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• Millions in the US are under warnings and advisories as giant winter storm moves east. Get the latest forecast

  13-12-2022 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  Severe storms including confirmed tornadoes have carved paths of destruction in Oklahoma and the Dallas-Fort Worth area Tuesday and injured at least seven people -- part of a larger storm system that threatens more damage in the South and blizzard conditions in states farther north.
  
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• Winner Declared in Boebert's Race After Tightly-Contested Recount

  13-12-2022 23:51
  A conservative firebrand is officially returning to Congress after winning a close re-election battle.
  Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado was ruled the winner in a recount in the state’s third congressional district.
  The automatic recount ultimately determined that Boebert had won the November election by more than 500 votes, according to the Associated Press.
  Boebert’s Democratic challenger only gained a total of four votes in the recount.
  The results of the mandatory recount were anno
  
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• FTX founder indicted on eight criminal charges including fraud and conspiracy

  13-12-2022 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was indicted on eight criminal charges including wire fraud and conspiracy by misusing customer funds, according to an indictment from the US Attorney of the Southern District of New York.
  
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• Freak Accident Involving Vicks VapoRub Leaves Baby with Third-Degree Burns on 40 Percent of Body

  13-12-2022 23:29
  Every once in a while a story pops up about a devastating, unpredictable accident that gets spun into a cautionary tale — especially if it involves children.
  Sometimes there is no moral of the story, though, other than to realize that children are often capable of more than we expect and that danger lurks around every corner, even within the relative safety of our homes.
  Parents Tony and Rochenda Golightly from Powder Springs, Georgia, suffered a horrible ordeal after their 17-month-old so
  
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• Justice Department has tried to access GOP Rep. Scott Perry's text messages

  13-12-2022 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department has tried to gain access to Republican Rep. Scott Perry's text messages as part of a criminal investigation into 2020 election interference, facing off with his lawyers in a secret court proceeding after seizing his phone, CNN observed at the courthouse and sources familiar with the investigation said.
  
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• Americans Send Big-Government Democrats an Unmistakable Message That They'll Probably Ignore

  13-12-2022 23:15
  For Democrats like Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it’s the kind of news to hate.
  The party that stands for more government control over the lives of Americans – whether it’s telling parents they can’t make decisions for their children or hiring 87,000 new IRS agents to snoop on personal finances – has staked its reputation on providing “solutions” for the American public.
  But as a poll out Tuesday shows, it couldn’t be more wrong.
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• Watch: Biden Outright Admits That He's Lost Control of the Economy - Isn't 'Certain' Where Prices Are Headed

  13-12-2022 23:07
  The Biden administration has provided too many excuses to keep track of regarding the state of the crippling inflation crisis that continues to take a heavy toll on hard-working Americans, especially as the winter season approaches and energy bills climb.
  On Tuesday, the White House trotted the 80-year-old president out in public to take a head-scratching victory lap over the latest news regarding the Consumer Price Index, a core inflation marker, which rose less than expected in November, at 0.
  
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• Watch: Biden Outright Admits That He's Lost Control of the Economy - Doesn't Know When Prices Will Go Down

  13-12-2022 23:07
  The Biden administration has provided too many excuses to keep track of regarding the state of the crippling inflation crisis that continues to take a heavy toll on hard-working Americans, especially as the winter season approaches and energy bills climb.
  On Tuesday, the White House trotted the 80-year-old president out in public to take a head-scratching victory lap over the latest news regarding the Consumer Price Index, a core inflation marker, which rose less than expected in November, at 0.
  
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• Breaking: DeSantis Plots Major Move to Take on Big Pharma, and the Supreme Court Is Getting Involved

  13-12-2022 22:58
  Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is ready to take on Big Pharma.
  DeSantis announced Tuesday that he will seek to investigate companies that made mRNA vaccines developed to treat COVID-19, according to WESH-TV. The vaccines in question were made by Pfizer in partnership with BioNTech and Moderna. His announcement came after a virtual roundtable during which some voiced concerns that independent researchers have been unable to get their hands on data concerning the vaccines.
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• Shocking Discrepancy Found in Maricopa Vote Count, and It Was Exactly What Hobbs Needed to Win - Lawsuit

  13-12-2022 22:48
  Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s lawsuit, filed on Friday, alleges that there was about a 25,000 vote discrepancy in the total number of ballots Maricopa County initially reported had been cast in the Nov. 8 midterms elections versus the total it reported later that week.
  That number would be significant because it exceeds Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs just over 17,000 vote margin victory over Lake in the contest.
  Lake’s attorneys identified the disc
  
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• Breaking: Dems' 2nd-Largest Donor Charged with Making Tens of Millions Dollars in Illegal Campaign Donations

  13-12-2022 22:45
  The Democratic Party’s second-biggest donor has been accused of making illegal campaign donations totaling tens of millions of dollars.
  On Tuesday, prosecutors charged FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with a plethora of financial crimes related to an alleged scheme to defraud FTX’s stakeholders, The Associated Press reported.
  According to Open Secrets, Bankman-Fried donated just under $1 million to candidates during the 2022 election cycle in addition to $38.8 million to “outside
  
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• Biden signs same-sex marriage bill at White House ceremony

  13-12-2022 22:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden signed legislation Tuesday to codify federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages in a ceremony at the White House.
  
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• How denying F-22 sales to allies in the 1990s just boomeranged on the U.S.

  13-12-2022 22:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Japan-Italy-U.K. fighter plane will challenge U.S. defense industry. But the stealth jet will help America's allies and U.S. strength abroad.
  
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• Danish bank pleads guilty to multibillion dollar fraud scheme on US banks

  13-12-2022 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  Federal prosecutors announced a plea deal and $2 billion forfeiture Tuesday with Danske Bank, one of Denmark's largest banks, for illegally allowing foreign actors to funnel money through their branch in Estonia in order to gain unlawful access to the US financial system.
  
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• January 6 committee chairman: Final public meeting will be Monday and full report will come out December 21

  13-12-2022 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, told reporters the committee will hold its final public meeting on Monday and that the panel's full report will come out December 21.
  
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• Jan. 6 committee chairman: Final public meeting will be Monday

  13-12-2022 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, told reporters the committee will hold its final public meeting on Monday and that the panel's full report will come out December 21.
  
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• Trump's Prisoner Exchange Record Blows Biden Out of the Water - Here's 4 Examples of That

  13-12-2022 21:44
  Donald Trump said he wouldn’t have traded Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for “a hundred people,” much less an individual basketball star as the Biden administration did in its recent swap of Bout for the WNBA’s Brittney Griner.
  Calling the Biden deal “crazy bad,” the former president said he would have gotten U.S. Marine Paul Whelan out of Russia instead.
  “I turned down a deal with Russia for a one on one swap of the so-called Merchant of Death [Bout] f
  
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• House GOP’s inclusion of 'salacious' Commanders cheerleaders photos in official memo draws blowback

  13-12-2022 21:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  Lawyers for former Washington Commanders cheerleaders are demanding that House Republicans remove "sexualized and salacious photographs" from an official memo.
  
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• Leftist City Handing Out Cash Payments Based on Race - White Residents Openly Discriminated Against

  13-12-2022 21:28
  The progressive bastion of San Francisco may soon find itself in hot water, as civil rights lawyers claim that the city’s new monthly cash payment systems are discriminatory.
  Three of the city’s guaranteed income initiatives openly exclude handouts for white citizens, only catering to blacks and other minority groups.
  California’s new universal income law passed last year with bipartisan support, making the Golden State the first U.S. state to pass a guaranteed income plan, acc
  
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• Watch: White House Press Sec Makes a Fool of Herself - Reads Wrong Talking Point in Response to Question

  13-12-2022 21:16
  This is the kind of video that never gets old for me. I’m not sure why. Immaturity, maybe. Schadenfreude, probably. Original sin, almost certainly.
  Regardless of the reason, I could watch this thing several times a day every day for the next year.
  You’ve seen it before. I mean, maybe you haven’t seen this particular video before, but you’ve seen White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre do and say some pretty ridiculous things in public media briefings, in front of t
  
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• McConnell says Trump fueled 'candidate quality' problems in the midterms

  13-12-2022 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that former President Donald Trump’s endorsements in important 2022 primaries contributed to the
  
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• Elon Musk Quietly Invites Blacklisted Professor to Twitter HQ, What's His Next Move?

  13-12-2022 20:56
  Stanford University professor of medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was one of the doctors who questioned the mainstream COVID-19 pandemic narrative early on. For sharing his concerns, like many others, he was virtually censored from existence on platforms like Twitter.
  Since Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform and in the wake of the release of part of the “Twitter Files” that has pulled back the curtain on the extent of Big Tech’s censorship tactics, Dr. Bhattacharya reveale
  
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• Dr. Malone Gets Great News from Twitter After Musk's Fauci Tweet

  13-12-2022 20:43
  Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has brought about a resurgence of views that were unjustly suppressed during Jack Dorsey’s tenure as CEO.
  With Musk’s anti-Anthony Fauci tweet this week calling for the COVID czar’s prosecution comes his company’s decision to reinstate an important voice in the scientific community regarding COVID-19 inoculations.My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022This voice is none other than Dr. Robert
  
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• Want to See Real Live Reindeer? Head North to Alaska for a Festive Christmas Adventure

  13-12-2022 20:07
  Sure a person can go to the zoo to see a real live reindeer, but that’s not the same thing as the opportunity to see one on a working farm in beautiful Alaska!
  This particular farm is located in Palmer, Alaska, which is slightly less than 45 miles north of of Anchorage in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.
  The founders of the place, Tom and Gene Williams, kept it simple when naming the place. It’s simply called Reindeer Farm.
  Tom originally wanted a moose farm, but that wasn’t possi
  
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• Recount reconfirms GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert's victory in Colorado's 3rd District

  13-12-2022 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  A recount reconfirmed that GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert defeated Democrat Adam Frisch in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, the Colorado secretary of state said this week.
  
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• Why are pronouns only a problem when the LGBTQ community uses them?

  13-12-2022 19:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Elon Musk's unfunny tweet about pronouns highlights that his real issue is not with one of the most inescapable parts of language but with the trans people who use them.
  
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• Biden Administration Set to Send Patriot Missile Battery to Ukraine After Plea from Zelenskyy

  13-12-2022 19:15
  The U.S. is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, finally agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders desperate for more robust weapons to shoot down incoming Russian attacks, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
  The approval is likely to come later this week and could be announced as early as Thursday, said three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision is not final and has not been made public. Two of the officials said the Patriot will com
  
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• Court Orders Philly to Remove Plywood Box Covering Christopher Columbus Statue - Visible for First Time in 2 Years

  13-12-2022 19:07
  A statue of Christopher Columbus is once again visible to the public in Philadelphia.
  City municipal workers on Sunday night finally removed the plywood box that had been hiding the statue of the historical figure. But the city’s action came only because of a court order directing them to remove the barrier, according to WPVI-TV.
  The statue of the famed Italian explorer was shamefully censored in one of Philadelphia’s public parks for more than two years — in the midst of a leg
  
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• Criminal charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder related to Flint water crisis to be dismissed

  13-12-2022 18:56 via cnn.com
  
  Criminal charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will be dismissed, a recent court order shows.
  
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• Eco-Nut Winds Up with Embarrassing Reminder on His Hand After Climate Stunt Fails Miserably

  13-12-2022 18:53
  A new trend appears to have taken hold among the eco-activists of the world: gluing themselves to famous works of art, museum walls and even floors to draw attention to the so-called climate crisis.
  This activity is known as “locking on,” according to Sky News.
  A young man in Germany, a member of environmental activism group Letzte Generation, has apparently taken this form of protest to a new level. Outraged over emissions from the transport sector, which the activists claim are &ld
  
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• Trump's Reaction When Faced with 'Merchant of Death' Trade Offer Dominated Biden's in Every Way

  13-12-2022 18:43
  Former President Donald Trump torpedoed President Joe Biden for exchanging Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the “Merchant of Death,” for WNBA star Brittney Griner in a lopsided prisoner swap he called “crazy and bad.”
  “I turned down a deal with Russia for a one on one swap of the so-called Merchant of Death for Paul Whelan,” Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social.
  Whelan is a retired Marine who has been imprisoned in a Russian labor camp since 2018 on dub
  
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• Texas School Board Hands Game-Changing 2A Victory to Educators - Are They Packing Heat?

  13-12-2022 17:53
  A Texas school board passed a policy Monday that will allow educators to carry guns within the school district.
  The Keller ISD school board voted 4-3 to adopt a state recommended “guardian” program, which allows approved faculty who undergo 50 hours of training to carry a handgun on campus. Educators who wish to carry on school campuses must also have a License To Carry and pass a psychological evaluation as a part of the “guardian” program.
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• Woman Reads 1 Line on Velveeta Cup - Ends Up Filing $5M Class-Action Lawsuit Over What Happened Next

  13-12-2022 17:39
  Perhaps one of the premium, all-American products that most people love when they’re looking for something quick and easy to prepare and eat is a box of macaroni and cheese.
  Besides requiring little effort or investment of time — and as something the kids typically won’t fight parents over as a dinner option  — it’s often thought of as an inexpensive food product.
  However, those desiring a step up from just the box stuff might select a product like Velveeta She
  
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• OJ prices are rising: Florida orange production expected to fall to lowest level in over 80 years

  13-12-2022 17:32 via cnn.com
  
  The combination of extreme weather and a disease impacting citrus fruit is expected to drive down Florida's orange crop to its lowest level since before World War II, shrinking the state's already dwindling supply and promising to send orange juice prices even higher.
  
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• NASA Space Rover Captures Historic Recording on Mars, Scientists Are Celebrating

  13-12-2022 17:20
  What does a dust devil sound like on Mars? A NASA rover by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed directly overhead, recording the racket.
  It’s about 10 seconds of not only rumbling gusts of up to 25 mph, but the pinging of hundreds of dust particles against the rover Perseverance. Scientists released the first-of-its-kind audio Tuesday.
  It sounds strikingly similar to dust devils on Earth, although quieter since Mars’ thin atmosphere makes for more mut
  
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• Airbnb finds people have more trouble booking stays if hosts think they are Black

  13-12-2022 17:02 via cnn.com
  
  Airbnb on Tuesday said it has found a "meaningful difference" in the booking success rate for users who are perceived to be White compared to those who are perceived to be Black. The findings come after the company launched an initiative to uncover and remedy race-based discrimination on its platform.
  
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• Jesse Watters Declares 'We've Won the First Battle in the War on Christmas' After Local Officials Backtrack

  13-12-2022 16:54
  A Massachusetts town that had no plans for Christmas trees at its libraries has changed its mind, and Fox News host Jesse Watters knows the reason why.
  As noted by the Boston Globe, the town of Dedham initially had decided that there would be no Christmas trees in any of its libraries, ending a long-standing tradition. But that upset some folks in the town, who made a fuss that caught the ears of Watters, who related the tale Monday on his Fox News show “Primetime.”
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• New York Times Betrays Its Firearm Ignorance with 'Hysterical' Image Blunder on AR-15 Hit Piece

  13-12-2022 16:43
  The AR-15 and its derivatives are, to the establishment media, like a big, scary monster under a kid’s bed.
  They’re sinister weapons of war, capable of tearing a human being apart. Unlike any other kind of firearm, they imbue psychotic killers with nearly superhuman powers, allowing depraved lunatics who get their hands on one to kill countless victims. Outlaw the weapon, eliminate the mass shootings. To the establishment media, it’s that simple.
  Yet, almost none of these anti-
  
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• Ben Carson Responds After Detroit Officials Vote to Remove His Name from High School: 'We Need an Inoculation to Indoctrination'

  13-12-2022 16:42
  Imagine believing that public facilities should be named only for perfect people with whom you agree on every point.
  If you were able to do that successfully, congratulations; you now know what it feels like to think like a social justice warrior.
  The latest target of these folks, who obviously have way too much time on their hands and no clue as to how to effect meaningful social change in this country: Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine in Detroit.
  Note the full name of this s
  
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• US's Nuclear 'Breakthrough' Could Provide Unlimited Clean Energy by Mimicking the Sun

  13-12-2022 16:28
  What could be a step in the Energy Revolution that could change the way a far distant future society lives has taken place, according to new research that is being unveiled Tuesday.
  The Department of Energy is announcing that for the first time, a laboratory experiment has been able to produce a fusion reaction in which the energy produced exceeded the energy needed to create the fusion reaction, according to The Washington Post.
  While holding off the details pending Tuesday’s media announ
  
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• 'Non-Binary' Biden Admin Official Who Was Charged with Multiple Thefts Is Now Out of a Job

  13-12-2022 16:07
  A Department of Energy official who was celebrated for being a non-binary figure in the Biden administration is now out of a job.
  Samuel Brinton was named the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition in June. Since then, he has made headlines after being accused of two baggage thefts at two different airports, as Fox News reported.
  According to Fox, a Department of Energy representative said Brinton “is no longer a DOE employee.”
  The Daily Beast was told a simi
  
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• Dictionary Changes Definition of 'Woman' to Align with Transgender Movement

  13-12-2022 16:06
  Cambridge Dictionary has updated its definition of the term “woman” to include anyone who identifies as female, including biological males.
  The online dictionary defines “woman” as “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth,” according to its website. The new definition is in addition to the conventional definition, which defines a woman as “an adult human female being.”
  The dictiona
  
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• Watch: Caravan of Migrants Pour Into El Paso Overnight, and There's Another Wave on the Way

  13-12-2022 16:00
  Large groups of illegal migrants are swarming communities on the southern border.
  One migrant “caravan” more than a thousand strong illegally breached the border at El Paso, Texas, over the weekend.
  Fox News journalist Bill Melugin captured footage of the group entering the American city through the Rio Grande.
  Melugin — a veteran reporter on illegal immigration — described the “caravan” as the largest migrant group he’s ever seen.
  Melugin indicated that
  
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• Here's the Beef

  13-12-2022 16:00
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Here's the Beef appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Biden's 'Gender Fluid' Nuke Official Was Identified in Luggage Theft Case After Police Noticed a Dead Giveaway

  13-12-2022 15:52
  A Biden administration official who identifies as “genderfluid” is facing charges stemming from two different cases in which he’s accused of stealing luggage at an airport.
  Sam Brinton was suspended from his official duties at the Department of Energy after being hit with the first luggage theft charge, according to the Washington Examiner.
  In that case, Brinton was accused of taking a woman’s luggage from baggage claim at Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airpor
  
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• Kari Lake Throws Down the Gauntlet: 'Let's See If You're as Tough in a Debate as You Are Behind Your Keyboard'

  13-12-2022 15:51
  Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake called on Garrett Archer, a political analyst for KNXV-TV in Phoenix who uses the Twitter handle “Data Guru,” to accept a debate challenge from pollster Rich Barris over the legitimacy of the recent midterm elections in the state.
  Barris tweeted Saturday, “The 2022 Arizona midterm elections were not conducted legitimately. I have no problem extending invites to PUBLICLY debate me over that fact. All fake ‘gurus’ &
  
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• Tucker Carlson Unloads on 'Climate Criminals' — And They're Definitely Not the Ones the Left is Condemning

  13-12-2022 15:34
  It seems like there’s a new “climate criminal” every day, if you listen to the left.
  A group called Just Stop Oil seems to think art museums play some kind of ineffable part in the so-called “climate crisis”; else, why would they be hurling mashed potatoes at Monets or super-gluing themselves to Botticellis?
  Greta Thunberg and her ilk have found a rather large climate criminal of late: Sweden. That’s right, the whole country. A group of young Swedish climate a
  
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• Confused Biden Gets Lost at Event, Needs to Be Escorted by Young Girl

  13-12-2022 15:28
  Sure, President Joe Biden may have been the headliner at a Toys for Tots event, but it ended up being a tot who did the heavy lifting.
  According to Fox News, Biden had to be led off stage by a young girl at the Monday event, hosted by the United States Marine Corps Reserve in Arlington, Virginia.
  After finishing his brief, five-minute remarks at the event, Biden stepped from the podium and looked to make an exit.
  Only issue: He seemed to have trouble finding exactly where that exit was.
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• Pioneering College Football Coach Mike Leach Dies of Heart Condition at Age 61

  13-12-2022 15:10
  Mike Leach, the gruff, pioneering and unfiltered college football coach who helped revolutionize the passing game with the Air Raid offense, has died following complications from a heart condition, Mississippi State said Tuesday.
  He was 61.
  Leach, who was in his third season as head coach at Mississippi State, fell ill Sunday at his home in Starkville, Mississippi.
  He was treated at a local hospital before being airlifted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, about 120 mile
  
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• Ex-CNN Producer Pleads Guilty to Heinous Child Sex Crime

  13-12-2022 15:02
  Roughly a year after being charged with luring a child to his Vermont home for sex, former CNN producer John Griffin has pleaded guilty to one of the charges against him.
  “John Griffin agrees to plead guilty because he is, in fact, guilty of the above crime,” the plea agreement said, according to the Vermont Digger, a nonprofit online news site.
  Griffin pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to “using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to persua
  
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