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• Op-Ed: Practice the Shared Virtues of Jews and Christians and See How Richly God Blesses You

  24-09-2022 23:42
  Soon, Jews around the world will begin celebrating the High Holy Days, the most sacred days on the Jewish calendar.
  Over 10 days — beginning with Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and ending with Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) — we will enter a time of focused repentance and celebration of three virtues shared by Jews and Christians.
  These virtues are as foundational and inseparable to the Christian faith as they are to Judaism. One needs only to remember that the Christian Old
  
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• EPA launches new office dedicated to environmental justice

  24-09-2022 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  The Environmental Protection Agency will create a new national office of environmental justice to address the disproportionate harm that pollution and climate change has caused in low-income areas and communities of color, the agency announced Saturday.
  
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• President of Serbia Predicts Global Conflict on the Scale of World War II in a Matter of Months

  24-09-2022 23:02
  Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told reporters on Tuesday that the world is “approaching a major war” on the scale of World War II.
  With the Serbian capital of Belgrade just a day’s drive from the front lines in southern Ukraine, he definitely isn’t watching from the cheap seats.
  According to the Anadolu Agency, Vucic was interviewed by Serbian public broadcaster Radio Television while in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
  “I think we are going to
  
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• ESPN Host Claims Racism Is to Blame for NBA Coach's Season-Long Suspension: 'I Don't Appreciate That Being Done to a Brother'

  24-09-2022 22:37
  ESPN commentator Stephen Smith was livid Friday over the season-long suspension handed out to Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka.
  A report in ESPN on Thursday, citing sources it did not name, said Udoka was punished for having a relationship with a member of the NBA team’s staff. ESPN said that the relationship violated organizational rules.
  Smith said that Udoka was being punished for conduct that draws no punishment when committed by whites.
  “I don’t see nothing being put out and
  
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• Watch: Elton John Looks Shocked as Biden Says It's 'His Fault That We're Spending $6B' on HIV and AIDS

  24-09-2022 21:39
  It might be nice, just for variety’s sake, to write a story about a comment made by the sitting U.S. president that he actually meant to make.
  Alas, it looks like I’m going to have to wait for President Joe Biden’s replacement to take office before that’s likely to happen.
  Last night was no exception, when Biden, speaking to an audience at the White House at the end of a performance by pop music legend Sir Elton John, appeared to blame the singer for the AIDS epidemic, or
  
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• Iranian Protesters Savage Officer, Force Police Line Back as Islamic Government Faces Its Reckoning

  24-09-2022 21:29
  At least 11 people have been killed this month in Iran during protests following the funeral of woman who died in the custody of the country’s “morality police.”
  But that’s only half of the story.
  Video coming out of the Islamic terror-supporting nation seems to indicate that the protesters, despite the risks, may have the upper hand this time around.
  Because of the regime’s stranglehold on information coming in and out of the country, it’s difficult to verify
  
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• Black mother violently arrested after she called police on neighbor settles lawsuit

  24-09-2022 21:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  The city of Forth Worth, Texas, settled a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a Black woman after she and her daughter were wrestled to the ground in a
  
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• Trump Insists He Wants Biden to 'Succeed Incredibly,' Even if It Costs Him

  24-09-2022 21:20
  Can you imagine President Joe Biden — or anyone to the left of, say, Marjorie Taylor Green — wishing former President Donald Trump success?
  Neither can I.
  But that’s essentially what Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity during an exclusive interview that aired Thursday night, in which Trump hinted at — purposefully or otherwise — a 2024 run for the Oval Office.
  “Beyond Republican or Democrat, I want to see somebody that’s great,” Trump told Hannit
  
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• This soap, with weird claims to fame, has been around for nearly 150 years

  24-09-2022 21:02 via cnn.com
  
  Walk into a Walmart, Target, any drugstore chain in your neighborhood or a corner bodega for New York City dwellers, and chances are you'll find an Ivory Soap bar, or a pack of 10 bars for under $5, sitting on the shelf.
  
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• Watch: Biden Slips Up and Finally Agrees with Republicans About Necessity of AR-15s

  24-09-2022 21:01
  It’s not often that I agree with our current president, but it does happen. Of course, most of those agreements happen when he says something by mistake, as he did Friday.
  President Joe Biden conceded — accidentally, of course — an argument that pro-Second Amendment conservatives have been making for decades: So-called “assault weapons” defend American lives.
  Biden made the comments Friday during a Democratic National Committee event at the National Education Associ
  
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• Adam Schiff criticizes slow pace of DOJ investigation into broader Jan. 6 plot

  24-09-2022 20:18 via cnn.com
  
  US Rep. Adam Schiff, who serves on the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, expressed his frustration Saturday with the slow pace of the various criminal investigations conducted by the Department of Justice into the attack on the US Capitol.
  
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• McEnany Uses Medical Establishment's Own Words to Take Down Stacey Abrams

  24-09-2022 20:14
  Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany cited multiple respected health institutions on Friday that contradict Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ claim that unborn children do not have a heartbeat at six weeks.
  “There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body away from her,” Abrams said at a Tuesday event in Atlanta.
  “I believe that abor
  
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• Russian Commander Shuts Down Unruly Recruits, Reveals the Stakes: 'The Games Are Over, You Are All Military ... Any Questions?'

  24-09-2022 19:49
  A new video reveals Russian military draftees finding out they’re headed for Ukraine — and some aren’t happy about it.
  A Russian military commissar makes it clear that he’s not giving them men a suggestion, as the draftees yell and shout over their new commander.
  “That’s it! The games are over! You are all military… Any questions?”
  London-based Russian-speaking Estonian Dmitri Masinski published the video of the unruly draftees on Friday.
  Mansinki
  
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• Trump Sent Epic, Threatening Photo to Taliban Leader - Says That's Why US Didn't Lose 1 Soldier in 18 Months

  24-09-2022 19:14
  In a Wednesday interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, former President Donald Trump revealed the strategy he used to keep the Taliban in check during his presidency.
  Hannity asked Trump if he had threatened Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar.
  “Didn’t you at one point tell him, ‘I know exactly where you are,’ and give him the exact coordinates where he was?” Hannity asked.
  “No,” Trump said, “I sent him a picture of his house.”
  Trump said Bar
  
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• Atlanta wants to build a massive police training facility in a forest. Neighbors are fighting to stop it

  24-09-2022 18:56 via cnn.com
  
  When Ram moved to the Boulder Walk neighborhood just southeast of Atlanta five years ago, it felt like finding a hidden gem: It was a diverse, affordable and family-friendly community just steps away from the local high school, bordering a forest but still a short drive from the big city; perfect for her family of five.
  
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• Activists are living in trees in attempt to stop construction of 'Cop City,' an 85-acre police and fire training facility

  24-09-2022 18:56 via cnn.com
  
  When Ram moved to the Boulder Walk neighborhood just southeast of Atlanta five years ago, it felt like finding a hidden gem: It was a diverse, affordable and family-friendly community just steps away from the local high school, bordering a forest but still a short drive from the big city; perfect for her family of five.
  
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• GOP Seeks to Recapture '94 Red Wave Glory, Announces Its 'Commitment to America'

  24-09-2022 18:54
  House Republicans rolled out their “Commitment to America” on Friday in western Pennsylvania, promising the plan offers the way to get the United States back on track.
  The proposal is reminiscent of the GOP’s “Contract with America,” which helped lead to a Republican landslide in the 1994 midterm elections during Democratic President Bill Clinton’s first term.
  In those midterm contests, Republicans gained 54 seats to win the House and took control of the Senat
  
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• China Warns Assembled World Leaders They Risk Being 'Crushed by the Wheels of History'

  24-09-2022 18:47
  China underscored its commitment to its claim on Taiwan on Saturday, telling assembled world leaders that anyone who gets in the way of its goal to reunify with the self-governing island would be “crushed by the wheels of history.”
  The language was forceful but, for Chinese leadership, well within the realm of normal.
  “Only when China is fully reunified can there be true peace across the Taiwan Strait,” Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, said at the UN General Assem
  
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• Food prices are soaring, and our eating habits are changing

  24-09-2022 18:45 via cnn.com
  
  Lisa Altman used to take pride in being able to eat what she wanted without worrying much about the cost.
  
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• Report: News Anchor Killed in Attempted Murder-Suicide - 'Many Tears Shed in Our Newsroom'

  24-09-2022 18:44
  A Michigan man was killed in what police are labeling a domestic incident that involved an attempted suicide.
  Although police reports about the incident did not use names, WWJ-AM reported that Jim Matthews, its overnight radio host, was the one killed.
  The station memorialized Matthews as “a consummate professional [who] was dedicated to WWJ and the broadcasting industry. He loved delivering the latest news to his listeners.”
  “There have been many tears shed in our newsroom thi
  
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• Texas police investigate use of force after video of officer slamming student into lunch cart circulates

  24-09-2022 18:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  Police in Irving, Texas are investigating an officer's use of force after video showing the officer slam a student into a lunch cart before pushing him down to
  
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• Gavin Newsom's Confident and Sharp 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness Sounds Great Until You Look at the Date on the Video

  24-09-2022 18:32
  California has a homelessness problem that is serious enough to make many impoverished Third-World countries blush.
  This is far from a new problem, even though the scale of the situation has only increased in recent years.
  Gov. Gavin Newsom even appeared in a video touting his plan for solutions to the state’s biggest black eye — 14 years ago.Gavin Newsom vows to end homelessness in San Fransisco in 10 year…in 2008 pic.twitter.com/m9b5k0pHO7
  — Kevin Dalton (@KevinForBOS)
  
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• Harry and Meghan Face Permanent Exile - 'Ruthless' King Charles Reportedly Setting Things in Motion

  24-09-2022 17:34
  As royal-watchers try to read the tea lives of what will be ahead for the British monarchy in the era of King Charles III, a new report predicts a life of extreme marginalization that could include exile for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
  The report comes from The Daily Beast and is based on sources that are not named.
  All things royal have been in the news since the Sept. 8 death of Queen Elizabeth II.
  For example, a report in The Sun claimed that Harry rejected a dinner i
  
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• Seven Escape from Russian 'Torture Center' in Occupied Ukraine, Reveal the Horrifying Conditions Inside

  24-09-2022 17:31
  A group of Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that they were beaten and abused for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region this month.
  Ukrainian officials described their treatment as torture.
  “Every day we were cleaning toilets and bathrooms,” Dilukshan Robertclive, one of the former captives, said in English. “Some days Russians came and beat our people, our Sri Lanka p
  
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• Thought you paid a lot to heat your home last year? Wait until this winter

  24-09-2022 17:24 via cnn.com
  
  After noticing his electric bills rising earlier this year, Jason Bell opted to go on a budget plan so he could spread the cost over 12 months. He and his husband, Shane, figured that would help them get through the coming winter since their Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania, home is heated by electricity.
  
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• Detroit radio news anchor killed in attempted murder-suicide at his home

  24-09-2022 17:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Detroit, Michigan, radio news anchor was killed in an attempted murder-suicide at his home, the station said Friday.
  
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• Biden Says Republicans Are Taking Credit for 'Bldhyindclapding' - Even the WH Has No Idea What He Meant

  24-09-2022 16:52
  I solemnly promise you, President Joe Biden — despite the fact I’m a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, I will not countenance any Republican who tries to take credit for bldhyindclapding.
  Sure, the race may be close. Sure, withholding my vote is, in a small way, enabling you to enact your radical tax-and-spend agenda, President Biden.
  But, no — if I hear any Republican trying to earn plaudits by saying he supported bldhyindclapding when he did nothing of the sort, I’m s
  
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• The internal forces Putin fears more than his public

  24-09-2022 16:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to greatly escalate his war on Ukraine — his announcement Wednesday of a partial mobilization of reserves, four
  
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• Former Trump Lawyer Finds 'Huge Revelation' on Page 6 of 11th Circuit Decision

  24-09-2022 16:25
  A former attorney for Donald Trump condemned a decision by an appeals court to allow the Justice Department to continue examining classified materials seized during the Mar-a-Lago raid in August, alleging court documents contained a “huge revelation” which backed up Trump’s case.
  According to CNN, Wednesday’s unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel on the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a trial judge who had blocked federal investigators from continuing to exam
  
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• Whoopi Goldberg Forced to Apologize for 'Homophobic' On-Air Jab at Republican Senator

  24-09-2022 16:03
  Whoopi Goldberg, one of the hosts of ABC’s extremist, left-wing daytime talk show “The View,” was forced to apologize — sort of — for a joke she made on Thursday hinting that U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham is a homosexual.
  During the broadcast, episode guest White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke about the left’s worries that Republicans are moving to “ban abortion” across the country in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisio
  
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• How to earn more money from your savings now that banks are raising interest rates

  24-09-2022 15:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate five times this year, most recently on Wednesday, as part of its ongoing effort to slow the pace of
  
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• Fetterman’s clemency crusade draws soft-on-crime attacks from Oz in Pennsylvania Senate race

  24-09-2022 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Mehmet Oz and his GOP allies have run ads and messaging that strips context from the cases John Fetterman has championed overseeing Pennsylvania's pardon board.
  
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• Many U.S. veterans land behind bars. A unique, new law may change that.

  24-09-2022 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tony Miller killed countless enemy forces while deployed in Iraq, where his Army unit captured so many high-value targets that they received a valor award. “Vio
  
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• The critical steps we need to take to address long Covid

  24-09-2022 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  His words made it unclear what the remaining public health problems are, including long Covid, and what exactly needs to be done about them.
  
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• This iconic bar of soap, with two weird claims to fame, has stuck around for nearly 150 years

  24-09-2022 11:03 via cnn.com
  
  Walk into a Walmart, Target, any drugstore chain in your neighborhood or a corner bodega for New York City dwellers, and chances are you'll find an Ivory Soap bar, or a pack of 10 bars for under $5, sitting on the shelf.
  
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• Ex-official pleads guilty in welfare scheme where misused money was funneled to prominent people including Brett Favre

  24-09-2022 05:48 via cnn.com
  
  A former top state official in Mississippi pleaded guilty Thursday to state and federal charges in connection to an embezzlement scheme that auditors say misused millions of welfare dollars, including funneling funds into projects linked to prominent Mississippians like former NFL star Brett Favre.
  
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• GOP nominee jokes about 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

  24-09-2022 05:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tudor Dixon, Michigan’s GOP nominee for governor, joked about a 2020 kidnapping plot against rival Gov. Gretchen Whitmer during a pair of campaign events Friday.
  
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• Oscar-Winning Actor Dead at 88 - Starred in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

  24-09-2022 05:17
  Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at the age of 88.
  Fletcher died Friday in her sleep surrounded by family at her home in Montdurausse, France, her agent, David Shaul, told The Associated Press. No cause of death was given.
  After putting her career on hold for years to raise her children, Fle
  
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• Quiet Neighborhood Becomes Living Nightmare: 3 Dead After Attempting to Flee, Then the Fire Starts

  24-09-2022 03:15
  Three people trying to flee from a house in suburban Chicago were shot to death early Friday in an incident that ended up with the house on fire and the suspected shooter dead.
  According to WLS-TV, the gunfire broke out at 6:30 a.m.
  The outlet said it examined doorbell footage from a neighbor, which appeared to show three people shot outside the home and one getting away.
  After the shooting, the suspect, identified by WBBM-TV as Carlos Gomez, barricaded himself inside the house. The house was la
  
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• Elon Musk Hits Iran Regime with Devastating News: Protesters Now Have Access to Top Technology

  24-09-2022 03:13
  Elon Musk announced via Twitter on Friday he was activating his Starlink internet service Iran, where protests have been escalating since the death last week of a 22-year-old woman who had been arrested by morality police for “unsuitable attire.”
  The billionaire entrepreneur and SpaceX CEO was responding to announcements by top officials that the U.S. would help block Iranian efforts to censor the protesters. Tehran had cut off internet access for most citizens Wednesday in response
  
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• Arizona judge rules state can enforce near-total abortion ban

  24-09-2022 03:05 via cnn.com
  
  An Arizona Superior Court judge ruled Friday that a 1901 ban on nearly all abortions in that state can be enforced, a decision that is likely to see an appeal and could energize female voters to turn out in greater numbers in the state's hotly contested US Senate and governor's races.
  
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• Two Suitcases Full of Body Parts and a Bloody Meat Cleaver: Horrific Scene Discovered in NYC Apartment

  24-09-2022 02:50
  A 22-year-old woman was found dead on Wednesday after a security guard responded to a report of a foul smell in her Brooklyn apartment.
  The New York Post identified the victim as Dasia Johnson, citing information from family members.
  The security guard had been sent to her apartment after other residents of her building complained about the smell and said she had not been seen in several days, according to WABC-TV.
  On the guard’s first trip to the sixth-floor apartment, the woman’s 2
  
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• Breaking: AZ Abortion Ban from 1901 Upheld: Judge Kellie Johnson's Ruling Devastates Pro-Abortion Advocates

  24-09-2022 02:28
  A Pima County judge cleared the way Friday for a 121-year-old near-total ban on abortion to go back into effect in Arizona.
  Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson’s ruling reinstated a law from 1901 — more than a decade before Arizona was granted statehood — that banned abortion except to save the life of the mother, KOLD-TV reported. There is no exception for cases of rape or incest, according to the report.
  Johnson’s ruling lifted a 1973 court injunction against the ban.
  J
  
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• Judge rules that Arizona can enforce near-total abortion ban

  24-09-2022 02:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Arizona can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years, meaning clinics will have to stop providing the procedures.
  
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• Man Sues Lowe's Home Improvement After Shopping Trip Ends with Bloody Amputation

  24-09-2022 01:47
  A South Carolina man is suing a home improvement store after an accident that resulted in the loss of part of his ring finger.
  Mark Johnson was at Lowe’s on James Island, near Charleston, South Carolina, in 2020 when his son got hold of some garden shears, WCSC-TV reported.
  At the same moment that Johnson reached for the shears to take them away, his son snapped them shut, cuting off his fingertip, Johnson said.
  “I pulled my hand back, and he closed it right as I did that and he snip
  
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• Op-Ed: Hollywood Told Us to Tone Down the Christianity in Our Movie. Here's What We Did Instead

  24-09-2022 01:44
  It’s so easy to lose faith in things.
  A wrong decision, a personal loss or conditions surrounding you can all leave you asking, “Why should I continue down this path?” Well, there’s more to this than you might think.
  We’re talking about a new Fox News report by Pete Hegseth that notes that Christianity could soon become a minority religion in the United States. According to the Pew Research Center, Americans who identify as Christians dropped from 90 percent back in
  
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• Elijah McClain's death caused by complications from ketamine injection following restraint, coroner says in amended autopsy report

  24-09-2022 00:53 via cnn.com
  
  The autopsy report for Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died while in police custody in Colorado three years ago, has been changed to update the cause of death from "undetermined" to "complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint," Adams County Chief Coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan said Friday.
  
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• Republican Tudor Dixon makes light of plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at campaign stops

  24-09-2022 00:24 via cnn.com
  
  Tudor Dixon, the Republican challenging Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, made light of the 2020 kidnapping plot against Whitmer on Friday, telling a crowd that the Democratic governor "sure is good at taking business hostage and holding it for ransom."
  
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• Watch: Sparks and Flaming Debris Fall from Passenger Plane - Forced into Emergency Action to Save Travelers

  24-09-2022 00:05
  A passenger jet bound for Brazil was forced to turn around and return to Newark, N.J., early Thursday after flaming sparks and possibly even fiery debris started coming off the aircraft.
  United Airlines Flight 149 began experiencing issues with its hydraulic pump after taking off around 11 p.m. Wednesday from Newark-Liberty International Airport, headed for São Paulo, Fox News reported.
  As a safety precaution, the Boeng 777-200 circled over the Atlantic Ocean for almost two hours before s
  
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