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• Dem Ex-Mayor Defends Pleading Guilty to Child Porn Charge by Saying - 'You Know, We Make Mistakes'

  11-10-2022 23:53
  Dennis “Denny” Doyle, former Democratic mayor of Beaverton, Oregon, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography Tuesday, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
  The 73-year-old man possessed digital media containing child pornography, including images of children under age 12 who were known victims of sexual exploitation, according to the DOJ.
  His sentencing is scheduled for January 2023, and he could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, a $
  
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• Dems Scared to Bring Attention to 'Sensitive Topic' 12 Days After Election: 'The Plan Is ... to Downplay'

  11-10-2022 23:40
  Joe Biden’s age, like inflation during his presidency, just keeps going up.
  In just over a month — less than two weeks after the midterm elections that are going to define the rest of his term — Biden will turn 80, making him the oldest American president in history.
  And White House aides are already trying to scheme out fittings ways not to mark the occasion.
  In an unusually honest report Tuesday, the Beltway news outfit Politico brought word that the Biden circle is “ke
  
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• Biden believes L.A. council members who took part in racist conversation should 'step down,' press secretary says

  11-10-2022 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday that President Joe Biden believes that all Los Angeles City Council members who took part in a racist conversation uncovered this week should all "step down."
  
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• Nike Co-Founder Breaks Mold Set by His Company, Gives Democrat Vying for Governor's Mansion an Ugly Surprise

  11-10-2022 23:17
  With only a month to go until Election Day, billionaire entrepreneur Phil Knight, co-founder of sportswear giant Nike, has shocked everyone by donating $1 million to Christine Drazan, the Republican running for governor of Oregon.
  The million-dollar donation to the Republican comes after Knight’s previous donation of $3.75 million to former Democratic Oregon Rep. Betsy Johnson, who jumped in as an independent to run against Dem. candidate Tina Kotek and Republican Drazan, according to KGW.
  
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• Ex-NBA Star Arrested at Airport After Allegedly Striking Son, 10, So Hard He Was Taken to Hospital

  11-10-2022 22:55
  Former NBA player Ben Gordon was arrested Monday at LaGuardia airport after allegedly hitting his son in the head with a closed fist.
  Gordon’s 10-year-old son was reportedly taken to Long Island Jewish Children’s Hospital by an aunt after the incident and Port Authority police barred Gordon from boarding his plane to Chicago, the New York Post reported.
  The Post also reported that law enforcement handcuffed Gordon.
  Gordon also allegedly resisted arrest, TMZ reported.
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• Dem Consultant Caught Red-Handed in 2020 Election Coercion Scheme - 'This Was a Threat'

  11-10-2022 22:35
  A conviction has been handed down to a Democratic consultant charged with attempting to coerce a public official, a scheme designed to influence the results of a legislative race in Harris County, Texas.
  According to KTRK-TV, Damien Jones sent threatening text messages to then-state Rep. Gina Calanni in an attempt to convince her not to seek re-election.
  The threats were made in December 2019, just days before the 2020 filing deadline for prospective Texas candidates.
  Jones’ trial lasted t
  
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• Bolduc raises unsubstantiated possibility of 2022 election impropriety ahead of New Hampshire Senate contest

  11-10-2022 22:01 via cnn.com
  
  New Hampshire Senate nominee Don Bolduc, a Republican who has pushed the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen, raised the unsubstantiated prospect that the same could happen in 2022 during an interview with a radio host in New Hampshire on Monday.
  
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• 'Murder, She Wrote' Actress Angela Lansbury Dies at 96

  11-10-2022 21:53
  Angela Lansbury, the big-eyed, scene-stealing British actress who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died. She was 96.
  Lansbury died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from her three children. She died five days shy of her 97th birthday.
  Lansbury won five Tony Awards for her Broadway perform
  
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• Horse That Disappeared for 8 Years Finally Makes It Back Home: 'He Acts Like Nothing Ever Happened'

  11-10-2022 21:43
  When Shane Adams was out camping in Utah eight years ago, he had no idea that the trip would result in his beloved horse following the call of the wild.
  It was a frosty spring morning in the West Desert when a herd of wild horses passed by. Adams’ horse, Mongo, was tied up outside the tent — but as soon as Mongo heard his wild cousins, he started trying to break free, KUTV reported.
  Realizing what was happening, a half-dressed Adams got out of his tent as quickly as possible, but he
  
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• Racist remarks by L.A. politician overshadow years of work toward solidarity between Black and Latino communities, experts say

  11-10-2022 21:27 via cnn.com
  
  Nury Martinez resigned Monday as president of the Los Angeles City Council after she made disdainful and racist comments about the Black child of a fellow councilmember.
  
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• Hero Mother Brutally Mauled while Trying to Save Toddler and Baby from Family Dogs

  11-10-2022 21:23
  The Bennard family from Shelby County, Tennessee, suffered a devastating blow Oct. 6 when their two dogs fatally attacked the family’s 2-year-old and 5-month-old.
  The dogs, two pit bulls named Cheech and Mia, turned on Hollace Dean, 5 months old, and Lilly Jane, 2, for no discernable reason.
  Mom Kirstie Jane Bennard, 30, gave her all to protect her children, using herself as a shield to try to protect Lilly Jane and receiving countless lacerations in the process, according to USA Today.
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• Fact check: Herschel Walker's false and misleading recent claims

  11-10-2022 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for the US Senate in Georgia, has run a campaign littered with false and misleading claims.
  
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• '6-9 months': JPMorgan CEO Gives Serious Warning on Recession Outlook in the United States

  11-10-2022 20:51
  As inflation remains high and the Federal Reserve continues to hike interest rates, the CEO of the largest bank in America, Jamie Dimon, has predicted that the U.S. is just months away from a recession.
  Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, told CNBC News on Monday that Europe is already in a recession and the U.S. is likely to go down that same path in 2023.
  “These are very, very serious things which I think are likely to push the U.S. and the world — I mean, Europe is already in r
  
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• Baltimore prosecutors drop all charges against Adnan Syed, 'Serial' podcast subject

  11-10-2022 20:39 via cnn.com
  
  Baltimore prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against Adnan Syed, the man who spent over two decades behind bars for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee and whose murder case was featured in the landmark podcast "Serial."
  
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• Russian Citizens Arrive by Boat on Alaska Island Amid Mounting Tensions Between US and Russia

  11-10-2022 20:29
  Two Russian nationals were detained in Alaska last week after they landed on St. Lawrence Island in a boat.
  The island is located in the Bering Sea, not far from the border between the U.S. and Russia. These developments come amid rising tensions between the two great powers over the war in Ukraine.
  The Russian detainees were seized by U.S. authorities in the town of Gambell, a mere 40 or so miles from the Russian coast, according to the Anchorage Daily News. 
  They were handed over to feder
  
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• Johnny Depp Looks Unrecognizable as Fans Snap Selfies with Star in NYC

  11-10-2022 20:11
  Johnny Depp has been mostly out of the spotlight in the months since the end of the high-profile defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, but in one of his latest public appearances, he changed his look and was almost unrecognizable.
  Sporting a clean-shaven look, Depp took pictures with some fans over the weekend before his concert with rock guitarist Jeff Beck at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, the New York Post reported.
  “A glimpse of Johnny Depp meeting fans in N
  
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• This is the Power They Hold - Big Tech Company Wealthier than Whopping 80% of All Countries

  11-10-2022 19:56
  The 18th-century French philosopher Voltaire once said, “Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
  Few could argue in this day and age that what people believe doesn’t come down to access to information — information that is largely influenced by big tech and mainstream media.
  With this in mind, it is disturbing to find out that Apple, one of the largest tech companies to date, has an income that rivals most countries.
  The tech giant’s
  
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• 'Extensive Closures' of Abortion Clinics Undermine 1 of Planned Parenthood's Favorite Talking Points

  11-10-2022 19:38
  Abortion clinics quickly shut their doors as states passed abortion restrictions, casting doubt on the abortion industry’s long-running claims that abortions make up only a fraction of the services offered to women at clinics.
  Planned Parenthood has long claimed that abortion makes up only 3-4 percent of the services offered at its clinics, an argument echoed by others in the industry who euphemistically refer to abortions as “reproductive services” and abortion clinics as
  
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• Energy Analyst Says EV Adoption Will Hit Brick Wall as People Realize Charging Can Be as Expensive as Gas

  11-10-2022 18:57
  As President Joe Biden tries to force Americans to drive electric vehicles despite the lack of infrastructure to support them, one energy analyst says consumers are headed toward a very big pothole.
  Bill Cinnamon told The Center Square that EVs can be cheaper to operate than gas vehicles, but only if you pay attention to how you charge them.
  He also said consumer adoption of EVs will likely stall when drivers realize how expensive charging can be if you do it anywhere but at home.
  “If we t
  
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• Think the Dems' Chances Are Looking Up for Midterms? Think Again, ABC Reporter Says

  11-10-2022 18:53
  It’s the one midterm narrative the mainstream media outlets love.
  NBC News, Aug. 30: “Here are the signs Republicans’ hopes for a ‘red wave’ are receding ahead of the 2022 elections.” The Associated Press, Sept. 6: “Red wave crashing? GOP momentum slips as fall sprint begins.” Bloomberg, Sept. 8: “GOP Is on the Defense as Chances of a ‘Red Wave’ Fade.”
  You know the talking points: Biden got his preposterously named “In
  
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• Watch: Woman Exposes What Almost Five Years of Hormones Did to Her - 'Remember, I'm 21'

  11-10-2022 18:45
  The left has unapologetically celebrated the transgender movement in the United States, praising gender-confused individuals for their courage and passing policies to cement “gender identity” into our legal code, as well as our national discourse.
  Gender ideology, the idea that gender is a fluid construct, rather than an undeniable biological fact, has made its way into just about every part of our culture, from Hollywood films to public school curricula. And it is now making its way
  
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• 32 children and daycare employees are rushed to hospitals after a carbon monoxide leak

  11-10-2022 18:26 via cnn.com
  
  A mysterious carbon monoxide leak at a Pennsylvania daycare sent dozens of children and staff to hospitals Tuesday morning, Allentown officials said.
  
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• NFL Superstar Facing Suspension After His Postgame Flattening of a Photographer Is Caught on Camera

  11-10-2022 18:14
  A bit of post-game temper could be costly for Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams.
  As he left the field Monday night after the Raiders lost to the Kansas City Chiefs 30-29, Adams shoved a man carrying camera equipment to the ground.
  Video of the incident at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium shows the man awkwardly holding a large piece of equipment walk in front of Adams. Adams gave the man a two-handed push out of his way and continued to the locker room.Davante Adams was visibly
  
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• Alleged Thieves Start Shaking Violently as Fed-Up Residents Close Trap, Deliver Painful Lesson

  11-10-2022 18:05
  The problem with stealing a car’s catalytic converter — at least from the thief’s perspective — is that they’re trapped under the car when they’re removing the emissions-control devices.
  That was a problem for two alleged, would-be thieves in Turlock, California; a fed-up family that endured six prior theft attempts created a trap on Oct. 4, resulting in the burglars running off — and one heck of a viral video.
  According to Sacramento’s KXTV, the f
  
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• Ex-NYPD Chief Has Theory About the Nation's Spike in Crime - It's Been 'Politically Created'

  11-10-2022 17:53
  Left-wing district attorneys implementing policies such as bail reform bear significant responsibility for the nationwide spike in crime, former New York City police commissioner Bill Bratton argued.
  Many cities’ district attorneys sympathetic to “criminal justice reform” are releasing criminals who should be in jail, Bratton told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo in an interview aired Monday.
  Such cities have borne the brunt of the crime wave, thanks to bail reforms and other cri
  
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• J.K. Rowling Torches 'Certain Celebrities' Who Back Pedophile-Linked Kids' Charity

  11-10-2022 17:47
  Author J.K. Rowling has lambasted what she calls “certain celebrities” who supported a British charity that supports transgender individuals now that one former leader of the charity has been linked to a group that assists pedophiles.
  Rowling, the author of the “Harry Potter” series and other works, has been firm in her criticism of the transgender movement, saying that it is often unfair to women.
  Rowling was reacting to a report in the Times of London that Dr. Jacob Bre
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard Announces She's Leaving the Democratic Party After Biden Finally Goes Too Far

  11-10-2022 17:32
  After years in the Democratic Party, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has announced that she is leaving it because it is the party of the “powerful elite.”
  Gabbard made the announcement Tuesday and an explanation behind her decision on Twitter and also with the launch of her new YouTube series called “The Tulsi Gabbard Show,” ABC News reported.
  The first episode is a 28-minute explanation that she called “Why I’m leaving the Democratic Party.”
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• Superintendent Arrested After Crowd-Surfing at Football Game When Cops Realized Something Wasn't Right

  11-10-2022 17:32
  A New York school district placed its superintendent on administrative leave after students reported that while he was crowd-surfing on them during a homecoming game Friday, they smelled alcohol on him.
  Baldwinsville Central School District Superintendent Jason Thomson was arrested on Friday after students tipped off the school resource officer that he “smelled of alcohol,” according to a Baldwinsville Police Department press conference. Thompson, hired in 2021, was arrested on his w
  
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• Students protest University of Florida presidential finalist Ben Sasse's visit to school

  11-10-2022 17:16 via cnn.com
  
  Students at the University of Florida protested the visit of Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska -- the likely new president of the university -- to the school Monday.
  
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• White House says Biden will work with Congress to 're-evaluate' relationship with Saudi Arabia

  11-10-2022 17:12 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden feels that the US' relationship with Saudi Arabia needs to be re-evaluated in the wake of the OPEC+ decision last week to decrease oil production, a National Security Council spokesman said .
  
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• Army Pilot Reluctantly Gets Vaccine and Then the Real Trouble Started - He May Never Be Able to Fly Again

  11-10-2022 17:09
  Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brandon Budge never said he wouldn’t get a COVID vaccine, though he did question whether the Pentagon’s mandate that he do so was legal and looked into a possible religious exemption from it.
  Now, after an allegedly botched military investigation — and after he got the shot — his military career may be coming to a premature conclusion, according to statements from his wife and an attorney representing her.
  Budge has already been reprimanded and bee
  
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• Elizabeth Warren's Indigenous Peoples' Day Message Backfires: 'Maybe Sit This One Out'

  11-10-2022 16:50
  Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was hilariously trolled on Twitter for promoting Indigenous Peoples’ Day in lieu of Columbus Day.
  In a tone-deaf tweet Monday, Warren — who famously claimed she was Native American — urged everyone to “celebrate the contributions, the extraordinary resilience, and the rich cultures of tribal nations and Native communities.”On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we celebrate the contributions, the extraordinary resilience, and the r
  
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• Tens of thousands likely jobless after Hurricane Ian, economists say

  11-10-2022 16:43 via cnn.com
  
  Hurricane Ian's devastating impact will be felt for weeks and months to come, especially in the state of Florida where much of the storm's damage was sustained. Economists say tens of thousands of people are likely to file for unemployment benefits in the storm's wake, but if those workers — many in low-paying service sector industries like tourism — don't come back, the local economies of some hard-hit areas could struggle to rebound.
  
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• 'The worst is yet to come': IMF issues stark recession warning

  11-10-2022 16:39 via cnn.com
  
  The International Monetary Fund has once again downgraded its forecast for the global economy with a sharp warning: "The worst is yet to come, and for many people 2023 will feel like a recession."
  
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• NFL Fans Mercilessly Boo Kim Kardashian as She Blows Kisses from Private Suite at Rams Game

  11-10-2022 16:38
  Kim Kardashian’s cameo appearance on the Jumbotron at Sunday’s Los Angeles Rams game drew a chorus of boos.
  The reality TV star’s appearance followed a shot of John Legend, whose appearance did not elicit anywhere nearly the same reaction from the SoFi Stadium fans, according to the New York Post. The Kardashian video went viral, the Post reported.
  As boos echoed, Kardashian smiled, waved and blew a kiss at the camera.Kim Kardashian was just booed at SoFi Stadium during #Cowboy
  
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• Biden Ditching Presidential Speaking Tradition in Hopes of Avoiding Blunders and Stutter

  11-10-2022 16:37
  Whenever the president travels, a special bullet-resistant lectern called the “blue goose,” or its smaller cousin “the falcon,” is in tow. Lately, President Joe Biden is rendering them all but obsolete as he increasingly reaches for a hand-held microphone instead.
  From casual fundraisers to more formal remarks on disaster response or inflation or the like, Biden has opted for a hand-gripped mic more than a dozen times in recent months — even when he’s standing
  
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• ABC News Journalist: Looking Bad for Dems in Midterms, Close Polling Means Republican Win

  11-10-2022 16:32
  ABC News national correspondent Terry Moran said Sunday that the Democrats’ election prospects are not looking good less than a month before the midterms.
  He added that close polling should be no comfort to Democrats given how Republicans have been under-surveyed in recent election cycles.
  ABC News “This Week” host Martha Raddatz noted Democrats had been fairly hopeful in the summer as polling swung in their direction. “Do you still get that sense?” she asked Moran.
  
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• 'Eye-opening' report shows where America's maternity care is lacking -- and putting women at risk

  11-10-2022 16:14 via cnn.com
  
  About 36% of all US counties are "maternity care deserts," and the number of counties where there is limited or no access to maternity care appears to be growing, according to a new report.
  
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• 36% of US counties are 'maternity care deserts,' report finds

  11-10-2022 16:14 via cnn.com
  
  About 36% of all US counties are "maternity care deserts," and the number of counties where there is limited or no access to maternity care appears to be growing, according to a new report.
  
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• San Antonio Police chief says charges coming for officer who shot 17-year-old at McDonald's parking lot

  11-10-2022 16:13 via cnn.com
  
  The police shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old eating in his car at a McDonald's parking lot last week was "not justified" and authorities expect to file criminal charges against the officer by the end of the week, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Tuesday.
  
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• Police chief says charges coming for officer who shot 17-year-old in McDonald's parking lot

  11-10-2022 16:13 via cnn.com
  
  The police shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old eating in his car at a McDonald's parking lot last week was "not justified" and authorities expect to file criminal charges against the officer by the end of the week, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Tuesday.
  
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• Prosecutors Announce Whether They Will Recharge Suspect from 'Serial' Podcast Case

  11-10-2022 16:08
  A prosecutor on Tuesday apologized to Adnan Syed and the family of Hae Min Lee after announcing that her office would not retry Syed for Lee’s 1999 killing.
  Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for the city of Baltimore, said her office would continue to pursue justice for Lee but that it had closed its case against Syed, who spent 23 years in prison for the killing.
  “This case is over. There are no more appeals necessary,” Mosby said during a news conference.
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• Tucker Carlson Shreds FBI for Raid on Anti-Abortion Activist: 'Pro-Lifers ... Are Now Terrorists'

  11-10-2022 15:38
  Paul Vaughn doesn’t sound like the kind of guy who gets raided by the FBI.
  He’s not some despondent, loner-ish chemical engineering grad cooking up ricin in the basement or a mid-level drug runner. He’s a 55-year-old former pastor with a wife and 11 children who now runs a small business in Tennessee.
  But, as Fox News’ Tucker Carlson noted in his opening monologue on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Monday, he’s exactly the kind of person President Joe Biden&
  
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• 'Journalist' Calls Child Protective Services Because of a Single Columbus Day Tweet from Republican Candidate

  11-10-2022 15:27
  Apparently, I was abused as a child by practically every one of my public school teachers and I never even knew it.
  According to what appears to be the left’s new standard of what constitutes child abuse, however, it’s a wonder I made it through alive.
  David Leavitt, the self-described “Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist” whose pinned tweet consists of four Ukrainian soldiers with cats, contacted what he called the “Virginia State hotline for child abuse,” bu
  
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• Holiday sales are everywhere. Here's when you should buy

  11-10-2022 14:33 via cnn.com
  
  It's only October, but holiday shopping promotions are here with retailers bringing out the Christmas trees, turning on the holiday music and dangling sales from now until January.
  
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• GOP surrogates to rally for Georgia's Herschel Walker in show of unyielding national party support

  11-10-2022 14:28 via cnn.com
  
  The Republican cavalry is riding into Georgia on Tuesday for Senate nominee Herschel Walker, whose campaign was rocked last week by allegations the former football star -- who supports a national abortion ban without exceptions -- twice asked an ex-girlfriend to have the procedure and paid for it on the occasion she did.
  
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• Five takeaways from Ohio's US Senate debate

  11-10-2022 14:17 via cnn.com
  
  The debate between Democrat Tim Ryan and Republican J.D. Vance in Ohio's closer-than-expected Senate contest began with a testy exchange on the economy and quickly devolved from there into a contentious -- and at times personal -- clash.
  
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• Accused Waukesha Christmas parade killer questions victims while defending himself in trial

  11-10-2022 14:15 via cnn.com
  
  Accused Christmas parade attack killer Darrell Brooks on Monday began to cross-examine some of the victims prosecutors say he rammed and ran over with his SUV as he drove through the crowd last November in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
  
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• Graphic Warning: Black Man Protects Elderly Asian from Black Carjacker - Unconfirmed Footage

  11-10-2022 14:14
  WARNING: The following video contains graphic language that some viewers will find offensive.
  They say that the best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. And while there are a lot of questions regarding the people and actions in this video, it appears to demonstrate a similar principle.
  We don’t know when the video was taken — TheBlaze says it was “reportedly filmed in April,” but we’re not sure where that information came from.
  Here’s what
  
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• Biden's Bizarre 'Where's Jackie' Gaffe May Be Final Nail in the Coffin for 2024 Run

  11-10-2022 14:10
  I’d come to the conclusion, in the months preceding the 2020 election, that Joe Biden was immune to the things that dropped from his mouth.
  I knew this because I’d seen the campaign unfold in real time as part of my job and saw almost every gaffe. I heard him assure an audience in Iowa that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” and tell America during a debate that the way to solve institutional segregation was leaving “the record player
  
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