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• NY Court Finds Trump Organization Guilty of Tax Fraud, Could Impose Relatively Small Fine

  06-12-2022 23:44
  The Trump Organization was found guilty of tax fraud by a New York jury on Tuesday.
  As a result, the Donald Trump-owned company could be forced to pay a fine of up to $1.6 million.
  According to The Associated Press, the fine is small considering the company’s size.
  The Trump Organization was found guilty on 17 counts of various charges, including conspiracy and falsifying business records.
  The company reportedly helped various executives duck certain taxes on apartments, cars and other lux
  
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• Boy Who Dressed Up as Cashier for Halloween Gets Surprise Better Than Candy After Employees Take Notice

  06-12-2022 23:22
  There are two kinds of people during Halloween. There are the people who choose the cookie-cutter get-ups available at the big box stores, dressing up as the classics and the most popular modern characters, but then there are some people who really go all out and make their own unique, delightful costumes.
  Calvin Pettibone and his mother Rachel from Montgomery, Ohio, fall into the latter category.
  Calvin is a 5-year-old boy who has cerebral palsy and some developmental delays, but engages in spo
  
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• Rep. Ted Lieu reflects on becoming the highest-ranking Asian American ever in House Democratic leadership

  06-12-2022 23:12 via nbcnews.com
  
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• Biden Admin Pats Itself on Back About Unemployment, Then Note from Musk's Twitter Appears

  06-12-2022 23:08
  With Twitter under new ownership, it looks like progressives and Democrats could be finally receiving a taste of their own medicine.
  The official Biden White House Twitter account was slapped with an embarrassing “fact check” style platform disclaimer following a Monday tweet.
  The White House bragged about reduced unemployment claims since President Joe Biden took office, pointing out that they had declined from 18.8 million to 1.4 million over the course of his presidency.
  The tweet
  
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• FBI asking about videos and racist website in connection with Colorado shooting

  06-12-2022 23:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  A former neighbor of Anderson Aldrich, the alleged suspect in the Club Q LGBTQ bar shooting in Colorado Springs, talked about two websites with the FBI.
  
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• House Republicans seek testimony from Twitter employees who oversaw handling of NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story

  06-12-2022 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  House Republicans say they will seek congressional testimony from top Twitter employees who oversaw the company's handling of a New York Post report on Hunter Biden's laptop in public hearings when Republicans officially reclaim control of the House in the next Congress, indicating that probes into digital content moderation will figure prominently.
  
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• Biden's 'Petty' Holiday Snub Highlights a Looming Threat to Democracy, And It's Only Getting Worse

  06-12-2022 22:50
  Joe Biden is taking flak from members of the mainstream media for excluding some of them from the White House press corps Christmas party — some say as punishment for bad coverage.
  The Biden White House is being accused of being “petty” for excluding a number of journalists from the Dec. 8 and Dec. 13 soirees for the press. It is just another example of his attacks on the media.
  As the New York Post reported, the exclusions are a “break” from Biden’s claim tha
  
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• New York City Mayor Eric Adams appoints first Black woman to serve as first deputy mayor

  06-12-2022 22:44 via cnn.com
  
  New York City Mayor Eric Adams appointed the first Black woman to serve as the city's First Deputy Mayor on Tuesday, rounding off a year of high-profile appointments of women, including women of color.
  
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• Biden Gets Snubbed by Key Democrat Amid Speculation of a Party Switch

  06-12-2022 22:35
  A Senate Democrat known for her bipartisan approach to legislating appears to have snubbed President Joe Biden.
  Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema declined to travel on Air Force One with the president to her home state on Tuesday.
  Biden visited Phoenix to tour a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. computer chip plant, declining to visit the nation’s southern border.
  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday during a gaggle aboard Air Force One that the White House
  
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• Family of deceased Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick snubs GOP leaders

  06-12-2022 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  The family of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died hours after defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, refused to shake hands with the two top Republican members of Congress at a Tuesday ceremony.
  
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• Musk Was Right About Twitter's 'Election Interference' in 2020 - FBI Laid Goundwork, According to New Testimony

  06-12-2022 22:02
  The FBI held weekly meetings with former Twitter integrity head Yoel Roth before the 2020 election, warning of “hack-and-leak” schemes by “state actors” involving Hunter Biden, according to the New York Post.
  As a result, the social media giant quickly squelched the story when news of Hunter Biden’s laptop broke weeks before the election, according to the report.
  Roth made the revelations in his sworn declaration to the Federal Election Commission in late December 2
  
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• House Set to Repeal Military Vaccine Mandate, But There Is a Caveat That Will Make Your Blood Boil

  06-12-2022 21:55
  Not content with the tens of millions of Americans who lost their jobs during the government-sponsored COVID-19 lockdowns, the Biden administration decided more Americans needed to lose their jobs for showing healthy skepticism with the COVID-19 vaccines.
  Biden’s sweeping and draconian vaccine mandates saw hundreds of thousands of additional Americans dismissed from or leave employment for refusing the vaccine.
  According to USA Facts, an estimated 79 percent of Americans took at least one
  
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• 5 Years Ago, Trump Did What Clinton, Bush and Obama Couldn't

  06-12-2022 21:32
  On Dec. 6, 2017, then-President Donald Trump did something that his three immediate predecessors never could: He officially recognized Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel and moved the U.S. Embassy there.
  At the time of the announcement, Trump said the move was in the best interests of the “pursuit of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”
  “Israel is a sovereign nation with the right, like every other sovereign nation, to determine its own capital. Acknowledging th
  
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• Apple sued by two women alleging their exes used AirTags to stalk them

  06-12-2022 21:00 via cnn.com
  
  Apple has been sued by two women who allege their previous romantic partners used the company's AirTag devices to track their whereabouts, potentially putting their safety at risk.
  
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• Kari Lake Rejects Arizona Election Results as She Previews Legal Fight: 'It's Going to Be Real Ugly'

  06-12-2022 20:50
  Arizona Republican Kari Lake is promising a strong legal challenge to the outcome of her race with Secretary of State Katie Hobbs for the state’s governor’s office.
  Hobbs certified her own win over Lake on Monday by approximately 17,000 votes, with Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Brutinel there as witnesses, according to ABC News.
  With the certification complete, Lake has five days to file legal challenges in court
  
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• FedEx Driver Accused of Murdering 7-Year-Old Forgiven by Last Person You'd Expect - Pray for This Family

  06-12-2022 20:11
  The average person familiar with the tragic story of 7-year-old Athena Strand might feel that the family has a right to be angry and even hate the man who authorities say kidnapped and murdered her.
  However, at least one member of the girl’s family is doing his very best to fight off hatred and prevent it from taking root in his soul.
  Sheriff Lane Akin of Wise County, Texas, just northwest of Fort Worth, said 31-year-old Tanner Lynn Horner confessed to killing Athena, KDFW-TV reported Sund
  
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• Op-Ed: It's Time for the US to Join the Rest of the Developed World and Require Voter ID

  06-12-2022 20:00
  With the exception of the United States, the developed world recognizes the importance of requiring people to present identification when they vote.
  ID is essential to ensure that voters have citizenship, are of proper age, vote only once in each election, and vote in the proper jurisdiction. It is also essential if citizens are to have confidence in election results.
  In January, Britain will begin requiring its population to present identification in order to vote in national elections. At that
  
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• Breaking: Kevin McCarthy Will Face GOP Challenger for Speaker on House Floor

  06-12-2022 19:56
  Issuing a clarion call for change, Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona has announced that when the new Congress convenes, he will wage a floor battle to become speaker of the House.
  Biggs, who authored piece published by The Daily Caller on Tuesday making his case for a radical change of course for House Republicans, opposed current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California in the Republican Caucus, but lost 188 to 31, according to CBS News.
  Republicans will control the House in Janua
  
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• Biden DOJ Subpoenas Election Officials in 4 Battleground States for Trump Documents

  06-12-2022 19:51
  Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed officials in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania to demand communications with or involving former President Donald Trump, his campaign aides and a list of allies involved in his efforts to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
  The requests — issued to Milwaukee and Dane counties in Wisconsin; Wayne County, Michigan; Maricopa County, Arizona; and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania — are the first known subpoenas by Smith, wh
  
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• Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files' debacle underscores the concerning allure of his favorite theory

  06-12-2022 19:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Elon Musk's Twitter Files about Hunter Biden, tweets about Ye, or Trump invite (he's still on Truth Social) complicate free speech and democracy in America.
  
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• 5 women sue Bill Cosby for sexual assault and abuse under new NY lookback law

  06-12-2022 19:34 via cnn.com
  
  Two former actresses on "The Cosby Show" are among five women who filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby in New York state court on Monday accusing him of sexual assault and abuse dating back decades.
  
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• Jesse Watters Makes Major Family Announcement on 'The Five'

  06-12-2022 19:10
  Fans of popular Fox News host Jesse Watters received a treat on Monday’s episode of “The Five” when he announced life-changing news concerning his family.
  Watters, host of “Jesse Watters Primetime,” announced that he and his wife, Emma DiGiovine, are expecting a baby girl in April.
  “Major family announcement: Emma is pregnant!” Watters tweeted along with a clip of the announcement.Major family announcement: Emma is pregnant! pic.twitter.com/Ezh7DTOxCo
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• Watch: Joe Biden's Blood Boiling 6-Word Response When He's Asked Why He Won't Visit Southern Border

  06-12-2022 18:59
  A record number of border crossings have taken place under the Biden administration. Drugs continue to flow from Mexico to the U.S., enflaming the fentanyl crisis. Human trafficking numbers are exploding.
  And yet, during his tenure, the president of the United States has never even visited the southern border.
  He’s certainly had plenty of chances. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden visited north Phoenix in order to “highlight Arizona’s high-tech manufacturing industry” (per
  
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• Jurors deliberate for a third day in Harvey Weinstein's Los Angeles rape trial

  06-12-2022 18:52 via cnn.com
  
  A Los Angeles jury is meeting Tuesday for a third day of deliberations in the sexual assault trial of former movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who's awaiting a verdict while already serving prison time for a rape conviction in New York.
  
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• Meme stock mania may finally be over

  06-12-2022 18:43 via cnn.com
  
  It's time to sing a requiem for a meme. Meme stocks, that is. Companies that attracted rabid followings from traders on Reddit and other social media sites in 2021 are struggling. Just look at GameStop.
  
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• Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Announces Criminal Referrals

  06-12-2022 18:42
  The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, incursion of the U.S. Capitol will make criminal referrals to the Justice Department as it wraps up its probe and looks to publish a final report by the end of the year, the panel’s chairman said Tuesday.
  Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi told reporters that the committee has decided to issue the referrals recommending criminal prosecution.
  However, he did not disclose who the targets will be or whether former President
  
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• Katie Hobbs Hit with Calls for Federal Investigation Into Alleged Big Tech Collusion: 'This Is Communism'

  06-12-2022 18:37
  Over the weekend, it was revealed that in early 2021, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, now the governor-elect, successfully managed to have Twitter employees censor or remove posts at her office’s behest.
  The revelation came in a trove of discovery documents from current litigation spearheaded by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who’s suing President Joe Biden and his administration for allegedly colluding with Big Tech firms to suppress freedom of speech.
  As a res
  
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• 'Non-Binary' Colorado Shooting Suspect Officially Charged with Over 300 Counts

  06-12-2022 18:18
  Authorities revealed formal charges Tuesday totaling 305 counts against the alleged perpetrator of the November mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LBGT club, according to CNN.
  Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, allegedly shot and killed five people, hurting many others at Club Q. During a Tuesday court hearing, District Attorney Michael Allen announced formal charges against him, including murder, attempted murder, assault and bias-motivated offenses, CNN reported.
  His attorneys said Aldrich identifies
  
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• Walmart CEO Announces Store Closures and Higher Prices Are Looming Thanks to Rampant Crime

  06-12-2022 18:12
  Walmart could face store closures and price increases because of large-scale retail theft, CEO Doug McMillon told CNBC on Tuesday.
  Large-scale shoplifting has become a growing issue for major retailers in recent years, with some CEOs blaming rampant organized crime and lax prosecutors, according to CNBC.
  Theft has become so widespread that it’s making significant cuts into retail profits and could drive major changes to retail operations.
  “Theft is an issue. It’s higher than wh
  
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• NTSB says pilot that hit power lines was too low for miles

  06-12-2022 18:06 via cnn.com
  
  Investigators say the pilot of a private plane that crashed into power lines and cut electricity to 120,000 people was flying too low for miles.
  
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• Man Exposes Shocking Amount Electric Truck Driving Range Is Cut Because It's Cold Out: 'Disaster'

  06-12-2022 18:03
  In cold weather, gas-powered cars outperform electric vehicles, whose driving range can plunge 20 to 50 percent because their batteries slow down as the temperature drops.
  That’s the inconvenient truth one Kansas electric truck owner discovered while driving around to run errands.
  Automotive YouTuber Tyler Hoover posted a video on Monday in which he revealed that he sold his 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning truck after owning it for six months because its “winter battery performance was a d
  
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• Walmart CEO: Inflation on toys, clothing and sports equipment is easing

  06-12-2022 18:02 via cnn.com
  
  Finally, shoppers are getting some good news about prices: Inflation is falling on discretionary merchandise just in time for the holidays, Walmart chief Doug McMillon said Tuesday.
  
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• Double-digit price hikes for packaged foods will be 'with us for a while,' Walmart CEO says

  06-12-2022 18:02 via cnn.com
  
  Finally, shoppers are getting some good news about prices: Inflation is falling on discretionary merchandise just in time for the holidays, Walmart chief Doug McMillon said Tuesday.
  
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• Leftist County Facing Staffing Shortages Where it Hurts the Most - Now Hundreds of Criminals Are Free

  06-12-2022 17:55
  More than 300 criminal defendants in the Portland, Oregon, area have had their charges dismissed because public defenders were unavailable to represent them.
  And that means the victims in their cases have been unable to see justice done.
  The crisis was revealed last month by Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt, according to The Oregonian.
  “This sends a message to crime victims in our community that justice is unavailable, and their harm will go unaddressed,” Schmidt said,
  
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• Cuomo Rep Goes After Trump-Hater, Says She 'Covered Up' Sex Harassment Complaint Against Top Aide

  06-12-2022 17:37
  New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing an allegation that she pursued claims of sexual harassment against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with a whole lot more zeal than she did with what was happening under her nose.
  On Friday, Ibrahim Khan, 38, the chief of staff in James’s office and a longtime aide, resigned after facing multiple claims of sexual harassment, according to the New York Post.
  Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi accused James of “actively lying” about h
  
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• State Throws a Major Wrench in Biden's Plan to Dramatically Change Democrats' 2024 Primary Process

  06-12-2022 17:22
  Georgia is pushing back against the Democratic National Committee’s proposal to reshuffle the order of presidential primaries in 2024, as other states also grumble over the changes.
  Last week, at the command of President Joe Biden, the DNC’s rules committee decreed that South Carolina would be the nation’s first Democratic presidential battleground.
  Biden said in his letter to the committee Thursday that black voters needed to be moved to the front of the primary line, and the
  
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• Hillary Clinton Compared Pro-Lifers to Terrorists and War Criminals - Look What Happened at a Catholic Center 2 Days Later

  06-12-2022 17:12
  A pro-life student group received what it called a “death threat” Saturday morning, two days after former first lady Hillary Clinton compared similar activists to war criminals on PBS.
  “This morning in Nebraska our team arrived for our [Students for Life Action] Poltical Leadership Workshop where we are gathering activists from across the state to strategize about how to use @studentsforlife’s Campaign for … Abortion Free Cities to shut down the late-term abortion
  
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• Black Farmers File Major Lawsuit Against Biden Administration: 'They Gave Us Their Word'

  06-12-2022 17:08
  The federal government is being sued by a group of black farmers who claim the Biden administration has broken a promise to pay off their debts.
  The class-action suit aims to force the government restore funding that was dropped from a program after a group of white farmers filed legal challenges arguing their exclusion was a violation of their constitutional rights.
  The lawsuit, filed in October, remains active even as the U.S. Department of Agriculture moves forward with another effort to help
  
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• The US Army Is Planning Something Big - 'Dramatic' Increase in Artillery Shell Production Needed

  06-12-2022 16:55
  The United States Army is planning to triple the monthly production of artillery shells to make up for ordnance being sent to Ukraine for its defense against the Russian invasion.
  At a forum on national defense Saturday, Doug Bush, the Army’s assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology, indicated that the service is seeking munitions contractors to significantly ramp up production.
  “Funding is already in place, contracts are underway to basically triple 155mm produc
  
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• Biden's FEMA Makes Sick Move: DeSantis Won't Take It Lying Down

  06-12-2022 16:42
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is sounding the alarm after the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied a state request for assistance following following Hurricane Ian.
  DeSantis revealed Monday that the federal disaster agency denied a request for $25 million in funding to repair damaged houses impacted by the hurricane on Monday, according to Fox News.
  “Unfortunately, we got word last week that FEMA had denied our request for funding our state-led housing initiative, citing their ‘lim
  
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• Search for a missing toddler in Tacoma continues nearly 24 years later

  06-12-2022 16:26 via cnn.com
  
  Theresa Czapieski couldn't hold back tears when police in Tacoma, Washington, showed her what her daughter could look like today. She has not stopped searching for the then-2-year-old Teekah Lewis since 1999.
  
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• Top Pastor Slams Leftist Twisting of Bible: We Are Not at Liberty to 'Accommodate Godless Perspectives'

  06-12-2022 16:11
  The Apostle Paul’s second letter to Timothy perfectly encapsulates the decaying spiritual state of many churches in the West today that are sadly embracing unsound doctrine and outright blasphemies.
  “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths,” he wrote in 2 Timothy 4:3-4.
  Pastor Alistai
  
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• Philadelphia is taking the 'cheese' out of cream cheese

  06-12-2022 15:57 via cnn.com
  
  Philadelphia Cream Cheese is launching a non-dairy version of its signature spread.
  
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• White House Press Sec Reveals Disturbing Response to the 'Twitter Files'

  06-12-2022 15:56
  In a word, the Biden administration’s response to Elon Musk’s release of the “Twitter Files” was shameless.
  Having had the weekend to mull over precisely how they would spin evidence of the Biden campaign’s collusion with top Twitter executives ahead of the 2020 election to suppress the New York Post’s bombshell story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, they chose offense.
  Asked by a reporter during Monday’s White House news briefing, press secretary Kari
  
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• McDonald's franchisee violated child labor laws, investigation finds

  06-12-2022 15:56 via cnn.com
  
  A McDonald's franchise operator has violated child labor laws, according to an investigation by the Department of Labor.
  
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• Clyburn 'surprised' by decision to make South Carolina first in Democratic primary calendar

  06-12-2022 15:43 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Jim Clyburn was "a bit surprised" to learn about President Joe Biden's efforts to reshape the 2024 presidential nominating calendar and make South Carolina the first state to hold a primary, he told CNN's Kaitlan Collins, though he supports the effort.
  
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• Cleaning House

  06-12-2022 15:43
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Cleaning House appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Supreme Court Makes Decision on Dominion Voting Systems Case

  06-12-2022 15:26
  The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case alleging that Facebook and Dominion Voting Systems had an illegal and undue influence on the 2020 elections.
  The court rejected the appeal from eight Americans without comment.
  The group was led by Kevin O’Rourke and had lost two previous rounds in court. In May, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Tymkovich rejected the suit. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals followed suit, leading to the request for the Supreme Court’s intervention, a
  
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• Philadelphia is launching a plant-based cream cheese

  06-12-2022 14:53 via cnn.com
  
  Philadelphia Cream Cheese is launching a non-dairy version of its signature spread.
  
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• Kari Lake Campaign Issues Scathing Response to Judge Who Sanctioned Her Lawyers: 'An Angry Obama Appointee Who Wants to Send a Message'

  06-12-2022 14:36
  Judge John Tuchi of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona received a sharp round of criticism from Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s campaign.
  Lake is challenging the process of the Nov. 8 election where Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has been declared the winner, according to results certified Monday.
  The backlash from Lake’s campaign came in the wake of a ruling from Tuchi on Thursday sanctioning lawyers who represented Lake and Republi
  
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