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• Elon Musk Suggests Law That Would Literally Make Biden Run Illegal in 2024

  13-07-2022 23:47
  
  On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to former President Donald Trump calling him a “bulls*** artist.” His suggestion would keep not only Trump but also President Joe Biden off the ballot in 2024.
  “I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset,” Musk wrote on Twitter. “Dems should also call off the attack — don’t make it so that Trump’s only way to survive is to regain the Presidency.&rd
  
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• 4,000 Beagles in Desperate Need of Homes After Medical Breeding Facility Shuts Down Over 70 Violations

  13-07-2022 23:31
  
  Many are celebrating after the Envigo beagle breeding facility in Cumberland, Virginia, is officially being closed after lots of hard work and investigations.
  During a nine-month span, a series of inspections uncovered over 70 animal welfare violations.
  According to the New York Times, on one occasion, a beagle was found stuck to the floor after its foot had been caught on the flooring. She was dehydrated and staff didn’t know how long she’d been there.
  On another check, inspectors f
  
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• Cops Discover Underground Secret at Homeless Encampment, Find Bunker with Alarming Cache of Weapons, Goods

  13-07-2022 23:17
  
  Police in San Jose, California, found an underground homeless encampment with rifles and thousands of dollars worth of stolen goods, authorities announced Tuesday.
  The shelter was in Coyote Creek and Wool Creek Drive, San Jose Police Department said in a Tuesday post on Twitter.
  An investigation into a commercial burglary incident led officers to the encampment.
  “A total of six suspects were for a variety of charges,” police wrote.2/ A total of 6 suspects were arrested for a variety
  
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• Watch: Stiff-Looking Biden Says 'What am I Doing Now?' Two People Have to Show Him Where to Stand

  13-07-2022 23:06
  
  Let’s just say, he doesn’t look like the leader of the free world.
  President Joe Biden kicked off his high-stakes trip to the Middle East on Wednesday — including stops in Israel and Saudi Arabia — with an appearance at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv.
  He got a red carpet welcome, of course. The big problem was that he looked like he didn’t even know where to put his next step.JOE BIDEN in Israel: “What am I doing now?” pic.twitter.com
  
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• Michigan governor signs executive order to protect abortion providers and patients from extradition

  13-07-2022 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order on Wednesday that limits her office from extraditing people to or from Michigan if they're facing criminal charges for obtaining, providing or assisting an abortion.
  
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• WJ LIVE | EP 278 | Unbelievable Woke Propaganda Snuck Into Covid Slush Fund Bill

  13-07-2022 22:47
  
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• Boston's new top cop was once beaten by colleagues while undercover

  13-07-2022 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  In 1995, he was an undercover officer for the Boston Police when he was mistaken for a suspect and severely beaten by his own colleagues. Next month, Michael Cox will lead the force as the city's new police commissioner.
  
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• Video: Border Reporter Stunned to Come Across 'One of the Most Massive Single Groups We Have Ever Witnessed Cross Illegally'

  13-07-2022 22:42
  
  A new video showing a large group of immigrants illegally entering Texas is once again highlighting the unprecedented border crisis the U.S. is experiencing under President Joe Biden.
  On Wednesday morning, Fox News journalist Bill Melugin tweeted a video of a massive group of migrants crossing the Rio Grande into the border town of Eagle Pass.
  “BREAKING: One of the most massive single groups we have ever witnessed cross illegally at the border is crossing into Eagle Pass, TX right now. The
  
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• Longtime NeverTrumper Finally Turns on Biden, Calls for Democratic Replacement

  13-07-2022 22:37
  
  President Joe Biden is losing support from some of his biggest backers.
  Bill Kristol, who founded and edited the neoconservative magazine The Weekly Standard, became a fierce critic of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and led the NeverTrump movement.
  In 2018, Kristol co-founded The Bulwark, whose coverage is largely centered around criticism of Trump.
  Two years later, he endorsed Biden in the Democratic primary, calling it a “simple choice,” and in the general elect
  
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• Elon Musk Posts Hilarious Meme Poking Fun at Biden's Crack and Hooker Troubles

  13-07-2022 22:26
  
  Hunter Biden just cannot seem to stay out of trouble, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk hilariously trolled him on Twitter for it.
  As videos of Biden engaging with drugs and prostitutes continue to trickle out, the question on everyone’s mind is why Biden continues to record himself in incriminating situations.
  Musk essentially asked that question with his meme, albeit in a comedic way.
  The text at the top of the picture read, “Hunter Biden every time he buys crack and hookers,” and the
  
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• Statue honoring Mary McLeod Bethune unveiled in Statuary Hall in US Capitol

  13-07-2022 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  A statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune has officially replaced a statue of a Confederate general in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall.
  
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• Jayland Walker's funeral takes place after weeks of protests over police shooting

  13-07-2022 22:24 via cnn.com
  
  Mourners are set to gather Wednesday for the funeral of Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man shot as he fled from police officers trying to stop him for an alleged traffic violation in Akron, Ohio.
  
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• Blunt message given on semiconductor chips bill

  13-07-2022 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo is sending a blunt message as top Biden administration officials are set to meet with senators for a classified briefing tied to legislation that would address a critical shortage in semiconductor chips.
  
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• Biden Cabinet official delivers a blunt message on stalled semiconductor chips bill: 'Time's up. It's time to make it happen'

  13-07-2022 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo is sending a blunt message as top Biden administration officials are set to meet with senators for a classified briefing tied to legislation that would address a critical shortage in semiconductor chips.
  
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• Woman Hospitalized After Reportedly Picking Up a $1 Bill at McDonald's

  13-07-2022 22:13
  
  A Kentucky woman claimed she overdosed on fentanyl after picking up a dollar bill laced with the narcotic at a fast food restaurant near Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday afternoon.
  The incident began when Renee Parsons and her husband Justin Parsons had stopped by a McDonald’s restaurant alongside Highway 70 near Old Hickory Boulevard in Bellevue, Kentucky, WTVF-TV reported.
  “As I was walking inside, there was a dollar on the floor just hanging out, so I picked it up, not thinking any
  
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• Netflix with ads is coming

  13-07-2022 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  You'll soon be able to sign up for a cheaper version of Netflix with ads — though that option is still in its "early days."
  
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• Hospital Staff Sings Special Song for Little Boy After 2-Year Battle with Leukemia

  13-07-2022 21:59
  
  Few diagnoses fill people with as much emotional baggage and dread as the word “cancer.” And when it’s parents who get hit with the news regarding their child, it can be even more devastating.
  Plenty of organizations and groups have been formed to support patients and their families every step of the way, with some of the wish-granting organizations taking center stage.
  Little Wishes, based in California, was started by two pediatric nurses who wanted to do something for seriou
  
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• American Ally Poland Completes 115-Mile Border Wall to Deter Illegal Alien Smuggling

  13-07-2022 21:57
  
  A major U.S. ally in Europe has completed a large wall on its eastern border.
  Poland completed the structure of the 115-mile-long and 18-foot-tall wall late last month, according to The Associated Press.
  The wall was built in response to state-abetted illegal migrant smuggling on the part of Belarus, Poland’s eastern neighbor.
  It isn’t as tall as the fortifications former President Donald Trump completed on the U.S.-Mexico border, but it is fitted with barbed wire, unlike the America
  
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• Suspected Illegal Immigrant Arrested in Rape of 10-Year-Old Ohio Girl Who Traveled for Abortion and Drew Biden's Attention

  13-07-2022 21:41
  
  After impregnating a 10-year-old Ohio girl, a Columbus man has been arrested and charged with the first degree felony of rape.
  Police said that the suspect, Gershon Fuentes, confessed to raping the little girl on at least two occasions, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
  The story of the little girl’s rape and pregnancy gained national attention in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
  After the court’s decision, Ohio’s law banning abortion a
  
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• Biden says Trump made 'gigantic mistake' withdrawing US from Iran nuclear deal

  13-07-2022 21:19 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden said in an interview aired Wednesday that former President Donald Trump made a "gigantic mistake" withdrawing the US from the Iran nuclear deal and said Iran was closer now to acquiring a nuclear weapon.
  
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• Jayland Walker's funeral takes place after weeks of protests in Akron over police shooting

  13-07-2022 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  Mourners are set to gather Wednesday for the funeral of Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man shot as he fled from police officers trying to stop him for an alleged traffic violation in Akron, Ohio.
  
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• Biden administration says pharmacies can't turn away people who have a prescription for a drug that may end a pregnancy

  13-07-2022 21:00 via cnn.com
  
  In clarifying guidance announced Wednesday, the Biden administration says federal law does not allow pharmacies to turn away people who have a prescription for a drug that may end a pregnancy.
  
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• Suspect arrested in connection with NYC homeless stabbing incidents

  13-07-2022 20:46 via cnn.com
  
  The knife-wielding assailant who authorities believe had stabbed three homeless men in New York City while they slept, killing one of them, has been arrested, police and city officials announced at a news conference Wednesday.
  
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• Why making workers spend more days in the office could backfire

  13-07-2022 20:23 via cnn.com
  
  Before the pandemic, many corporate leaders believed that allowing their employees to work from home would hurt productivity. But, in many cases, the pandemic proved otherwise.
  
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• The free speech implications of the Heard defamation verdict are chilling

  13-07-2022 20:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  The reporting on the recent Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial overlooked a key aspect of the case for social media and Twitter users.
  
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• Some scientists are pushing to rename the James Webb Space Telescope. Here's why.

  13-07-2022 20:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  James Webb was undersecretary of state during the Truman administration when the federal government systematically purged its ranks of LGBTQ employees.
  
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• Where the fight for reparations stands

  13-07-2022 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  Louis Weathers had a stable job and was married when he decided to buy a home in the Chicago suburb of Evanston in 1959 -- but high interest rates and White real estate agents who seemed adamant about keeping him and other Black residents out of certain neighborhoods nearly discouraged him.
  
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• The fight for reparations stalled in Congress. Here's how it looks at state and local levels

  13-07-2022 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  Louis Weathers had a stable job and was married when he decided to buy a home in the Chicago suburb of Evanston in 1959 -- but high interest rates and White real estate agents who seemed adamant about keeping him and other Black residents out of certain neighborhoods nearly discouraged him.
  
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• The fight for reparations has stalled in Congress. Here's what they look like in state and local governments

  13-07-2022 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  Louis Weathers had a stable job and was married when he decided to buy a home in the Chicago suburb of Evanston in 1959 -- but high interest rates and White real estate agents who seemed adamant about keeping him and other Black residents out of certain neighborhoods nearly discouraged him.
  
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• Biden Makes Waves by Rejecting Israeli President's Handshake Attempt, White House Cites New COVID Policy

  13-07-2022 19:28
  
  President Joe Biden began a very important trip to the Middle East on Wednesday, and his first stop was Israel.
  But upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Biden notably did not shake hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and other officials.
  Instead, Biden greeted them with fist bumps.
  The move appeared to surprise Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who had extended his hand for a shake.
  Ed O’Keefe, a senior White House and political correspondent for CBS News, tweeted a
  
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• So why, exactly, did Ivanka Trump go with her father to the 'Stop the Steal' rally?

  13-07-2022 19:26 via cnn.com
  
  Midway through Tuesday's January 6 committee hearing, Ivanka Trump made an appearance.
  
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• Champagne bottle sells for record $2.5 million

  13-07-2022 19:26 via cnn.com
  
  A bottle of Champagne has sold for $2.5 million, eclipsing the auction record for bubbly and likely becoming the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.
  
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• Google becomes the latest tech giant to slow hiring

  13-07-2022 19:21 via cnn.com
  
  Google plans to slow its pace of hiring for the remainder of the year in the latest sign of tech companies rethinking staffing amid a market downturn that has hit Silicon Valley particularly hard.
  
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• Watch: Dad Runs Into Biden on Bike Trail, Catches 'Live Sniffing' of Young Girl

  13-07-2022 18:54
  
  President Joe Biden has long been known for his questionable actions around young children, and a new video provided yet another example of this fact.
  In the video shared on Twitter, Biden can be seen standing next to a young girl on what appears to be a bike trail in the woods.
  After a few seconds, he seemingly leaned down and sniffed the girl’s head before whispering something in her ear. Meanwhile, a man standing next to the girl stared into the distance with a straight face.Dad ran int
  
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• Stocks Tumble as New Inflation Numbers Come in Significantly Higher Than Expected

  13-07-2022 18:08
  
  Stock futures fell as Treasury yields and the U.S. dollar rose Wednesday morning after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing that inflation rose by higher-than-expected numbers in June.
  The Consumer Price Index — a measure of inflation that accounts for the average prices of typical goods and services households purchase — rose by 1.3 percent in June, according to a Wednesday news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  Over the past 12 months, the CPI rose by
  
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• Ex-Trans Exposes What Doctors Did to Her, Backs FL Rule Barring Medicaid Funds for Trans Interventions

  13-07-2022 17:56
  
  A 17-year-old girl who thought she was a transgender boy, but who has now de-transitioned back to her true gender, is blasting the medical establishment that deals in dangerous trans procedures.
  Chloe Cole says that the “therapies,” drugs, and surgical procedures she was given starting at the age of 13 have “‘irreversibly and painfully” destroyed her body and her life, according to the Daily Mail.
  Cole says the doctors who treated her likely ended her ability to hav
  
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• Biden Responds to Rough Inflation Report: Admits Numbers Are 'Unacceptably High,' Offers Excuses

  13-07-2022 17:51
  
  President Joe Biden admitted that the June Consumer Price Index was “unacceptably high” but said that the figure was “out-of-date” in a White House press release published just after the CPI data was released Wednesday morning.
  Biden argued in the release that gas prices have come down substantially since mid-June.
  He said that today’s prices have provided “important breathing room for American families.”
  “It is little comfort to Americans to know
  
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• Drug Cartel Busted with $1.2M Stash of Meth Set Free, While Heroic Bodega Worker Was Held on $250K Bail

  13-07-2022 17:39
  
  New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town.
  No, seriously, it is. I’m not invoking the old standard from the musical “On the Town.” It’s a crime-ridden melange of failed progressive policies, the kind of place where drug cartel members who allegedly got caught with over $1 million of meth got set free on supervised release while a bodega worker who fought back against an ex-con that was attacking him was being held on $250,000 bond on murder charges.
  Talk about prior
  
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• Watch: Did Biden Just Admit He Doesn't Know Who POTUS is? Asks 'Where the Hell Is He?'

  13-07-2022 16:59
  
  And the hits just keep on coming.
  On Tuesday, the Biden administration hosted the White House Congressional Picnic at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It was the first time the shindig has been held for two years — meaning, of course, it’s Joe Biden’s first time as picnicker-in-chief.
  He started off the event as only Joe Biden could: Joking (kind of) that he keeps forgetting he’s the president.
  (The reason this is only kind of a joke is that it’s obvious to anyone with eye
  
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• Here's the Email Obama Reportedly Sent His Former White House Doctor When He Questioned Biden's Cognitive Health

  13-07-2022 16:50
  
  Former President Barack Obama delivered a rebuke to a former White House doctor who was among the first to publicly question President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities while Biden was still running for the Oval Office, according to a new report.
  A June poll showed 59 percent of Americans worried about Biden’s mental health, according to Breitbart, and the issue of Biden’s competence has emerged in the discussion of a possible second term for Biden, the New York Post reported Sun
  
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• Trump Enemy: Jan. 6 Was No Coup, And I Should Know Because I've Planned Coups

  13-07-2022 16:37
  
  I’m not quite sure what the big takeaway from John Bolton’s Tuesday interview on CNN was.
  On one hand, Bolton — a hawk among hawks who left his post as White House national security advisor in 2019 loathing then-President Donald Trump more than the prospect of eating steamed tofu for the rest of his life — vehemently insisted there was no way the events of Jan. 6, 2021, constituted a coup.
  On the other hand, he asserted (rather casually, it must be said) that he knew this
  
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• Woke Goes Broke: Zuckerberg Preps for Mass Layoffs After 'One of the Worst Downturns' for Meta Platform

  13-07-2022 16:21
  
  Many years ago, as a new college graduate, I started out in what turned out to be a temporary career in retail management.
  There was an insight I took away from a kindly but experienced superior. He was the first one to explain to me that a job description was in part a tool used to track and document justifiable reasons for terminating low-performing employees.
  It sounds like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg knows that same business practice. In response to looming financial downturns, Zuckerberg is la
  
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• Taco Belle

  13-07-2022 15:56
  
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• 3 reasons not to panic about decades-high inflation

  13-07-2022 15:55 via cnn.com
  
  When the latest data on consumer prices in the United States landed Wednesday, the headline number was ugly.
  
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• Biden Gets Crazed Look in His Eyes as He Confronts Reporter: 'Read the Polls, Jack!'

  13-07-2022 15:49
  
  The tragic comedy of errors that is Joe Biden’s failed presidency was marred by yet another epic blunder that lends more credence to mounting speculation he’s unfit to lead.
  On Tuesday, the 79-year-old career politician misrepresented the latest New York Times/Siena College poll indicating that a majority of Democrats don’t want him to run for re-election.
  The poll, published Monday, found that 64 percent of Democratic voters want someone else to run for president in 2024.
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• Father Confronts School Board, Makes Them Accidentally Confirm Sick Books Allowed in School

  13-07-2022 15:26
  
  A Florida father who went viral for confronting his local board of education over lurid books in the school district’s library system is speaking out against “groomers” in the public education system, saying administrators are introducing children’s works that are “vile” and “poison.”
  Bruce Friedman, president of the Florida chapter of parents activist group No Left Turn in Education, had his mic shut off after he read a portion of one of the books
  
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• Analysis: What history can teach us about some GOP leaders' January 6 denialism

  13-07-2022 15:18 via cnn.com
  
  Tuesday's public hearing investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection examined efforts to gather a mob on the mall prior to the deadly siege of the US Capitol -- efforts that included a massive disinformation campaign that told Donald Trump's followers that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from them.
  
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• LeBron James Issues Follow-Up Statement After His Comment on Brittney Griner and America Sparked Backlash

  13-07-2022 15:12
  
  LeBron James says he is simply misunderstood.
  The NBA superstar who dabbles as a social critic was criticized for a comment shown in a trailer for a new episode of his talk show, “The Shop.” In it, James suggested WNBA star Brittney Griner, imprisoned in Russia, might feel abandoned by the United States and not want to return.
  Griner was arrested on drug smuggling and possession charges in February, a week before Russia invaded Ukraine, prompting a deeper deterioration in relations b
  
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• Police Make Grim Discovery in Pond While Searching for Missing Man and His 3 Children

  13-07-2022 14:41
  
  The bodies of a man and three young children were found in an Indianapolis pond along with a submerged car amid a search for a father and his kids who went missing last week after leaving for a planned fishing trip there, authorities said Wednesday.
  The bodies hadn’t been positively identified, but police said they were found along with the vehicle matching the description of a car driven by Kyle Moorman, 27, of Indianapolis.
  “Based upon information available to detectives and eviden
  
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• Jayland Walker funeral to take place today after weeks of protests in Akron over police shooting

  13-07-2022 13:45 via cnn.com
  
  Mourners are set to gather Wednesday for the funeral of Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man shot as he fled from police officers trying to stop him for an alleged traffic violation in Akron, Ohio.
  
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