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• Top Dem Bowing Out for Good? Red-Leaning State Looks Increasingly Vulnerable as Senator Plans Next Move

  12-12-2022 23:41
  A Democratic senator key to the party’s majority won’t commit to running for re-election in 2024.
  Sen. Jon Tester of Montana didn’t pledge to run in a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press.”
  Tester made it clear he hadn’t made any decision about running for a fourth term.EXCLUSIVE: @SenatorTester (D-Mont.) hasn’t made a decision about running for re-election in 2024.
  “It’ll be a discussion that I’ll have with my family over the holidays,&
  
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• Lawmakers should prepare for one-week funding stopgap as negotiations continue, Schumer says

  12-12-2022 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  Lawmakers face a Friday at midnight deadline when government funding is set to expire -- and the House and Senate will likely have to pass a short-term extension to avert a shutdown at the end of the week, which would give negotiators more time to try to secure a broader full-year funding deal.
  
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• Why Cate Blanchett and Tár are the most Golden Globe-worthy nominees

  12-12-2022 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Golden Globes 2023: Nominations include 'Tár' and Cate Blanchett in a power play as a lesbian conductor who must eventually face the music.
  
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• Jeep Factory Workers to Be Laid Off Due to Cost to Switch to EVs - Gets Even Worse When You Find Out Where a Factory Is Opening Next

  12-12-2022 22:12
  Merry Christmas. You’re fired.
  That’s the basic message to workers at an Illinois Jeep Cherokee plant from Stellantis.
  Citing the high costs of converting the Cherokee to an electric platform, Stellantis is cutting loose 1,350 workers at its plant in Belvidere, Illinois.
  Worse, it’s moving Cherokee production to Mexico, according to The Daily Mail.
  The auto industry “’has been adversely affected by a multitude of factors like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the mi
  
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• Supreme Court Restoring Pre-Pandemic Tradition

  12-12-2022 21:57
  The Supreme Court is restoring another pre-pandemic tradition, announcing decisions in a public session in the courtroom.
  Beginning in January, or whenever the first opinions of the term are ready, the justices will read summaries of their majority opinions from the bench, the court said Monday.
  The long-standing practice was abandoned when the coronavirus pandemic forced a shutdown of the court in March 2020.
  For the past two years, the court has issued opinions exclusively on its website, at 1
  
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• Country Star John Rich, Ben Carson, and Larry Elder Team Up to Launch Anti-Woke Bank

  12-12-2022 21:45
  Country music star John Rich has joined forces with nationally known conservatives Larry Elder and Ben Carson to launch a new financial institution that won’t cancel customers over their traditional American ideas.
  The “Progress” singer announced that he is co-founding the new bank they are calling “Old Glory Bank” along with retired neurosurgeon and Trump Housing Secretary Carson, and conservative talk show host Elder, The Daily Wire reported.
  The trio’s medi
  
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• 'Twitter Files' Drop Exposes Internal Messages About Trump Ban, Here's What They Said

  12-12-2022 21:30
  Twitter executives, including the former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde, reinterpreted then-President Donald Trump’s final Jan. 8, 2021, tweets to overrule the initial finding of the site’s safety team that they were not in violation of the rules, according to internal messages published by journalist Bari Weiss Monday.
  Trump first tweeted that the “75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me … will have a Giant Voice long into the future. They will
  
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• Alert: 'Major' Winter Storm Warning Issued Across Multiple States - Expected to Sweep Through US

  12-12-2022 21:22
  A massive winter storm blew across the center of the U.S. on Monday, threatening millions of people with heavy snow, freezing rain and flooding.
  The National Weather Service warned that there would be “numerous, widespread, and impactful weather hazards in the heart of the country this week.” People from Idaho spanning into Wisconsin and as far south as Louisiana were warned to be ready for blizzard-like conditions in the north and flash flooding in the south.
  By Tuesday, Texas and n
  
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• US government budget deficit increased in November

  12-12-2022 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  The US government recorded a monthly budget deficit of $249 billion in November, a 30% increase from a year earlier amid increased spending and falling revenue, the Treasury Department reported Monday.
  
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• After Scared Pup Runs 30 Blocks and Disappears in Hudson River, Firefighters Find Him in Unusual Place

  12-12-2022 21:07
  Ellen Wolpin and her 20-year-old son, Zack, recently added a new member to their tri-state area family. “Bear,” a 6-month-old Bernese mountain dog and Leonberger mix, came into their lives in late November.
  Wolpin got the 50-pound pup as a service animal for her son, Zack, who has frequent seizures. The dog will be large at full size, but now he’s small and young and green, and he caused quite a kerfuffle the first weekend of December when he led Wolpin, strangers and first res
  
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• US Air Force carries out first fully successful test of air-launched hypersonic missile

  12-12-2022 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  The US Air Force carried out the first successful test of its complete air launched hypersonic missile, the Air Force said in a statement, a program that had previously suffered a series of setbacks because of testing failures.
  
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• Subaru recalling 270,000 SUVs due to fire risk

  12-12-2022 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  Subaru is recalling 271,694 SUVs because some of them could catch fire.
  
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• House Democrats have former President Donald Trump's tax returns. But what happens next?

  12-12-2022 20:38 via cnn.com
  
  After a years-long fight, House Democrats finally have access to six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns. It is now up to Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal to decide what to do with them.
  
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• Richmond is removing its last remaining Confederate statue

  12-12-2022 20:33 via cnn.com
  
  The city of Richmond, Virginia, started removing its last standing Confederate monument on Monday.
  
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• Trump to release 'book of letters' next year amid 2024 campaign

  12-12-2022 20:18 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump is planning to release a book next year showcasing his private correspondence with past and present celebrities and international icons, CNN has learned.
  
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• Carjacker Picks the Wrong Woman to Victimize - When Police Arrive It's Already Too Late for Him

  12-12-2022 20:06
  In a day and age of defunded police departments and out-of-control crime, especially in Democrat-led cities where prosecutors are soft, a firearm could be an American citizen’s first and last line of defense in a life-or-death situation.
  Whether or not someone lives in a place where they are able to carry a concealed firearm to defend oneself, the bottom line is that during an attack, one must choose to take a bold stand or become a victim. A woman in Las Vegas chose the former when a grou
  
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• Grand Jury Indicts Ex-Loudoun County Superintendent on Charges Related to Handling of Sex Assault Cases

  12-12-2022 20:00
  The former superintendent of a northern Virginia school system has been indicted on three misdemeanor charges by a special grand jury that investigated the response to two sexual assaults committed by a student last year.
  The grand jury has also issued a felony perjury indictment against the school system’s primary spokesman.
  The indictments against former Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler and spokesman Wayde Byard follow release of a report last week that faulted
  
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• Former officer who killed Atatiana Jefferson testifies she pointed a gun at him before he fired

  12-12-2022 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  The former Fort Worth police officer charged with murder for the 2019 shooting of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her own home testified Monday he fired at her because she pointed a gun at him.
  
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• Biden DOJ Subpoenas Georgia Secretary of State in Trump Investigation

  12-12-2022 19:36
  The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has received a subpoena related to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of former President Donald Trump.
  Smith was appointed last month to oversee the Justice Department investigation into the presence of classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, as well as aspects of a separate probe involving the U.S. Capitol incursion on Jan. 6, 2021.
  In a Jan. 2 phone call, Trump had suggested that Raffensperge
  
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• Ohio Man with Terminal Cancer Convinces 609 People from Around the World to Permanently 'Remember' Him

  12-12-2022 19:34
  Everyone processes grief and dying differently. What’s meaningful and a comfort to one person doesn’t necessarily apply to another.
  There isn’t a “right way” to grieve, as a WebMD article put it.
  One Ohio man’s response to being told by doctors that he had only months to live involved getting tattoos, according to the New York Post.
  Don Caskey, 56, was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma 2018, according to the U.K. Daily Star.
  At the time, he was told he
  
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• Youngkin schedules February special election in Virginia to fill Donald McEachin's seat

  12-12-2022 19:15 via cnn.com
  
  A special election in Virginia to replace the late Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin, who died last month, will take place in February, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday.
  
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• The 51 Intel Agents Who Called Biden Laptop 'Disinformation' Could Be in for Shock of Their Lives

  12-12-2022 18:58
  Remember those 51 former intelligence officials who wrote a letter claiming to be “suspicious” that Hunter Biden’s laptop might be Russian disinformation?
  They’re probably hoping right now that you’ve forgotten.
  One person who hasn’t forgotten, however, is House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican whom many believe will be the next House speaker.
  McCarthy said Saturday on Fox News’ “One Nation” that he planned to force t
  
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• Hiker falls 300 feet to his death off the summit of New Hampshire's Mt. Willard

  12-12-2022 18:49 via cnn.com
  
  A man hiking near the summit of Mt. Willard in New Hampshire fell 300 feet to his death, authorities said.
  
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• Watch: Heartwrenching Video of Ariz. Veteran Breaking Down During Election Day: 'This is Not Right'

  12-12-2022 18:46
  One of the most baffling results of the November elections was the defeat — so far, at least — of Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
  The fiery former television news anchor endorsed by former President Donald Trump had a comfortable lead in pre-election polling, yet apparently lost to the state’s unappealing and uninspiring Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.
  A video posted to social media on Sunday could help explain it.
  In the video, a woman who desc
  
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• A Los Angeles jury is deliberating for a 7th day in Harvey Weinstein's 2nd sexual assault trial

  12-12-2022 18:45 via cnn.com
  
  A Los Angeles jury returned Monday to continue deliberations in the second sexual assault trial of Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul accused of using his Hollywood influence to lure women into private meetings and assault them.
  
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• Did Musk Just Side with Kari Lake? His Tweet Is Good News for Her

  12-12-2022 18:34
  All conservatives ever wanted on Big Tech social media platforms was a reasonable, fair chance to ask questions without being instantly censored into the ground. Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, is making sure that happens.
  That was evidenced on Sunday when Republican Kari Lake, an Arizona gubernatorial candidate who lost her 2022 midterm election race, asked Musk why the ability to retweet, like or comment on a post citing an article about her recently filed 70-page misconduct lawsuit agai
  
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• SCOTUS agrees to hear another challenge to Biden's student loan forgiveness plan

  12-12-2022 18:22 via cnn.com
  
  The US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hold arguments in a second case in February concerning President Biden's student loan forgiveness program, which is currently on hold.
  
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• BLM Announces Plan to Send Payments to Black Students and Alumni Who Have College Debt

  12-12-2022 18:09
  The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation launched a new relief fund Monday aimed at black college students, alumni and dropouts with student loans or student loan debts.
  The foundation said it set aside $500,000 for the fund and plans to award more than 500 recipients with relief payments ranging from $750 to $4,500. A public application process for the fund opened on Monday, and recipients will receive their money in January if selected. Details about the fund were shared with The Assoc
  
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• RNC Chair McDaniel Paid Opponent Nearly $900k, What Was the Money For?

  12-12-2022 18:06
  Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel paid her top rival in the race nearly $900,000 over the last two years, according to financial data published by OpenSecrets.org.
  The RNC under McDaniel paid Dhillon Law Group, the Virginia-based law firm run by Harmeet Dhillon, who is running against McDaniel for the party’s chairmanship, $892,550 in legal fees between March 2021 and August 2022, according to financial disclosures that OpenSecrets obtained.
  Dhillon, an RNC com
  
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• Americans are split over confidence in incoming House GOP majority or Biden

  12-12-2022 18:01 via cnn.com
  
  • 'Trump obsession is very bad': Senate Republicans confront their problems after poor elections showing
  
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• It's not the most wonderful time of the year for markets. Here's why

  12-12-2022 18:00 via cnn.com
  
  The holidays are meant to be the most wonderful time of the year. But for investors, this week just might be the most stressful time of the year.
  
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• Elon Musk booed off stage at a Dave Chappelle show

  12-12-2022 17:58 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk joined Dave Chappelle on stage Sunday in San Francisco, home of Twitter's headquarters where the world's richest person recently laid off ] many of its employees. It went about as well as you'd expect.
  
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• Troubling Documents Expose Pete Buttigieg as a Total Hypocrite

  12-12-2022 17:54
  A Biden administration cabinet member has taken at least 18 taxpayer-funded private jets since taking office despite a strong stance on curbing carbon emissions, according to a Monday release by Americans for Public Trust (APT).
  Pete Buttigieg, the 19th secretary of transportation, has reportedly taken a minimum of 18 taxpayer-funded flights while using private jets managed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), according to an APT release obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  The
  
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• Fuel Shortage Hits Major US Airport - Officials Warn of Travel Disruptions

  12-12-2022 17:48
  Ripple effects of a fuel shortage at Orlando’s airport will be felt for the next few days by travelers flying into or out of the Florida destination.
  The Federal Aviation Administration has alerted airlines that Orlando International Airport is running low on fuel, according to USA Today.
  The FAA said supply issues are likely to continue through about 7 p.m. Tuesday.
  Due to the shortage, the FAA is advising airlines that any plane flying into Orlando ought to have enough fuel on
  
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• 'Twitter Files' Bombshell Exposes How High-Ups Bent Their Own Rules to Make Sure Trump Got Kicked Off

  12-12-2022 17:35
  Rules were no barrier once Twitter’s internal momentum was building toward its ban of then-President Donald Trump in the aftermath of the Capitol incursion, according to communications unearthed in the “Twitter Files.”
  Twitter has a rule that allows for tweets that might otherwise be flagged for punishment to remain available if they are considered to be in the public interest.
  As noted by journalist Michael Shellenberger in Saturday’s installment of the “Twitter Fi
  
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• Is This Why Twitter Declared 'Groomer' Hate Speech? Disturbing Possibility Comes to Light After Discovery at Twitter

  12-12-2022 17:21
  Some Twitter users who’ve been disgusted by the increasing normalization of child sexualization on the platform think they know why this trend escalated during the past few years.
  Many point the blame at Yoel Roth, the former head of Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Council,” citing an alarming trove of his past tweets and academic writings that appeared to accept underage sex and youth homosexuality.
  As a reminder, Roth led the team that made and enforced the rules for what k
  
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• Doug Ducey Took Matters Into His Own Hands with Makeshift Border Wall, Now a Sheriff May Ruin It

  12-12-2022 17:18
  Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway called Arizona Governor Doug Ducey’s makeshift border wall, consisting of double-stacked shipping containers, “illegal dumping” Sunday and said he would be taking action against anyone furthering its construction in his county, according to KSAZ-TV.
  Gov. Ducey announced in August that he was using the containers to close gaps in the southern Arizona border “regardless of location,” according to The Hill. Hathaway, whose count
  
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• Judge formally dismisses Trump's case for a Mar-a-Lago special master

  12-12-2022 16:55 via cnn.com
  
  The special master review of evidence seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is no more.
  
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• Watch: Dave Chappelle Absolutely Torches Audience After Some Boo Elon Musk

  12-12-2022 16:54
  Dave Chappelle asked the crowd at his comedy show to “make some noise for the world’s richest man.”
  They did. Lots of booing.
  It was a rather uncomfortable appearance for Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, at Chappelle’s show with Chris Rock on Sunday night at the Chase Center in San Francisco. At the end of the show, Chappelle was talking about the need to get along and communicate with people with different viewpoints and perspectives.
  He invited Musk onstage. The bi
  
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• Popular College Football Coach Hospitalized After Medical Emergency: 'Mike Leach Needs a Miracle'

  12-12-2022 16:46
  Mississippi State University Head Football Coach Mike Leach has been hospitalized, with some saying his condition is critical.
  Leach “had a personal health issue at his home [Sunday]. That issue led to a decision to transfer Coach Leach to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson by ambulance,” according to a Sunday news release from the college.
  “That is the extent of information that MSU has available regarding Coach Leach’s condition, and the university
  
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• Second Journalist Dies Suddenly While Covering World Cup in Qatar: 'What Is Going On?'

  12-12-2022 16:20
  A second journalist covering soccer’s World Cup in Qatar died Saturday, with no clear explanation for his death having yet emerged.
  Khalid al-Misslam, a Qatari photojournalist working for Al Kass TV, has died according to the Daily Mail.Al Kass TV photojournalist Khalid al-Misslam passed away recently.Al- Misslam, a Qatari, died suddenly while covering the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. We believe in Allah’s mercy and forgiveness for him, and send our deepest condolences to his family. p
  
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• How families that live paycheck-to-paycheck are shopping for gifts

  12-12-2022 16:19 via cnn.com
  
  Anya Remy is Christmas shopping for her family on a stricter budget than ever before.
  
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• Watch: Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Panned for Cringeworthy 'Carpool Karaoke': '...As You Enter the Depths of Hell'

  12-12-2022 16:07
  Election denier Hillary Clinton has made yet another desperate attempt to stay relevant with her appearance on the streaming television series “Carpool Karaoke” — and it’s cringeworthy by anyone’s definition.
  “Carpool Karaoke: The Series,” is a spinoff from a recurring segment on “The Late Late Show,” hosted by James Corden, which involves various celebrities simulating themselves driving through residential neighborhoods while singing along
  
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• Coach of the No. 2 College Basketball Team in the Nation Arrested on Felony Charge

  12-12-2022 16:06
  Texas men’s basketball coach Chris Beard was arrested early Monday on a felony family violence charge, according to Travis County Jail records.
  The county Sheriff’s Office said the 49-year-old Beard was arrested by Austin police and booked at 4:18 a.m. on a charge of assault on a family or household member in which their breath was impeded, or choking, in common terms.
  The charge is a third-degree felony in Texas, with a possible punishment of two to 10 years in prison. The jail reco
  
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• Elon Musk Takes Down Mark Kelly's Brother and Makes Most Brutal Statement About Fauci Yet

  12-12-2022 15:57
  No wonder Twitter CEO Elon Musk is so successful. The man is a master of multitasking.
  Take, for example, Sunday morning, when Musk tweeted a double gibe aimed at both woke pronoun fascists and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the 81-year-old director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
  “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” he tweeted, apparently apropos of nothing.My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022As you might imagine, that tweet
  
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• Recount Flips State House Election for Democrat by 1 Single Vote - This is a Massive Blow

  12-12-2022 14:35
  One Massachusetts House of Representatives district may have had one of the closest races in modern election history.
  Democrat Kristin Kassner took a one-vote lead over incumbent Republican Rep. Lenny Mirra after an election recount was completed on Thursday, according to CBS News.
  A total of 23,525 votes were cast in the state House election in Massachusetts’ 2nd Essex District, according to Politico.
  The recount leaves Kassner with 11,763 votes to Mirra’s 11,762.
  The sitting Republ
  
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• Russia's 'Merchant of Death' Reveals What He Told Brittney Griner During Prisoner Swap

  12-12-2022 13:53
  Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was traded in a high-stakes prisoner swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner, claimed in his first interview back home in Russia that he had some traditional Russian words for the American when the two were traded on the tarmac.
  “I wished her luck, she even sort of reached out her hand to me,” Bout revealed in an interview with RT, a Russian-controlled media outlet, according to Reuters.
  The interview was with RT presenter Maria Butina, a Russian lawma
  
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• Congress faces looming government shutdown deadline at end of the week

  12-12-2022 13:39 via cnn.com
  
  Lawmakers face a Friday at midnight deadline when government funding is set to expire -- and the House and Senate will likely have to pass a short-term extension to avert a shutdown at the end of the week, which would give negotiators more time to try to secure a broader full-year funding deal.
  
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• Betting on a market bounce? You may be waiting a while

  12-12-2022 13:38 via cnn.com
  
  'Tis the season for Wall Street strategists to pack their clients' inboxes with market predictions for 2023.
  
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• Squeezed by inflation, families are tightening their holiday budgets

  12-12-2022 13:09 via cnn.com
  
  Anya Remy is Christmas shopping for her family on a stricter budget than ever before.
  
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