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• Why BMW really decided to manufacture batteries in the US

  20-10-2022 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  BMW recently announced a $1.7 billion investment to help prepare its huge Spartanburg, South Carolina, factory to produce electric cars and SUVs. That sum included $700 million for the construction of a battery manufacturing plant nearby.
  
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• A Symptom of Dementia? Biden Gets so Mad About Question That He Grabs Reporter - It's All on Video

  20-10-2022 23:37
  Does President Joe Biden actually have dementia? Nobody knows.
  However, given that the 79-year-old president often displays common symptoms of the cognitive condition, it’s a fair question. Some of his repeated actions, like acting increasingly aggressive and physical toward reporters asking simple questions, as he did on Thursday, raise concerns that the U.S. president might possibly be experiencing a loss of cognitive function, which poses all sorts of problems, including national securi
  
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• Op-Ed: EU Diplomats Want to Get Rid of Christmas Because They Know the Truth About Christianity

  20-10-2022 23:21
  Recently, the new prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, stated that European Union diplomats wrote a document “hundreds of pages long” stating that “in order to be inclusive, we had to exclude all references to Christmas, Jesus, Mary, and all Christian names were to be removed from all official communications.”
  My first thought was that it was idiotic and illogical to think that you have to exclude things in order to be inclusive. But as I thought further, I realized t
  
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• Are Colleges Finally Feeling the Hurt? Ongoing Trend Spells Bad News for Future

  20-10-2022 22:55
  For the third year in a row, college enrollment has decreased and now some are predicting that “a path back to pre-pandemic enrollment levels is growing further out of reach.”
  A report from the National Student Clearinghouse outlined that undergraduate and post-graduate enrollment declined by 1.1 percent from last fall.
  This new decline brings the total enrollment decline from 2020 to 3.2 percent, the report added.
  Doug Shapiro, the director of the National Student Clearinghouse
  
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• 24-Year-Old Rugby Star Mysteriously Dead - Seen Happy and Smiling Just Hours Before Discovery

  20-10-2022 22:44
  Police are investigating the death of Australian rugby player Liam Hampson, whose body was found Wednesday in the restricted area of a nightclub in Barcelona, Spain.
  The 24-year-old player of the Redcliffe Dolphins had been missing for about 30 hours before his body was found at the club in what the police called “internal patio” that was closed off to the public, the Daily Mail reported.
  Police said that the rugby star somehow fell 10 meters, or about 32 feet, which appears to have
  
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• 'Green' Activists Glue Hands to Floor, Realize They've Made a Bad Decision When Car Co Won't Supply Bowls

  20-10-2022 22:36
  The climate change activist crowd seems to be getting bolder by the day.
  According to Australia’s News.com.au, recently, at the Porsche pavilion floor at Volkswagen’s Autostadt, located in Wolfsburg, Germany, a group of climate change activists — some of them from a group called Scientist Rebellion — seemingly felt the best way to pressure the government “to decarbonize the German transport sector” was to glue themselves to the showroom floor.
  The climate prot
  
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• Why BMW really decided to make batteries in the US

  20-10-2022 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  BMW recently announced a $1.7 billion investment to help prepare its huge Spartanburg, South Carolina, factory to produce electric cars and SUVs. That sum included $700 million for the construction of a battery manufacturing plant nearby.
  
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• Woman Was About to End it All - Gives Life to Jesus After What She Heard in Her Car

  20-10-2022 22:02
  One of the most meaningful and rewarding experiences a Christian music artist can have is knowing that a song they recorded made a difference in someone’s life, especially if it’s a significant difference.
  Music artist Anne Wilson knew a little something about the pain of loss.
  When her brother was tragically killed in a car crash at the age of 23, Wilson took to the piano and began to use music as her way of coping and processing her loss, according to her website.
  Wilson was only 1
  
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• 'Healthy' 28-Year-Old Man Dies Suddenly at Home Four Months After Wedding Day

  20-10-2022 21:59
  Death is a tragic inevitability in life, but that’s of little comfort to those grappling with its consequences.
  All of the comfort and well wishes in the world can sometimes feel like a pittance in those scenarios, and that downward feeling can be exacerbated when there is a mystery or distinct lack of information involved.
  Sadly, that is the scenario in which Rebecca Duca of Malta found herself after the untimely death of her husband.
  As the Times of Malta reported, Jeanluke Galea Duca wa
  
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• Telemedicine is being killed off

  20-10-2022 21:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Covid remote health care access for doctors and patients was a boon. Now states are ending telemedicine exemptions.
  
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• Heavy Fog Causes Deadly Havoc in Oregon, 60+ Vehicle Pileup on I-5

  20-10-2022 21:47
  Heavy fog on Oregon’s Interstate 5 caused a multiple-vehicle pileup north of Eugene Wednesday, claiming one life and stranding dozens of motorists.
  The crash happened around 8 a.m. near Albany in Linn County. It involved about 40 cars and 20 semis, the Associated Press reported.
  The crashes stretched for more than a mile along the interstate, the Oregon State Police told KOIN-TV.
  “I think in hindsight, all of us should’ve been driving slower on a foggy morning,” one
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Furious as Government Entity She Helped Create Is Ruled Unconstitutional, Conservatives Cheer

  20-10-2022 21:26
  The funding for the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is meant to protect consumers in the financial sector, was deemed unconstitutional Wednesday by a federal appeals court.
  Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who was the driving force behind the agency’s creation, declared the judges’ ruling was “lawless and reckless.”
  In the wake of the Great Recession that began in 2008, the CFPB was created by Congress and then-President Barack Obama as
  
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• Skydiver Plunges Straight Into Ground After Freak Accident Leaves Him Without a Parachute

  20-10-2022 20:50
  Some would say skydiving is a thrill-seeking experience, but there is a certain amount of training needed. Unfortunately, there is also a certain amount of risk to consider.
  Skydive DeLand in DeLand, Florida, has been around for 40 years.
  It boasts of being a world-renowned destination for skydiving that caters to all levels, including first-timers, according to its website.
  It’s an unfortunate and very rare occasion when the hobby takes someone’s life, but that is unfortunately what
  
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• A Top House Dem Finally Admits the Truth About Who's to Blame for Inflation: 'All of Us Knew'

  20-10-2022 20:35
  Democratic Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina said during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC that the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats knew some of their moves would spur inflation.
  “All of us knew this would be the case when we put in place this recovery program. Any time you put more money into the economy, prices tend to rise. And we do know that price gouging takes place, and that’s what Senator Warnock is concerned about down in Georgia,” Clyburn said, referr
  
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• Conway on Indep Women Surging Toward GOP: Without Gender Gap Dems 'Don't Have a Prayer'

  20-10-2022 20:20
  Former Trump White House aide and pollster Kellyanne Conway argued Wednesday that Democrats are in real trouble heading into the midterms given the disappearance of the party’s traditional advantage with women.
  A New York Times/Siena College survey released Monday found 47 percent of likely women voters favor the GOP on a generic congressional ballot and 47 percent prefer the Democratic Party.
  As a point of reference, President Joe Biden won the women’s vote by more than 10 percentag
  
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• Woman Seeks Justice After Homeless Man Living in Park Allegedly Attacks Her, Kills Her Dog

  20-10-2022 20:11
  Plenty of people walk their dogs through their local parks every day. It’s one of life’s simple pleasures, good for body, mind and soul.
  Unless, of course, someone attacks you while you’re out, hitting you with a stick and beating your dog so badly that it ends up dying from complications.
  It’s a horrible turn to an activity many enjoy, but it’s a reality one neighborhood in New York is facing.
  On Aug. 3, Jessica Chrustic was walking her 2-year-old golden retriever
  
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• American Airlines dropping international first class for more business class seats

  20-10-2022 19:53 via cnn.com
  
  American Airlines is dropping its first class cabins and replacing them with more business class seats.
  
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• 'Gender-Affirming' Surgeries on Kids Skyrocketed 389% in Just 4 years

  20-10-2022 19:42
  Remember what you were like when you were 17?
  Ah, yes – for me it was a wonderful time. It was back when I knew everything.
  That didn’t last long. I soon realized that all that knowledge I thought I had at 17 didn’t amount to much. And my folly at the time was just simple foolishness.
  Nowadays, to be 17 and to be a girl means your folly may result in a mastectomy.
  That’s more serious than being a run-of-the-mill know-it-all like I was.
  The number of “gender-affirmin
  
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• What Voter Suppression? Abrams' Claims Swiftly Derailed as Georgians Turn Up to Vote

  20-10-2022 19:26
  Georgia’s early voter turnout for the November midterm elections broke the state’s midterm early voting record Wednesday despite President Joe Biden and other Democrats previously declaring that the state’s election integrity laws resembled “Jim Crow”-era restrictions.
  From the opening of the polls Monday through Wednesday, 434,546 Georgians voted early and 38,214 of those individuals voted absentee, according to the office of Georgia’s secretary of state.
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• 'God Put Me in the Right Place': Doctors Gave Man 20% Chance of Survival - He Defied Odds and Got to Thank Hero

  20-10-2022 19:19
  Lives were on the line the first time Wisguere Dormevil met Eddie Rivera and his young son, Leo.
  And now, looking back at the time he helped lift a Jeep off the toddler, Dormevil puts his role as a good Samaritan this way:
  “God put me in the right place and at the right time.”
  Rivera and his son were driving along State Road 100 near Flagler Beach in northeast Florida on the Fourth of July when their vehicle overturned.
  “On the second flip, I ended up flying out of the top of t
  
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• Korean auto giant Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain

  20-10-2022 19:17 via cnn.com
  
  Hyundai Motor Co, Korea's top automaker, is investigating child labor violations in its U.S. supply chain and plans to "sever ties" with Hyundai suppliers in Alabama found to have relied on underage workers, the company's global chief operating officer Jose Munoz told Reuters on Wednesday.
  
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• Actor Says Tesla Lost a Customer After 24-Hour Parking Garage Nightmare: 'It Sent Me Into a Rage'

  20-10-2022 19:17
  Companies often don’t worry too much about losing one customer. No one likes it, of course, but the financial impact of one less customer is usually negligible and easily made up for by new business.
  Of course, when a single purchase from a customer will run in the neighborhood of $50,000 to $140,000, that can make a difference in the math.
  And when the lost customer is an actor with a popular podcast and hundreds of thousands of listeners, getting that new business might become more probl
  
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• 'Batten down the hatches': Bezos and fellow billionaires are issuing recession warnings

  20-10-2022 19:12 via cnn.com
  Even the uber-rich are on edge now about the economy.
  
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• Detention Officer Finds Himself on Other Side of Jail Bars After Sheriff Catches Onto His Sneaky Act

  20-10-2022 19:11
  A Texas sheriff made it clear in no uncertain terms that he was disgusted with a now-former jailer.
  “You’re fired,” Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner told Tyler Moody on Oct. 10. “You’re no longer an employee here.”
  Moody had admitted to investigators to smuggling a cellphone and charger into the jail where he had served as a detention officer since October 2019, according to KDFW.
  The items were discovered during a shakedown of cells.
  Sheriff Skinner said tha
  
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• Inflation has people living paycheck to paycheck. Here's how some banks are responding

  20-10-2022 19:02 via cnn.com
  
  "Payday Friday" may soon be replaced by "Payday Wednesday."
  
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• 'An Angel from God': Dick Van Dyke, 96, Hands Cash to Homeless During Rare Public Sighting

  20-10-2022 19:02
  Dick Van Dyke — that seemingly unstoppable force of stage and screen for more than seven decades — made a public appearance last week. Those he helped proclaimed him “an angel from God.”
  Van Dyke, 96, showed up at the Malibu Community Labor Exchange on Oct. 13. During his time there, he made sure that the people who were there to find work each went away with five dollars, the Daily Mail reported.
  “Whenever I have some fives I come by,” Van Dyke told Daily Mai
  
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• An 'unprecedented' rise in respiratory viruses in children is overwhelming some hospitals

  20-10-2022 18:47 via cnn.com
  
  A surge in respiratory illnesses among children is beginning to put a strain on hospitals.
  
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• Liz Truss Resigns After Just 44 Days as UK Prime Minister, 1 Day After Pledging the Opposite

  20-10-2022 18:35
  British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced Thursday she is resigning, leaving behind a niche in the record books as the nation’s shortest-serving prime minister.
  “It was a matter of time, really,” said Gus Correa, 32, a graphic designer in east London, according to The New York Times.
  “I’m not sure how Britain will get out of this,” he said, referring to the economic and political mess Truss will leave behind.
  Her 44 days were marked by turmoil over her fiscal
  
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• Whoopi Goldberg Shoots Down Meghan's Claims of Being 'Objectified' on 'Deal or No Deal': 'That's TV, Baby'

  20-10-2022 18:26
  In Tuesday’s episode her podcast, “Archetypes,” Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, complained that she felt objectified when she worked as an assistant on the game show “Deal or No Deal” more than a decade ago.
  But on Wednesday, “The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg took issue with Meghan’s assessment and criticized her for essentially accusing the show and audience of objectifying women.
  In describing her experience in her Spotify podcast, Meghan said, 
  
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• Rubio: 'I'm Not Like Stacey Abrams,' I Never Denied An Election; Hits Opponent for Wanting to Federalize Voting

  20-10-2022 18:17
  Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said at a Tuesday night debate with Democratic Rep. Val Demings that he, unlike Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, would accept his election’s result.
  Rubio also called out Demings for her efforts to weaken Florida’s voting laws through federal legislation.
  Rick Christie, executive editor of The Palm Beach Post, citing a Washington Post story about 2020 “election deniers” running for office in 48 states, asked the cand
  
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• Will You Eat a Plant-Based Steak After Seeing How a 3D Printer Builds One?

  20-10-2022 18:09
  It has been said that sausage is something you can enjoy, but you wouldn’t want to see it made.
  Then, would you prefer your “meat” extruded from a nozzle in a laboratory?
  More to the point: Would such a food be as delicious and nutritious as the original item it is trying to displace in the market?
  Redefine Meat, a startup out of Israel, is one of the latest companies attempting to sell plant-based alternatives to actual meat. Last week the firm announced a partnership that wil
  
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• Diwali will be a public school holiday in New York City starting in 2023

  20-10-2022 18:08 via cnn.com
  
  Diwali, the Hindu celebration known as the "Festival of Lights," will be a public school holiday in New York City starting next year.
  
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• Bill Maher: Pandemic Collateral Damage Wasn't from COVID - We Did it to Ourselves

  20-10-2022 17:59
  Bill Maher, despite his liberalism, does occasionally stick the landing. Take Friday, when he called out those in the media just now talking about the collateral damage from the COVID-19 pandemic.
  His message was something America needed to hear back in 2020: The right term isn’t “collateral damage,” it’s suicide.
  In a clip from his HBO show, “Real Time,” that the comedian shared on Twitter, Maher discussed the dire stats we’re just beginning to wake up
  
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• CDC's 'Fact Check' on Tucker Carlson Over School COVID Vaccine Mandate Leaves Out Huge Detail

  20-10-2022 17:49
  This week, Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News show that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was going to take action that would require public school children to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
  The CDC responded to a tweet from Carlson to that effect, in essence fact checking the Fox News host. Mainstream media outlets like ABC News were quick to pounce on the “correction.”
  The problem, however, is that Carlson was largely correct, and the CDC completely missed the point.
  Here&
  
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• Man Accused of Attacking Pregnant Girlfriend and Killing Unborn Child Avoids Jail Time with Plea Deal

  20-10-2022 17:38
  A Texas man has cut a plea deal that will see him avoid jail time over an incident in which he was accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to the point where she lost her child, according to news reports.
  Johnny Charles Ebbs V, who was facing a third-degree continuous family violence assault charge, will face eight years of deferred adjudication, according to KXAN-TV.
  Under deferred adjudication, sentencing comes without a finding of guilt, according to the website of Texas attorney Will Mitc
  
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• American Airlines: Our customers aren't buying international first class tickets. So we're eliminating them

  20-10-2022 17:38 via cnn.com
  
  American Airlines is dropping its first class cabins and replacing them with more business class seats.
  
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• Outrage After Ex-NFL Player Brings Stripper to Dance Nearly Naked on High School Gym Floor

  20-10-2022 17:19
  One of the most disgusting trends in recent years is the pervasive erosion of common decency and dignity in American culture.
  In the latest salvo, a former NFL player brought a stripper to a suburban Detroit high school, where she twerked to the lyrics, “Twerk that p****, baby,” and writhed against a shirtless rapper.
  The incident occurred Saturday in the gymnasium of Mount Clemens High School, according to WJBK-TV in Michigan.
  The report said it was a charity event — “Pe
  
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• Untouchables

  20-10-2022 17:16
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Untouchables appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Former US Capitol Police officer on trial for allegedly telling rioter to delete evidence related to attack

  20-10-2022 17:04 via cnn.com
  
  A former US Capitol police officer on trial for allegedly telling a January 6, 2021, rioter to delete evidence related to the attack also told the rioter he thought some of the "agitators" that day were Antifa, according to prosecutors.
  
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• Military Veteran Dies Shortly After Passing Out on Disney World Ride

  20-10-2022 16:55
  An 83-year-old man died last month after fainting on the PeopleMover attraction at Florida’s Disney World.
  Joseph Masters of Palm Coast, Florida, passed out at about 4:45 p.m. on Sept 25, an Orange County Sheriff’s report said, according to Florida Politics.
  The report said the victim’s wife, Alice, “began to panic.”
  “She began asking for help and attempted to contact family members who were at the park. As the ride came to its end, Disney staff and security r
  
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• Teaching 'Gender Identity' to Elementary Kids Can Now Get Teacher Licenses Revoked in This State

  20-10-2022 16:50
  The Florida Board of Education unanimously approved a series of policies Wednesday, including one that disciplines teachers who teach gender identity or sexual orientation to 5-year-olds.
  Under the policy, teachers could have their license suspended or revoked if they break Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Parental Rights in Education Law, which prohibits lessons on gender identity and sexual orientation from kindergarten through third grade.
  The board also approved rules requiring schools to
  
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• Biden Says Refilling Oil Reserve at $70/Barrel Will Make Money - Never Forget What Dems Did to Trump 2 Years Ago

  20-10-2022 16:07
  President Joe Biden is set to loot the Strategic Petroleum Reserve yet again, and he’s justifying the political gimmick with a plan that all but admits his party has cost the taxpayer billions for no good reason.
  The federal stockpile of fuel is intended to relieve civilian and military shortages in the event of energy crises.
  Biden finalized his latest release of 15 million barrels from the federal stash on Wednesday, using the last portion of a 180-million barrel set of releases he had a
  
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• Dr. Phil Nails 'Woke' Educators with the Perfect Question: 'What Makes You Know Better Than a Parent?'

  20-10-2022 15:43
  It’s one of the few upsides to the school closures and remote learning that federal and state officials — largely at the behest of teachers’ unions — forced on America’s schoolchildren over the past couple of years: Parents suddenly became more aware of what their kids were being taught in public schools.
  A lot of them didn’t like it, and rightly so. The backlash has been tremendous, starting with the victory of businessman and political newcomer Glenn Youngki
  
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• Sick: Disney Director Admits She Created a Show with Sex Scenes for Children

  20-10-2022 15:41
  “‘She-Hulk’ is easily one of the horniest shows currently streaming on Disney Plus, and for that, one of the most refreshing.”
  That cringe-worthy line is from an interview and profile piece published in the geek-centric publication Polygon on Monday about Kat Coiro, the director of the excruciatingly meta Disney/Marvel series “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.”
  In that same article, Coiro describes how “one of the horniest shows currently streaming on Disney Pl
  
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• Hero Teen Makes the Ultimate Call - Snitches on Mom to Save Brother from Deadly Car Ride

  20-10-2022 14:36
  A Michigan 911 dispatcher received a unique call Monday from a girl in the back of a car who wanted to report that her mother was driving in what the girl said was a drunken condition.
  The incident took place at about 6 p.m. Monday, according to Toledo, Ohio’s WTVG-TV. In its report, the station played pieces of the 911 call that triggered police to respond.
  “Hi, my mom is drunk driving crazy as [expletive] with me and my little brother in the car. We don’t feel safe at all. Li
  
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• The Fed isn't about to back down from its inflation fight

  20-10-2022 14:28 via cnn.com
  
  Twelve days from now, the Federal Reserve will meet again, and expectations for the central bank's next moves are firming up. The consensus among investors: Persistently hot inflation means the Fed will need to continue with its string of aggressive interest rate hikes, which is unprecedented in the modern era.
  
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• Is Barilla really 'Italy's No. 1 brand of pasta?' A lawsuit says no

  20-10-2022 14:15 via cnn.com
  
  Barilla can't avoid a class-action lawsuit over allegedly deceptive advertising about the pasta's origins, a federal judge ruled this week.
  
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• Exclusive: Wonder Bread will have its first-ever float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

  20-10-2022 14:12 via cnn.com
  
  For any company that's been around for a century, it can be hard to keep the brand fresh. Wonder Bread hopes its latest stunt can help.
  
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• Exclusive: An iconic American brand will have its first-ever float in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

  20-10-2022 14:12 via cnn.com
  
  For any company that's been around for a century, it can be hard to keep the brand fresh. Wonder Bread hopes its latest stunt can help.
  
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• Watch: Police Cameras Capture Live Reactions During Voter Fraud Arrests in Florida

  20-10-2022 13:35
  Police bodycam footage obtained by the Tampa Bay Times shows the moments Florida law enforcement arrests several suspects in a statewide voter fraud investigation.
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis touted the arrests in an August news conference, pointing to the charges as evidence of his administration’s commitment to election integrity.
  Several of the suspects appear confused as they’re arrested in the footage — apparently under the impression they had registered or voted legally.The
  
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