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• Rachel Maddow's 'Glorified Understudy' Struggles in Demo - 'Hannity' Ahead 63% in Total Viewership

  23-09-2022 23:50
  Rachel Maddow’s decision to step back from her titular show on MSNBC, scaling it back to a once-a-week, Monday slot, created a vacuum at the liberal network.
  Alex Wagner, described as Maddow’s “glorified understudy” by NewsBusters associate editor Nicholas Fondacaro, has struggled to capture an audience for her primetime show, “Alex Wagner Tonight,” since its Aug. 16 debut, Fox News reported Tuesday.
  The former MSNBC daytime anchor averaged 1.6 million viewers
  
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• Climate Cultist Rushes Court in Fiery Protest, Starts Screaming When He Realizes He's Now Got a Much Bigger Problem

  23-09-2022 23:34
  A climate change activist seemingly attempted to self-immolate during a London tennis tournament.
  The man — wearing an “End UK Private Jets” shirt — set his arm on fire after rushing the court during a Laver Cup match between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Diego Schwartzman on Friday, according to The Express.
  However, if he was hoping to burn himself as an act of protest, the stunt flopped. The small fire burned for mere seconds before the screaming climate change extremist desp
  
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• What so many critics don't seem to understand about 'Don't Worry, Darling'

  23-09-2022 23:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh beef (with Harry Styles love triangle) could be hurting “Don’t Worry, Darling” reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. That's wrong.
  
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• State Where It Can Dip to -45 Is Now Banning Natural Gas Heaters

  23-09-2022 23:11
  You know those videos showing a log crackling in a fireplace?
  Sometimes running for hours, the virtual logs provide a cozy atmosphere as you have a pretend fireplace in your home or office.
  If you live in California, you might think of getting one of those videos to help stir your memories of what it was like to keep warm.
  That’s because the California Air Resources Board, “committed to racial equity and environmental justice as a fundamental part of all it does,” according to
  
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• 'Put Down the Bong': Sen. Kennedy Blasts 'Woker in Chief' Biden

  23-09-2022 23:09
  Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana tore into President Joe Biden as the “woker in chief” during a Friday afternoon appearance on Fox News.
  “It’s not exactly a news flash that President Biden has appointed thousands of uber-wokers to his administration. Wokers are easy to recognize. They hate George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Suess and Mr. Potato Head,” Kennedy told guest host Trace Gallagher.
  “Wokers respect no one’s opinio
  
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• White House won't say if it has confidence in World Bank President David Malpass

  23-09-2022 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  A growing number of White House and Biden administration officials are publicly criticizing David Malpass, the Trump-appointed World Bank President, after he caught flak for dodging a question about climate change.
  
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• Red Alert: China, Iran, Russia Teaming Up for a Massive Show of Naval Force

  23-09-2022 22:52
  American’s today have been lulled into a false sense of security from the history and ingenuity of the seemingly invincible United States Navy.
  This ingenuity ironically started with the American Confederates who revolutionized naval warfare with the invention of the “ironclad” vessel. Even the proudest of the Union’s grand, wood-hulled warships fell to the mighty ironclad known as the “Merrimac.”
  The Union, seeing the effectiveness of this new naval monstrosi
  
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• Trump Dealt Major Blow: Special Master Gives Trump Extremely Short Deadline to Make Case

  23-09-2022 22:42
  Former President Donald Trump has been given until Sept. 30 to substantiate his suspicion that the FBI may have planted evidence during its raid on Mar-a-Lago.
  The raid occurred on Aug. 8 while Trump was out of state and is said to have lasted around 10 hours. Trump has accused the FBI of “ransacking” his house, including his wife Melania’s closet and his 16-year-old son Barron’s room.
  While Trump has stopped short of outright accusing the Bureau of planting evidence, he
  
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• Intelligence community restarts work on Mar-a-Lago documents damage assessment

  23-09-2022 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  The intelligence community is restarting work on both the classification review and the so-called damage assessment related to former President Donald Trump's storage of classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago residence and resort, according to a statement of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
  
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• Record-Breaking Sniper: Watch New 'World Record' Shot - Nearly 4x Chris Kyle's Longest Kill Shot

  23-09-2022 22:06
  On Sept. 13, the sharp report of a rifle shot echoed across the western Wyoming desert near Jackson Hole. Twenty-four seconds later, the sound of a round impacting steel 4.4 miles away was heard by a team of forward spotters. After a few moments of uncertainty, the spotters cheered.
  The impact was confirmed by a hole in the target 3.125 inches from dead center and a recovered bullet.
  The world record for extreme long-range target shooting distance — set by Paul Phillips of Midland, Texas,
  
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• Kevin McCarthy Vows Massive Overhaul of IRS on 'Very First Day' Republicans Control House

  23-09-2022 21:42
  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy declared Friday that a Republican-controlled House of Representatives would “repeal” the increase of Internal Revenue Service agents.
  “On the very first day, we’re gonna repeal 87,000 IRS agents so they’re not going after you,” McCarthy told Fox News host Lawrence Jones in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he introduced the GOP’s “Commitment to America” initiative.
  “We work for you. You don&rsqu
  
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• Fetterman's Hometown Paper Calls for Full Release of Cognitive Tests, Notes Questions About His 'Ability to Communicate'

  23-09-2022 21:19
  As the midterm elections draw closer, some are raising concerns about the health of the Democratic candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate race, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.
  Fetterman suffered a stroke in May, The Associated Press reported.
  In a Wednesday editorial from Fetterman’s hometown Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the editorial board noted that there have been delays in scheduling a debate between Fetterman and the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate Mehmet Oz, raising questions about Fetterman&
  
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• Biden goes after House GOP's 'thin' midterm agenda

  23-09-2022 21:17 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Friday criticized Republicans and House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy's proposed midterm agenda, describing the plan as a "thin series of policy goals" in his latest campaign speech.
  
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• Is Putin's 'Partial Mobilization' a Feint? Something Big Is Happening in Russia

  23-09-2022 21:10
  There is no doubt the Ukrainian military has made some spectacular gains in recent weeks. But predictions of a Ukrainian victory over Russia in this conflict are premature and may even be a bit naive.
  After watching Putin operate over the past couple of decades, it’s pretty clear that unless he is removed from power by his own people, which is possible, he has no intention of accepting defeat.
  On Wednesday, Putin announced an impending “partial mobilization” of military reservi
  
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• The American right’s future involves waging a 'religious battle' against the left, leaders say at a conservative conference

  23-09-2022 20:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  National conservatives say their fight with the left is a “religious battle” that must use state power against progressive goals in the public and private sectors.
  
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• Levin: Dem Prosecutors' Abusive Targeting of Trump Will Not Stop Until GOP Prosecutors Do Same to Bidens

  23-09-2022 20:45
  Fox News host Mark Levin argued Wednesday that Republican prosecutors are going to have to play hardball with Democratic leaders in light of Democratic prosecutors targeting former President Donald Trump.
  “What are Republicans going to do about these Democrat hacks in these prosecutors’ offices, who abuse their power to target President Trump, his family, and other Republicans?” Levin tweeted.
  “Unfortunately, but importantly, not until Republican prosecutors target promin
  
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• News Anchor Fired After Going Off-Script to Deliver 'Reckless' Monologue About Ex-Colleague

  23-09-2022 20:35
  A Los Angeles news personality was fired Thursday after an on-air monologue criticizing his station over the exit of a co-anchor.
  Mark Mester of KTLA-TV had been suspended by the station after a Saturday broadcast in which he went off-script to complain about the management’s treatment of Lynette Romero. Romero left abruptly last week after being with the station for nearly 24 years, the Los Angeles Times reported.
  “Last week, KTLA announced that Romero, a longtime anchor of its popu
  
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• Biden Blasted Over Silence on Murder of Republican Teen, Doocy and Rivera Say He Holds Blame

  23-09-2022 20:12
  Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera and “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy blasted President Joe Biden on Friday morning over his silence on the hit-and-run killing of a North Dakota teenager.
  On Sunday, Shannon Brandt allegedly ran over 18-year-old Caylor Ellingson, telling authorities Ellingson was a “Republican extremist.” Brandt posted $50,000 bail and was released after being charged with vehicular homicide.
  “We are operating right now under the climate that
  
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• Woman Drops Dead Allegedly Within Minutes of Receiving COVID Booster, Daughter Says

  23-09-2022 19:38
  The daughter of a Canadian woman is blaming the COVID-19 vaccine for her mom’s sudden death last week minutes after receiving a booster shot at a drug store.
  The government disagrees, however, and has ruled that the woman died of “natural causes.”
  Stephanie Foster said her mother, 69-year-old Carol Pearce of Saskatoon, stopped by for a visit the morning of her Sept. 14 appointment, and she was happy and healthy at that time.
  “Her, myself and her granddaughter were laughin
  
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• Lawyers Give Bad News to Ghislaine Maxwell - She Has 60 Days to Find New Counsel: Report

  23-09-2022 19:24
  Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers have pulled the plug on their services to the convicted sex trafficker and longtime Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator.
  While working to reach a settlement with Epstein’s estate in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Maxwell’s attorneys ran into a problem, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail: She was not paying them.
  The firm representing her — Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer — notified Maxwell on Aug. 1 that unless they received compensation
  
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• North Carolina Democrats hope former judge can halt Senate losing streak in pro-GOP environment

  23-09-2022 19:20 via cnn.com
  
  The race for North Carolina's open Senate seat features two leading candidates who have taken opposing paths in their bids for higher office.
  
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• Employees in DHS inspector general's office call for their boss to be fired

  23-09-2022 19:08 via cnn.com
  
  Employees of the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's office are calling on President Joe Biden to fire Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, according to a letter obtained by the Project on Government Oversight.
  
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• Markets hate Liz Truss' plan for the UK

  23-09-2022 19:04 via cnn.com
  
  When the UK government, led by new Prime Minister Liz Truss, unveiled its plan to rescue the British economy on Friday, the reaction from investors was instantaneous: They hated it.
  
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• Former Texas police officer acquitted of Jonathan Price murder by jury

  23-09-2022 19:04 via cnn.com
  
  A jury in Hunt County, Texas, on Thursday found former Wolfe City Police officer Shaun Lucas not guilty of murder in the 2020 killing of Jonathan Price outside a convenience store, court records show.
  
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• Updated Covid boosters rolled out 3 weeks ago. Here's how many Americans have gotten them.

  23-09-2022 19:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  At least 4.4 million people have received an updated Covid booster shot since the start of September.
  
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• Billionaire hedge fund manager argues for increasing immigration to fight inflation

  23-09-2022 18:53 via cnn.com
  
  Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager and activist investor, has an alternative idea to fight inflation: Increase immigration.
  
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• Stocks plunge as recession fears mount

  23-09-2022 18:35 via cnn.com
  
  US stock futures were set to fall sharply as investors continued to worry about even more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve that could land the US economy in a recession.
  
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• 43-Time Felon Charged with 80-Year-Old Woman's Murder While Out On Bond

  23-09-2022 18:00
  A man who has been charged with the murder of an 80-year-old woman has been convicted of at least 43 felonies since 2011.
  Roger Wilkerson was out on bond before he was arrested Wednesday and charged with the murder of Nancy Horton in Person County, North Carolina, according to WRAL-TV. Most of his prior convictions were for breaking and entering and larceny.
  “It was a brutal murder,” Person County Sheriff Dewey Jones told WRAL.
  Wilkerson, 39, and an adolescent who was also charged in
  
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• Desperate CNN Gives Primetime Slots to Daytime Anchors Who Have Been Repeatedly Trounced by Fox News

  23-09-2022 17:58
  As CNN continues to change its programming and shuffle its hosts, Jake Tapper and Alisyn Camerota have been promoted to primetime spots despite their current viewership falling behind other major networks.
  Tapper, who works as CNN’s main Washington anchor, will move to the 9 p.m. slot throughout the election season, CNN announced Thursday.
  That slot hasn’t had a set host since the network fired Chris Cuomo in December 2021, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
  “The world has com
  
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• Dilbert Being Cancelled - Pro-Trump Scott Adams Says Strip Has Been Axed by Papers Across America

  23-09-2022 17:35
  Fans of the popular comic strip “Dilbert” were dealt a heartbreaking blow on Tuesday.
  “Dilbert” comic strip creator Scott Adams announced that the comic strip has been canceled in 77 newspapers, according to his Twitter.
  Many white-collar workers identify with the main character, Dilbert, who is frustrated with corporate America. The comic strip blends present-day, government-issued policies and pokes fun at the way it causes challenges in the workplace.#Dilbert was cance
  
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• Florida Issues Forceful Threat Against 'Credit Card Companies Who Target the 2nd Amendment'

  23-09-2022 17:17
  Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis is responding to the decision some credit card companies have made to use a special sales code for gun and ammunition sales.
  Visa, Mastercard and American Express will all be using the code as a way to track consumer credit card purchases for these items at United States gun stores.
  Patronis has released a statement in which he said Florida will take action against the credit card companies using the code in the state of Florida.
  “The se
  
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• 'We've Been Warned': Biden Admin Threatens Family Farms With Proposed New Climate Change Mandate

  23-09-2022 17:09
  Echoing conflicts from Sri Lanka to Canada to the Netherlands, tensions between farmers and green-minded government policymakers are building in the United States, where producers are squaring off against a costly proposed federal mandate for greenhouse-gas reporting from corporate supply chains.
  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in March proposed requiring large corporations, including agribusinesses and food companies, to report greenhouse gas emissions down to the lowest r
  
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• Oil plunges below $80 to eight-month low

  23-09-2022 16:53 via cnn.com
  
  Recession fears are slamming the oil market, with crude tumbling on Friday below $80 a barrel for the first time since January.
  
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• Jackson, Mississippi, residents file class action lawsuit against city over water issues

  23-09-2022 16:39 via cnn.com
  
  Four residents of Jackson, Mississippi, have filed a class action lawsuit against the city, the mayor, a former mayor and several others regarding the city's water issues.
  
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• Dow tumbles 400 points and breaks below 30,000 as recession fears mount

  23-09-2022 16:27 via cnn.com
  
  US stock futures were set to fall sharply as investors continued to worry about even more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve that could land the US economy in a recession.
  
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• Biden Administration Considers Ousting Trump-Appointed World Bank Chief Because of His Answer to a Climate Change Question: Report

  23-09-2022 16:20
  Days after former Vice President Al Gore called upon President Joe Biden to remove David Malpass as president of the World Bank, one report says that process could be in the works.
  Malpass was appointed in 2019 to a five-year term after being nominated by former President Donald Trump to lead the bank, which has as its mission supporting developing nations.
  On Tuesday, Gore called Malpass a “climate denier” during a climate change event, according to The New York Times.
  The Times rep
  
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• Climate Crisis Chronicles, Vol 8: 'You're literally living in an oven'

  23-09-2022 15:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  The mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, battles to keep the city's 1.2 million residents safe from deadly extreme heat.
  
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• GOP congressional committee cancels ad reservations in key House race in Ohio

  23-09-2022 15:57 via cnn.com
  
  The National Republican Congressional Committee is canceling all their ad reservations in Ohio's 9th Congressional District, according to CNN's ad tracker AdImpact, a sign that Republicans are losing faith in J.R. Majewski's controversial bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur.
  
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• Biden elevates three key staffers to senior-most West Wing positions

  23-09-2022 15:49 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden has elevated three veteran White House officials to the most senior level of his West Wing staff, highlighting their roles as key players on his team as the administration enters a critical stretch.
  
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• Mother of 3 Carjacked at Gunpoint, Rescued by Grace of God After Banging on Doors for Help

  23-09-2022 15:44
  A good Samaritan who helped rescue a ride-share driver who had been carjacked in the middle of the night said it was the grace of God that moved her to assist.
  According to WAGA-TV in Atlanta, authorities in DeKalb County were still searching for four suspects who lured a Lyft driver into a neighborhood to carjack her over the weekend.
  DeKalb County police said the incident took place in Stone Mountain just after 3 a.m. Saturday.
  Nika Pee, who said she was still shaken by the attack, was driving
  
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• Dow tumbles below 30,000 points as recession fears mount

  23-09-2022 15:41 via cnn.com
  
  US stock futures were set to fall sharply as investors continued to worry about even more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve that could land the US economy in a recession.
  
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• In 1 Genius Move, Dr. Oz Pressures Fetterman Into Releasing Health Records

  23-09-2022 15:24
  Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, released his health records as he maneuvers to keep questions about Democratic rival John Fetterman’s recovery from a stroke front and center in the hotly contested campaign.
  Dr. Rebecca Kurth in New York City wrote in a four-page letter obtained by The Associated Press that she found the 62-year-old heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity to be in “excellent health” in an annual checkup Thursday.
  The letter noted
  
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• John Kerry Just Said What the Public Already Knows - Inflation Reduction Act Hides a Dirty Secret

  23-09-2022 15:19
  Biden administration climate czar John Kerry acknowledged Thursday that the Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act has little to do with combating inflation.
  The “special presidential climate envoy” made the awkward admission during a speech at the International Energy Agency’s Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh.
  After saying the Inflation Reduction Act is a “completely misnamed piece of legislation,” Kerry confessed he was “not sure ho
  
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• Young Canadian Reporter Dies Suddenly and Unexpectedly from 'Heart Defect'

  23-09-2022 15:13
  A 24-year-old Canadian journalist has died from what has been described as a congenital heart disease.
  Matthew Rodrigopulle, who worked for Global Regina in Saskatchewan, died on Sept. 4, according to On the Record.
  Rodrigopulle was a 2020 graduate of the Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism.
  Rodrigopulle worked at On the Record, a student publication of Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism, as a reporter in 2020 and a teaching assistant during the
  
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• Retired Supreme Court Justice Breyer warns his colleagues that decisions could 'bite you in the back'

  23-09-2022 14:46 via cnn.com
  
  • Roberts defends Supreme Court's legitimacy and says last year has been 'difficult'
  • Video: See Breyer's reaction to abortion ruling
  
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• Dow set to tumble below 30,000 points as recession fears mount

  23-09-2022 14:46 via cnn.com
  
  US stock futures were set to fall sharply as investors continued to worry about even more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve that could land the US economy in a recession.
  
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• Angry Wives of Border Patrol Agents Have Had Enough of Biden's Policy, Take Matters Into Their Own Hands

  23-09-2022 14:45
  If President Joe Biden won’t let the Border Patrol fix the border crisis, maybe it’s time that their wives step into the fray.
  Not as agents, mind you. No, Irene Armendariz-Jackson, Mayra Flores and Cassy Garcia have a different idea.
  All three Hispanic women, all married to Border Patrol agents, are running as Republicans in border districts against Democrats who have, to varying extents, enabled the administration’s lax border policies.
  As the Washington Examiner’s 
  
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• The Fed's fight against inflation could cost the US 1.2 million jobs

  23-09-2022 14:37 via cnn.com
  
  In its efforts to bring down historic inflation and cool the economy, the Federal Reserve has used multiple euphemisms to describe the potential impact on Americans' jobs, from economic "pain" to "unfortunate costs" and a "softening labor market."
  
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• Zuckerberg Just Can't Stop Losing - Meta Smacked Down in Another Massive Lawsuit

  23-09-2022 14:08
  It seems like ever since big tech oligarch Mark Zuckerberg changed Facebook’s name to Meta, the company has faced metastasizing troubles.
  In the latest blow, on Thursday Meta lost a major court case when an Austin, Texas, jury found that Meta had violated the intellectual property protections of an app company called Voxer, according to Business Insider, which said it had reviewed a court document detailing the decision.
  Voxer went live in 2011; Facebook’s streaming function Facebook
  
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• NFL has a new halftime show sponsor

  23-09-2022 13:05 via cnn.com
  
  Apple Music is replacing Pepsi as the new sponsor for the NFL's Super Bowl halftime show.
  
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