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• Breaking: AOC Hit with Worst News of Her Congressional Career

  07-12-2022 23:52
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is officially under a House internal ethics investigation.
  The House Ethics Committee announced that Ocasio-Cortez is under investigation in a Wednesday press release. The Committee announced that the investigation stems from a matter involving Ocasio-Cortez that was brought to its attention in June.
  “The Acting Chairwoman and Acting Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics have jointly decided to extend the matter regarding Representative Alexandria Ocasio-C
  
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• Op-Ed: The Facts of the George Floyd Case - Lies, Myths and Fraud

  07-12-2022 23:03
  Yes, you’ve heard of George Floyd, the holy, blessed martyr, peace be upon him, newly beatified by the pagan church of anti-racism. He rests on his misty perch in atheist heaven on God’s right side, gazing benevolently upon us.
  Yes, that George Floyd, the one with the rap sheet down to his ankles. He had eight jail sentences for a variety of charges, including drug possession, theft, criminal trespass and armed robbery during a home invasion. That latter charge involved holding a loa
  
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• Paul Pelosi seen on Capitol Hill

  07-12-2022 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was seen leaving her office Wednesday with her husband, Paul Pelosi.
  
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• Cop Dragged by Suspect at 115 mph with Legs Hanging Out Door; Car Crashes - Then a 'Miracle' Happens

  07-12-2022 22:22
  America’s fine law enforcement officers never get enough credit for what they are subjected to on a daily basis as they try to keep others safe.
  That was evidenced again Friday in Virginia when a state trooper was dragged by a driver speeding away from a traffic stop in Henrico County, according to WRIC-TV in Richmond.
  The car reached speeds of 115 mph, authorities said.
  Witnesses to the horrifying event described it as a “miracle” that the trooper wasn’t killed or t
  
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• Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Makes Shocking Request of Elon Musk - What Does He Know?

  07-12-2022 22:09
  The dramatic revelations coming out of the “Twitter Files” haven’t stopped yet, and the developing side stories are a look at just how far the Democratic National Committee and other powerful forces wielded their influence over social media platforms to shape narratives and influence elections.
  The most recent evidence that there is something yet to be uncovered came in a peculiar request from Twitter’s founder, Jack Dorsey, to its new CEO, Elon Musk. Dorsey suggested tha
  
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• New York Times Braces for Impact as Journalists Assemble - Hasn't Occurred in More Than 40 Years

  07-12-2022 22:07
  The New York Times is bracing for a 24-hour walkout Thursday by hundreds of journalists and other employees, in what would be the first strike of its kind at the newspaper in more than 40 years.
  Newsroom employees and other members of The NewsGuild of New York say they are fed up with bargaining that has dragged on since their last contract expired in March 2021. The union announced last week that more than 1,100 employees would stage a 24-hour work stoppage starting at 12:01 a.m. Thursday unles
  
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• When the Rats Fight Back - NYC Mayor Doesn't Want to Pay Up After 'Fresh Droppings' Found in Townhome

  07-12-2022 21:54
  New York City Mayor Eric Adams is such an enemy of rats that he once called a press conference to demonstrate a contraption for drowning them in poison. Now Adams finds himself contesting a $300 fine issued by his own administration over a rat infestation at a building he owns in Brooklyn.
  Adams was issued a summons by the city health department on May 10 after a health inspector spotted “fresh rat droppings” at his townhouse on Lafayette Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood
  
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• What's gone wrong at Beyond Meat

  07-12-2022 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  A slew of problems have stalled the growth of Beyond Meat, once a darling of Wall Street whose top product became synonymous with plant-based burgers.
  
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• Not a Joke: Ford Says Don't Use Heater in Electric Truck in Winter to Save Battery - But That's Not All

  07-12-2022 21:33
  Winter is coming.
  OK, technically meteorological winter arrived last week, beginning as it does every year on Dec. 1. Astronomical winter, which is the one that shows up on your calendar as “First Day of Winter,” doesn’t kick off until Dec. 21.
  But if you drive a Ford F-150 Lighting electric pickup truck, it may have felt like winter to you for quite a while already, especially if you live in a colder climate and follow the manufacturer’s recommendations for extending the
  
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• Shooting outside a Marietta, Georgia, Walmart leaves at least 1 injured, police say

  07-12-2022 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  At least one person was injured Wednesday in a shooting outside a Walmart in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Cobb County police said.
  
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• Former Theranos COO set to be sentenced

  07-12-2022 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the former chief operating officer of failed blood testing startup Theranos, is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for fraud, marking an end to the stunning downfall of a high-flying Silicon Valley company that resulted in the rare convictions of two tech executives.
  
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• Patrick Lyoya's family sues Grand Rapids and the then-officer who killed him

  07-12-2022 20:43 via cnn.com
  
  The family of a Black man fatally shot in the head by a Michigan police officer has sued the ex-officer and the city who employed him, alleging in part that the slain man's civil rights were violated through excessive force.
  
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• Mar-a-Lago Search Breathes New Life Into Witch Hunt Against Trump, And the FBI Is All Over It

  07-12-2022 20:32
  Lawyers for former President Donald Trump found at least two items marked as classified during a recent search of a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida, and have provided them to the FBI, according to a published report Wednesday.
  The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that the items were discovered by an outside team brought in by Trump’s representatives to search his other properties for any additional classified materials. The nature of the classified materials was
  
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• Biden Admin Makes Sneak Edit to Misleading Data After They Missed the Mark by Over 18,000%

  07-12-2022 20:27
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) updated its data Wednesday after the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively reported massive discrepancies between what the agency was disclosing to attendees of a closed-door event and what it was telling the public.
  The DCNF reported Thursday that ICE underreported the number of illegal immigrants released from custody without any tracking technology by more than 18,000 percent, according to an internal document given to attendees of an agency semina
  
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• Two teens arrested for Atlanta shooting last month that killed 12- and 15-year-olds, police say

  07-12-2022 20:21 via cnn.com
  
  Atlanta Police have arrested two teenagers in connection to a shooting last month that left a 12-year-old and 15-year-old dead, Deputy Chief Charles Hampton said in a news conference Wednesday.
  
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• Elon Musk Fires Back at San Francisco as City Launches Investigation Into Modification He Made at Twitter HQ

  07-12-2022 20:20
  Elon Musk isn’t taking this lying down.
  A report Monday that stated the new owner of Twitter has had beds installed in the company’s San Francisco headquarters and a snitch-line complaint by an anonymous source have set off enough alarms at San Francisco City Hall that the city’s Department of Building Inspections is launching an investigation of the social media giant’s property, according to Forbes.
  But Musk isn’t backing off a bit.
  In a Twitter post published Tue
  
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• Border Patrol Agents Eviscerate Biden for Border Comment - This May Be Their Most Brutal Statement Yet

  07-12-2022 20:16
  Remind me never to get on the bad side of the National Border Patrol Council, if only because their Twitter game is on point.
  On Tuesday, during a visit to north Phoenix to “highlight Arizona’s high-tech manufacturing industry,” President Joe Biden was asked why he hadn’t visited the U.S.-Mexico border since he was within a couple hundred miles of it.
  “There’s more important things going on,” Biden replied, according to KNXV-TV. “They’re goin
  
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• Bereaved Mother Asks Public for Help, Hopes for 'Christmas Miracle' After Losing Precious Memento

  07-12-2022 19:56
  Wendy Vulpi is a mother from Chapin, South Carolina, who suffered a deep loss when her son was killed in a car accident two years ago.
  The driver of the other vehicle was impaired, according to WACH-TV in Columbia.
  This year, Vulpi’s son, Nick — whom she affectionately refers to as “my bunny boy” — would have been 23.
  As part of her grieving process, she ordered a bespoke necklace charm that features her son’s fingerprint. Whenever she sees something beautiful
  
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• Lee Zeldin Announces His Decision on RNC Chair Run: 'It's Time the GOP Elects New Leadership!'

  07-12-2022 19:27
  After the lackluster GOP performance in the 2022 midterms, current RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has faced calls for her resignation and for someone to challenge her.
  One of the top picks called upon to challenge her was former congressman and New York gubernatorial nominee Lee Zeldin, who has finally made his decision known.
  According to a Twitter statement Zeldin posted Wednesday, he has decided not to run for the position of RNC chairman, although he did call upon McDaniel to step down.
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• Navy Forced to Make Dangerous Compromise as Biden's Military Obsesses About Diversity

  07-12-2022 19:25
  The U.S. Navy is addressing a massive drop in recruitment numbers by making a dangerous compromise that could leave the country in a much more vulnerable position.
  On Monday, USNI News reported that the Navy is lowering admittance requirements for one of its entrance exams.
  Under the plan, recruits who score lower on the Armed Forces Qualification Test can now be accepted into the Navy so long as they score high enough on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.
  According to USNI, the Arm
  
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• As Harvey Weinstein awaits a verdict in his 2nd sexual assault trial, a Los Angeles jury deliberates for a 4th day

  07-12-2022 18:55 via cnn.com
  
  As disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein awaits a verdict from behind bars, a Los Angeles jury met Wednesday for a fourth day of deliberations in the former producer's second sexual assault trial.
  
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• Philadelphia police about to identify body of 'Boy in the Box' — found more than 65 years ago

  07-12-2022 18:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  The unidentified victim of one of America's oldest unsolved murders is expected to be named on Thursday in Philadelphia, raising hopes that the boy's shocking 1
  
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• Constitutional Crisis: President Suspends Congress After Attempt to Remove Him

  07-12-2022 18:45
  Vice President Dina Boluarte was sworn in Wednesday as Peru’s next president after Congress voted out President Pedro Castillo shortly after he dissolved the legislative body.
  The 60-year-old lawyer took the oath of office and became the first female leader in the more than 200-year history of the independent republic.
  Her swearing in capped hours of uncertainty as both the president and Congress appeared to exercise their constitutional powers to do away with each other.
  Boluarte said her
  
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• China's Restrictive 'Zero COVID' Policy Suddenly Loosened After Protests

  07-12-2022 18:42
  Chinese citizens rejoiced on Wednesday after the communist government scrapped its most restrictive COVID-19 testing and quarantine rules, Reuters reported, citing social media posts.
  Among the changes announced Wednesday, city officials no longer will have the power to shut down parts of the city, most testing requirements will be rescinded and patients with mild symptoms will be allowed to isolate at home, according to The Wall Street Journal.
  The sweeping rollback of President Xi Jinping&rsqu
  
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• Supreme Court grapples with North Carolina case that could upend elections

  07-12-2022 18:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Supreme Court hears a major case that could upend election law as it considers whether to reinstate GOP-drawn congressional districts in North Carolina.
  
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• Watch: NBA Announcer Suffers Disturbing Medical Emergency on Live TV, 68-Year-Old Goes Stiff

  07-12-2022 18:32
  Before an Atlanta Hawks basketball game on Monday night, play-by-play announcer Bob Rathbun suffered a medical emergency on live television.
  The 68-year-old was in conversation with his color commentator when he began to seize up and convulse, causing the camera crew to cut the feed, the New York Post reported.
  According to a statement from Bally Sports released shortly after the incident, Rathbun had lost consciousness. The network said he was “stable and responsive” and heading to
  
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• Biden Drops Biggest Hint Yet on His 2024 Plans to Important Foreign Ally: Report

  07-12-2022 18:30
  President Joe Biden hasn’t announced whether he plans to run for re-election in 2024, but he was willing to participate in “a playful toast” Thursday night with his wife and French President Emmanuel Macron at an official state dinner.
  Officially, according to The New York Times, Biden won’t make a formal decision about whether to run again until after the holidays.
  However, first lady Jill Biden told Macron Thursday night that she and her husband were ready for their nex
  
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• The most shocking Senate result: Every incumbent won

  07-12-2022 18:20 via cnn.com
  
  One of the most common refrains in politics is voters hate Washington and want outsiders to be elected to office. But Sen. Raphael Warnock's victory in Georgia's Senate runoff on Tuesday is part of a trend that suggests that, at least in 2022, that wasn't true.
  
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• Analysis: The most shocking Senate result: Every incumbent won

  07-12-2022 18:20 via cnn.com
  
  One of the most common refrains in politics is voters hate Washington and want outsiders to be elected to office. But Sen. Raphael Warnock's victory in Georgia's Senate runoff on Tuesday is part of a trend that suggests that, at least in 2022, that wasn't true.
  
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• Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago

  07-12-2022 18:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland.
  
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• Jan. 6 committee plans to issue criminal referrals along with its final report

  07-12-2022 18:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  The House Jan. 6 committee plans to release any criminal referrals as part of its final report, committee members said Wednesday.
  
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• Justice Dept. report outlines series of mistakes that led to prison beating death of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger

  07-12-2022 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General released a report on Wednesday outlining how a series of mistakes by the embattled Bureau of Prisons led to the beating death of imprisoned Boston gangster and convicted murderer James "Whitey" Bulger four years ago.
  
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• Amazon's checkout page briefly stops working for some users

  07-12-2022 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  Thousands of customers looking to purchase an item on Amazon early Wednesday encountered an error message on the e-commerce site's checkout page, a rare issue for a platform that has become even more of a central shopping hub for countless households during the pandemic.
  
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• 2nd Border Patrol Line-of Duty Death in 3 Weeks, 'Tremendous Loss for Our Organization and Our Nation'

  07-12-2022 18:03
  A Border Patrol agent was killed in an ATV accident Wednesday, marking the second line-of-duty death for Customs and Border Protection in three weeks, the agency confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  Wednesday’s victim was killed during an early-morning patrol where he was tracking a group of illegal immigrants near Mission, Texas, while riding the ATV, according to CBP.
  “The death of an Agent who died while securing our nation’s border is a tremendous loss for our org
  
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• There are plenty of clues in the home where Idaho students were killed. But solving the case may not be simple.

  07-12-2022 17:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  The search for whoever stabbed four University of Idaho students to death last month is complicated due to an enormous amount of DNA and digital evidence.
  
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• Investigators untangling the Idaho student slayings face a ‘daunting task’: Parsing the DNA

  07-12-2022 17:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  The search for whoever stabbed four University of Idaho students to death last month is complicated due to an enormous amount of DNA and digital evidence.
  
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• Fauci criticizes 'extreme' ideological divide that has led to disproportionate Covid deaths

  07-12-2022 17:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  Fauci criticizes an "extreme" ideological divide that he said has led to a disproportionate amount of Covid deaths among Republicans compared to Democrats.
  
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• 'Murder Capital' of US Just Got a Lot More Dangerous, Dem Mayor Forced to Watch Dept Dwindle

  07-12-2022 17:48
  The New Orleans Police Department’s superintendent is set to retire, with the city having been named the nation’s “murder capital” for the first half of this year as officers reportedly left the force in droves.
  Shaun Ferguson will retire at the end of 2022, Democratic New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Tuesday.
  New Orleans’ Metropolitan Crime Commission named the city the “murder capital of the United States” for the first half of 2022, determining
  
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• Move over kiddo. Teens and grownups want their own teddy bears

  07-12-2022 17:46 via cnn.com
  
  We know young kids love teddy bears and cute cuddly stuffed animals. But Build-A-Bear Workshop says older consumers can't resist them, either.
  
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• Huggable teddy bears have no age limit. Teens and grownups are buying them too

  07-12-2022 17:46 via cnn.com
  
  We know young kids love teddy bears and cute cuddly stuffed animals. But Build-A-Bear Workshop says older consumers can't resist them, either.
  
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• Elon Musk-Owned Company Under Federal Investigation; Over 1,500 Animals Confirmed Dead in Product Testing: Report

  07-12-2022 17:34
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened a “very unusual” investigation into animal testing at Neuralink, a company co-founded by Elon Musk in 2016 to develop devices to be implanted into the human brain to allow it to interface directly with a computer.
  The investigation into alleged violations of the Animal Welfare Act was opened “in recent months” after the request of a federal prosecutor, two unnamed sources told Reuters.
  Delcianna Winders, director of the Animal
  
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• Schumer celebrates expanded Senate majority with Georgia win: 'It's big'

  07-12-2022 17:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took an emotional victory lap after Democrat Raphael Warnock won the Georgia Senate runoff and secured a 51st-seat majority.
  
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• Government Restricts ATM Withdrawals to $45 Per Day in Bid to Force Digital Transactions

  07-12-2022 17:26
  Trying to rein in an economy in which cash still dominates, Nigeria is imposing limits on how much cash its people can withdraw per day from automatic teller machines.
  In a letter sent to banks on Tuesday, the Central Bank of Nigeria said that as of Jan. 9, the daily limit of money that can be withdrawn per day is 20,000 naira, which, according to Bloomberg, comes to $44.97.
  The current limit is 150,000 naira.
  The new edict limits weekly withdrawals of cash at no more than 100,000 naira for
  
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• 13 stranded strangers went on a road trip. Here's what happened

  07-12-2022 17:26 via cnn.com
  
  What do you do when your evening flight is canceled, you really need to be somewhere in the morning and there are no other available flights?
  
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• House Democrats Celebrate After Killing Off Joe Manchin's 'Dirty Deal'

  07-12-2022 17:15
  House Democrats celebrated Tuesday after Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia’s permitting reform bill was excluded from the annual military spending package.
  In August, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to help Manchin pass a bill that would accelerate federal permitting for energy and mining projects in exchange for his sponsoring of the Democrats’ climate spending bill.
  However, after congressional leaders chose to remove Manchin&rs
  
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• Prison system blunders led to Whitey Bulger's killing, DOJ watchdog says

  07-12-2022 17:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Justice Department watchdog report released Wednesday identified a cascade of shocking failures leading up to James "Whitey" Bulger’s 2018 killing.
  
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• America First Legal Reveals Bombshell 'Secret' Twitter-Government Portal Used to 'Violate First Amendment'

  07-12-2022 16:57
  Twitter set up a portal for government officials and “stakeholders” to submit posts that allegedly contained COVID-19 misinformation for Twitter to review, according to documents released by America First Legal on Tuesday.
  Twitter officials used the portal to track online posts for review, and invited Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials to enroll, according to documents AFL obtained through its litigation against the CDC.
  Twitter’s Todd O’Boyle enrolled
  
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• Ukrainian Government Celebrates as Time Names Zelenskyy 'Person of the Year'

  07-12-2022 16:54
  For demonstrating the truth that courage does not run, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been named Time’s “Person of the Year” — along with what Time called the “spirit of Ukraine.”
  “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” Zelenskyy was widely quoted as saying two days after the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of Ukraine began when he was offered to be evacuated. At the time many observers predicted Russia’s invasion would be a
  
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• Guess what the most-searched term on Google was in 2022. No hints

  07-12-2022 16:42 via cnn.com
  
  Admit it: You've probably either Googled the answer for Wordle, or at the very least searched to play it. Turns out, you're not alone.
  
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• Avalanche warnings issued for Colorado as winter storms continue to impact the West

  07-12-2022 16:35 via cnn.com
  
  Multiple avalanche warnings are in place across western Colorado through the next couple of days due to favorable avalanche conditions. Meanwhile, a train of winter storms continues across the West, prompting winter weather advisories.
  
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