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• RSV is sending kids to hospitals. Many doctors say there aren't enough beds.

  14-10-2022 23:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Doctors in five states reported that their hospital capacity was strained due to an influx of RSV patients. The respiratory virus most severely impacts babies.
  
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• Truck Driver Sees Tesla Semi for the First Time, Instantly Disappointed Over What Was Behind It

  14-10-2022 23:43
  This is a big story.
  Or not.
  I’ll report; you decide.
  It involves the tractor unit of a Tesla Semi, Tesla’s 18-wheeler over-the-road battery-powered electric truck, apparently involved in a mishap with a conventional 18-wheeler.
  A trucker and YouTuber known as Serge the Car Hauler spotted the Tesla Semi tractor parked on the side of a freeway ramp with a Tesla service vehicle behind it and the nearby conventional tractor-trailer rig with a heavy-duty tow truck behind it.In posting a
  
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• Judge drops 1 of 5 charges against Trump-Russia dossier source, in blow to special counsel Durham

  14-10-2022 23:40 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge on Friday threw out one of five charges against Igor Danchenko, the primary source of the Trump-Russia dossier, in a major setback for special counsel John Durham's investigation.
  
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• Mother Horrified to Learn Son's Death Is Scheduled in Two Weeks After Skimming Through His Email

  14-10-2022 23:10
  A mother in Canada was horrified when she discovered that her son had made an appointment to kill himself with the help of a doctor.
  The incident shines a light on how Canada’s assisted suicide program has spun entirely out of control.
  On Sept. 7, Toronto resident Margaret Marsilla logged in to her 23-year-old son’s email account and discovered that he had applied for permission from the Canadian government to be killed. A doctor had approved the request and scheduled the murder for
  
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• Hurricane Ian brings renewed focus to 'life and death' struggle for prisoners during a disaster

  14-10-2022 23:03
  
  In the wake of disasters, including Hurricane Ian in Florida, advocates say people in jails and prisons further suffer from unsanitary conditions.      
  
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• Florida Home That Survived Hurricane Burns to the Ground from EV: 'A Ticking Time Bomb'

  14-10-2022 22:10
  After surviving Hurricane Ian, some homes in Florida are facing a new danger: electric vehicles catching fire due to their batteries being corroded by the floods.
  State Rep. Bob Rommel and state Fire Marshal Jim Patronis have been particularly vocal about the threat of EV fires in the aftermath of the hurricane.
  Rommel tweeted on Monday about a house that had managed to outlast the hurricane, but couldn’t survive the EV fire that later started in the garage.
  “This house survived Hurr
  
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• 'He's a Hero': 'Yu-Gi-Oh!' Creator Drowns Trying to Save Mother and Daughter

  14-10-2022 22:09
  Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of “Yu-Gi-Oh!,” a manga that became a worldwide phenomenon, reportedly gave his life earlier this year while trying to save a mother and daughter trapped in a rip tide.
  Initial reports said that Takahashi had died in a snorkeling accident, but a report from a military publication recently gave some more heartbreaking details that reveal that Takahashi didn’t just die; he apparently died a hero.
  On July 4, the 60-year-old author and illustrator was
  
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• 5 dead, including a police officer, in North Carolina shooting; suspect arrested, authorities say

  14-10-2022 22:02
  
  An off-duty police officer and 4 other people were killed after a shooting in Raleigh, North Carolina, officials said Thursday.      
  
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• Rescued fishermen speak about ordeal in Gulf

  14-10-2022 21:56
  Two men rescued from the Gulf of Mexico after their fishing boat sank, spoke with The Associated Press Thursday. The men spent more than 24 hours in the water before help came. (Oct. 14)      
  
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• Fake Meat Company 'Beyond Meat' Announces Mass Layoffs, Departure of 3 Executives

  14-10-2022 21:43
  Plant-based meat-substitute manufacturer Beyond Meat has announced a new round of layoffs in the wake of declining sales, according to news reports.
  Several top executives have also left the company, including Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey, who was suspended in September after reportedly biting a man’s nose and threatening that he would kill him.
  The new cuts come only two months after the company laid off about 40 of its 1,100 workers in August, Bloomberg reported. The news outlet a
  
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• Democrat Senator And Congressman Accused Of Meddling In Israeli Politics

  14-10-2022 21:10
  Pro-Israel organizations in the U.S. are privately voicing their concerns that two Democrat government officials may have meddled in Israeli politics. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), recently called on opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu to reject forming a coalition with controversial right-wing Member of Knesset, Itamar Ben-Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, should he win next month’s election. With just weeks to go until elections, this was viewed as a
  
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• Trump operative seen on video in Ga. voting system breach testifies before grand jury

  14-10-2022 21:09 via cnn.com
  
  • Key takeaways from the new Jan. 6 footage
  
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• Exclusive: Trump operative seen on video in Ga. voting system breach testifies before grand jury

  14-10-2022 21:09 via cnn.com
  
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• Robbie Coltrane, actor who played the beloved Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, dies at 72

  14-10-2022 20:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Venerable Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, best known as the dragon-loving half-giant Hagrid from the "Harry Potter" film franchise, died on Friday, his
  
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• Suspect, 15, taken into custody after 5 shot dead, 2 injured in Raleigh neighborhood, North Carolina officials say

  14-10-2022 20:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 15-year-old suspect was taken into custody after a "long standoff" with police in connection with a shooting that killed five people and left two others injured Thursday evening in Raleigh, North Carolina, officials said.
  
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• College Football Player Disappears from Field for 2 Games, Then Coach Announces He's Been Hospitalized

  14-10-2022 20:19
  The starting punter for the University of Northern Iowa ended up in the hospital after fighting what he thought was cold. He is now said to be in “critically stable” condition.
  The punter, Cael Loecher, missed two games before it was reported that he was in the hospital battling illness, Iowa radio station KCRR reported.
  Jim Nelson, a reporter for the The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, tweeted about Loecher’s illness and hospitalization on Oct. 8.
  “Can confirm that Norther
  
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• Marsalis joins forces with Michigan Marching Band

  14-10-2022 19:51
  Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are joining forces with the University of Michigan's marching band for a performance at Saturday's football game (Oct. 14)(AP video: Mike Householder)      
  
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• Miami-Dade County Messes with the Wrong Christian, Gets Hit with Federal Lawsuit

  14-10-2022 19:42
  A Christian man and former public employee in Miami-Dade County, Florida, has filed a federal lawsuit against the county’s board of commissioners, alleging religious discrimination over mandated re-education training after he expressed personal opinions in his own free time about the insanity that is the U.S. Congress’ “Equality Act.”
  This is the kind of story you really need to wake up and pay attention to if you have any desire to see religious liberty (and thus, all li
  
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• Flu off to an early start as CDC warns about potentially severe season

  14-10-2022 19:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  Has flu season started? Reports of flu and other respiratory illnesses are higher than what would normally be seen in the U.S. this time of year, the CDC said.
  
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• Ukraine Ambassador Tells Elon Musk to 'F*** Off,' Clearly Doesn't Realize What He's Just Done to His Country

  14-10-2022 19:27
  Ukraine has quickly devolved into a bottomless money pit for the countless nations and corporations that have been bankrolling its war against Russia.
  On Friday, billionaire Elon Musk hilariously trolled a pro-Ukraine reporter who tweeted that SpaceX may no longer be able to supply its Starlink satellite internet terminals free to Ukraine due to the prohibitive costs of operating them.
  In response to the Kiev Post correspondent’s tweet noting that the move “comes days after Ukrainian
  
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• Young Suspect in Custody After Shooting Spree Leaves Casualties Along 2-Mile Stretch in Raleigh

  14-10-2022 19:14
  Five people were shot and killed in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday evening.
  A 15-year-old suspect was taken into custody, The News & Observer reported.
  Along with the five who were killed (one of whom was an off-duty police officer), two other individuals were hospitalized with injuries.
  The suspect began shooting on the streets of a local neighborhood around 5 p.m. and continued for about two miles, Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said, according to WTVD-TV.
  He was arrested aro
  
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• Liz Truss is in big trouble after her biggest U-turn yet

  14-10-2022 19:04 via cnn.com
  
  Liz Truss has sacrificed her finance minister and closest political ally just weeks into her premiership in order to save her own skin. 
  
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• Abrams Claims She Never Denied Outcome of '18 Election, So GOP Finds 35 Times She Did

  14-10-2022 19:02
  Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams recently said she “never denied” that she lost her 2018 race to Republican Brian Kemp, but the GOP found at least 35 times that she did.
  Abrams is running against Kemp again in this year’s governor’s contest.
  Appearing on ABC’s “The View” last month, Abrams said, “I have never denied that I lost. I don’t live in the governor’s mansion. I would have noticed.”
  She acknowledged
  
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• Truss appoints Hunt to take over from Kwarteng

  14-10-2022 18:56
  Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss sacked her Treasury chief on Friday and reversed course on sweeping tax cuts as she tried to hang on to her job after weeks of financial turmoil. (Oct. 14)      
  
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• This Wasn't a Random Civilian: We Finally Know Who Was in Car Obliterated by Crimean Bridge Blast

  14-10-2022 18:56
  A well-known Russian judge known for being “independent-minded and incorruptible” was one of at least four people killed in the Oct. 8 explosion on the Kerch Bridge that links Russia to Crimea, according to news reports.
  Sergey Maslov, 42, a judge of the Moscow Arbitration Court, was in a Cadillac Escalade with three others when the explosion occurred, according to the U.K. Mirror. Maslov “had investigated family members of Putin’s cronies as well as energy company Gazpro
  
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• Man who sold $20 million in counterfeit military gear to US gets 40 months in prison

  14-10-2022 18:54
  
  A Brooklyn businessman who sold $20 million of Chinese-made counterfeit military uniforms and gear to the U.S. government was sentenced to prison.      
  
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• Dolly Parton awarded medal for philanthropy

  14-10-2022 18:51
  Dolly Parton proudly accepted the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy at Gotham Hall Thursday night for her book-giving charity Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. (Oct. 14) (AP Video: Robert Bumsted)      
  
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• Indiana Catholic school teacher's 'kill list' included at least one student, officials say

  14-10-2022 18:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  An Indiana Catholic school teacher was arrested on Thursday after officials said they found she kept a "kill list" and threatened her students, according to NBC Chicago.
  
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• Two of the largest supermarkets in America are merging

  14-10-2022 18:41 via cnn.com
  
  Kroger announced it's merging with Albertsons in a $24.6 billion deal, creating one of the largest grocery store chains in the United States with nearly 5,000 stores when combined.
  
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• Elementary School Teacher Arrested After Authorities Discover She Has a Sickening List of Students

  14-10-2022 18:35
  An Indiana teacher was taken into custody by police on Thursday after they learned she had a “kill list” of students and staff at the school where she taught.
  According to a Facebook post from the East Chicago Police Department, police were summoned to St. Stanislaus School at about 5 p.m. Wednesday in connection with comments made by teacher Angelica Carrasquillo-Torres, 25, earlier in the day.
  The post said a student informed school staff that her teacher talked about killing herse
  
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• Elections 2022: The Battle for Congress

  14-10-2022 18:21
  The November midterm elections will determine which parties take control over the House and the Senate, ultimately defining the fate of President Joe Biden's legislative agenda.      
  
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• Don't back Putin into a corner, Belarusian leader warns as nuclear fears grow

  14-10-2022 18:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warned the West not to push Vladimir Putin into a corner amid growing fears of a nuclear strike in Ukraine.
  
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• Police: Teen killed 5 in Raleigh mass shooting

  14-10-2022 18:06
  A 15-year-old boy fatally shot two people in the streets of a neighborhood in North Carolina's capital city, then fled toward a walking trail, where he killed three more people and wounded two others. (Oct. 14)      
  
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• In battleground Georgia, the Kemp-Warnock voter is the target for both parties in 2022 and beyond

  14-10-2022 18:06 via cnn.com
  
  Gabriel Burks, like most Black people in Georgia, nearly always votes for Democrats. But this November, he'll be voting for Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.
  
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• You probably don't need to rake your leaves this fall, experts say. Here's why.

  14-10-2022 18:02
  
  Autumn is here, and that might mean the leaves in your yard are starting to fall. But if you were planning to add raking to your to-do list, don't.      
  
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• Climate-Change Activists Try to Deface Famous Van Gogh Painting, But One Little Detail Stops Them Cold

  14-10-2022 17:55
  Two members of an environmental activist group threw tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s famous “Sunflowers” painting on Friday morning at London’s National Gallery. Afterward, the protesters glued their hands to the wall.
  The group, Just Stop Oil, issued a statement demanding the U.K. government stop all new oil and gas projects, according to CBS News.
  In the tweet below, the group blamed the oil and gas industry for today’s record inflation and the current climate c
  
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• British PM scraps tax cuts and fires finance chief, reversing plans that sent pound crashing

  14-10-2022 17:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng Friday and looked set to abandon her tax plan that plunged markets into chaos.
  
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• Axman Seen Terrorizing NYC McDonald's Is Released Without Bail Then Quickly Arrested Again ... Want to Guess What the Judge Did Next?

  14-10-2022 17:48
  In September, 31-year-old Michael Palacios was arrested after being caught on video going on a rampage with an ax inside a New York City McDonald’s.
  There’s no doubt that he was the man in the video. In fact, he admitted as much to the New York Post, claiming he was “not unhinged” or “psychotic,” just defending himself.
  “I just did what anybody would do when being pummeled. What would you do? Take out your phone and call 911?” he said.
   Just a
  
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• 'You All Played Activist Pimp': Mom Lights Up School Board Over 'Family-Friendly' Drag Show

  14-10-2022 17:36
  Programs for transgender advocacy aimed at children may have at last been a bridge too far for progressive activists.
  Government, establishment media and corporations and especially schools have made it clear they want to introduce inappropriate content to younger and younger kids. It’s an attempt to normalize the abnormal, quickly.
  This has activated parental protection instincts. It’s as if people suddenly recognized the dangerous top-down social engineering is coming for their kid
  
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• It's a scary time in Hollywood. But the horror studio behind hits like 'Halloween Ends' is making a killing

  14-10-2022 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  It's a scary time in Hollywood.
  
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• AP Top Stories October 14 A

  14-10-2022 17:26
  Here's the latest for Friday, Oct. 14: Zelenskyy praises courage of his people; South Korea's military warns North Korea over missile launches; Turkey's parliment stiffens social media laws; Lopez and Affleck attend fashion show with other stars.      
  
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• Man Never Uses Charger on EV on 1,800-Mile Trip By Running Gas Generator in Back for Week Straight

  14-10-2022 17:02
  I know that range improvements have made EVs more usable. I just don’t think this was how it was supposed to work.
  On YouTube, one man was able to take his Tesla Model S on an 1,800-mile road trip recently — and he didn’t have to plug the thing in once!
  The catch: The guy behind the trip put a 400-cc gas generator in the back of the car, one that was so loud it got the police called on him.
  Matt Mikka, whose YouTube channel Warped Perception has over 1.2 million subscribers, ha
  
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• Ugly 'Thursday Night Football' Game Ends in Heartbreak as Bears Come Up Just Inches Short on Their Final Play

  14-10-2022 16:35
  In an error-filled game, the last gasp for the Chicago Bears to wipe away their mistakes was lost in the lights, and then it was lights out.
  The Washington Commanders beat the Bears 12-7 Thursday night in a low-scoring matchup Candace Buckner of The Washington Post summed up as a “thoroughly unwatchable game.”
  “If you didn’t tune in, good for you,” she wrote.
  Darnell Mooney was wishing he could tune it out as he sat by his locker after the game, WMAQ-TV reported.
  Th
  
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• Jamie Lee Curtis says her transgender daughter has faced death threats

  14-10-2022 16:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jamie Lee Curtis is opening up about the struggles her daughter and other members of the transgender community face on a daily basis.
  
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• I’m a Black man in L.A. Council member Kevin de León’s district. I feel hoodwinked.

  14-10-2022 16:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Kevin de León, Gil Cedillo, Nury Martinez and Ron Herrera just showed the need to address anti-Black governance in Los Angeles.
  
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• Unseen Footage: Pelosi Wanted to Do Something So Sick to Trump on Jan 6 She Would've Gone to Jail for It

  14-10-2022 16:24
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was so upset by the political violence on Jan. 6, 2021 that she sought to punch the president.
  Hypocrisy? What’s that?
  In new footage from Jan. 6 shot by Pelosi’s daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, the House speaker told aides she planned to deck then-President Donald Trump if he came up to Capitol Hill.
  Pelosi knew that Trump had implored supporters during his speech at a rally that day to march to the Capitol to peacefully protest the certification of
  
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• Homes submerged in Australian flooding

  14-10-2022 16:21
  Homes were flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia's southeast with rivers forecast to remain dangerously high for days. (Oct. 14)      
  
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• A 'tectonic shift' in global wealth that will take years to recover from

  14-10-2022 16:09 via cnn.com
  
  Markets plunged on Thursday morning after red-hot inflation data raised fears on Wall Street that the Federal Reserve would continue hiking interest rates aggressively. Then, something strange happened.
  
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• Watch: Biden Says Possibly the 6 Scariest Words of His Presidency - And They're Actually Coherent

  14-10-2022 16:08
  President Joe Biden has said some scary things over the past few months.
  Some of them we haven’t been able to understand because of the sheen of incoherence that’s affected both his speech and thoughts over the past few years.
  Some we’ve understood all too well — like when he said “Where’s Jackie?” at a White House event, referring to a Republican congresswoman who had died a month prior.“Jackie, where’s Jackie?,” Joe Biden says about R
  
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• Pelosi said in new Jan. 6 video she wanted to 'punch' Trump out

  14-10-2022 15:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that she hoped then-President Trump would come there so she could "punch him out."
  
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