, the CBP said in a Friday news release.
  “The investigation also found that at least one Border Patrol Agent
  
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• World-Famous Wildlife YouTuber Risks It All, Declares He's Discovered a Large Primate Skull in North America

  09-07-2022 20:46
  
  A social media star who draws millions of views from around the world is putting his reputation on the line with an unbelievable find in the North American wilderness.
  YouTube star Coyote Peterson, known for wildlife videos and willingly enduring some of the most painful stings of the animal kingdom, has now made a wild claim that could lead to the downfall of his image.
  On July 7, Peterson shared photos of a trip to British Columbia, where he says he found a large primate skull.
  In the social m
  
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• Biden's move on Alaska oil drilling project could doom his climate goals

  09-07-2022 19:53 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration has taken a key step forward on a controversial proposed oil drilling project in Alaska's North Slope, angering climate advocates who say the project would release tons of emissions and doom the President's climate goals.
  
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• Just One Week After End of 'Pride Month,' Liberal Cities Are Monkeypox Hotspots

  09-07-2022 19:41
  
  To paraphrase the old adage, “Pride Month” cometh before a rise in monkeypox cases.
  At least, that is the experience of San Francisco and New York City, both of which are grappling with spiking cases of the disease that is largely associated with the LGBT community, which marks June as “Pride Month.”
  New York had a nation-leading 119 cases as of Wednesday, according to the New York Post. San Francisco is at 40 cases, with local officials saying that is likely an undercoun
  
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• US Marshals apprehend 13 sex offenders in Iowa wanted for crimes against children

  09-07-2022 19:35 via cnn.com
  
  The US Marshals Service has arrested 13 of the most wanted sex offenders in Iowa, authorities say.
  
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• Oprah Winfrey's father dies at age 88

  09-07-2022 19:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Vernon Winfrey, a former Nashville city councilman and a local barbershop owner, has passed away, his daughter and TV mogul Oprah Winfrey said Saturday.
  
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• Hours After Mom Drops Off 12-Year-Old for Solo Flight, American Airlines Calls Her with Horrific News

  09-07-2022 19:17
  
  Just hours after dropping her young daughter off for an unaccompanied flight, an unexpected call from the airline threw a Georgia mom into every parent’s worst nightmare.
  The ordeal began last Saturday, after Monica Gilliam dropped her 12-year-old daughter Kimber off at Tennessee’s Chattanooga Airport for a flight to Miami. Since her daughter was traveling alone, an extra fee guaranteed the young girl would have an escort until she met her father once landing at her destination.
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• Dem Senator Privately Presents 'Faglicious Homo' with 'Drag Queen Story Hour' Award, Doesn't Want Voters to Know

  09-07-2022 18:56
  
  Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is running in one of this year’s most competitive senate races. This is likely why she tried to keep quiet her office’s presentation of a “certificate of commemoration” to drag queen Miss Ginger Devine for his work with children at the local library.
  Unfortunately, the Washoe County Library didn’t get the memo.#DragQueenStoryTime was a success! Sparks families came out today to meet Miss Ginger and join in the fun. Special thanks t
  
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• Army Suspends Retired Three-Star General's Contract for His Mild Criticism of Jill Biden

  09-07-2022 18:53
  
  Retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky, the Army’s former top spokesman, was suspended from his contract and placed under investigation over a mocking tweet in response to first lady Jill Biden.
  Biden had tweeted that women’s rights had been taken away by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
  “For nearly 50 years, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our bodies. Today, that right was stolen from us,” Biden tweeted on June 24.For nearly 50 years,
  
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• One Key Term in the Musk-Twitter Agreement Could Decide the Final Outcome of the Saga

  09-07-2022 18:30
  
  A new report says one term in Elon Musk’s merger agreement to buy Twitter could mean that Musk won’t be able to walk away from the deal scot-free.
  On Friday, Musk filed a letter with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying that because Twitter did not give him all the information he wanted – chiefly around the issue of fake accounts – the $44 billion deal was off. Twitter issued a statement later in the day, saying it would take Musk to the Delaware Court of Chancer
  
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• Oklahoma City Zoo rejoices with birth of critically endangered Sumatran tiger twins

  09-07-2022 18:23 via cnn.com
  
  Twin newborn Sumatran tiger cubs are bonding with their mother, having been born minutes apart early on July 2 at the Oklahoma City Zoo.
  
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• Biden speaks to sister of Paul Whelan, executive detained in Russia

  09-07-2022 18:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden spoke by phone Friday with the sister of Paul Whelan, an American who has been imprisoned in Russia for more than three years, according to
  
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• Star of '24' and 'NCIS,' Actor Gregory Itzin, Dead at 74

  09-07-2022 18:00
  
  Gregory Itzin of “24” and “NCIS” fame has passed away, according to his manager, Lisa Gallant. He was 74.
  Gallant told People that the actor died Friday after experiencing complications during emergency surgery.
  Itzin got his start on the stage, training at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, according to his IMDb biography.
  Over the years, he has snapped up major roles in films like “Lincoln,” “The Ides of March,” “Law Abidin
  
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• Trump Was Honoring His Dear Friend Shinzo Abe While Biden Was Literally Asleep at the Wheel

  09-07-2022 17:41
  
  The assassination of former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe took the world by surprise early Friday morning, especially Donald Trump, who was close friends with Abe during their terms.
  While President Joe Biden slept through the Japanese politician’s death, Trump honored Abe with two Truth Social posts before Biden could release one statement.
  Even though Trump is no longer president, his timely actions demonstrated he still has what it takes to be a strong leader for America.
  The forme
  
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• Bombshell Court Filing: Depp-Heard Trial May Need to Be Redone Due to 'Deeply Troubling' Juror Error

  09-07-2022 17:39
  
  The possibility that “Depp-Heard II” could be playing at a Virginia courtroom has been raised in a legal filing.
  The filing, published by Deadline, says a mistrial should be declared because someone other than a juror who had been selected for the trial was actually part of the jury.
  Amid redactions that black out the names of those involved, the filing says that a 77-year-old man living at a certain address had been selected. However, the filing said, a 52-year-old man who lives at
  
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• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is (almost) gone. Here's who could replace him.

  09-07-2022 17:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  Now that Boris Johnson’s prime ministership has self-destructed, the race to succeed him has heated up.
  
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• Musk tells Twitter he wants out of deal to buy it. Twitter says it will force him to close

  09-07-2022 17:26 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk wants to terminate his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter — the latest in a whirlwind process in which he became the company's biggest shareholder, turned down a board seat, agreed to buy the social media platform and then started raising doubts about going through with the deal.
  
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• Amber Heard seeks mistrial, says the wrong juror was seated in Johnny Depp defamation trial

  09-07-2022 17:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Johnny Depp's multi-million win against Amber Heard is once again being challenged after Heard's legal team filed paperwork Friday seeking a mistrial, stating
  
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• Auto Expert Uncovers Hidden Truth About EV Range Claims - Owners Should Be Seething

  09-07-2022 16:56
  
  President Joe Biden’s administration wants the United States to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 — and a big part of that plan involves a switchover to electric vehicles.
  EVs, we’re told, are the way of the future. Gone are worries about “range anxiety,” we’re told. These vehicles can put in some serious miles on a single charge — and the government’s building more charging infrastructure along the highways every day.
  Neil Winton, however, says
  
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• Biden Offers Straw-Man Arguments, Scorches SCOTUS in Announcing His Abortion Executive Order

  09-07-2022 16:28
  
  For a president who likes to fear-monger about so many things, Joe Biden’s performance in announcing his abortion executive order Friday perhaps takes the cake.
  He made the most fantastical claims about what Republicans may do in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling last month in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization.
  These claims included tracking the information women access on their cell phones, preventing women from traveling to other states to seek abortio
  
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• Mom of Highland Suspect's Appalling Incident with Young Son that Led to Her Arrest: Disturbing Details Revealed

  09-07-2022 16:07
  
  The mother of accused Highland Park shooter Bobby Crimo III was convicted of leaving her then-2-year-old son in a hot car for 27 minutes as a child, new reports indicate — and that’s just the beginning of her disturbing history of lapsed parenting.
  The report comes after numerous sources spoke out about the toxic environment inside the Crimo home — and what role it may have played in creating a monster who allegedly killed seven people in an attack on a July 4 parade.
  (As detai
  
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• Analysis: 5 constitutional amendments for right now

  09-07-2022 15:08 via cnn.com
  
  Readers of this newsletter are frequently reminded of the shortcomings of the US form of government:
  
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• 5 constitutional amendments for right now

  09-07-2022 15:08 via cnn.com
  
  Readers of this newsletter are frequently reminded of the shortcomings of the US form of government:
  
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• 'How are you supposed to live?' Some cancer patients skip medications over sky-high cost

  09-07-2022 13:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  New York resident Lynn Scarfuto, 72, spent several years working as a nurse navigator, helping patients through their cancer ordeals before she became a cancer
  
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• Yellowstone bison goring videos show a dangerous American tourist failing

  09-07-2022 13:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Yellowstone bison goring viral videos highlight America's tourism problem as national park visitors explode post Covid
  
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• Why all taxpayers should care about the rare IRS audits of Comey and McCabe

  09-07-2022 12:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Some scandals may seem remote from ordinary citizens — not this one. Being singled out for an audit because of a person’s political view should worry everyone.
  
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• 4-year-old girl was killed in a shooting in Akron, Ohio

  09-07-2022 12:15 via cnn.com
  
  A 4-year-old girl was killed and a man is "clinging to life" following a shooting Friday night in Akron, Ohio, a city that has been reeling from protests over the fatal police shooting of a Black man nearly two weeks ago.
  
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• Car jumps curb in downtown Chicago, injuring 6 people, officials say

  09-07-2022 11:24 via cnn.com
  
  Six people were injured Friday night when a car jumped a curb and crashed near businesses just north of downtown Chicago, authorities said.
  
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• This anti-abortion group spent decades 'behind the scenes' trying to overturn Roe. They're not done.

  09-07-2022 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Carol Tobias' life's work came to fruition when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
  
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• 5 Black women share why they had abortions and the consequences of the Roe reversal

  09-07-2022 10:00 via cnn.com
  
  • Here's what's in Biden's executive order on abortion rights
  
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• Oath Keeper members brought explosives to DC area around January 6 and had a 'death list,' prosecutors say

  09-07-2022 04:42 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department released new details Friday evening of the alleged extensive planning by the Oath Keepers to prepare for violence in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, including lessons to conduct "hasty ambushes," a "death list" of Georgia election officials and attempts to acquire homemade firearms.
  
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• Akron officers may not have pursued or shot Jayland Walker if they had met Ohio standards for police

  09-07-2022 03:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Akron Police Department may not have met a state standard that could have prevented the type of police pursuits that ended in the death of Jayland Walker,
  
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• Breaking: Twitter to Sue Elon Musk to Force Him Into Buying Company for $44 Billion

  09-07-2022 02:03
  
  In an on-again, off-again romance that never made it to the altar, the breakup is already getting bitter.
  Within hours of the formal notice from Elon Musk that he was not going to buy Twitter for $44 billion after all, the company said it would not take rejection lightly.
  “We are committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plan to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement,” the company announced in a one-paragraph statement.The
  
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• Couple Towed Trailer Behind $80,000 Electric Truck, Had to Stop Every 100 Miles on 2,700-Mile Trip

  09-07-2022 01:52
  
  Electric vehicles have been under the spotlight lately as they consistently do not measure up to the hype.
  While many politicians are quick to push electric cars on the American public, one couple’s experience shows why some are skeptical.
  This story took place last November as the couple decided to try out their new Rivian R1T — an all-electric pickup truck starting at a whopping $79,500 — by making a cross-country road trip from Detroit to Los Angeles and back.
  The return jou
  
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• Detroit police officer killed after being 'ambushed' while responding to a gunfire call

  09-07-2022 01:31 via cnn.com
  
  A Detroit police officer was shot and killed on Wednesday after allegedly being "ambushed" by a 19-year-old gunman while responding to a 911 call of gunshots being fired, authorities said.
  
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• Ex-Trump White House counsel Cipollone 'cooperative' with Jan. 6 committee during lengthy interview

  09-07-2022 01:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone appeared before the Jan. 6 committee for a marathon interview, sitting for more than seven hours of questions.
  
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• 'The Big Short' Star Rips into Musk for Sleeping with Subordinate to Remedy Family Decline

  09-07-2022 00:56
  
  After news broke of Elon Musk’s twins that he fathered with his Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, one significant figure has criticized Musk for sleeping with a subordinate and bringing more children into a broken family.
  Michael Burry, an investor who somewhat predicted the 2008 economic crash and was subsequently made famous by the movie “The Big Short,” indirectly called out Musk in a tweet highlighting how the disintegration of the nuclear family is hurting society.
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• Musk Terminates Twitter Deal, Accuses Company of Trying to Fool Him with 'False and Misleading Representations'

  09-07-2022 00:22
  
  Elon Musk says he has abandoned his deal to buy Twitter.
  Musk announced in April that he wanted to buy the social media platform. The company first ran from Musk’s embrace but has since supported the deal.
  In mid-May, Musk said the deal was on hold pending an effort to determine how many fake accounts Twitter has. Twitter says about 5 percent of its accounts are bots. Musk estimates the figure is much higher. At the time, commentators suggested the tactic might have been part of a plan to
  
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• California Law Might Kill 70,000 Trucker Businesses, Severely Damage Supply Chain

  09-07-2022 00:19
  
  California’s efforts to crush entrepreneurs met a victory this week when independent owner-operator truckers were outlawed.
  On top of the supply chain issues created by crammed West Coast ports sometimes unable to handle inbound ship traffic and overloaded railroads, about 70,000 truckers now have to decide between parking their rigs and leaving the Golden State, Bloomberg News reported Friday.
  The dilemma comes in the wake of a 2019 California law, Assembly Bill 5, designed to get rid of
  
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• Why the most surprising thing about Marvel's new 'Thor' isn't Natalie Portman

  09-07-2022 00:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Give “Thor: Love and Thunder” credit for scenes where the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film tries to tackle hard questions about god, good and evil.
  
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