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• Accused NYC subway shooter now faces more federal charges

  16-12-2022 23:38 via cnn.com
  
  Frank James, the man authorities have said was behind the mass shooting inside a New York City subway that left dozens injured in April, now faces 10 counts of a terrorist attack and other violence against a mass transportation system, according to a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury Friday.
  
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• Transgender death row inmate set to be executed in January files clemency application with Missouri governor

  16-12-2022 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  A transgender woman who is scheduled to be executed in Missouri next month for murdering a woman in 2003 has filed a clemency application with the governor, citing struggles with brain damage and childhood trauma, the petition says.
  
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• Pelosi, Schumer Eat and Gloat About Ambushing Trump: 'She Set Him Up So I Could Go in for the Kill'

  16-12-2022 23:36
  I do not like Chuck and Nancy,
  I do not like them stuffing their faces in Hunan Dynasty,
  I do not like them being sickeningly self-congratulatory,
  I most certainly do not like CNN’s never-ending sycophancy.
  The above nod to Dr. Seuss is probably more relatable to many Americans than whatever this dreck is that CNN’s Jamie Gangel produced alongside Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
  The video of this “first-ever joint interview” a
  
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• North Carolina voter ID law had racially discriminatory intent, state Supreme Court says

  16-12-2022 23:33 via cnn.com
  
  The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that struck down the state's 2018 voter ID law, agreeing with the lower court that it had been passed with the intent of targeting Black voters who were unlikely to vote for Republicans.
  
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• It's Not Over Yet: Judge Delivers Massive Legal Victory for Kari Lake, Here's the Order

  16-12-2022 23:26
  Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake won a legal victory Friday when the judge overseeing her legal challenge of November’s election granted her team access to review ballots cast.
  Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ordered Maricopa County to grant Lake’s lawyers access to inspect 50 randomly selected “ballot-on-demand” printed ballots cast on Election Day, 50 randomly selected early ballots cast in the race, and 50 randomly selected ballots that were mar
  
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• 10-Year-Old Mauled Saving Siblings From Vicious Dog Attack: 'I'm Dying, Tell Everyone I Love Them'

  16-12-2022 23:19
  Three siblings were playing together in their grandma’s backyard in El Paso, Arkansas, on Sunday when their world was turned upside-down.
  “It was the worst day of my entire life ever,” grandmother Brenda Hrubes told KARK.
  As 3-year-old Annsley, 6-year-old Declan, and 10-year-old Aiden enjoyed the outdoors, the neighbor’s two dogs spotted them and ran over. Seeing the dogs approach Annsley, Declan got up and put himself directly in their path.
  He carried Annsley while the
  
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• Liberal Newsrooms in Full Panic Mode After Musk Drops the Hammer on Journalists

  16-12-2022 23:09
  There was a whole lot of howling going on Friday after Elon Musk suspended the Twitter accounts of several journalists and pundits, accusing them of participating in doxing.
  The journalists included The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, independent journalist Aaron Rupar, Donie O’Sullivan of CNN, Matt Binder of Mashable, sports commentator Keith Olbermann, The Intercept’s Micah Lee and Voice of America’s Steve Herman, according to Ax
  
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• Starbucks union starts three-day strike at 100 stores

  16-12-2022 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  About 100 Starbucks stores across America will be on strike for the next three days, as the union attempts to turn up the pressure in it year-long battle with the coffee retailer.
  
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• Pennsylvania County to Recount 2020 Election Votes for President in 2023

  16-12-2022 22:58
  Two years after the 2020 election was seemingly decided, a Pennsylvania county is set to recount votes in the races for president and state auditor in response to public requests.
  The Lycoming County Board of Elections voted 2-1 in October to do a hand count of ballots to prove that the electronic tabulations were correct, and that recount will happen in just a few weeks, Penn Live reported Wednesday.
  The report said roughly 5,000 Lycoming residents had petitioned the board to take this act
  
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• McCarthy says five GOP hardliners could derail the entire House Republican agenda

  16-12-2022 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy said Friday that five conservative hardliners have not budged in their opposition to his speaker's bid, offering dire warnings that their hard-fought Republican majority could be derailed if they don't bend.
  
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• New York Attorney General Letitia James sues owners of Long Island nursing home

  16-12-2022 22:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the owners of a Long Island nursing home who also have stakes of dozens of other facilities nationwide.
  
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• Lib Presented with His Past Tweets After Threatening to Get Musk Hauled in Front of Congress: 'Is This You?'

  16-12-2022 22:39
  Elon Musk went on a tear and suspended several journalists from Twitter on Thursday night, sending the left into a tailspin. But one journalist in particular ended up making himself look worse for the whole episode.
  The social media CEO suspended several left-wing journalists who were using a private jet tracker to tell Twitter users where Musk was in real time, an act that the famous billionaire said put him and his family in danger.
  Musk had already suspended the plane tracker’s account,
  
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• Garland instructs prosecutors to end sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine

  16-12-2022 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  Attorney General Merrick Garland instructed federal prosecutors Friday to end sentencing disparities between offenders convicted of crimes involving crack and powder cocaine, a decadeslong policy that has led to disproportionate prison sentences for Blacks.
  
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• Trump Mocked for Trading Card Announcement... But Just 12 Hours Later 45 Is the Only One Laughing

  16-12-2022 22:17
  A famous print advertisement from the 1920s read, “They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano. But When I Started to Play!–”
  Touted for nearly a century, that iconic ad featured a musical neophyte captivating guests at a party by playing Liebesträume by Franz Liszt. He surprised everyone and pulled it off because he had taken lessons from the ad’s sponsor, the U.S. School of Music.
  Former President Donald Trump did something similar this week.
  Guffaws arose when Trump
  
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• CNN Reaches New Levels of Hypocrisy, Needs Live Therapy Session After What Musk Did to Them

  16-12-2022 21:39
  You used to have to pay good money for a therapy session like the one CNN’s self-indulgent crew just had for itself.
  Frankly, for the cash-strapped CNN, an on-air team cope might’ve been their only recourse.
  On Thursday night, a group of CNN’s talking heads convened to lament the current state of Twitter after Elon Musk suspended a gaggle of journalists and pundits. The panel included senior media reporter Oliver Darcy, correspondent Donie O’Sullivan (who was actually par
  
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• Federal appeals court throws out case brought by Connecticut high school girls challenging trans-inclusive sports policy

  16-12-2022 21:36 via cnn.com
  
  A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a case brought by four cisgender high school girls in Connecticut who claimed the state's trans-inclusive sports policy violated their civil rights and deprived them of a "chance to be champions."
  
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• Status of Trump tax returns to be focus of Tuesday congressional hearing

  16-12-2022 21:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  The House Ways and Means Committee will meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss the fate of former President Donald Trump's tax returns.
  
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• Biden in Bind as National Archives Informs WH on What It Will Release - Doesn't Look Good for Hunter

  16-12-2022 21:24
  The National Archives has informed the White House that it will be releasing records pertaining to Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine while his father, President Joe Biden, was vice president.
  The records are the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request made in August by America First Legal seeking communications related to the “extensive financial relationships between Hunter and James Biden and their deals in Ukraine.”
  James is Joe Biden’s brother and Hu
  
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• Kosovo rebel commander sentenced to 26 years in prison for war crimes in case overseen by the special counsel named in the Trump probe

  16-12-2022 21:02 via cnn.com
  
  A war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday sentenced a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army to 26 years in prison for the war crimes of arbitrary detention, torture and murder.
  
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• Donald Trump's NFT superhero trading cards timed the market all wrong

  16-12-2022 21:01 via cnn.com
  Donald Trump's entrance into the NFT world came at the worst possible moment.
  
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• Japan Scraps Pacifist Defense Strategy, Makes Huge Move With Its Own Military

  16-12-2022 20:40
  With an uneasy eye on the ominous activity by its neighbors, Japan has revealed the largest military buildup since the Second World War.
  The island nation is planning to spend $320 million over the next five years as it seeks to counter the growing threat of Chinese expansion in the region.
  According to Reuters, this unprecedented shakeup of Japanese defense policy will make the country the third-largest military spender in the world, behind the U.S. and China.
  Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and h
  
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• Solomon: Musk's Ban of Journalists Shows He Is Losing Control of Twitter

  16-12-2022 20:30
  On Thursday night, Elon Musk drew a new line in the sand by banning close to a dozen prominent journalists from Twitter.
  While this was done under the guise of protecting Musk’s personal safety and privacy, the actual reason for the bans should concern every Twitter user and advertiser.
  On Wednesday, Musk went after accounts that tracked people’s real-time movements. This was essentially a ban on accounts that tracked private jets, including his own. Musk not only banned these accoun
  
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• World-Famous Artist 'Getting Out of LA 100 Percent,' Heading East for Greener Pastures

  16-12-2022 20:09
  The architect Frank Lloyd Wright is credited with the quote, “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” While that observation may have been true during Wright’s lifetime, in the 21st century we are witnessing a very different dynamic.
  The term “Escape from LA” is no longer just the title of an unnecessary sequel to a great dystopian action movie. Escaping LA, and California in general, is an urgent strategy for many residents of
  
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• I used to like Harry and Meghan. Now I know why the other royals got fed up with them.

  16-12-2022 19:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  Reaction to Harry and Meghan docuseries on Netflix, with its Prince William yelling allegations, shows the Sussexes haven't only alienated the Royal Family.
  
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• Fact-Check: Kinzinger Says Standing for 'Truth' Cost Him His Job - But Here's What Really Happened

  16-12-2022 19:51
  Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the RINO who has spent the last few years relentlessly attacking his own party, recently used his farewell speech to Congress to explain the heroic reason why he is on his way out of Washington.
  Kinzinger did not run for re-election after redistricting pitted him against a strong conservative in the primaries.
  That meant that both of the token Republicans on the Democrats’ Jan. 6 committee lost their seats. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney lost her race to a Republican
  
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• Biden begins to refill Strategic Petroleum Reserve, while Keystone Pipeline leak prompts new emergency exchange

  16-12-2022 19:33 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration announced plans Friday to provide nearly 2 million barrels of oil to refineries through an emergency exchange and simultaneously begin efforts to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve early next year.
  
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• Federal investigators have accessed emails in which Rep. Scott Perry, John Eastman and other Trump allies discuss 2020 election

  16-12-2022 18:58 via cnn.com
  
  Federal investigators have obtained access to several email accounts, a draft autobiography and other writings in which Republican Rep. Scott Perry, Donald Trump elections attorney John Eastman, and former Justice Department officials Jeffrey Clark and Ken Klukowski discussed the 2020 election, according to a newly released order in the DC District Court.
  
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• Huge: FTX Insider Turns on Sam Bankman-Fried

  16-12-2022 18:52
  According to a new filing in the bankruptcy case of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, it was an insider who spilled the beans on the company’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.
  CNBC reported that Wednesday’s filing contained a letter from the Securities Commission of the Bahamas to the commissioner of police saying it had been informed of potential fraudulent activity within FTX by the company’s co-CEO, Ryan Salame.
  Salame warned the commission about the “possible mishandling of cli
  
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• Biden Undertakes 'Greatest Regulatory Overreach in American Maritime Law' with Huge Restriction for Eastern Seaboard

  16-12-2022 18:43
  President Joe Biden’s administration has done plenty of federal overreach in the 50 states and numerous territories under U.S. control. Now, he’s extending the long arm of bureaucracy to the high seas.
  According to Fox News, the Biden administration is proposing limiting the speed of certain motorboats along the Atlantic coast in what one boating expert called “the greatest regulatory overreach in American maritime law.”
  The move is intended to protect an endangered speci
  
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• HBCU Winston-Salem State University responds to video of Black student being arrested in classroom

  16-12-2022 18:41 via cnn.com
  
  Winston-Salem State University, a historically Black institution in North Carolina, has addressed the use of law enforcement on its campus amid the online spread of a video that shows a Black student being arrested in a classroom after an apparent dispute with a professor.
  
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• 5 Antifa Members Charged with Terrorism After Insurrection, Takeover of Police Facility

  16-12-2022 18:24
  Five people were arrested Tuesday as part of a long-running protest over plans to build a public safety training facility on the outskirts of Atlanta.
  All five were charged with domestic terrorism, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
  The GBI noted that criminal activity at the site has included “carjacking, various crimes against persons, destruction of property, arson, and attacks against public safety officials.”
  After police made arrests they found explosive devices,
  
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• Kid Responds to Highly Sexualized Drag Show With Single Devastating Word

  16-12-2022 18:06
  Want your kids to get a taste of the decadent and depraved side of the holiday season?
  Well, then there’s nothing that says Christmas quite like an all-ages drag show. I mean, it’s going to be explicit, but at least they’ll tone it down knowing the under-18 set is in attendance — right?
  Not if photos and videos out of the “Drag Queen Christmas” show from Austin, Texas this past Wednesday, which surfaced on Twitter, are anything to go on.
  In what was billed as
  
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• US State Department opens 'China House' to coordinate policy toward Beijing

  16-12-2022 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  The US State Department announced it is opening a "China House" on Friday which will serve as the convening point for US policy toward Beijing and boost the number of diplomats focused on the country.
  
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• Fossil Fuel Critic Changes Tune When Offered Spot on First Private Flight to the Moon

  16-12-2022 17:56
  Mankind might soon head back to the moon.
  Last week, eight artists and creatives were announced as the crew members for a private flight around the moon, according to Silicon Republic.
  Irish photographer Rhiannon Adam was among those selected for the fuel-intensive dearMoon mission, whether or not her opposition to fossil fuels would dictate otherwise.
  The mission is being bankrolled by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, also known as MZ.
  In 2018, Maezawa purchased all the seats aboard a Space
  
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• Virginia schools can require masking for peers and teachers of 12 students with disabilities, settlement states

  16-12-2022 17:50 via cnn.com
  
  Virginia schools can require masking for peers and teachers of 12 students with disabilities to protect from virus exposure as part of reasonable accommodations under federal disability law, according to a settlement reached this week.
  
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• Brittney Griner Breaks Her Silence to Deliver a Message to Joe Biden

  16-12-2022 17:44
  Brittney Griner said she’s “grateful” to be back in the United States and plans on playing basketball again next season for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. Her comments came a week after she was released from a Russian prison in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange.
  “It feels so good to be home!” Griner posted to Instagram on Friday in her first public statement since her release.
  “The last 10 months have been a battle at every turn. I dug deep to keep my
  
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• Coroner Reveals 'Fit and Healthy' Man Died of Bleeding on the Brain - And Here's What Caused It

  16-12-2022 17:39
  An inquest held in the 2021 death of a British man has pinned the blame for his death on a blood clot caused by the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
  Jack Last, 27, of Stowmarket, was vaccinated on March 30, 2021. One week later he was hospitalized, suffering headaches, according to the BBC. On April 10, a scan revealed a type of blood clot known as a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Last died 10 days later.
  An inquest into his death began Monday, in Suffolk Coroner’s Court, according to the
  
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• Elon Musk Hops on Voice Chat, Tells Group of Journalists Last Thing They Want to Hear

  16-12-2022 17:08
  If you really want to annoy someone who thinks they’re special, tell them they’re not special and then put action to those words.
  Twitter CEO Elon Musk found that out in the backlash to his announcing to a group of journalist during a Twitter Spaces call early this morning that they were subject to the same rules against doxing as any other Twitter user.
  “As I’m sure anyone who has been doxed would agree, you know, showing real-time information about someone’s locat
  
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• Chinese 'Bioweapon' May Have Spilled Into the General Population, But It Gets Worse - GOP Report

  16-12-2022 17:06
  Republicans serving on the House Intelligence Committee allege in a report released Wednesday that there are “indications” that COVID-19 was developed as part of bioweapons research that accidentally “spilled over” into the general population.
  The minority staff report differs from the conclusion U.S. intelligence community’s assessment regarding the issue published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in October 2021.
  The GOP House report says, &l
  
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• Cleanup begins in South following tornadoes

  16-12-2022 16:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Communities from Texas to Florida began assisting survivors and cleaning up Thursday after tornadoes left scattered destruction and at least three people dead across the South. To the north, blizzards continued to pound the Midwest as more ice and snow headed toward New England. Three straight days of volatile weather in the South continued as a possible tornado wrecked a building housing a cotton gin in rural Georgia and forecasters issued a stream of tornado warnings across the Florida peninsu
  
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• 4 Turkish nationals arrested in Greece on suspicion of smuggling migrants

  16-12-2022 16:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Four Turkish nationals have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants after a boat with nearly 100 people on board was found in trouble off an island near Athens, Greek authorities said Friday. The coast guard said that the four had been among 97 people on board the boat found Thursday northeast of the island of Kea, which lies off the southeastern coast of the Greek capital. The remaining passengers were 32 men, 22 women and 39 minors, the coast guard said. The passengers, who were trans
  
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• They're Scared: 40 House Democrats Announce Plan to Ban Trump from Becoming President Again

  16-12-2022 16:53
  Democrats constantly mock former President Donald Trump as an irrelevant has-been, but their pre-emptive move to ban him from ever returning to the White House underscores that their rhetorical bravado is merely empty words.
  On Thursday, 40 House Democrats introduced legislation to bar Trump from the presidency or any other federal office, citing a twisted interpretation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
  Section 3 states: “No person shall be a Senator or Represen
  
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• DeSantis Signs Bill to Overhaul Hurricane-Plagued Insurance Industry: 'This Is Going to Make a Huge, Huge Difference'

  16-12-2022 16:53
  Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping property insurance bill on Friday. How much and when it will work to stabilize the stormy market is another question.
  One of the key goals of the legislation is to keep the claims process from ending up being settled in courtrooms, a problem that DeSantis said drives up legal costs for insurers.
  “This bill reins in the incentive to litigate,” DeSantis said before signing the bill in Fort Myers, an area devastated by Hurricane Ian in Sept
  
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• California's fifth-largest county votes to study secession amid crime crisis, soaring costs

  16-12-2022 16:50 via foxnews.com
  
  Residents of San Bernardino County, California have voted to research the possibility of secession from the state.  Voters approved a ballot measure directing officials to look into the legal realities of separating from California to establish a new state. SAN BERNARDINO ENDS DECADE-LONG BANKRUPTCY STATUS However, even with approval from voters and officials, a separation from the Golden State is a longshot proposal.  This attempt to create a new state — which would be the first
  
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• Here's a List of the Journalists and Pundits Musk Just Kicked Off Twitter

  16-12-2022 16:48
  Twitter banned eight journalists and pundits Thursday evening, with CEO Elon Musk alleging they had violated Twitter’s rules by publishing real-time “assassination coordinates” for him.
  The journalists included the New York Times’ Ryan Mac, Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, independent journalist Aaron Rupar, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, Mashable’s Matt Binder, sports commentator Keith Olbermann, The Intercept’s Micah Lee and Voice of America’
  
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• Landslide at Malaysia campground kills 18, leaves 15 missing

  16-12-2022 16:46 via foxnews.com
  
  A thunderous crush of soil and debris killed 18 people at a campground in Malaysia on Friday, and rescuers dug through the mud for another 15 who were feared buried in the landslide. More than 90 people were sleeping on an organic farm when the dirt tumbled from a road about 30 meters (100 feet) above the site and covered about 1 hectare (3 acres ). Two of the dead were found locked in an embrace, according to the state fire department chief. UTAH NEFFS CANYON AVALANCHE: OFF-DUTY FIREFIGHTER RES
  
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• Huge Trove of JFK Assassination Documents Finally Released to the Public After Decades of Secrecy

  16-12-2022 16:45
  With President Joe Biden still holding back the full release of files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 59 years ago, the National Archives released over 13,000 documents on Thursday.
  The archives said that more than 97 percent of its records relating to the assassination have been released, according to ABC. The release comes over five years after the documents originally were required by law to be disclosed to the public, according to The Washington Post.
  Kennedy was ki
  
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• 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits Taiwan’s east coast

  16-12-2022 16:42 via foxnews.com
  
  A 6.2 magnitude earthquake originating in the waters off Taiwan's eastern coast shook the island Wednesday, but no injuries or major damage were immediately reported. The earthquake struck 18 miles southeast of Hualien, a city on Taiwan's east coast, the island’s Central Weather Bureau said. The depth was 3.5 miles. Buildings in the capital, Taipei, shook for about a minute and the subway briefly paused operations to ensure passenger safety. EARTHQUAKE IN WEST TEXAS DESERT CAUSES DAMAGE HU
  
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• Biden admin issues $1.5 billion grant for 'woke' projects promoting racial equity, union jobs, climate healing

  16-12-2022 16:38 via foxnews.com
  
  The Department of Transportation (DOT) this week announced $1.5 billion in new grant funding that favors transportation infrastructure projects that address Democratic priorities like environmental sustainability, climate change and the promotion of union jobs. The money is being offered under the department’s Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program. The DOT said these grants help state, local and tribal governments complete loc
  
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• Princess, Likely Next in Line to Throne, Suddenly Collapses: 'Very Unusual'

  16-12-2022 16:37
  Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha has been hospitalized after suffering from what was apparently a major heart episode while out with her dogs, multiple news outlets have reported.
  The princess, 44, lost consciousness Wednesday at Pak Chong in the northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima province, according to a royal statement, ABC News reported.
  The princess had traveled to Pak Chong for her dogs to compete in the Thai army’s working dog championship.
  To have someone viewed as young and fit come down w
  
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