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• 'WJ Live': Kari Lake Outlines Just Exactly How She's Going to Make Life Easier for Families

  03-10-2022 23:59
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• Determined and Embattled Blue-Collar Philadelphians Band Together to Take Back Their Neighborhood

  03-10-2022 23:53
  Embattled Philadelphia residents are taking action against drugs and gun violence infiltrating their neighborhood, citing failures by the city’s Democratic district attorney, according to The Wall Street Journal.
  People living in the Harrowgate neighborhood claim to feel threatened as a more than two-year gun violence wave continues alongside an expanding illegal opioid market, the outlet reported Sunday.
  Some have formed neighborhood watch patrols to deter drug users as dealers fight
  
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• Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testifies at foreign lobbying trial of Tom Barrack

  03-10-2022 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  Former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified that he never asked former Donald Trump adviser Tom Barrack to conduct any diplomacy of behalf of the United States or pass any information on to a foreign government.
  
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• Report: Iranian Forces Lay Down Gunfire on Protesting Students - University Under Siege

  03-10-2022 22:49
  Iran continues to crack down on protests in the country, with security forces on Sunday reportedly opening fire on students at Sharif University in Tehran.
  Videos from Saturday showed protests at the university and the surrounding area, with witnesses saying that young women were waving around their hijabs in defiance.
  One female protester, Fatemeh, told the Associated Press that she was there “to stop this behavior by police against younger people, especially girls.”
  A teacher at th
  
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• 'Significant Real Threats' at Border: Illegals Flagged as 'Special Interest Migrants' Soared 600 Percent, Report

  03-10-2022 22:45
  Border Patrol has seen an almost 600 percent increase in fiscal year 2022 in the number of illegal migrants flagged as “special interest” over national security concerns, according to internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  A “special interest” migrant is someone who isn’t a U.S. citizen who frequently travels in areas designated as national security concerns due to terrorist activity or other
  
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• FAA to announce rule allowing more rest for flight attendants

  03-10-2022 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Federal aviation officials plan to announce Tuesday that flight attendants will soon get more mandated rest time between flights, two sources familiar with the announcement tell CNN.
  
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• As Army Officials Report Catastrophic Enlistment Numbers, a Scary Last Resort Just Became Reality

  03-10-2022 22:23
  The U.S. military has been struggling to keep recruitment numbers up and has fallen short of its goals this year. While some may want to dismiss this issue as just a military problem, the reasons behind it may be part of broader political and cultural battles in the U.S.
  Military officials said that the Army fell short of its recruitment goal by about 15,000 soldiers, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.
  That is about 25 percent short of its recruitment goal, the AP noted.
  “In the Ar
  
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• Stocks kick off October with a huge rally

  03-10-2022 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  Stocks kicked off October with more treats than tricks for investors. The market rallied to begin the fourth quarter, despite growing worries about the financial health of European banking giant Credit Suisse and weak economic data.
  
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• Star of 'Historic' Gay Movie Gets Backlash After Blaming 'Straight People' for Opening Weekend Box Office Flop

  03-10-2022 22:11
  Next time he should shoot for parody.
  In an unholy mix of entitlement and entertainment, the maker of a “historic” (according to The Hollywood Reporter) romantic comedy about gay love has pinpointed the real problem that made the movie an expensive box office bomb.
  And it’s not the people behind the camera.
  Billy Eichner, the writer and star of the soon-to-be footnote in cinema history going by the title of “Bros,” took to Twitter on Sunday to point the finger where
  
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• Toyota President Rains on Newsom's Parade, Delivers Bad News on 2035 Deadline for Gas Car Ban

  03-10-2022 22:01
  Two years ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a plan to begin eliminating gas-powered cars in the state. But the president of Toyota Motor Corporation said last week that following this plan will be “difficult” and he thinks the universal use of electric vehicles will take much longer than Newsom plans.
  “Realistically speaking, it seems rather difficult to really achieve them,” President Akio Toyoda said Thursday, speaking through an interpreter, according to Reut
  
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• Report: Trump Aide Left Biden a Personal Surprise in White House AC System

  03-10-2022 21:52
  The departing Trump administration prepared some surprises for the Biden administration, according to excerpts of a new book.
  According to the Washington Examiner, the book “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America” by Maggie Haberman said some Trump administration staffers played tricks as their time in the White House wound down.
  An excerpt says that an employee of former Director of the Presidential Personnel Office John McEntee stuffed pictures of Hu
  
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• Planned Parenthood to Offer Abortions Out of an RV, Will Park Mobile Clinic on Border of Red State

  03-10-2022 21:47
  Planned Parenthood will offer chemical and surgical abortions out of an RV along the Illinois-Missouri border, according to NPR.
  The organization’s first mobile clinic will offer chemical abortions later this year and expects to perform surgical abortions by 2023, according to NPR.
  The RV will operate on the Illinois side of the state border, where abortion is legal until the point of viability, which is generally determined to be around six months; Missouri only allows abortions in medica
  
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• US Munitions Stockpile 'Dangerously Low' Thanks to Biden Drawdowns: Report

  03-10-2022 21:22
  Experts are beginning to ring alarm bells as President Joe Biden’s foreign policy has left the U.S. military with a dangerously low level of weapons and munitions stockpiles.
  Biden has used his military drawdowns policy to ship huge amounts of U.S. munitions and weapons systems to Ukraine for its war with the Russians, but the policy has left America vulnerable.
  The drawdowns policy has allowed Biden to withdraw existing weapons, ammunition and other supplies from U.S. stocks and to ship t
  
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• Fulton County DA seeks to disqualify attorneys for Republican 'fake electors'

  03-10-2022 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is trying to disqualify two of the attorneys for 11 of the Republican "fake electors" who participated in a plan to subvert the Electoral College and are now targets of an ongoing special purpose grand jury criminal investigation in Georgia.
  
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• Putin's 'Nuclear Military Train' Reportedly on the Move, Spotted Loaded Down with Weaponry

  03-10-2022 20:58
  As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, a new report says a train transporting equipment related to the nuclear weapons division of the Russian Defense Ministry has been seen on the move.
  The U.K.’s Daily Mail reported Monday that a pro-Russian channel on the Telegram app posted a clip Sunday of military vehicles and armored personnel carriers moving through central Russia.
  But unlike other Russian military equipment, these particular vehicles and APCs might be tied to the part of the Russian
  
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• Fox's Faulkner Absolutely Blasts VP Harris Over 'Equity'-Based Hurricane Relief Comments

  03-10-2022 20:35
  Fox News host Harris Faulkner lit into Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday for her remarks about disaster relief being “based on equity.”
  “[W]e have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out in the same place and if we want people to be in an equal place sometimes we have to take into account disparities and do that work,”
  
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• Watch: Florida Man Goes Viral for Colorful Endorsement of Ron DeSantis - 'And I'm a Democrat'

  03-10-2022 20:08
  He’s probably not going to appear in any campaign ads this season, but the man in this video might have given Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the strongest endorsement for next month’s election he’s gotten this year.
  The unnamed speaker in this video, which conservative commentator Don Bongino posted on Twitter early Monday morning, said he was a Democrat from Arcadia, Florida, and was going to be voting for DeSantis in November.
  Unfortunately, his expletive-laden comments would requ
  
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• Daughter of American released from Venezuela rips Rubio over criticism of swap

  03-10-2022 20:07 via cnn.com
  
  The relative of two Americans freed this weekend in a prisoner swap with Venezuela tore into GOP Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday over his criticism of the exchange, blasting his comments as "unpatriotic and unhelpful" and questioning his support for the seven wrongfully detained US citizens.
  
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• 'Saturday Night Live' Studio Audience Goes Silent When Show Mocks Joe Biden in Opening Sketch of New Season

  03-10-2022 19:06
  Left-wing “comedy” show “Saturday Night Live” continues to make former President Donald Trump the focal point of many of its skits even though he has been out of office for almost two years.
  The show’s relentless focus on attacking Trump and the GOP while largely giving a pass to Democrats and gaffe machine President Joe Biden is a big reason its ratings (and relevance) have tanked in recent years.
  In the cold open for SNL’s season 48 premiere, however, host M
  
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• Griner Gets New Case News from Russian Court Today

  03-10-2022 18:59
  A Russian court on Monday set Oct. 25 as the date for American basketball star Brittney Griner’s appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession.
  Griner, an eight-time all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted Aug. 4 after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
  The Moscow region court said it will hear her appeal.
  Griner admitted tha
  
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• Electric Plane's 8-Minute Flight Celebrated as Milestone, But Look What the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine Was Doing in 1905

  03-10-2022 18:58
  “Zero emissions” advocates are hailing the first flight of an all-electric commuter airplane. However, aviation enthusiasts may chuckle in the knowledge that almost 120 years earlier the Wright Brothers trounced that achievement with a few basic materials.
  Eviation, a startup based in Washington state, built the proof-of-concept plane to demonstrate the viability of electric-powered flight with a range of a few hundred miles.
  Last week the plane took off from an airport at Moses Lake
  
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• Kellyanne Conway: Dems Want 2022 Midterms to Be About Three Issues Americans Don't Care About

  03-10-2022 18:17
  If the November midterm elections were held on Jan. 7, 2021 — amid 85-degree temperatures in Minneapolis in the middle of winter and Republicans codifying “The Handmaid’s Tale” in states across America — perhaps the Democratic Party would have a field day.
  That’s not how it works, however. And that’s why, according to former White House adviser and Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, the left is going to get wiped out at the polls next month.
  
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• Joy Reid Openly Mocked After Accidentally Implying Florida Looters Are Black People

  03-10-2022 18:07
  This may sound obvious, but in today’s world, obvious truths are too often left unsaid. For example, when your entire worldview hinges on race, you are a racist.
  This applies to all of the leaders (and mindless followers) of today’s Democratic Party, which has been completely overtaken by race-obsessed, leftist radicals.
  While these leftists often project their own sins onto others with accusations of racism, every now and then, the mask slips.
  They accidentally say the quiet part ou
  
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• Disturbing Statistic Shows China's Hold on US Farmland, Republicans Request Investigation for National Security

  03-10-2022 17:53
  More than 100 House Republicans are asking a government watchdog to probe foreign investments in U.S. farmland, including those by China, which they say may present national and food security concerns.
  Led by Reps. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania and James Comer of Kentucky, the lawmakers on Saturday called on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study foreign farmland ownership and how the U.S. government is monitoring acquisitions, a letter showed.
  There has been an uptick in fore
  
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• Soldier with Religious Objection to COVID Vaccine Given 'Flu Shot,' Then He Realizes What It Really Was

  03-10-2022 17:44
  A former National Guardsman from Maine says he was given a COVID-19 vaccination despite seeking a religious exemption from the mandated shot.
  In response, a representative for the Maine National Guard called the incident a mistake, according to Just the News.
  Former National Guard Spc. Mathew Bouchard told the outlet he was getting a flu shot in November, two months before he was ready to leave the Guard, after filling out the required COVID-19 vaccine refusal forms.
  Bouchard said two lines had
  
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• DeSantis Turns the Tables on CNN Reporter Who Questioned Hurricane Ian Response: 'Where Was Your Industry?'

  03-10-2022 17:35
  CNN apparently thinks Nadia Romero nailed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the wall with her questions regarding evacuations from Lee County and other areas of Florida prior to Hurricane Ian making landfall Wednesday afternoon.
  I say that because of the headline the network chose to put on the video of that questioning: “CNN reporter presses DeSantis about Florida evacuation orders.”
  OK, sure, I suppose Romero “pressed.” But that headline is missing a key fact about the excha
  
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• Trader Joe's finally brings back free samples

  03-10-2022 17:28 via cnn.com
  
  Freebies are back at the grocery store after a long pandemic hiatus.
  
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• Police Investigating After 27-Year-Old Fan Dies in 'Unfortunate Incident' at NFL Game

  03-10-2022 17:28
  Police are investigating the death of a fan after Sunday’s NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Jets at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium.
  Pittsburgh Public Safety reported that 27-year-old Dalton Ryan Keane was taken to the hospital after falling from a stadium escalator, according to WTAE-TV.
  Officials say that they received a call about the fall around 4:30 p.m., just after the Jets defeated the Steelers, WTAE reported.
  The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police’s Viol
  
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• KFC is bringing back a fan-favorite menu item

  03-10-2022 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  Kentucky Fried Chicken is bringing back a fan favorite after a nearly decade-long hiatus.
  
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• Musician Hardy Injured in Tour Bus Crash, 3 Others Also Treated for 'Significant Injuries'

  03-10-2022 17:05
  A tour bus carrying country music singer and songwriter Hardy and three others was involved in a crash that injured everyone on board.
  All four people on the bus were treated for “significant injuries” suffered in the crash as they headed home from a Saturday night show in Bristol, Tennessee, Hardy said on social media. He did not give details on the injuries.
  The bus overturned on Interstate 40 West near Nashville early Sunday, news outlets reported.
  Hardy said he had been released
  
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• Americans Have Spoken: Now Favor Republicans Over Democrats, And Here's Why

  03-10-2022 16:47
  Americans favor the Republican Party over the Democratic Party by a five-point margin, bucking longstanding trends, a Gallup poll released Monday found.
  Neither party was viewed favorably by a majority of voters, but 44 percent of voters had positive views of the Republican Party compared to 39 percent for the Democrats, the poll found.
  While Republicans were behind Democrats by three points a year ago, the GOP is leading Democrats in favorability on issues such as the economy and handling of te
  
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• Feds Charge Kim Kardashian with Violating Securities Law, Hit Her with Big Punishment

  03-10-2022 16:35
  Kim Kardashian agreed to pay more than $1 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for promoting a crypto security without telling those who follow her that she was paid $250,000 to hawk the security.
  The case goes back to Kardashian pushing EMAX tokens sold by Ethereum Max on her Instagram account, according to a document filed by the SEC.
  “Are you guys into crypto?” the Instagram post asked. “This is not financial advice but just sharing what my fri
  
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• A surprisingly hard part of retirement: Spending what you worked so hard to save

  03-10-2022 16:31 via cnn.com
  
  You've been working and saving for decades for just this moment: retirement.
  
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• Native American Woman Who Famously Declined Marlon Brando's 'Godfather' Oscar Dies

  03-10-2022 15:52
  Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for “The Godfather” on his behalf in an indelible protest of Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans, has died. She was 75.
  Littlefeather’s niece, Calina Lawrence, confirmed that she died peacefully Sunday, surrounded by loved ones at her Marin County, California, home.
  The cause was breast cancer, the family said.
  Littlefeather’s appearance at the 1973 Oscars would
  
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• NFL Fans Confused as Players Don Foreign Flags - League OKs Communist China and Cuba Alongside US Flag

  03-10-2022 15:45
  A marketing gesture aimed at giving the NFL an international flavor left more than a few fans confused — and some unhappy — this weekend.
  “Is it European awareness month or something like that?” one fan tweeted Sunday in response to seeing flags of various nations alongside the American flag on the helmets of NFL players.
  Nope. It was, according to KNBC-TV, a gesture that fits with the NFL’s hopes of growing a global fan base.
  The league put a different gloss on it,
  
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• Texas Officials Sound the Alarm as Human Smugglers Take to the Sky with New Tactic: 'Who Is Involved with This?

  03-10-2022 15:21
  In the past 33 days, the Texas Department of Public Safety has stopped three airplanes in the Rio Grande Valley area that were involved in human smuggling efforts.
  “[Y]ou have to understand the different [sic] between the people who are being smuggled on planes — those are people who have not been processed,” Texas Highway Patrol Staff Lt. Christopher Olivarez told Fox News. “Those are people who are trying to avoid detection.”
  Border enforcement personnel refer to
  
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• Trump Raid Special Master Made a Request So Absurd that the Judge Ruled to Outright Reject it

  03-10-2022 15:07
  On Sept. 22, the special master appointed to oversee the more than 11,000 documents seized during the FBI’s August raid on former President Donald Trump’s home had a request for Trump’s legal team:
  Declare in court whether all of them are accurate, and be ready to do it in eight days.
  If that sounds like a lot, there was still another complication: Trump’s lawyers didn’t have access to all of the documents, since some of them were marked as “classified.”
  
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• Video: Remember the Time Bill Gates Put 'Green' Energy in the Hot Seat?

  03-10-2022 13:52
  The green sounds so future — and so close.
  California’s banning the sale of new electric cars by 2035, but don’t worry: You’ll have a Tesla charging at home, powered by renewables like solar and wind. And, if corporations don’t want to change over to renewable energy quickly enough, banks can always tank their ESG score and force them to. Won’t it be wonderful?
  You’d think Bill Gates — the billionaire former Microsoft CEO and current climate-change
  
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• Taco Bell is enlisting Pete Davidson to help apologize for its breakfast menu

  03-10-2022 13:30 via cnn.com
  Taco Bell is apologizing for its breakfast menu.
  
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• 7 Words that Will Break Your Heart - One Boy's Journey to Help Victims of Ian

  03-10-2022 12:50
  “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
  Although they’re not recorded in the Gospels, Luke tells us in Acts that Paul attributed these nine words to Jesus Himself — and one 7-year-old boy seems to have taken that lesson to heart.
  “They need it more than I do,” Dominic D’Andrea told Fox News when asked why he was donating the entire content of his piggy bank to Florida’s relief efforts in the wake of deadly Hurricane Ian.
  Mom Jaclyn D’An
  
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• Iran's Supreme Leader Breaks Silence to Blame US as Protests Enter 3rd Week - 'Designed by America'

  03-10-2022 12:12
  Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn what he called “rioting” and accuse the United States and Israel of planning the protests.
  The unrest, ignited by the death of a young woman in the custody of Iran’s morality police, is flaring up across the country for a third week despite government efforts to crack down.
  On Monday, Iran shuttered its top technology u
  
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• A plane crashed into a Minnesota home, killing three people

  03-10-2022 09:18 via cnn.com
  
  A small plane crashed into a Minnesota home Saturday night, killing three people who were on board, officials said.
  
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• Hurricane Ian death toll climbs to at least 68; over 4,000 people rescued in Florida: Live updates

  03-10-2022 02:10
  
  Confirmed fatalities from Ian include 61 in Florida, four in North Carolina and three in Cuba, where the storm made its first landfall. Updates.      
  
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• Report: Historical Levels of Fraud - How $600B Was Snatched from American Pockets in Almost 3 Years

  03-10-2022 01:37
  Fraudulent looting of coronavirus relief programs may amount to the most expensive waste of taxpayer money in American history.
  As much as $600 billion in federal funds intended for coronavirus relief have been siphoned away through various forms of fraud, according to one estimate.
  In comparison, Congress authorized $5 trillion in total federal relief spending, according to the New York Post.
  The overwhelming majority of Paycheck Protection Program loans will never be repaid to the government.
  
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• These Floridians gathered for church in Fort Myers. They brought their Hurricane Ian survival stories.

  03-10-2022 01:35
  
  Days after Hurricane Ian shattered Fort Myers, a local church held a service outside its damaged building. Survivors' experiences came pouring out.      
  
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• Senator's Campaign Ad Takes It to Cop-Haters: 'The Next Time You Get in Trouble, Call a Crackhead'

  03-10-2022 00:52
  Ever since the Black Lives Matter-led 2020 “summer of love” — an incredible amount of death and destruction that makes the capital incursion look like a picnic in comparison — it’s been open season on cops.
  Democrats, establishment media operatives and advocates for “social justice” have all claimed that American policing is a systemically corrupt and racist institution.
  The result has been chaos and lawlessness. According to a July report from WalletHub
  
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• Obama's Half-Brother Goes Full MAGA - Announces Endorsement for GOP Candidate

  03-10-2022 00:37
  Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano has received the endorsement of former President Barack Obama’s half-brother.
  Malik Obama expressed his endorsement for Mastriano in a Sunday tweet.If he’s with President Trump then I’m with @dougmastriano Pennsylvania Senator PA District 33.
  — Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) October 2, 2022Mastriano has received the endorsement of former President Donald Trump in one of the hottest governor’s races slated for
  
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• Watch: Viral Video Shows Unexpected Robo-Visitor in the Middle of Crime Scene - Officers Left Stunned

  03-10-2022 00:34
  As Los Angeles police were summoned to a report of an active shooter at a high school, a food delivery robot was not going to let that interfere with its work.
  Video of the Sept. 13 incident showed the robot cruising along until it reached the crime scene.A food delivery robot forces it’s way across a police crime scene. pic.twitter.com/T5DaET5Q5b
  — Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) September 13, 2022The robot was named Connie, according to USA Today.
  The video showed it was
  
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• Bruce Willis' Agent Delivers Crushing News for People Who'd Hoped to See His Face in Movies Again

  03-10-2022 00:29
  The illusion of deepfake technology is now so vast that Bruce Willis can appear on screen without ever having been on a movie set.
  But don’t get ready for a slew of new movies just yet.
  Although a report in the Telegraph indicated Willis had made history of sorts by being the first major film star to sell the rights to, well, himself, later reports have said that’s not so.
  The Telegraph report said Willis worked with a company called Deepcake to create a digital twin.
  However, the Ho
  
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• New video shows just how much was destroyed across Southwest Florida after Hurricane Ian

  03-10-2022 00:05
  
  After the waters receded, residents got a first look at the destruction Hurricane Ian had on their communities in Southwest Florida.      
  
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