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• Netflix is back to growing after a nightmare year of losing subscribers

  18-10-2022 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  After two quarters of bleeding subscribers, Netflix appears to be back on track — in a big way.
  
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• Pelosi says she doesn't regret threatening to punch Trump

  18-10-2022 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that she does not regret threatening to punch then-President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, if he came to the Capitol, but "he wouldn't have had the courage to come to the Hill. He is all talk."
  
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• Kari Lake Flips Script, Forces Reporters to See Who 'Election Deniers' Really Are

  18-10-2022 23:16
  Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was not having it when reporters wanted her to address whether she is a 2020 election denier.
  “If you’re going to start throwing around terms like election denier, let’s remember who the other election deniers were: Hillary Clinton and all the Democrats,” Lake said at a Monday campaign event in Phoenix.
  “Let’s talk about election deniers. Here’s 150 examples of Democrats denying election results,&rdquo
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard Compares Joe Biden to Hitler, Says the Two Men Share 1 Thing in Common

  18-10-2022 22:55
  On the heels of her announcement that she has left the Democratic Party, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard blasted President Joe Biden for being no better than some of history’s worst dictators, even dropping the “H-bomb” on Biden by comparing him to German dictator Adolf Hitler.
  Gabbard hit the campaign trail over the weekend for New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc, and during the rally, she took a stick to Joe Biden.
  Even before her trip to the Granite State,
  
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• 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated' Was Misleading Narrative: Pfizer Exec Confirms Shot Not Tested for Transmissibility

  18-10-2022 22:50
  President Joe Biden’s oft-repeated talking point that COVID-19 was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” was further undermined last week by the testimony of a Pfizer executive before the European Parliament.
  Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, stated that the company’s COVID-19 vaccine was not tested for its ability to prevent transmission of the virus prior to it being distributed.
  “So there are no misunderstandings: Was the Pfize
  
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• Thugs Find Out the Hard Way What Happens When You 'Smash and Grab' Concealed Carry Holder

  18-10-2022 22:42
  In President Joe Biden’s America, violent crime is on the rise, and it’s increasingly up to law-abiding American citizens to protect themselves, their families and their businesses from the bad guys.
  That’s exactly what happened recently in Orlando, Florida, when the owner of a jewelry store at the Orlando Magic Mall opened fire and killed two suspected robbers out of a group of four attempting a “smash and grab” of his store, WOFL reported.
  It was last Friday when
  
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• What a Hoot: Halloween Animal Seen Taking to the Skies 'Riding' Child's Toy

  18-10-2022 22:28
  As yards across the United States grow displays of fall-themed or creepy decor, it’s not unusual to see things that would be out of place any other time of the year.
  Some people go way over the top, coming up with horribly creative, interactive or elaborate displays — but even they can’t match the sight that’s been gracing one neighborhood in Eureka, Illinois.
  The neighborhood has apparently become home to a family of owls over the past months. The birds, normally discree
  
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• Dangerous flesh-eating bacterial infections increased in Florida after Hurricane Ian

  18-10-2022 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  An increase in infections with a rare flesh-eating bacteria was reported in Florida in the days after Hurricane Ian due to catastrophic flooding from the storm.
  
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• Benko: Ballot Fraud? Voter Suppression? Not So Fast!

  18-10-2022 22:06
  Christine Walker, county clerk for Jackson County, Oregon, at a recent public talk before the Government Blockchain Association, pointed out how many of her counterparts, county and local officials, are retiring.
  These local officials are doing their job of carefully counting ballots, as they do every election year. They are leaving, in droves, because they are sick of, and sickened by, ungrounded accusations from those who believe the 2020 election was stolen. Threats, even.
  Not so fast. We vot
  
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• Friends Survive Rough Water, Sharks, Jellyfish and Hypothermia After Fishing Trip Goes Horribly Wrong

  18-10-2022 21:55
  Three friends are alive and on their way to recovery today after a harrowing 28-hour encounter with nature that began on Oct. 8 and involved multiple deadly factors.
  Phong Le, Luan Nguyen and Son Nguyen, all good friends, set out on that fateful day to go fishing off the coast of Empire, Louisiana. They’d tied their boat to an oil rig, but soon large waves and rough water started to capsize the boat.
  Seeing their boat going down, the three men started readying themselves by donning their l
  
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• NBA Hall of Fame Player Diagnosed with Brain Tumor in Unexpectedly Tragic News

  18-10-2022 21:38
  Former basketball player and Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo has a brain tumor and is undergoing treatment, the NBA announced Saturday.
  Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1966, the 7-foot-2 Mutombo went on to become a well-loved player whose professional career spanned from 1991 to 2009.
  Mutombo came to the U.S. in 1987 to attend Georgetown University, which gave him an academic scholarship, CNN reported.
  He joined the school’s basketball team during his sophomore year.
  In 1991,
  
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• Ehrlich: This 1 Example Will Bring Home Why So Many People Are Upset and Confused These Days

  18-10-2022 21:34
  Americans are mightily unhappy (and a bit confused) these days, and I’m not just referring to the average conservative, Western Journal-reading, Tucker Carlson-watching ones, either.
  No, I’m thinking of those families who are presently preoccupied with affording groceries and filling the tank and making the monthly mortgage payment and getting kids to practice rather than what went down that day on Capitol Hill.
  But, alas, things have rapidly spiraled out of control for the average p
  
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• Man Plugs Electric Ford Lightning Into House, Gets Only 36 Miles of Range in 16 Hours of Charging

  18-10-2022 21:15
  Tim Esterdahl of the popular “Pickup Truck Plus SUV Talk” website and podcast obviously has mixed feelings about electric vehicles, as he demonstrated once again in two recent videos about a 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning he got on loan for a week.
  After the first video about charging the truck, Esterdahl received so many questions and comments, he said, that he wanted to put together a second video to address some of them.
  To start off, he admitted that he wasn’t exactly charging t
  
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• Biden admin in touch with Russia in recent days in effort to get Griner and Whelan release

  18-10-2022 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration has had communications with Russia to try and secure the release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan "as recently as within past days" said a senior administration official, speaking to CNN on Griner's 32nd birthday, which she will be spending in a Russian jail.
  
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• Musician Dies After Collapsing on Stage During Concert: 'You Can Tell He Wasn't Feeling Good'

  18-10-2022 20:51
  Mikaben, a Haitian singer and musician, died after collapsing during a performance in France on Saturday.
  The 41-year-old artist, whose real name was Michael Benjamin, was performing with the Haitian band Carimi at the 20,000-seat Accor Arena in Paris when he had a “medical incident,” CNN reported.
  Mikaben was walking to the back of the stage when he passed out. The venue said in a tweet Sunday that he died soon afterward.
  “Last night during the Carimi concert, one of the singe
  
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• 11 People Were Killed in EV Crashes Over a 4-Month Period, Almost All Were Teslas

  18-10-2022 20:49
  Eleven additional people were killed in U.S. crashes involving vehicles that were using automated driving systems during a four-month period earlier this year, according to newly released government data, part of an alarming pattern of incidents linked to the technology.
  Ten of the deaths involved vehicles made by Tesla, though it is unclear from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s data whether the technology itself was at fault or whether driver error might have been resp
  
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• At Least 30 Injured When Homecoming Bonfire Goes Horribly Wrong

  18-10-2022 20:42
  A high school homecoming bonfire exploded Friday in Shawano County, Wisconsin, leaving dozens of people injured, some even in critical condition.
  The Shawano County Sherriff’s Office reported that 17 people were taken to hospitals. Seven were injured severely enough that they had to be transported to the Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Burn Center in Milwaukee, WLUK-TV reported.
  Police said about 30 to 40 people were injured by the explosion and fire, WTMJ-TV reported.
  There were both
  
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• Dem Campaign Signs Placed on Private Property Without Permission, Booby-Trapped with Razor Blades

  18-10-2022 20:26
  In Pennsylvania, the stakes for the upcoming November midterms have never been higher, as the state is one of the closely-watched battlegrounds that will determine the makeup of the U.S. Senate when the dust settles after Election Day.
  Unfortunately, those high stakes also bring stupid and dangerous decisions, which was evidenced in the southeastern part of the state recently after residents reported rogue Democratic campaign signs placed in their yards that were lined with razor blades, WTXF-TV
  
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• Op-Ed: Persecution Is Typical for Christians - Here's How to Stand Firm

  18-10-2022 20:20
  Where there is trouble, Satan himself is sometimes propagating the turmoil.
  This is the Apostle Paul’s message to his young co-worker Timothy. The epistle of 2 Timothy, the last epistle Paul wrote before his own martyrdom, is filled with intense emotion.
  The setting is this: Paul is writing a letter to Timothy, his disciple who is now pastoring the church in Ephesus, which had been overrun by false teachers (cf. 1 Timothy). Timothy’s mettle is being tested through persecution, so Pau
  
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• First on CNN: Next spring the economy will sink into a 1990-style recession, Fitch says

  18-10-2022 20:16 via cnn.com
  
  Stubborn inflation and the Federal Reserve's jumbo-sized interest rate hikes will drive the American economy into a 1990-style recession starting in the spring, Fitch Ratings warned on Tuesday.
  
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• Record turnout. long lines mark first day of early voting in Georgia

  18-10-2022 20:05 via cnn.com
  
  Georgia midterm voters turned out in record numbers on the first day of early in-person voting, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said on Tuesday.
  
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• A suspect in a series of killings in California is set to be arraigned Tuesday

  18-10-2022 19:58 via cnn.com
  
  A man arrested in California over the weekend in connection with a series of killings -- largely in the city of Stockton -- is expected to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Tucker Carlson: Instead of Crime and Inflation, Dems Want America to Focus on Phantom Issues for Midterms

  18-10-2022 19:56
  Last week, there were two big political stories.
  First, the House Jan. 6 committee held what’s likely to be its last public hearing, at which it subpoenaed former President Donald Trump. Second, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in September, inflation was over 8 percent yet again, this time topping out at 8.2 percent year-over-year.
  The media was enamored with the former. Americans care about the latter. Guess which the Democrats want to make the November election about?
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• Netflix Warns Harry and Meghan Their $100M Contract Could Be Axed: 'They Can Go to YouTube'

  18-10-2022 19:42
  Imagine being so famous that you have to worry that an upcoming docuseries about your romance that you’re producing for Netflix might somehow conflict with another series on Netflix that just happens to be about your family. Apparently, that’s where Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are living right now.
  Now imagine that’s not the least of your worries.
  That’s also where they’re living right now, if a pair of stories from the U.S. edition of the British ta
  
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• Phil Knight Says He's 'More Conservative Than Nike,' All in to End Democrats' 35-Year Reign in Oregon

  18-10-2022 19:39
  Few companies have a slogan that so neatly sums up the corporate ethos as Nike’s:
  “Just Do It.”
  It’s not just a command to set your alarm for 5 a.m., put on your running shoes and pound out 10k without whining like a baby about it. It’s also a summation of the company’s liberal culture.
  The Oregon-based sporting giant essentially grew in tandem with the do-whatever cultural relativism of the 1970s, both commercially and culturally. That thinking has persisted
  
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• Wisconsin Voter Blasts Biden as Making Country a Laughingstock: 'Anything This Man Touches Just Falls Apart'

  18-10-2022 19:26
  This Wisconsin woman didn’t hold back on President Joe Biden.
  Wisconsin resident Nina Machi spoke with Fox News’ Lawrence Jones on the Biden administration’s numerous failures.
  Machi appeared in a panel interview that was broadcast on Monday.
  Machi primarily pointed out Biden’s dismal failures on energy policy, a problem that the president has failed to rectify as middle-class Americans are gutted at the gas pump.This Wisconsin voter, blasts Biden:
  “We are the laugh
  
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• Girl Scouts of America receive largest ever donation from single donor

  18-10-2022 19:04 via cnn.com
  The Girl Scouts of America received its largest ever donation from a single individual, a gift of $84.5 million from MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the group said in a release.
  
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• Some McDonald's will now sell Krispy Kreme donuts

  18-10-2022 18:43 via cnn.com
  
  McDonald's is adding a new menu item from an unusual source: One of its rivals.
  
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• Ballot measures in at least 8 states will set ground rules for future elections

  18-10-2022 18:41 via cnn.com
  
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• Obama Family Driver Arrested After What He Allegedly Did to a Witness

  18-10-2022 18:39
  A Secret Service employee who was the driver for former first lady Michelle Obama was charged with criminal harassment and witness intimidation for allegedly using his position to coerce sex and submission from a woman he briefly dated.
  According to a police report viewed by the Vineyard Gazette of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, 53-year-old Douglas Vines “is a driver for the Obama family, and, according to [the woman], used that position to intimidate [her], while attempting to ge
  
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• Democratic Senate Candidate Tim Ryan's Attempt to Smear JD Vance as a Racist Backfires During Heated Debate

  18-10-2022 18:34
  I’m not sure Tim Ryan did all his pre-debate reading.
  Ryan, a career politician currently serving his 10th term in the U.S. House, debated “Hillbilly Elegy” writer JD Vance last night, 22 days before Ohio voters will decide which of them will become their next senator.
  Near the end of the debate, Ryan accused Vance of racism, claiming the Republican nominee was a believer in the “Great Replacement Theory,” because … well, because Ryan is a Democrat and that&r
  
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• 'I've Never Passed Out in My Life' - NASCAR Driver Faints During Live Post-Race Interview

  18-10-2022 18:32
  Trevor Bayne, a race car driver and 2011 winner of the Daytona 500, made headlines over the weekend, not for his fifth-place finish in Las Vegas, but for suddenly fainting during a post-race interview on Saturday.
  The 31-year-old Bayne has not been racing in recent years, but after his hiatus, he is driving again and racing a limited schedule this season, Sportscasting reported.
  After taking fifth in the Xfinity race in Las Vegas on Saturday, Bayne was having a post-race interview with NBC&rsquo
  
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• USDA begins providing relief to thousands of farmers with operations at financial risk

  18-10-2022 18:30 via cnn.com
  
  The US Department of Agriculture has begun providing debt relief to thousands of farmers whose operations are financially struggling, the agency announced on Tuesday.
  
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• 17-Year-Old Kid Dies Suddenly After Collapsing in Middle of Choir Event at High School

  18-10-2022 18:12
  A voice that could ring and echo praising God in a church choir has been stilled.
  Daniel Moshi, 17, of Franklin Park, Illinois, died suddenly during a choir event at nearby Naperville North High School on Friday, according to WMAQ-TV in Chicago.
  The DuPage County coroner’s office said it was investigating Moshi’s death. Naperville fire officials said they went to the school at 6:18 p.m. after receiving a report of an unconscious 17-year-old, the station reported.
  Moshi had been among
  
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• Shaquille O'Neal Takes a Jab at Charles Barkley After Chuck Inks 'Life-Altering' Deal

  18-10-2022 18:00
  Basketball fans can expect to see two NBA legends providing commentary on the sport for years to come.
  Hall of Fame power forward Charles Barkley has reached a 10-year agreement to continue his post-playing career as a studio analyst on “Inside the NBA” and other TNT programming, the New York Post reported Monday.
  The deal will keep Barkley working with Shaquille O’Neal, another NBA all-timer who has appeared on TNT since 2011.
  The finances of the deal haven’t been m
  
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• Black Man Who Allegedly Threatened County Fair with 'White Power' Post Just Got Some Ugly News: Cops

  18-10-2022 17:40
  Police have arrested a black teenager in connection with social media threats against black people who attended an Alabama county fair.
  For weeks, police in Opelika, Alabama, investigated a Sept. 19 post that said racial violence was coming to the Lee County Fair.
  The writer of the post said he and his friends “are coming to [the] Opelika Alabama fair to kill every NEGRO that we lay eye contact on so be prepared. WHITE POWER,” according to AL.com.
  The profile of the poster included t
  
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• Is Jill Biden Secretly Being Prepped for a 2024 Presidential Run? May Be Dems' Perfect Candidate

  18-10-2022 17:27
  America has already been put on notice: Always refer to the first lady as Dr. Jill Biden. She has a doctorate in education and she’s earned the honorific, thank-you-very-much.
  However, as Dr. Biden barnstorms around the country ahead of the midterms, it’s worth raising a question that’s a bit more than just idle speculation: Will Dr. Biden try to become President Biden sometime in the near future?
  If you think this is silliness, consider two bedrock facts that are bec
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell Finally Speaks Up About the Royal Family's 'Association' with Epstein

  18-10-2022 16:59
  Convicted human trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has described Britain’s disgraced Prince Andrew as a “dear friend.”
  Ghislaine made the comment in an interview with author Daphne Barak published by the Daily Mail.
  Andrew was relieved of his royal duties due to his links with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who Maxwell was convicted of helping traffic young women.
  “Yes, I follow what is happening to him. He is paying such a price for the association with Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Restaurant Owner Bans 'Abusive' James Corden Over Multiple Incidents, Rescinds After Corden 'Profusely' Apologizes

  18-10-2022 16:53
  To err is human; to forgive, divine. So said Alexander Pope, and who’s going to argue with the second-most quoted author in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations? Not I.
  Well, I might be more inclined to argue with him — I’m not always the most agreeable sort — were he not expressing a very biblical truth about broken humanity and a compassionate God.
  I don’t know how much restaurateur Keith McNally knows about Pope — or the Bible, for that matter — but he
  
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• Kanye West's biggest hurdle with owning Parler may come from Elon Musk

  18-10-2022 16:52 via cnn.com
  
  One week ago, Kanye West was temporarily suspended from Twitter for posting antisemitic tweets. Now, the rapper has agreed to acquire Parler, an alternative social platform popular with conservatives, to prevent ever having "to fear being removed from social media again."
  
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• The Dam Is About to Burst: Whistleblower Documents Link Joe Biden Directly to Hunter's Crooked Business Dealings

  18-10-2022 16:37
  Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley did not mince words in his latest missive to top U.S. law enforcement officials.
  In an Oct. 13 letter, Grassley stated that the FBI may possess “significant, impactful, and voluminous evidence” of “potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and James Biden,” President Joe Biden’s brother.  Moreover, he wrote, the president “may have been involved.”
  The Washington Examiner obtained a copy of the letter, which can be vie
  
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• Biden moves one step closer to making giant Pacific Ocean wind turbines a reality

  18-10-2022 16:34 via cnn.com
  
  The Department of Interior on Tuesday announced it will hold a lease sale for wind energy off the coast of Central and Northern California, bringing the Biden administration's dream of a massive West Coast wind farm one step closer to reality.
  
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• Watch: Biden Sends Americans to Wrong Site as He Reads Out Something He Definitely Wasn't Supposed To

  18-10-2022 16:30
  Ol’ Uncle Joe isn’t too familiar with the interwebs, it seems.
  This usually isn’t a problem for America.
  Sure, I imagine the White House IT workers probably have their hands full with President Biden, but that’s their problem; if worst comes to worst, they can give him an old Commodore 64 and tell him it’s a super-duper secret computer only he can use, then let him putter around on it until he gets bored and/or falls asleep. Or maybe give him one of son Hunter&
  
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• Republicans question use of Chinese comms equipment near US military installations

  18-10-2022 16:28 via cnn.com
  
  Top Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are pressing the Biden administration on the use of Chinese-made telecommunications equipment near sensitive US military installations, in a signal of what the powerful committee may pursue if the GOP claims the House in November.
  
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• Republicans press Biden administration on use of Chinese comms equipment near US military installations

  18-10-2022 16:28 via cnn.com
  
  Top Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are pressing the Biden administration on the use of Chinese-made telecommunications equipment near sensitive US military installations, in a signal of what the powerful committee may pursue if the GOP claims the House in November.
  
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• Driven to Drink

  18-10-2022 16:28
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Driven to Drink appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Biden Makes Hasty Last-Ditch Effort Right Before Midterms to Bring Down Gas Prices

  18-10-2022 16:26
  The Biden administration will announce the sale of 14 million crude oil barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve this week in the hopes of lowering gas prices before the November midterm elections.
  President Joe Biden authorized the sale of 180 million barrels of oil in March to bring down gas prices. Now the administration will direct the Energy Department to auction the remaining 14 million barrels, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the situation.
  The White House is de
  
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• Football Coach Suspended After His Mid-Game Tantrum Sends Two Fans to the Hospital

  18-10-2022 15:51
  A college football coach has been suspended from his duties after his temper tantrum during a game resulted in injuries to two fans.
  The unidentified Fresno State assistant coach exploded after San Jose State scored a touchdown during his team’s homecoming game on Saturday.
  The Bulldogs coach was in the stadium press box at the time and punched out a glass window in anger, according to the Fresno Bee.
  A woman and her young daughter were showered with shattered glass and received laceration
  
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• Chicago priest again asked to step aside after another sex abuse allegation

  18-10-2022 15:45 via cnn.com
  
  The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the senior pastor of the St. Sabina Parish in Chicago, has once again been asked by the Diocese of Chicago to step away from his ministry after another allegation of sex abuse against the priest surfaced.
  
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• Meta says it will sell Giphy to comply with UK breakup order

  18-10-2022 15:32 via cnn.com
  
  Facebook-parent Meta plans to sell off Giphy, an online search tool for animated images, after the UK government said it would force the tech giant to unwind its acquisition of the service.
  
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