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• Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law

  16-08-2022 23:38 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden will sign a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law at the White House on Tuesday -- marking a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections.
  
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• Biden signs $750B health care, tax and climate bill into law in major victory ahead of midterms

  16-08-2022 23:38 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden will sign a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law at the White House on Tuesday -- marking a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections.
  
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• Walls Closing In on Alec Baldwin? Gun Lie Falls Apart as He Awaits DA Decision on if He'll Be Charged

  16-08-2022 23:36
  
  Alec Baldwin says he did not pull the trigger after a gun discharged on a New Mexico movie set and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021.
  The FBI says otherwise — Baldwin had to have pulled the trigger for the gun to go off.
  The FBI’s claim was contained in a forensic report released by Special Agent Jose Cortez, which was obtained by USA Today.
  USA Today’s revelation came Monday, a day before Baldwin appeared on “The Chris Cuomo Project” podcast in
  
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• Andrew Tate might be the internet’s most hated man. That's worked well for him, so far.

  16-08-2022 23:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Once best known as a professional kickboxer and struggling reality TV star, Andrew Tate has become almost impossible to avoid on social media.
  
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• DeSantis Pledges to Send Florida National Guard to Help AZ Secure Border if Kari Lake Wins

  16-08-2022 23:09
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Sunday at an event in Phoenix that if fellow Republican Kari Lake wins the Arizona governor’s race he will send his state’s National Guard to help secure the border.
  “What I’ve told Kari Lake, I said, ‘Look, if you’re willing to put people on that border, and keep [illegal migrants] from coming in to begin with, I’ll send National Guard to help with that,” DeSantis said at the rally hosted by Turning Point Act
  
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• 1 Epic Screen Shot Catches Desperate CBS Anchor in Latest Mar-a-Lago Lie

  16-08-2022 23:08
  
  The aftermath of the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate has stretched into its second week as the drama continued Monday. A Truth Social post from Trump announced that three of his passports were taken by the FBI agents and techs that conducted the search.
  Naturally, the mainstream media leaped at the opportunity to cry foul and claim the prominent Republican was lying. But there is a saying about leaping; something along the lines of looking first.
  “W
  
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• Op-Ed: A Nutty New Law Just Exposed Transgender Ideology for What It Really Is

  16-08-2022 23:07
  
  Some readers may remember an old television ad and accompanying jingle for two candy bars, Almond Joy and Mounds: “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.” Sometimes one feels like a candy bar with a nut, chocolate and coconut, and sometimes you just want the coconut and chocolate. Such matters of taste can quickly change. Clever, and the jingle was catchy.
  But should one’s legal sexual status be as fluid as candy bar preference?
  In Europe, the answer see
  
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• Biden administration will stop buying Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and tests as early as this fall, Jha says

  16-08-2022 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration has been planning for how to get past the crisis phase of the Covid-19 pandemic and will stop buying vaccines, treatments and tests as early as this fall, White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said on Tuesday.
  
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• Solange will compose an original score for the New York City Ballet

  16-08-2022 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  Solange, the singer whose work spans everything from film to fashion, will take her talents to the world of dance, composing an original score for the New York City Ballet.
  
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• Judge rejects plea deals from Navy engineer and wife charged with conspiracy to sell classified info

  16-08-2022 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge in West Virginia rejected proposed plea agreements made between federal prosecutors and a US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife who pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell classified information to a foreign country in exchange for thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency.
  
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• Drug Dealer Thinks He Scored Major Sale, Realizes Too Late He Texted the Ultimate Wrong Number

  16-08-2022 22:10
  
  A drug dealer who believed he was going to make an exchange in Florida on Monday was in for a rude awakening.
  Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins said he received a text offering him an “eight-ball” of cocaine, WJXT-TV reported.
  Mullins said he quickly notified local Sheriff Rick Staly of the message.
  The number was later traced to Jack Edward Fisher, an 18-year-old from Palm Coast, Florida, Fox News reported.
  Working alongside local authorities, Mullins continued messaging
  
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• DOJ Confirms Trump's Passport Claim, Humiliating Mainstream Media Reporter in the Process

  16-08-2022 21:53
  
  In the aftermath of the FBI raid at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, Trump’s passports have been returned to him, and Norah O’Donnell of CBS has been proved wrong in her claims that the FBI never took them in the first place.
  On Monday, Trump claimed that his three passports had been taken during the FBI raid conducted last week, NBC News reported.
  FBI agents searched Trump’s home last week looking for “‘various’ classified mat
  
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• Social Media Comes for Small Police Department Over Pic with Rittenhouse - They Fire Back Perfectly

  16-08-2022 21:45
  
  A small, central Texas police department is taking heat for refusing to bow to the woke mob and apologize for posting a photo of Second Amendment icon Kyle Rittenhouse.
  The Thrall Police Department in Thrall, Texas, just north of Austin, recently posted a photo of an encounter with Rittenhouse that one of its officers had. But as soon as the department posted the photo to its Facebook page, the leftist detractors went wild.
  Kyle Rittenhouse, of course, is the teen who was forced to defend his li
  
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• Salman Rushdie is awake and 'articulate'

  16-08-2022 21:26 via cnn.com
  
  Award-winning author Salman Rushdie is awake and "articulate" in his conversations with investigators as he remains hospitalized for severe injuries following a stabbing attack in western New York Friday, a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN Monday.
  
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• Conservative Media Executive Nails 'Panicking' DOJ on 3 Big Mar-a-Lago Lies

  16-08-2022 21:15
  
  A week and a day after the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home in South Florida, the American public is still in the dark about too much of what is going on in their own government.
  But one thing was apparent from the beginning, and it’s getting clearer by the day:
  The truth about the Mar-a-Lago mission is not coming from President Joe Biden’s Justice Department — or Attorney General Merrick Garland.
  In a Twitter post published late Monday, Sean Davis, CEO an
  
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• New Study: 'Climate Change' Is to Blame for Childhood Obesity

  16-08-2022 21:08
  
  All of the problems we face today can be traced to one of two evils: systemic racism and climate change. If only we were able to rid the planet of these societal ills, we could live harmoniously.
  Not really.
  In a recently published study in the science journal Temperature, writer Shawnda Morrison makes the unlikely connection between climate change and childhood obesity. As the earth warms, she argues, children are more apt to stay indoors and they’re just not getting the 60 minutes of exe
  
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• Watch: Hollywood Punk Punches, Steals Old Man's Wallet - Ends Up Being Completely Demolished by Good Samaritan, Brunette

  16-08-2022 20:51
  
  This is what justice looks like.
  A robber who attacked an elderly man was quickly taken to the ground by a good Samaritan in Hollywood on Aug. 1.
  Security camera footage showed a man delivering a punch to the head of his victim at Raffallo’s Pizza. The man reached into his victim’s pockets, stealing his wallet before fleeing the scene.
  Security camera company Amcrest Technologies was the first to publish video of the violent altercation on their YouTube channel.
  A wallet fell to the
  
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• HS Football Players Become Heroes After Seeing Smoke Pour Out from Car: 'We Had to Get Her Out'

  16-08-2022 20:31
  
  A group of high school football players in Rome, Georgia, saved a woman from a car she was trapped in following a crash on Friday.
  The wreck involved a silver car swerving to avoid being hit by another vehicle with a teenage driver, Rome Police Department Assistant Chief Debbie Burnett told USA Today.
  The silver car then crashed into white SUV, and the 50-year-old driver of the silver car became trapped in the vehicle.
  That is when football players Treyvon Adams, Tyson Brown, Antwion Carey, Alto
  
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• Experts Sound Recession Alarm Bells as Housing Numbers Tumble Further Than Expected

  16-08-2022 20:17
  
  After years of a booming housing market, the industry is now hitting a new snag and could fall into recession.
  In July, the number of housing starts took a significant downturn, which could be a sign that the market is in trouble, the Washington Examiner reported.
  Housing starts measure the annualized change in the number of new residential buildings and homes that began construction.
  Last month, the number of housing starts fell by 9.6 percent. That puts the annualized rate at 1.45 million, a r
  
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• Wendy's Worker Charged with Murder After Brutal Attack on 67-Year-Old Customer

  16-08-2022 20:04
  
  An Arizona man has died following a brutal assault inflicted upon him by an employee at a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant.
  On July 26, 35-year-old Antoine Kendrick struck a 67-year-old customer who had come to him with a complaint at the franchise outlet, located in the northern Arizona town of Prescott Valley.
  The blow was substantial — a blind-side right hook to the head with enormous force. It knocked the customer to the ground unconscious. Kendrick was then seen collecting his belon
  
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• Group files lawsuit against city officials in Mississippi after fired police chief's alleged remarks

  16-08-2022 20:01 via cnn.com
  
  A civil and human rights advocacy organization has filed suit against officials in Lexington, Mississippi following alleged racist and homophobic remarks from a now-fired police chief, and what plaintiffs allege is targeting behavior from the police department.
  
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• Op-Ed: Christians, Do You Know How We Got the Bible?

  16-08-2022 19:40
  
  Do you know how we got the Bible?
  It is important for every Christian who says he or she believes in the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures — and who holds the Bible as the final authority — to know where it came from and how it was compiled. How can you say that the Bible should be the voice that determines such things as the proper basis for good government policy if you don’t know how we got the Bible?
  Last week I began a four-week series to answer that question and
  
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• First lady Jill Biden tests positive for Covid

  16-08-2022 19:22 via cnn.com
  
  • CDC: Gorgeous island nation in Asia now at 'high' travel risk for Covid
  • Disney Cruise Line dropping vaccination requirement for kids ages 5 to 11
  
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• Police Tell Delivery Driver He's in the Clear After He Shoots Knifeman, But Then He Gets Crushing Notification from Amazon

  16-08-2022 18:38
  
  Attention, Amazon delivery drivers: Defend yourself against attacks on the job at your own risk.
  Take it from Gino Grove, an Ohio-based driver for the internet giant. He was assailed last week by a man who has since been charged with aggravated assault. He defended himself with a gun and was cleared of wrongdoing by police.
  Yet, according to WXIX-TV, Grove said he was deactivated as a delivery driver after the shooting and, as of Thursday, had not been reinstated.
  The Dayton Daily News reported
  
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• New home construction cools as more people get priced out

  16-08-2022 18:37 via cnn.com
  
  Home builders pressed on the brakes once again last month as the cost of building supplies remained high and more prospective buyers were priced out of the market.
  
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• End of the Zoom boom? Analyst cuts stock to a rare 'sell' rating

  16-08-2022 18:34 via cnn.com
  
  Zoom was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the work-from-anywhere trend that took hold during the height of the pandemic in 2020. But, as more people go back to the office on a regular basis, the stock has plunged. And one top Wall Street analyst thinks the worst is still yet to come.
  
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• Tucker Carlson: 'No Honest Person Could Believe' Trump Raid Was Legitimate

  16-08-2022 18:06
  
  August can be a slow news month — so, when Fox News host Tucker Carlson arranged to go on vacation last week, leaving the show to guest hosts, he probably figured he wouldn’t be missing out on anything major.
  On Monday, however, the FBI raided the home of a former president for the first time. The best laid plans of mice and men, etc.
  Carlson’s monologue condemning the raid on Donald Trump’s home this Monday, then, may have been a week in coming. It was no less force
  
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• Amazon workers walk off to call for better pay and working conditions

  16-08-2022 18:05 via cnn.com
  
  A coalition of Amazon employees walked off the job on Monday at an air freight facility in San Bernardino, California, demanding better pay and working conditions, in the latest sign that worker organizing efforts continue to spread across the tech giant's vast retail and logistics network.
  
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• Massive Law Enforcement Operation Leads to the Rescue of 121 Trafficked and Missing Children

  16-08-2022 17:54
  
  The FBI has been working with state and local partners during the first two weeks of August and has just announced the success of a cross-country operation that resulted in the recovery of more than 200 victims of human trafficking.
  Operation Cross Country found 84 minor victims of child sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation. The operation also uncovered 37 actively missing children, the Department of Justice reported.
  The FBI and its local partners also found 141 adult victims of human
  
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• First Documented Human-to-Dog Transmission of Monkeypox Reported, Gay Couple Found to Be Co-Sleeping with a Pooch

  16-08-2022 17:25
  
  In yet another reminder that many pets deserve better than their human owners, a dog was infected with monkeypox by a non-monogamous gay couple, one of whom is HIV-positive.
  This is the first suspected case of human-to-pet transmission of the virus, according to the medical journal The Lancet.
  The shocking diagnosis was made after the homosexual couple visited a hospital in Paris on June 10.
  The couple’s 4-year-old male greyhound began suffering anal lesions after contracting monkeypox fro
  
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• Overseas US Military Families in for a Brutal Winter; Germany Will Not Create an Exception When Energy Rationing Begins

  16-08-2022 17:13
  
  Germany’s headlong leap into green energy has come back to bite them. Their windmills and solar panels won’t keep them warm this winter and Putin is more than happy to tighten the flow of energy. And it gets cold in Germany.
  On Friday, The Ansbach Hometown Herald, a newspaper serving military families stationed at the U.S. Army Garrison in Ansbach, Germany, put out an alert on what they might expect this winter.
  Due to the war in Ukraine, Germany (and much of the European Union) will
  
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• A metal object from an aircraft fell from the sky near the Maine State Capitol

  16-08-2022 17:11 via cnn.com
  
  A Maine Capitol Police employee was spared Monday when a large metal object apparently from an aircraft crashed to the ground outside the building, narrowly missing him, officials said.
  
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• Health Care Company Denied Religious Exemptions for COVID Vax, Now It's Going to Have to Pay Workers Millions

  16-08-2022 16:49
  
  In a landmark lawsuit regarding a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, about 500 health care workers will be receiving $10 million worth of payouts after challenging a hospital’s vaccine mandate.
  Hundreds of workers at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Illinois filed a lawsuit in October 2021, claiming that the health care organization was not granting religious exemptions for the mandated vaccine, the Washington Examiner reported.
  In July a settlement was reached, and 473 current and former heal
  
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• Dershowitz: Even if DOJ Gets Trump Convicted of Documents Crime, He's Still Eligible to Run for President

  16-08-2022 16:33
  
  Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said that if Democrats are hoping to disqualify former President Donald Trump from another White House run in 2024 through a criminal conviction, that strategy will not work.
  Last week, FBI agents raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, after presenting a warrant stating that they were looking for classified documents the 45th president allegedly had in his possession.
  However, Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday that h
  
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• Biden DOJ Tells Court Details Used to Justify Mar-a-Lago Search Must be Kept Secret

  16-08-2022 16:32
  
  Ordinary Americans and news organizations are demanding to know the reasons behind last week’s FBI raid at former President Donald Trump’s home in South Florida’s Mar-a-Lago Club, but President Joe Biden’s Justice Department wants to prevent the public from reading the documents that triggered the action, according to a court filing.
  Multiple media outlets have sought to obtain the sworn affidavit that would explain the legal basis for the search.
  However, the Justice Dep
  
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• Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID While on Vacation, Joe Biden to Mask Up for 10 Days

  16-08-2022 15:42
  
  First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing “mild symptoms,” the White House announced Tuesday.
  President Joe Biden continues to test negative after recently recovering from the virus, but he will wear a mask indoors for the next 10 days as a precaution.
  The Biden family has been vacationing in South Carolina since Wednesday.
  The 71-year-old first lady began experiencing symptoms on Monday.
  Jill Biden, like her husband, has been twice-vaccinated and twice-
  
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• Ready to Blow

  16-08-2022 15:34
  
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Ready to Blow appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Walmart+ has an Amazon Prime Video competitor

  16-08-2022 15:29 via cnn.com
  
  Walmart+ — in its effort to become a true competitor to Amazon Prime — will offer Paramount+ as part of its membership offering, the companies announced Monday.
  
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• Fearless GOP Official Goes Toe-to-Toe with Squatter in Her District: 'This Will Not Stand on My Watch'

  16-08-2022 15:27
  
  A New York City councilwoman is going viral for a toe-to-toe confrontation with a pot-smoking alleged squatter in her Queens district.
  Vickie Paladino, a first-term Republican who won election to her seat in northeast Queens by almost 7 points in 2021, according to Ballotpedia, posted a video of the encounter on Monday.
  “There’s a known squatter house in my district at 20th Ave and 146th street in College Point. This morning I viewed the house and confronted the squatters personally,
  
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• Eric Trump Reveals His Family Has Footage of What Really Happened During Mar-a-Lago Raid

  16-08-2022 15:27
  
  A once-somnolent America is now seething in the aftermath of the FBI raid at former President Donald Trump’s home in South Florida’s Mar-a-Lago Club, according to his son, Eric.
  Since the raid last week, Justice Department officials have indicated it was necessary to recover classified documents that went with Trump to Florida after he left the White House. The former president has said the FBI raid was a form of persecution that invaded the privacy of his family members.
  In an inter
  
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• Record Home Depot sales show US housing market is still strong

  16-08-2022 15:24 via cnn.com
  
  Soaring mortgage rates and unaffordable home prices are worrisome signs for the broader housing market and economy. In another worrisome sign, housing starts and building permits for July both fell from June levels and missed economists' forecasts. But don't tell that to Home Depot. The home improvement retail giant reported record earnings and sales for its most recent quarter.
  
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• New home construction cools as more people get priced out of the housing market

  16-08-2022 15:20 via cnn.com
  
  Home builders pressed on the brakes once again last month as the cost of building supplies remained high and more prospective buyers were priced out of the market.
  
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• 6 people shot near a hospital in Memphis

  16-08-2022 15:07 via cnn.com
  
  Six people were shot early Tuesday near Methodist North Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, hospital and law enforcement officials said.
  
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• Ex-fire captain repeatedly walked off witness stand during testimony over Kobe Bryant crash photos

  16-08-2022 15:04 via cnn.com
  
  A former Los Angeles County fire captain walked off the witness stand three times during testimony Monday while being questioned about whether he took photos of Kobe Bryant's remains at the 2020 helicopter crash that killed Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others.
  
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• Liz Cheney's Husband Has Only One Degree of Separation from Hunter Biden's 'Tax Issues'

  16-08-2022 14:46
  
  Barring a miracle on her behalf, GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming will soon become a lame duck.
  Cheney is one of two token anti-Donald Trump Republicans on the Democrats’ Jan. 6 kangaroo kommittee in the House. The other, Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, had the self-awareness not to seek another term.
  On Tuesday, Wyoming voters will make Cheney aware of how they feel about her. The polls provide a bit of a spoiler alert: The latest survey has her down by 29 points to Trump-endorsed challenger
  
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• Deadly Neighborhood Rampage Brought to Sudden End as Armed Citizen Takes on Deranged Driver

  16-08-2022 14:30
  
  In Mesa, Arizona, a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy on an automotive rampage
  According to KSAZ-TV, a suspect identified as John Lagana was taken into custody by police last Friday on first-degree murder charges after being detained at gunpoint by a civilian identified as Emmanuel Reynoso Avila.
  Lagana had allegedly inflicted fatal injuries on Avila’s next-door neighbor, 63-year-old Christopher Heimer, with his car.
  Avila, who is 20, has known Heimer since he was 8 years old.
  “C
  
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• 5,760 cases of Capri Sun have been recalled after being contaminated with cleaning solution

  16-08-2022 14:26 via cnn.com
  
  Approximately 5,760 cases of Capri Sun Wild Cherry beverages have been recalled because of possible contamination.
  
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• The weird economy isn't stopping Warren Buffett. Here's what he's buying

  16-08-2022 14:12 via cnn.com
  
  It's a moment of great uncertainty for the US economy, as high inflation and rising interest rates feed fears that a recession could be around the corner. But the Oracle of Omaha isn't losing faith.
  
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• The weird economy isn't stopping Warren Buffett

  16-08-2022 14:12 via cnn.com
  
  It's a moment of great uncertainty for the US economy, as high inflation and rising interest rates feed fears that a recession could be around the corner. But the Oracle of Omaha isn't losing faith.
  
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• Rushdie Stabbing Narrative Turned Upside Down, Suspect Reportedly Had Contact with Someone Beforehand

  16-08-2022 13:48
  
  In the hours and days following the terror attack on author Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York, on Friday, the implied message — from the authorities and the mainstream media — was clear:
  Alleged attacker Hadi Matar was acting alone, and don’t you dare suggest otherwise.
  After all, Matar, at age 24, wasn’t even born in 1989, when then-Iranian ruler Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or religious edict, offering millions of dollars to anyone who murdered Rushdie. It&rs
  
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