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• Traveling after Thanksgiving? Weekend weather in US includes storms, snow and flooding in some areas.

  26-11-2022 23:31
  The U.S. is mostly clear of severe weather after Thanksgiving as a busy travel weekend begins. However, a storm in the south could cause problems.      
  
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• Op-Ed: Why I Warned Fortune 500 Companies That Funding Abortion Travel May Violate Federal Law

  26-11-2022 23:29
  After the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed the states to restrict abortions, some employers have trumpeted that they will pay an employee’s travel expenses (companion expenses included) if she must travel more than so many miles to terminate a pregnancy.
  The amount of money being offered by some of these employers is enough for the employee to be reimbursed for aborting a fetus on a week-long European tour. One sporting goods company has announced
  
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• Couple Receives Letter Revealing 'Secret Rooms' in Their 130-Year-Old House, Stunned by What They Find

  26-11-2022 22:47
  A young couple received a surprise after getting a letter revealing hidden secrets in their home.
  The couple, Courtney and Matt, are restoring a 130-year-old Victorian home that they bought from a historical society, according to the New York Post.
  Courtney explained in a TikTok video that the letter, simply addressed to “purchaser,” came from someone in Canada who claimed to be the “last surviving member” of the family that once owned the house.
  “I would like to &h
  
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• Climate Protesters Humiliated Moments After Gluing Themselves to Concert Hall Conductor's Stand - They Never Realized It Could Do This

  26-11-2022 22:37
  Two climate change extremists in Germany made themselves laughingstocks when a disruptive protest didn’t go the way they planned.
  The activists attempted to glue themselves to the conductor’s podium before a Wednesday classical music concert at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany, according to Deutsche Welle.
  One of the activists lectured the crowd present for a Beethoven recital.
  “Just as there is only one violin concerto by Beethoven, we have only this one planet whose bo
  
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• SpaceX launches resupply mission to space station

  26-11-2022 22:21
  SpaceX on Saturday launched its 26th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. The launch, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, was delivering supplies, science investigations and equipment. (Nov. 26)      
  
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• Washington Post Digs Up Picture of 14-Year-Old Jerry Jones at Little Rock School Desegregation Protest, But He Explains It All With 6 Words

  26-11-2022 22:16
  A new report in The Washington Post uses the 1957 integration of North Little Rock High School as a pivotal moment in its analysis of why Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has not hired a black head coach.
  The report includes an image that shows Jones, who was a 14-year-old high school sophomore at the time, watching the confrontation between white students who were trying to prevent black students from entering. The report notes that the protest against integration was taking place in the same t
  
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• Elon Musk Throws Early Support Behind DeSantis for 2024 Run, But There's One Catch

  26-11-2022 21:38
  Elon Musk is foreshadowing his 2024 presidential vote, but also vowing fairness on his social media platform.
  On Friday night, Musk engaged in a casual conversation with a Twitter user who asked Musk point-blank if he would support Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis if the recently re-elected DeSantis runs for president in 2024.
  The comment came after a discussion of 2024 that began, as these things often do, with former President Donald Trump.I’m fine with Trump not tweeting. The import
  
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• Klaus Schwab Reveals Who He Really Is as He Introduces New 'Role Model' for Countries

  26-11-2022 21:20
  The World Economic Forum’s leader, Klaus Schwab, let the mask slip last week when he stated in an interview which nation he believes is a “role model” for the rest of the world.
  According to Fox News, in an interview with Chinese state-affiliated media during last week’s APEC CEO Summit in Bangkok, Schwab says he sees the Chinese system as a “role model” for other nations.
  “I think it’s a role model for many countries,” he said. While clarify
  
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• Mysterious Death of North Carolina Tourist in Mexico Takes Shock Turn as Authorities Seek Extradition of American Woman

  26-11-2022 20:44
  Nearly a month after Shanquella Robinson, a 25-year-old woman from North Carolina, died while on vacation in Mexico, local authorities have filed charges against another American woman seen attacking her in a video.
  Robinson was vacationing with six friends when she died in a rented villa on Oct. 29, The Associated Press reported. The location of Robinson’s death has been variously reported as San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas.
  Her friends blamed her death on alcohol poisoning, accordin
  
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• NYPD officers, bystander save man on subway tracks

  26-11-2022 20:32
  Two New York City police officers and a bystander raced to save a man who fell on the tracks at a Manhattan subway station, plucking him out of the way of an oncoming train in a daring rescue captured by an officer's body camera. (Nov. 24)      
  
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• Frontier Airlines no longer has a customer service phone line

  26-11-2022 20:12 via cnn.com
  
  Customers who need flight information or want to make changes to travel plans can no longer call Frontier Airlines and speak to an agent, the company confirmed to CNN Saturday.
  
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• Canada 'Freedom Convoy' Was Shut Down By Trudeau, But Now We Know Who Was Putting Pressure on Him

  26-11-2022 20:00
  Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” was one bright spot of liberty during the worst of the COVID madness early this year, but shocking news reveals that Joe Biden did his best to destroy the movement.
  When Canadian truckers launched their “Freedom Convoy” movement to protest draconian COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates early this year, Americans cheered them on. These hardworking truckers seemed to be one of the only organized voices calling for accountability from COVID-cr
  
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• Major White House Policy Reversal Apparently Underway, Biden Eases Sanctions on Socialist Regime

  26-11-2022 19:56
  On Saturday, Venezuela’s government and its opposition agreed to create a U.N.-managed fund to finance health, food and education programs for the poor, while the Biden administration eased some oil sanctions on the country in an effort to boost the newly restarted talks between the sides.
  The agreement signed in Mexico City by representatives of President Nicolás Maduro and the opposition, including the faction backed by the United States and led by Juan Guaidó, marked the r
  
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• Attorney Who Requested to Represent Trump But Was Denied Dies Unexpectedly at Age 48

  26-11-2022 19:32
  New York defense lawyer and Pace University professor John Meringolo died “unexpectedly” on Nov. 16 after requesting two months earlier that he be allowed to represent former President Donald Trump’s Trump Organization and Trump Payroll Corp. at the last minute.
  Meringolo told the judge in another case — the retrial of alleged “We Build the Wall” scammer Timothy Shea, who stands accused of defrauding donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars — the he ha
  
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• Trans Dem Charged with Stalking 4 Days After Being Elected - Then Peer Comes to Defense with Sick Tweet

  26-11-2022 18:56
  New Hampshire’s first elected transgender politician has been charged with stalking — and this isn’t his first brush with the law, either.
  In fact, one of his Democratic peers in the state House of Representatives said that he’s “gotten into a lot of trouble over the years” and “keeps getting into trouble.” Not that he was making an argument for him to be kicked out of office or that he shouldn’t have been elected in the first place.
  Instead,
  
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• Government Now Being Sued by Greta Thunberg for 'Insufficient Climate Policies'

  26-11-2022 18:43
  If publicity stunts could save the planet, Greta Thunberg could already settled into anonymity in Stockholm and resumed her life as a 19-year-old.
  Apparently, that’s not how it works, though — which is why, naturally, she’s part of another publicity stunt.
  On Friday, Thunberg — along with another few hundred activists under the age of 26 — delivered a lawsuit to a Swedish court on Friday, suing the government for what they claim is insufficient attention to mitigati
  
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• Japanese Fans and Athletes Go Viral for Bringing Culture of Cleanliness to World Cup: 'Normal Thing to Do'

  26-11-2022 18:31
  The sight of Japanese fans at a World Cup bagging trash after a match — win or lose — always surprises non-Japanese fans.
  Japanese players are famous for doing the same in their team dressing room: hanging up towels, cleaning the floor, and even leaving a thank-you note.
  The behavior is driving social media posts at the World Cup in Qatar, but it’s nothing unusual for Japanese fans or players.
  They are simply doing what most people in Japan do — at home, at school, at wor
  
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• Walmart Mass Shooter Left Behind Suicide Note - Includes 4 Words Media Doesn't Want to Talk About

  26-11-2022 18:04
  The way you can tell the media is going to move on from the shooting at a Chesapeake, Virginia, Walmart that claimed the lives of six people is that there’s absolutely no handle for them.
  Race? Not a factor — accused shooter Andre Bing, who later killed himself, was black. The gun? Not an AR-15 or an associated long rifle — the handgun he used was legally purchased. His victims weren’t chosen for any other reason than that they were his coworkers at the store.
  And there a
  
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• A rail strike won't screw up your holidays. Here's how it'll affect you in other ways

  26-11-2022 17:35 via cnn.com
  
  So once again the nation and its economy is facing the risk of a massive freight railroad strike, this one as soon as Dec. 9. But about the only thing you don't need to worry about it is whether it will affect your holiday shopping plans. (It won't.)
  
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• Will America Have to Defeat ISIS Again? Fears Grow That Turkey Will Invade Syria Leading to a Mass Exodus of ISIS Terrorists From Prison

  26-11-2022 17:34
  The Middle East is in very real danger of destabilization.
  Turkey is escalating a military campaign targeting armed Syrian Kurdish militias, spurring fears of a full Turkish invasion of Northern Syria.
  Pentagon experts fear that such a development could lead to a renaissance of ISIS, or the Islamic State terrorist organization, according to Fox News.NATO ally Turkish forces fired artillery at SDF targets in Amuda, Syria. The SDF is the only partner force the US has on the ground in Syria to figh
  
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• Don Lemon Gets Up in Arms About Musk's Criticism of Debunked Liberal Mantra, Ends Up Proving Him Right

  26-11-2022 17:11
  The biggest sign of a grifting liberal “fact-checker” is when they tell you something “needs some context.”
  When you hear some permutation of those words, you can be guaranteed the fact they’re checking is, in fact, factual. It’s not misleading or deceptive. However, it doesn’t fit the narrative — so let them provide a bit of “context” that allows it to squeeze into the official storyline.
  Such was the case this past week when Twitter o
  
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• A Normal 19-Year-Old Began Acting Strange in a Restaurant, 45 Minutes Later He Was Found Psychotic and in Middle of Gruesome Act

  26-11-2022 17:02
  A former college student who randomly killed a Florida couple in their garage six years ago and then chewed on one victim’s face finally goes on trial Monday, with a judge deciding whether he goes to prison for life or to a mental hospital.
  Austin Harrouff, 25, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder and other charges for his August 2016 slayings of John Stevensn and his wife, Michelle Mishcon Stevens.
  The former Florida State University student ha
  
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• 'Fame' and 'Flashdance' singer-actor Irene Cara dies at 63

  26-11-2022 16:34
  Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred and sang the title cut from the 1980 hit movie “Fame” and then belted out the era-defining hit “Flashdance … What a Feeling” from 1983’s “Flashdance,” has died. She was 63.
  Her publicist, Judith A. Moose, announced the news on social media, writing that a cause of death was “currently unknown.”This is the absolute worst part of being a publicist. I c
  
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• Musk Has a Plan if Big Tech Overlords Boot Twitter from Their App Stores - They Wouldn't Be Able to Touch Him

  26-11-2022 16:20
  Elon Musk already has a plan if Big Tech overlords attempt to stifle his vision for Twitter.
  Musk indicated that he’ll move to manufacture his own smartphone if companies such as Apple and Google move to purge Twitter from their respective app stores.
  Musk said as such in a Friday tweet responding to conservative commentator Liz Wheeler.I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2
  
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• Early voting begins in some Georgia counties as Warnock and Walker sprint to December 6 runoff

  26-11-2022 14:02 via cnn.com
  
  A week-long early voting period begins Saturday in some Georgia counties as Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker enter a week-and-a-half, post-Thanksgiving sprint to their December 6 runoff election.
  
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• Kevin McCarthy could face a floor fight for speaker. That hasn’t happened in a century.

  26-11-2022 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is struggling to secure the 218 votes he needs to be elected speaker of the House in January. It may lead to a floor fight.
  
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• Trump has officially run out of moves on his tax returns. Here's why that matters.

  26-11-2022 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  This week, in an unsigned order with no dissents, the U.S. Supreme Court finally allowed the U.S.
  
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• Elon Musk says he will support Florida's DeSantis if he runs for president

  26-11-2022 12:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Billionaire Elon Musk said on Friday he would support Ron DeSantis in 2024 if the Florida governor, who recently coasted to a second term, were to run for
  
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• With relative calm around Covid, Biden faces several new challenges

  26-11-2022 12:00 via cnn.com
  
  This holiday season looks very different from the last for many Americans, when Covid-19 test shortages and an Omicron variant surge disrupted numerous family celebrations.
  
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• It was 50 years since I last saw my brother. It was not a Hollywood reunion.

  26-11-2022 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hollywood makes Christmas and holidays synonymous with families. But not families like mine.
  
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• Biden faces a broad set of challenges at home this holiday season

  26-11-2022 12:00 via cnn.com
  
  This holiday season looks very different from the last for many Americans, when Covid-19 test shortages and an Omicron variant surge disrupted numerous family celebrations.
  
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• Op-Ed: 'Mailing It In' Is Hazardous to the Health of Our Republic

  26-11-2022 06:31
  Like the old song, Arizona conservatives are bewitched, bothered and bewildered — and not in a good way.
  As Copper State Republicans watched the 2022 election degenerate into 2020 2.0, they developed enough doubt, disbelief and downright cynicism to fill a metaphorical Grand Canyon.
  Joel Barry, managing editor of The Babylon Bee, may call Ohio home, but in temporarily abandoning satire to get serious, he earned the status of honorary Arizonan by succinctly describing the current state of a
  
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• McCarthy Has a Reading Planned for the House on Jan. 3, 2023 - 'Hasn't Been Done in Years'

  26-11-2022 01:06
  Kevin McCarthy already has plans for Jan. 3, the first day of the 118th congressional session, as Republicans regain control of the House of Representatives.
  The current House minority leader said the entirety of the United States Constitution will be read on the first day of the new Congress.
  McCarthy revealed in a Friday tweet that House members will read the document into the congressional record.
  The California congressman added that this “hasn’t been done in years.”On the
  
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• Entire England Soccer Team Kneels Before Kickoff, But Look at What Team USA Did

  26-11-2022 00:26
  In what may very well be a race to the bottom (or to wokeness, take your pick), two traditional Western powerhouses had a curious moment before playing each other in the World Cup on Friday.
  Longtime historic rivals the United States and England squared off in World Cup group play on Friday, but before the game started, the England players all simultaneously got a case of the weak knees.
  No, this wasn’t a case of widespread tendinitis or anything. Apparently the English soccer team’s
  
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• Pastor Was Tired of Complaining About Drag Queen Story Hour, So He Actually Did Something to Combat It

  26-11-2022 00:16
  An Arizona pastor has come up with an ingenious way of combating the drag queen story hour rage sweeping the nation: He held his own story hour.
  On Wednesday, Dale Partridge of Prescott, Arizona, took to Instagram to share a photo of himself reading to children at a local library. In explaining his reasons for hosting the event, he said he was “tired of complaining” about drag queen story hours.
  Partridge stated in his post that he read to the children a book he authored himself call
  
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