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• 'Not Fit for Humanity:' Here's the Prison Disgraced Dem Donor Sam Bankman-Fried May Spend 2 Months In

  14-12-2022 23:42
  There’s only one game in town for those who break the law in the Bahamas — the notorious Fox Hill detention center. Unfortunately for disgraced FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, he may be calling this facility home for the next two months.
  Considering Bankman-Fried to be a flight risk, a Nassau judge denied his request for $250,000 bail at a Tuesday hearing and ordered he be held at the Fox Hill prison until his next scheduled court appearance on Feb. 8.
  The Daily Mail reported
  
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• Biden Admin Funneling Millions to Chinese-Backed Entity, All in the Name of 'Green Energy' - Report

  14-12-2022 23:42
  LanzaTech, a Chicago-area company that says it turns pollution into cool things such as fuels and chemicals, has gotten lots of U.S. tax money.
  And guess what country LanzaTech is tight with? Of course.
  The Biden administration has given the company $10 million in grant payments since April 2021, when LanzaTech announced it was working closely with Sinopec Capital, The Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday.
  Sinopec Capital is the green energy investment arm of the Chinese state-owned oil con
  
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• Never-Before-Seen Court Docs Reveal New Disturbing Allegations Against Epstein, Maxwell

  14-12-2022 23:26
  Thought you’d already heard the worst of the worst in the case of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell? Think again. A batch of court documents unsealed by a federal judge on Monday revealed that the depth of human depravity exhibited by these two knew no bounds.
  Epstein, an influential financier with ties to various world leaders and celebrities, was found dead in his cell while he awaited trial over charges related to sexual abuse and the trafficking of young women. Maxwell was later se
  
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• Hacker Claims Major Breach of Critical FBI Database, Over 80,000 People Affected

  14-12-2022 23:22
  A hacker who reportedly posed as the CEO of a financial institution claims to have obtained access to the more than 80,000-member database of InfraGard, an FBI-run outreach program that shares sensitive information on national security and cybersecurity threats with public officials and private sector actors who run U.S. critical infrastructure.
  The hacker posted samples they said were from the database to an online forum popular with cybercriminals last weekend and said they were asking $50,000
  
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• Elon Musk's Call to 'Prosecute Fauci' Ignites Speculation - 3 Days Later, He Drops the Biggest Hint Yet

  14-12-2022 22:40
  Early Sunday morning, Twitter owner Elon Musk published a controversial tweet that many believed to be a hint regarding the next tranche of documents from the “Twitter Files.”
  “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted, sparking tremendous support and backlash for going after National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci and the pronoun movement.My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022S
  
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• Biden administration warns of potential influx of migrants immediately after Title 42 ends

  14-12-2022 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  The end of a Trump-era border policy next week will "likely increase migration flows immediately," and migrants who are in encampments along Mexico's northern border may attempt to cross into the United States, according to a Homeland Security intelligence memo reviewed by CNN.
  
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• Twitter Suspends Account Elon Musk Promised He Wouldn't Ban

  14-12-2022 22:30
  Is Elon Musk’s Twitter too good to be true?
  Many conservatives have hailed the social media giant’s billionaire owner for his transparency and enthusiasm for creating the preeminent free speech platform.
  Others, however, are doubtful that Musk will be able to live up to his lofty aspirations. Perhaps they’re right. It might be a mistake to put too much stock in the goings-on of one tech company.
  News of the latest account banned from Twitter seems to lend at least some credence
  
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• 'Digital Fentanyl': Marco Rubio Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Ban Popular Social Media Site

  14-12-2022 22:06
  Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has introduced a bill that would ban the popular social media app TikTok in the United States.
  The move came amid concerns that TikTok’s parent company, the Chinese-owned ByteDance, is accessing the data of app users and giving the information to the Chinese Communist Party.
  Rubio’s bill, if passed, would block all transactions from any social media company that resides or is controlled by a “country of concern,” such as China or Rus
  
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• Tara Reade Gives Explosive Interview to Carlson, Describes in Detail Sick Acts Biden Allegedly Did to Her

  14-12-2022 21:52
  No matter how much Democrats and the Biden administration might be hoping for it, the Tara Reade story isn’t going away.
  The woman who served as an aide in Biden’s Senate office in the early 1990s caused a crisis in then-candidate Joe Biden’s campaign when she went public with the explosive allegation that he had sexually assaulted her in a Capitol hallway in 1993.
  It was the most serious in a string of accusations against Biden by women speaking out in the election year, and o
  
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• House to vote on stopgap bill to avert shutdown at end of the week

  14-12-2022 21:42 via cnn.com
  
  The House is expected to vote late on Wednesday to pass a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown at the end of this week with funding currently set to expire on Friday at midnight.
  
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• Judge Makes Ruling on Trial for Accused Paul Pelosi Attacker

  14-12-2022 21:30
  The man accused of attacking the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there was “evil in Washington” and he was looking to harm Pelosi because she is second in line for the presidency, a San Francisco police investigator testified Wednesday.
  The suspect, David DePape, allegedly broke into the couple’s San Francisco home on Oct. 28, seeking to kidnap the speaker — who was out of town — and instead reportedly beat her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, with
  
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• Jury deliberations begin in trial of ex-Texas police officer who killed Atatiana Jefferson in her home

  14-12-2022 21:17 via cnn.com
  A Texas jury began deliberations Wednesday in the trial of a former Fort Worth police officer accused of murder in the 2019 shooting of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her home.
  
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• Watch: Florida Officer Suddenly Goes Lifeless After Touching Everyday Item During Routine Stop

  14-12-2022 21:14
  A Florida police officer faced a life-threatening emergency Tuesday after what began as a routine traffic stop turned deadly due to the presence of the drug fentanyl on a dollar bill.
  Tavares police officer Courtney Bannick was stricken in an incident recorded on fellow officers’ bodycams. Although the video shows her looking all but dead, she wanted the video made public to warn others, Tavares Detective Courtney Sullivan said, according to WESH.
  “Officer Bannick really wants others
  
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• Solomon: Did Jack Dorsey Lie to Congress About Twitter Censorship?

  14-12-2022 21:02
  Elon Musk has gone from dominating the news cycle to becoming it.
  If part of Musk’s goal in acquiring Twitter was to keep his name (and, by association, his personal and professional brands) in a non-stop news loop, we can already declare his ownership a success.
  But Musk’s stewardship of Twitter is based in part on his stated belief that he is a revolutionary intent on cleansing Twitter’s opaque past:Sunlight is the best disinfectant
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 3, 2022
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• 24-Year-Old National Guard Airman Dies Snowboarding at Mall's Indoor Slope

  14-12-2022 21:02
  A New York man died Thursday after an indoor snowboarding accident in a New Jersey mall.
  Peter Mathews, 24, of Bay Shore, fell backward and hit his head while going down a slope, according to Newsday.
  Companions found Mathews unconscious and saw that he was having difficulty breathing, so a friend who is a registered nurse started CPR with chest compressions, along with EMTs at the facility, according to the report.
  The accident happened at the Big Snow park inside the American Dream Mall in Eas
  
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• CNN Poll: Americans have little appetite for Biden-Trump rematch in 2024

  14-12-2022 21:00 via cnn.com
  
  There's little appetite for a 2020 rematch in the coming presidential election, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, as majorities of registered voters within each party say they'd rather see someone new nominated in 2024.
  
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• 8-Year-Old Suddenly Loses Ability to Walk, Then Stops Speaking Midsentence: 'She's Completely Disabled'

  14-12-2022 20:52
  No parent likes to see his or her child suffering, whether it’s from a skinned knee or something much worse — but not knowing what they are suffering from and being helpless to make them feel better is a special kind of torment.
  Pippa Daspit is a bright, musically talented 8-year-old who loves animals. She lives in Helena, Alabama, with her family, and loves treating her parents to musical numbers. But at the beginning of this year, strange things started to happen to Pippa with
  
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• Watch: Fox Sports Debate Goes Off the Rails on Live TV, Voice Cracks and Glasses Come Off: 'I'm in the Effin' Hall of Fame!'

  14-12-2022 20:38
  A Fox Sports segment turned into an explosive, personal dispute between Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless on Monday.
  The two football analysts were discussing Tom Brady’s football legacy, according to the New York Post.
  “He’s still playing at a high level at 45 when you had to stop at 35,” Bayless said of Sharpe’s own NFL career.
  “That’s what you do … Every time I call something into question, ‘I’m jealous,'” Sharpe exclaimed, rais
  
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• The Fed lifts rates by half a point, acknowledging that inflation is easing

  14-12-2022 20:36 via cnn.com
  
  The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by half a point at the conclusion of its two-day policy meeting on Wednesday, an indication that the central bank is pulling back on its aggressive stance as signs begin to emerge that inflation may be easing.
  
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• The real revelation from the 'Twitter Files': Content moderation is messy

  14-12-2022 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  Before then-President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter after the Capitol riot last January, there was a debate among some employees about what to do with the company's most prominent and controversial user.
  
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• Arizona Senator Seeks to 'Nullify the Results' of Maricopa County Election with New Lawsuit

  14-12-2022 20:00
  On Election Day, Maricopa County, Arizona, found itself at the center of the national conversation thanks to a number of malfunctioning election machines, incredibly long lines and other issues.
  The county is the most populous by far in a state where Democrat Katie Hobbs won the gubernatorial challenge by a mere 0.6 percent (roughly 17,000 votes) over her Republican opponent, former local news anchor-turned-conservative firebrand Kari Lake.
  Because of this, Arizona State Senator Sonny Borrelli f
  
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• Why Tom Brady, Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities are getting sued over crypto

  14-12-2022 19:46 via cnn.com
  
  With the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX dominating the headlines, celebrities who hawked cryptocurrency are now finding themselves under fresh legal scrutiny.
  
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• Why Tom Brady, David Ortiz, Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities are getting sued over crypto

  14-12-2022 19:46 via cnn.com
  
  With the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX dominating the headlines, celebrities who hawked cryptocurrency are now finding themselves under fresh legal scrutiny.
  
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• As Jan. 6 committee winds down, it is abandoning efforts to subpoena phone records

  14-12-2022 19:42 via cnn.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot is dropping several of its pursuits for January 6-related phone records, according to court filings this week, as the panel winds down before it expires at the end of this year.
  
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• As House January 6 committee winds down, it is abandoning efforts to subpoena phone records

  14-12-2022 19:42 via cnn.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot is dropping several of its pursuits for January 6-related phone records, according to court filings this week, as the panel winds down before it expires at the end of this year.
  
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• Camera Captures Unconscious Bill Clinton at NFL Game

  14-12-2022 19:32
  While the Philadelphia Eagles were busy giving the New York Giants a pounding on Sunday, former President Bill Clinton apparently wasn’t too impressed with the action on the field.
  Clinton was caught on camera snoozing in a suite at the game, according to Outsider.Bill Clinton was at the Eagles/Giants game yesterday at MetLife and apparently fell asleep lmfaopic.twitter.com/lGRXdLbWYB
  — Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 12, 2022He was spotted wearing a Giants hat at the game, The S
  
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• Five people arrested on domestic terrorism charges in clash at Atlanta's 'Cop City' site

  14-12-2022 19:06 via cnn.com
  
  Five people were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism in Atlanta on Tuesday after a clash between activists and law enforcement at a site set to be turned into a state-of-the-art training facility for police, state investigators said.
  
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• Former Fed Prosecutor: 'Curious' Timing for DOJ to Charge FTX Founder Hours Before Congressional Testimony Scheduled

  14-12-2022 19:02
  National Review columnist and former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy finds the timing of the Department of Justice issuing an arrest warrant for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried the night before he was to testify before Congress “curious.”
  Bahamian authorities took Bankman-Fried into custody on Monday night after the DOJ requested his extradition to face multiple charges in the U.S., including wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering and campaign finance law violations.
  The crypt
  
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• Attention procrastinators: Drop-dead holiday shipping deadlines are coming soon

  14-12-2022 18:29 via cnn.com
  
  It happens every year — the mad dash to ship holiday gifts to get them to loved ones on time.
  
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• Not Even Math Is Safe from Woke 'Social Justice' - Private School Fully Embraces Critical Race Theory

  14-12-2022 18:23
  An elite private school in New Hampshire is offering a math class that teaches students how to uncover factors that lead to “systematic oppression.”
  Phillips Exeter Academy provides the course “Mathematics of Social Justice,” which focuses on how public policy can lead to “discrimination, systematic bias and inequity,” according to the school website.
  Students in the math class study “inequity in the justice system, healthcare inequity and wealth dispari
  
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• GOP Rep. Mace Goes Nuclear on Trans Activist, Confronts Him with His Own Tweets During Hearing

  14-12-2022 18:20
  There was one good thing about when Twitter operated with extreme leftist bias: It encouraged radical activists to show who they truly are, with no fear of censorship, real criticism or even disapproval.
  Those extremist statements are documented on the internet, easy to find with a little bit of digging and ready to resurface at the most awkward moments for those who made them.
  In a Tuesday hearing of the House Oversight Committee, left-wing transgender activist Alejandra Caraballo was reminded
  
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• Trump's Secret Trial Revealed - Convicted of 2 Counts of Criminal Contempt of Court

  14-12-2022 18:02
  Donald Trump’s company impeded a grand jury investigation last year by repeatedly failing to turn over evidence in a timely fashion, leading to a secret contempt finding and a $4,000 fine, according to court records made public Tuesday.
  The Trump Organization was found to have been “willfully disobeying” four grand jury subpoenas and three court orders, which affected the ability of Manhattan prosecutors to question witnesses, Judge Juan Manuel Merchan ruled.
  The subpoenas, iss
  
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• Court Rules Cop Killer's Conviction Should Be Thrown Out After Judge's Disturbing Remarks Revealed

  14-12-2022 18:02
  Texas District Judge Lela Mays ruled Monday that an inmate on death row for the death of a police officer should have his death penalty conviction overturned after claims that the judge who presided over his trial was racist and antisemitic.
  Halprin, who is Jewish, was convicted and given the death penalty for the death of a police officer during a month-long prison escape with six other prisoners, dubbed the Texas Seven, in 2000, according to CBS News. In the years following his conviction, con
  
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• Former 'Ellen' DJ and Disney Host Found Dead at Age 40

  14-12-2022 17:50
  Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the longtime and beloved dancing DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and a former contestant on “So You Think You Can Dance,” has died at the age of 40.
  His wife, Allison Holker Boss, confirmed his passing in a statement published Wednesday on People.
  “It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my husband Stephen has left us,” she said. “Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He valued family, friends and c
  
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• New Poll Shows Clear Winner in Hypothetical Trump-DeSantis Primary Battle

  14-12-2022 17:44
  Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a substantial lead over former President Donald Trump among likely GOP voters, according to a poll released Wednesday.
  If the election were held today, 52 percent of likely Republican voters said they would support DeSantis, while 38 percent said they would support Trump, according to the Wall Street Journal poll.
  Similarly, 86 percent reported having a favorable view of DeSantis, while 74 percent said they have a favorable view of Trump.
  Among all 1,50
  
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• 'Twitter Files' Exec Who Helped Ban Trump Forced into Hiding - Where Did He Go?

  14-12-2022 17:43
  Former Twitter head of trust and safety Yoel Roth has left his home, according to a new report.
  CNN reported Monday that, based on information from a source it did not name, Roth had gone into some level of hiding after threats emerged due to what CNN called “Elon Musk’s campaign of criticism against him.”
  In taking up Roth’s cause, The Washington Post wrote, “The online mob also sent threats to people Roth had replied to on Twitter, forcing some of Roth’s fam
  
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• Former BlackRock Exec, Obama Official to Take Key Position in Biden Admin - Report

  14-12-2022 17:26
  Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo, a former Obama-era Treasury official and senior adviser at investment firm BlackRock, is likely to be appointed as President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser early next year, according to Bloomberg Wednesday.
  Brian Deese, the current director of the National Economic Council, is expected to leave this spring after fulfilling his promise to serve for two years in the position, Bloomberg reported. While White House personnel have yet to formally prese
  
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• Kari Lake Gives 'Critical Update' on 'The Strongest Election Lawsuit in US History'

  14-12-2022 17:03
  Republican Kari Lake on Tuesday issued what she called a “critical update on the fight to save our state” as a judge held a brief hearing on her lawsuit seeking to overturn the election of Democrat Katie Hobbs as Arizona’s next governor.
  “My legal team has been working non-stop investigating and gathering sworn declarations from whistleblowers and witnesses building the strongest election lawsuit in U.S. history,” she said in a video released on Rumble.
  “Our l
  
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• Florida Deputy Dressed as Grinch Gives Speeding Drivers Surprise That Might Make Them Cry

  14-12-2022 16:59
  Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from a county sheriff’s deputy dressed as the Grinch.
  Col. Lou Caputo, a 37-year veteran of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office who conjured up the concept more than 20 years ago, was back on the streets Tuesday.
  Drivers who travel about 5 mph or less above the school zone’s speed limit can choose between traffic citation
  
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• Gas Station Clerk Acting on 'Intuition' May Have Just Given Police a Breakthrough in Idaho Quadruple Murder

  14-12-2022 16:44
  A hunch coupled with dedication to keep looking for anything that can help solve Idaho’s quadruple murders — and a lot of graveyard shift down time — may have produced a lead for police.
  It has been just over a month since University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were killed in the house the girls rented in Moscow, Idaho.
  A Mobil gas station attendant, who works the overnight shift at a station not far from the place where the
  
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• Art of the Swap

  14-12-2022 16:39
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Art of the Swap appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Nightmarish Shooting in Gun-Controlled Country Proves Dems' Schemes for Gun Control Don't Work

  14-12-2022 16:33
  Six people, including two police officers, were shot and killed during a harrowing six-hour standoff in Australia this week in a shocking incident spotlighting that strict gun control laws do not stop gun crimes.
  The tragedy unfolded on Monday when four officers arrived at a home in Wieambilla, a rural area in the state of Queensland.
  Police were responding to reports of a missing person.
  Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, were shot and killed as they approached the property,
  
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• Portland Mother Finds Horrifying Objects in Her Own Garden - Now She's Getting Her Kids Out of Town

  14-12-2022 16:09
  Evelyn MacPherson’s hometown can no longer be her home. Although the mother of seven has roots that run deep in Portland, Oregon, she is moving now that drugs have invaded the tiny space of her garden.
  “I don’t feel good about raising my kids here anymore,” MacPherson said, according to KOIN-TV.
  She recently found fentanyl pills in her garden. She said the police were called and they told her what the pills were.
  “I couldn’t even believe this is in my yard, wh
  
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• Look at This Blatantly Offensive Display the Satanic Church Placed Near Nativity Scene

  14-12-2022 15:54
  Satan needs better PR men.
  After all, the role of the prince of darkness is supposed to be to seduce the human heart into committing evil. I understand this is a TL;DR version and skips over a whole lot of questions about free will, predestination, compatibilism and all that, but the point is that Satan is supposed to make sin and the subsequent rejection of God look alluring.
  At present, the lord of darkness’ most visible self-declared emissaries in the United States are the folks with th
  
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• U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm while covering World Cup in Qatar, his wife says

  14-12-2022 15:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Soccer journalist Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm in Qatar, where he was covering the World Cup, his wife said Wednesday, citing an autopsy.
  
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• The school shootings since Sandy Hook

  14-12-2022 15:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  These vignettes tell the story of 54 active shooter school shootings that happened in the 10 years since Sandy Hook.
  
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• SEC says 8 social media influencers used Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks

  14-12-2022 15:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged eight social media influencers with securities fraud, saying Wednesday they were part of a $100 million
  
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• Wife of American Journalist Who Died at World Cup Reveals His Cause of Death

  14-12-2022 15:27
  Independent journalist Grant Wahl died of an aneurysm in his heart when he was stricken while covering a World Cup match on Friday, according to an autopsy of the well-known American soccer writer.
  Wahl’s wife, Dr. Céline Gounder, said Wednesday that an autopsy was conducted by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office.
  Gounder is an epidemiologist who was appointed in 2020 to serve on then-President-elect Joe Biden’s transition COVID-19 Advisory Board, according to a
  
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• Biden Slammed for White House Light Display After Signing 'Respect for Marriage Act': 'The World Is Laughing'

  14-12-2022 15:23
  The White House became an LGBT symbol Tuesday night when it was lit with rainbow colors after President Joe Biden signed the “Respect for Marriage Act.”
  The bill requires that marriages that are valid under the laws of any one state be recognized as such by every other state, according to The Washington Post.
  The bill repeals the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which declared marriage to be between one man and one woman and allowed states to reject marriages other states ruled valid. T
  
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• Biden Gets Vulgar, Snaps at Ally Over Repeated Discussion About His Age: Report

  14-12-2022 15:18
  Does America really want to re-elect a grumpy old man as president?
  That’s an honest question. I was surprised that enough Americans voted for candidate Joe Biden in 2020 to make him the Democratic nominee, never mind how many came out to vote for him in the general election.
  Yes, I know that there’s dispute over how many actually did so; spare me your emails. But that aside, I was still surprised at the amount of support he got.
  I mean, say whatever else you will about the
  
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