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• Ohio judge rules Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens must pay a combined $650.6 million for damages related to opioid crisis

  17-08-2022 23:55 via cnn.com
  
  Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens must pay a combined $650.6 million to two Ohio counties for damages related to the opioid crisis, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
  
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• Fire at resort that inspired 'Dirty Dancing'

  17-08-2022 23:46
  A fire consumed a building at the site of the long-closed Grossinger's resort in New York's Catskills. The resort once drew celebrities like Eddie Fisher and Rocky Marciano, and has been cited as an inspiration for the film "Dirty Dancing." (Aug. 17)      
  
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• Oahu and Hawaii Island offering free public bus rides: 'A great way to save some money'

  17-08-2022 23:40
  
  People can take advantage of free rides on Oahu and Hawaii Island's only mass transit option.      
  
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• Black parent accuses L.A. elementary school of traumatizing her daughter with 'cotton-picking' project

  17-08-2022 23:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Black mother filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles Unified School District over an elementary school project that she says involved students picking cotton to learn about slavery.
  
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• EV tax credits just got totally revamped. Here's what car buyers need to know

  17-08-2022 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  The newly signed Inflation Reduction Act will have big implications for electric vehicle buyers. Some popular electric vehicles may become eligible for a tax credit once again, while other cars that were eligible this month will not be for the foreseeable future. Here's what you need to know as a consumer.
  
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• EV tax credits just got revamped. What car buyers need to know

  17-08-2022 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  The newly signed Inflation Reduction Act will have big implications for electric vehicle buyers. Some popular electric vehicles may become eligible for a tax credit once again, while other cars that were eligible this month will not be for the foreseeable future. Here's what you need to know as a consumer.
  
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• Jamie Foxx says it’ll be ‘tough’ to release his shelved comedy that stars Robert Downey Jr. as a Mexican man

  17-08-2022 23:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jamie Foxx recently told CinemaBlend that his unreleased directorial effort “All-Star Weekend” remains shelved due to the current state of comedy.
  
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• Country Star Defies Woke Mob, Pays Tribute to First Responders, Military in New Hit Song 'Country On'

  17-08-2022 22:57
  
  This song captures the best things about growing up in a rural American town.
  Country artist Luke Bryan paid his respects to Americans who keep the country running in “Country On,” a patriotic anthem released last month.
  Bryan released the official music video for the song earlier this week.Bryan recognizes service members in the song.
  “Hey Soldier! Wherever you might be. Hats off to keeping us free. All our thoughts and prayers until you get back home.”
  Luke Bryan also s
  
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• 'WJ Live': Liz Cheney Utterly Demolished in Landslide Loss, Trump Celebrates as Another RINO Bites the Dust

  17-08-2022 22:52
  
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• Revealed: Bill Gates Made a 'Secret Push' to Ram the 'Inflation Reduction Act' Through Congress

  17-08-2022 22:35
  
  The establishment media and the Democratic party are once again saying the quiet part loud — in this case extremely loud.
  In a Bloomberg article, writers Akshat Rathi and Jennifer A. Dlouhy have documented for the world, in great detail, the aggressive, systematic, concerted efforts of billionaire Bill Gates, establishment Democrats, lobbyists and radical far-left extremists to change the mind of a U.S. Senator and cause him to not only vote in favor of the “Inflation Reduction Act o
  
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• Elon Musk Makes Special Visit to WY Political Retreat on the Same Night Liz Cheney Lost Primary

  17-08-2022 22:25
  
  Elon Musk allegedly attended a Republican retreat in Wyoming, hosted by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, on the night that Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney lost the GOP primary.
  The Republican event was held as Cheney, an outspoken opponent of former President Donald Trump, lost the primary challenge to Harriet Hageman, who was supported by both Trump and McCarthy, The Hill reported.
  Though McCarthy himself did not confirm Musk’s presence at his event, a source told The Hill that Musk did inde
  
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• Rudy Giuliani, a target in Atlanta probe into Trump 2020 election subversion scheme, appears before grand jury

  17-08-2022 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani, who was told by Atlanta prosecutors that he is a target in their probe of former President Donald Trump's 2020 election subversion schemes in Georgia, appeared behind closed doors for grand jury testimony in the investigation Wednesday.
  
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• Former Aide Reveals Giuliani Has Only One Wish - 'To Die a Free Man'

  17-08-2022 21:45
  
  A disaffected former aide of New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani made a dramatic assessment of Giuliani’s priorities in a Tuesday CNN segment.
  His former press secretary claimed that his former boss had “lied” in connection with litigation after the 2020 election.
  Ken Fyrdman was Giuliani’s press secretary in his first New York City mayoral campaign.
  The operative claimed that Giuliani’s goal was to “die as a free man,” suggesting that the former mayor cou
  
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• 'Crazy' Brawl Between Players at NFL Practice Spills Into the Stands, Fan Requires Medical Attention

  17-08-2022 21:45
  
  A joint practice between the NFL’s Carolina Panthers and New England Patriots grew ugly for the second straight day on Wednesday.
  In a video shared on social media, players from both teams can be seen scrapping with one another near the sidelines. Some of the players appeared to spill over into the onlooking crowd during the brawl.For the second day in a row, a brawl has broken out in Foxboro. Several Patriots and Panthers players ejected. Kristian Wilkerson was carted off the field.pic.tw
  
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• ‘Love Is Blind’ couple Iyanna McNeely and Jarrette Jones are divorcing

  17-08-2022 21:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  “Love Is Blind” couple Iyanna McNeely and Jarrette Jones are going their separate ways.
  
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• Family of US Navy officer jailed in Japan over fatal car crash calls on Biden to intervene

  17-08-2022 21:33 via cnn.com
  
  The family of a US Navy officer imprisoned in Japan rallied outside the White House on Wednesday to protest his detention and try to attract President Joe Biden's attention to the case.
  
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• Missouri pastor says congregation is 'poor, broke, busted' for not buying him a luxury Movado watch

  17-08-2022 21:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Kansas City, Missouri, pastor who said his congregation was "poor, broke busted and disgusted" for not buying him the luxury watch he wanted has issued an
  
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• R. Kelly sexually assaulted minors and paid witnesses to cover up evidence, prosecutors say as his trial begins

  17-08-2022 20:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  The disgraced R&B singer R.
  
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• Workers file for union vote at another Amazon facility

  17-08-2022 20:41 via cnn.com
  
  The union that was the first to win a representation vote at an Amazon facility has filed for an election among about 400 employees at another Amazon distribution center.
  
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• Ron Johnson tries for a rebrand after years of controversy and Democratic attacks

  17-08-2022 20:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  For months, Wisconsin Republicans telegraphed their eagerness for Mandela Barnes, the state’s first Black lieutenant governor, to be the Democratic candidate
  
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• Salman Rushdie book sales surge after stabbing attack

  17-08-2022 20:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Salman Rushdie's controversial novel "The Satanic Verses" is climbing the bestseller charts after the author was stabbed.
  
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• Analysis: 9 p.m. cable news primed for reinvention

  17-08-2022 20:20 via cnn.com
  
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• Federal Reserve Officials See Signs US Economy Is Weakening, Call Inflation 'Unacceptably High'

  17-08-2022 20:19
  
  Federal Reserve officials saw signs that the U.S. economy was weakening at their last meeting but still called inflation “unacceptably high’’ before raising their benchmark interest rate by a sizable three-quarters of a point in their drive to slow spiking prices.
  In minutes from their July 26-27 meeting released Wednesday, the policymakers said they expected the economy to expand in the second half of 2022. But many of them suggested that growth would weaken as higher rates ta
  
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• AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of stealing at least $15,000 worth of items from luggage

  17-08-2022 20:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  An Apple AirTag led to the arrest of an airline subcontractor accused of stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of items from luggage at a Florida airport.
  
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• Republicans escalate IRS rhetoric as senator warns Americans not to apply for new jobs

  17-08-2022 20:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  Republicans are escalating attacks on the IRS, with Sen. Rick Scott warning Americans not to take new jobs there, to get voters to sour on the Inflation Reduction Act.
  
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• How do dolphins hunt? A research project provides a dolphin's-eye view

  17-08-2022 20:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Scientists trying to understand the hunting behaviors of bottlenose dolphins have come up with a unique solution: fit them with video cameras.
  
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• 'Irate parent' is arrested in Georgia for discharging pepper spray on school bus

  17-08-2022 19:58 via cnn.com
  
  An "irate parent" was arrested after she boarded a Georgia school bus and discharged a can of pepper spray -- exposing two dozen students onboard, according to the Glynn County Schools.
  
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• Electric vehicle credits just completely changed. Here's what it means for car buyers

  17-08-2022 19:51 via cnn.com
  
  The newly signed Inflation Reduction Act will have big implications for electric vehicle buyers. Some popular electric vehicles may become eligible for a tax credit once again, while other cars that were eligible this month will not be for the foreseeable future. Here's what you need to know as a consumer.
  
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• Op-Ed: Will a DOJ Investigation Finally Put SBC Elites on the Same Page as Rank-and-File Evangelicals?

  17-08-2022 19:50
  
  The just-revealed investigation of sex abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention by the Justice Department ratchets up the Biden administration’s attacks on his political opponents.
  The probe also marks the abject failure of the SBC elite’s decade-plus winsomeness campaign designed to sanctify evangelical votes for the Democratic Party and, as philosopher Stephen Wolfe contends, to “render [evangelicals] harmless to the regime.”
  Tyranny, not justice — social or other
  
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• For some students, back to school will mean better-ventilated classrooms

  17-08-2022 19:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  When students at the Gallipolis City School District in southeast Ohio return from summer break, they’ll be sitting in classrooms with air cleaned and
  
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• Liz Cheney Mourns Brutal Loss By Basically Announcing Presidential Run and Comparing Herself to Lincoln

  17-08-2022 19:42
  
  Radical anti-Trumper Rep. Liz Cheney was destroyed in Wyoming’s Republican primary on Tuesday, but that didn’t stop her from spewing more lies.
  With about 95 percent of the vote reporting as of Wednesday morning, Cheney was losing by a whopping 37 points to Harriet Hageman, with Cheney drawing only 28.9 percent of the vote compared to Hageman’s 66.3 percent, according to The New York Times. Hageman was declared the winner early on Tuesday night, and the race was never close by
  
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• Hours After Brutal Primary Loss, Liz Cheney Announces New Group and Teases 2024 Plan

  17-08-2022 19:28
  
  After her congressional Republican primary loss, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney began discussing her new leadership political action committee dedicated to keeping former President Donald Trump from ever holding office again.
  With 99 percent of the Wyoming primary votes in on Wednesday, Cheney was soundly beaten in the primary as she trailed about 37 percentage points behind Harriet Hageman, a Trump-backed candidate, NBC News reported.
  On Wednesday morning, Politico reported that Hageman had 66.3 perce
  
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• 2020 census overcounted people in Puerto Rico, hinting at larger population loss

  17-08-2022 19:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  An overcount in Puerto Rico, the Census Bureau said, had initially put the 2020 population decline at 11.8% to nearly 3.3 million, but it may be closer to 3.1 million.
  
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• Lose big on crypto? Here's how to reduce the sting

  17-08-2022 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  It's been a tough year for crypto investors as they've watched the price of their digital assets plummet.
  
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• Pence says he would consider testifying before the Jan. 6 committee 

  17-08-2022 19:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former Vice President Mike Pence said in remarks in New Hampshire that he would consider testifying before the House Jan. 6 committee if invited to appear.
  
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• Massie Reveals Photos of IRS Recruiting Program, Looks Like Audition for Next 'Police Academy'

  17-08-2022 18:59
  
  President Joe Biden took a few hours between vacations on Tuesday to sign the ironically named “Inflation Reduction Act,” a boondoggle of a bill that analysts agree will not reduce inflation. It will, however, raise taxes on the middle class and subsidize green energy programs.
  The bill will also dramatically expand the scope and size of the IRS. In fact, it increases IRS funding by $80 billion, nearly six times its current annual budget of $13.7 billion, and adds an army of 87,
  
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• Some inconvenient truths about Liz Cheney

  17-08-2022 18:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Liz Cheney Wyoming primary results in the elections Tuesday have her losing to a Trump supporter. They shouldn't lead to 2024 presidential run.
  
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• Watch: Dem's Security Tackles Man, 'I Used to Bounce People Like You Off Their Head in Jail'

  17-08-2022 18:38
  
  Private security personnel for Democratic Rep. Val Demings in Florida are making headlines after they were caught on camera pushing a man down during a campaign appearance earlier this month — and putting Democratic hypocrisy on public display.
  Demings is a former Orlando, Florida, police chief who has spoken favorably about progressive efforts to cut funding for the police elsewhere. In a 2020 interview with CBS, according to the Washington Free Beacon, she said the ferociously anti-polic
  
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• Trump Exposes Laughable Demand FBI Made During Raid, And They Were Gloriously Shut Down

  17-08-2022 18:19
  
  In a defiant social media chortle, former President Donald Trump revealed Tuesday how one major FBI demand was foiled during the Mar-a-Lago raid.
  “In the Raid of Mar-a-Lago, the FBI demanded that all security cameras be turned off. What is that all about? We said no!” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
  Because the cameras remained on, Trump and his family, who were in their Trump Tower residence at the time of the raid, could watch what was taking place, according to
  
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• Ducey's Hastily Erected Border Wall In Need of Repair Just Days Later; Cartel Suspected

  17-08-2022 18:10
  
  Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey took measures to fill in gaps at the border near Yuma last week by stacking a line of shipping containers, but portions of these new barriers have already been knocked over.
  “We clearly struck a nerve,” C.J. Karamargin, Ducey’s communications director, said, according to Arizona’s Family News.
  “Someone doesn’t like what we’re doing. Someone obviously doesn’t like the obstacles we are putting in their way,” Karamargin a
  
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• Airbnb rolls out 'anti-party technology' to help enforce its global ban

  17-08-2022 17:48 via cnn.com
  
  Weeks after Airbnb said it would permanently ban parties at properties rented through its platform, the company is deploying so-called "anti-party technology" in the United States and Canada to help enforce the measure.
  
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• Airbnb rolls out 'anti-party technology' to enforce global ban

  17-08-2022 17:48 via cnn.com
  
  Weeks after Airbnb said it would permanently ban parties at properties rented through its platform, the company is deploying so-called "anti-party technology" in the United States and Canada to help enforce the measure.
  
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• Airbnb rolls out 'anti-party technology'

  17-08-2022 17:48 via cnn.com
  
  Weeks after Airbnb said it would permanently ban parties at properties rented through its platform, the company is deploying so-called "anti-party technology" in the United States and Canada to help enforce the measure.
  
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• Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox, new research suggests

  17-08-2022 17:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Since the outset of the global monkeypox outbreak in May, public health and infectious disease experts have told the public that the virus is largely
  
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• Texas Ranchers Who Experienced Brutal IRS Audit Issue Dire Warning to Middle-Class Americans

  17-08-2022 17:38
  
  What will the 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service agents that the Democrats’ new tax and spend bill aims to hire mean for you? Just ask David and Deborah Hajda.
  The Hajdas own the Raising 5 Cattle Company in Thorndale, Texas. Thirteen years ago, the IRS audited them thanks to, they say, an engine rebuild on one of their tractors.
  Appearing on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday, they had a five-word message to anyone who doesn’t take the prospect of an I
  
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• Florida state attorney challenges suspension by Gov. DeSantis

  17-08-2022 17:15 via cnn.com
  
  Florida state attorney Andrew Warren, who was suspended earlier this month by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his position on abortion, is appealing his suspension by claiming the Republican governor abused his authority.
  
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• Not a Joke: Biden Headed on Another Vacation After Returning from Summer Beach Vacation

  17-08-2022 17:08
  
  Runaway inflation, terrifying crime waves, cringeworthy blunders and nonstop vacationing have become the hallmark of Joe Biden’s failed presidency.
  On Tuesday, Biden — coming off a weeklong vacation at a Democratic booster’s beachfront mansion on Kiawah Island in South Carolina — returned to the White House for just five hours before taking off for yet another taxpayer-funded respite in his home state of Delaware.Joe Biden — fresh off a week-long beach vacation in S
  
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• Sarah Palin's Return to Politics Gets Off to a Positive Start on Election Night

  17-08-2022 17:00
  
  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin cleared a major hurdle Tuesday as she seeks Alaska’s seat in the House.
  Alaska’s primary for the House seat formerly held by the late Republican Rep. Don Young attracted 22 candidates. Only four will advance to the November general election under the state’s rules that put all candidates, regardless of party affiliation, into one primary with the top four advancing to the November general election.
  According to ABC, the numbers that were in as of
  
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• 8-year-old left paralyzed after July 4 parade shooting feels 'hopeless' and angry

  17-08-2022 16:49 via cnn.com
  
  • Watch: Shooting survivors and victims' family members release emotional video
  
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• Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane ordered to report to federal prison

  17-08-2022 16:39 via cnn.com
  
  Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced last month to two and a half years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights, has been ordered to report to the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood in Colorado on August 30, according to a judgment order filed Tuesday.
  
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