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• Secret Service director delaying retirement amid investigations into agency

  28-07-2022 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  US Secret Service Director James Murray is delaying his retirement from the service as the agency faces inquiries from Congress and elsewhere over its deletion of text messages around January 6, 2021, Murray said in a message to his workforce.
  
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• Some 'family values' Republicans are trying to break up marriages

  28-07-2022 23:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  The GOP can't claim to be the party of family values and be in favor of taking away the right to be a family for many of their constituents at the same time.
  
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• Congress passes bill boosting US semiconductor production

  28-07-2022 22:59 via cnn.com
  
  The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a long-awaited bill aimed at boosting US semiconductor production in a bid to increase American competitiveness, a bipartisan achievement that will send tens of billions of dollars into American manufacturing and scientific research.
  
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• Report: Stacey Abrams Coming Up Short in the 1 Demographic She Needs to Dominate to Win

  28-07-2022 22:58
  
  On November 8, Georgians will be voting for their next governor, but candidate Stacey Abrams is falling behind as she is lacking black support.
  A new poll from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution showed that GOP incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp is about five points ahead of Stacey Abrams in the gubernatorial race.
  Unfortunately for Abrams, identity politics doesn’t seem to be playing in her favor at the moment.
  She may be a black woman, but she has only garnered about 80 percent of black suppor
  
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• What Investigators Found on Street Next to Gunned-Down Microsoft Executive Changes Everything About the Case

  28-07-2022 22:37
  
  The February murder of Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan, already a horrific tragedy that happened right in front of his 2-year-old little girl, has taken on an even more sinister tone. Developments in the Florida murder case have led police to consider the crime a “targeted attack.”
  To recap the now five-month-old mystery: Bridegan, a Microsoft software engineer, was returning home with his young daughter in St. Augustine, Florida, after dropping off his twins at the home of his ex
  
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• Adam Schiff Moving for Monumental Change in House and a Huge New Role for Himself

  28-07-2022 22:33
  
  Rep. Adam Schiff of California has been positioning himself to become Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s successor as House Democratic leader, working behind the scenes to secure enough backing for his bid, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
  The report cited over a dozen members of Congress and senior aides as saying Schiff is considering a bid to become the head of the House Democratic caucus should Pelosi, 82, retire after the November midterm elections.
  Those the Post anonymously interviewed in
  
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• Californians Fleeing to Mexico Get Brutal Message from Locals

  28-07-2022 22:23
  
  A Los Angeles Times story published Wednesday has revealed a rising undercurrent of hostility toward foreigners — in Mexico. And the foreigners? They’re mostly Americans.
  Though American citizens have long been the largest segment represented in Mexico’s vital tourism industry, with resort destinations like Cancun, Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas, and Puerto Vallarta coming instantly to mind as premier vacation destinations, the trouble seems to be with the Americans who aren’t
  
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• Why Apple can't quit China

  28-07-2022 22:22 via cnn.com
  
  For close to two decades, Apple and China have been inextricably linked. The world's most populous country not only accounts for the bulk of Apple's device manufacturing but also a significant portion of its sales.
  
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• Opinion: We can't let another presidential loser try to steal an election

  28-07-2022 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  This month, I was proud to join a bipartisan group of 16 US senators to introduce legislation to reform the antiquated Electoral Count Act. The 1887 statute created the arcane process that governs how states transmit their results for the presidential election to Congress -- and then how Congress counts these votes and declares a winner.
  
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• Dems Announce 'Build Back Better' Is Dead, Instantly Hatch New Plot to Wreck Farmers

  28-07-2022 21:57
  
  Build Back Better is dead and Democrats are trying to reach an alternative deal known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. But though they are framing it as a deal to fight inflation, the act would also spend billions on climate change initiatives that could seriously damage American agriculture.
  Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin from West Virginia announced on Wednesday that he had reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the new act, the Washington Examiner reported.
  It seems f
  
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• Trump's Former Chief of Staff Got Physical with Ivanka, Jared Kushner Says in Memoir

  28-07-2022 21:55
  
  According to Jared Kushner’s upcoming memoir, John F. Kelly, the second White House chief of staff under President Donald Trump, “shoved” Ivanka Trump following an Oval Office meeting.
  Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, wrote that Kelly possessed a “Jekyll-and-Hyde” demeanor and often experienced fits of “rage.”
  Donald Trump’s son-in-law recalled the incident in “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” according to The Washington
  
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• New climate bill would impact everyday Americans, from appliances to electric vehicles

  28-07-2022 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin's stunning reversal on a clean energy package has suddenly put Democrats in a position to pass the largest climate investment in US history, and by far the biggest legislative win for the environmental movement since the Clean Air Act.
  
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• Good News: Notoriously Demonic Kat Von D Issues Life-Changing Statement

  28-07-2022 21:44
  
  World-renowned tattoo artist Kat Von D announced last week that she made a significant life change, appearing to distance herself from her controversial reputation.
  Sharing the news on social media, she threw out her books on witchcraft and magic, saying those interests “don’t align with who I am and who I want to be.”
  The life change came as a surprise to many as she was widely known for her gothic aesthetic and macabre brands, but it makes you wonder whether she turned to God
  
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• Americans Ask If Biden Has Body Double After Face Looks Totally Different in 2 Different Vids Posted on Same Day

  28-07-2022 21:36
  
  President Joe Biden looked different in two videos he appeared in on Tuesday.
  In the beginning of his video address of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement, Biden appeared normal as he criticized the Jan. 6 incursion at the United States Capitol.
  During the last two minutes, Biden’s pupils appeared heavily dilated.“You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-American.” —@JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/ufJxWPruj4
  — The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) July 26, 2022B
  
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• Manchin Refuses to Back Biden: Democratic Party Fracture Forming?

  28-07-2022 21:30
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia became the latest prominent Democrat to decline to endorse President Joe Biden should he run for re-election in 2024 during an interview on Chris Cuomo’s podcast Thursday.
  “If Joe Biden runs again and he is the Democratic nominee, depending on who the Republican nominee is, we will just have to wait and see,” Manchin said on “The Chris Cuomo Project,” according to WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
  “I am not predicting anyt
  
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• US GDP Shrinks Again - Unofficial Definition Indicates Recession Just 2 Years After the Last One

  28-07-2022 21:27
  
  The United States has entered a recession under the traditional definition of gross domestic product falling across two consecutive quarters.
  On Thursday, the Commerce Department announced that American GDP fell an annualized 0.9 percent in the second quarter.
  “Real GDP decreased less in the second quarter than in the first quarter, decreasing 0.9 percent after decreasing 1.6 percent,” the department’s news release said.
  “The smaller decrease reflected an upturn in export
  
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• Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes to Turning Point USA Students for Associating Them with Neo-Nazis

  28-07-2022 21:19
  
  “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg offered an apology on Thursday to attendees of Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit after associating them with neo-Nazis.
  The event took place in Tampa, Florida, over the weekend.
  “In Monday’s conversation about Turning Point USA, I put the young people at the conference in the same category as the protesters outside, and I don’t like it when people make assumptions about me and it’s not any better when I make ass
  
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• Farmers' Worst Nightmare: Largest Chemical Producer Announces Major Cuts to Key Fertilizer Ingredient

  28-07-2022 21:11
  
  This could devastate farmers.
  The world’s largest chemical company is cutting the production of a key ingredient in fertilizer, potentially causing ramifications for farmers and the global food supply.
  The German firm BASF announced they’re cutting back on production of ammonia in a Wednesday media call after an earnings report, according to Reuters.
  The company is citing Germany’s precarious energy situation as a result of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
  Germany is highly depen
  
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• Op-Ed: Despite Near-Total Chokehold on America, the Left Is Losing Its Grip

  28-07-2022 20:44
  
  “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”— first stanza of “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats
  America is a center-right nation. Always has been. All immigrant groups eventually find themselves squarely in the center-right on the spectrum of American society because that’s where family values like faith and community and hard work and civil discourse and charity and patriotism and equal opportunity and fairness and thrift
  
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• Suspects Arrested, Charged with Hate Crimes in Brutal 'Anti-White' Beating on New York City Bus

  28-07-2022 20:40
  
  Two suspects have been arrested on hate crime charges in connection with a racially and politically charged beating on a New York City bus, and a third is still being sought.
  The NYPD arrested and charged two teenaged girls, who are black, in the “anti-white assault” on July 9 attack, according to the New York Post.
  The two face charges of assault while carrying out a hate crime and aggravated harassment while carrying out a hate crime, according to Fox News.
  Because the suspects are
  
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• Loch Ness Monster Could Plausibly Exist According to Bombshell Discovery

  28-07-2022 20:13
  
  A new scientific study provides a definite maybe to the existence of a creature resembling the Loch Ness Monster, but casts doubt on any sightings newer than about 66 million years ago.
  The study is based on the discovery of some bone fragments belonging to a plesiosaur that was discovered in what scientists believe was a freshwater site in the era of the dinosaurs.
  Plesiosaurs have long necks, as the Loch Ness Monster is often portrayed as having. But until this find, the marine dinosaur was on
  
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• Op-Ed: Scripture's Clear and Convincing Case Crushes Any Argument for Same-Sex Marriage

  28-07-2022 20:03
  
  The Supreme Court’s recent ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade has paved the way for the high court to question the legitimacy of its similarly overreaching decisions. D.C. insiders know that one of those rulings ripe for being overturned is on same-sex marriage.
  In response to the vulnerability of the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision, the House of Representatives is attempting to rush legislation to make same-sex marriage the law of the land. News stories imply that secular
  
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• Climate Alarmist Bill Gates Once Unveiled His 'Guilty Pleasure' - It Should Infuriate Everyone

  28-07-2022 20:03
  
  Billionaire Bill Gates, who has fashioned himself as some sort of climate warrior as well, has a “guilty pleasure” that goes completely against his espoused views on helping the climate.
  While many people consider chocolate or a piece of cake a “guilty pleasure,” Gates’ is a bit more extreme. His private jets are his “little” indulgence, aviation news site Simple Flying reported.
  “The Microsoft founder turned climate activist owns no less than four
  
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• Prayers Needed - College Basketball Player Suddenly Dies 'Playing the Game He Loved'

  28-07-2022 19:33
  
  A University of Wisconsin, Whitewater basketball player died suddenly at the age of 20 on Sunday.
  Madison, Wisconsin, native Derek Gray died “unexpectedly” while “playing the game he loved,” the university posted Tuesday on Twitter in announcing his death.Warhawk Nation mourns the loss of Derek Gray, a student-athlete on the Warhawk men’s basketball team, who passed away unexpectedly on July 24th, 2022, playing the game he loved. pic.twitter.com/gHkyMr23NP
  — W
  
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• Matt Walsh Reacts to Future Eco-City Plans: 'I'd Rather Be Dead Than Live in Something Like This'

  28-07-2022 19:26
  
  Right-wing political commentator Matthew Walsh said he would prefer to die rather than live in Saudi Arabia’s planned one-building city, “The Line.”
  “I’d rather be dead than live in something like this,” Walsh wrote in a Wednesday post on Twitter, sharing a promotion video for the project in Neom, Tabuk Province.I’d rather be dead than live in something like this
  pic.twitter.com/POjP2Ei3yS
  — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) July 27, 2022
  Extending for a
  
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• Lightfoot Wants Chicago Drivers Under Constant Surveillance, But Look at What a Camera Caught Her SUV Doing

  28-07-2022 19:02
  
  Chicago drivers are increasingly subjected to speed limit and red-light cameras that automatically send out millions in fines every year, and if they don’t pay, they can lose their driver’s license.
  Meanwhile, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s motorcade reportedly has racked up hundreds of dollars in fines that she has refused to pay — without any consequence at all.
  According to a review of public records by CWB Chicago, Lightfoot’s police-driven SUVs have been recorded excee
  
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• Reaganomics Architect Has Sobering Message About Biden Inflation, Says Americans Need to Buckle Down

  28-07-2022 19:01
  
  Art Laffer is the economist behind what became known as “Reaganomics” — a series of tax cuts and economic policies that led to the boom days of the 1980s.
  However, at 81, he still remembers the “stagflation” that Jimmy Carter’s administration produced in the late 1970s, before the Republicans took back the White House. He knows grim economic times when he sees them. And, in a speech Wednesday, he called Democratic claims that inflation numbers are about to imp
  
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• Report: Suspicions Rise After Officials Notice Disturbing Travel Patterns in Federal Reserve Employees

  28-07-2022 18:48
  
  For the past nine years, the Chinese government has allegedly been trying to tamper with the Federal Reserve in an attempt to undermine American monetary policy.
  In a report released on Tuesday by Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, the Chinese government has apparently tried to obatin sensitive internal information and build a network of influence and informants inside the Federal Reserve, CNBC News reported.
  The report from the committee outlined that
  
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• Tucker Carlson: DOJ Is Complicit in Covering Up for Hunter Biden

  28-07-2022 18:39
  
  The Department of Justice is investigating former President Donald Trump as part of the probe into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
  That’s apparently a top priority at the moment.
  Yet, as Fox News’ Tucker Carlson noted in his Wednesday monologue, the DOJ isn’t just reticent about investigating President Joe Biden’s wayward son, Hunter. According to whistleblower reports, the department is actively blocking investigations into his business
  
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• 22 GOP-Led States Band Together, Say No to Rule That Would Force Schools to Accept Biden Admin's Trans Agenda

  28-07-2022 18:26
  
  President Joe Biden’s administration is shameless and heartless enough to tie federal school lunch funding to whether or not a school acquiesces to its new rules on gender identity.
  Now, almost two dozen GOP-led states are fighting back.
  According to The Hill, 22 states controlled by Republican attorneys general have filed suit against a rule by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that would cut school funding for school lunches from the Food and Nutrition Service if the school doesn’
  
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• Democrats Dread They Will Regret Dirty Election Plot, Meddling in GOP Primaries to Help MAGA Candidates

  28-07-2022 17:57
  
  The Democratic Party has spent big money this year to help the campaigns of supporters of former President Donald Trump locked in primary battles against moderate and RINO Republicans — thinking that the MAGA candidates might be more beatable in a general election.
  But even some Democrats are warning that the strategy could backfire.
  So far this year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has spent $435,000 to help pro-Trump Michigan congressional contender  John Gibbs who i
  
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• Top Democrats want $21 billion to fight Covid and other outbreaks

  28-07-2022 17:48 via cnn.com
  
  Senate Democrats have included $21 billion in possible appropriations funding to provide resources for the coronavirus pandemic, as well as funding that could be used for testing and vaccines related to the monkeypox virus.
  
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• If You Thought Electric Vehicles Were Bad, Wait Until You See What Klaus Schwab Has Planned for Drivers Next

  28-07-2022 17:44
  
  The tactic of a siege is probably almost as old as warfare itself. In a siege, instead defeating the enemy through direct violent confrontation, the idea is to surround the enemy and deny them access to vital resources, such as food, water and other essential supplies. The opponents will then weaken until they surrender, or at least become less able to effectively defend themselves against attack.
  You may not realize it, but we are living under siege from an invading army. World Economic Forum a
  
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• Alert: Biden's 'Biggest Fear' for Ukraine War Just Happened, Officials Say We're Now in Uncharted Territory

  28-07-2022 17:39
  
  Vladimir Putin’s Russia has further tightened the flow of gas being fed to the European Union as the cold northern European winter looms mere months away.
  The flow through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany has been cut to just 20 percent of normal as of Tuesday.
  The White House is reportedly attempting to work with European allies to prevent them from easing the economic pressure on Moscow as panic over a potentially catastrophic energy shortage is beginning to set in, according to an
  
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• Uvalde City Council Vows to Investigate Every City Officer Who Responded, 'We're Gonna Get a Report on Everybody'

  28-07-2022 17:04
  
  The Uvalde City Council in Texas announced Tuesday that it will investigate every city police officer who responded to the Robb Elementary School massacre on May 24.
  “This investigation is looking at every single officer and what his actions, what he did, what our policy says, and basically, we’re gonna get a report on everybody,” council member Ernest “Chip” King III said during a council meeting, according to CNN.
  “We will act on it, and we promise that to y
  
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• Whistleblowers Make Stunning Accusation About Biden Admin's Focus on 'Domestic Terrorism'

  28-07-2022 16:48
  
  Joe Biden was sworn in as president 14 days after the Capitol incursion on Jan. 6, 2021. From the beginning, he used that event as a bloody shirt to wave whenever the Department of Justice introduced a new initiative aimed at combatting “domestic terrorism.”
  Early on in his presidency, the White House issued a fact-sheet saying their counterterrorism strategies were going to be focusing on “much more dangerous forms of terrorism we’ve seen from ISIS and al-Qaida.”
  &
  
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• Americans Are Most Desperate to Escape These 10 Cities - Surprise, They're Governed by One Party

  28-07-2022 16:20
  
  New research from real estate brokerage Redfin shows that Americans are moving away from 10 major metropolitan areas.
  Did you have any doubt they were going to be Democrat-dominated cities?
  The July report paints a picture of the directions Americans are seeking to move in, and it doesn’t look pretty for urban centers with left-leaning local governments and Democratic state governments.
  San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York take the cake for the most outbound migration facilitated t
  
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• Foreign and Domestic

  28-07-2022 16:16
  
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Foreign and Domestic appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Cowboys owner apologizes for derogatory term

  28-07-2022 15:44 via cnn.com
  
  Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has apologized for using a derogatory term for little people.
  
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• Devastating Allegation: FBI Whistleblowers Leaked Damning Details About Agency's Relationship with Pres. Biden

  28-07-2022 15:24
  
  The House Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, released a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday that accused the bureau of politicization to a shocking degree — from the highest levels down to agents working out of state and regional offices.
  The letter referred to whistleblower disclosures made by “multiple FBI employees from different field offices” that allege that President Joe Biden’s political objectives influence t
  
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• Democrats' New Inflation Bill Has Special 2024 Election Contingency

  28-07-2022 15:13
  
  Congressional Democrats continue to exploit their majority status to jam through destructive left-wing agenda items that have little to do with curbing inflation or protecting the environment and everything to do with socially re-engineering the nation.
  In the latest salvo, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York bragged about spending an additional $369 billion to address climate change in the ironically named “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.”
  Instead of stemming inflation
  
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• House Democratic leadership will announce legislation in August banning lawmakers from trading stocks

  28-07-2022 15:10 via cnn.com
  
  House Democratic leadership will announce legislation next month that would ban lawmakers, their spouses and senior staff from trading stocks, a source familiar with the plan tells CNN.
  
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• Electric truck maker Rivian laying off 6% of its workforce

  28-07-2022 14:48 via cnn.com
  
  Rivian, the Amazon-backed manufacturer of electric pickups, SUVs and delivery vans, is laying off about 6% of its workforce as the company adjusts as the "world has dramatically changed," according to an email sent by CEO RJ Scaringe to Rivian's roughly 14,000 employees.
  
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• Major Dem-Run City's Police Chief Begging for the Violence to Stop

  28-07-2022 13:15
  
  After a long week of constant violence, the Portland, Oregon, police chief took to Twitter with what amounted to a plea to criminals in the community to stop their behavior.
  “The violence shown last night toward officers and over the weekend is shocking and reprehensible. In the last four days, officers have been shot at, had suspects fight with them, run over by a vehicle and another almost run over,” Chief of Portland Police Chuck Lovell posted to Twitter on Tuesday.
  Several violen
  
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• Nestlé has kept hiking prices this year

  28-07-2022 12:22 via cnn.com
  
  Nestlé hiked its prices by 6.5% in the first half of 2022 as it grapples with an "unprecedented" rise in costs.
  
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• Asia's richest woman lost more than half of her fortune

  28-07-2022 11:58 via cnn.com
  
  Yang Huiyan, Asia's wealthiest woman, has seen her wealth fall to $11 billion from nearly $24 billion this year as China's property crisis escalates, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
  
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• Heavy rain in eastern Kentucky leads to dangerous flash flooding

  28-07-2022 11:56 via cnn.com
  
  Heavy rainfall inundated eastern Kentucky overnight, prompting a flash flood emergency and making local roads impassable, officials said.
  
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• A 7-year-old girl was killed while camping with family after a tree fell on their tent in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

  28-07-2022 11:45 via cnn.com
  
  A 7-year-old girl from Georgia camping with her family in Great Smoky Mountains National Park was killed Wednesday when a tree fell on their campsite, park officials said.
  
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• 7-year-old girl killed after a tree fell on her family's tent in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

  28-07-2022 11:45 via cnn.com
  
  A 7-year-old girl from Georgia camping with her family in Great Smoky Mountains National Park was killed Wednesday when a tree fell on their campsite, park officials said.
  
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• Biden administration announces $400 million investment in high-speed internet for rural communities

  28-07-2022 11:01 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration on Thursday announced it would be directing more than $400 million in loans and grants to support high-speed internet projects for rural communities -- funding which is expected to reach about 31,000 families and businesses across 11 states.
  
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