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• Dick Cheney Slings Personal Insults at Donald Trump in Last-Minute Attack Ad for Daughter Liz

  04-08-2022 23:57
  
  Former Vice President Dick Cheney unleashed a series of dramatic attacks against former President Donald Trump in a Thursday campaign ad for his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney.
  Cheney accused Trump of being a “coward,” citing the former President’s litigation against the outcome of the 2020 election.Dick Cheney: “In our nation’s 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump.”
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• Deputies Thought They Were Responding to 911 Call, Instead It Was 'An Ambush to Kill Cops'

  04-08-2022 23:52
  
  Around 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning in Columbia, South Carolina, police were called by a man, twice, who told dispatchers that he had heard a woman screaming for help.
  But when police arrived the incident turned into what Sheriff Leon Lott called an ambush, WIS News reported.
  Deputies went to the address the caller gave; however, the woman there said nothing was wrong with her.
  Deputy Joseph Shannonhouse was one of the responding officers, and when he got back into his car, shots were fired.
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• Texas public safety chief says Uvalde investigation will include internal review of all DPS officers who were on scene

  04-08-2022 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  The Texas Department of Public Safety investigation into the Uvalde elementary school shooting will include an internal review of the actions taken by every DPS officer on the scene to determine whether they should be referred to the inspector general for investigation, Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw said Thursday.
  
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• Sikhs fleeing religious persecution had their turbans taken by Border Patrol agents, the ACLU says

  04-08-2022 22:59 via cnn.com
  
  Border Patrol agents in Arizona have confiscated the turbans of dozens of Sikh men seeking asylum in the United States, violating their civil rights and government policies, the ACLU says in a letter calling for an end to the practice.
  
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• Tulsa judge allows 1921 race massacre lawsuit to move forward

  04-08-2022 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  A Tulsa judge is allowing a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs that include three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to officially move forward.
  
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• Senate Democrats look to satisfy Sinema's concerns over taxes as they scramble to lock down votes

  04-08-2022 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  As Democrats scramble to clinch a deal on their tax and climate package, a last-minute demand is coming from key vote Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona: $5 billion to help the Southwest deal with its multi-year drought.
  
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• Whoopi Goldberg Paints Supreme Creator as Abortion Advocate: 'God Doesn't Make Mistakes'

  04-08-2022 22:28
  
  Whoopi Goldberg has said some pretty horrible things while co-hosting ABC’s “The View,” but her comments Wednesday have to be near the top of the list.
  Goldberg was debating abortion with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who returned Wednesday as a co-host after her initial run on “The View” from 2003 to 2013, People reported.
  “I believe our Creator assigns value to life, and that those lives have a plan and purpose over them as designed by God,” Hasselbeck
  
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• Prayers Needed: High School Football Player Collapses, Dies Suddenly During Practice

  04-08-2022 21:44
  
  A Mississippi high school student collapsed on the football field during practice on Monday and died shortly after.
  Phillip Laster Jr. was just a few weeks away from starting his senior year at Brandon High School, WLBT-TV in Jackson reported.
  “I’m speechless that I’m not going to hear his footsteps coming through the door, or ‘Mom, what’re you cooking?’ in his deep voice. He was a lovely kid. I love my son,” Phillip’s mother, Ashanta, told th
  
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• Cracker Barrel sparks uproar for plant-based sausage critics say is 'woke'

  04-08-2022 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  Some of the meat at Cracker Barrel might be fake, but the beef that it's causing is very real.
  
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• A cultural power-struggle at an Iowa library casts a 'dark cloud' over a small town

  04-08-2022 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  The public library in a small Iowa farming town has been embroiled in a monthslong controversy spurred by anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, attempts to censor books with
  
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• As CA Vows to Become 'Abortion Sanctuary', One City Fights Back Promising to Be 'Sanctuary for Life'

  04-08-2022 21:27
  
  California is a bastion of grotesque leftist policies like abortion on demand, but one community is making moves to become a safe haven for the state’s unborn.
  Just months ahead of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the abortion debate to the states, California swooped in to become a so-called sanctuary state for those wishing to kill their offspring, the Associated Press reported.
  “We’ll be a sanctuary,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in December.
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• Half the country is in drought, and no region has been spared

  04-08-2022 21:10 via cnn.com
  
  More than 50% of the country was in some level of drought for the fourth week in a row, the US Drought Monitor reported Thursday, as the combination of warmer-than-normal temperatures and low rainfall is drawing the moisture out of plants and soil.
  
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• DeSantis Announces Suspension of 'Soros-Funded' Prosecutor Who Refused to Enforce Certain Laws

  04-08-2022 21:07
  
  Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dismissed Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren on Thursday for his refusal to prosecute certain crimes.
  DeSantis on Thursday signed an executive order suspending the Democrat state attorney on the grounds of “neglect of duty” and “incompetence.”
  Under Florida’s state constitution, the governor is allowed to suspend any state or county officer on grounds such as “malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, drunken
  
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• Breonna Taylor killing: A timeline of the police raid and its aftermath

  04-08-2022 20:48 via cnn.com
  
  Four current and former Louisville police officers involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor's home -- including detectives who worked on the search warrant and the ex-officer accused of firing blindly into her home -- have been charged with civil rights violations and other counts, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday.
  
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• Griner Will Not Be Getting a Cushy Cell, WNBA Star Instead Being Sent to Russian Prison Colony

  04-08-2022 20:41
  
  Following her Thursday conviction on drug charges in Russia, WNBA star Brittney Griner will not be getting special treatment in a fancy jail. Instead, she is being sent straight to a Russian penal colony.
  According to The New York Times, a Russian judge convicted Griner on charges of attempting to smuggle illegal narcotics into the country.
  She received a nine-year sentence, and unlike in the United States, Griner will not be guaranteed safety from cruel punishment.
  “Corrective labor colon
  
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• Shaun King Uses NYC's Anti-Gun Laws as Excuse After Getting Busted Spending $40K of Donor Funds on Wild Purchase

  04-08-2022 20:18
  
  Of the grievance grifters who have managed to attach themselves to the Black Lives Matter movement over the past decade, few have grifted so openly or so blatantly as Shaun King.
  King has been repeatedly accused of scamming followers out of money for everything from journalistic outlets that never materialized to clothes that never got made. In 2019, BLM activist DeRay McKesson, while claiming King had done good work for the movement, said of him that “the person who paints your house
  
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• Four current, former Louisville police officers federally charged in Breonna Taylor's death

  04-08-2022 20:08 via cnn.com
  
  Four current and former Louisville police officers involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor's home -- including detectives who worked on the search warrant and the ex-officer accused of firing blindly into her home -- have been charged with civil rights violations and other counts, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday.
  
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• Experts Warn EV Owners May See Soaring Costs After Mechanics Realize They're Losing Money

  04-08-2022 20:01
  
  A series of Wednesday headlines from automobile news outlets reported on the apparent cheaper cost of servicing electric vehicles when compared to their gas-powered counterparts.
  “Average value of BEV service 22% less than ICE, says Fleet Assist,” one such headline from Motor Trader Magazine read.
  Stories from Business Car, “EVs cheaper to service than ICE cars, Fleet Assist data shows” and GreenFleet, “EVs are 22% cheaper to service than ICE cars, reports Fleet Ass
  
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• Some Fans Call for Boycott as 'The View' Hires Former Trump Staffer as Co-Host

  04-08-2022 19:58
  
  ABC’s “The View” has named two Republicans — Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro — as regular panelists on the daytime talk show.
  Farah Griffin fills the chair left empty when Meghan McCain left last summer after four years on the show. Farah Griffin is a communications strategist who worked as a spokeswoman at the Pentagon and for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence during the last administration.
  Navarro, a familiar face as a frequent guest host
  
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• Tucker Carlson Calls Out Democrats for What They Are: 'A Cartel that Exists Only to Perpetuate Itself'

  04-08-2022 19:57
  
  Rare is the incumbent member of Congress who agrees to a debate. For Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney of New York, however, there was no choice.
  That’s because a court drew both of the powerful representatives into the same district, New York’s 12th. Both Maloney and Nadler have been in the House of Representatives for three decades, both serving the island of Manhattan.
  Thus, there was no choice: If they wanted to continue to serve, they needed to debate. On Tuesday
  
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• 'Weaponize the IRS?' - Gaetz Raises Concerns on Massive IRS Munitions Stockpile

  04-08-2022 19:49
  
  GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz has chosen to take on what is easily the most dangerous and well-armed force that has ever been assembled for deployment against the American people.
  The Florida congressman has put the Internal Revenue Service in the crosshairs with his colleagues by asking a single, penetrating question: Why has Biden’s IRS purchased more than $700K of ammo?
  During just these first seven months of 2022, the IRS has purchased $725,000 worth of ammunition, according to Gaetz.
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• A Virginia school district apologizes for a shirt logo that resembled a swastika

  04-08-2022 19:49 via cnn.com
  
  A Virginia school district has apologized for distributing T-shirts with a logo resembling a swastika during a professional learning conference.
  
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• Ambushed Teenage Pro-Lifer Update: Justice Served To Attacker

  04-08-2022 19:44
  
  Police in Leawood, Kansas, have arrested and charged a woman who allegedly attacked a teenage anti-abortion activist on Sunday.
  The Leawood Police Department told The Christian Post that officers looked into the matter after 18-year-old Grace Hartsock filed a complaint.
  “As part of our investigation on Sunday, the 37-year-old suspect was arrested, charged in Leawood Municipal Court with misdemeanor battery and released,” the department said Tuesday.
  The name of the suspect was not pr
  
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• Tesla Battery Catches Fire Inside Dealership, It's So Hazardous a Hazmat Team Has to Show Up

  04-08-2022 19:36
  
  A Tesla dealership in Norwell, Massachusetts, found itself in trouble when a car battery malfunction caused a fire.
  Around 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Norwell firefighters responded to a call from the dealership, the Patriot Ledger reported.
  According to reports, there were no injuries and damage occurred only in the car that caught fire and the car next to it.
  The car was inside the service garage at the time the lithium-ion battery fire began.
  Due to the nature of the fire and that it was a lithium
  
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• Russian Court Finds Brittney Griner Guilty, Sentences Her to Lengthy Prison Term

  04-08-2022 18:54
  
  WNBA star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on Thursday stemming from her arrest on drug charges.
  According to USA Today, a Russian judge sentenced Griner to nine years in a penal colony.
  “I made an honest mistake, and I hope that in your ruling, it doesn’t end my life here,” Griner told the judge before the sentencing.
  Griner’s arrest came on Feb. 17 at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow. Authorities said they found vape cartridges carrying hash
  
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• Can You Spot It? Perfectly Camouflaged Predator Makes Lightning-Quick Strike, Victim Never Saw It Coming

  04-08-2022 18:44
  
  A Twitter video captured millions of views on Sunday.
  The video begins zoomed in on what seems to be the sandy bottom of an aquarium.
  In fact, as far as the viewer is concerned, a carefree sea horse and a shell are the only noteworthy things in the frame.
  But after a fish swam into view, the scene changed dramatically in a split second.
  The sand seemed to suddenly come to life as a flatfish erupted from its camouflaged position, instantly swallowing the other fish whole, before returning to its
  
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• Bezos Slinks Away After Fed-Up Locals Announce Creative Revenge for Plan to Clear the River for His Mega-Yacht

  04-08-2022 18:39
  
  Locals in Rotterdam, Netherlands, have been none too pleased with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
  The backlash against the billionaire began after plans were unveiled to dismantle a historic local bridge to make way for Bezos’ 417-foot-long, three-masted mega-yacht, the German outlet Der Spiegel reported.
  On Tuesday, tensions escalated to the point that Oceanco, the company hired to build the yacht, was forced to have the ship towed miles away.
  According to Der Spiegel, residents of Rotterdam t
  
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• What to know about these 5 student loan forgiveness programs

  04-08-2022 18:38 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden has said he will decide whether to widely cancel a portion of federal student loan debt per borrower by the end of August. Regardless of his decision, there are several other ways many of the 43 million federal student loan borrowers may qualify for some student loan forgiveness.
  
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• Desolate Midterm Outlook Has Dems Already Meddling with 2024 Presidential Election

  04-08-2022 18:28
  
  Leave it to politicians to accomplish the opposite of their goals.
  A group of bipartisan senators has joined forces to eliminate the vice president from having the power to overturn elections, according to ABC News.  Led by Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), the proposed measure would also make it more difficult for lawmakers to object to the results of an Electoral College vote.
  The move aims to change a law that the Trump team leveraged in a bid to interrupt the electoral
  
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• Does Wall Street understand Netflix?

  04-08-2022 17:58 via cnn.com
  
  During the pandemic, Netflix's stock skyrocketed off of superb subscriber growth. Now that the market cap has fallen along with subscriptions, is Wall Street to blame for never quite understanding what it was investing in?
  
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• Chinese Missile Salvo Impacts in Japanese Waters; American Amphibious Assault Force Underway Toward South China Sea

  04-08-2022 17:50
  
  China fired five ballistic missiles into Japan’s exclusive economic zone on Thursday during controversial live-fire military exercises near Taiwan.
  The missiles fell into the sea near Hateruma — an island south of Japan’s main islands, Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said, according to the Associated Press.
  At around 1:56 p.m., China fired up to 11 Dongfeng ballistic missiles towards Taiwan’s north, east and south waters, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said
  
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• Fear-Ridden Blue-State Residents Resort to Gun Purchases in Shocking Record Numbers for Two Years Straight

  04-08-2022 17:45
  
  Even in the deepest deep blue of “Taxachusetts” — one of the states with traditionally very low per capita gun ownership — firearms sales have not just doubled but tripled in some locations since 2019, WBUR-FM in Boston reported Wednesday.
  Overall firearm purchasing in the cradle of the American revolution has utterly skyrocketed, with WBUR reporting that gun sales hit record levels over the past two years.
  And this is in Massachusetts, a state that was ranked third in th
  
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• Monkeypox cases are increasing across the U.S. See a state-by-state breakdown.

  04-08-2022 17:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  The monkeypox outbreak is growing in the U.S. This map tracks monkeypox cases across the country, updated multiple times weekly.
  
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• DeSantis Calls for Harsh Repercussions for Doctors Performing Life-Altering Surgeries on Children

  04-08-2022 17:23
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave a speech on Wednesday where he condemned doctors who perform sex-changing surgeries on children. Ultimately, he suggested that such professionals should be sued.
  During the conference, the Republican governor stood firm in his belief that the government should not give children the ability to castrate their bodies.
  His proclamations about the subject prompted cheers of support from his audience.
  “They talk about these very young kids getting ‘gender-aff
  
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• Watch: Paraglider Cheats Death with 1 Second to Spare - 'This Was Not the Day to Die!'

  04-08-2022 17:14
  
  There is nothing quite like filming yourself having a near-death experience to generate interest in a YouTube page.
  Paraglider Kevin Philipp, who has 626 subscribers to his page, had more than 137,000 views to a video he posted Monday that showed him grappling with death after a parachute malfunction.
  Philipp explained it all in a post that accompanied his video.
  “Acro paragliding trick in strong turbulence went wrong,” he said in a mammoth understatement.
  “Left break line got
  
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• Elon Musk Triggers Wikipedia Founder with 5-Word Tweet Amid Recession Definition Feud

  04-08-2022 17:07
  
  It’s not just President Joe Biden’s team that’s changing the definition of a recession, it seems. Now, even Wikipedia is getting in on it.
  Just days after the White House insisted that the traditional definition of two straight quarters of negative economic growth wasn’t “holistic” enough — and one day before the United States reported two straight quarters of negative economic growth — editors at the world’s most prominent outlet for open-so
  
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• Sen. John Kennedy Offers Washington Elite 'Bed Wetters' Free Advice in Latest Video

  04-08-2022 16:47
  
  Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy has never been afraid to share his opinions, and he continued doing so in a new video Wednesday.
  “People say I’m too outspoken,” Kennedy said in a video shared to his Twitter account. “It’s true. I have the right to remain silent. I just don’t have the ability.”I have the right to remain silent, but I just don’t have the ability.
  Here’s some Real Talk: pic.twitter.com/Z2GuP85aAU
  — John Neely Kenned
  
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• Two Congressional Democrats Turn on Biden, Call for Replacement in 2024 Election

  04-08-2022 16:18
  
  
  What was being whispered is now being spoken out loud.
  Joe Biden should not seek re-election in 2024, according to two prominent Minnesota Democrats, Reps. Dean Phillips and Angie Craig.
  They’re the first public voicings by important elected Democrat officials of what has been a murmur among party members.
  Even Biden’s cheerleader, The New York Times, has been raising doubts. Recent sample headlines:
  July 11: “Most Democrats Don’t Want Biden in 2024, New Poll Shows”
  
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• One Teen's Quick Thinking and a Trampoline Save Residents Trapped in Burning Building

  04-08-2022 16:10
  
  A 17-year-old in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, helped rescue his neighbors after a fire broke out Tuesday morning at his apartment building.
  The incident occurred just before 1 a.m., according to WPXI-TV.
  Multiple residents were trapped in the building after the fire broke out, the Bentleyville Fire-Rescue said, according to Fox News.
  The 17-year-old, Falon O’Regan, was one of the apartment building’s first residents to make it out of the burning building by jumping out of the window.
  
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• Vulture Politics

  04-08-2022 16:06
  
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• Dems Craft Cruel Punishment for Small Businesses to Cover Up Shocking Policy Failures

  04-08-2022 15:53
  
  Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies and toxic “defund the police” mania not only have spawned terrifying crime waves in liberal cities, but they’re also hurting small businesses that are already being crushed by historic inflation.
  In Democrat-run Denver, police are forcing food trucks to leave the city’s bustling Lower Downtown area as part of a harebrained effort to reduce crime, KMGH-TV reported on Saturday.
  “The Denver Police Department recognizes that reloc
  
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• Top Business School Finds Democrats' 'Inflation Reduction Act' Would Increase Inflation Through '24

  04-08-2022 15:39
  
  The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School released its preliminary analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act under consideration in the Senate, and it determined that inflation would actually slightly increase for a few years should it become law.
  The legislation is the result of negotiations between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
  “The Act would very slightly increase inflation until 2024 and decrease inflation ther
  
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• Jill Biden's summer has not gone exactly as planned

  04-08-2022 15:37 via cnn.com
  
  This summer has not been an easy one for President Joe Biden, and no one feels that more than Jill Biden.
  
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• China Fires 'Precision Missile Strikes' and Encircles Taiwan One Day After Pelosi's Departure

  04-08-2022 15:22
  
  Taiwan bore the brunt of China’s fury over the visit of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a series of missile strikes and military exercises Thursday designed to show what it could do to the island should it wish.
  Pelosi left Taiwan on Wednesday after a visit that became a flashpoint in relations among the United States, China and Taiwan.
  China claims the self-governing island is its property and speaks of its “reunification” with the mainland. Taiwan, 100 miles off the coast of
  
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• Maloney apologizes while standing by claim she doesn't think Biden will run in 2024

  04-08-2022 15:18 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York publicly apologized to President Joe Biden while standing by her comments earlier in the week that she didn't believe he would run for reelection in 2024.
  
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• DeSantis Spokeswoman Teases 'Major' Announcement That Will Trigger 'The Liberal Media Meltdown of the Year'

  04-08-2022 15:03
  
  Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be triggering what his spokeswoman says is the “liberal media meltdown of the year.”
  Only one hint came from press secretary Christine Pushaw: Whatever it is that will rock liberals’ world is related to his role as governor, not speculation that he might run for the White House in 2024.
  “MAJOR announcement tomorrow morning from @GovRonDeSantis,” she tweeted Wednesday night. “Prepare for the liberal media meltdown of th
  
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• Air conditioning is bad for the planet. Here are some possible solutions

  04-08-2022 14:50 via cnn.com
  
  Air conditioners haven't evolved much in recent decades. Windmill co-founder Mike Mayer wants to make them more high-tech and eco-friendly.
  
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• Geico Abruptly Shuts Down Every Office in California, Sparking Concern

  04-08-2022 14:47
  
  Across California, Geico customers suddenly found their local offices shuddered on Tuesday.
  Doors locked. Lights out. Some were found with a hand-written note on the door stating that the local insurance offices had closed, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
  “I’d be worried about it if they’re closing or if all the insurance are going to close or is a recession coming or what is it?” customer Angelina Barron, who saw such a sign, told KXTV-TV in Sacramento.
  In all, 38
  
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• The party is over at Robinhood. But meme mania lingers

  04-08-2022 14:19 via cnn.com
  
  Robinhood got off to a rocky start when it made its Wall Street debut one year ago, but hopes for the buzzy trading app were high as armchair investors piled into the market hoping to mint quick fortunes.
  
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• The ACLU says Border Patrol agents are confiscating Sikh men's turbans

  04-08-2022 14:17 via cnn.com
  
  Border Patrol agents in Arizona have confiscated the turbans of dozens of Sikh men seeking asylum in the United States, violating their civil rights and government policies, the ACLU says in a letter calling for an end to the practice.
  
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