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• Angelina Jolie accuses Brad Pitt of choking one of their children during mid-air fight

  04-10-2022 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Angelina Jolie accused former husband Brad Pitt of choking one of their children during a volatile trans-Atlantic flight in 2016, according to a complaint she
  
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• Alleged Waukesha Killer Trial Begins - Nobody Was Ready for Disturbing Display He Prepared for Them

  04-10-2022 23:30
  This thug is unbelievable.
  The career criminal charged with killing six people in a brutal vehicular attack on a Waukesha, Wisconsin, Christmas parade in November 2021 appeared in court for the first day of his homicide trial on Monday.
  Darrell Brooks complicated jury selection proceedings through a variety of courtroom antics.
  At one point, Brooks even exchanged heated words with Waukesha County Judge Jennifer Dorow, according to the New York Post. Brooks claimed he didn’t recognize Judge
  
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• New 'Disinformation' Censoring in the Works, Leftists Asking Big Tech to 'Fulfill Their Obligations' and Agree to Terms

  04-10-2022 23:15
  A coalition of environmental advocacy groups has requested that the CEO’s of major social media platforms stop the spread of “climate disinformation” by censoring user posts, according to a Tuesday letter.
  Addressed to the CEOs of Facebook, TikTok, Google, YouTube, Twitter and Pinterest, the letter claims that climate disinformation should be censored because it “undermines” the government’s ability to efficiently and effectively respond to the climate.
  The co
  
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• Justice Jackson makes waves in first Supreme Court arguments

  04-10-2022 23:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, has been a frequent questioner in her first week on the bench.
  
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• QAnon song played by Donald Trump removed from tech platforms

  04-10-2022 22:58 via nbcnews.com
  
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• Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago case

  04-10-2022 22:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Trump filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court seeking its intervention in the Justice Department’s seizure of documents at Mar-a-Lago.
  
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• Biden's Bad October Surprise: Job Openings Take the Biggest Nosedive Since the Start of COVID

  04-10-2022 22:55
  With November’s midterm elections now just over a month away, President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party just got something else to worry about.
  Besides inflation eating away at the paychecks of normal Americans, an illegal alien invasion that finally made it to the consciousness of the mainstream media, and the specter of ever-rising crime, a report on Tuesday about job openings in the nation’s economy just dealt another blow to the Democratic spin machine.
  And it was far worse th
  
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• A drug mule moving enough fentanyl to kill millions got busted, then slipped the DEA

  04-10-2022 22:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  David Maldonado managed to drive away from DEA agents after agreeing to cooperate with them following a 114-pound fentanyl bust.
  
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• Coldplay suspends tour over singer Chris Martin's 'serious lung infection'

  04-10-2022 22:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  Coldplay has announced it is postponing several Brazil shows in its “Music of the Spheres” world tour due to “a serious lung infection” that singer Chris Martin has contracted.
  
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• DeSantis Angrily Announces Almost All Post-Hurricane Looters Are Illegals, 'They Should Not Be Here at All'

  04-10-2022 22:48
  Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said during a Tuesday morning news conference that three of the four people arrested on charges of looting were illegally residing in the United States.
  “Three of the four are illegal aliens, and so these are people that are foreigners. They’re illegally in our country, and not only that, they tried to loot and ransack in the aftermath of a natural disaster,” DeSantis said. “I mean, they should be prosecuted, but they need to be sen
  
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• New 'Scooby-Doo' movie finally depicts Velma as a lesbian

  04-10-2022 22:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  The creators of a new “Scooby-Doo” movie have finally depicted Velma as a lesbian on screen, after years of speculation about the beloved character’s sexuality
  
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• 'Ball of Fire': Woman Trapped in Burning Wreckage Until Off-Duty Officer Spots Her

  04-10-2022 22:33
  As Henry Vargas was headed home on Sept. 27, he came across an unexpected sight.
  He’d been traveling along Interstate 30 in Dallas when he spotted a wreck strewn across the lanes of traffic before him.
  “I was driving on 30 and suddenly in front of me I see an explosion, a ball of fire,” Vargas said, according to WFAA-TV.
  A truck had stalled on the freeway and two other vehicles had rammed into it, sending the collapsed remains spewing fluids across lanes of traffic and quickly
  
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• Op-Ed: This Old Testament Book Must Serve as a Wake-Up Call for America

  04-10-2022 22:24
  The Old Testament book of Lamentations must serve as a wake-up call for America.
  The parallels between the rebellious nation of Judah that suffered God’s severe wrath and the United States’ similar sins are both uncanny and sobering.
  God had warned Judah through the prophet Jeremiah that his judgment would be coming if that callous, sinful nation did not repent and return to him. But the message from God’s lonely and discarded prophet was largely ignored. Finally, God poured ou
  
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• Wisconsin Democrats attempt to elevate abortion rights issue in competitive Senate and governor's races

  04-10-2022 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  Democrats in Wisconsin sought to turn the midterm elections into a referendum on abortion after Republicans who control the state legislature met for less than 30 seconds Tuesday to reject Gov. Tony Evers' bid to allow voters to decide the issue.
  
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• Video appears to show Oklahoma deputy punching teen at state fair

  04-10-2022 22:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  The attempted arrest of a 17-year-old boy was captured in widely shared video, officials said Tuesday, appearing to show him being punched in the head by an Okl
  
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• Watch: Fox News Reporter Questions Democrats on Border Security, Their Silence Says It All

  04-10-2022 22:01
  A Fox News reporter who has been covering border security since the beginning of the Biden administration tried to get some answers from Democratic politicians about border security recently.
  Mostly what he got in response to his questions was silence.
  “The administration has repeatedly insisted, ‘The border is secure,'” Fox’s Bill Melugin told Harris Faulkner on-air yesterday. “That’s despite the fact that under them, there have been record illegal cross
  
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• Democratic Mayor Under Fire After Committing 'The Ultimate Disrespect' at Fallen Police Officer's Memorial

  04-10-2022 21:44
  The mayor of Austin, Texas, drew sharp criticism for falling asleep during a memorial service for a fallen police officer on Monday. The incident put further strain on an already troubled relationship between the police department and the mayor.
  The criticism rose against Democrat Mayor Steve Adler after an image of him appearing to have fallen asleep during the memorial service began making the rounds on social media.
  The photo showed a slumping Adler with his chin to his chest and his eyes clo
  
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• Hunter Biden Business Partner: I've Got Joe Biden on Tape, the FBI Should Be Investigating That Family

  04-10-2022 21:33
  A whistleblower who exposed Hunter Biden’s questionable foreign business dealings to the world is speaking out once more.
  In a preview of an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson set to air Tuesday night, Tony Bobulinksi points to the Biden family as the beneficiaries of corruption who defrauded him personally.
  “So they were shafting you without your knowledge, it sounds like,” the host asked Bobulinski in one preview clip of the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” int
  
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• How the Supreme Court could change the internet as we know it

  04-10-2022 21:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Supreme Court this week opened the door to radically different ways of thinking about social media and the internet.
  
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• CNN Reporter Throws Cold Water on Dems' Hope for Midterm Victory, 'A Huge Gap' on 1 Important Issue

  04-10-2022 21:29
  CNN data reporter Harry Enten said Tuesday Democrats face a huge gap when it came to being trusted to handle crime as the midterms drew closer.
  “Crime is basically the economy for Republicans,” Enten told “New Day” co-host John Berman.
  “They love to talk about the economy, they love to talk about high inflation. They also love to be talking about crime. Democrats do not want to be in this ballpark. They want to talk about abortion which is the main focus of most of
  
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• Report: Latest US Employment Numbers May Signal Withering Economy

  04-10-2022 21:09
  After several months with a high number of job openings in the market, the Labor Department announced that job openings fell in August. Now many are wondering if this could mark a new turn in the American economy.
  The number of job openings decreased to 10.1 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
  That is an estimated 1.1 million drop, making it the lowest number of open jobs since the middle of last year, Reuters reported.
  The job openings decline in August alone was also the biggest
  
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• Solomon: Musk Is Playing Snakes and Ladders and the Losers Will Keep On Losing

  04-10-2022 21:05
  I was never really into board games as a kid, but, for whatever reason, my mom liked Snakes and Ladders.
  If I had to explain the game to a space alien, I’d just say you roll the dice, ladders take you up, snakes take you down.
  So, pretty much like trying to buy Twitter.
  Today was a perfect day for Elon Musk, if we define “perfect” as hundreds of millions of people around the world watching his every move, thereby fulfilling what at least appears to be a borderline sociopathic n
  
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• Watch: Hosts of 'The View' Can't Hide Their Disgust After Hearing Who Trump's 2024 Running Mate Might Be

  04-10-2022 20:58
  Imagine a room full of wealthy, privileged people groaning at the notion that a successful female politician and a barriers-breaking black senator are top contenders for a major party candidate’s running mate in a presidential election.
  You’d expect these pompous critics to be seething with hatred for women and unforgivable racism, wouldn’t you?
  Well, as it so happens, this was the sentiment expressed by the ladies of “The View” on Monday when presented with some of
  
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• Rep. Walorski's Mom Tells Biden Where Jackie Is Right to His Face - Is This Why the Media Was Banned?

  04-10-2022 20:22
  When President Joe Biden disrupted one of his own events last week by scanning a White House crowd in search of a congresswoman who’d died two months ago, it was an embarrassment to the presidency.
  When his press secretary stood on a podium the same day to lie flatly to the American media about the president’s faltering moment, it was a disgrace to the truth.
  But when the late Republican lawmaker’s family met with Biden, he got the answer he was looking for, but the fact that h
  
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• NYU Chemistry Professor Fired After Students Whined That His Class Was Too Hard

  04-10-2022 20:08
  A chemistry professor at New York University has been fired after students signed a petition against him for making his course hard and giving low test scores.
  Maitland Jones Jr. taught organic chemistry for years at both Princeton and NYU and received awards for his career teaching a notoriously difficult subject, The New York Times reported.
  But then 82 of his 350 students signed a petition complaining this his class was too difficult. Before the fall semester of 2022 began, NYU ended Jones&rs
  
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• Feds join possible Stockton serial killer investigation after 2 more shootings linked

  04-10-2022 19:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Federal authorities have joined an expanding investigation into a series of killings in Stockton, California after two more shootings have been linked.
  
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• WNBA and former Texas Longhorns star Tiffany Jackson dies at 37

  04-10-2022 19:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  WNBA star and standout from the University of Texas Women’s basketball team Tiffany Jackson died Monday from cancer at the age of 37, her alma mater announced.
  
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• The student loan forgiveness application opens soon. Here's what you need to know

  04-10-2022 19:55 via cnn.com
  
  The application for President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan is expected to go live as soon as this week.
  
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• Report: Hundreds of Firearms Confiscated with Dystopian Law - Police Showing Up Unannounced at Doors

  04-10-2022 19:51
  The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution has been a sentinel of American gun ownership since its ratification into the Bill of Rights in 1791.
  Since then, it has been a major obstacle to those who wish to see guns taken out of the hands of law-abiding American citizens.
  Nefarious minds have recently concocted a way to overcome that obstacle, however.
  Using legislative measures collectively referred to as red flag laws or extreme risk protective orders, lawmakers have given themselv
  
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• European Agriculture Takes Devastating Blow - Popular Vegetable Brand Forced Into 6-Week Production Halt

  04-10-2022 19:35
  A Dutch vegetable company is having to shut down production because of rising energy costs.
  HAK, one of the largest vegetable brands in Northern Europe, announced on Monday that it will shut down its entire production for six weeks, Euro Weekly News reported.
  “With current energy prices, it is not feasible to continue production in winter,” the company said, according to the report.
  While rising energy costs are threatening agriculture and food supplies around the globe, Europe is in
  
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• How this year's Supreme Court cases could shape the 2024 election and beyond

  04-10-2022 19:30 via cnn.com
  
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• Breaking Report: Musk Reverses, Plans to Go Through with Twitter Deal as Shares Are Halted

  04-10-2022 19:10
  A new report claims that after months of claiming Twitter was not worth what he agreed to pay for it, Elon Musk will go through with his proposed purchase of the social media giant.
  Bloomberg reported, the Tesla CEO will buy Twitter at the original agreed-upon price of $54.20 per share.
  The Bloomberg report said Musk made the offer in a letter to Twitter.*MUSK SAID TO PROPOSE TO TWITTER TO PROCEED W/ DEAL AT $54.20$TWTR shares just spiked and now are halted pic.twitter.com/cF6k1SfF1r
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• Northeastern University package explosion was a hoax carried out by employee, complaint states

  04-10-2022 18:47 via cnn.com
  
  Authorities have arrested and charged a Texas man in connection with a reported package explosion at Northeastern University last month, the FBI announced Tuesday.
  
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• Conservative Supreme Court justices consider making it easier to defend against racial gerrymandering claims

  04-10-2022 18:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  The conservative-majority Supreme Court hears a major new case that could further weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act.
  
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• Sen. Ron Johnson acknowledges texting with Trump attorney on Jan 6

  04-10-2022 18:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Senator Ron Johnson on Tuesday acknowledged he exchanged text messages with one of Donald Trump’s attorneys before and after Johnson’s staff attempted to deliver a package to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6.
  
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• Ron Johnson acknowledges texting with Trump attorney on Jan 6

  04-10-2022 18:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Senator Ron Johnson on Tuesday acknowledged he exchanged text messages with one of Donald Trump’s attorneys before and after Johnson’s staff attempted to deliver a package to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6.
  
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• Children's Hospitals Offering 'Gender-Affirming Care' Ask DOJ to Prosecute Protesters

  04-10-2022 18:34
  Three major medical associations have asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate and prosecute people who they feel are threatening children’s hospitals and physicians that provide “gender-affirming care.”
  The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the Children’s Hospital Association wrote to Garland on Monday. Their demands come amid a rash of protests against doctors and institutions that provide “gender-affirming care&rdqu
  
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• Even the FBI is Admitting this About Themselves - Letter Firing Anti-Trump Agent Exposes Disturbing Pattern

  04-10-2022 18:29
  Few inside the FBI have disgraced both the agency and themself quite as thoroughly as special agent Peter Strzok. He was fired from his position as the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division after text message exchanges with his paramour and colleague, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, were revealed.
  Strzok led both the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation and the early stages of the FBI’s bogus investigation into then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s
  
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• Op-Ed: Under Biden, America Is Losing Its War with the Cartels

  04-10-2022 18:04
  America is in a war against deadly fentanyl and the Mexican cartels that traffic in the drug.
  But sadly, it appears that we are currently losing that fight. More must be done by the Biden administration to ensure we can turn the tide.
  Border states such as Arizona have become ground zero as fentanyl continues to flow into the United States.
  A synthetic opioid more than 50 times more potent than heroin, an amount as small as four grains of salt is enough to cause death. More than five Arizonans p
  
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• Republicans on House Agriculture Committee Notice Strange Pattern, Government Accountability Office Alerted

  04-10-2022 18:00
  Top Republicans want to get to the bottom of foreign purchases of American farmland to learn the facts about the extent of any threat posed by China.
  Reps. James Comer of Kentucky and Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, the ranking Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee and Agriculture Committee, respectively, called upon the Government Accountability Office to investigate foreign land purchases and their impact on both food security and national security.
  Their request was made in
  
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• First Official Portrait of King Charles with Camilla Revealed: There's No Way Back for Harry and Meghan

  04-10-2022 17:45
  A new official portrait of Britain’s royal family shows that Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are out of the picture both literally and figuratively, according to one royal family watcher.
  The picture, published Saturday, shows King Charles with Queen Consort Camilla, William, Prince of Wales, and his wife Kate, Princess of Wales. The photo was taken on the evening before the final funeral ceremonies for Queen Elizabeth II. Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort with The
  
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• GA Teacher Allegedly Fired Over Religious Views, Fears School 'Will Quietly Retaliate' Against Her Children

  04-10-2022 17:44
  A Georgia school teacher told Fox News on Tuesday that she filed a lawsuit against Bryan County School District after she was allegedly fired for voicing her opinion on an elementary library book.
  Lindsey Barr approached the principal of an elementary school where she worked and expressed her opinion that the book “All Are Welcome” violated her religious beliefs, she told Fox News. In response, the school system allegedly locked Barr out of her substitute teaching account and fired h
  
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• Hunter Biden's Former Business Partner Spills the Beans to Tucker Carlson: 'It's Called Fraud'

  04-10-2022 17:39
  A former business partner of Hunter Biden has accused the president’s son of fraud — to the tune of $5 million.
  Fox News’ Tucker Carlson sat down with Tony Bobulinski in an interview scheduled to air during tonight’s episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
  “So, they were shafting you without your knowledge, it sounds like,” Carlson said in the promo Fox News released Monday.
  “Yeah, it’s called fraud,” Bobulinski responded. “Yea
  
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• Iconic Hollywood Sign Gets Major Makeover

  04-10-2022 17:30
  The Hollywood sign is getting a makeover befitting its status as a Tinseltown icon.
  After a pressure-wash and some rust removal, workers began using 250 gallons of primer and white paint to spruce up the sign ahead of its centennial next year.
  The entire renovation effort is expected to take up to eight weeks.
  Originally built in 1923, the sign read “Hollywoodland” to promote a property development.
  But after decades of neglect, the original sign was shortened to read “Hollywoo
  
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• Queen of the Hill

  04-10-2022 17:26
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Queen of the Hill appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Arrest made in connection with reported package explosion at Northeastern University

  04-10-2022 17:22 via cnn.com
  
  Authorities have arrested and charged a Texas man in connection with a reported package explosion at Northeastern University last month, the FBI announced Tuesday.
  
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• Animal Rights Protester Storms Field During 'Monday Night Football,' Then a Pro Bowl Linebacker Makes Him Regret It

  04-10-2022 17:21
  During the Monday Night Football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams, two animal rights protesters invaded the field, and the second one was tackled by the Rams’ pro bowl linebacker Bobby Wagner.
  The first protester, wearing a t-shirt that said “Right to Rescue,” ran on the field in San Francisco’s Levi’s Stadium during the first quarter but was caught by security, SFGate reported.
  The second protester made it further, leading security on a
  
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• Loretta Lynn, coal miner's daughter and country music icon, dies at 90

  04-10-2022 17:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Loretta Lynn, the pioneering country music artist best known for hits like "A Coal Miner's Daughter," "“You Ain’t Woman Enough" and "The Pill," has died.
  
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• Audience Sounds Off After Bill Maher Floats Idea of Biden Ditching Harris: 'She's a Bad Politician'

  04-10-2022 17:03
  If President Joe Biden plans to run again in 2024, as he insists he will, Bill Maher has two words of advice for him: Ditch Kamala.
  During a panel discussion on Friday’s edition of Maher’s HBO show “Real Time,” the host and panelist Caitlin Flanagan agreed the veep would be holding down the ticket.
  Maher said that, despite Biden’s advanced age, he didn’t see the president retiring.
  “Once you have that real estate, and you wake up in the White House, and
  
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• Biden's Abortion Funding Gimmick Epically Fails as Not 1 State Takes Him Up on His Offer

  04-10-2022 17:02
  The Biden administration offered to use Medicaid funding to pay for abortion-related travel expenses, but states are not taking him up on the money, according to Politico.
  President Joe Biden issued an executive order in August instructing the Department of Health and Human Services to have Medicaid cover costs for women who want to cross state lines to have abortions.
  Not one state pursued the Medicaid funding, according to Politico.
  “We are trying to use every lever we have available to
  
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