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• Sex Offender Breaks In, Gets in Bed with Girl; Mama Dispenses Epic Beat-Down Before He Ends Up in Hospital

  19-08-2022 23:51
  
  This mama bear had to act fast when she was confronted with a nightmare scenario in her own home.
  Arizona mother Mayla Hogan of Paulden realized that an intruder had entered her house when her 12-year-old daughter woke her up around 3 a.m. Wednesday.
  Hogan said the girl told her a strange man had come inside and had lain down in bed next to her.
  The girl said the man had been touching her face. He was singing when Hogan told him to leave, and he allegedly refused to exit the premises.
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• Federal judge won't put on hold ruling that Graham must appear before grand jury

  19-08-2022 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  • Supreme Court issues rare emergency order favoring voters challenging elections rules
  
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• Tropical storm warning issued for South Texas and the East Coast of Mexico

  19-08-2022 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  A tropical storm warning has been issued from Port Mansfield, Texas to Boca de Catan, Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center. The warnings are associated with a system the National Hurricane Center has designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Four, located in the southern Gulf of Mexico, about 400 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Rio Grande.
  
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• Calif. man's body 'mummified' in a home for years while son collected his checks, officials say

  19-08-2022 23:31
  
  Authorities went to notify a man about his son's death. They found the father at home, but he had been long dead, too.      
  
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• NYC ramps up monkeypox vaccine effort

  19-08-2022 23:21
  New York City is increasing the number of vaccination sites for monkeyox amid strong demand for the shot. (Aug.19) (AP Video: Robert Bumsted)      
  
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• NTSB begins probe after planes collide in Calif.

  19-08-2022 23:21
  The NTSB is beginning its probe into a collision between two small planes in Watsonville, Calif.Authorities say three people and a dog died in the incident. (Aug. 19)      
  
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• Sen. Lindsey Graham loses bid to delay testifying in Georgia Trump probe

  19-08-2022 23:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  A federal judge in Georgia on Friday denied Sen.
  
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• Video shows ICE agent with boot on the neck of migrant during workplace raid

  19-08-2022 22:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  A video released in a federal civil court case and first obtained by NBC News shows an ICE agent putting his foot on a migrant's neck.
  
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• Literary community rallies for Salman Rushdie

  19-08-2022 22:46
  Prominent members of the literary community held a rally on the steps of the New York Public Library on Friday to show solidarity with Salman Rushdie. (Aug. 19) (AP Video: Ted Shaffrey)      
  
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• Police seeking help after someone painted swastikas on Atlanta's Rainbow Crosswalks

  19-08-2022 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  The Atlanta Police Department is asking for assistance in finding the person who investigators believe defaced the city's rainbow-painted crosswalks with swastikas two different times.
  
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• Journalists Hook RV Up to 3 Electric Trucks - They Accidentally Expose Total Nightmare of Driving One

  19-08-2022 22:25
  
  “Towing a trailer with an EV is now possible but still far from practical due to drastically reduced range.”
  That’s a summary of Car and Driver’s test of three electric vehicles towing a 29-foot, 6,100-pound camper trailer.
  It’s an improvement, actually, because a year ago Car and Driver couldn’t find an EV that could pull more than 5,000 pounds.
  Now they can — except EVs used for recreation are not yet ready for primetime.
  Consider a person’s thou
  
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• SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites

  19-08-2022 22:11
  SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Friday and carried 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit (Aug.19)      
  
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• DeSantis Beats Out Biden: FL Unemployment Hits Historic Lows, Private Employment Skyrockets in Red State

  19-08-2022 22:11
  
  As the whole country has been struggling through inflation and a fickle economy, Florida is doing well and seems to be on the road to a bettering economy as its unemployment numbers dropped to historic rates in July.
  On Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that the state’s unemployment rate had dropped to a historic 2.7 percent in July, the governor’s office reported.
  As employment has grown in Florida, July’s unemployment rate was the lowest it has been since Febru
  
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• ‘It’s just insanity’: ATF now needs 2 weeks to perform a routine gun trace

  19-08-2022 22:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  Boxes of paper records fill nearly every corridor of the ATF’s National Tracing Center, where agents are struggling to keep up with surging requests from local police.
  
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• Biden Sticks Taxpayers with a Large Bill to Build a Fence Around His Beach House

  19-08-2022 21:59
  
  Joe Biden is once again heading off to his multimillion-dollar Delaware beach house, where he is spending nearly $500,000 of the taxpayers’ money to build a fence to keep out the riffraff.
  You know the riffraff — that’s you and me.
  This trip to Delaware makes Biden’s 49th visit to the state to take a vacation from his busy presidency. It also figures into his 150 days of vacation time, the most of any president in recent memory.
  Perhaps more egregiously, Biden went from o
  
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• Here's the story behind the 'yelling girl' meme you're seeing all over social media

  19-08-2022 21:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  The 'Girl Explaining' or 'yelling girl' meme, which features an impassioned girl yelling into the ear of a guy who appears indifferent what she's saying, has gone viral.
  
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• 'Elderly' woman drives car onto second floor of mall, officers help her to back out

  19-08-2022 21:44
  
  A woman described by as "elderly" by police drove her car through a mall entrance in Braintree, Massachusetts, and made it onto the second floor before being escorted out.      
  
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• Officer involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor's home has been terminated

  19-08-2022 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  One of the officers involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor's home, Sergeant Kyle Meany, has been terminated from the Louisville Metro Police Department.
  
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• You can now tweet as you climb Mount Kilimanjaro thanks to new Wi-Fi network

  19-08-2022 21:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Adventurers ascending Mount Kilimanjaro can now document their climbs in real time on Instagram, Twitter or even TikTok, following the installation of a new
  
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• 'We know what we've got in terms of this outbreak': White House defends monkeypox response

  19-08-2022 20:41 via cnn.com
  
  A top official on the White House monkeypox response team on Friday sought to defend the Biden administration's actions as the outbreak worsens but did not offer substantive explanations for why it is taking so long to get the spread under control, casting the response as reactive to the disease's trajectory.
  
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• A bride and her dad who went viral with their dance share a special bond

  19-08-2022 20:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  A bride and her father have danced their way into the internet’s heart after a video of their routine at her wedding went viral.
  
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• See Teachers' Union Ad Attack 'Extremists' Who Are a Threat to Education, But It's Not Who You Think

  19-08-2022 20:36
  
  Leftists are used to getting loud to try to get and what they want.
  They believe they have a monopoly on protesting, and it’s not OK when others do it. Ironically, whenever conservatives show passionate public determination, they are smeared and branded as “extremists.”
  A New Jersey teacher’s union released an ad using that very tactic against parents who dared to challenge the progressive agenda educators are forcing onto school kids.
  The advertisement, called “NJE
  
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• Fourth Louisville police officer fired in connection to raid on Breonna Taylor's apartment

  19-08-2022 20:33
  
  A fourth Louisville police officer has been fired in connection with the raid on Breonna Taylor's apartment in 2020.      
  
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• Man Awakens to Unusual Sounds, Sees Something Troubling and Instinctively Grabs Gun Before Surprising Armed Robbers at Door

  19-08-2022 20:27
  
  When a homeowner in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles was awakened by odd noises last weekend, he thought he was dealing with raccoons. So, he went out to look around — but he ended up facing a different kind of masked menace.
  According to KTTV-TV in Los Angeles, the homeowner — identified only as “Remi” — came face-to-face with at least three would-be armed robbers in his home and on his balcony.
  Remi managed to scare them off by firing at them with his
  
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• Yellowstone Officials Say Human Foot Found in Hot Spring Is Linked to Grisly Incident

  19-08-2022 20:26
  
  Part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park earlier this week is believed to be linked to the death of a person last month, park officials said Friday.
  The July 31 death is being investigated, but officials do not suspect foul play, park officials said in a statement.
  The statement did not disclose details about how the death is believed to have happened, the identity of the person who died or why officials do not suspect foul play.
  The shoe was rec
  
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• Harriet Hageman Accused of Lying About Cheney Concession, So She Released the Voicemail

  19-08-2022 20:20
  
  Following her crushing defeat of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney in the state’s Republican primary, Trump-endorsed winner Harriet Hageman joined Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night.
  Asked if she had received a concession from her opponent, Hageman said Cheney had left a voicemail which said only, “Hello Harriet.” The call did not contain “any kind of a concession,” she told Hannity.Hageman: There wasn’t a phone call… She called and left a very brief t
  
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• Bugatti reveals its last gas-only car it hopes will be the world's fastest convertible

  19-08-2022 20:19 via cnn.com
  
  Bugatti has unveiled what the French automaker hopes will be the world's fastest convertible. The 1,600-horsepower, $5 million W16 Mistral is, essentially, an open-topped version of the Bugatti Chiron supercar, though there are major design differences.
  
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• Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Bill to Ban 'So-Called Gender-Affirming Care' for Kids, Calls Out Fellow Republicans

  19-08-2022 20:09
  
  In light of the controversy over the ethics of “gender-affirming care” and things like puberty blockers, hormone treatments and gender assignment surgeries, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is introducing a new act that would make it a felony to be involved in “gender-affirming care.”
  In an appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Greene announced her upcoming bill and discussed what the Republican Party must do to stand up and
  
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• 'I don't say his name, ever': Vulnerable Republicans try to avoid Trump in midterms

  19-08-2022 20:08 via cnn.com
  
  The man in charge of the House GOP's campaign strategy has been doling out advice to Republican candidates and incumbents in key battleground races as they prepare for the general election: Don't be distracted by Donald Trump on the campaign trail, and instead focus on the issues Republicans believe will be most salient to voters in the midterms.
  
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• 'I don't say his name, ever': Vulnerable Republicans seek to avoid Trump in 2022 midterms

  19-08-2022 20:08 via cnn.com
  
  The man in charge of the House GOP's campaign strategy has been doling out advice to Republican candidates and incumbents in key battleground races as they prepare for the general election: Don't be distracted by Donald Trump on the campaign trail, and instead focus on the issues Republicans believe will be most salient to voters in the midterms.
  
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• Shots Fired on National Mall Near White House, 3 People Taken Into Custody

  19-08-2022 19:59
  
  Gunshots fired at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., resulted in the area’s closure early Friday morning.
  An armed juvenile and two adults were arrested after the gunshots, according to WRC-TV.
  The arrests were made on the 1600 block of Constitution Avenue, which separates the Ellipse south of the White House from the Washington Monument.
  U.S. Park Police, Secret Service and D.C. police officers responded to reports of shots fired around 1:15 a.m.
  No one was injured,  but three un
  
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• Chicago police officer charged after kneeling on 14-year-old boy's back in arrest video

  19-08-2022 19:53
  
  Michael Vitellaro is facing felony charges after video showed him kneeling on a 14-year-old boy's back and accusing him of stealing his son's bicycle.      
  
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• Florida woman dies, child hospitalized after lightning strike near park

  19-08-2022 19:48
  
  A woman died and her child was hospitalized after lightning struck a tree near a park in Winter Springs, Fla., officials said.      
  
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• Stars Coffee, anyone? Starbucks substitute opening in Russia

  19-08-2022 19:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  People in Moscow who were disappointed when Starbucks closed its coffee shops after Russia sent troops into Ukraine may now feel a caffeine jolt of hope: A
  
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• LAPD Asks for Public's Help After 'Flash Mob' Takes Over Entire Intersection and Ransacks Store

  19-08-2022 19:37
  
  Shortly after midnight on Monday, several vehicles blocked the intersection of Figueroa Street and El Segundo Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, and spectators gathered. Drivers began to perform “donut” maneuvers in the middle of the intersection, creating circular skidmarks by spinning their rear tires while turning. After a short time, what was at first a disruptive, spontaneous and highly illegal exhibition of stunt driving quickly turned into an explosion of violent looting, t
  
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• Disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, accused of killing his wife and son, faces new financial crimes charges

  19-08-2022 19:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, already accused of killing his wife and son, was indicted on multiple money laundering and computer crime.
  
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• Biden Administration Accused of 'Dirty Inside Deal' by Group of Furious 9/11 Families

  19-08-2022 19:23
  
  The ramifications of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last August are still playing out, and some of the Biden administration’s decisions in the affair have deeply affected some Americans.
  Particularly, the administration’s decision concerning $7 billion in Afghan central bank reserves has rocked 9/11 families and stirred up controversy, the Washington Eaxminer reported.
  When the U.S. troops left Afghanistan last year, the Taliban took over the country, leading to the collapse of
  
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• What is the 'lesbian breakup curse,' and why are some TikTok users worried about it?

  19-08-2022 19:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  After multiple popular creators separated from their partners, TikTok users are worried that the "lesbian breakup curse" will threaten their own relationships.
  
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• Gen. Flynn: It's Time to Activate Every Single American - We Must Take Immediate and Necessary Action

  19-08-2022 19:02
  
  National security and severe government reform are two of our nation’s massive near-term challenges.
  In today’s environment, we face a time of consequence like few throughout U.S. history. The very fabric and reputation of our nation internationally are at risk, and we have a dangerously mounting threat internally from a formidable and vast, overreaching federal government.
  Considering this, it is worth reflecting on one of our best presidents, Abraham Lincoln. In 1838, Lincoln gave
  
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• Life in the US isn't what these Afghans expected

  19-08-2022 18:54 via cnn.com
  
  Shila rushes into the living room when she hears her nephew scream.
  
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• ISIS 'Beatle' El Shafee Elsheikh sentenced to life for torturing and murdering American hostages

  19-08-2022 18:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  A British national who was a member of the Islamic State terrorist group and convicted for his role in taking roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago, resulting in the deaths of four Americans, was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
  
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• Doctors delayed a pregnant teen's chemo because it could harm her fetus. Cancer killed them both.

  19-08-2022 18:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Dominican Republic's total abortion ban has led to pregnant women's deaths, said families pushing for legal changes and warning it can happen in the U.S.
  
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• FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Raid Already Discredited - Led Fake Trump-Russia Investigation

  19-08-2022 18:45
  
  The FBI’s alarming raid on the Florida home of former President Donald Trump was a politically motivated witch hunt, just like the 2016 “Russia collusion” hoax was.
  This isn’t a surprising conclusion once you learn that the same motley crew of anti-Trump FBI officials who led the discredited Russiagate hoax were behind the Aug. 8 raid on the 45th president’s Mar-a-Lago mansion.
  Numerous intelligence sources told investigative journalist Paul Sperry of RealClear Inve
  
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• Infamous ISIS 'Beatle' Learns His Sentence for 'Barbaric' Crimes Against American Hostages

  19-08-2022 18:42
  
  British national El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in an Islamic State scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners hostage a decade ago.
  Elsheikh’s hostages dubbed him a “Beatle,” along with other English-accented captors — but the moniker belied the viciousness of his conduct.
  “This prosecution unmasked the vicious and sadistic ISIS Beatles,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh said, noting that Elsheikh and the oth
  
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• In emotional testimony, Vanessa Bryant describes learning about leaked photos of Kobe crash site

  19-08-2022 18:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Vanessa Bryant, during testimony, describes learning about leaked Kobe crash photos
  
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• The world's second biggest movie theater chain is in trouble

  19-08-2022 17:51 via cnn.com
  
  The owner of Regal Cinemas is having a tough time — its stock crashed as much as 80% Friday after reports that its parent company is preparing to file for bankruptcy.
  
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• Horrifying Adolescent Trans Promotional Videos Surface on Hospital Site, Push Hysterectomies on Young Girls

  19-08-2022 17:44
  
  Boston Children’s Hospital is under fire after videos emerged from its website showing doctors advocating for “gender-affirming” surgery for minors.
  In a clip shared on Twitter by Libs of TikTok, Dr. Frances Grimstad discussed performing “gender-affirming hysterectomies.”
  “A gender-affirming hysterectomy is very similar to most hysterectomies that occur,” Grimstad said. “A hysterectomy itself is the removal of the uterus, the cervix, which is the o
  
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• McDonald's is bringing a British hit to the US

  19-08-2022 17:37 via cnn.com
  
  McDonald's Chicken Big Mac was a huge hit in the United Kingdom. Now it's crossing the pond.
  
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• Federal Judge Rules Biden's Oil and Gas Order Violated the Law, Issues Permanent Injunction in States That Sued

  19-08-2022 17:32
  
  A federal judge on Thursday issued a permanent injunction that will allow new oil and gas leases on federal lands.
  The ruling by Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana came one day after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had kicked back to Doughty an injunction he issued last year to accomplish the same goal, according to The Hill.
  Doughty’s Thursday ruling permanently blocks a January 2021 executive order from President Joe Biden that halted lease sales on fed
  
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• Swimming Session Turns Deadly as Child Dies from Brain-Eating Infection

  19-08-2022 17:31
  
  Federal health officials confirmed Friday that a Nebraska child died this week from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after he swam in a river near Omaha.
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the presence of the naegleria fowleri amoeba in the child, according to the Douglas County Department of Health.
  Health officials said they believe the child became infected while swimming Sunday in the Elkhorn River, a few miles west of Omaha.
  Authorities have not release
  
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