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• Republican Who Ran on Banning CRT, Empowering Parents Flips Arizona Education Seat Red

  17-11-2022 23:40
  Amid the overall frustrating election results for Republicans in Arizona, there was one very bright spot.
  On Thursday, KTAR-FM reported that Republican Tom Horne had defeated Democrat incumbent Kathy Hoffmann for the position of Arizona’s education superintendent.
  While this may not initially seem like a big win, this is actually a huge win for Republicans. Not only may Horne be the only Republican elected to statewide office in Arizona, but he has run a campaign that focused on banning le
  
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• Freedom Caucus Calls for New House Rules as GOP Prepares to Take Speaker's Gavel from Pelosi

  17-11-2022 23:38
  House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona oversaw a meeting on Monday in Washington, D.C., to propose new rules for the incoming GOP House majority.
  Some of the key proposals would open up the legislative process so members can offer amendments, in contrast to recent years when the majority House leadership and their staffs crafted large bills with little to no input from rank-and-file lawmakers.
  The Freedom Caucus put together a 50-page document called “A Road Map for Incom
  
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• We Were Right: Lincoln Project RINOs Praise Pelosi with Sick 3-Word Nickname

  17-11-2022 23:33
  The political consultants of the Lincoln Project grift train issued a tweet praising Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Thursday.
  In a tweet where the well-financed hucksters re-upped an old ad about Pelosi’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, the fundraising operation hailed the departing Speaker as a “champion of democracy.”
  Pelosi announced her retirement as the Democratic leader in the House on Thursday, although she’s not leaving Congress.
  The Lincoln Project thanked Pelosi
  
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• Ex-Trump Organization CFO says Trump family was in the dark about tax fraud scheme

  17-11-2022 23:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump and his two eldest sons signed the checks the Trump Organization's chief financial officer used to cheat on his taxes, but they
  
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• 'Complete failure:' Filing reveals staggering mismanagement inside FTX

  17-11-2022 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  A new court filing about Sam Bankman-Fried's bankrupt companies reveals a crypto empire that was colossally mismanaged and potentially fraudulent — a "complete failure of corporate controls" that eclipses even that of Enron.
  
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• Plane Full of Rescue Dogs Makes Emergency Crash Landing, Loses Wings After Hitting Trees

  17-11-2022 23:21
  On Tuesday morning, a crew of three was flying 53 at-risk rescue dogs from Louisiana to Wisconsin to give the pups a better chance at finding homes with loving families.
  They were just four miles from landing at the Waukesha County Airport when something went wrong and the large twin-engine aircraft went down over a golf course in Pewaukee, crashing into a stand of trees that sheared the wings off.
  While the three people aboard the plane were able to get themselves out of the wreckage, they were
  
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• Another Biden Advisor Bites the Dust, Leaving After Being Blamed for Presidents Failures: Report

  17-11-2022 23:20
  President Joe Biden’s top economic advisor, Brian Deese, is anticipated to depart from the administration by next summer after Biden expressed frustration with Deese’s failure to predict the long-term impact of inflation, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources.
  Deese, director of the National Economic Council, not the only cabinet member leaving. Cecilia Rouse, the first African-American chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, is expected to conclude her two-year pu
  
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• As Trump announces 2024 run, GOP governors do their best to look away

  17-11-2022 23:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  At the same time former President Donald Trump was declaring his third bid for the White House on Tuesday night, a ballroom full of GOP governors, donors and
  
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• Republicans Could Set Their Sights on Impeaching Someone Other Than Biden

  17-11-2022 22:59
  Now that Republicans have officially captured majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives and will soon assume control of powerful House committees with subpoena power, there’s much work to be done.
  Given the party deadlock that will likely prevent any significant legislative accomplishments, Republicans are expected to launch a series of investigations that could eventually lead to impeachment proceedings, but not necessarily against President Joe Biden, USA Today reported.
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• MLB Launching Probe into Yankees, Mets Regarding Superstar Aaron Judge

  17-11-2022 22:58
  It’s always laughable when a sports league tries to pretend that it cares about player and free agent tampering.
  Tampering rules can be so circuitous and nebulous that it’s almost impossible to pin down in all but the most egregious of cases. After all, is it a crime if a cousin’s best friend’s roommate floats to an athlete that a certain team/player wants him to join?
  Or, if you’re looking for a real-life example, was it tampering for the New York Knicks to hire Ri
  
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• Biden Taking Student Debt Cancellation Plan to SCOTUS After 2 Fed Courts Block It

  17-11-2022 22:57
  The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president’s student debt cancellation plan, according to a Thursday legal filing warning that Americans will face financial strain if the plan remains stalled in court when loan payments are scheduled to restart in January.
  The Justice Department is fighting to keep Biden’s plan alive after it was halted by two federal courts in recent weeks. The agency is asking for quick action to block both rulings and allow
  
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• US Government Tells Mariah Carey She Can't Be 'Queen of Christmas'

  17-11-2022 22:35
  The holiday season is here, which means that Mariah Carey’s popular, chart-topping “All I Want For Christmas Is You” will be heard everywhere in the coming weeks. But, although Carey’s Christmas tunes may be a hallmark of the season for many, her petition to officially be the “Queen of Christmas” was denied by the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on Tuesday.
  In March 2021, Carey’s legal team actually filed a request to trademark the decorated singer
  
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• Prosecutors and defense rest in Oath Keepers trial

  17-11-2022 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  Government prosecutors and defense attorneys on Thursday announced they have finished presenting evidence in the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial, wrapping up a seven-week effort to argue whether five alleged members of far-right militia plotted to stop Joe Biden from assuming the presidency.
  
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• Acting police chief on day of Uvalde school massacre resigns from department, mayor says

  17-11-2022 21:40 via cnn.com
  
  Lt. Mariano Pargas has resigned from the Uvalde Police Department, Mayor Don McLaughlin tells CNN Thursday afternoon.
  
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• As measles outbreak sickens dozens of children in Ohio, local health officials seek help from CDC

  17-11-2022 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  A growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio, has sickened dozens of unvaccinated children and hospitalized nine of them, and local public health officials are seeking assistance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
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• Sam Bankman-Fried says 'F**k Regulators' and Musk's Twitter ultimatum

  17-11-2022 21:35 via cnn.com
  Crypto critic Bennett Tomlin tells Nightcap's Jon Sarlin that Sam Bankman-Fried may be a bad apple, but the things he did were not unique in the crypto world. Plus, CNN's Clare Duffy on why Twitter employees are confused and fearful. And The New York Times' Kalley Huang explains the challenge of making ads on TikTok that aren't cringe. To get the day's business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.
  
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• Biden administration makes it easier to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy

  17-11-2022 21:32 via cnn.com
  
  The Department of Justice released new guidance Thursday that aims to make it easier to have federal student loan debt discharged in bankruptcy -- a particularly difficult legal process under the previous policy.
  
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• Pro-DeSantis PAC Launches First Presidential-Style Ad - Is He Going to Do It?: 'A Nation on the Brink'

  17-11-2022 21:29
  After former President Donald Trump officially announced the launch of his 2024 presidential campaign on Tuesday evening, attention also turned to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, with many wondering if he would also announce a 2024 presidential campaign. One pro-DeSantis political action committee even released a promotional ad for DeSantis.
  “DeSantis is DeFuture, Join us in this fight to make DeSantis our next president of the United States,” the Twitter account of “Ron to the Resc
  
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• Trump Org. stopped illegal tax practices when Donald Trump took office, former CFO testifies

  17-11-2022 21:12 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump Organization stopped several illegal tax practices around 2017 when Donald Trump took office, former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg testified in a New York court on Thursday.
  
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• US World Cup Team to Be Led Into Battle by 'The Tim Tebow of Soccer' Who Loves God and Loves His Country

  17-11-2022 21:06
  One of the great ironies of the secular sports world is that the best leaders often have a bedrock of genuine faith.
  Terry Bradshaw, retired Steelers quarterback and four-time Super Bowl champion, is a winning leader and a proud man of faith. Kobe Bryant, the closest NBA fans have ever gotten to having a “new” Michael Jordan, cited his Catholic upbringing as a source of strength. Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh is one of the winningest coaches football has ever seen, at the
  
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• University of Virginia shooting victim is no longer intubated and is out of ICU, family friend says

  17-11-2022 20:45 via cnn.com
  
  Michael Hollins, the University of Virginia football player who was seriously wounded in Sunday's mass shooting, was taken off intubation and moved from the hospital's intensive care unit, a family friend told CNN on Thursday.
  
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• Biden's New Spending Proposal Would Mean Almost $700 Per US Taxpayer Is Sent to Ukraine

  17-11-2022 20:39
  The Biden administration on Tuesday called for a further $38 billion dollars for aid to Ukraine.
  This comes after a missile thought to have been used by the Russians struck Poland, killing two Polish farmers.
  It was later discovered that the missile was Ukrainian, although Ukraine has yet to accept responsibility.
  While the story was trending on social media and fervor for Ukrainian support in the midst of high Russian aggression, no one was quick to admit or correct the mistake.
  If approved, th
  
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• Feds Flag 93 Financial Transfers of Biden-Linked Operatives - They All Have 1 Thing in Common, Report

  17-11-2022 20:08
  Businesses and associates linked to the Biden family allegedly exchanged over $2 million in wire transfers with a Shanghai investment fund controlled by the Bank of China over a five-year period, according to a Treasury Department document obtained by Republican members of the House Oversight Committee.
  Biden-linked operatives allegedly exchanged $2,461,962.60 in total with the Shanghai firm through 93 wire transactions between 2014 and 2019, according to a Suspicious Activity Report obtain
  
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• Secret Service agent from Trump's motorcade on January 6 interviewed by House committee

  17-11-2022 19:44 via cnn.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, is interviewing Robert Engel, the lead agent in former President Donald Trump's motorcade on the day of the US Capitol attack, two sources tell CNN.
  
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• The '12 Days of Christmas' gifts will set you back a lot more this year

  17-11-2022 19:39 via cnn.com
  
  Thanks to inflation, your "True Love" will have to spend a pretty (expensive) penny when showering you with turtle doves, golden rings, and a dozen drummers this holiday season.
  
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• Stocks flat despite fears of more big Fed rate hikes resurfacing

  17-11-2022 19:31 via cnn.com
  
  Wall Street only cares about one thing right now...and it's not earnings, the state of the job market, resilient consumer spending or the spectacular FTX/crypto meltdown. Investors are laser-focused on the Federal Reserve and what central bankers are saying about inflation and rates.
  
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• Ticketmaster: Taylor Swift sold a record-breaking 2 million tickets in one day

  17-11-2022 19:24 via cnn.com
  
  Taylor Swift keeps breaking records: Ticketmaster said that more than 2 million tickets were sold Tuesday for her upcoming tour — the most ever sold for an artist in a single day. It caused a near meltdown of its website.
  
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• Texas Dumps Dozens of Migrants to Another Blue Sanctuary City in Post-Election Bus Campaign

  17-11-2022 19:22
  After handily winning re-election last week, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has continued transporting migrants from Texas to various northern cities.
  Most recently, 28 immigrants arrived on a bus on Wednesday morning in Philadelphia, a “sanctuary city.” But the city’s officials have not been happy with Abbott’s strategy.
  On Tuesday, Abbott’s office announced in a news release that Philadelphia would be a new destination, in addition to New York City, Washington,
  
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• Suspect in Buffalo Tops shooting expected to plead guilty to state charges, victims' attorney says

  17-11-2022 19:19 via cnn.com
  
  The man charged with killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket earlier this year is expected to plead guilty to state charges next week, a victims' attorney said Thursday.
  
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• Buffalo Tops shooter expected to plead guilty to state charges, victims' attorney says

  17-11-2022 19:19 via cnn.com
  
  The man charged with killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket earlier this year is expected to plead guilty to state charges next week, a victims' attorney said Thursday.
  
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• Airbnb CEO: 'It's like we're all in a nightclub and the lights just came on'

  17-11-2022 19:13 via cnn.com
  
  After years of seemingly unstoppable growth, the tech industry is now facing the "ultimate reality check" as it confronts broader economic uncertainty and waves of layoffs, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told CNN on Thursday.
  
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• Will Kristi Noem Run for President 2024? Gov Gives Shocking Response to Trump's Announcement

  17-11-2022 19:12
  Former President Donald Trump wholeheartedly endorsed South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem in her most recent political campaign.
  It’s uncertain whether Noem is going to return the favor.
  Noem joined an apparently widening chorus of former Trump supporters who seem less than fully enthused about The Donald’s return to presidential politics. Some of those, like Noem, may be holding back because they harbor aspirations for the Oval Office themselves.
  “Kristi Noem has been a fantastic go
  
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• Last of the 'Hogan's Heroes' Dies at 96: Actor's Life Shockingly Close to Show's Plot

  17-11-2022 19:02
  Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 96.
  Clary died during the night Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills, niece Brenda Hancock said Thursday.
  “He never let those horrors defeat him,” Hancock said of Clary’s wartime experiences as a youth. “He never let them take the joy out of his life.
  
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• Breaking: Nancy Pelosi Announces Retirement from Leadership

  17-11-2022 18:55
  And just like that, it’s over.
  Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, has announced to her colleagues that she will no longer “seek re-election to Democratic leadership.”
  Pelosi’s announcement comes on the heels of the GOP re-taking the House majority following the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
  To be clear, Pelosi has only indicated that she is retiring from leadership responsibilities, and she made clear that she would not be resigning from Congress.
  This move has
  
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• Feds Raid Operator of Popular Area 51 Website

  17-11-2022 18:47
  A Nevada resident who runs a comprehensive website about Area 51 said his homes were raided earlier this month by teams from the FBI and the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, who seized his computers and other electronic equipment.
  Joerg Arnu, who runs DreamlandResort.com, reported on the site on Nov. 7 that “Last Thursday very early in the morning my homes in Rachel and in Vegas were searched by a combined team of FBI and AF OSI.
  “… [I]t got quite tense and hum
  
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• 25 LA Law Enforcement Recruits Injured in Horrific Road Incident - Suspect Detained

  17-11-2022 18:19
  A wrong-way driver slammed into a group of about 75 law enforcement recruits who were out on a pre-dawn training run in Southern California, injuring 25 of them — some critically.
  According to KABC-TV, the recruits were running in the South Whittier area at around 6:30 a.m.
  Injuries included broken bones and head injuries.
  “We have had some loss of limb,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told reporters at a news conference, the Los Angeles Times reported. He said five
  
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• Kim Reynolds Takes Reins as Chair of Major GOP Association - Could She Be Trump's Secret Weapon?

  17-11-2022 18:06
  On Tuesday evening, former President Donald Trump filed the formal paperwork and made a long-awaited announcement regarding his intentions to run for the White House in 2024.
  While he settled the issue of whether he would run, new questions emerged.
  One of those is who Trump might choose as his running mate.
  The Republican bench for 2024 is more profound than ever, offering several great choices for the vice president role. However, one person in particular might be emerging as a potential early
  
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• Stocks fall as fears of more big Fed rate hikes resurface

  17-11-2022 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  Wall Street only cares about one thing right now...and it's not earnings, the state of the job market, resilient consumer spending or the spectacular FTX/crypto meltdown. Investors are laser-focused on the Federal Reserve and what central bankers are saying about inflation and rates.
  
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• Dick Morris: Don't Let the Media Con You - The GOP Did Not Lose the Midterms

  17-11-2022 18:03
  One of the biggest media hoaxes is that the Republicans lost the midterm elections… and that it was a sign voters are tiring of Donald Trump.
  The Republican candidates for the House got 52,690,787 votes while Democrats only got 48,096,016 votes — almost a 5 million-vote Republican majority.
  This margin of victory, against the backdrop of President Joe Biden’s 7.1 million-vote defeat of Trump in 2020, indicates a 12-million vote shift between 2020 and 2022, the largest gain by
  
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• Starbucks workers strike in 'Red Cup Rebellion'

  17-11-2022 17:57 via cnn.com
  
  More than 2,000 employees at 112 Starbucks locations are set to go on a one-day strike Thursday, according to the union which has been organizing stores for the last year.
  
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• Starbucks workers stage one-day strike in 'Red Cup Rebellion'

  17-11-2022 17:57 via cnn.com
  
  More than 2,000 employees at 112 Starbucks locations are set to go on a one-day strike Thursday, according to the union which has been organizing stores for the last year.
  
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• Absolute Chaos: Tens of Thousands Carnivorous Minks Released from Farm

  17-11-2022 17:39
  A northern Ohio town was turned into something out of a campy B-horror film on Tuesday night when thousands of minks were set free from a factory farm.
  The Van Wert County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post on Tuesday that someone destroyed fencing at Lion Farms USA Mink Farm in Hoaglin Township, which allowed the furry creatures to escape.
  It was initially reported that between 25,000 to 40,000 minks were on the loose, which caused the office to issue a warning.
  “Minks are car
  
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• Michael Gerson, former Bush speechwriter and Washington Post columnist, dies at 58

  17-11-2022 17:28 via cnn.com
  
  Michael Gerson, a top speechwriter for President George W. Bush and longtime Washington Post columnist, has died. He was 58.
  
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• Ex-NBA Player's Downward Spiral Ends in Handcuffs - Taco Bell Employees Caught Him in the Act: Report

  17-11-2022 17:25
  Former NBA and Syracuse University basketball player Donte Greene was arrested in Indiana last week for allegedly trying to rob a gas station.
  On Nov. 8, according to the South Bend (Indiana) Tribune, police were called to a combination Phillips 66 gas station/Taco Bell restaurant in the city of Goshen in response to a report of an attempted robbery.
  The man identified as Greene had walked into the gas station and told the clerk in the store to “give him all the money” the Tribune re
  
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• Right After Clinching House Majority, Republicans Reveal What's Coming Next: 'This Is Now an Investigation of President Biden'

  17-11-2022 17:15
  House Republicans will give the Biden administration and the Biden family intense scrutiny when the new Congress convenes, top Republicans said Wednesday.
  Republicans have unofficially gained control of the House following last week’s midterm elections, as most media outlets have called races that will give the GOP back the control it lost with the 2018 elections.
  “We are going to make it very clear that this is now an investigation of President Biden,” Republican Rep. James Co
  
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• CNN Is About to Get a Brutal Taste of Reality - New CEO Confirms Massive Upset for 'Nonessential' Staff

  17-11-2022 17:06
  The freshly minted chairman and CEO of CNN, Chris Licht, is quickly earning himself an “angel of death” reputation among those he manages in the leftist news world.
  According to Daily Mail, Licht has overseen the shutdown of the 300-million-dollar boondoggle that was CNN+ and has also seen to the axing of well-known CNN acolytes, such as Brian Stelter, Jeffrey Toobin and John Harwood.
  Licht is now likely to oversee a significant layoff of CNN employees — just in time for Christ
  
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• Shoppers pull back at Macy's and Kohl's

  17-11-2022 17:01 via cnn.com
  
  Middle-income shoppers have tightened their spending on clothing and home furnishings. That's squeezing Macy's, Kohl's, Target and other chains.
  
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• Shoppers are pulling back at Macy's and Kohl's

  17-11-2022 17:01 via cnn.com
  
  Middle-income shoppers have tightened their spending on clothing and home furnishings. That's squeezing Macy's, Kohl's, Target and other chains.
  
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• Watch: Qatari Officials Threaten to 'Break' Journalist's Camera on Live TV Ahead of World Cup

  17-11-2022 16:49
  Security services in Qatar shut down a Danish journalist’s live news segment in real time, days before the country is set to host to opening matches of soccer’s World Cup.
  Rasmus Tantholdt of Denmark’s TV2 was interrupted by Qatari authorities during the Tuesday broadcast from the capital city of Doha, with a confrontation between the two parties soon ending in the camera being shut off.
  Tantholdt said in a tweet about the incident that the Qatari authorities later apologized f
  
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• Dems Falsely Lambasted JD Vance for 'Great Replacement Theory' -- Yet Watch What Chuck Schumer Just Said

  17-11-2022 16:36
  The cheapening of words like “far-right” or “extremist” by leftist activists and their allies continued apace during the 2022 midterms, where Democrats and the establishment media never tired of smearing mainstream candidates as being on the fringes. Nowhere was this displayed more openly than in the Ohio Senate race.
  The battle in the Buckeye State pitted “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance and prolier-than-thou, blue-collar sycophant Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan a
  
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