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• How NYC's fiscal challenges could result in a $10 billion budget gap

  20-09-2022 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  The New York State Comptroller said Tuesday that several of New York City's fiscal challenges could result in a budget gap nearing $10 billion by 2026 — potentially affecting essential services in the future.
  
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• Next Stop, Delaware: Plane That Took Migrants to Martha's Vineyard Flying to Town Near Biden's 2 Homes

  20-09-2022 23:48
  President Joe Biden’s home state may be the next to receive a flight of illegal migrants and asylum seekers courtesy of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
  A plane was slated to fly from Texas to Delaware on Tuesday, with a stopover in Crestview, Florida, according to the Delaware News Journal.
  A flight tracker listed the aircraft’s destination as Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown, Delaware.
  That’s less than a 40-minute drive from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where Biden has a comfort
  
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• DHS rejects plan to protect election officials from harassment

  20-09-2022 23:35 via cnn.com
  
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• High School Football Player Suffers Cardiac Arrest During Game

  20-09-2022 23:33
  A high school football player suddenly collapsed and went into cardiac arrest during a game in Surrey, North Dakota, on Sept. 9. Fortunately, medical personnel were able to save the young player’s life and he was flown to a hospital.
  Ole Svangstu, part of the Divide County Football team, collapsed as he was headed to a team huddle in the third quarter of the game, KXNET reported.
  Medical personnel staffing the game — including the Surrey Ambulance crew, the Trinity sports medicine te
  
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• Beyond Meat suspends executive after he was arrested on suspicion of biting a man's nose

  20-09-2022 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  Beyond Meat suspended its chief operating officer after he was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of biting a man's nose during a fight following an Arkansas football game.
  
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• Beyond Meat suspends executive after he was arrested for allegedly biting a man's nose

  20-09-2022 23:32 via cnn.com
  The chief operating officer of vegan food purveyor Beyond Meat was arrested over the weekend after allegedly biting a man's nose during a fight following an Arkansas football game.
  
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• Dodgers great and stolen-base champ Maury Wills dead at age 89

  20-09-2022 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  Maury Wills, whose base stealing for the Los Angeles Dodgers helped them win three world titles, died Monday at his family home in Sedona, Arizona, according to the team. Wills was 89.
  
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• Getting Ready for a GOP House in 2023: New Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Joe Biden

  20-09-2022 23:26
  Americans who understand the cancer that the Biden presidency has created in the country might have given up hope of finding a permanent cure any time soon.
  But thanks to Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene, they know that there’s at least a treatment.
  And if the midterm elections go the Republicans’ way in November, the country could be seeing a lot more doses of it in the next two years.
  Greene on Monday introduced an impeachment resolution against President Joe Biden — a
  
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• FDA report details baby-formula fumbles

  20-09-2022 23:12 via cnn.com
  
  A perfect storm of "systemic vulnerabilities" at the US Food and Drug Administration unfolded as the agency investigated contaminated baby formula, hampering its response to a worsening baby formula shortage, a new internal review shows.
  
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• Tesla Megapack Fire Shuts Down California's Famous Highway 1 - Shelter In Place Order Issued

  20-09-2022 23:03
  A fire at a Tesla and Pacific Gas & Electric, Co. energy storage facility in the Monterey Bay area of California led California Highway Patrol and fire crews to shut down a section of Highway 1 and issue a shelter-in-place advisory on Tuesday.
  Around 2 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a fire was first reported at Elkhorn Battery, which is a battery energy storage system. Firefighters found a battery pack on fire, Chief Joel Mendoza of the North Monterey County Fire Protection District told Mont
  
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• 73-Year-Old Texas Grandfather Rolls Up in Truck, Rescues Young Woman While Thrashing Armed Bandit

  20-09-2022 22:23
  Why would a 73-year-old grandfather of eleven interfere with a robber choking a young woman and in the process get himself bloodied and have his pickup stolen out from under him?
  “I don’t have any choice,” said Simon Mancilla Sr. about his attempts to aid a woman accosted outside a North Houston check-cashing store earlier this month, KHOU reported.
  “Hey, man…don’t make a problem,” Mancilla recalled speaking from his truck to the armed robber. The gunma
  
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• Why college rankings still fascinate

  20-09-2022 22:21 via cnn.com
  
  Almost 40 years ago, U.S. News & World Report asked more than 1,300 college presidents to rate their peer institutions and published the results in its inaugural "Best Colleges'' rankings.
  
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• Saudi Arabia buys pair of SpaceX astronaut seats

  20-09-2022 22:15 via cnn.com
  Saudi Arabia is planning to launch two astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a space capsule from Elon Musk's SpaceX, becoming the latest Gulf nation to strengthen ties with private U.S. space companies, according to three people familiar with the arrangement.
  
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• Man Admits to Running Down and Killing a 'Republican' Teen Over a Political Dispute

  20-09-2022 21:49
  A North Dakota man is accused of intentionally running over and killing an 18-year-old over a political dispute early Sunday.
  Just prior to the hit-and-run attack, the teen had frantically telephoned his mother to say someone was chasing him.
  Shannon Brandt, 41, called 911 around 2:35 a.m. to report that he had hit a pedestrian with his vehicle in an alleyway in McHenry, N.D, according to KVLY-TV. He allegedly told the dispatcher he chased down the teen because he “was part of a Republican
  
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• GOP attorneys general threaten credit card companies over gun-store code

  20-09-2022 21:38 via cnn.com
  
  Two dozen Republican attorneys general warned Visa, American Express and MasterCard on Tuesday not to go ahead with their plans to add a new merchant category code for gun retailers.
  
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• Don Lemon Has Audacity to Suggest to Royal Analyst the Monarchy Should Pay Reparations, Immediately Regrets It

  20-09-2022 21:35
  CNN’s Don Lemon got a lesson Monday night after trying to use Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral to pitch a favorite policy of American progressives.
  And it wasn’t the kind he was looking for.
  But for educated viewers everywhere, it was a moment to remember.
  The conversation came at the end of an interview Lemon was conducting with Hilary Fordwich, a British-American businesswoman and commentator on the royal family.
  On the occasion of the death of the longest-reigning monarch in Bri
  
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• Watch: Jon Voight Chokes Up Retelling Story of Time Trump Rose to the Occasion for Employee

  20-09-2022 20:49
  Actor Jon Voight recently sat down to interview former President Donald Trump and during their meeting, Voight relayed a touching story of how tenderly Trump treated one of his employees. It’s a tale the media does not want you to see.
  During the Newsmax interview, Voight, a long-time supporter of Trump, took a few moments to relate a scene between Trump and one of his golf course employees.
  The retelling of the story caused the actor to choke up as he reminded the former president of the
  
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• Space Force releases official song

  20-09-2022 20:47 via cnn.com
  
  The US Space Force released its official song, titled "Semper Supra," on Tuesday.
  
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• Walmart and Target push to lower credit card fees

  20-09-2022 20:39 via cnn.com
  
  Frustrated by extra credit card fees when you shop?
  
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• Biden Messes Up Big on '60 Minutes'; WH Official Has to Walk Back His Comments

  20-09-2022 20:39
  President Joe Biden’s total inability to perform an interview without constant errors nearly caused an international scandal this week.
  During an interview Sunday evening with “60 Minutes,” Biden claimed that U.S. troops would defend Taiwan if the Chinese government chose to attack it.President Biden tells 60 Minutes that U.S. men and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. However, after our interview, a White House official told us that U.S. policy on Ta
  
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• Manchin Rails Against 'Revenge Politics' from His Own Party

  20-09-2022 20:28
  Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday railed against what he called “revenge politics,” as liberals in the House and Senate team up with Republicans to oppose his plan to speed permits for natural gas pipelines and other energy projects.
  Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate Energy Committee, secured a commitment from President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders to include the permitting package in a stopgap government-funding bill in return for his support for the so-called In
  
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• Breaking: Roseanne Back on Air with New TV Gig

  20-09-2022 20:20
  A comedian that the left simply can’t stand is making a comeback.
  Roseanne Barr will appear in a stand-up comedy special exclusive to Fox Nation, the streaming service of the Fox News media family.
  In a Fox Nation news release provided to The Western Journal on Tuesday, the network promised to return Roseanne to audiences across the United States.
  “Roseanne is a comedy icon whose humor connects with the American audience like no other,” Fox Nation President Jason Klarman said o
  
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• Dick Morris: Hillary Is Channeling Bill to Run for President in '24 - But This Story Has a Happy Ending

  20-09-2022 20:16
  In my new book “The Return: Trump’s Big 2024 Comeback,” I predict Hillary Clinton will run for president in ’24 and outline the steps I think she’s going to take to set up her candidacy.
  Do I know Clinton or what? Every day now she seems to be reading my book and following the game plan I outline just like she used to when I was working for her.
  But don’t freak out! This story ends with her losing to Trump by a lot!
  Basically, Hillary is going to channel Bill
  
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• Biden Arrives Late for Queen's Funeral, Then Viewers Notice Where He's Sitting

  20-09-2022 20:09
  President Joe Biden flew across the pond to attend the funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II this week, something which he could not possibly have done without contributing his own special brand of facepalm-worthy gaffes.
  You see, the Bidens arrived late to the funeral, contributing a rather embarrassing hiccup to the otherwise meticulously choreographed affair that saw dozens of kings, princes, political leaders and other dignitaries gather from around the world.
  This resulted in the represent
  
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• Biden renews calls on Congress to pass bill aimed at targeting dark money in campaigns

  20-09-2022 20:04 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Tuesday is set to make a new push for a bill aimed at targeting dark money in campaigns more than 10 years after the legislation failed to pass in the Senate, a symbolic effort toward transparency that is expected to fail again this week.
  
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• 'Severely Decomposed' Bodies Found in the Home of a Former Rhode Island Mayor

  20-09-2022 19:50
  On Monday in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, which is in the northeast area of the state, on the border of Massachusetts, two decomposing bodies were found in the home of the town’s former Mayor Susan Menard.
  Police said the bodies were an elderly male and female and were “severely decomposed,” WJAR reported.
  Woonsocket’s Police Chief Thomas Oates was unable to confirm if Menard was one of the deceased bodies.
  Oates told WPRI-TV that one of the neighbors called the police after
  
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• Princess Charlotte's Tiny Pin Gives Sweet Nod to Queen's Favorite Hobby

  20-09-2022 19:39
  With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the funeral service held for her on Monday, the world has watched as her loved ones honored her memory as a dutiful monarch as well as a beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and more.
  Seven-year-old Princess Charlotte, great-granddaughter of the monarch and daughter of Prince William and Princess Katherine of Wales, wore a small pin to pay tribute to one of the queen’s greatest loves: horses and horse racing, the Mirror reported.
  Dressed
  
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• Montana says it will use less strict process for modifying birth certificates

  20-09-2022 19:38 via cnn.com
  
  Montana will comply with a court order requiring it to enforce a process that makes it easier for residents to change the sex designations on their birth certificates, the state's health department said Monday, abandoning a recent effort to impose stricter rules in the record-changing process.
  
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• At least 8 taken to hospitals after a Chicago building explosion

  20-09-2022 19:10 via cnn.com
  
  Six people have been taken to the hospital from the scene of a building explosion in Chicago on Tuesday morning, according to a tweet from Chicago Fire.
  
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• At least 6 taken to hospitals after a Chicago building explosion

  20-09-2022 19:10 via cnn.com
  
  Six people have been taken to the hospital from the scene of a building explosion in Chicago on Tuesday morning, according to a tweet from Chicago Fire.
  
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• Biden to renew calls on Congress to pass bill aimed at targeting dark money in campaigns

  20-09-2022 19:01 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Tuesday is set to make a new push for a bill aimed at targeting dark money in campaigns more than 10 years after the legislation failed to pass in the Senate, a symbolic effort toward transparency that is expected to fail again this week.
  
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• DeSantis Responds to Sheriff's Investigation Into Martha's Vineyard Migrant Flight: 'Give Me a Break'

  20-09-2022 18:59
  Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity during his Monday broadcast to respond to threats of criminal investigations against him for the State of Florida’s transport of 50 illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has called on the Biden administration’s Department of Justice to investigate DeSantis, while the Sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, Democrat Javier Salazar has also open
  
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• Crypto firm Wintermute hit by $160 million theft

  20-09-2022 18:26 via cnn.com
  
  Hackers have stolen around $160 million worth of cryptocurrency from crypto market maker Wintermute, the company said Tuesday. The incident marks the latest in a growing list of large crypto thefts this year.
  
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• Crypto firm hit by $160 million theft

  20-09-2022 18:26 via cnn.com
  
  Hackers have stolen around $160 million worth of cryptocurrency from crypto market maker Wintermute, the company said Tuesday. The incident marks the latest in a growing list of large crypto thefts this year.
  
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• Judge blocks Thursday's execution by lethal injection of Alabama death row inmate

  20-09-2022 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge has granted an order prohibiting Alabama from executing a death row inmate by lethal injection this week after he asserted he chose to die by nitrogen hypoxia -- an untested and unproven execution method Alabama officials say they're not ready to use.
  
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• Executive at Fake Meat Company Arrested for Allegedly Chomping on Human Flesh in Road Rage Altercation

  20-09-2022 18:13
  A top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose.
  Doug Ramsey was also charged with making a terroristic threat after the attack Saturday in a parking garage outside a University of Arkansas football game in Fayetteville.
  Beyond Meat said Tuesday it has suspended Ramsey indefinitely.
  According to a police report, Ramsey was angered when another driver inc
  
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• This expert says the lies about 2020 are a threat to democracy

  20-09-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
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• Expert says lies about 2020 threaten democracy

  20-09-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
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• Biden Makes Huge Admission About His 2024 Run for Re-Election

  20-09-2022 18:10
  President Joe Biden is hinting that he may decide to call it quits after this first term is up.During an interview with “60 Minutes” on Sunday night,  Biden made an admission that many may consider to be a huge one.
  Host Scott Pelley opened with a few verbal hits about the inflation rate, pointing out that the annual inflation rate this past Tuesday came in at 8.3 percent, the stock market took a nosedive and people are angry about their grocery bills.
  He asked Biden what h
  
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• Analysis: Donald Trump is (still) very unpopular

  20-09-2022 18:07 via cnn.com
  The revived political hopes of Democrats heading into the midterm election are due, in no small part, to this fundamental political reality: Donald Trump is very, very unpopular.
  
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• Apple to fix bug that makes iPhone 14 Pro camera shake uncontrollably

  20-09-2022 18:06 via cnn.com
  
  Apple said it is working on a software fix after some users who recently purchased an iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max reported their devices' rear-facing cameras shook "uncontrollably" and made strange noises when using social media apps.
  
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• Honda overpaid their workers in bonuses and now they want it back

  20-09-2022 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  A Honda motor vehicle plant in Ohio told its workers that they have to pay back some of their bonus after overpaying them. HLN's Jennifer Westhoven has the story.
  
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• 'Our Security as We Know It Is Gone': Multiple Illegal Immigrant Break Ins Cause Business Owner to Sell Family Restaurant in Texas

  20-09-2022 17:57
  Vice President Kamala Harris’ insistence that our southern border is secure was news to Selena Buentello Price, a former Eagle Pass, Texas, business owner.
  Price told Fox News she made the decision to sell the family barbecue restaurant she owned and operated after migrants broke into the establishment for the fifth time since February.
  The Wagon Wheel had been established by her father 25 years ago, and Price worked with him for 19 years. Throughout that entire period, there had been just
  
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• School shooter who killed 3 students pleads case for parole, but says he still hears voices

  20-09-2022 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  Is 25 years in prison long enough for a man who killed three schoolmates when he was 14 years old?
  
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• Time for someone else to ride the Peloton?

  20-09-2022 17:24 via cnn.com
  
  Peloton formally unveiled its high-priced new rowing machine Tuesday. But the company is still facing rough currents as it struggles to find its way into more friendly stock market waters.
  
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• Two Teens Found Dead in Wooded Area - Sheriff Launches Investigation of 'Horrific Crime'

  20-09-2022 17:10
  Two North Carolina teenagers who were reported missing over the weekend have been found dead, according to their families.
  Lyric Woods, 14, and Devin Clark, 18, were found Sunday in a wooded area near Hillsborough in Orange County, according to WTVD-TV.
  Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood said that although no official identification had been made as of Monday, “in the absence of any other missing persons matching the descriptions of the individuals located, the tragic but logical conc
  
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• 'Monday Night Football' Halted as Scary Injury Requires Ambulance to Drive Onto Field and Take Player to Hospital

  20-09-2022 16:38
  Buffalo Bills cornerback Dane Jackson was driven off the field in an ambulance Monday night after suffering a neck injury during the Bills’ 41-7 victory over the Tennessee Titans.
  Jackson appeared to have been hit by Bills linebacker Tremaine Edmunds after tackling Titans wide receiver Treylon Burks, according to ESPN.Amazing Dane Jackson had movement after this. Really hope he is okay pic.twitter.com/LiZI9o9Xed
  — Mitch Lawson (@MitchLawsonML) September 20, 2022It appeared that Edmun
  
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• Body Language Expert Reveals Meaning Behind Prince Harry's Glances at William During Queen's Funeral

  20-09-2022 16:26
  The unspoken tension engulfing the British royal family was inadvertently spotlighted at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in London on Monday.
  Prince Harry put on the most “emotional display” and exuded “sadness and regret” when he glanced at his brother, Prince William, during the somber ceremony, body-language expert Judi James told The Sun.
  “During the service he was dabbing tears as well as tending to look around a lot,” she said. &ld
  
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• Federal Judge Gives Gov DeSantis Big Win, Declines Reinstatement of Rogue Prosecutor - But It May Not Last

  20-09-2022 15:51
  Republican Florida Gov, Ron DeSantis won one round in a court fight with suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, but the next round’s fate is uncertain.
  On Monday, Judge Robert Hinkle of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida refused to reinstate Warren, an elected official who was suspended in August by DeSantis, according to WFLA-TV. Warren claims his First Amendment rights were violated by DeSantis.
  DeSantis at the time signed an executive
  
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• Biden says US will get inflation under control

  20-09-2022 15:47 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden expressed optimism about the direction of the US economy Sunday, saying America will be able to rein in historically high inflation and that he's hoping the Federal Reserve will achieve a "soft landing" by slowing economic growth without going into recession.
  
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