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• Judge says Trump knew his voter fraud numbers were false, orders ex-lawyer to give more emails to Jan. 6 committee

  19-10-2022 23:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Federal judge orders former Trump lawyer John Eastman to turn over new emails to the Jan. 6 committee, ruling that some of them relate to a crime or attempted crime.
  
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• Ohio Supreme Court Suspends Judge, Boots Her from Bench for 'Unprecedented' Misconduct

  19-10-2022 23:17
  The Ohio Supreme Court has removed a Cleveland municipal court judge from the bench over what the justices described as “unprecedented misconduct.”
  The decision comes after the court’s Board of Professional Conduct found that Judge Pinkey Carr had ruled her courtroom in a “reckless and cavalier manner, unrestrained by the law or the court’s rules,” according to Cleveland.com.
  The Ohio justices ruled 5-2 on Tuesday to indefinitely suspend Carr’s law licen
  
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• Retired Republican judge joins fight against 'centerpiece' of Trump's effort to overturn election

  19-10-2022 23:12 via cnn.com
  
  Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig -- considered a legal luminary in conservative circles -- is joining with voting rights groups as a co-counsel in a Supreme Court case in order to persuade the justices to reject an obscure legal theory that has been promoted by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
  
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• Omicron subvariants reflect a 'viral evolution on steroids'

  19-10-2022 23:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Omicron subvariants are spreading far and wide, and they appear to have immune-dodging abilities. The CDC and WHO are tracking a number of these subvariants.
  
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• Bruised and malnourished twins, 16, flee Texas home where they said they were handcuffed

  19-10-2022 23:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Teenage twins in Texas who escaped from handcuffs at their home prompted an Amber Alert for five siblings who were deemed safe Tuesday by Louisiana officials.
  
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• Jill Biden Attends Event for 20 Minutes, Asks Audience to 'Dig a Little Deeper' After They Already Paid $1,000

  19-10-2022 22:57
  As the November midterm elections inch closer, Democratic and Republican candidates — especially those in tight races — will deploy any last-minute advantages at their disposal to gain even a slight increase in their chances of emerging victorious.
  For Democrats, one of those advantages, weirdly enough, is first lady Jill Biden. She was described by The New York Times as one of President Joe Biden’s “most popular” surrogates, and requests for her appearance at Democ
  
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• Lance Wallnau Torches Rolling Stone, Debunks Ridiculous Claims

  19-10-2022 22:50
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• It Looks Like Pelosi is Desperately Avoiding Grim Midterm News - Does She Fear the Red Wave?

  19-10-2022 22:47
  Most signs point to Democrats taking a shellacking on Nov. 8, when Americans will likely turn out in force at the voting booth to express their frustrations over how the Biden administration and Democrats, in general, are running America into the ground.
  However, not everyone in the Democratic Party is convinced that they should prepare for a political doomsday event. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an interview with Punchbowl News, published Wednesday, denied that her party is facing adversity,
  
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• An Afternoon at the Pumpkin Patch Turns Chaotic as Over 70 Vehicles Burst Into Flames

  19-10-2022 22:29
  Texas families visiting a Temple pumpkin patch Saturday had an afternoon they may never forget, but not for the right reasons.
  As families were wandering about the Robinson Family Farm, they noticed that smoke was coming from the parking lot.
  John Bessick, a veteran, said he and a friend were about to leave when they saw cars first catch fire and then explode.
  “It looked like something out of a war zone,” he said, according to KXXV-TV. “Since I have PTSD, it’s kind of ner
  
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• Tiny home builder accused of fraud by customers is under police investigation

  19-10-2022 22:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  The businessman accused of swindling people out of their life savings by promising to build them tiny homes and not delivering is now the target of a police
  
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• Taxpayers group asks Supreme Court to block Biden's student debt relief program

  19-10-2022 22:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Wisconsin taxpayers' rights group asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to block President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program.
  
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• Two Detained After 8 Dogs Jump from House Window, Terrorize Neighborhood and Attack Teens and Toddler

  19-10-2022 22:20
  Being approached by a single, standoffish dog is scary enough, but when two or more are out roaming, the danger increases exponentially.
  The pack mindset is a very strong factor in a lot of deadly dog attacks, and it’s a bit of a miracle that an incident Tuesday in Staten Island, New York, did not end far more tragically than it did.
  Around 12:50 p.m. on the 200 block of York Avenue, several dogs described by locals as pit bulls attacked a 2-year-old, a 13-year-old and a 19-year-old, WABC-
  
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• 'Just a Dad Taking Care of His Daughter': Father's Military Training Kicks into Gear, Saves his Daughter's Life

  19-10-2022 22:15
  A quick-thinking military veteran father saved his daughter’s life with his emergency medical skills last weekend.
  Steve Jorgensen had to respond with chest compressions and CPR after his daughter was struck by lightning while playing in the rain with a friend in her grandparents’ backyard in the Phoenix-area suburb of Sun City West on Saturday, according to Fox Weather.
  “It was a super, super bright, loud crash that cracked,” Jorgensen said of the blast.
  A doctor at Vall
  
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• Person of interest in Oklahoma quadruple killings appears in Florida court on unrelated charges

  19-10-2022 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Investigators are following leads every day to find out how dismembered bodies of four men ended up in an Oklahoma river, but whenever water is involved, it makes it much more difficult to identify evidence, the police chief said.
  
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• Convicted killer of missing teen Brittanee Drexel sentenced to life in prison

  19-10-2022 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  The man convicted of killing 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Wednesday.
  
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• Watch: Did Stacey Abrams Suggest Murdering Unborn Children May Ease Inflation?

  19-10-2022 21:57
  Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams seems to have disturbing ideas about how to fight the high cost of living.
  In an interview with the Democratic hopeful Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Mike Barnicle said that while abortion remains an important issue to many voters, it is trumped by the rising cost of everyday necessities such as groceries and gas.
  “What could you do as governor to alleviate the concerns of Georgia voters about those livability, daily, hou
  
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• OnlyFans model asked for a restraining order against boyfriend days before he was killed, video shows

  19-10-2022 21:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  Newly released video shows an OnlyFans model asking Miami police for a restraining order against her boyfriend, days before authorities said she fatally stabbed him in their luxury high-rise apartment.
  
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• Famous Army Ranger Veteran Roasts Tom Brady for Comparing Himself to a Service Member

  19-10-2022 21:39
  Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady was mercilessly roasted by a real Army hero after the seven-time Super Bowl champ compared his NFL experience to being deployed in the U.S. military.
  Brady made the unfortunate remark during the Monday episode of the Sirius XM “Let’s Go!” podcast.
  “I almost look at a football season like you’re going away on deployment in the military, and it’s like, man, here I go again,” Brady said.
  Retired Army Ranger Brad Th
  
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• NASA's Webb Telescope captures a fresh view of the famed star-forming region Pillars of Creation

  19-10-2022 21:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a fresh view of the Pillars of Creation, a star-forming region that has become a famed celestial sight.
  
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• Tim Michels, the Wisconsin GOP nominee for governor, obscures messaging on abortion rights

  19-10-2022 21:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tim Michels, the Republican nominee in Wisconsin’s race for governor, can’t keep his messaging straight on abortion rights — a top issue in the state and
  
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• Opinion: The slogan hurting Democrats' election chances

  19-10-2022 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  Crime is an important issue.
  
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• Journalist Who Was Writing About Biden Admin Failure Raided by FBI and Then Not Seen Again - Report

  19-10-2022 21:04
  James Gordon Meek, an Emmy-winning producer and a highly respected national-security-focused investigative journalist who colleagues and friends say was at the pinnacle of his career, seemingly dropped off the face of the planet after his apartment was reportedly raided by the feds in April.
  According to a Rolling Stone piece Tuesday on Meek’s seeming disappearance, his neighbor, John Antonelli, described the scene he witnessed outside of Meek’s Arlington, Virginia-based apartment bu
  
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• Biden announces sale of 15 million barrels of reserve oil

  19-10-2022 20:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Biden announced the sale of more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as his administration tries to rein in high gas prices ahead of the midterms.
  
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• 'Housing Is in Free Fall': Homebuilders Confidence Takes 'Disastrous' Plunge

  19-10-2022 20:55
  The roof is caving in on the American housing market, and the home-building industry is putting the blame on the Biden White House.,
  Homebuilder confidence dropped in October for the 10th straight month and hit a low not seen since 2012,  according to the New York Post.
  The National Association of Home Builders’ monthly index fell 8 points to 38, a drop 3 points beyond expectations. Readings below 50 are taken as a sign of pessimism.
  High mortgage rates are part of the problem. Mortga
  
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• Walker as recently as August indicated he opposed exceptions to abortion, contrary to debate claim

  19-10-2022 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker said as recently as August that he opposes any exceptions to a ban on abortion, despite stating the opposite during his first and only debate against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock last week.
  
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• Unarmed Security Guards Are College's Response to Shootings and Assaults: 'Band-Aid Solution'

  19-10-2022 20:18
  The best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a phone making minimum wage.
  At least, that appears to be the thinking behind last week’s decision by the University of Washington to have two unarmed security guards patrolling a two-block area just west of the university’s School of Law for 10 hours each weekend.
  They won’t be armed, but don’t worry — they’ll have training. And phones with which to call the Seattle Police Department if they need to.
  
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• Covid's WFH revolution helped fuel a baby boom

  19-10-2022 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  Economic factors, not just lockdown-induced forced proximity, played a key role in last year's "baby bump," according to the economists behind a new working paper released earlier this week.
  
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• The funeral home can't cope, so a Texas sheriff is storing bodies of migrants who died crossing the border in a refrigerated container

  19-10-2022 20:13 via cnn.com
  
  The bodies of migrants who died trying to cross the US-Mexico border are being kept in a refrigerated container near the Rio Grande because the local funeral home can longer store them, a Texas sheriff says.
  
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• Fox News' John Roberts Reveals Another Health Scare - Doesn't Take Long to Get Back to Work

  19-10-2022 20:11
  John Roberts, a co-anchor at Fox News’ “America Reports,” has opened up about some of the health problems that he has had recently, but returned to the show after being absent at the beginning of October.
  The 65-year-old Roberts originally had a pacemaker put in in February, USA TODAY reported.
  The pacemaker was placed after the 2018 stent that Roberts had in his heart got blocked again, the outlet reported.
  But after his health issues in February, Roberts once again had some h
  
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• Woman Allegedly Unleashes Unusual Weapon on Deputies, Wields Bee Hive to Fight Eviction Notice

  19-10-2022 20:09
  A Massachusetts woman is facing multiple assault and battery charges for allegedly releasing a swarm of bees on a group of sheriff’s deputies, some of them allergic to bee stings, as they tried to serve an eviction notice, authorities said.
  Rorie S. Woods, 55, pleaded not guilty at her arraignment on Oct. 12 in Springfield District Court and was released without bail, Masslive.com, citing court records, reported on Wednesday.
  Her lawyer did not immediately respond to a voicemail left by Th
  
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• Conservative lawyer who argued challenges to Harvard admissions policies has brain cancer

  19-10-2022 20:08 via cnn.com
  
  Lawyer William Consovoy, who has shepherded the challenges to race-based affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina since they were filed in 2014, will not be at the lectern for the culminating Supreme Court round on October 31.
  
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• Biden's week is a real-time road map for Democrat efforts to boost turnout, triage weaknesses

  19-10-2022 19:45 via cnn.com
  
  As pollsters and political professionals alike attempt to divine which issue -- or issues -- will drive the outcome of the midterm elections, the internal White House view of the current dynamics isn't exactly hidden.
  
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• 'Just Drenched in Blood': College Students Miraculously Survive Attack in Wyoming Mountains

  19-10-2022 19:42
  Last week just outside Cody, Wyoming, a group of college wrestlers from nearby Northwest College came across a grizzly bear.
  When the bear attacked, one brave student fought back. Though two of the young men were hurt, the teammates miraculously made it out of the ordeal alive.
  Brady Lowry, Kendell Cummings, Orrin Jackson and August Harrison were antler hunting on Saturday after an early morning practice, KTWO-AM reported.
  As the group was headed back to their car, Lowry and Cummings decide
  
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• IRS Announces Tax Adjustments - Your Paychecks Will Likely Change Soon

  19-10-2022 19:27
  Due to the rampant inflation, the Internal Revenue Service announced on Tuesday that it has adjusted tax code parameters for 2023, which means that many Americans could end up taking home more money from their paychecks next year.
  With inflation at a 40-year high, the IRS is hiking the standard deduction by about 7 percent for 2023, The Hill reported.
  The standard deduction reduces the amount of income that a person is taxed so by increasing the standard deduction, the adjustment means Americans
  
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• Doc Refused Jab After Seeing Worst of COVID, So Med School Fired Him - 3 Words Expose Everything

  19-10-2022 19:20
  A physician who was fired from a California university last year for refusing to get vaccinated is speaking out about the unscientific, tyrannical groupthink that has infested the medical community.
  Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a psychiatrist and director of bioethics at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, was fired from the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine in December after refusing to get vaccinated, even after he had recovered from COVID-19.
  Kheriaty has written abou
  
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• CEO Declares San Francisco Has 'Descended Into a City of Chaos' as He Pulls Company from City

  19-10-2022 19:04
  Another company is calling it quits in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home city.
  Outdoor active-wear brand Cotopaxi is closing its San Francisco store after only a year following rampant theft that left the store’s staff “terrified.”
  The company’s founder, Davis Smith, announced the closing in a LinkedIn post Tuesday.
  “It’s sad, but San Francisco appears to have descended into a city of chaos,” he wrote. “Many streets and parks are overrun
  
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• US Takes the War on Drugs to Mexico - Sanctions Mexicans Linked to Powerful Drug Cartel

  19-10-2022 19:00
  The Treasury Department on Wednesday sanctioned a group of people and companies connected to Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, including a sibling involved in the family-run Valenzuela drug trafficking organization.
  The sanctions against Juan Francisco Valenzuela Valenzuela and his organization, sometimes called the Valenzuela DTO, freeze all their property and other interests in the U.S. and bar Americans and American companies from doing business with them.
  Valenzuela and his siblin
  
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• Analysis: The Durham probe has been a giant bust

  19-10-2022 18:30 via cnn.com
  
  For much of the last three years, Donald Trump has insisted that the probe being run by special counsel John Durham is on its way to blowing the cover off of a massive scheme to defame him and rob him of the 2016 election.
  
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• 'Serious concerns': These senators are pushing back on the $25 billion Kroger-Albertsons merger

  19-10-2022 18:29 via cnn.com
  
  The proposed $25 billion Kroger-Albertsons grocery giant merger is already running into significant opposition from progressive lawmakers and others.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders want to block a Kroger-Albertsons grocery empire

  19-10-2022 18:29 via cnn.com
  
  The proposed $25 billion Kroger-Albertsons grocery giant merger is already running into significant opposition from progressive lawmakers and others.
  
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• Ex-Satanist Issues Ominous Warning About Halloween's Hidden Purpose - Suffered '30 Days of Torment'

  19-10-2022 18:25
  Are you having “one-night stands with the devil?” If you celebrate Halloween, Bronx-based Christian evangelist and author John Ramirez says, that’s the kind of dalliance you’re courting.
  Yes, yes, you’ve probably heard these warnings before. I can almost sense the collective eye-roll as I write this, even among Christians.
  However, Ramirez’s description of his life in a Santeria and Espiritismo/spiritualist satanic cult in an interview with the Christian Post,
  
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• Fetterman's campaign releases new report from his doctor that says he "has no work restrictions"

  19-10-2022 18:16 via cnn.com
  
  Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman on Wednesday released a new medical report from his primary care physician following an October 14 visit.
  
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• America's tax brackets are changing thanks to inflation. Here's how that affects you.

  19-10-2022 18:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  America's tax brackets are changing thanks to inflation. That will be welcome news for many people whose salaries haven't been keeping up this year with the
  
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• Circle K gas stations will soon start selling ... weed

  19-10-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  Next year, when consumers in Florida pick up a soda, chips or a candy bar when they load up for gas at Circle K gas station stores, they'll be able to add another new item -- licensed medical weed.
  
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• Circle K gas stations are adding a new product for convenient pickup -- weed

  19-10-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  Next year, when consumers in Florida pick up a soda, chips or a candy bar when they load up for gas at Circle K gas station stores, they'll be able to add another new item -- licensed medical weed.
  
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• DeSantis Sends Concert Crowd Roaring with 'USA!' Chant After Walking on Stage with Family

  19-10-2022 18:00
  Move over “Sweet Home Alabama” — it’s all about “Sweet Florida” this year. And make no mistake, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Lynyrd Skynyrd fans are basking in the change of state.
  According to Breitbart, DeSantis made a surprise appearance on stage with his wife Casey and his children as the legendary rock band was playing in Hollywood, Florida, on Sunday night.
  The governor came out on stage to wild applause and a spontaneous chant of “USA! USA!&rdquo
  
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• This bank is trying to keep employees by offering paid leave for menopause

  19-10-2022 17:42 via cnn.com
  
  Bank of Ireland Group is offering paid leave for women employees going through menopause, joining a growing list of companies trying to prevent women from exiting the workforce.
  
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• Nestlé recalls some packages of Toll House cookie dough

  19-10-2022 17:16 via cnn.com
  
  Nestlé is issuing a voluntary recall for its refrigerated, ready-to-bake Nestlé Toll House Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough with Fudge Filling because of the "potential presence of white plastic pieces."
  
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• Biden to announce $2.8 billion in grants for US battery supply chains

  19-10-2022 17:00 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm are set to announce two key actions Wednesday aimed at lowering costs amid inflation by targeting domestic battery supply chains -- new efforts the administration is rolling out 20 days before the midterm elections.
  
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• Russia moves civilians out of key Ukrainian city as Putin's military signals a new setback

  19-10-2022 16:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Russia launched a mass evacuation of civilians in Kherson as Vladimir Putin's military faced a Ukrainian advance and he imposed martial law in the occupied regions.
  
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