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• Unintentional Parody: Watch NBC's 2-min Promo Showing Dads Distraught That Grandkids Can't Be Aborted

  07-11-2022 23:54
  Scene: FADE IN
  Scene: TIGHT CLOSEUP MAN WITH ANGUISHED LOOK
  Somber music plays
  Scene: MAN LOOKS AT YOUNG 3-TO-4-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IN SLO-MO PLAYING. SHE SEES HIS GAZE, SMILES AT HIM. HIS ANGUISH CONTINUES AND HE DROPS PHONE FROM WHICH HE’S BEEN READING.
  And so it goes, a more than 2-minute promotion for NBC’s “New Amsterdam” medical drama — set in New York City — showing several of the show’s characters concerned about their daughters’ futures, giv
  
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• With Trump, Kanye West and Kyrie Irving remarks, Jewish communities fear rising hate

  07-11-2022 23:50
  
  Incidents of antisemitism have risen sharply since 2016, with high-profile celebrities pushing anti-Jewish sentiment into public view.      
  
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• Hollywood Model Joins List of Celebs Musk Has Scared Off Twitter: 'Cesspool of Hate'

  07-11-2022 23:49
  Leftists cannot compete with conservatives (or even moderates) if the discourse is happening on equal footing, with both parties given the same opportunity to present their facts. They are cowards in the truest sense of the word.
  If that assessment seems harsh, it probably is. But it’s difficult to draw a different conclusion when you see some of these C-list celebrities picking up their balls and going home.
  The latest submission for Mystery Coward Theater 3000 is from Jelena Noura &ldquo
  
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• Walker Flips the Script on Biden After Being Labeled Threat to Democracy - Only Takes 1 Quick Reminder

  07-11-2022 23:47
  During a televised address last week, President Joe Biden attempted to convince American voters that a vote for Republicans would be akin to a vote for destroying democracy, or something to that effect — his message was about as clear as mud.
  “I’m not the only one who sees it. Recent polls have shown that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe our democracy at — is at risk, that our democracy is under threat. They too see that democracy is on the ballot this year,
  
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• Biden Being Begged to Prepare as Americans Face Winter Crisis

  07-11-2022 23:38
  With winter coming, many are concerned about the U.S. being plunged into a heating and energy crisis as the price of oil is high and inflation continues to plague the economy. Now the Biden administration is facing pressure from the northeast as the region is already bracing itself for winter.
  Bloomberg reported that the price of heating oil on the East coast is already high, Connecticut sellers are actually rationing oil supplies, and that “New England’s stockpiles of diesel and hea
  
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• Nobody Is Talking About the Border Murders Biden Is Paying For - Here's the Evidence

  07-11-2022 23:26
  The Biden administration is facilitating the slaughter of preborn children crossing the southern border thanks to partisan, pro-abortion guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services.
  Unborn children aren’t the only potential victims of this guidance, however.
  By providing such easy access to these procedures, Biden’s HHS has created a system that can be easily exploited to facilitate the forced abortions of young, pregnant, illegal immigrant girls.
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• $1.9B Powerball prize draws lines of ticket buyers

  07-11-2022 23:26
  Hopeful Powerball ticket buyers waited in line Monday at the Lucky Mart in Chicago. The estimated $1.9 billion jackpot is nearly $400 million larger than the previous record jackpot. (Nov. 7)(AP Video: Teresa Crawford)      
  
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• Carvana stock plummets as used car prices fall

  07-11-2022 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  Shares of used car marketplace Carvana continued to plummet Monday, falling over 50% over the past two trading days, following a volatile downward trend that began after the company shared third-quarter results Thursday.
  
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• Iran Raises Red Flag of Revenge

  07-11-2022 23:19
  Iran has raised the Red Flag of Revenge over yet another holy shrine.
  On Oct. 26, gunmen opened fire at the Shah Cheragh shrine in the city of Shiraz, killing at least 15 and wounding at least 40 others, according to VOA Persian.
  In response to the attack, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to retaliate against those responsible and raised the Red Flag of Revenge over the shrine, Reuters reported.
  In statement, Khamenei said that the perpetrators “will surely be punis
  
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• 40-Year Election Expert Analyzes the Greatest Political Ads of 2022

  07-11-2022 23:14
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• Houston celebrates Astros' World Series win

  07-11-2022 23:06
  Fans celebrated Houston Astros' World Series win with a downtown parade Monday (Nov. 7)      
  
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• Biden DOJ Announces List of 64 Jurisdictions Where It Will Monitor Polling Places 'For Compliance'

  07-11-2022 23:05
  A day before the midterm elections, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that its Civil Rights Division plans to dispatch teams to monitor polls in 64 voting jurisdictions in a total of 24 states “for compliance with federal voting rights laws.”
  The Biden administration’s Justice Department said in the news release Monday that the division “has regularly monitored elections in the field in jurisdictions around the country” since the passage of the Voting
  
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• As anti-LGBTQ rhetoric grows, voter ID laws create obstacles for thousands of transgender voters

  07-11-2022 23:04
  
  Transgender voters may face challenges to casting their ballot on Tuesday because of strict voter ID laws in some states.      
  
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• 'There's Too Much to Lose': Chris Pratt, Elon Musk Face Off Against Obama, Biden with Political Endorsements

  07-11-2022 23:01
  Like candy and cavities, few things in life are more annoyingly linked than celebrities and modern Democrats.
  Yes, celebrities have always had some association with politicians throughout history. Ronald Reagan was an actor before becoming president, for instance. (On the Democratic side, John Wilkes Booth was one of the most famous actors of his day before heading to Ford’s Theatre to shoot Abraham Lincoln.)
  But in recent years, particularly beginning with the ascent of the Barack and Mic
  
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• Watch: Bill Clinton Has Spine-Chilling Reaction to Epstein Question After Being Caught Off Guard

  07-11-2022 22:26
  Former President Bill Clinton was directly questioned about his connections to Jeffrey Epstein on Monday.
  Real America’s Voice journalist Juan Diaz said in a tweet Monday that he asked Clinton about his relationship to the deceased sex offender during a campaign event in support of Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar in Laredo.
  “Mr. Clinton, any comments on the alleged — allegation of your connection with Jeffrey Epstein?” Diaz said.I confronted @BillClinton at the rally
  
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• How was David DePape, suspect in Paul Pelosi attack, able to live in the U.S. without a visa?

  07-11-2022 22:25
  
  Around half of undocumented migrants in U.S. overstayed visas, like Paul Pelosi's alleged attacker. The U.S. lacks resources to go after them all.      
  
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• Woman Finds Strange, Drunk Man in Her Bed - Shocking Identity Revealed to Be CFO of Major Company

  07-11-2022 22:02
  Tyson Foods’ Chief Financial Officer John R. Tyson — a great-grandson of the company’s founder — has been charged with public intoxication and criminal trespassing after allegedly entering a stranger’s home and falling asleep on her bed.
  According to an incident report provided by the Fayetteville, Arkansas, police department, officers received a call early Sunday morning from a woman who had returned home to find a man she didn’t know sleeping in her bed.
  Whe
  
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• Solar panel trouble on capsule bound for ISS

  07-11-2022 21:51
  A Northrop Grumman cargo capsule ran into trouble with a solar panel after Monday's liftoff to the International Space Station. Only one of the two solar panels on the capsule opened successfully following the predawn liftoff from Virginia. (Nov. 7)      
  
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• Major Florida Newspaper Openly Complains About 'Personal Rights' Under DeSantis' Leadership, Endorses 'Moderate' Charlie Crist

  07-11-2022 21:37
  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
  These words are more than just the preamble of the Declaration of Independence — they represent the core tenets our nation was founded to protect.
  Evidently, not all Americans today agree with these founding ideals.
  As Fox News noted Saturday, the Miami Herald editorial board argued
  
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• Catastrophic Turn for Zuckerberg's Meta Appears to Be on the Horizon: This Could Shatter Records

  07-11-2022 21:26
  When rumors of layoffs at Twitter started to appear in mainstream media, the left had a meltdown. One lawyer even sued Musk “preemptively” over the layoffs.
  One wonders if they’ll respond the same way to similar news from Meta, which is still run by leftist darling Mark Zuckerberg.
  Meta Platforms Inc. may being “large-scale layoffs” potentially affecting thousands of employees as early as this week, according to an exclusive report from The Wall Street Journal.
  As a
  
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• Tyson Foods CFO arrested after entering wrong home, falling asleep

  07-11-2022 21:05 via cnn.com
  
  In the latest incident of C-suite execs behaving poorly, Tyson Foods Chief Financial Officer, John R. Tyson, was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly wandered into the wrong home and fell asleep in a bedroom.
  
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• Historic Misery: Philadelphia Becomes First City to Ever Lose 2 Championships in Under 24 Hours

  07-11-2022 20:58
  When it comes to the most tortured sports fan bases in America, there are some obvious choices.
  Detroit immediately comes to mind, given the general ineptitude across all of their sports franchises. Cleveland also comes to mind, although they did win an NBA championship in 2016, and the Cavaliers are currently one of the best teams in the NBA. Minneapolis fans haven’t had much to cheer for, at least not since 1991. And the less said about the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, the better fo
  
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• Judge seals autopsy reports of Uvalde mass shooting victims

  07-11-2022 20:36 via cnn.com
  
  A Texas district court judge in Uvalde has sealed autopsy reports of those killed during the Robb Elementary School mass shooting in May.
  
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• Elon Musk Doubles Down on Free Speech Promise, Permitting 'Personal Safety Risk' to Prove His Point

  07-11-2022 20:27
  As changes to Twitter under Elon Musk’s new ownership continue to unfold, on Sunday Musk reiterated his promise to uphold free speech on the platform, even if it means keeping the account that tracks his personal jet active.
  There is an account, @ElonJet, that tracks the whereabouts Musk’s private jet using ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast) data.
  The account is run by University of Central Florida student Jack Sweeney.
  But even though this account is tracking M
  
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• Twitter Had a 'Human Rights Team,' But Here's What the Company Was Really Doing

  07-11-2022 20:07
  The departure of an executive from Twitter is raising eyebrows about the supposed impartiality of the social media giant prior to its acquisition by Elon Musk.
  A tweet by former Twitter counsel Shannon Raj Singh indicates that Twitter had been actively promoting a United Nations “human rights” agenda.
  Meanwhile, the company was also censoring and silencing users who dared to openly question and dissent from the “official” narrative about COVID-19, the 2020 election, the H
  
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• Soccer Star Sentenced to 10 Months in Prison for Voicing His Thoughts on Transgender People

  07-11-2022 19:55
  Retired Greek soccer star Vasilis Tsiartas was sentenced Thursday to 10 months in prison for comments he made several years ago on social media that were deemed “transphobic.”
  The former midfielder for AEK Athens FC as well as the Greek national team posted his opposition to pro-transgender legislation on Facebook in 2017, the Greek City Times reported.
  “I wish that the first gender changes will be made by the children of those who voted for this disgrace,” Tsiartas said.
  
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• Breaking Report: Trump Could Announce His Run for President Tonight

  07-11-2022 19:38
  Former President Donald Trump might make a historic 2024 “comeback” presidential campaign a reality sooner rather than later.
  Trump is seriously considering announcing his candidacy for President as soon as Monday night, according to sources cited by Daily Caller reporter Henry Rodgers.NEW: A source close to President Trump tells me it is basically a “coin flip” as to whether Trump announces his run for President tonight. No final decision has been made on the possible an
  
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• Fetterman Declares Republicans Will Take Early Election Lead Before 'Dramatic' Overnight Comeback for Democrats

  07-11-2022 19:37
  Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman predicted Monday that his Republican rival Dr. Mehmet Oz will take an early lead in their contest as returns come in on Election Day.
  However, he said that a “dramatic” change would happen overnight as more ballots are processed.
  “Counting for ballots cast by mail and early in-person cannot begin until Election Day, thanks to the GOP-controlled legislature — an intentional move to
  
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• Elon Musk Makes Voting Recommendation Day Before Election - Liberal's Heads Will Explode

  07-11-2022 19:29
  Elon Musk is by no means a conservative.
  As pointed out by Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips, Musk has, in the past, voted for Democrats like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Hillary Clinton, described himself as a socialist and vehemently opposed former President Donald Trump’s policies.
  That fact, that Musk is indeed liberal, makes what he said on Monday especially devastating news for Democrats.
  Using his newly purchased social media platform, the billionaire entrepreneur and new
  
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• Woman Praised for Moving Car to Shield Cops After Noticing They Were in Trouble: 'I Would Do It Again'

  07-11-2022 19:27
  As bullets were flying in Newark, New Jersey, last week in a shooting that left two police officers wounded, one civilian went above and beyond to shield the police and assist a wounded officer.
  “The woman … got out of her car and tried to stop the bleeding of an officer and helped drag him safety in the middle of what might have been a gunfight,” Mayor Raj J. Baraka said after the Tuesday incident, according to CBS.
  “Our residents in Newark have shown several times over
  
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• Military to Become Involved with Elections in Key Battleground States

  07-11-2022 19:02
  With midterm elections less than a day away, National Guard cyber units have been made ready to help several states protect their election systems if necessary.
  On Friday, according to Politico, the National Guard Bureau announced that the following states have enlisted some of the Guard’s cybersecurity units to help with the midterms: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virgin
  
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• Ketanji Brown Jackson issues her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice -- a dissent

  07-11-2022 18:54 via cnn.com
  
  Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice, said she would have sided with an inmate who argued that Ohio suppressed evidence that might have helped him at trial.
  
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• Kathy Griffin Revives Dead Mother's Account Just Hours After Musk Ban, Tweets 2 Letters Proving She's Back

  07-11-2022 18:42
  Kathy Griffin has never been known for her tactfulness. But, on Sunday, the 62-year-old comedian managed to reach a new low, even for her.
  How could the woman who posted a picture of herself holding what appeared to be the severed head of Donald Trump possibly do so?
  By using her dead mother’s Twitter account to solve petty grievances on Twitter.
  Earlier Sunday, Griffin was banned from the Elon Musk-run Twitter for breaking one of its new rules, impersonation. She had, in fact, impersonate
  
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• This Democratic leader just broke the first rule of politics

  07-11-2022 18:29 via cnn.com
  
  Rule No. 1 of politics goes like this: Don't compare anything to Nazi Germany. Just don't.
  
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• Analysis: This Democratic leader just broke the first rule of politics

  07-11-2022 18:29 via cnn.com
  
  Rule No. 1 of politics goes like this: Don't compare anything to Nazi Germany. Just don't.
  
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• Washington Post Forced to Break Precedent to Give Biden a Rare 'Bottomless Pinocchio'

  07-11-2022 18:21
  How bad have things gotten for President Joe Biden when the reliably left-leaning Washington Post refuses to run interference for him on the eve of a national election?
  Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer of The Washington Post’s “The Fack Checker” section, opened an analysis this morning by referring to Biden calling himself four years ago a “gaffe machine.”
  “I am a gaffe machine,” he said late in 2018, talking about a potential 2020 candidacy that h
  
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• By Their Fruits

  07-11-2022 18:09
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• Leaked Texts: Voter Org Founded by Stacey Abrams Is in Chaos After Major Executives Dismissed

  07-11-2022 17:58
  A Georgia voter registration group founded by failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in 2013 has been embroiled in a hotbed of corruption allegations in the lead-up to Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to a report Friday.
  The New Georgia Project — which was once helmed by Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock — fired its top financial, legal and operation officials in late June, The Washington Free Beacon reported.
  “In 2020 alone, it raised nearly $25 mill
  
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• King Charles Has a Weird Ice Quirk, Won't Leave Home Without His Toy

  07-11-2022 17:40
  The king of Britain is also the king of quirky behavior, according to new reports.
  King Charles III will be “one of the most eccentric sovereigns Great Britain has ever had,” Christopher Andersen, the author of “The King: The Life of Charles III,” said in a recent interview, according to Entertainment Tonight.
  “I think one of the funniest quirks — a number of royals have this, the queen had it as well — they don’t like square ice cub
  
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• Airbnb addresses users' biggest pet peeve: Cleaning fees

  07-11-2022 17:39 via cnn.com
  
  Airbnb on Monday said it plans to make the total cost of rental properties, including all fees, clearer to customers as they search for places to stay, addressing what is arguably one of the biggest pet peeves about the platform.
  
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• Elon Musk Reveals Kathy Griffin Can Have Twitter Account Back, But It'll Cost Her

  07-11-2022 17:35
  On Monday, the new Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, revealed what Kathy Griffin must do in order to get her Twitter account back.
  Griffin’s account was permanently suspended from Twitter for impersonating Musk in violation of Twitter’s rules.
  However, in a response to Benny Johnson about the incident, Musk jokingly said that Griffin was suspended for “impersonating a comedian” and said that she could have her Twitter account back “For $8.”Actually, she was suspended fo
  
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• $1 Billion Funneled to Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan Since Biden's Retreat; Agencies Refusing to Hand Over Details

  07-11-2022 17:28
  Long after the fog of war has dissipated from Afghanistan, the fog of the Biden administration is preventing American taxpayers from knowing how more than $1 billion given to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is being spent, according to a new report.
  The report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said the Treasury Department and the United States Agency for International Development stonewalled any investigation into where the money had gone, while the State Departmen
  
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• Here's exactly how Donald Trump would run against Ron DeSantis

  07-11-2022 17:24 via cnn.com
  
  On the campaign trail over the weekend, Donald Trump gave us all a preview of how he would run against Ron DeSantis in the 2024 presidential race.
  
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• Is Your Name on the List? Election Officials Name Over 1,000 Voters Whose Ballots Won't Be Counted

  07-11-2022 17:16
  In the tight and tense Senate contest being waged in Pennsylvania between Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz and Democrat John Fetterman, a new wrinkle has emerged that has local governments warning some mail-in voters that their ballots may not be counted.
  As noted by NPR, federal law assumes voters are not perfect and bans throwing out a ballot for what might be called a trivial reason. Pennsylvania state law, however, requires voters to specifically date and sign a mail-in ballot.
  In response to a laws
  
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• A recession in the US is not a slam dunk, Goldman Sachs says

  07-11-2022 17:15 via cnn.com
  
  While investors, business leaders and some economic models continue to warn a recession is imminent, Wall Street's most powerful investment bank remains cautiously optimistic.
  
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• As Lottery Fever Sweeps America, Former Powerball Winner Warns People to Take the Right Steps

  07-11-2022 16:49
  The best advice anyone could ever give regarding the hidden tax that the government likes to call Powerball is simple: Don’t play it.
  You have a much better chance of being struck by lightning — literally, according to the CDC — than you do of hitting the 1-in-292.2 million long shot that CNN said it takes to get all six numbers right.
  That said, tonight’s Powerball jackpot is estimated to be about $1.9 billion (with a b), and for some reason, Americans — and I cann
  
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• SNL Makes Announcement They May Actually Be Funny Again for a Night, Leftists Utterly Lose It

  07-11-2022 16:19
  You’d think that when “Saturday Night Live” announced that this coming week’s episode would feature a comedy legend and a rap supergroup, what fans remain glued to the series would presumably be ecstatic.
  Instead, they were outraged — all because said comedy legend stated the biological fact that a man is a man and a woman is a woman.
  Dave Chappelle, who rankled the left by stating that “gender is a fact” in a 2021 comedy special, will be helming Saturda
  
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• Supreme Court won't hear case of military widow who alleges her husband died of toxins exposure at Camp Lejeune

  07-11-2022 16:09 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought by a military widow who wants to sue the government because she says her husband's death was the result of exposure to toxic and contaminated water at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base.
  
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• Firefighters' Heroic Rescue Caught on Video; Investigators Say Lithium-Ion Device Set 292-Unit Building Ablaze

  07-11-2022 16:06
  New York City firefighters made a dramatic 20th-floor rescue Saturday after a three-alarm fire struck a 292-unit building in Manhattan.
  Thirty-eight people were reported injured in the fire, including two with life-threatening injuries. Five of the injured were New York City firefighters.
  A “lithium-ion battery connected to a micromobility device” started the fire, FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said, according to the New York Post.
  “The lithium-ion battery adds a different d
  
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• Drought-Weary Southwest Taking Fatal Hits as Foreign Farms Plunder What Water Remains

  07-11-2022 15:52
  Foreign-owned farms are siphoning precious water from the American Southwest’s supply as a historic drought jeopardizes the region’s future.
  The drought comes as states such as Nevada and Arizona grow to populations they’ve never supported before in their histories.
  The two states contain much of the hot and dry Mohave and Sonoran deserts.
  The state of Arizona leases farmland to a Saudi-owned agricultural company, which grows alfalfa, at the cost of more than $3 million a year
  
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