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• Top Dem to Boycott WH Congressional Ball, Furious Over Biden's Primary Plan - Report

  05-12-2022 23:57
  Is Biden trying to fix the 2024 Democratic primary to his advantage?
  Some members of President Joe Biden’s own Democratic Party aren’t happy with his plan to strip Iowa and New Hampshire of their first-to-vote status in the Democratic presidential primary.
  Biden has requested that the Democratic National Committee make South Carolina the first state to vote in the party’s 2024 primary, replacing two states that have traditionally voted first in presidential primaries.
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• Reporter Asks Hunter Biden About GOP Investigations to His Face

  05-12-2022 23:57
  Hunter Biden may be living the good life right now, but a recent encounter with a reporter suggested that the walls may finally be caving in on him.
  On Tuesday, Fox News released a video of Biden greeting guests at the White House Kennedy Center celebration when he was asked by a reporter about the upcoming GOP investigation.
  The video shows two reporters asking him “Mr. Biden, what are you expecting from the Republican Congress?”
  Biden, perhaps thinking discretion is the better part
  
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• Two Fed-Up Pastors Have Brilliant Solution to Drag Queen Story Hour: 'Push Back on Evil'

  05-12-2022 23:50
  What a great idea.
  Instead of cursing the darkness, Dale Partridge and Michael Foster have shone a light against the lurid drag queen story hours that are becoming depressingly commonplace.
  Their alternative — going to the library to have a pastor’s story hour.
  Partridge, author of “Jesus and My Gender,” drew 15 to 20 children and their parents to his first library story hour, according to CBN.
  “I think the kids loved it and a lot of the parents loved it,” he
  
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• FBI Monitored Giuliani's Cloud Account When He Turned Over Hunter Laptop Hard Drive to New York Post - Report

  05-12-2022 23:49
  How the FBI used the force of the state to quash the Hunter Biden laptop story on social media platforms is coming into clearer focus thanks to Friday’s “Twitter Files” dump and the reporting of the New York Post’s Miranda Devine.
  It was the Post that broke the story in mid-October 2020 that emails obtained from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop showed the Biden family — allegedly including even Hunter’s father, Joe Biden — involved with shady overse
  
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• Trump Didn't Say to Terminate Constitution After Revelation of 'Twitter Files' - Don't Let Media Fool You

  05-12-2022 23:39
  Former President Donald Trump did not attack the Constitution of the United States of America — despite what the establishment media is saying.
  In the wake of the release of the “Twitter Files” that show that Big Tech conspired with leftists to sway to 2020 election and discredit the Hunter laptop story, critics accused Donald Trump of saying that the U.S. Constitution should be “terminated.”
  While Trump’s post was ham-handed and poorly written, in fact he did
  
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• 'Wonderful Story Teller': Twin Peaks Actor Dies at 83

  05-12-2022 23:24
  Over the weekend, the world of television entertainment lost a fan favorite of the popular 1990s series “Twin Peaks.”
  Al Strobel, who played Phillip Gerard in the hit show, passed away on Friday, according to “Twin Peaks” producer Sabrina Sutherland, who announced the saddening news in a statement on behalf of the actor’s family, TVLine reported.
  Strobel, remembered as “The One-Armed Man” in the David Lynch series, was 83.
  “Through the darkness of
  
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• Former Congressman Arrested at Airport - Caught in Middle of Federal Criminal Probe

  05-12-2022 23:15
  A former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government has been arrested in connection to an ongoing federal criminal investigation, law enforcement officials said.
  David Rivera, a Republican who served from 2011 to 2013, was arrested Monday at Atlanta’s airport, said Marlene Rodriguez, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami. She said Rivera was indicted by a Miami grand jury last month, but that document remai
  
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• Ketanji Brown Jackson Invents Racist 'It's a Wonderful Life' Hypothetical in Middle of SCOTUS Arguments

  05-12-2022 23:06
  Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invoked a classic Christmas movie and racism during oral arguments in a First Amendment case out of Colorado at the Supreme Court Monday.
  The case, 303 Creative v. Elenis, centers around Lorie Smith, a Colorado web designer who sued Colorado over anti-discrimination laws, claiming that the law compelled her to express support for same-sex marriage. A divided panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled against Smith in 2021.
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• Biden Accuser Tara Reade Is About to Make His Life a Nightmare After GOP Majority Is Sworn In

  05-12-2022 23:06
  Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, the legacy media quickly and efficiently squashed sexual assault allegations leveled against then-candidate Joe Biden by Tara Reade, a former Biden staffer who had worked for him as a Senate aide in 1993.
  Last week, Reade informed the Daily Caller she had called on House Republicans to open an investigation into the incident when they take back the majority in January.
  “It would be a very different thing, if I could testify under oath,” she to
  
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• 'Fake' Images Caught in Netflix's Harry and Meghan Trailer - The Truth Will Infuriate You

  05-12-2022 22:38
  Not since Yoko Ono and John Lennon has there been a British imported couple as obnoxious as that of Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
  There are any number of words you could use to describe Harry and Meghan’s upcoming Netflix series, “Harry and Meghan” — attention-craving, brazen, ungrateful, and being self-enamored with a victim’s mentality all sound like apt ways to describe the show.
  The show also seems like a vehicle for Harry and Meghan to air their p
  
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• Senators draft bipartisan framework to legalize DACA recipients and extend Trump-era border policy

  05-12-2022 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have landed on an initial framework intended to bolster border security and provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, sources told CNN.
  
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• 8 million cleaning products recalled over bacteria exposure risk

  05-12-2022 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  The Laundress brand of detergent and household cleaning products has recalled about eight million products because of the possible presence of bacteria that could pose a health risk to consumers.
  
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• Video: Girl Screams as Wild Animal Latches on to Her Leg, Then Mom Comes Running and Sends Animal Flying

  05-12-2022 21:59
  The term “momma bear” exists because of stories like these: Times when moms go into protection mode and seem to have super strength when their little ones are threatened.
  That can show up in a variety of ways when their children face danger, whether that danger is because of bullying, cars getting too close — or potentially rabid animals on the attack.
  One mom from Canterbury, Connecticut, got an early morning wake-up call when she heard her daughter start screaming in terror a
  
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• Kari Lake Could Have Been Arizona's Next Governor, But Here's What Google Did to Stop It

  05-12-2022 21:43
  Dr. Robert Epstein, a renowned American psychologist and journalist, believes Google killed the red wave. And, according to him, they did it long before voters ever submitted their ballots.
  The former “Psychology Today” editor-in-chief and his research team have concluded that, during the midterms, Google shifted a massive number of votes nationwide.
  In states where Republicans lost tight races — such as Arizona — Epstein’s team found “substantial bias &hellip
  
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  05-12-2022 21:34
  
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• Watch: Gutfeld's Brilliant Reaction to Elon Musk Humiliating Leftists on Twitter, Then the Mimicry Starts

  05-12-2022 21:31
  Fox News host Greg Gutfeld had a brilliant reaction to the recent humiliation that leftists have had to endure at the hands of Elon Musk.
  On Sunday, journalist Andy Ngo posted a segment from Gutfeld’s recent show in which he praised Musk for banning several Antifa Twitter accounts for inciting violence.
  Gutfeld also calls out previous Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for refusing to take this step against far-left extremists and said, “You see how easy that was Jack Dorsey? Why didn’t y
  
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• This AI chatbot is dominating social media with its frighteningly good essays

  05-12-2022 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  Imagine if Siri could write you a college essay, or Alexa could spit out a movie review in the style of Shakespeare.
  
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• US Secret Service accuses Chinese government-linked hackers of stealing $20 million in Covid relief

  05-12-2022 21:25 via cnn.com
  Chinese government-linked hackers have stolen at least $20 million in US government coronavirus relief funds, a US Secret Service spokesperson told CNN Monday -- the first time the agency has connected Covid-19 fraud to hackers affiliated with a foreign government.
  
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• Disbarred 'Creepy Porn Lawyer' Hit with Long Prison Sentence for Stealing Millions of Dollars

  05-12-2022 21:21
  A federal judge in California sentenced disbarred attorney Michael Avenatti to 14 years in prison Monday for wire fraud and a tax offense.
  Avenatti pleaded guilty in June to four wire fraud counts for embezzling money from clients and one count of endeavoring to obstruct the Internal Revenue Code’s administration for obstructing and impeding IRS efforts to collect payroll taxes, including taxes withheld from employees of the company he owned that ran Tully’s Coffee.
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• Self-checkout annoys customers. Stores are adding it anyway

  05-12-2022 21:11 via cnn.com
  
  Self-checkout arrived in the late 1980s at supermarkets. A decade later, it began spreading to big-box chains and drug stores. Now, self-checkout, loved by some and hated by others, has entered discount clothing and department stores.
  
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• ABC in Turmoil: 'Good Morning America' Hosts Taken Off Air Effective Immediately, New Hosts Take Over - Report

  05-12-2022 20:59
  ABC has removed “Good Morning America” hosts T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach from the show after reports of an ongoing affair between the two surfaced last week.
  The U.K.’s Daily Mail noted that neither was present on this afternoon’s program, having been replaced, at least for the day, by ABC National Correspondent Stephanie Ramos and Transportation Correspondent Gio Benitez. (Despite the name, “GMA3,” the hour hosted by Robach and Holmes, airs at 1:00 p.m. Easter
  
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• ABC in Turmoil: 'Good Morning America' Hosts Taken Off Air Effective Immediately, New Hosts Take Over

  05-12-2022 20:59
  ABC has removed “Good Morning America” hosts T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach from the show after reports of an ongoing affair between the two surfaced last week.
  The U.K.’s Daily Mail noted that neither was present on this afternoon’s program, having been replaced, at least for the day, by ABC National Correspondent Stephanie Ramos and Transportation Correspondent Gio Benitez. (Despite the name, “GMA3,” the hour hosted by Robach and Holmes, airs at 1:00 p.m. Easter
  
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• Transgender Activists Promote Puberty Blocker as Safe for Children ... But Look Why Alabama Plans to Use It on Sex Offenders

  05-12-2022 20:51
  Transgender activists promote puberty blockers as a safe and reversible treatment for children with gender dysphoria, but the drugs have serious side-effects and have been used to castrate sex offenders.
  Puberty blockers are viewed by some medical professionals as a healthy way of “pausing” puberty to give children time to decide if they want to become transgender, but one of these puberty blockers is an off-label use of a drug unapproved by the Food and Drug Administration. The drug
  
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• Government Gives EV Owners Bad News: You Could Say Goodbye to Driving Privileges

  05-12-2022 20:48
  With winter here and much of Europe facing possible energy crises, Switzerland is making preparations, one of which could be limits on driving electric vehicles.
  The Swiss Federal Council has drafted a proposal, “Ordinance on Restrictions and Prohibitions on the Use of Electric Energy,” with suggested preparations for possible electric shortages this winter.
  Part of the proposal (translated from German to English) suggests that if a shortage in electrical power reaches an emerge
  
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• Reporters Notice Who Is Sitting in Back at White House Event, Immediately Realize He's the Biggest Story in the Room

  05-12-2022 20:42
  President Joe Biden hosted a swanky White House event on Sunday evening to acknowledge Kennedy Center honorees. Still, the attention of reporters was immediately pulled away when they noticed who else was in the room.
  According to the Washington Examiner, first son Hunter Biden was spotted with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, at the event. Given Friday evening’s “Twitter Files” document dump that revealed proof of Twitter working with Democratic operatives to suppress the story
  
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• Hillary Clinton Makes Huge Change to Twitter Profile - Makes It Clear She's Not Willing to Listen

  05-12-2022 20:30
  Hillary Clinton, a once presidential hopeful, has now decided that responding to criticism from the peasantry is beneath her.
  Clinton received pushback for some of her recent comments, Fox News reported, where she compared lack of access to abortion to wartime rape in Afghanistan or Iran.
  “[W]e are also in a period of time where there is a lot of pushback and much of the [women’s rights] progress that has been, I think, taken for granted by too many people is under attack. Literally
  
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• Hertz settles lawsuits over hundreds of alleged false arrests

  05-12-2022 20:23 via cnn.com
  
  Hertz will pay $168 million to settle 364 claims related to the company falsely reporting rental cars as stolen. These cases sometimes resulted in people being arrested and even imprisoned.
  
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• CNN Hailed This Transgender Navy SEAL as 'Lady Valor,' But 9 Years Later He's Becoming Their Worst Nightmare

  05-12-2022 20:21
  Former Navy SEAL Chris Beck, a one-time poster child for gender ideology, has announced his “detransition” from life as a woman and has rebuked the people behind his own transition, as well as those calling for children to undergo the same process that he went through.
  Beck, who came out as transgender in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2013, now says that he was pressured into transitioning after just an hour-long meeting at the Department of Veterans Affairs and ex
  
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• Defense bill likely to include end to military Covid vaccine mandate, source says

  05-12-2022 19:48 via cnn.com
  
  A massive bill setting defense policy is likely to end the military vaccine mandate, a source familiar with the negotiations tells CNN, coming on the heels of intense GOP lobbying to kill the mandate and acceptance from leading Democrats that it's time for a change.
  
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• Musk Reveals He Will Not Sign Autographs 'Ever Again' After Making Troubling Statement

  05-12-2022 19:46
  Speaking during the “Twitter Files” live coverage event Saturday afternoon, company CEO Elon Musk said that he considered himself a target for possible assassination attempts.
  “Frankly the risk of something bad happening or literally even being shot is quite significant. I’m definitely not going to be doing any open-air car parades, let me put it that way,” Musk said in a Twitter Spaces discussion, as reported by Fox News.
  “It’s not that hard to kill me
  
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• At Least $20 Million in COVID Relief Funds Fell Into the Hands of China-Linked Groups

  05-12-2022 19:27
  Foreign hackers linked to the Chinese government allegedly stole at least $20 million in COVID-19 relief funds, according to the U.S. Secret Service.
  The China-linked hackers, known as APT41, are “a notable player” among the 1,000-plus investigations into criminals defrauding public benefits programs, according to an NBC News report confirmed by the Secret Service to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  It is unknown whether the Chinese government directed APT41 to steal taxpayer f
  
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• Arizona Officially Certifies Midterm Election Results - Kari Lake's 5-Day Window Just Opened

  05-12-2022 19:13
  Arizona’s top officials certified the midterm election results Monday, formalizing victory for Democrat Katie Hobbs.
  The certification opens a five-day window for formal election challenges. Republican candidate Kari Lake is expected to file a lawsuit regarding the results.
  Election results have largely been certified without issue around the country, but Arizona was an exception. Several counties delayed their certification. Cochise County in southeastern Arizona went past the deadline la
  
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• FBI Gets Involved as Tens of Thousands Are Still Without Power Thanks to 'Targeted' Attack

  05-12-2022 19:04
  The FBI has joined the investigation into what police believe were intentional attacks on two electric substations in North Carolina that resulted in a massive blackout.
  “The person, or persons, who did this knew exactly what they were doing,” Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said Sunday, according to CNN. “We don’t have a clue why Moore County.”
  Fields said multiple rounds of gunshots were fired at two substations, leading to a blackout that began Saturday night.
  
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• Eye-Popping Reward for 'Noose' at Obama Presidential Center Comes Up Empty - Just Another Hoax?

  05-12-2022 18:58
  The Second City may need to take a second look at what exactly happened at the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.
  Originally chalked up as a “hate crime” and broadcast as such, a recent update to the alleged noose that was hung at the construction site has revealed that … there is no update.
  In a new report released Sunday, Just The News found that, despite a hefty six-figure reward being dangled, there’s been nary a peep about who could&rsquo
  
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• Jurors in Los Angeles continue deliberations in Harvey Weinstein's second rape trial

  05-12-2022 18:56 via cnn.com
  
  A Los Angeles jury returned to court Monday to continue its deliberations in the second sexual assault trial of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is accused of using his Hollywood influence to lure women into private meetings and assault them.
  
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• Self-checkout annoys customers and helps shoplifters. Stores are adding it anyway

  05-12-2022 18:55 via cnn.com
  
  Self-checkout arrived in the late 1980s at supermarkets. A decade later, it began spreading to big-box chains and drug stores. Now, self-checkout, loved by some and hated by others, has entered discount clothing and department stores.
  
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• Federal judge throws out bribery, fraud charges against former New York lieutenant governor

  05-12-2022 18:49 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge has thrown out bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, saying the prosecutors did not allege a sufficient quid pro quo.
  
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• Catholic Bishop Warns Faithful About Hillary Clinton: 'Please Don't Listen to This Evil Woman'

  05-12-2022 17:56
  When a presumably sane person makes an objectively insane statement, it’s hard to know how to respond. (Some of you may have experienced that very thing around the table at Thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago.)
  So when former first lady Hillary Clinton, whom I assume to be of right mind, equates rape as a tactic in warfare with protecting unborn babies, I was frankly at a loss.
  Enter Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, who had just the words I was looking for.
  “Pl
  
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• Watch: Fearless Father Runs Towards Danger After 2-Year-Old Starts Screaming - Drives Off Vicious Animal

  05-12-2022 17:55
  There’s nothing like danger to a child that can cause a parent to go into mama bear mode, or in this case, papa bear mode.
  And nothing made that clearer than an incident Friday, on what was shaping up to be a typical day for the Eliyahuo family at their suburban Woodland Hills home in Southern California.
  According to KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, Shira and Ariel Eliyahuo said they had just arrived home after picking up their 2-year-old daughter, Ariya, from preschool. They were completely unawa
  
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• One Secret Change Was Made to US Weapon System Before It Was Dispatched to Ukraine

  05-12-2022 17:48
  The United States covertly altered a critical weapons system sent to Ukraine in an effort to prevent Ukrainian forces from striking Russian territory amid fears of provoking Russia’s ire against the West, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
  The U.S. has provided 20 of the highly popular High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers to Ukraine since June and at least 38 total, alongside ammunition known as the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, that carry a range of 50 miles, a
  
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• 'Common-Sense' US Voters Hand Elon Musk a Huge Win

  05-12-2022 17:42
  Most voters are supportive of Elon Musk’s recent efforts to make Twitter a freer and more transparent platform, according to a new poll released Monday.
  Of polled voters who have an opinion on Twitter’s new management, 62.6 percent are supportive of Musk’s work so far, while 37.4 percent said they did not support what Musk has done, according to the Trafalgar Group/Convention of States Action poll.
  After months of legal contest, Musk acquired the social media platform for $44 b
  
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• Trump's legal team should have known better when it came to a special master

  05-12-2022 17:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Requesting a special master to review records that were lawfully seized from Mar-a-Lago ignores the separation of powers and the law.
  
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• Passing the Torch

  05-12-2022 17:15
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Passing the Torch appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Look at How Fauci's Head Was Placed on This Time Magazine Cover - It Speaks Volumes

  05-12-2022 17:13
  With just three weeks remaining before White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci steps down from his 54-year career at the National Institutes of Health, many Americans are furious about the wide-ranging damage caused by his misguided coronavirus guidelines.
  Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Two years ago, the 81-year-old bureaucrat was a liberal media darling who was hyped to mythical levels.
  In September 2020, Time magazine plastered Fauci on a fawning cover to tout its annual “1
  
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• Investigation Launched After Pro-Life Students Are Hit with Death Threat ... Look How the Note Was Signed

  05-12-2022 17:12
  The University of Nebraska Omaha Public Safety launched an investigation Saturday morning into a note taped to the John Paul II Newman Center, which threatened to shoot pro-life students, according to the university.
  The note was signed “Jane’s Revenge,” a reference to the the radical pro-abortion group that has claimed responsibility for several threats toward pro-life center’s across the country, according to an alleged photo of the note which circulated social med
  
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• Left Outraged After 'Saturday Night Live' Hits Biden with Brain Damage Joke

  05-12-2022 16:47
  After mocking former President Donald Trump turnabout was considered unfair play when “Saturday Night Live” took a dig at President Joe Biden this weekend.
  Michael Che was zipping through the news on SNL’s “Weekend Update” segment when the show sent a zinger Biden’s way.
  “President Biden signed a measure that would force railway workers to accept a deal that averts a strike but does not include paid sick leave. But how do you expect Biden to care about s
  
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• Explosions Hit Military Bases Deep Inside Russia as Ukraine Hints at Long-Range Strikes

  05-12-2022 16:45
  Explosions hit two air bases deep inside Russia on Monday, including one that houses a key component of Russia’s nuclear deterrent, as Ukraine has hinted at the ability to hit long-range targets, according to The Wall Street Journal.
  A fuel tanker exploded at an air base outside of Moscow, killing three, while explosions also racked the Engels military base in Russia’s Saratov region and damaged two of Russia’s nuclear-capable strategic bombers, the Journal reported.
  While Ukra
  
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• Paul Pelosi Appears in Public for First Time Since Injury - Biden Makes Move After Spotting Him

  05-12-2022 16:39
  Paul Pelosi made a return to the spotlight Sunday by attending the annual Kennedy Center Honors event in Washington.
  The event recognizes individuals who have made a major contribution to American culture.
  It was the first public appearance for Pelosi since his October attack in his San Francisco home, according to Politico.
  Pelosi was seated with his wife, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Paul Pelosi, who was struck on the head during the attack, wore a black fedora during the event as well as one g
  
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• Tampa police chief resigns after flashing badge during traffic stop

  05-12-2022 16:33 via cnn.com
  
  • Watch: Retired sergeant reacts to video of police chief flashing badge
  • 'Times Square killer' pleads guilty to 1 woman's murder and admits killing 4 others
  • Tens of thousands still in the dark after 'targeted' attacks on North Carolina power substations
  
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• FDA Lists 124 Medications in Short Supply in Biden's America

  05-12-2022 16:30
  As the economy and our supply chains continue to grind to a halt during the administration of President Joe Biden, the next shoe to drop is hitting the drug industry.
  According to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration listing, 124 medications were suffering from short supplies as of Monday morning,
  From drugs as basic as Tylenol to more serious medications for cancer treatments, a growing number of medicines are getting harder to come by in the U.S., KING-TV in Seattle reported Friday — and
  
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