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• Germany to 'Thermally Recycle' COVID Masks as Country Faces Energy Apocalypse

  10-10-2022 23:45
  Russia’s incursion into Ukraine — coupled with European Union and U.S. economic sanctions in response — has left the German people in a state of panic over energy supply shortages this winter.
  The recent sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines has exacerbated an already precarious situation and driven Germany to drastic measures for the production of heat as cold weather quickly approaches.
  According to Bloomberg, Germany plans to incinerate close to 800 million sealed fa
  
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• Watch: Joe Rogan Absolutely Torches Rolling Stone Founder for Propping Up Leftist Censorship

  10-10-2022 23:39
  Podcasting king Joe Rogan last week exposed how bad multi-millionaire Jann Wenner, the infamously left-wing founder of Rolling Stone magazine, actually is on the topic of free speech by pointing out the absurdity of Wenner’s views on Big Tech and big government censorship.
  Wenner, who reportedly has a net worth of $600 million, appeared on the “Joe Rogan Experience” Oct. 5 episode, and at one point during the discussion, the topic turned toward censorship.
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• 4 Christian Leaders Bring Biblical Truth to Kamala's Blasphemous Claims About Christians Supporting Abortion

  10-10-2022 23:36
  Vice President Kamala Harris has proclaimed that American people of sincere faith do not need to abandon deeply held beliefs in order to support “abortion rights.”
  It is a brazenly sacrilegious declaration that many Christian leaders are urging Harris to direly reconsider. According to Fox News, while speaking in Connecticut on Wednesday to a group of supporters for Democratic Rep. Jahana Hayes, Harris stated, “I say this, one does not have to abandon their faith or their belie
  
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• Univ. of Chicago lauds Economics Nobel winner

  10-10-2022 23:16
  Douglas Diamond of the University of Chicago shared the Nobel Prize in economic sciences with two other American economists, including Ben Bernanke. (Oct. 10) (AP video: Teresa Crawford)      
  
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• AP Top Stories October 10 P

  10-10-2022 23:11
  Here's the latest for Monday, October 10: Russian missiles strike Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities; Major search for Florida hurricane victims ends; Former Fed chair gets Nobel Prize for economics; Coast Guard rescues boaters from sharks.      
  
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• Bernanke: Nobel prize 'completely unexpected'

  10-10-2022 23:01
  Former Federar Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences along with two other U.S.-based economists Monday. (Oct. 10)      
  
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• Democratic Mayor Apologizes After Accident, Drunken Driving Arrest: 'I Made a Poor Decision'

  10-10-2022 22:38
  The Democratic mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was arrested on a drunken driving charge early Sunday and publicly apologized hours later.
  “I made a poor decision. I made a decision to get behind the wheel of a car after drinking at a local function,” Tom Henry said during a brief meeting with reporters.
  The 70-year-old mayor was driving with his wife and mother-in-law after an event at the city’s Civic Theater on Saturday night when he was involved in a crash, WANE-TV reported, c
  
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• LA's first Latina council president, Nury Martinez, resigns after leaked racist remarks

  10-10-2022 22:16
  
  In the leaked audio, first reported by the Los Angeles Times, Nury Martinez makes racist comments about a fellow council member's child and others.      
  
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• Former Mississippi governor subpoenaed for texts with Favre about a drug company

  10-10-2022 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has again been subpoenaed amid an ongoing civil suit in a multimillion-dollar welfare fraud scandal, and this time attorneys want to see communications between the ex-governor and former NFL and Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre.
  
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• Stocks dip after JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warns of recession

  10-10-2022 22:05 via cnn.com
  
  So much for a sleepy Columbus Day on Wall Street. Stocks weren't doing much Monday morning but took a nasty turn lower in the afternoon following stark comments from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who warned that the United States is likely to enter a recession within the next six to nine months.
  
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• Los Angeles City Council president Nury Martinez resigns after racist-fueled leaked audio

  10-10-2022 22:04
  
  Los Angeles official Nury Martinez has resigned after leaked audio revealed her spewing racist remarks about a fellow council member's Black son.      
  
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• 21-Year-Old College Soccer Player Found Dead in His Dorm Room

  10-10-2022 21:28
  After being found unresponsive on Saturday, a junior at a small Pennsylvania college was pronounced dead, but the cause of his death had not been determined Monday.
  Andrew Ruehlicke, 21, a junior at York College in York, Pennsylvania, was found in his dorm room on Saturday, according to WGAL-TV in Lancaster.
  The New Jersey native was part of York College’s Spartans’ men’s soccer team and was a sport management major and finance minor, the York Dispatch reported.
  “We are d
  
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• 2 from sunken boat fend off sharks during rescue

  10-10-2022 21:16
  The Coast Guard says two people from a sunken fishing boat were fending off sharks in the Gulf of Mexico when a crew rescued them and one other person. (Oct. 10)      
  
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• Listen: Hunter Biden Begs Hallie for Money Like a Child for 4 Minutes Straight: 'Give It to My Dad'

  10-10-2022 21:05
  First son Hunter Biden can be heard begging his brother’s widow — and his own lover — for financial resources in a bizarre new audio clip obtained from the infamous “laptop from hell.”
  The recording was reported Saturday by the New York Post. It was published to YouTube on Monday.
  Hunter began a romantic relationship with his sister-in-law Hallie Biden after his brother Beau Biden’s death in 2015. When the relationship started, he was still married to his now-
  
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• Economy-Crippling Strike Back on the Table After Rail Union Rejects Deal Biden Bragged About Brokering

  10-10-2022 21:00
  The third largest railroad union rejected its deal with freight railroads Monday — renewing the possibility of a strike that could cripple the economy — but before that could happen both sides will return to the bargaining table.
  About 56 percent of the track maintenance workers represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union who voted were opposed to the five-year contract even though it included 24 percent raises and $5,000 in bonuses.
  Union President T
  
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• How do you grow a giant pumpkin? 75 gallons of water daily and hand-pollination, NY man says

  10-10-2022 20:49
  
  New York resident Todd Kogut shares the "emotional rollercoaster" of growing a giant 6-foot pumpkin and how he did it.      
  
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• Lee County Sheriff uses drones to survey damage, spot looters

  10-10-2022 20:33
  
  The Lee County Sheriff's Office said it is using drones across the southwest Florida county in the wake of Hurricane Ian.      
  
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• PayPal Suffers Painful Financial Consequences After 'Misinformation' Policy 'Error' Sparks Outrage

  10-10-2022 20:31
  After PayPal sent out a new policy that announced large fines for users who spread “misinformation,” the online payment company’s stock took a tumble on Monday.
  In the midst of heavy criticism, the company claimed the new policy was sent out “in error.”
  PayPal had updated its acceptable use policy effective Nov. 3, Mediaite reported Saturday.
  The new AUP prohibited users from “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials that, in
  
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• Trump Warns We're Risking World War III: 'Stupid People' Don't Have a Clue

  10-10-2022 20:21
  Former President Donald Trump has become increasingly worried about the war between Russia and Ukraine fearing that it can all too easily spin out of control and pull the rest of the world into a terrible world war.
  At a Saturday rally in Minden, Nevada, Trump spoke about Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine and noted that he fears a worse conflagration if Ukraine does not at least try to negotiate with Russia.
  Trump was in Nevada stumping for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt,
  
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• $4 gas could be coming — again

  10-10-2022 20:20 via cnn.com
  
  Here's the bad news first: Gas prices are on the rise in most of the US and could soon hit a national average of $4 a gallon for the first time in two months.
  
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• 3 US-based economists given Nobel Prize

  10-10-2022 20:01
  This year's Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and two other U.S.-based economists. (Oct. 10)      
  
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• New York asks appeals court to keep restrictive gun law in effect

  10-10-2022 19:56 via cnn.com
  
  The state of New York on Monday asked an appeals court to allow a restrictive gun law to remain in effect as it appeals a decision by a federal judge that temporarily blocked parts of the measure.
  
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• Watch: You Won't Believe the Size of this Avalanche - 30 Tents Wiped Out, Miraculous Survival Reported

  10-10-2022 19:34
  Somehow, they all survived.
  It’s a miracle, watching the video. In Nepal, a massive avalanche hit a base camp at Manaslu, the eighth-highest mountain in the world. In just a few seconds, a massive cloud of snow enveloped more than 30 tents.
  A 23-second clip on YouTube shows the snow barreling down the mountain on Oct. 2.
  As the cloud reached the camp, numerous individuals were scrambling to find shelter amid the tents.
  “Inside,” one person said, then more urgently: “Insid
  
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• Pakistan floods cause damage to infrastructure

  10-10-2022 19:21
  Floods have caused huge damage to the infrastructure of Pakistan with bridges, hotels, dams, and other structures being swept away (Oct 10).      
  
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• 60+ High School Football Players Get Baptized Together: 'God's on My Side'

  10-10-2022 18:59
  No matter how the Mattie T. Blount High School Leopards perform on the football field this year, they’ve already won — in the eyes of God, at least.
  That’s because the team doesn’t just have coaches and players in the locker room. The Alabama school, located in the Mobile-area community of Eight Mile, also has Pastor Wesley Davis in there. Thanks to his efforts and God’s grace, over 60 players on the squad have been baptized, and more are being led to the Lord.
  Davi
  
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• LA City Council president issues apology after making racist remarks in leaked audio

  10-10-2022 18:52 via cnn.com
  
  Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez is apologizing after making racist remarks toward a fellow council member and his Black child.
  
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• Lauren Boebert Publicly Tricks Leftists into Completely Mocking Biden's Gaffe

  10-10-2022 18:45
  Fiery Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert cast her net into the deep blue liberal sea over the weekend to haul in some of the best and brightest the left has to offer.
  And the results were predictable.
  Boebert was playing off the most recent, high-profile gaffe by President Joe Biden. During a speech to autoworkers Friday in Hagerstown, Maryland, Biden said:  “Let me start off with two words: ‘Made in America.'”
  Of course, given Biden’s obvious cognitive decline,
  
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• GOP Candidate Blasts Outlet for 'Illegally' Using Sexual Assault Trauma for Smear Campaign

  10-10-2022 18:38
  Politico’s profile of Indiana GOP congressional candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green began as so many lazy profile pieces do: with an overly detailed anecdote from the politician’s interview.
  “Three thousand feet above Indiana’s 1st Congressional District, Jennifer-Ruth Green guided the yoke of a 1979 Piper Warrior through a cloud-etched sky, a steely blue Lake Michigan sunning on the horizon,” Adam Wren’s Friday piece began.
  “’I feel more peaceful, you k
  
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• Company Abandoned Huge California Building Project in Favor of 'Less Politically Dysfunctional' African Nation

  10-10-2022 18:32
  A French state-owned railway company tried to build a high-speed railway in California but abandoned the project in 2011 and chose to build a railway in Morocco instead as it deemed the nation “less politically dysfunctional,” according to The New York Times.
  The Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF) worked in California to build a high-speed rail system from Los Angeles to San Francisco but faced difficulties due to disputes over the railway&rsquo
  
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• Trump-Backed Republican Candidate Surges to Within Touching Distance of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer

  10-10-2022 18:23
  Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon has narrowed the polling gap with Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan by over 30 points since May, per a new survey released on Sunday.
  The poll shows Dixon behind Whitmer by 6 percent, garnering 47 percent to her 53 percent support, per YouGov Research, which conducted the survey for CBS News. The single-digit margin is significantly narrower than earlier in the year when some polls showed Whitmer in the lead by as much as 37 percent.
  The
  
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• Former Mississippi Gov. subpoenaed for his texts with Brett Favre about a drug company

  10-10-2022 18:21 via cnn.com
  
  Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has again been subpoenaed amid an ongoing civil suit in a multimillion-dollar welfare fraud scandal, and this time attorneys want to see communications between the ex-governor and former NFL and Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre.
  
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• Kari Lake Vows to Declare Southern Border Crisis an Invasion: 'We're Going to Invoke Our Article One'

  10-10-2022 18:19
  The Republican gubernatorial nominee for the state of Arizona renewed her promise Sunday to declare an invasion at the U.S. border between Mexico and Arizona if she’s elected.
  Kari Lake told Major Garrett on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that she would do what President Joe Biden’s administration is failing to do to protect the citizens of her state.
  Garrett, who went on to interview Lake’s opponent later in the show, asked Lake to explain to viewers the “lega
  
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• Of Course It's Him - Action Star Set to Be First Actor to Shoot Movie in Outer Space

  10-10-2022 18:10
  Tom Cruise’s latest film project is out of this world — literally.
  The Hollywood superstar is on track to become the first actor to shoot a movie in outer space, according to Donna Langley, the chairwoman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.
  Langley told BBC News last week that her studio is developing a film with Cruise that will involve him taking a rocket to the International Space Station.
  “I think Tom Cruise is taking us to space, he’s taking the world to space,&
  
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• Man allegedly assaulted flight crew after taking hallucinogen, affidavit says

  10-10-2022 18:08 via cnn.com
  
  A passenger who allegedly took psilocybin -- the hallucinogenic chemical found in certain mushrooms -- before boarding a United Airlines flight in Miami last week was arrested after allegedly assaulting two members of the flight crew.
  
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• Dozens of NFL Fans Leave Stadium and Discover They've Been the Victims of Crime: 'It Was Pretty Shocking'

  10-10-2022 17:46
  While fans watched the New Orleans Saints secure a hometown win over the Seattle Seahawks, criminals were scoring multiple prizes by smashing into the cars of fans parked in a nearby lot.
  Station WDSU reported that multiple fans experienced car break-ins at one lot.
  “The Saints won, which was great, but yeah, it was pretty shocking,” said Bennett Porche, who was among the victims.
  “We walked up to the parking lot. We saw a bunch of police vehicles here, and we came to our vehic
  
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• Electric Vehicle Manufacturer Forced to Recall Nearly All of Its Vehicles - Stock Price Plummets

  10-10-2022 17:33
  A California-based electric car maker’s stock tumbled Monday upon the heels of a Friday announcement that the company was recalling almost all of the vehicles it has produced this year.
  The Rivian Automotive recall focused on a loose nut on the vehicles’ front suspension, according to CNN.
  Rivian said that no injuries have been reported and that the flaw can be fixed quickly.
  However, the recall damaged the Amazon-backed company to the point where its stock had dropped almost 10 perc
  
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• AP Top Stories October 10 A

  10-10-2022 17:29
  Here's the latest for Monday October 10th: Germany promises to help repair Ukraine's infrastructure following Russian strikes; Volcano erupts on Italian island; Doctors in Haiti battle possible cholera outbreak; Date festival held in Egypt.      
  
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• What Indigenous Peoples' Day means to Native Americans

  10-10-2022 17:19 via cnn.com
  For centuries, the US celebrated Christopher Columbus as the intrepid explorer who discovered the Americas -- a symbol of the American ideals of entrepreneurship and innovation.
  
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• NFL Fans and Former Players Erupt After Tom Brady Is Gifted a Game-Changing Call That's Being Labelled 'The Worst of the Season'

  10-10-2022 17:09
  Many NFL fans were steamed over what they felt was a half-baked call that helped Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers seal a win over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium.
  The play in question took place late in the fourth quarter as Tampa Bay, leading 21-15, was facing a 3rd-and-5 situation. Quarterback Brady was sacked by Atlanta defensive lineman Grady Jarrett, which would have meant a fourth-down punt that would give the Falcons an opportunity to win the game.
  But th
  
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• Is Nancy Pelosi Delusional? Look What She Told Stephen Colbert

  10-10-2022 17:06
  If you were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and were asked on national television to forecast the results of the 2022 midterms, what would you do?
  Option One: Go with experts like FiveThirtyEight, who estimate a 70 percent chance that Republicans take control of the House, knowing that this prediction might demoralize your base voters, causing some of them to stay home from the polls and turning a poor result for your side into a disastrous one.
  Option Two: Make up something that will offer the true
  
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• Columbus Day and Indigenous People's Day 2022: Here's what's open and closed

  10-10-2022 17:03 via cnn.com
  
  Columbus Day, and now Indigenous People's Day, will be observed on Monday, October 10 this year, and while some will have the day off from work or school, others may wonder what errands they can run or what movies to see.
  
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• 'Crime Has Literally Made Its Way to Our Front Door': 2 People Shot in the Front Yard of GOP Gov Candidate

  10-10-2022 16:57
  The front yard of Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, who is running for governor of New York, became a crime scene Sunday after a drive-by shooting that took place near his Long Island home.
  Zeldin issued a statement on Twitter, in which he said, “Like so many New Yorkers, crime has literally made its way to our front door.”
  The incident took place outside Zeldin’s home in Shirley at about 2:20 p.m., according to Fox News.
  “My 16-year-old daughters, Mikayla and Arianna, were at
  
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• Hunter's Moon shines in October sky

  10-10-2022 16:41
  
  The hunter's moon, the first full moon of fall, delighted skywatchers on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022.      
  
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• Virginia Flight Instructor Dead at 23 After Student Pushes Her Plane Into Stall

  10-10-2022 16:32
  Viktoria Ljungman, a 23-year-old flight instructor in Virginia, died in an accident on Thursday after a student made a mistake and caused the plane to stall and crash, according to authorities.
  The Williamsburg woman was conducting flying lessons with two 18-year-old students on Thursday, WAVY-TV in Portsmouth reported.
  Oluwagbohunmi Oyebode of Hanover, Maryland, and the other young man were taking part in Hampton University’s aviation lessons. Both are students at the historically black u
  
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• How not to run out of money in retirement

  10-10-2022 16:16 via cnn.com
  
  No one wants to run out of money before they die.
  
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• In states where abortion is now outlawed, students ramp up activism

  10-10-2022 16:11
  University of South Dakota student groups work to change the state's near-total abortion ban and to find resources for people who may need them.      
  
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• Deadly Shooting Involving 10 Teens and 6 Guns Presents Major Headaches for Authorities

  10-10-2022 15:48
  From the start, the case stemming from the drive-by shooting death of a 15-year-old boy near a Des Moines high school has been among the most complex prosecutions ever in Iowa’s capital city, involving 10 teenagers, six guns and at least 42 fired bullets.
  Plea agreements from several defendants have simplified things a bit, but as frequent hearings continue with trials likely beginning in March 2023, the cases remain tangled as attorneys try to shift blame over who fired the shots, who pla
  
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• Hand grenades labeled 'explosive' washing ashore along central Oregon coastline

  10-10-2022 15:42
  
  The devices washing ashore in Newport, Oregon, are white and have a label attached to them that reads "Warning Explosive," police say.      
  
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• White-collar workers are feeling the brunt of the Fed's rate hikes. Here's why

  10-10-2022 15:41 via cnn.com
  
  September's hotly anticipated jobs data ended up cooling markets on Friday. Stocks fell sharply as investors evaluated the report, which showed more jobs than expected were added to the US economy and indicated that more pain-inflicting interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve lie ahead.
  
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• White-collar workers are feeling the brunt of the Fed's rate hikes

  10-10-2022 15:41 via cnn.com
  
  September's hotly anticipated jobs data ended up cooling markets on Friday. Stocks fell sharply as investors evaluated the report, which showed more jobs than expected were added to the US economy and indicated that more pain-inflicting interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve lie ahead.
  
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