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• NBA Legend Says He's Been Given Permission to Travel to Russia to Seek Release of Brittney Griner

  21-08-2022 23:00
  
  Dennis Rodman, a former NBA star with the Chicago Bulls, said he will seek to do what others have not accomplished and free WNBA star Brittney Griner from her Russian prison.
  Earlier this month, Griner was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison after pleading guilty to a drug charge.
  Although multiple reports have said the Biden administration is trying to work with Russia over a trade that would bring Griner home, so far nothing has become finalized.Dennis Rodman is going to Russia in hope
  
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• Security Guard Shoots Pallet Collector Dead in Lowe's Parking Lot, Body Camera Footage Ignites Debates: Was He Justified?

  21-08-2022 22:29
  
  Body camera footage from a Portland, Oregon, security guard who is facing second-degree murder charges from a shooting incident in May 2021 has reignited debates over whether the shooting was justified.
  According to The Oregonian, 29-year-old Logan Gimbel worked for Cornerstone Security Group. The group had been in a dispute with 49-year-old Freddy Nelson, who was allegedly collecting wooden pallets, so he could resell them.
  In the body camera footage from a Lowe’s parking lot, Gimbel coul
  
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• Liz Cheney Lashes Out at GOP Voters After Humiliating Primary Loss

  21-08-2022 22:17
  
  After her crushing defeat in Wyoming’s Republican primary election, Rep. Liz Cheney has decided to chastise voters for booting her out.
  Cheney went on ABC News‘ “This Week” for a fawning interview about her supposed courage for spending the better part of the last two years criticizing every breath of former President Donald Trump. As usual, the establishment media was eating right from her palm.
  “No regrets,” Cheney said. “You know, I feel sad about whe
  
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• Officials: NYC welcomes largest single-day arrival of migrants from Texas

  21-08-2022 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Buses with at least 140 asylum seekers arrived in New York Sunday in what officials are calling the largest single-day arrival of migrants from Texas.
  
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• Police Raid Rectory, Detain Catholic Bishop and Several Priests Critical of Administration

  21-08-2022 21:44
  
  A Roman Catholic leader in Nicaragua has been arrested for speaking out against the government of President Daniel Ortega.
  Bishop Rolando Álvarez and serval other priests were arrested Friday after Nicaraguan authorities had accused them of “organizing violent groups” and inciting them “to carry out acts of hate against the population,” according to Associated Press reports published by PBS.
  Alvarez was placed under house arrest at his parents’ home in Managu
  
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• For the first time, monkeypox has been reported in a minor in New York state

  21-08-2022 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  A minor in New York state has reportedly contracted monkeypox -- a first among children in the state and at least the third reported case of the disease among children in the US.
  
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• Massachusetts student cited for uniform violation for wearing a hijab

  21-08-2022 21:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Massachusetts charter school where an 8th grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the
  
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• New Massachusetts statue honors once-enslaved woman who won freedom in court

  21-08-2022 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  The story of the enslaved woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation has been pushed to the fringes of
  
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• Steve Jobs' Apple-1 computer prototype auctioned for nearly $700K

  21-08-2022 20:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  An authenticated Apple-1 computer prototype from the mid-1970s has sold at auction for nearly $700,000.
  
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• For the first time, monkeypox has been reported in a child under age 18 in New York state

  21-08-2022 20:46 via cnn.com
  
  A minor in New York state has reportedly contracted monkeypox -- a first among children in the state and at least the third reported case of the disease among children in the US.
  
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• NATO Member: Hostile Russian Agents Caught Operating Inside Alliance Borders, Soldiers Hospitalized

  21-08-2022 20:32
  
  A pair of soldiers in Albania were injured while attempting to apprehend two Russian and a Ukrainian from entering a military facility in central Albania, in an incident that proves that Russia is not limiting its military belligerence merely to Ukraine.
  The Albanian Ministry of Defense told reporters on Sunday that the military had apprehended three people with ties to Russia who were trying to gain access to the Gramsh military base, according to German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
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• Healthy Woman Begins Feeling Strange Then Forgets Her Own Name, When They Pull Up Her Carpet Everything Makes Sense

  21-08-2022 20:09
  
  An Australian woman is warning others that mold in a house can lead to devastating medical complications.
  Amie Skilton did not know when she moved into an apartment in 2016 with her husband that she had a genetic vulnerability to mold that could bring about serious health complications. She was soon to learn, according to an Australian website report published Saturday by the New York Post.
  “My brain was fine and my body was fine,” Skilton, now 42, recalled, News.com.au reported.
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• She worked for Andrew Cuomo until he resigned. He worked for Donald Trump until he was forced out

  21-08-2022 20:01 via cnn.com
  
  Tim Miller and Lis Smith built formidable reputations by speaking for important politicians. Now, speaking for themselves, they've illuminated the imbalance destabilizing American democracy.
  
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• Police Took a Closer Look at the Buckets in His Basement and Make a Horrifying Find, Things Get Worse When They Read the Messages

  21-08-2022 19:58
  
  A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after human remains were discovered at his home.
  Jeremy Pauley, 40, of Enola was arrested as part of a business in body parts that came from a mortuary at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science, according to the New York Post.
  According to court documents cited by WPMT-TV in York, Pennsylvania, an employee of the mortuary sold bones and other body parts to Pauley. As of Sunday, that employee had not been charged with any crime.
  Pauley allegedly purcha
  
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• Dark Warning from 1616 Surfaces Again in Europe, Not the Only Bad Omen Seen on the Continent

  21-08-2022 19:30
  
  They call them “hunger stones” — rocks inscribed with dire warnings from days past when droughts struck Europe.
  “If you see me, then weep,” read one with an inscription dating to 1616 that emerged along the Elbe River near the town of Děčín in the Czech Republic near Germany, according to The Guardian.
  The stones are making an appearance due to a drought that is sweeping Europe.
  “We haven’t analyzed fully this year’s event because
  
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• Paul Pelosi-Linked Business Got More Than a Million in PPP Loans but Won't Have to Pay Them Off

  21-08-2022 19:10
  
  The Paycheck Protection Program created to help small businesses survive the pandemic by doling out loans to help them retain employees has been a bonanza for companies linked to the rich and famous, according to new reports.
  The website ProPublica has amassed a searchable database of the loans, which media outlets have been exploring to find out how many rich recipients will never have to pay back a dime.
  The trick is to know the corporate names of businesses in which the rich and famous either
  
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• Appeals court temporarily pauses order requiring Graham to appear before Atlanta-area grand jury

  21-08-2022 18:51 via cnn.com
  
  A federal appeals court on Sunday temporarily paused a district court's order requiring that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina appear before a grand jury probing plots to illegally influence the 2020 election results in Georgia.
  
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• 3 Indiana college students die in fiery car accident

  21-08-2022 18:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Three Indiana State University students died in a fiery single-vehicle accident early Sunday, the school said in a news release.
  
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• Near-Total Crop Losses Ravaging US Agriculture - SC Farmers Sound the Alarm on Tragic Harvest Season

  21-08-2022 18:20
  
  Farms in the southeastern United States are suffering from crop failures that are ravaging agricultural productivity in one of the most traditionally fertile areas of the nation.
  Beginning with an unexpected Spring freeze, followed by a chillier than expected May and an accompanying drought, utterly massive crop failures of peaches, watermelons and blueberries have devastated local growers, trickling down the economy to the restaurants, breweries, distillers and markets that depend on their prod
  
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• Sen. Lindsey Graham wins temporary reprieve from testifying in Georgia probe of Trump

  21-08-2022 17:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  An appeals court put on hold Sen.
  
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• Frail Mike Tyson Seen Being Wheeled Around Airport; Boxing Great Says His 'Expiration Date' Is Near

  21-08-2022 17:47
  
  Boxing legend Mike Tyson was seen on Tuesday being wheeled through Miami International Airport.
  Tyson, who is 56, did not go unnoticed. As he made his way through the crowded airport, he posed with fans for selfies, according to the New York Post.
  Tyson had a walking stick on his lap.Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson’s health failing him and says his ‘expiration date may come really soon’Mike Tyson is pictured in a wheelchair at Miami Airport, raising new fears for
  
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• Apparent Hit on 'Putin's Brain' Botched, Daughter Is Destroyed in the Fiery Explosion Instead

  21-08-2022 17:27
  
  The daughter of a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin was killed Saturday night in a car bomb explosion near Moscow.
  Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin was killed after “an explosive device, presumably installed in the Toyota Land Cruiser, went off on a public road and the car caught fire,” CNN reported, citing the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee and the Russian state news agency Tass.
  Denis Pushilin, the head o
  
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• Biden's Dark Winter Looming on the Horizon as Oil Reserve Plummets to 1985 Levels

  21-08-2022 17:19
  
  The United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to its lowest inventory level seen since 1985 under the stewardship of President Joe Biden and his Democrat-controlled Congress. Repeated withdrawals from the reserve have been leveraged by the White House in an effort to control skyrocketing energy costs and stave off hyper-inflation that threatens to spiral out of control.
  The SPR is located in a series of caverns along the Gulf coasts of Texas and Louisiana and has the capacity to hold
  
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• Wild-Eyed Woman Slips Out of Cuffs, Discovers Deputy's AR-15

  21-08-2022 17:09
  
  An Oklahoma woman was being held by police near Oklahoma City due to her unpredictable behavior and wasn’t even bound for a jail cell — until her actions in the back seat of a patrol car changed everything.
  Video footage from a Grady County Sheriff’s Department dashcam revealed the stunning incident that unfolded Aug. 12 as Rachel Zion Clay, 36, slipped out of her handcuffs and reached inside the console of the cruiser where she found the gun-release switch and unlocked a polic
  
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• Lawyer Reveals Compelling Reason to Avoid Self-Checkout - You Could Be Sabotaging Yourself

  21-08-2022 17:01
  
  A woman who says she is a lawyer has released a TikTok video telling viewers to beware of self-checkout machines.
  “If you somehow didn’t scan something appropriately or the machine didn’t pick it up accidentally when you scanned it, you could potentially be charged with misdemeanor larceny or felony larceny, depending on how big the item was,” she said.
  Although she only uses her first name in the video, shot inside her car, The Sun identified her as defense attorney Lind
  
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• Chinese and Russian Ally Situated in Europe Sends Warning to NATO

  21-08-2022 16:51
  
  Serbia’s president called on NATO on Sunday to “do their job” in Kosovo or he says Serbia itself will move to protect its minority in the breakaway province.
  The fiery televised address to his nation by President Aleksandar Vucic followed the collapse of political talks between Serbian and Kosovo leaders earlier this week mediated by the European Union in Brussels.
  Serbia, along with its allies Russia and China, has refused to recognize Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of indepe
  
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• Five people killed in Miami-Dade County wrong way head-on car collision, Florida Highway Patrol says

  21-08-2022 16:50 via cnn.com
  
  Five people under the age of 25 were killed in a car crash early Saturday morning in Miami-Dade County, Florida, officials say.
  
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• First lady Jill Biden tests negative for Covid-19

  21-08-2022 16:03 via cnn.com
  
  First lady Jill Biden on Sunday will leave isolation in South Carolina for Delaware after testing negative for Covid-19, according to her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander.
  
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• 57% of voters say investigations into Trump should continue, NBC News poll finds

  21-08-2022 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  A clear majority of American voters believe that the various investigations into alleged wrongdoing by former President Donald Trump should continue.
  
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• Watch: IRS Coaching College Students on How to Take Down Small Business Owners

  21-08-2022 14:36
  
  The Internal Revenue Service is recruiting college students by giving them a taste of what it feels like to take down a tax evader.
  But Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky has doubts that the recruitment initiative is going to benefit the American people. He shared a clip of an April report on what the IRS has dubbed the “Adrian Project.”
  “In case you thought the IRS needed 87,000 more agents to help you with your tax returns and audit billionaires, watch this: Highlights
  
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• Russia launches murder investigation after car bomb kills daughter of key Putin ally

  21-08-2022 14:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  The daughter of the Russian ultra-nationalist often referred to as “Putin’s brain” was killed Saturday after her car exploded in a possible contract killing,
  
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• Manchin's Rude Awakening - Own Party Betrays Him After He Caved on Inflation Reduction Act

  21-08-2022 14:01
  
  Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin’s agreement late last month to back the disingenuously named Inflation Reduction Act came as a shock to Republicans and likely to members of his own party as well.
  Up until then, the West Virginia senator had been the one vote standing between the Democrats’ passage of needless and expensive climate change legislation and fiscal sanity.
  Then, one day in July, a beaming Manchin joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to announce his support for a $740 bil
  
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• Rescue crews are searching for a hiker in Utah after flash flooding

  21-08-2022 13:33 via cnn.com
  
  Rescuers continue searching for a hiker in southwestern Utah after a flash flood struck in a national park.
  
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• Watch: California Principal Calls Cops on Boy Who Can't Even Read - For Not Wearing a Mask

  21-08-2022 13:03
  
  A California elementary school principal took flak this week for calling the police on a 4-year-old child for not wearing a mask to school.
  The incident occurred on Thursday at Theuerkauf Elementary School in Mountain View when the principal refused to allow the boy to enter the school because he wasn’t wearing a mask, KGO-TV reported.
  A video recorded by the father of the child shows the principal telling him, “I welcome him here and I’ve said this before and I’ll say it
  
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• Whitey Bulger, 89, was killed hours after he was transferred to a violent prison. Why was he moved there?

  21-08-2022 11:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Justice Department has still not shed any light on how Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger ended up in the general population of one of the nation’s most violent prisons.
  
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• The biggest mistake fans can make while watching HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel

  21-08-2022 11:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  HBO's new 'Game of Thrones' show 'House of the Dragon' doesn't disappoint on HBO max. The prequel focusing on the Targaryens learns from the original.
  
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• People are testing Tesla's 'full self-driving' on kids

  21-08-2022 11:02 via cnn.com
  
  Carmine Cupani wanted to set the record straight. So he asked his young son to stand in the path of his Tesla as it sped through a parking lot.
  
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• Texas border crackdown is disproportionately targeting Latino drivers, data show

  21-08-2022 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  In Texas, Gov. Abbott's Operation Lone Star targeting illegal immigration has increased state trooper citations in Latino-heavy counties.
  
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• Signs of heart disease may be more subtle in women than men

  21-08-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Signs of heart attack and stroke can vary and are more complicated in women
  
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• Police’s use of a baby’s DNA to ID its father as a suspect violated the public’s trust

  21-08-2022 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  On television, when DNA evidence is used in an innovative way to solve a cold case, the police are heralded as heroes.
  
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• How one pastor redefined the art of not preaching

  21-08-2022 10:06 via cnn.com
  
  The Rev. Jeremy Rutledge was looking back on one of the worst experiences in his life when he decided to write a letter to the stranger who helped him when all others failed.
  
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• Analysis: How one pastor redefined the art of not preaching

  21-08-2022 10:06 via cnn.com
  
  The Rev. Jeremy Rutledge was looking back on one of the worst experiences in his life when he decided to write a letter to the stranger who helped him when all others failed.
  
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• China Trying to Control the Weather, Now Dispersing Chemicals That Could Bring Rain

  21-08-2022 07:40
  
  China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain, while factories in the country’s southwest waited Sunday to see whether they would be shut down for another week due to shortages of water to generate hydropower.
  The hottest, driest summer since the government began recording rainfall and temperature 61 years ago has wilted crops and left reservoirs at half their normal water level. Factories in Sichuan province were shut d
  
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• Louisiana state officials delay flood funding to New Orleans a second time over city officials' stance on abortion

  21-08-2022 03:43 via cnn.com
  
  Louisiana's State Bond Commission denied funding Thursday for a $39 million infrastructure project in Orleans Parish for the second time, at the behest of state Attorney General Jeff Landry, according to a statement on Landry's official Facebook page and video posted from the bond commission meeting.
  
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• 2,000 Philadelphia school district workers vote to authorize strike ahead of school year, union says

  21-08-2022 03:14 via cnn.com
  
  A union representing about 2,000 School District of Philadelphia employees voted to authorize a strike on Saturday, just over one week before school starts, the union announced in a press release.
  
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• Washington state's King County declares monkeypox a public health emergency

  21-08-2022 02:16 via cnn.com
  
  Washington state's King County, which includes Seattle, declared monkeypox a public health emergency Friday, with more than 270 recorded cases, according to a proclamation from county executive Dow Constantine.
  
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• Actor Gary Busey faces sex offense charges at Monster Mania Convention in New Jersey

  21-08-2022 02:10 via cnn.com
  
  Actor Gary Busey is facing sex offense charges that allegedly occurred during the annual Monster Mania Convention held at the Doubletree Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey last weekend, according to police.
  
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• 2 Ohio men fatally shot by police after earlier security incident in remote area, sheriff's office says

  21-08-2022 01:17 via cnn.com
  
  Two men were shot and killed by police in Knox County, Ohio, after the local emergency management agency earlier notified residents to shelter in place, according to the Knox County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Actor Gary Busey Hit with Multiple Criminal Charges

  21-08-2022 01:08
  
  Actor Gary Busey faces several sex charges in connection with his appearance at a horror movie convention last weekend in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
  According to a Facebook post from the Cherry Hill Police Department, a California man was charged on Friday with four crimes, including two counts of criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment.
  The Philadelphia Inquirer identified the man as Busey.
  Police said the incidents in question took place at the Doubletree Hotel in Cherry Hill, where
  
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• The internet immediately jumped in to mock Mark Zuckerberg's newest project

  21-08-2022 00:10 via cnn.com
  
  Mark Zuckerberg, in response to a torrent of critical memes mocking the graphics of Meta's newest project, has heard his critics -- and changed his selfie.
  
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