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• Justice Thomas Spotted Quietly Working at Arlington National Cemetery - Turns Out He's Been Doing This for Years

  17-12-2022 23:57
  “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.” — Matthew 6:2
  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas embodies this verse well, as it has recently come to light that he has been quietly placing Christmas wreaths on the graves of American veterans for years.
  D.C. journalist and author Emily Miller spotted Thomas
  
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• Georgia grand jury investigating Trump election interference is winding down and has begun writing final report

  17-12-2022 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  A special grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia is winding down its work, according to sources familiar with the matter.
  
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• NYC says it needs $3 billion from government in coming years to respond to asylum seekers

  17-12-2022 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  New York is hoping to receive $3 billion from the federal government through 2026 to handle the influx of migrants that city leaders have been grappling with for months, according to a new government report.
  
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• NYC says it needs $3 billion from federal government in coming years to respond to asylum seekers

  17-12-2022 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  New York is hoping to receive $3 billion from the federal government through 2026 to handle the influx of migrants that city leaders have been grappling with for months, according to a new government report.
  
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• 'How We Lose in 2024': Major Democratic Voting Bloc Was Down in Midterms, Liberals Are Scrambling

  17-12-2022 23:08
  As political analysts sift through the results of the 2022 midterms, they’ve come to a disturbing conclusion: Turnout among black Americans was down.
  Unlike the increasing numbers of Hispanics who have abandoned the Democratic Party in recent years, these voters did not defect to the GOP. They simply stayed home — in significant numbers.
  “The evidence so far raises the distinct possibility that the Black share of the electorate sank to its lowest level since 2006,” The Ne
  
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• With Recession Looming, Major Bank That Contributed to 2008 Crisis Announces Mass Layoffs

  17-12-2022 23:01
  Goldman Sachs is looking at cuts that could trim its workforce by 8 percent, according to multiple reports.
  A report by Fox Business said the full scope of the layoffs is uncertain, but with 49,100 employees as of Sept. 30, an 8 percent cut would mean somewhere around 4,000 employees could lose their jobs.
  The firm cut 500 workers in September.
  Further, the annual round of hefty bonuses could be reduced or eliminated for what the Wall Street Journal called underperforming employees.
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• Gateway Pundit Returns to Twitter Same Day That Olbermann, Left-Wing Journalists Suspended

  17-12-2022 22:53
  While suspending prominent left-wing journalists for violating Twitter’s terms of service, Elon Musk has also decided to reinstate several conservative accounts that were unfairly banned from the platform.
  On Friday, the Twitter account for conservative news site Gateway Pundit had their previously banned Twitter account reinstated.
  In an email to The Western Journal, Jim Hoft, founder, and editor of Gateway Pundit hailed Musk’s decision saying, “We are happy to be back on Twit
  
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• Biden Announces Billions for Africa - People Get Even More Furious When They Hear What It's Supposed to Do

  17-12-2022 22:36
  The Biden administration’s clean energy racket, prowling for new victims, has now set its sights on Africa.
  On Wednesday, Biden told the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit that the United States, along with other G-7 countries, will donate $8 billion in public and private funds to South Africa to get them off coal and on renewables. “Today’s announcement joined a portfolio of Partnership for Global Infrastructure Investment projects already underway in Africa,” Biden said.
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• Suspect accused of fatally shooting 2 Mississippi officers died from return fire during shootout, officials say

  17-12-2022 22:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  Authorities now say that a Mississippi woman who fatally shot two police officers was killed by one of the officers who returned fire during a shootout.
  
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• Black Actor Slams California Commission's $223K Reparations Recommendation

  17-12-2022 21:29
  A black actor has condemned the idea of giving six-figure checks to descendants of slaves and suggested that they be given tax-exempt status instead.
  Faizon Love, 54, is a Cuban-born American actor most widely known for his roles in “Elf,” “Friday” and “The Meteor Man.”
  He said during a recent interview with Vlad TV that the $223,200 reparation payments proposed by a California reparations task force would simply be used to buy luxury vehicles.
  “F*** tha
  
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• Sharon Osbourne Rushed to Hospital After Emergency While Filming TV Show

  17-12-2022 21:19
  Entertainment personality Sharon Osbourne suffered an unknown medical emergency on Friday in California.
  TMZ reported that Osbourne, 70, was taken ill on the set of what the outlet called an “unnamed show” in Santa Paula, California.
  Ventura County EMTs responded to the location at about 6:30 p.m. Friday and took a patient to a hospital, according to TMZ. Santa Paula Police Chief Don Aguilar said Osbourne was the patient.
  Updates on her condition or how she was taken ill were not ava
  
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• How Many of Your Firearms Would Be Illegal Under Gun Ban Bill's New Definition for 'Assault Weapon'?

  17-12-2022 20:58
  Democrats in Michigan are pushing a new gun control bill that would ban the sale and manufacture of what they term “assault weapons,” but the definition of an “assault weapon” seems to be very vague and loose.
  On December 1, Michigan House Democrats announced that state Rep. Jeffery Pepper had introduced HB 6544, which would completely ban the sale and manufacture of “assault weapons” beginning in 2024.
  Pepper and the House Democrats claim that this bill is ne
  
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• Sharon Osbourne hospitalized after 'unspecified medical emergency'

  17-12-2022 20:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sharon Osbourne was taken to the hospital Friday in California following "an unspecified medical emergency," according to the Santa Paula Police Department.
  
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• Major Shareholder Turns on Elon Musk, Demands New CEO

  17-12-2022 20:49
  The storm around Twitter is rocking the boat at Tesla, leading at least one shareholder to call for a change at the top of the electric vehicle manufacturer.
  Elon Musk owns Twitter and is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. In recent weeks, his work at Twitter has overshadowed the other two ventures, leading some Tesla shareholders to voice concerns that his controversial Twitter moves are tarnishing Tesla’s value.
  To make matters worse, Musk disclosed this week that he sold more than $3.5 billio
  
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• Body Found in Trash Bag off Florida Coast Identified as Missing Woman, Investigators Scrambling

  17-12-2022 20:39
  Heather Strickland’s stepmother can recall a sound she remembers with joy — a sound she will never hear again. It is the sound of laughter, coming from the daughter who was found dumped in a trash bag 13 miles off Florida’s Gulf Coast.
  The FBI on Friday identified Strickland, 34, as the woman whose body was found by fishermen on Dec. 10, according to WWSB-TV.
  Strickland was last seen alive leaving a hospital in Largo on Dec. 5.Help #FBI Tampa get answers in the suspicious death
  
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• We Have the Emails: Biden Admin Caught Suppressing Self-Defense Gun Stats with Stealth Edits – Report

  17-12-2022 20:31
  A new report says gun rights opponents successfully lobbied the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to delete information on Americans who rely upon the Second Amendment to defend themselves.
  According to emails collected by The Reload, pressure groups were assisted in their campaign by the Biden White House and Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who paved the way for anti-gun advocates to meet with CDC officials.
  The core issue was the CDC’s description of a revi
  
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• Marine Spends Last Moments of His Life Defending Woman from Armed Robber: 'He'll Always Be My Hero'

  17-12-2022 20:24
  A California Marine Corps veteran is dead after bravely standing up to an armed robber outside a Vallejo restaurant.
  Robert Sundin, 70, was shot dead when he intervened to stop a gunman from robbing a waitress on Dec. 8, according to KTVU-TV.
  Sundin, a regular patron of the restaurant, snapped into action when he saw a ski-masked man confront server Teresa Brasher as she was getting out of her car to head into work.
  When Sundin saw the suspicious character gesturing at Brasher’s purse, he
  
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• Ohio teacher told principal using students' preferred pronouns violated her religion. She was forced to resign, lawsuit says

  17-12-2022 20:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ohio middle school teacher said she was forced to resign after telling boss she would not address students by preferred pronouns.
  
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• Arizona judge dismisses Finchem’s election challenge in secretary of state race

  17-12-2022 19:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  An Arizona judge on Friday dismissed Mark Finchem's lawsuit seeking a new secretary of state election after he lost the race in November to Adrian Fontes.
  
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• Trump Reveals Who He's Backing for House Speaker, Tells Those in Opposition to Stand Down

  17-12-2022 19:12
  The Donald has spoken — and surprisingly, some might say, he’s sticking with the establishment this time.
  In an interview with Breitbart News published Friday, former President Donald Trump backed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California for speaker of the House, saying he deserved “a shot,” and anti-establishment Republicans trying to take him down were playing “a very dangerous game.”
  “Kevin has worked very hard,” Trump told Breitbart.
  
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• Journalist Comes to Shock Realization After Leftist Peers Are Suspended by Twitter - This Is How Far Elon Musk Has Gone

  17-12-2022 18:52
  Sloppy and slanted though she may be, Washington Post tech journalist Taylor Lorenz is one of the most connected reporters on the Silicon beat. At the new Twitter, however, she finds her complaints falling on deaf ears.
  In a Twitter Spaces call that happened after several left-leaning journalists were banned from Twitter for violating rules about revealing individuals’ real-time location, Lorenz complained that she was “doxed and harassed constantly” on Twitter. She said that,
  
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• CNN Loses Another Anchor as She Calls It Quits, Her Supposed Next Move Has Been Kept Quiet

  17-12-2022 18:41
  With the struggling CNN clutching at straws, departing anchor Ana Cabrera is grabbing some peacock feathers, according to new reports.
  Cabrera announced on Thursday that she will be leaving CNN.
  “Goodbyes are hard. Thank you CNN for everything. (My final show will be a week from today, Dec. 22) I’m looking forward to starting a new chapter in my career, and excited for new opportunities, challenges, and growth to come!” she wrote.Goodbyes are hard. Thank you CNN for everything.
  
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• Betty White Fans Furious Over What's Been Done to the Late Star's Home

  17-12-2022 18:32
  The $10 million home formerly owned by Betty White has been demolished, nearly a year after her death.
  The “Golden Girls” star died last year on Dec. 31 — less than a month away from her 100th birthday.
  News of the demolition was announced through a Sunday post on the late star’s Instagram account.
  “Hello all! I owe a post (or two) I know. This is such a busy time of year and coming up on the anniversary of Betty’s passing is hitting in ways I hadn’t ant
  
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• Former Atlanta police officer indicted in the 2019 shooting death of Jimmy Atchison

  17-12-2022 18:27 via cnn.com
  
  For more than three years, Jimmy Hill has kept a weekly vigil outside the offices of the Fulton County district attorney in Atlanta, distributing fliers about his son's death at the hands of police and demanding justice.
  
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• January 6 Suspect Gets Huge News from Judge

  17-12-2022 18:20
  A federal judge in Virginia has declared a mistrial in a firearms-related case against a U.S. Naval reservist who is separately charged with storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
  U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff declared the mistrial on Friday after a jury in Alexandria, Virginia, failed to reach a unanimous verdict on charges that Hatchet Speed illegally possessed unregistered silencers for guns.
  The Washington Post reports that Justice Department prosecutors intend to retry the case
  
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• Musk’s Twitter moves may set him on course for a clash with Europe’s ‘red lines’

  17-12-2022 18:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Elon Musk’s suspension of several high-profile journalists from Twitter drew backlash from the European Union, warning he could fall foul of tough new rules.
  
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• Watch: Keith Olbermann Absolutely Loses It After Permanent Twitter Ban, Tweets from Dog Account

  17-12-2022 18:08
  Several prominent left-wing media figures were suspended from Twitter this week, including longtime leftist commentator Keith Olbermann.
  While some of these reporters and bloggers have been suspended for violating Twitter’s terms of service (and have since been reinstated), Olbermann’s profile is still suspended.
  In fact, Olbermann told Variety that he had been permanently banned.
  Olbermann has tried to circumvent the Twitter suspension by co-opting his own dog adoption and rescue ac
  
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• Tens of Thousands of 'Inactive' Voters Added to Maricopa Roll in 'Steroid-Like Injection' – Lawsuit

  17-12-2022 16:55
  Two unsuccessful candidates in last month’s elections in Arizona are voicing concerns that an increase in the number of inactive or deactivated voters could have had an impact on their defeats.
  Republican Josh Barnett, who lost his contest for Arizona’s First Congressional District, filed a lawsuit citing the increase among the factors that led to the election being improperly conducted.
  The lawsuit, filed on Nov. 29, was dismissed in early December by a Maricopa County Superior Cour
  
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• Stores are drowning in merchandise this holiday season, and the deals are getting juicier

  17-12-2022 16:35 via cnn.com
  
  Stores are drowning in a glut of merchandise this holiday season, keeping the discounts fast and furious in the runup to Christmas.
  
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• America has tipping fatigue

  17-12-2022 15:49 via cnn.com
  
  A new checkout trend is sweeping across America, making for an increasingly awkward experience: digital tip jars.
  
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• James O'Keefe Gets Major News from Twitter - Did Elon Musk Just Spite the Left?

  17-12-2022 15:32
  Twitter restored Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s account Friday after a suspension that was more than a year and a half long.
  The move came after the social media platform reinstated Project Veritas’ account, along with several others last month, including former President Donald Trump and the satire site Babylon Bee.
  Project Veritas tweeted Friday, “@JamesOKeefeIII has just been RESTORED on Twitter!!! Thank you Elon.”BREAKING: @JamesOKeefeIII has just been
  
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• 'The People Have Spoken': Elon Musk Backtracks Big Time, Brings Back Journalists and Pundits He Just Suspended

  17-12-2022 15:20
  Elon Musk is reversing a wave of Twitter suspensions.
  The megabillionaire and Twitter owner directed the reinstatement of nine accounts which had been suspended from Twitter earlier in the week on Friday night.
  Musk tweeted a Twitter poll seeking input from the public on reversing the suspensions on Thursday.Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022Musk went on to indicate that the poll in question was his basis for reversing the
  
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• 'Out of control': No one knows how much to tip

  17-12-2022 14:45 via cnn.com
  
  A new checkout trend is sweeping across America, making for an increasingly awkward experience: digital tip jars.
  
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• Memphis shooting leaves five people in critical condition

  17-12-2022 14:45 via cnn.com
  
  Five people were in critical condition after a "domestic situation" in Memphis Friday night ended in a shooting, police say.
  
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• Memphis shooting leaves 5 people in critical condition

  17-12-2022 14:45 via cnn.com
  
  Five people were in critical condition after a "domestic situation" in Memphis Friday night ended in a shooting, police say.
  
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• Car repossessions are on the rise in warning sign for the economy

  17-12-2022 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  A growing number of consumers are falling behind on their car payments, a trend financial analysts fear will continue, in a sign of economic strain.
  
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• Major Development in Fossil Fuel Tech Made, But Climate Activism Groups Plan to Crash It All

  17-12-2022 13:53
  Although the United Nations states that carbon capture and storage technology (CCS), equipment that enables fossil fuel producers to sequester emissions to mitigate global warming, is needed to meet emissions reduction targets, multiple climate activist groups oppose its development as they believe CCS entrenches the oil and gas industry.
  The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that governments and other entities must employ CCS to remove greenhouse emissions from the atmo
  
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• Giuliani faces disbarment for bringing a frivolous suit. Why that doesn't happen more.

  17-12-2022 13:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani could lose his law license false over election claims. Should he?
  
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• How the race for a Covid vaccine enriched monkey poachers and endangered macaques

  17-12-2022 12:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  The smuggling of monkeys caught in the wild is believed to have been going on for years due to the colossal demand for laboratory monkeys in the U.S.
  
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• If we don't want sick kids being sent to school, this is what we need to do

  17-12-2022 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Between RSV, the flu, Covid and now Strep A, working parents need paid sick time to lower the chances of them sending sick kids to school.
  
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• Missing college student reunited with family and heading back to U.S., French officials say

  17-12-2022 11:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  American student Ken Deland Jr., reported missing during a study abroad trip in France, was reunited with his mother and heading to the U.S., officials said.
  
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• National Communist Party Founder Dies, Gets Brutal Send-Off: 'May God Have Mercy on His Soul'

  17-12-2022 10:37
  Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, whose armed wing has been waging one of Asia’s longest-running insurgencies, has died. He was 83.
  Sison died peacefully late Friday after two weeks of confinement in a hospital in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the party’s spokesman, Marco Valbuena, said in a statement on Saturday. The cause of death was not disclosed.
  Sison had lived in self-exile in The Netherlands since then-President Corazon Aquino released him f
  
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• U.S. wrongly revoked Oppenheimer’s security clearance in 1954, Biden admin says

  17-12-2022 09:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Biden administration on Friday reversed a 1954 decision by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer.
  
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• Six TV Channels Have Broadcast Licenses Suspended - Caught in Alleged Scheme to 'Manipulate Public Opinion'

  17-12-2022 09:30
  The broadcast licenses of six television channels in Moldova have been suspended over accusations of misinformation, inaccurate coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and “attempts to manipulate public opinion,” authorities said.
  The decision to revoke the licenses of the channels First in Moldova, RTR Moldova, Accent TV, NTV Moldova, TV6 and Orhei TV was announced late Friday by Moldova’s Commission for Exceptional Situations, which was established after Russia’s inv
  
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• Judge warned that suspect in Colorado Club Q shooting could be planning violence

  17-12-2022 06:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  The judge in a '21 kidnapping case against the man accused in the shooting at Colorado Springs' Club Q had warned that the suspect could be planning violence.
  
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• January 6 defendant arrested for allegedly planning to kill FBI agents

  17-12-2022 05:36 via cnn.com
  
  A Tennessee man already facing charges in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was arrested for allegedly planning to kill FBI agents, including those who had been investigating him, the Justice Department announced Friday.
  
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• Scaros: Only-Trumpers and Never-Trumpers Need to Take a Lesson from Maybe-Trumpers

  17-12-2022 05:04
  Nowadays, there are three main types of Republicans: Only-Trumpers, Never-Trumpers and Maybe-Trumpers. There are subcategories within them, but those are the three principal ones.
  For Republicans to win in 2024, these three subdivisions must unite. But before we get to that, let’s clarify what each group believes.
  Only-Trumpers will only vote for Donald Trump or for a candidate whom Trump has explicitly endorsed. These voters most likely were never part of the political process until 2016,
  
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• Capitol riot defendant planned to kill FBI agents who investigated him, unsealed filing alleges

  17-12-2022 04:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Tennessee man previously charged in the Jan. 6 riot is now accused of planning to kill the FBI agents who investigated him, a new court filing shows.
  
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• North Carolina Supreme Court rejects 'racially discriminatory' voter ID law and state electoral map

  17-12-2022 03:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  The North Carolina Supreme Court struck down a voter ID law it said discriminated against Black voters and ordered a state map redrawn over GOP gerrymandering.
  
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• Reno Mayor Files Suit After Discovering Haunting Item on Her Car

  17-12-2022 02:07
  Reno mayor Hillary Schieve is suing a private investigator and his company after finding a device attached to her vehicle that was capable of tracking its real-time location.
  The lawsuit, first reported by The Nevada Independent on Thursday, alleges that the investigator trespassed onto her property to install the device without her consent.
  It says Schieve was unaware until a mechanic noticed it while working on her vehicle.
  The complaint says, further, that the investigator was working on beha
  
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