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• Bystanders in Shock as Double Amputee in Motorized Wheelchair Allegedly Attacks Firefighters

  26-08-2022 23:58
  
  The latest in a string of attacks against firefighters in Seattle has sparked concerns that leftist anti-police rhetoric has grown to such fanatical proportions that extremists can’t tell law enforcement and fire/rescue personnel apart.
  A Seattle firefighting crew was treating a patient on Thursday afternoon when a bystander allegedly tried to slam into them with a motorized wheelchair.
  According to KOMO-TV, the attack escalated to the point where the firefighters had to call for backup. O
  
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• Emmett Till Alerts system launched to alert Black leaders about racist or hate crime incidents

  26-08-2022 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  A new alert system has been launched in Maryland to notify Black leaders and clergy about credible threats or hate crimes.
  
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• Sandy Hook families accuse Alex Jones of transferring millions to himself while claiming bankruptcy

  26-08-2022 23:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  Families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting said in a court filing Thursday that Alex Jones has “systematically transferred millions of dollars” to himself.
  
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• Police rescue men after boat sinks off Boston

  26-08-2022 23:31
  In the nick of time, the Boston Police Department's harbor patrol unit rescued a father and son who were desperately clinging to a cooler at the outermost edge of Boston Harbor after their lobster boat sank. (Aug. 26)      
  
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• 5-year-old left in vehicle outside school becomes 18th hot car death this year

  26-08-2022 23:15
  
  At least 18 kids have died in hot cars in the U.S. this year. USA TODAY details each case, how they happened and what can help prevent such deaths.      
  
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• Top Budget Group Calculates Up to $1 Trillion Price Tag for Biden's Student Loan Cancellation Program

  26-08-2022 22:56
  
  The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business Model calculates that President Joe Biden’s new student loan cancellation plan could cost over $1 trillion, depending on the program’s final parameters and people’s response to it.
  Biden announced on Wednesday that he was unilaterally canceling up to $10,000 student loan debt for individuals earning $125,000 or less and families making $250,000 or less.
  For those who received Pell Grants, they will be eligible for up to $2
  
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• Transgender Harvard student dies in police custody while on honeymoon in Indonesia

  26-08-2022 22:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  A transgender advocate and Harvard graduate student died in police custody this month while on his honeymoon in the Indonesian tourist island of Bali.
  
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• Black pastor suing police department for unlawful arrest while watering neighbor's flowers

  26-08-2022 22:49
  
  Pastor Michael Jennings is suing an Alabama police department after he said he was unlawfully arrested while watering his neighbor's flowers.      
  
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• Texas can't ban adults under 21 from carrying handguns, judge rules

  26-08-2022 22:43
  
  A federal judge said the Second Amendment barred Texas from prohibiting 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying a handgun.      
  
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• Affidavit released for FBI search of Trump estate

  26-08-2022 22:36
  An FBI affidavit, heavily redacted to protect the safety of witnesses, law enforcement officials and "the ongoing investigation," offers the most detailed description to date of classified records being stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. (Aug. 26)      
  
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• Boebert Demands Biden and 'Regime' Answer 6 Questions on Anniversary of Afghanistan Bombing

  26-08-2022 22:35
  
  One year to the day after 13 U.S. servicemen and women were killed in a terrorist bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado pushed President Joe Biden for answers.
  In a three-page letter Boebert to the president dated Friday, she demanded six specific answers from Biden about what happened last year.
  The letter, which the congresswoman shared exclusively with Breitbart, asked why the bombing happ
  
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• Black Alabama pastor says police unlawfully arrested him as he watered neighbor's flowers

  26-08-2022 22:34
  
  Attorneys for Michael Jennings, an Alabama pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbors' flowers, released police footage and plan a lawsuit.      
  
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• Trudeau, Stoltenberg tout unity in Arctic defense

  26-08-2022 22:31
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wrapped up a two day visit to Canada's Far North by touting NATO's role in defending the Arctic region. (Aug. 26)      
  
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• A Michigan town may lose its only library after its staff refused to remove an LGBTQ book

  26-08-2022 22:29
  
  The Patmos Library in Jamestown, Michigan, may close after residents voted to defund it over staff's refusal to remove books with LGBT themes.      
  
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• Releasing the Mar-a-Lago affidavit was a big blunder

  26-08-2022 22:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  The release was a dramatic departure from the normal secrecy afforded an affidavit supporting a search warrant application and put the investigation into Trump at risk.
  
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• 25k Dead Voters Allegedly on Michigan's Voter Roll - Court Gloriously Denies Dem Leader's Attempt to Dismiss It

  26-08-2022 22:20
  
  A federal district court judge in Michigan on Thursday denied Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit against her office for failing to remove deceased registrants from the state’s voter rolls.
  In November, the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed the suit, claiming their analysis determined 25,975 dead Michiganders were registered to vote as of August 2021.
  Of those, 23,663 had been dead for five or more years, while 17,479 had been dead for more
  
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• Powell comments fuel 1,000-point market rout Friday as stocks slide a second week

  26-08-2022 22:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Stocks plummeted Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in his Jackson Hole speech the central bank won’t back off in its fight against rapid
  
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• NASA astronauts set sights on moon and beyond

  26-08-2022 22:10
  NASA astronaut Stan Love discusses upcomiing Artemis moon mission and beyond. (Aug. 26)      
  
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• One of the most powerful men in New York's gay nightlife scene is accused of preying on young men for years

  26-08-2022 22:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Michael J. Cohen, who owns Motel 23 and has hosted some of Manhattan’s most exclusive gay parties, enticed young men with access to nightclubs and queer community, they say.
  
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• Biden reacts to Trump's claim he declassified docs

  26-08-2022 22:01
  President Joe Biden responds to Donald Trump's taking of top secret documents to his Florida Mar-a-Lago estate and appears to mock the former president's assertion that he declassified the documents seized by the FBI earlier this month. (Aug. 26)      
  
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• Radiation tablets are handed out near Ukrainian nuclear plant as fears of a leak mount

  26-08-2022 21:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ukrainian authorities began distributing iodine tablets to residents near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant Friday, amid fears that fighting around the complex could trigger a radiation leak or an even bigger catastrophe.
  
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• Arizona GOP Senate candidate attempts to soften anti-abortion stance

  26-08-2022 21:42 via cnn.com
  
  Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters attempted to tone down his position on abortion Thursday, scrubbing his website of his support of a "federal personhood law" and a host of other strict anti-abortion positions while releasing a video in which the Republican nominee took a softer stance on the issue.
  
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• Health officials urge New Yorkers to get vaccinated after poliovirus detected in wastewater in another county

  26-08-2022 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  New York state health officials are urging people to get vaccinated against polio after the virus was identified in wastewater samples in another county.
  
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• Students in for a Surprise This Year as District Reintroduces Old-School Punishment

  26-08-2022 21:22
  
  While many of America’s schools have been driving toward a woke, left-wing agenda, one school in Missouri has startled many by bringing back a disciplinary tradition long thought extinct in the nation’s schools.
  As kids prepared for the 2022-23 school year in Cassville, Missouri, parents were told that something was making a comeback that had some cheering and others perplexed.
  The Cassville School District announced that it was bringing back the paddle as a disciplinary measure this
  
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• Nevada approves hand-counting of ballots ahead of November's election

  26-08-2022 21:13 via cnn.com
  
  The Nevada Secretary of State's office on Friday adopted temporary regulations for hand-counting ballots in the state ahead of November's general election -- as election denial and suspicion of vote-tallying machines grip parts of this western battleground state.
  
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• Ford is raising the price of its electric SUV as much as $8,000

  26-08-2022 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  Just weeks after announcing it was raising the price of the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup, Ford announced it is similarly boosting prices for its other popular electric vehicle, the Mustang Mach-E.
  
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• Gabbie Hanna’s TikToks are prompting concern from her followers. Some say the platform should do more.

  26-08-2022 21:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  TikTok videos from Gabbie Hanna have sparked a discussion on a viewer's and platform's responsibility when a creator appears to have a mental health crisis online.
  
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• Governor Orders Flags to Half-Staff After Eviction Turns Deadly, Four Killed in Gunfire

  26-08-2022 20:50
  
  An Arizona constable who got the job earlier this year when her predecessor quit over frustration about serving eviction notices was shot and killed while carrying out that same duty. The gunman, his neighbor and the manager of his apartment complex also died, authorities said.
  The shooting happened just after 11 a.m. Thursday at the Lind Commons Apartments in Tucson. Constable Deborah Martinez-Garibay and Angela Fox-Heath, the complex manager, were attempting to serve an eviction notice on Gavi
  
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• Former Arizona police officer charged with manslaughter in fatal shooting of man in wheelchair

  26-08-2022 20:44
  
  Former Tucson police Officer Ryan Remington fatally shot Richard Lee Richards, a man in a motorized wheelchair who was suspected of shoplifting.      
  
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• Breaking: Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Released with 11 Pages Completely Blacked Out

  26-08-2022 20:42
  
  The Department of Justice has released the affidavit underlying the unprecedented FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
  The federal government released the heavily redacted document on Friday pursuant to court proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
  Judge Bruce Reinhart this week rejected the DOJ’s argument that releasing the affidavit would compromise an ongoing investigation.
  More than half of the document is redacted
  
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• Accident on Six Flags' Intense El Toro Roller Coaster Injures 13 Riders

  26-08-2022 20:34
  
  Thirteen people were injured while riding a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park in Jackson Township, New Jersey, on Thursday, WPVI-TV in Philadelphia reported.
  The incident happened about 7:30 p.m. when the park visitors’ ride on El Toro — one of the fastest and tallest wooden coasters in the world — was ending, according to WNBC-TV in New York.
  While WNBC and others described it as a ride “malfunction,” there was no official confirmati
  
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• NASA holds a pre-launch briefing

  26-08-2022 20:21
  NASA held a briefing ahead of Monday's Artemis I moon rocket test flight, on the role of industry in advancing human space exploration (Aug. 26)      
  
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• Meet Clark, the 19-year-old bald eagle spotted traveling through airport security

  26-08-2022 20:20
  
  Clark, a 19-year-old bald eagle, traveled through Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Monday, the Transportation Security Administration said.      
  
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• Trump Denied Trademark for Truth Social; New Report Hints Things Are About to Get Much Worse

  26-08-2022 20:13
  
  Former President Donald Trump’s trademark application for his social media platform, “Truth Social,” has been rejected. Along with that complication, there are also claims that the platform’s finances might be in trouble.
  While the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected the social media platform’s trademark request, there have also been claims that Truth Social has not been paying RightForge, the internet infrastructure company that set up the platform’
  
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• FBI found 184 classified documents in boxes returned by Trump, redacted affidavit says, prompting search

  26-08-2022 20:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  The DOJ released a redacted copy of the Trump search affidavit used by the FBI to justify raiding the Mar-a-Lago estate of the former president in Florida.
  
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• Pilots from bankrupt airline offered jobs with no interview by competitor

  26-08-2022 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  Pilots are in high demand lately -- such high demand, in fact, that pilots from the recently defunct ExpressJet Airlines are finding themselves with new job offers, without so much as an interview, days after their employer declared bankruptcy.
  
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• Netflix’s ‘Partner Track’ star Arden Cho talks sexism and racism in big law

  26-08-2022 20:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Arden Cho knows a thing or two about the challenges with breaking a glass ceiling as an Asian American woman.
  
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• Gen. Flynn: To My Friends and Fellow Citizens - We Have a War to Wage

  26-08-2022 20:02
  
  There are so many stories of individual survival, but this is not one of them.
  Many months ago, I met a lovely young lady who was dealing with stage 4 papillary thyroid cancer, which affects her throat and voice. She never let on she had it, nor demonstrated by any stretch that she was a victim. Instead, she showed those of us around her what it means to have true strength. She also has a beautiful voice and readily shares it with audiences to inspire and motivate, despite dealing with a life-th
  
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• Analyst: Fed 'locked into' interest rate hikes

  26-08-2022 20:01
  The Federal Reserve is "locked into" stark rate cuts in its fight against inflation, according to Ed Moya, a market analyst in New York. (Aug. 26)      
  
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• Sandy Hook families ask judge to order Alex Jones to relinquish control of his company, alleging he transferred millions

  26-08-2022 20:00 via cnn.com
  
  The families of Sandy Hook victims allege that Alex Jones' company Free Speech Systems has "systematically transferred millions of dollars" to Jones, his family and companies he controls in order to avoid compensating victims' families, according to a court filing.
  
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• Bills' Matt Araiza and 2 other football players accused of gang-raping teen, complaint says

  26-08-2022 19:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza has been accused in a civil lawsuit of participating in the gang-rape of a teenager last year at an off-campus party along
  
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• Louisiana woman who alleges she was denied abortion after fetus' fatal diagnosis says 'it should not happen to any other woman'

  26-08-2022 19:48 via cnn.com
  
  A pregnant Louisiana woman who alleges she was denied an abortion despite the fetus being diagnosed with a fatal condition says other women should not have to experience her plight.
  
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• Twitter Ordered to Hand Info on 9,000 Audited Accounts Over to Elon Musk

  26-08-2022 19:40
  
  The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, was handed a win on Thursday by a Delaware judge in his attempt to terminate his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  Although Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick declared in her four-page ruling that Musk’s demands were “absurdly broad” and would “require Plaintiff to produce trillions upon trillions of data points,” she ordered Twitter to deliver data on over 9,000 accounts to his legal team.
  These accounts had been randomly sel
  
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• Migrants bypass AZ shipping container border wall

  26-08-2022 19:36
  Patched gaps in the border wall by the state of Arizona are not deterring scores of asylum-seekers crossing the US-Mexico border daily near Yuma. The refugees are bypassing the shipping container fixes by passing through adjacent Indian tribal lands. (Aug. 26) (AP video by Eugene Garcia)      
  
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• While Biden Takes 49th Trip to Mansion, 20 Million American Homes Are on the Brink of Disaster

  26-08-2022 19:29
  
  President Joe Biden completed his latest trip to Delaware on Wednesday, wrapping up two weeks at his Rehoboth Beach beach house.
  Biden is on pace to crush modern-day presidential vacation records. His Delaware vacation came almost immediately after a trip to a South Carolina island estate owned by a wealthy Democratic Party donor.
  The Rehoboth trip is Biden’s 49th jaunt to Delaware since taking office, according to the New York Post.
  Biden’s latest getaway comes as millions of Americ
  
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• Woman carrying fetus without a skull to seek abortion in another state following Louisiana ban

  26-08-2022 19:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Louisiana mother said she was denied an abortion even though doctors told her that her baby had a rare birth defect and would not survive.
  
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• Turkish pop star Gulsen jailed over joke about religious schools

  26-08-2022 19:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Turkish pop star Gulsen has been arrested on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” with a joke she made about Turkey’s religious schools.
  
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• Along with forgiving student loan debt, Biden extends pause. When will payments start again?

  26-08-2022 19:00
  
  If you end up being approved for federal loan forgiveness and still have a balance, you'd start payments on your leftover loans in January 2023.      
  
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• What we learned from Mark Zuckerberg's 3-hour chat with Joe Rogan

  26-08-2022 18:59 via cnn.com
  
  In a rare and lengthy interview, Mark Zuckerberg spoke with controversial comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan about Meta's plans to release a new virtual-reality headset, his newfound love of jiu-jitsu and his company's decision to limit the reach of an article about Hunter Biden that came out in the final weeks leading up to the 2020 election.
  
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• Vaccine Manufacturers at Each Other's Throats, Moderna Announces Major Lawsuit Against Pfizer

  26-08-2022 18:52
  
  Moderna announced on Friday that it is suing Pfizer and its partner, BioNTech, alleging they copied the technology it used to produce the COVID-19 vaccine.
  The company said in a news release that Pfizer-BioNTech infringed on its messenger RNA technology patents.
  “Moderna believes that Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty® infringes patents Moderna filed between 2010 and 2016 covering Moderna’s foundational mRNA technology,” the pharmaceutical firm said.
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