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• GOP Governor Receives Unexpected Phone Call After Midterm Victory

  09-11-2022 23:54
  President Joe Biden personally reached out to an election-night winner who is a member of another party.
  The President gave Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine a personal congratulatory call after his victorious re-election, which was called soon after polls were closed in the Buckeye State.
  DeWine is a conservative Republican who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, according to Fox News.
  Bloomberg’s Akayla Gardner broke news of the cross-partisan congratulation call on Wednesday morning..@PO
  
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• Vindman's Case Against Trump, Giuliani Thrown Out of Court as More Anti-Trump Lies Exposed

  09-11-2022 23:44
  Lost amidst the midterm results was one huge victory for former President Donald Trump: Alexander Vindman’s lawsuit against the former president was thrown out.
  Remember Lt. Col. Vindman? Back in the day, he was the primary testimonial evidence against Trump when the then-president was accused of a quid pro quo with Ukraine and impeached. Hero of the resistance. Someone who would clearly prevail over the corrupt ex-president.
  Except when he failed, of course.
  According to The Hill, “
  
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• Fuel Emergency Declared in Multiple States - Will They Make It Through Winter?

  09-11-2022 23:39
  Truck drivers who haul liquid fuel products in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota will be able to drive for extended hours and, in some cases, transport heavier loads thanks to the recent emergency measures taken by the states’ governors as the region faces a potential fuel shortage this winter.
  According to Natural News, Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota and Gov. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska both issued emergency declarations, providing relief to the trucking industry to keep fuel supplies &mdas
  
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• Video: DeSantis Crowd Erupts Into Chant That Trump Will Hate During Victory Speech

  09-11-2022 23:36
  As the midterm election results are pouring in and the midterm season is finally coming to a close, many are already gearing up for the launch of 2024 presidential campaigns and the hypothetical contest between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is already taking the spotlight.
  It has been a big week for both DeSantis and Trump.
  DeSantis won re-election as Florida’s governor, The Associated Press reported.
  Meanwhile, Trump announced on Monday that he will make a &l
  
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• Abortion rights prevail in blue, red states alike

  09-11-2022 23:36
  Voters enshrined abortion rights in battleground Michigan as well as blue California and Vermont. And an anti-abortion measure was defeated in deep-red Kentucky (Nov. 9)(AP video: Mike Householder and Dylan Lovan)      
  
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• Control of Congress is up in the air. But America’s feelings about Trump aren’t.

  09-11-2022 23:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  After Trump-backed candidates lost several key races, it's clear that America’s enchantment with the former president is just about over.
  
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• Whopping Majority Issues GOP Even Greater Win Down Ballot in Ohio

  09-11-2022 23:28
  The hoped-for red wave did not materialize for Republicans on Tuesday, but the election was still very good for the GOP, especially in Ohio, where an extremely important ballot measure was voted in with a huge majority.
  Buckeye State residents were thrilled that Republican J.D. Vance, author of the best — selling book “Hillbilly Elegy,” won his bid for the U.S. Senate as a Republican — handily beating his Democrat opponent by more than seven percentage points.
  Vance surpr
  
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• Crypto giant Binance drops bid to save rival, stoking chaos in digital assets

  09-11-2022 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  A day after announcing a plan to buy its embattled rival, cryptocurrency exchange Binance pulled out of the deal, saying FTX's problems were "beyond our control or ability to help."
  
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• Rough weather in Florida as Nicole approaches

  09-11-2022 23:25
  Residents in several Florida counties were ordered to evacuate such barrier islands, low-lying areas and mobile homes aas Tropical Storm Nicole moved towards the state. (Nov. 9)      
  
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• It's Not Over Yet: Arizona County Issues Apology on Voting Machines, Reveals Shocking Number of Ballots Affected

  09-11-2022 23:17
  Maricopa County, Arizona, experienced an unfortunate technical issue at various polling places on Election Day, sparking controversy and backlash from candidates and the voting public.
  According to Fox News, voters ran into serious problems due to malfunctioning tabulation machines shortly after the polls opened on Election Day, preventing many from having the ability to have their ballots properly registered. Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, during a Wednesday morning news conference, cla
  
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• It's Not Over Yet: Arizona County Issues Apology on Voting Machines, Reveals Shocking Amount of Ballots Affected

  09-11-2022 23:17
  Maricopa County, Arizona, experienced an unfortunate technical issue at various polling places on Election Day, sparking controversy and backlash from candidates and the voting public.
  According to Fox News, voters ran into serious problems due to malfunctioning tabulation machines shortly after the polls opened on Election Day, preventing many from having the ability to have their ballots properly registered. Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, during a Wednesday morning news conference, cla
  
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• Hopes of a Red Wave Went Unanswered, But the GOP Still Scooped Up Several Important Races

  09-11-2022 23:13
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• GOP Swipes Crucial House Seat After 10 Years in Democrat Clutches

  09-11-2022 23:13
  New York Republican George Santos flipped a U.S. House seat Tuesday night in what was part of a very good night for GOP congressional candidates in the Empire State.
  Santos defeated Robert Zimmerman, taking the 3rd congressional district on Long Island with approximately 54 percent of the vote to the Democrat candidate’s 46 percent, according to The New York Times.
  The 3rd District has been in Democratic hands since Republican then-Rep. Peter King retired in 2012.
  The Cook Partisan Voter I
  
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• Doctors treat rare genetic disease before birth

  09-11-2022 23:11
  A toddler is thriving after doctors in the US and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she was born for a rare genetic disease that previously claimed the lives of two of her sisters.  (Nov. 9)      
  
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• Maricopa officials defend vote count integrity

  09-11-2022 23:01
  Election officials assured voters that every ballot would be counted after a printing malfunction at about one-quarter of the polling places in Maricopa County, Arizona. (Nov. 9)(AP Video: Nathan Ellgren)      
  
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• Analysis: US midterms 'red wave' only hit Florida

  09-11-2022 23:01
  The predicted GOP midterm wave "started in Florida and it ended in Florida," says GW Professor Todd Belt. He believes Gen Z voters were also highly animated by the issue of abortion, and that "flew under the radar" of a lot of polls. (Nov. 9)      
  
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• Key U.S. Senate seat stays in GOP hands in Wis.

  09-11-2022 22:56
  Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has defeated Democrat Mandela Barnes to keep a seat in Republican hands. Johnson won a third term in the midterm elections, preventing Barnes from becoming the state's first Black senator. (Nov. 9) (AP Video: Carrie Antlfinger)      
  
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• Op-Ed: The Root Cause of America's Moral Decay Lies in the Public Schools

  09-11-2022 22:48
  I recently came across a study by the Barna Group called “How Concerned Are Christian Parents About Their Children’s Faith Formation?” I must say, the data grieved me.
  One of the questions posed was, “As a parent, how concerned are you about your child’s/children’s spiritual development?” Of practicing Christians, 51 percent were very concerned, 33 percent somewhat concerned, 9 percent not very, and 7 percent not at all.
  Ponder this: Only half of practic
  
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• Las Vegas-area vote counting to continue for days

  09-11-2022 22:36
  Vote counting continues in the county that includes Las Vegas, with the county's registrar saying it will last into next week. (Nov. 9) (AP video: Haven Daley)      
  
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• Wife of Dead Pastor Reveals He Saw Sinister Creatures Before Suicide: 'There Is Evil in This World, And It Is Truly Dark'

  09-11-2022 22:31
  Kayla Stoecklein’s life seemed like a charmed one from the outside looking in — wife of a successful megachurch pastor and mother of 3 beautiful children — but underneath the happy exterior, pain and despair loomed large over the household.
  Heavy expectations were placed on Kayla’s husband Andrew when his father was diagnosed with an aggressive form of lymphoblastic leukemia in 2011. He passed away in October 2015.
  “When you’re young and you have a lot to prov
  
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• Dead Democrat Wins Race in Deep Red State

  09-11-2022 22:30
  A woman who died nearly two weeks before Election Day was re-elected by Tennessee Democrats anyway.
  Tennessse state Rep. Barbara Cooper died on Oct. 25 at the age of 93. (WATN insisted on calling her death “unexpected,” but, come on. I don’t mean to be either flippant nor unkind … but she was 93.)
  Probably due in large part to early voting combined with name recognition, Cooper beat out her opponent, independent Michael Porter, 7,999 votes to 2,942, according to WHBQ.
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• Tiffany's Jewelry Tycoon Plunges from Cruise Ship Under Mysterious Circumstances

  09-11-2022 22:21
  Questions have been raised in the mysterious death of a wealthy Turkey-based Tiffany & Co. jewelry distributor, who somehow plunged to her death while on a cruise vacation in the South Pacific with her Swiss partner.
  According to the Daily Mail, Dilek Ertek, 71, a distributor of the luxury jewelry brand for two decades, reportedly fell into the sea from the Norwegian Spirit ship on Oct. 26. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance and presumed death include alleged stolen jewelry from
  
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• Shapiro: What Happened to the Red Wave?

  09-11-2022 22:20
  There was no red wave. There was no red tide. There was no red trickle.
  There was a fizzle.
  The 2022 midterm election fundamentals would have suggested a ringing Republican victory: an unpopular president of the opposing party, deep public unhappiness with the state of the economy, unified Democratic control of Congress and radical social policy out of step with most Americans. Polls showed Republicans cutting deeply into Democratic constituencies including Hispanic and black voting blocs.
  Yet a
  
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• Carnage in crypto markets grows as doubts emerge over FTX bailout

  09-11-2022 22:12 via cnn.com
  
  The fallout in cryptocurrencies deepened Wednesday as the collapse one of the sector's most hyped companies rattled investors.
  
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• Facebook parent company Meta will lay off 11,000 employees

  09-11-2022 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Facebook parent company Meta on Wednesday said it is laying off 11,000 employees, marking the most significant job cuts in the tech giant's history.
  
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• Democrat Who's Been Dead for a Month Wins State House Race by Stunning Margin

  09-11-2022 22:08
  Compared to this guy, John Fetterman is the picture of health.
  Democratic Rep. Tony DeLuca, Pennsylvania’s longest-serving lawmaker, won a convincing victory Tuesday over a radical Green Party challenger despite one of the biggest handicaps any politician could carry in an electoral contest.
  He died four weeks before voters went to the polls.
  According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, DeLuca’s death on Oct. 9 at the age of 85 occurred too late to change the ballot.
  According to USA To
  
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• Veterans Day: Are banks, post offices, schools, national parks open Friday? What to know

  09-11-2022 21:51
  
  Veterans Day is celebrated every year on Nov. 11, regardless of the day of the week it falls on. Here's what will be open and closed on Friday.      
  
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• Kentucky voters reject amendment that would have ended right to an abortion. What it means for the deep-red state

  09-11-2022 21:51
  
  Voters in Kentucky rejected Amendment 2 in Tuesday's midterm elections. It would have changed the state's constitution to end the right to an abortion      
  
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• Navy SEAL Flips Dem Congressional Seat to Red in Battleground State

  09-11-2022 21:50
  Former Navy SEAL Eli Crane has defeated incumbent Democratic Rep. Tom O’Halleran in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, according to new reports.
  As of 3 p.m. ET Wednesday, Bloomberg, citing ABC and NBC, announced that Crane was the winner. CNN has also projected that Crane will be the winner.
  According to The New York Times, Crane had 137,329 votes against 118,623 for O’Halleran with 78 percent of the districts reporting, giving Crane 53.7 percent of the votes against 46.3 p
  
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• Crypto's white knight lost 94% of his wealth in a single day

  09-11-2022 21:42 via cnn.com
  
  Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto entrepreneur known for providing a financial lifeline to struggling firms in the industry, is now in need of a bailout himself.
  
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• Outrageous: Man Who Raped Child After Hitting Her With His Car Released for Good Behavior

  09-11-2022 19:53
  The Parole Board of Canada has allowed a child rapist in British Columbia to be released for good behavior.
  According to the Vancouver Sun, the board canceled the suspension of a long-term supervision order against 59-year-old Brian Edward Abrosimo on the grounds that he had made “some good progress.”
  Abrosiamo was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2006 for the sexual assault of a woman and the rape of an 11-year-old child, whom he first hit with his car. Since his release in 2020,
  
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• Latest turmoil around Oath Keepers trial includes the unmasking of a secret informant

  09-11-2022 19:52 via cnn.com
  
  The seditious conspiracy trial of five alleged Oath Keepers leaders has become mired in conflict as prosecutors called defense witnesses to warn them against self-incrimination in the days before they take the stand, defense attorneys accused one another of unethical conduct and one witness was revealed to be an informant.
  
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• Breaking down the significant turmoil that's unfolded in the Oath Keepers trial

  09-11-2022 19:52 via cnn.com
  
  The seditious conspiracy trial of five alleged Oath Keepers leaders has become mired in conflict as prosecutors called defense witnesses to warn them against self-incrimination in the days before they take the stand, defense attorneys accused one another of unethical conduct and one witness was revealed to be an informant.
  
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• Stocks slip as control of Congress remains unclear

  09-11-2022 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  Wall Street was betting on a red wave in the midterm elections Tuesday. But so far it appears that didn't happen. And now investors are seeing red on their trading screens Wednesday.
  
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• UN Climate Conference Turns Into Disaster, Attendees Dodge Human Waste on Floor Amid Sweltering Heat

  09-11-2022 19:41
  First there was no water. Then there was too much of the wrong kind.
  Attendees of this year’s U.N. climate conference in Egypt found themselves stepping over streams of foul-smelling fluid Wednesday after a pipe or tank holding liquid waste appeared to have burst near one of the venue’s main thoroughfares.
  The incident was the latest of several infrastructure and planning problems that have emerged this week during the conference, which runs through Nov. 18.
  Participants have complai
  
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• Credit card rates hit a record high as Fed fights inflation

  09-11-2022 19:27 via cnn.com
  
  It's never a great time to carry credit card debt. But right now is arguably the worst time.
  
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• Republican Beats Powerful House Democrat in Stinging Loss for Democrats

  09-11-2022 19:21
  As the votes from the midterm election continue to be counted, the race for New York’s 17th district House seat has been particularly close, but has been called in favor of Republican Mike Lawler.
  “NEWS: Sean Patrick Maloney, the chairman of the DCCC, just called Republican Mike Lawler to concede his Lower Hudson Valley race. This is a stinging loss for Democrats, and Maloney in particular, on a night when the party otherwise faired better than expected,” Nicholas Fandos, a pol
  
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• Shop owner who sold winning Powerball ticket is now a millionaire himself

  09-11-2022 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  The owner of Joe's Service Center in Altadena, California, who came to the United States from Syria in 1980 with $14,000 in his pocket, is now a millionaire after selling the sole winning Powerball lottery ticket.
  
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• Disney Takes $20 Billion Nosedive to Lowest Level in 2.5 Years, Now Faces a Critical Decision

  09-11-2022 19:03
  While all eyes were on the midterm elections yesterday, Walt Disney Co. reported some bad earnings news to shareholders.
  Quarterly losses from Disney+ more than doubled year-over-year, forcing executives to commit to cut expenses in the company’s streaming platform, according to The Wall Street Journal.
  But it got worse for the woke media giant.
  Although theme park revenue was up 36 percent — how could it not be, after two years of COVID lockdowns, travel restrictions and mainstream
  
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• Tesla drivers will be able to make Zoom calls from their car

  09-11-2022 19:01 via cnn.com
  
  Tesla drivers will soon be able to take a video call directly from their vehicle's touchscreen dashboard, Zoom announced Tuesday.
  
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• Railroad unions push back threatened strike date

  09-11-2022 18:52 via cnn.com
  
  The threat of a freight railroad strike has been pushed back to early December, as four major unions have agreed to coordinate the date on which they could potentially go on strike.
  
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• While Everyone Was Getting Ready to Vote, 1 Person Made It His Goal to Burn Everything Down

  09-11-2022 18:49
  A few hours before the polls opened on Election Day, an arsonist set several fires in Jackson, Mississippi.
  Calls started coming in around 2:45 Tuesday regarding fires in the area, according to WAPT-TV in Jackson.
  Two of the fires targeted predominately black churches — Greater Bethlehem Temple Church and Epiphany Church — while others were on or near the campus of historically black Jackson State University.MAP: Here’s a bird’s eye view of the fires that occurred in Jack
  
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• Analysis: Election winners and losers so far

  09-11-2022 18:38 via cnn.com
  
  Oh, what a night!
  
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• Brittney Griner Moved to Russian 'Penal Colony,' Likely Will Be Forced to Do Manual Labor

  09-11-2022 18:09
  WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was convicted in August of smuggling drugs into Russia and sentenced to nine years in prison, is being moved to a Russian penal colony, her attorneys said Wednesday.
  “We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination,” Griner’s attorneys, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, said in a statement to CNN.
  According to CNN, inmates at Russian penal colonies are usually forced to perform manual labor, and they liv
  
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• Russian Military Hints at Major Potential Loss - Pulls Out from Strategic Ukrainian City

  09-11-2022 17:50
  The Russian military is pulling out from the strategic city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, according to multiple media reports Wednesday, signaling a major potential loss for Russia.
  Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the decision to pull troops from Kherson in televised remarks Wednesday after the highest commander for Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine said the “difficult” decision would “preserve lives of servicemen and combat readiness of forces,” acc
  
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• Kari Lake reminds us why we can’t fully rejoice in election deniers losing

  09-11-2022 17:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Trump's2020 "big lie" has emboldened midterm Republican candidates to use the same tactic in 2022. We need to remain vigilant about the ongoing assault on our democracy.
  
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• Desperate Adidas Turns Back to Kanye After Cutting Ties Causes Revenue Projections to Plunge

  09-11-2022 17:38
  Adidas may have cut ties with Kanye West over an anti-Semitic tweet, but it’s hoping that doesn’t mean the company can’t still profit from the controversial rapper’s designs.
  Adidas severed its business relationship with West, who now goes simply by Ye, on Oct. 25 over unspecified “disputes,” which apparently came to a head after the entertainer’s Twitter account was suspended for a tweet that violated the platform’s guidelines.
  West had tweeted on
  
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• Redfin shuts home-flipping business and cuts 13% of its workforce

  09-11-2022 17:36 via cnn.com
  
  Redfin is set to shutter its home-flipping business and reduce its workforce by 13%, laying off 862 employees.
  
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• Joe Biden Says His Helicopter 'Went Down' in Afghanistan - But We Looked Up What Really Happened

  09-11-2022 17:36
  On Friday, President Joe Biden decided to channel the ghost of Brian Williams’ career.
  The president was in Carlsbad, California, trying to make the closing argument for the Democrats by talking up the CHIPS and Science Act. While he gave the speech at the corporate headquarters of Viasat, he regaled those in the audience — and those watching at home — with the gripping story of how he survived the time his helicopter “went down” in Afghanistan.
  “A lot of you
  
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• Voter ID, citizenship, ranked-choice voting: Here's what voters in these states decided about rules for future elections

  09-11-2022 17:30 via cnn.com
  
  Voters in several states on Tuesday were asked whether to amend rules that will determine how elections will be run in the future, focusing on issues such as citizenship and registration, photo identification, and early voting.
  
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