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• Biden makes a passionate plea: 'Beating cancer is something we can do together'

  12-09-2022 23:48 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden sought to deliver a unifying speech in Boston on Monday focused on his "Moonshot" initiative to reduce cancer deaths in the United States -- a stop that's part of a ramped up travel schedule highlighting his administration's accomplishments ahead of the midterm elections.
  
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• School Supervisor Finds Strange Pills in Kid's Backpack, Moments After Touching One His Whole World Goes Black

  12-09-2022 23:38
  A California junior high school official suffered an overdose after coming into contact with fentanyl pills a student had brought to school, according to police.
  The reaction was so severe that the supervisor of Chipman Junior High School in Bakersfield had to be hospitalized.
  Bakersfield police arrested an unidentified 13-year-old said to be in possession of 150 fentanyl pills along with $300 in cash, KGET-TV in Bakersfield reported.
  The incident occurred Friday morning after the student was be
  
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• North Dakota Sheriff Releases Huge Update on Four Men Found Dead in Wheat Field: 'Dispute Between Brothers'

  12-09-2022 23:30
  New details have emerged regarding the deaths of four men whose bodies were found on a farm in North Dakota late last month.
  On Friday, the Towner County, North Dakota, Sheriff’s Office shared a news release on Facebook with new details from its investigation.
  “The investigation into the deaths of Doug Dulmage, Justin Bracken, Richard Bracken and Robert [Bracken], to-date, has revealed that there was a dispute between brothers Robert Bracken and Richard Bracken which had been escalat
  
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• Biden, Cabinet officials in touch with rail companies, unions as threat of strike looms

  12-09-2022 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden and members of his Cabinet have been in touch with the unions and companies involved in the high-stakes freight-rail labor negotiations, as alarm about a possible strike continues to grow inside the administration.
  
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• Health Expert Shares 10 'Big Levers' to Reduce Risk of Dying, No 8. Is Mind-Blowing

  12-09-2022 23:18
  Is there anyone who truly wants to live forever? What if your biological age could be frozen at some desirable place, such as 25?
  As it turns out, even if a person’s age could be frozen and, presumably, that spot would include an excellent quality of life, a study revealed that most Americans don’t want to live forever, according to the U.K. Daily Mail.
  According to the outlet, when surveyed only 33 percent of Americans would take an immortality pill.
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• MAGA faceoff in a high-profile GOP primary in key battleground district divides Republicans

  12-09-2022 23:06 via foxnews.com
  
  HAMPSTEAD, N.H. – Matt Mowers touts he’s "the only one" in a crowded field of Republican candidates who can defeat two-term Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas in November’s midterm elections in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District, which has long been a highly contested swing House district.  As he runs for re-election, Republicans view Pappas as vulnerable amid a political climate that for the past year had favored the GOP. Republicans need a net gain of just five
  
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• Susan Sarandon appears to come out as bisexual — again

  12-09-2022 23:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Academy Award-winning actor Susan Sarandon — whose LGBTQ rights activism and appearance in a number of queer-coded films has earned her droves of LGBTQ fans —
  
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• Alabama woman, New York City man plead guilty after trying to board ship to Yemen to fight for ISIS: DOJ

  12-09-2022 23:05 via foxnews.com
  
  A married couple from New York City and Alabama have pleaded guilty in federal court to attempting to travel to the Middle East to join and fight alongside the Islamic State terror group, authorities said.  Arwa Muthana, 30, of Hoover Alabama, pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to provide material support to ISIS while her husband, James Bradley, pleaded guilty Friday to the same charge, the Justice Department said. The pair were arrested last year in New Jersey while attempting to travel
  
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• Russian aircraft detected in North American Air Defense Identification Zone

  12-09-2022 23:04 via foxnews.com
  
  Two Russian maritime patrol aircraft were detected and tracked off the coasts of Alaska and Canada on Sunday, officials said.  The aircraft entered and operated in the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ), but did not enter American sovereign airspace, according to North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).  "This recent Russian activity in the North American ADIZ is not seen as a threat nor is the activity seen as provocative," NORAD said.  SOUTH KO
  
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• Minnesota Democrat wants all newly elected members to do law enforcement ride-alongs

  12-09-2022 23:04 via foxnews.com
  
  A House Democrat from Minnesota, where support for the "defund the police" movement surged after the 2020 death of George Floyd, is asking House members to participate in a police ride-along so they can better understand the dangers law enforcement officers face every day. Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., introduced a resolution last week that says every newly elected member the House must attend at least one ride-along within the first year of taking office. "I’m hopeful that with the passage o
  
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• 'Pike County Massacre' trial: star witness says he executed two nursing mothers

  12-09-2022 23:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Jurors heard shocking new details Monday about the "Pike County Massacre" when four members of one family murdered eight members of a rival family in southern Ohio in a dispute over custody of a little girl.  Edward "Jake" Wagner fatally shot two nursing mothers as they slept in their beds in the grisly ambush of the Rhoden family in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, prosecutor Angela Canepa told juror in opening statements at his brother and alleged co-conspirator's murder trial.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II's procession and thanksgiving service in pictures

  12-09-2022 22:53 via foxnews.com
  
  The procession of Queen Elizabeth II's coffin from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral took place on Monday. King Charles III joined the procession.
  
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• Florida school shooting trial: psychologist says Parkland shooter suffered fetal alcohol damage

  12-09-2022 22:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz began building their case Monday that his birth mother's alcohol abuse left him with severe behavioral problems that eventually led to his 2018 murder of 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Paul Connor, a Seattle-area neuropsychologist, said medical records and testimony by prior witnesses show that Brenda Woodard drank and used cocaine throughout much of her pregnancy before Cruz's birth in 1998. Woodard, a Fort Lauderd
  
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• Power restored back in Oregon

  12-09-2022 22:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Utility companies said Monday they have restored power to tens of thousands of customers after shutting down service over the weekend to try to prevent wildfires during high winds, low humidity and hot temperatures. Both Portland General Electric and Pacific Power enacted planned power shutoffs Friday as high, gusting winds and low humidity moved into Oregon, posing extreme fire danger. The utilities were concerned that the winds would cause power lines to break or sag, making sparks that could
  
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• Arizona man flags down deputy in the middle of the road, confesses to killing stepfather

  12-09-2022 22:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  An Arizona man flagged down a deputy in the middle of the road early Thursday morning and confessed to fatally shooting someone, according to the Cochise County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Faculty, students sue Christian school over LGBTQ hiring ban

  12-09-2022 22:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Divisions over LGBTQ-related policies have flared recently at several religious colleges in the United States. On Monday, there was a dramatic new turn at one of the most rancorous battlegrounds – Seattle Pacific University. A group of students, faculty and staff at the Christian university sued leaders of the board of trustees for refusing to scrap an employment policy barring people in same-sex relationships from full-time jobs at SPU. The 16 plaintiffs say the trustees’ stance &nd
  
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• New Zealand scraps almost all COVID restrictions as pandemic concerns decline

  12-09-2022 22:46 via foxnews.com
  
  New Zealand scrapped mask wearing rules and vaccine mandates on Monday, bringing an end to some of the toughest COVID-19 pandemic rules in the world about two years after they were put in place. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a weekly news conference that it was time to safely turn the page on the country's COVID-19 management and live without the extraordinary measures it previously used. "Finally, rather than feeling that COVID dictates what happens to us, our lives, and our futures, we
  
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• Jeff Bezos' rocket was in trouble after a booster failure

  12-09-2022 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Blue Origin experienced an "anomaly" during an uncrewed launch of its New Shepard rocket from West Texas on Monday morning,triggering an abort system that allowed the capsule to parachute to Earth.
  
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• Opening statements begin in murder trial in slaying of 8 members of Ohio family

  12-09-2022 22:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  An Ohio man helped his family plan, execute and cover up the murders of eight members of another family over a bitter custody battle, prosecutors said Monday
  
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• Michigan man fatally shot by police after killing wife; daughter blames incident on QAnon conspiracy theory

  12-09-2022 22:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Police killed a shotgun-wielding man in suburban Detroit on Sunday after he fatally shot his wife and wounded their daughter, authorities said.
  
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• January 6 committee set to meet in person today as it debates whether to invite Trump and Pence to appear

  12-09-2022 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  As the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack nears its final chapter, members plan to meet in person on Tuesday and one of the most pressing questions they'll address is whether the committee should formally request that former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence appear before them.
  
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• January 6 committee set to meet in person on Tuesday as it debates whether to invite Trump and Pence to appear

  12-09-2022 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  As the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack nears its final chapter, members plan to meet in person on Tuesday and one of the most pressing questions they'll address is whether the committee should formally request that former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence appear before them.
  
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• William Klein, American photographer in Paris, dies at 96

  12-09-2022 21:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  William Klein, an American photographer whose innovative portraiture style strongly influenced fashion and street photography in the second half of the 20th century.
  
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• Brian Stelter's New Gig After Getting Dumped by CNN Shows Exactly Why We're in This Mess

  12-09-2022 21:28
  Just weeks after news reporter Brian Stelter was fired from CNN, he was hired for a new gig that shows just how corrupt the American education system is.
  According to a news release from Harvard University, Stelter will join Harvard’s Kennedy School as the Fall 2022 Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow.
  “The Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellowship brings high-profile figures at the forefront of media, politics and public policy to Harvard’s Kennedy School to
  
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• NBA player 'incredibly sorry' for posting anti-gay video to social media

  12-09-2022 21:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves apologized Sunday for anti-LGBTQ remarks he made in a video posted to Instagram over the weekend.
  
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• A rural New Hampshire community is getting a snow-melting system thanks to Biden's infrastructure law

  12-09-2022 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  Americans are beginning to learn how funds from the bipartisan infrastructure package passed by Congress late last year will help improve their roads, bridges and airports.
  
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• America is already feeling the consequences of a looming nationwide rail strike

  12-09-2022 21:09 via cnn.com
  
  America's freight railroads have already stopped accepting shipments of hazardous and other security-sensitive materials because of the looming threat of a strike Friday.
  
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• Apple released a major iPhone update — here’s what’s new and how to get it

  12-09-2022 20:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Apple released its big new iOS 16 software update for iPhones on Monday. It has lots of new features and is available to anyone with an iPhone 8 or newer.
  
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• Group Honors 9/11 Victims Every Year with Countless Acts of Kindness All Over the World

  12-09-2022 20:39
  A lot of the aspects of our daily lives are forgettable. When we’re on autopilot and steeped in the familiar, the days can blur together — but you’d be hard-pressed to find any U.S. resident who doesn’t remember exactly where they were and what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001.
  There are as many ways to cope with the attack as there are people, as each person processes the event and its aftermath a little differently. One group, in particular, has taken the opportunity t
  
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• White House Makes Major Move on Big Tech Reform, And Social Media Giants Should Be Sweating

  12-09-2022 20:32
  When the Biden White House released the words “Remove special legal protections for large tech platforms.” and “fundamental reforms to Section 230,” on Thursday, the leaders of Facebook, Google and Twitter might have felt it through the Force.
  There’s a famous scene in “Star Wars: Episode III The Return of the Sith.” The Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, and soon-to-be-emperor, contacts his troops and, in a way only Ian McDiarmid can deliver, says &ld
  
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• Scooby-Doo's Velma is stripped of police-calling powers in video game after some brand her a 'Karen'

  12-09-2022 20:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Velma Dinkley, the character from the beloved cartoon “Scooby-Doo,” has been dubbed a “Karen” for her ability to call police on Black characters in a new video game. Following backlash, the game has changed her powers.
  
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• Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution on death row inmate later this month

  12-09-2022 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Alabama could be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence later this month, a state attorney told court.
  
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• Watch: Patriotic NFL Fans Take Over for Singer and Proudly Belt National Anthem on 9/11

  12-09-2022 20:15
  In recent years, the National Football League has often been criticized for moving to the political left. From players kneeling during the National Anthem to groundskeepers painting “Black Lives Matter” in the back of the end zones, leftism seemed to be taking over the league.
  That is what made a patriotic moment on Sunday so uniquely beautiful.
  On the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the NFL kicked off its first full Sunday of games for the 2022-23 season.
  
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• New Film 'Innovation Race' Exposes Communist China's Plan to Use Tech to Dominate World Economically and Militarily

  12-09-2022 20:12
  The new documentary film “Innovation Race” makes the powerful case that communist China is now beating the United States at its own game by becoming the world’s repository of technology.
  And that has profound implications for not only the U.S., but the world — both economically and militarily.
  It’s another Sputnik moment for America, experts say in “Innovation Race,” with the CCP poised to leapfrog the U.S. in the technological realm in key areas, much a
  
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• Bus driver in Utah is under investigation for allegedly threatening to shoot students, police say

  12-09-2022 20:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Saratoga Springs police, in Utah, are investigating if a bus driver threatened to shoot students after they spoke out when a stop was missed.
  
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• Trump Reveals Why He's in DC Area Amid Indictment Rumors - Dems Will Be Disappointed

  12-09-2022 19:58
  Speculation ran rampant when former President Donald Trump made an unannounced appearance in the Washington area on Sunday. He had visited D.C. just once since leaving office.
  Now, thanks to a social media post from the former president, we know exactly why he arrived in the vicinity of the nation’s capital.
  Freelance journalist and YouTuber Andrew Leyden, known as PenguinSix, broke the news Sunday evening before it was picked up by numerous additional reporters and outlets. Leyden even ca
  
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• Virginia man who thought he won $600 with a scratch-off lottery ticket actually wins $1 million 

  12-09-2022 19:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Virginia man who thought he won $600 with a lottery scratch-off ticket received quite the surprise when lottery staffers told him he'd actually won quite a bit more.
  
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• Op-Ed: Americans Flocked to Churches After 9/11, Then Something Big Changed

  12-09-2022 19:34
  Twenty-one years have passed since the modern version of the “date which will live in infamy,” Sept. 11, 2001. Just like its predecessor, Pearl Harbor, it is a day that we must never forget.
  But what makes 9/11 so very different from Pearl Harbor is that the target was not a military installation of strategic importance to our adversary. The tragic attacks of 9/11 were aimed at civilians, everyday Americans, going about their business.
  Some would say that the strike on the Pentagon h
  
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• Blue Origin rocket mishap triggers escape system

  12-09-2022 19:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  Blue Origin suffered a mishap during an uncrewed launch of its New Shepard capsule. A rocket failure forced the company to perform an emergency abort midflight.
  
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• Scaros: Stop Saying Democrats 'Stole' the 2020 Election and Be Specific

  12-09-2022 19:27
  What do the words “cheated,” “rigged” and “stole” really mean?
  Those words, just like “good,” “bad,” “moral,” “overweight,” “amazing,” “liberal,” “conservative,” “progressive” and “racist” — among countless others — mean different things to different people.
  Those who are outraged — and I’m one of them — about all the unfair
  
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• Seemingly Healthy 17-Year-Old Football Player Dies in His Sleep: 'You Will Forever Be in Our Thoughts'

  12-09-2022 19:17
  A 17-year-old New Jersey football player died suddenly last week and is being mourned by his team, family and community.
  Ali Muhammad was a senior backup center at Rahway High School, in Rahway, which is in central New Jersey, NJ.com reported.
  He died in his sleep Thursday at his home. His father, Percy Lamont Brown, found the boy dead when he tried to wake him up for school.
  No details have been announced about a funeral service or the cause of death, but his football team honored him on Friday
  
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• Apple iOS 16 is now available for download

  12-09-2022 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  Apple on Monday released its next-generation mobile software, iOS 16, with new features that allow users to personalize their iPhone lock screens and change how they text friends through iMessage.
  
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• Third-Generation Farmer Reveals Devastating Truth: Agriculture Powerhouse in California Now Just a 'Wasteland'

  12-09-2022 19:10
  Democrat-run California, once an agrarian juggernaut, has deteriorated into a parched “wasteland” amid crippling droughts and gross government mismanagement, according to farmers there.
  Kurt Richter, a third-generation rice farmer in Colusa — the Golden State’s rice capital — said he and many other farmers have been forced to abandon their fields for the year because they’re unable to water them.
  “It is now just a wasteland,” Richter told the San F
  
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• Alabama Prepares to Use Brand New, Untested Execution Method on Triple Murderer

  12-09-2022 19:08
  Alabama could be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence later this month, a state attorney told a federal judge Monday.
  James Houts, a deputy state attorney general, told U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. that it is “very likely” the method will be available for the execution of Alan Eugene Miller, currently set for Sept. 22 by lethal injection.
  The final decision on whether to use the new method is up to Correction
  
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• Blue Origin 'responding to an issue' after abort system activated on uncrewed launch

  12-09-2022 19:04 via cnn.com
  
  Blue Origin experienced an "anomaly" during an uncrewed launch of its New Shepard rocket from West Texas on Monday morning,triggering an abort system that allowed the capsule to parachute to Earth.
  
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• Biden's Trip to the Queen's Funeral Gets Complicated as British Officials Tell Him He Has to Take the Bus

  12-09-2022 19:02
  As the preparations for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral are in motion, foreign leaders coming from abroad will be required to travel by bus to the funeral at Westminster Abbey in London.
  This requirement extends to even the most prominent world leaders, like President Joe Biden, Politico reported after the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office sent invitations and instructions to foreign embassies regarding the funeral arrangements.
  Typically world leaders are accustomed to having priv
  
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• Russian Officials Call for Putin to Hand Over Power After Disastrous Turn in Ukraine

  12-09-2022 18:51
  As Russia’s beleaguered military bumbles on the world stage, criticism of Russian leader Vladimir Putin is rising at home.
  A Ukraine offensive has driven Russian forces from multiple positions in the Kharkiv region in the northeast of Ukraine and around Kherson in the south, according to The New York Times. The offensive thrust means that many territorial gains Russia realized in a war that began almost seven months ago amid expectations of a lightning success have been shown to be illusio
  
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• Former Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid pleads guilty in DWI crash that seriously injured 5-year-old girl

  12-09-2022 18:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid pleaded guilty Monday to felony driving while intoxicated resulting in serious physical injury.
  
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• Former MLB Player Who Retired to Become a Police Officer Killed on His Way to 9/11 Memorial Ceremony

  12-09-2022 18:40
  Former MLB pitcher Anthony Varvaro, who became an officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department after his retirement from baseball, was killed Sunday as he drove to a 9/11 commemoration ceremony in Manhattan.
  Varvaro, 37, died when a Toyota RAV4 going the wrong way struck his Nissan Maxima, Charles Marchan, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police, said in a statement, according to The New York Times.
  Both drivers were killed in the 4:30 a.m. accident.Tonight, o
  
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• Twitter's whistleblower is set to testify on Capitol Hill. Here's what to expect

  12-09-2022 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko is set to testify before Congress Tuesday in his first public appearance since his bombshell allegations against the social media company were reported last month by CNN and The Washington Post.
  
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