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• Trump Fires Back After DOJ Releases 'Terrible' Mar-a-Lago Raid Photo

  31-08-2022 23:55
  The FBI urged a judge to reject former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to investigate the bureau’s raid on Mar-a-Lago earlier this month.
  The court filing from Tuesday included a picture from the raid that Trump took particular exception to.
  In the filing, the FBI argued Trump did not have the legal grounds to request a special master in the case.
  “Not only does [Trump] lack standing to raise these claims at this juncture, but even if the claims were prope
  
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• Family of Fallen Marine Hits Alec Baldwin with $25 Million Lawsuit

  31-08-2022 23:45
  The family of a fallen Marine who was killed in evacuation operations in Afghanistan is suing Alec Baldwin for allegedly defaming them.
  The McCollum family is accusing the Hollywood actor of sticking a social media mob on them. Three members of the family filed a new lawsuit on Friday, according to CNN.
  Baldwin shared Roice McCollum’s Instagram photo of demonstrators at the Washington Monument to his 2.5 million Instagram followers one year after the chaotic Jan. 6, 2021, protest. McCollum
  
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• Anniversary of Biden's Defeat: Afghan Interpreter Reveals Pathetic Way Biden Tried to Protect Them from Taliban

  31-08-2022 23:33
  It has been one year since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan. But the passage of time has not softened the chaos and horror that surrounded the withdrawal and left Afghanistan crumbling.
  Veterans and refugees who lived through the withdrawal and collapse can attest to the wretched state of things last year.
  Ashquillah Pardisi was born and raised in Afghanistan, and upon graduating high school he became a linguist for the U.S. military. Three of his brothers followed in his footsteps, also becom
  
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• Ku Klux Klan plaque is mounted at the entrance of West Point's science center, congressional commission finds

  31-08-2022 23:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Ku Klux Klan plaque is affixed to the entrance of the United States Military Academy's science center at West Point, a congressional commission has found.
  
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• Reliable water service still days away for Jackson, Mississippi, residents, officials warn

  31-08-2022 23:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  Crews installed an emergency rental pump at a water plant in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday in hope of restoring more service to the parched residents of
  
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• Calm before storms? Oddly quiet Atlantic despite forecasts

  31-08-2022 23:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  this Atlantic hurricane season, meteorologists and residents of storm-prone areas whisper almost as if not to tempt fate.
  
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• Calm before storms? Atlantic is oddly quiet despite forecasts

  31-08-2022 23:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  this Atlantic hurricane season, meteorologists and residents of storm-prone areas whisper almost as if not to tempt fate.
  
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• Is This the Wildest Biden Tale Yet? He Says He Single-Handedly Helped an Elderly Lady Take Down a Gang

  31-08-2022 23:24
  President Joe Biden visited Pennsylvania on Tuesday to give a speech that was supposed to be about the importance of safety for local communities.
  Instead, he began telling another one of his unsubstantiated hero tales from his past.
  According to The Daily Wire, Biden was discussing his memory of a time in Wilmington, Delaware, when he found himself “in one of those old Victorian two, three-story apartment buildings and going up to see a woman, whose name — she’s passed away bu
  
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• Pelosi Uses Women's Holiday to Shell Out Attacks on Pro-Life Women

  31-08-2022 23:17
  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi joined a roundtable discussion on Friday in San Francisco to discuss reproductive health, during which she referred to the reversal of Roe v. Wade as being “sinful.”
  Pelosi began the panel that occurred at the University of California San Francisco Mission Bay Campus, in California, by stating, “Happy Women’s Equality Day.”
  During her opening statements, Pelosi said, “We take pride in California’s leadership on reproduct
  
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• DeSantis Slaps the FDA with a Lawsuit for 'Putting Politics Over Patients'

  31-08-2022 23:12
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday that his state has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for delaying the approval of a program that would give Floridians access to cheaper medication.
  DeSantis’ office announced in a news release that the lawsuit is a response to the FDA’s “unreasonable delay of more than 630 days in approving Florida’s proposal for its Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program.”
  Florida’s Agency f
  
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• Former Trump attorney John Eastman appears before Georgia grand jury

  31-08-2022 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  John Eastman has appeared before the Fulton County grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election in Georgia, according to a statement released Wednesday by his attorneys.
  
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• Former Trump attorney John Eastman appears before Fulton County grand jury

  31-08-2022 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  John Eastman has appeared before the Fulton County grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election in Georgia, according to a statement released Wednesday by his attorneys.
  
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• Trampled Bodies and Weeping Men: Afghan Interpreter's Firsthand Description of Biden's Botched Withdrawal

  31-08-2022 23:03
  His name is Zabi, but to many of the U.S. Marines he served with in Afghanistan, this combat interpreter was known as the “Mighty Mouse.”
  After years of serving as an interpreter for the U.S. Marines in some of the most dangerous locations in Afghanistan, Zabi certainly earned the name.
  He first began working as an interpreter after one of his classmates became a translator. Jealous of his friend, Zabi began studying English, determined to become an interpreter.
  After completing his
  
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• McDonald's is fighting California's fast food bill

  31-08-2022 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  California lawmakers want more control over how fast food chains treat workers. Restaurants, including McDonald's, are fighting back.
  
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• University Bans Fan After Volleyball Player 's N-Word Allegation - Then Police Make a Game-Changing Find While Reviewing the Footage

  31-08-2022 22:40
  A Brigham Young University fan accused of yelling a racial slur at an opposing player during a volleyball game appears to have been wrongfully accused, authorities said.
  In a statement shared to Twitter on Saturday, the BYU athletic department said it had identified a fan who allegedly yelled the n-word at a Duke University player. The department said the fan was subsequently banned from all BYU sporting events.
  “When a student-athlete or a fan comes to a BYU sporting event, we expect that
  
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• Family blasts South Dakota school hair length policy that would have required child to cut locks

  31-08-2022 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Black student at a high school in South Dakotawas given an ultimatum last week by administrators: cut your hair or leave.
  
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• A decade after catfishing incident, Manti Te'o reflects on his identity and masculinity

  31-08-2022 22:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  National Football League linebacker Manti Te’o says he’s moved past it all — almost.
  
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• Seattle on Track to Break 25-Year Deadly Shooting Record with 4 Months to Go in 2022

  31-08-2022 22:02
  Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, crime rates throughout the nation have spiked, causing a noticeable rise in shootings and violence. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in Seattle, where authorities struggle to retain enough police personnel.
  After more deadly shootings in Seattle this week, the police say the city is on pace to break a 25-year high in deadly shootings, KING-TV reported.
  “This is one of our highest years and we are on pace to exceed the last two years,
  
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• 1 Year Since Defeat: Afghan Freedom Fighter Destroys Biden - We Trusted Him, and He Proved Us Totally Wrong

  31-08-2022 21:35
  “[W]hen President Biden got elected as the president of the United States, we had a very high faith in him. We believed in him, but he proved us wrong. We claim, and we say we don’t negotiate with terrorists, but we negotiated with terrorists,” Baktash Haidary told The Western Journal.
  “Rock” is what they called Baktash Haidary during his days fighting with U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan, coming from the last part of his name “tash,” which means
  
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• John Eastman invokes the Fifth in Georgia election probe

  31-08-2022 21:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former Trump lawyer John Eastman invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination and attorney-client privilege in the 2020 Georgia election probe.
  
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• Unlike Jennette McCurdy, I’m glad my mom isn’t dead. But the damage she did is lasting.

  31-08-2022 21:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jennette McCurdy book “I’m Glad My Mom Died” resonates with daughters with eating disorders whose mothers gave them an unhealthy relationship with food and diets.
  
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• A truck spilled Alfredo sauce onto a Tennessee highway, shutting down traffic

  31-08-2022 21:00 via cnn.com
  
  Interstate 55 in Tennessee was left covered in Alfredo sauce and one person was injured after an eighteen-wheeler crashed into a wall on Tuesday afternoon, according to police.
  
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• Surviving Monkees member Micky Dolenz sues the FBI, asks for files on him and his bandmates

  31-08-2022 20:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Micky Dolenz, the last living member of The Monkees, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Justice, seeking any records the FBI might be
  
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• Did This Dem Rep Violate House Ethics Rules With This TV Appearance for a Big Donor?

  31-08-2022 20:54
  Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Matt Cartwright may have violated congressional rules for appearing in the TV ads of a top donor’s law firm, a watchdog alleged in a complaint obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  Cartwright praised law firm Parker Waichman and its partner Jerry Parker in July TV ads that have since been pulled by the firm, Axios reported Thursday.
  Cartwright’s appearance in the ads may violate ethics rules because he gave his “endorsement” of Parker
  
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• McDonald's is fighting a California bill that would support fast food workers

  31-08-2022 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  California lawmakers want more control over how fast food chains treat workers. Restaurants, including McDonald's, are fighting back.
  
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• If You Plug the Dates for 9/11 and COVID Into the Bible, Some Absolutely Chilling Numbers Show Up - Is the End Near?

  31-08-2022 20:44
  This article was sponsored by Charisma Media.
  New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Cahn, in his new documentary film, “The Harbingers of Things to Come,” contends that the United States appears to be on the same judgment timetable that ancient Israel experienced thousands of years ago.
  The film is based in part on Cahn’s 2012 blockbuster book, “The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America’s Future,” and his 2020 follow-up, “
  
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• Influencer Oli London apologizes for undergoing surgeries to appear like BTS star Jimin

  31-08-2022 20:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  British influencer Oli London apologized to BTS star Park Ji-min and the Asian community for undergoing dozens of surgeries to appear like the Korean pop idol.
  
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• Influencer Oli London apologizes for undergoing operations to appear like BTS star Jimin

  31-08-2022 20:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  British influencer Oli London apologized to BTS star Park Ji-min and the Asian community for undergoing dozens of surgeries to appear like the Korean pop idol.
  
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• Video: Iran's Attempt to Capture American Navy Vessel Foiled When the USS Thunderbolt Emerges

  31-08-2022 19:55
  Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf tried to capture an unmanned surface vessel operated by the U.S. Navy this week, but the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy was stopped by the American 5th Fleet.
  While traveling through international waters in the region, known to some countries as the Arabian Gulf, at about 11 p.m. local time Monday, U.S. forces saw the Shahid Baziar, an IRGCN ship, towing a Saildrone Explorer. Iran’s navy was attempting to detain the U.S.-operated vessel, the Penta
  
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• Op-Ed: Court to California School District - Stop Discriminating Against Religious Students

  31-08-2022 19:45
  A teenage girl from a minority community wants to live out her faith at school. But her school district admitted in federal court that it would rather recognize a white nationalist group than her Fellowship of Christian Athletes club — all because her club asks the students who lead its prayers and Bible studies to actually believe in the God to whom they are praying.
  But thanks to Monday’s ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the brave FCA member students can
  
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• Rising Country Star Found Dead at 32 After Going Missing in Arizona for a Week

  31-08-2022 19:40
  Up-and-coming country star Luke Bell was found dead on Monday at the age of 32.
  Bell was reported missing in Tuscon, Arizona, on Aug. 20, the New York Post reported. Nine days later, his body was found near where he went missing, the Tuscon Police Department said.
  Authorities said the cause of death was still unknown. Bell’s friend and fellow country music singer Matt Kinman said Bell had been struggling with bipolar disorder.
  Kinman told the music blog Saving Country Music that he and Bel
  
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• Biden to Beg Congressional Approval for $1.1B Arms Deal - China in His Sights

  31-08-2022 19:30
  The Biden administration has just pivoted from disagreeing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to visit the de facto independent nation of Taiwan to begging Congress to approve a massive, $1.1 billion arms sale to Taipei.
  A report in Politico this week outlines the proposed sale, which “includes 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles,” and cites three unnamed sources with “direct knowledge” of the deal.
  Since Pelosi’s visit, the Chinese Commu
  
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• Jackson water crisis is upending nearly all aspects of life in Mississippi's capital

  31-08-2022 19:22 via cnn.com
  
  It was only a matter time before the water system in Jackson, Mississippi, failed, authorities said, and this week those concerns became a reality, leaving residents with no reliable running water in their homes and forcing schools and businesses to close.
  
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• UN Official Waits Until Last Day on Job to Drop Report on China's Uyghur Abuses

  31-08-2022 19:12
  The United Nations’ human rights body will release a report documenting Chinese human rights abuses against the Uyghur minority group hours before High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet steps down, AFP reported Wednesday.
  Bachelet had promised to release the long-awaited report by the end of the month, but said on Aug. 25 that “substantial input” from China given during a customary review period had indefinitely delayed publication, The New York Times reported.
  The report will be
  
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• Clean-Energy Farm Alarms Residents with Flying Blades, Shrapnel-like Bolts and Leaking Oil; Probe Shows Worse Danger

  31-08-2022 19:07
  Wind turbines are an unreliable energy source. This should be obvious: If the wind isn’t blowing, they aren’t generating any energy.
  What those turbines can be relied upon for, however, is accidents. Although the data on wind turbine accidents is scarce, a few studies and papers indicate they are, in fact, rather dangerous.
  This was evidenced by a catastrophic wind-turbine accident that took place in Oregon in February.
  A Sunday report from The Oregonian detailed how the acciden
  
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• See where abortion access is banned -- and where it's still in limbo

  31-08-2022 19:05 via cnn.com
  • South Carolina House passes near-total ban on abortion with new limited exceptions
  • Some Republicans try to shift positions on abortion as general election approaches
  
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• Lawyer says FBI agent's retirement had nothing to do with Hunter Biden investigation

  31-08-2022 19:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  An FBI agent’s retirement was unrelated to politicized comments he made on social media or his supposed link to the Hunter Biden investigation, says his lawyer.
  
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• Toyota investing $5.6B to build EV batteries

  31-08-2022 18:59 via cnn.com
  
  Toyota announced plans Wednesday to invest $5.6 billion in new plants to build electric vehicle batteries in Japan and the United States. But unlike other automakers who are going all-in on EVs, Toyota said it's still not convinced that's the best path forward.
  
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• Trump Gets Banned Again - Truth Social Not Available on Android Devices

  31-08-2022 18:57
  Google is not allowing the Truth Social Android app to appear in its Play Store, with very stark differences of opinion as to the reason.
  Last week, former Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California, who is now the CEO of Truth Social, said that he was mystified over why the app was not available.
  But this is not what Google is saying, according to Axios.
  “On Aug. 19, we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that havi
  
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• A Wisconsin 'fake elector' works for Sen. Ron Johnson's re-election campaign

  31-08-2022 18:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  One of Wisconsin's "fake electors" has been working as a paid staffer for Sen. Ron Johnson’s re-election campaign.
  
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• Satellite images show Pakistan's devastation — with an area the size of Wyoming underwater

  31-08-2022 18:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Pakistan floods have swept away homes and transformed the landscape. Before and after photos captured by satellites show the damage caused by flooding.
  
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• Despite 'Nasty' Storm Predictions, Forecasters Forced to Admit It's 'Freakishly Quiet in the Atlantic'

  31-08-2022 18:24
  It’s been quiet — too quiet — this Atlantic hurricane season, meteorologists and residents of storm-prone areas whisper almost as if not to tempt fate.
  A record-tying inactive August is drawing to a close and no storms have formed, even though it is peak hurricane season and all experts’ pre-season forecasts warned of an above normal season that a previous Associated Press report predicted would be “nasty.”
  Nearly all the factors that meteorologists look for i
  
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• How Alaska's ranked-choice voting system works

  31-08-2022 18:10 via cnn.com
  
  Elections officials in Alaska on Wednesday will tabulate the ranked-choice results of the special election to fill the state's at-large House seat for the remainder of the congressional term.
  
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• Richard Roat, 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends' actor, dies at 89

  31-08-2022 18:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Richard Roat, a character actor whose career spanned five decades and included roles in "Seinfeld," "Friends" and "Dallas," has died. He was 89.
  
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• German Citizens Forced to Forage in the Woods as Energy Costs Reach Unthinkable Levels

  31-08-2022 17:56
  Spiking energy costs have sent German citizens into the woods as winter approaches, with no end in sight to the nation’s energy crunch.
  The hunt for winter fuel is an outgrowth of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. After many European nations, including Germany, sided with Ukraine, Russia retaliated by slowing the flow of natural gas to Germany.  On Wednesday, for example, Russia shut down the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany for three days, saying it needed repairs, noted The New Y
  
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• Mikhail Gorbachev, mourned in the West, gets a frosty goodbye in Russia

  31-08-2022 17:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Mikhail Gorbachev’s death is being mourned by the West as the loss of a champion of freedom who helped end the Cold War. But in Russia, Vladimir Putin's response was markedly different.
  
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• The bourboun boom isn't slowing down

  31-08-2022 17:50 via cnn.com
  
  The bourbon boom is showing no signs of ending anytime soon: Wall Street is still wild about whiskey. Jack Daniel's owner Brown-Forman reported quarterly results Wednesday morning that easily topped analysts' forecasts.
  
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• Consumers splurge on expensive bourbon

  31-08-2022 17:50 via cnn.com
  
  The bourbon boom is showing no signs of ending anytime soon: Wall Street is still wild about whiskey. Jack Daniel's owner Brown-Forman reported quarterly results Wednesday morning that easily topped analysts' forecasts.
  
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• Consumers are splurging on expensive bourbon

  31-08-2022 17:50 via cnn.com
  
  The bourbon boom is showing no signs of ending anytime soon: Wall Street is still wild about whiskey. Jack Daniel's owner Brown-Forman reported quarterly results Wednesday morning that easily topped analysts' forecasts.
  
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• Rogan Destroys 'Propagandist' Psaki, Compares McEnany to Famous NBA Player: 'Best Ever at That Job'

  31-08-2022 17:45
  Joe Rogan, the former MMA fighter-turned-promoter and virally popular podcaster who almost inadvertently has become a political force to be reckoned with, may have just punctuated the end of former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s career even as she gears up to begin her next role with MSNBC in 2023.
  The pugnacious and plain-spoken purveyor of popular long-form interview podcasts utterly skewered the “circle back girl” during Monday’s Joe Rogan Experience, describi
  
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