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• Biden's Appalling Statement on Rushdie Attack Ignored the Most Important Detail

  14-08-2022 22:57
  
  When it comes to Friday’s near-fatal attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, what President Joe Biden didn’t say said it all.
  The Indian-born writer — a naturalized American citizen — was fighting for his life on Sunday after a vicious stabbing Friday on stage, just before he was to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state.
  On Saturday, the Biden White House issued a statement denouncing the attack, but there was one crucial detail that went un
  
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• Evidence ties the son of the suspect in the New Mexico Muslim killings to the crimes, authorities allege

  14-08-2022 22:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  The son of the man suspected of killing at least two Muslim men in New Mexico in recent months may also have played a role in the crime, authorities alleged in
  
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• Migrant Bused to DC Reveals He Rode 'The Beast' to America

  14-08-2022 22:33
  
  I arrived at Union Station at 5:30 a.m. and there were only a few people around, including a mother and her 12-year-old son from the Dominican Republic, who had crossed the border days before.
  The pair arrived in the nation’s capital Friday on a bus Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey sent from the border and I met them days later, when they were catching a Megabus to New York City.
  The mother and her son were joined by another family that left Venezuela on May 17, when they set out for a d
  
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• More than 2,000 California mental health clinicians set to strike

  14-08-2022 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  Thousands of mental health therapists at the country's largest non-profit HMO are poised to strike this week, holding daily picket lines and rallies outsider Kaiser Facilities throughout California.
  
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• Benjamin Watson Refuses to Accept Stacey Abrams' Faith-Based Defense of Abortion: 'If You Identify as a Christian...'

  14-08-2022 22:25
  
  Former New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson gave Democratic Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams a lesson on faith and abortion.
  Watson played for New England at both the start and end of his NFL career, playing for the Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints and Baltimore Ravens as well.
  Watson is also zealous about his faith and pushed back after an August tweet from Abrams that said support for abortion was a manifestation of her faith.
  “In college, a friend who shared my fai
  
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• While Attacking GOP Opponent for 'Special Interests' Ties, Look What Whitmer Was Getting from Billionaires and Celebrities

  14-08-2022 22:06
  
  Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s campaign has raked in donations from billionaires and Hollywood celebrities despite the fundraising off her Trump-endorsed opponent’s ties to “special interests,” according to state records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  The Michigan Democrat’s campaign has received over $1 million from billionaires and almost $48,000 from Hollywood celebrities since 2021, state campaign finance disclosures show. At the same time, the gover
  
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• Idaho Potato Shortage Obvious on Produce Shelves, Spud Farmers Now Know What They Need to Do

  14-08-2022 21:51
  
  In a delicious example of irony, Idaho — unofficially known as the Potato State — is experiencing a shortage of potatoes.
  The tuber tumult in the Gem State, Idaho’s official nickname, is the result of last summer’s scorching temperatures that resulted in farmers producing fewer potatoes.
  “I’m not sure if you remember last June [2021], but we had some just unbelievably hot temperatures here in Idaho,” Jamey Higham said, president and CEO of the Idaho Pota
  
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• China's Bluff Called: Five More US Lawmakers Land in Taiwan for High-Level Defense Talks

  14-08-2022 21:43
  
  Following the uproar over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan earlier this month, a delegation of five United States lawmakers arrived in the country Sunday on an unannounced visit.
  According to Fox News, the delegation is being led by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
  Three other Democrats, Reps. John Garamendi and Alan Lowenthal of California and Don Beyer of Virginia, joined Markey on the trip. Rep. Amata Radewagen of American Samoa was the lone Republican in the dele
  
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• Anne Heche's Body Taken Off Life Support After Doctors Finally Find What They Need

  14-08-2022 21:32
  
  Anne Heche, who was declared brain dead Friday, was being taken off life support Sunday as doctors were planning to remove her organs, according to a new report.
  California considers being brain dead to be legally declared dead, noted the Daily News.
  Heche, 53, had wanted her organs donated.
  “It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she’s being kept on life support to determine if any are viable,” a representative said, according to the Daily News.
  The website TMZ r
  
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• Trump Learns What FBI Really Took, Demands Agency Immediately Return It

  14-08-2022 21:04
  
  One day after a report claiming the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last week led to the seizure of material that should not have been taken, former President Donald Trump took to social media to ask for it back.
  On Saturday, Fox News reported that material covered by either attorney-client privilege or executive privilege may have been taken in the raid last Monday. Trump said he would like his records returned
  “Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-
  
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• Norway euthanizes Freya, walrus who rose to fame for sinking boats

  14-08-2022 20:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Norwegian authorities euthanized Freya, a 1,300-pound walrus who rose to fame this summer for sinking boats, they announced Sunday, citing public safety
  
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• Special Ops Veteran Organizes Protest at FBI Headquarters, Cancels It When He Realizes a Trap May Have Been Placed: Report

  14-08-2022 20:31
  
  A special ops veteran who planned to stage a protest in Washington, D.C., regarding the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago has reportedly changed course following warning of a trap.
  According to an exclusive report from The Epoch Times, 20-year-old Adam Hardage announced the planned protest in a Monday media pitch.
  He said he was “calling on fellow veterans and Americans of all walks to join him Sunday, Aug. 14 at the FBI HQ in Washington, D.C., to protest the out of control FBI and its actions agains
  
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• There Were No Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Lawyer Certified in June

  14-08-2022 20:18
  
  Two months before an FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, one of his lawyers certified that no classified documents were at the estate, according to Fox News.
  Fox attributed its information to “two sources with knowledge of the investigation.”
  A report in The New York Times also said that a Trump lawyer told the Justice Department that anything marked classified that had been in a storage area at Mar-a-Lago had been returned.
  The Times cited “fou
  
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• Cartel Imposes Curfew on Border City, Threatens to Purge Anyone Caught After Dark

  14-08-2022 20:11
  
  The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) threatened mass violence in Northern Baja, California, on Friday.
  A message sent out from the cartel warned of the oncoming violence and demanded the government free captured members of the cartel.
  “Be warned. As of Friday at 10 p.m. through Sunday at 3 a.m. we’re going to create mayhem so the (expletive) government frees our people. We’re the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, we don’t want to hurt good people but it’s best they
  
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• 1 person is dead and 17 injured after a car drove through a crowd

  14-08-2022 20:11 via cnn.com
  
  A man in Pennsylvania was arrested on suspicion of driving his car into a crowd of people Saturday evening, killing one person and injuring 17 others before killing a woman in a neighboring county later that night, police said.
  
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• Anne Heche is dead after being removed from life support. She was 53.

  14-08-2022 20:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Actor Anne Heche was removed from life support Sunday, her spokesperson said, bringing her tumultuous life to an end. She was 53.
  
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• FBI and DHS warn threats to federal law enforcement have spiked since Mar-a-Lago search

  14-08-2022 19:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have issued a joint intelligence bulletin warning of a spike in threats to federal law enforcement officials
  
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• The things Gen Z is doing differently to protect itself

  14-08-2022 19:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  Covid, inflation and recession are reasons Gen Z is saving more for retirement than millennials and baby boomers.
  
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• Afghanistan's Former President Defends Decision to Flee, Scared of What Taliban Would Have Done to Him

  14-08-2022 19:24
  
  On the eve of the anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan’s former president on Sunday defended what he said was a split-second decision to flee, saying he wanted to avoid the humiliation of surrender to the insurgents.
  Ashraf Ghani also told CNN that on the morning of Aug. 15, 2021, with the Taliban at the gates of the Afghan capital, he was the last one at the presidential palace after his guards had disappeared. He said the defense minister told him earlier that day th
  
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• False reports of active shooter at Las Vegas airport lead to delays

  14-08-2022 19:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  A person was in custody after a disturbance at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Sunday morning sparked panic among travelers, false reports of
  
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• Unreal Footage: Biggest Beast in the Sea Breezes Past Boat Full of People, Then It Turns Around for Another Pass

  14-08-2022 18:25
  
  These lucky whale watchers can check a box off of their bucket lists.
  A massive blue whale circled a boat off of the coast of southern California on Friday.
  The footage was captured off of Newport Beach, California, according to USA Today.
  The boaters managed to capture footage of the whale with an overhead drone.
  The curious giant made several passes underneath the small boat.
  The craft’s engine had been turned off, according to one photographer. Otherwise, the whale might’ve been t
  
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• Report: Shortly Before AG Garland's Raid Statement, Trump Sent Him 5 Words and a Question

  14-08-2022 18:05
  
  Former President Donald Trump sent a message to Attorney General Merrick Garland shortly before Garland’s Thursday comments about the raid on Trump’s estate in the Mar-a-Lago community in South Florida, according to a new report.
  Trump’s message, reported by The New York Times on Saturday citing “a person familiar with the exchange,” came after days of outrage over the Monday raid, and was reported to the Times by what the Times said was “a person familiar wit
  
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• Denise Dowse, ‘Insecure’ and ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ actress, dies at 64

  14-08-2022 18:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Denise Dowse, an actor known for roles in “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Insecure” among multiple other film and television credits, has died.
  
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• Joe Biden got the vibe shift he needed. Now he's looking to make it count.

  14-08-2022 17:55 via cnn.com
  
  Pete Buttigieg wasn't quite feeling it.
  
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• Grassley Exposes FBI Double Standards with Trump Raid - Demands Immediate Transparency

  14-08-2022 17:54
  
  Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto on Saturday. During the interview, Cavuto asked the ranking GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for his thoughts regarding the release of the search warrant and the affidavit of probable cause that led to the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago.
  The warrant was released with Trump’s agreement on Friday, but the affidavit has not been released.
  Cavuto asked his guest if the
  
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• Ayatollah-Linked Paper Celebrates Savage Attack on Author in America: 'A Thousand Bravos'

  14-08-2022 17:32
  
  Moments before novelist Salman Rushdie was to deliver a lecture on Friday at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, a man rushed the stage and stabbed him repeatedly before being subdued.
  Rushdie was immediately airlifted to a hospital for surgery. According to The Associated Press, Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, the author’s injuries included a damaged liver and severed nerves in his arm. Additionally, he will likely lose an eye.
  The man allegedly responsible for the brutal
  
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• The credit score system is broken, critics say

  14-08-2022 17:25 via cnn.com
  
  Credit agencies know a lot about Americans. The agencies accumulate information, such as Social Security numbers, birthdays, how much savings people have, how much debt they're in and how late they pay their bills.
  
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• Forensic Report All but Confirms the Worst for Alec Baldwin

  14-08-2022 16:41
  
  Despite claims from actor Alec Baldwin that he never pulled the trigger on the gun that he was holding when it fired a fatal round on the set of his movie “Rust” last year, an FBI forensic report has concluded the gun could not have been fired without pulling the trigger.
  Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza.
  Multiple reports have said that Baldwin was led to believe the gun he was holding was not loaded with a live round when it was
  
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• Man with gun crashes vehicle into barricade near Supreme Court, dies by suicide

  14-08-2022 16:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  WASHINGTON — A man died after he crashed his car into a barricade in the nation's capital early Sunday morning, according to a U.S.
  
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• Boom Heard Over Western State Saturday Close to Being Solved After National Weather Service Shares Two Big Pixels on Radar

  14-08-2022 15:23
  
  A loud noise audible over much of Utah left citizens seeking answers from their leaders.
  The loud “boom” was heard by residents of the Salt Lake City area on Saturday morning, according to KSAZ-TV.
  Utah resident Matt Blank captured the moment of the loud disturbance on a home doorbell camera.Boom video. My money is on high altitude meteor that blew up when it hit the atmosphere. pic.twitter.com/2LmOGkpMXf
  — Matt Blank (@msbutah) August 13, 2022One couple caught their own surpri
  
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• State Stops Families from Mailing Care Packages to Inmates, Testing System to Eliminate Handwritten Letters from Home

  14-08-2022 15:17
  
  As part of an effort to keep illegal drugs and other contraband out of state prisons, New York will no longer let people send inmates care packages from home.
  Under the new policy, which the state began phasing in last month, friends and family aren’t allowed to deliver packages in person during prison visits. They also won’t be allowed to mail boxes of goodies unless those come directly from third-party vendors.
  That’s a letdown for people like Caroline Hansen, who for 10 year
  
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• 'Disturbing' State Department of Education Training Materials Coach Teachers to Hide Kids' Transgender Identity from Parents

  14-08-2022 14:57
  
  The Michigan Department of Education (MDOE) is training teachers to hide transgender students’ name and pronouns from their parents, according to training materials.
  The MDOE’s LGBTQ Students Project includes training and resources for LGBTQ students as well as educators on addressing students’ gender identity and sexual orientation in school, according to department training videos. The videos feature MDOE officials who advise the educators to hide students’ name or pron
  
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• Congressional delegation visits Taiwan less than two weeks after Pelosi’s trip sparked a furious response from China

  14-08-2022 14:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  A congressional delegation led by Sen.
  
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• Mass Casualty Event at Fundraiser for House Fire Victims, Suspect in Custody After Second Attack

  14-08-2022 14:36
  
  Two victims are dead and at least 17 injured after a pair of Saturday night incidents in two neighboring Pennsylvania towns.
  At about 6:15 p.m., a vehicle plowed through a crowd gathered at a bar in Berwick where a fundraiser was taking place for the victims of a house fire that killed 10 earlier this month, according to The Associated Press.
  The first fire victims were buried Friday, with more funerals scheduled for this week.
  The fundraiser was taking place at the Intoxicology Department bar i
  
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• Anne Heche's Affair with Ellen DeGeneres Effectively Ended Her Career, Life Went Careening in Disastrous Direction

  14-08-2022 13:56
  
  In 1997, Anne Heche was an up-and-coming 28-year-old actress with the world at her feet.
  But long before Heche died Friday at 53 after a spectacular car crash a week earlier, the success she was on the verge of achieving slowly unraveled. It began with her romance with Ellen DeGeneres.
  “In 1997, I met Ellen DeGeneres at the Vanity Fair party and that was the night that changed my life forever,” Heche said years later, according to the New York Post’s Page Six.
  She started learn
  
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• Russia: Ukraine Shelling Captured Nuclear Plant, Could Ignite Radiation Disaster

  14-08-2022 13:45
  
  A United Nations-chartered ship loaded with 23,000 metric tons of Ukrainian grain destined for Ethiopia set sail Sunday from a Black Sea port, the first shipment of its kind in a program to assist countries facing famine.
  The Liberia-flagged Brave Commander departed from the Ukrainian port of Yuzhne, east of Odesa, according to regional governor Maksym Marchenko. It plans to sail to Djibouti, where the grain will be unloaded and transferred to Ethiopia under the World Food Program initiative.
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• Devastating Church Fire Erupts During Packed Service, At Least 41 Worshipers Confirmed Dead

  14-08-2022 12:50
  
  A fire ripped through a packed church during morning services in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, on Sunday, killing at least 41 worshipers and injuring 14.
  The church quickly filled with thick black smoke, and witnesses said several trapped congregants jumped from upper floors to escape.
  “Suffocation, suffocation, all of them dead,” said a distraught witness, who only gave a partial name, Abu Bishoy.
  The cause of the blaze in the Abu Sefein church was not immediately known. An initial
  
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• As a psychotherapist, this is what I saw in the video clips of Spears yelling at her kids

  14-08-2022 11:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Whatever you think of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, their public feud reveals a parenting conundrum that many experience.
  
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• Mastriano and Oz: An 'awkward marriage' atop the Pennsylvania GOP ticket

  14-08-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Doug Mastriano and Mehmet Oz, the GOP's nominees in Pennsylvania for governor and the Senate respectively, share little in common other than the support of
  
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• Saudis Raked in Jaw-Dropping Amount as Americans Forked Over Hard-Earned Money at the Pumps

  14-08-2022 08:54
  
  Saudi energy company Aramco said Sunday its profits jumped 90 percent in the second quarter compared to the same time last year, helping its half-year earnings reach nearly $88 billion.
  The increase is a boon for the kingdom and the crown prince’s spending power as people around the world pay higher gas prices at the pump while energy companies rake in top earnings.
  Major oil companies had a strong quarter with Exxon Mobil booking an unprecedented $17.85 billion profit while Chevron made a
  
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• Arizona parents arrested, tased trying to get on campus to 'protect' kids during school lockdown

  14-08-2022 03:30
  
  Authorities say three Arizona parents were arrested after trying to get inside Thompson Ranch Elementary School to pick up their kids amid a lockdown      
  
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• Pedo Chugs Mystery Liquid During Trial - Authorities Shocked When They Check on Him

  14-08-2022 02:31
  
  Edward Leclair, a Texas man who was on trial for child sexual abuse, died under mysterious circumstances on Thursday shortly after hearing the court’s ruling.
  According to CNN, Leclair was seen by Denton County Assistant District Attorney Jamie Beck chugging a bottle of what appeared to be cloudy water as his verdict was read.
  Leclair, 57, had been found guilty.
  “Our investigator noticed him chug the water,” Beck said. “He told the bailiff he might want to go check on him
  
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• A disastrous 'megaflood' flood in sunny and dry California? It's happened before

  14-08-2022 01:50
  
  Scientists say climate change increases the likelihood of the recurrence of a 'megaflood' like the Great Flood of 1862.      
  
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• Suspect in Rushdie attack pleads not guilty

  14-08-2022 01:46
  The man accused of a stabbing attack on "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie has entered a not-guilty plea to charges of attempted murder and assault. (Aug.13) (AP video: Carolyn Thompson)      
  
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• Man Calls 911 Over Cold McDonald's Fries, But Cops Realize They've Stumbled on Something Much Bigger When They Arrive

  14-08-2022 01:21
  
  These might’ve been the most fateful cold french fries in the history of McDonald’s.
  A fugitive facing a murder charge was arrested this month after calling 911 over a dispute at a McDonald’s in Georgia.
  Kennesaw Police Department officers met miffed customer Antoine Sims outside the fast food place on Aug. 5, according to The Telegraph.
  In body camera footage released by police, Sims claimed that the McDonald’s had ripped him off after serving him cold fries and refusing
  
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• Researcher Alleges FBI Seriously Undercounts Armed Citizen Responses to Active Shootings, Real Number 3x Higher

  14-08-2022 00:10
  
  Firearm statistics expert John R. Lott Jr. recently exposed the FBI’s gross underestimation of the number of times armed citizens have stopped a mass shooting event and suggested that the agency is purposefully muffing the numbers for political reasons.
  In his review of the FBI data published by Real Clear Investigations, Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, attributed the discrepancies to errors on the FBI’s part, including misidentifying and overlooking incident
  
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