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• Judge Rules Heart of Lake's Lawsuit Will Go Forward - Voting Machines and Ballot Custody at Center of Case

  20-12-2022 23:53
  Arizona Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ruled Monday night that two issues at the heart of Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s election challenge will go to trial.
  The lawsuit filed against Maricopa County election officials and Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs challenged the validity of Hobbs’ win over Lake by just over 17,000 votes in the Nov. 8 governor’s race.
  Hobbs and Maricopa County had filed a motion to dismiss the entire election challenge.
  Thom
  
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• Media Salivates After 'Sources' Say Search for New Twitter CEO Is Underway, Musk's Reaction Is Priceless

  20-12-2022 23:48
  It didn’t take long for left-leaning media outlets to swarm on the developing story regarding the Twitter poll Elon Musk published in which he allowed the social media platform’s users to vote on whether or not he should remain as Twitter’s CEO.
  On Tuesday, CNBC ran a story titled “Elon Musk actively searching for a new Twitter CEO, sources say,” and other media outlets parroted the story, almost as if they’d had the story of the decade.
  The CNBC story was sha
  
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• What is Title 42, and what happens now that the Supreme Court has stepped in?

  20-12-2022 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  Just days before Title 42 was set to end, the Supreme Court is stepping in after an emergency appeal filed by a group of Republican-led states.
  
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• DeSantis Doubles Down on School Board Success, Shares Photo That Should Have the Left Terrified

  20-12-2022 23:45
  Following on from his massive election victory in the recent midterm elections, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is continuing his crusade against woke education.
  On Tuesday, DeSantis tweeted a photo from the Education Agenda School Board Retreat titled “The Freedom Blueprint” he hosted. The photo showed him speaking to a room packed with conservative and DeSantis-friendly school board members and potential 2024 candidates.
  In the caption, DeSantis laid out what he believes are the reas
  
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• Stanford Gets Rude Awakening by Own Professor After Including 'American' in 'Forbidden Words' Index

  20-12-2022 23:26
  I’m not one for trigger warnings, but there are a few things you should know before you read the following:
  1)If you have high blood pressure, relax and try not to get mad. But on the other hand, 2) You may not want to be drinking a liquid while reading this, because anger or laughter may cause you to spit it out onto your computer or phone.
  Okay? Let us begin.
  One of the world’s great universities, Stanford, has put out a document called the “Elimination of Harmful Language In
  
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• Scott Peterson is denied a new trial in the death of his pregnant wife

  20-12-2022 23:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Convicted murderer Scott Peterson was denied a new trial in the 2002 death of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, a judge ruled Tuesday.
  
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• An expansion of the child tax credit did not make the massive federal spending bill. Here's what did make it

  20-12-2022 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  Senate leaders unveiled a $1.7 trillion year-long federal government funding bill early Tuesday morning.
  
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• Kristi Noem's Key Staffer Bolts After Backlash from Transgender Contract

  20-12-2022 22:47
  South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has taken decisive action after it came to her attention that state tax dollars were going to gender theory research.
  Noem has ordered the South Dakota Department of Health to terminate its contract with the Transformation Project, an organization that advocates for transgenderism.
  According to Dakota News Now, the group was planning to hold a “Gender Identity Summit” next month when Noem got wind of the organization’s connections within the st
  
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• Taliban release 2 Americans who were detained in Afghanistan

  20-12-2022 22:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Taliban on Tuesday released two Americans who had been detained in Afghanistan, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
  
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• Former Texas officer sentenced to nearly 12 years for the killing of Atatiana Jefferson

  20-12-2022 22:35 via cnn.com
  A former Texas police officer was sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison Tuesday following his manslaughter conviction for shooting Atatiana Jefferson in her own home in 2019.
  
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• Elon Musk Takes Direct Shot at Elizabeth Warren After She Issues Warning to Tesla Board

  20-12-2022 22:34
  Radical leftists continue their unhinged and deranged campaigns against Tesla CEO Elon Musk following his purchase of Twitter.
  Musk has broken the complete stranglehold that Big Tech executives held to silence conservatives in the social media space.
  The billionaire has lifted the platform’s bans on influential conservative voices such as Jordan Peterson and the popular Christian satirical news site The Babylon Bee, just two examples of accounts that fell prey to pre-Musk Twitter’s a
  
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• With 1 Word, Musk Hints Poll Asking if He Should Step Down as Twitter CEO May Have Been Compromised

  20-12-2022 22:20
  Over the weekend, Elon Musk posted a Twitter poll asking users if he should step down as CEO of the social media platform. And while the poll ended with a “yes” vote, Musk now seems to be raising questions about the legitimacy of the results.
  Musk posted the poll on Sunday, asking simply, “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”
  He added, “I will abide by the results of this poll.”
  The final tabulation of 17.5 million votes showed 57.5 percent were in favor of
  
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• Texas A&M University student vanishes from apartment complex near campus

  20-12-2022 22:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Texas A&M University student who was last seen near the main campus has been missing for four days, according to officials.
  
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• Native Hawaiian women and girls experience sex trafficking and violence at alarming rates, report says

  20-12-2022 22:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sexual exploitation remains a serious issue, with 43% of sex trafficking cases involving Native Hawaiian girls trafficked in Waikīkī, O‘ahu, a report said.
  
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• The thing that would be so much worse for Trump than an indictment

  20-12-2022 21:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Trump response to Jan. 6 hearing and committee criminal referral to Justice Department and report shows why an indictment on insurrection would help him.
  
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• What's Wrong with Biden's Hands and Face in This Pic? Eagle-Eyed Social Media Users Spot Disturbing Details

  20-12-2022 21:45
  Chris D. Jackson is a man in need of a PhotoShop professional.
  Jackson, a Democrat strategist, is a minor liberal social media personality and booster of President Joe Biden. Suffice it to say, he wants our nation’s 46th commander in chief to look good.
  And what better way to do it than sharing a photo of Biden holding the hand of grandson Beau?
  “You can just tell Baby Beau has his Pop (@POTUS) wrapped around his little finger,” Jackson tweeted Friday, along with an image of th
  
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• Ex-officer Aaron Dean sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in the death of Atatiana Jefferson

  20-12-2022 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  A white former Texas police officer who fatally shot a Black woman through a window of her home in October 2019 was sentenced to 11 years and 10 months in
  
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• Man convicted of killing 8 in Ohio massacre sentenced to life in prison without parole

  20-12-2022 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  A man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after being found guilty of killing eight people in Pike County, Ohio, CNN affiliate WLWT reported.
  
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• Toyota President Admits 'Silent Majority' in Auto Industry Are Leery of Massive Electric Vehicle Push

  20-12-2022 20:49
  President Joe Biden, the radical environmental lobby and government agencies across the nation are making a heavy push for Americans to switch to electric vehicles, but it seems car industry insiders are not so sure it is all such a good idea.
  On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal published comments by Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda who noted that the idea that everyone could so easily dump gas-powered vehicles for electric ones is simply not as feasible as the activists and government of
  
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• Congress reaches deal to keep Puerto Rico's Medicaid program funded

  20-12-2022 20:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Members of Congress reached a deal Tuesday to fund Puerto Rico’s Medicaid program in a way that prevents it from running out of federal money by the end of the
  
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• McCarthy takes a hard line against any senator who backs spending deal

  20-12-2022 20:41 via cnn.com
  
  As House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy forges ahead in his quest to secure 218 votes to be the next speaker of the House, he is vowing to take a hard line in the future against any GOP senator who votes to pass the $1.7 trillion spending bill this week.
  
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• Drollinger: How to Lead Your Family in a Christmas Devotion

  20-12-2022 20:41
  More than 2,000 years ago, a babe whose coming was foretold in Scripture was born in Bethlehem, and the world has never been the same.
  For Christians, his humble birth in that lowly stable — the fulfillment of God’s promise to the world — is why we celebrate. And your family’s holiday gathering presents the perfect opportunity for you to share the story of the Christ child’s birth and the eternal gift that his coming promises to each one of them — the gift of
  
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• GOP Senator Sounds the Alarm on 'Monstrous' $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill, Makes a Demand

  20-12-2022 20:15
  Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah criticized the length and reading time of the $1.7 trillion government omnibus spending bill congressional leaders unveiled on Tuesday.
  “This monstrous spending bill comes to 4,155 pages,” the conservative senator wrote in a Tuesday post on Twitter. “We deserve proper consideration and the chance to read, debate and amend – not a backroom deal.”
  “Opposing this isn’t radical: running our government like this is what’
  
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• Op-Ed: Balenciaga's Sick Ad Campaign and What Comes After Moral Obligation

  20-12-2022 20:08
  A Russian novelist and Nobel laureate who had been imprisoned for some of his writings and ultimately exiled from Russia, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was invited to speak at Harvard University’s 1978 commencement ceremony.
  In his speech, titled “A World Split Apart,” Solzhenitsyn highlighted the cowardice of the intelligentsia and politicians, the press’ enslavement to modern-day fashions, and the dangers of prosperity.
  While it would be a worthy exercise to evaluate the whole
  
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• US Postal Service fulfills top Biden climate goal with deployment of 66,000 electric delivery trucks

  20-12-2022 20:02 via cnn.com
  
  The US Postal Service on Tuesday announced its intention to deploy at least 66,000 electric delivery trucks by 2028, satisfying a key goal for the Biden administration's climate agenda.
  
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• Women banned from universities in Afghanistan by the Taliban

  20-12-2022 19:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Women are banned from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said Tuesday.
  
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• Phoenix Suns Get New Owner in Largest Sale in League History: Report

  20-12-2022 19:42
  Mortgage executive Mat Ishbia has agreed in principle to buy the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury from embattled owner Robert Sarver for $4 billion, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
  It is the first step in a process that is expected to take several weeks to complete, according to the person, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because neither Ishbia nor the Suns had disclosed the agreement publicly.
  ESPN first reported the agreement betw
  
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• Latest Agriculture Industry Fire Is Bad - Crews Aren't Sure How Long This One Will Take to Extinguish

  20-12-2022 19:42
  Sadly, most people think food on grocery store shelves just appears and is perpetually available. From their perspective, why wouldn’t they believe that? Aside from supply chain interruptions during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there hasn’t been a time in recent history when we’ve lacked stocked shelves 24/7.
  It couldn’t be further from reality, though. The number of processes that must happen to turn a field of crops into food on your local supermarket shelf is ast
  
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• Ehrlich: Why Don't Americans Trust Our Media and Leaders? Just Take a Look at the Record

  20-12-2022 19:25
  Remember when: Fifty former national security “experts” signed a letter claiming that emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop possessed “the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation”?
  And then: Two years passed before CBS News confirmed the authenticity of the laptop as first reported by the New York Post.
  Remember when: CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent Leslie Stahl admonished President Donald Trump that, contrary to his claims, Hunter Biden’
  
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• Incoming GOP Rep May Have Fabricated His Background, Is Allegedly Wanted for Crimes in Foreign Country

  20-12-2022 18:57
  A New York Times report is raising questions about the background of an incoming Republican congressman.
  The report Monday concerns George Santos, whose victory in last month’s midterm elections ended years of Democratic control of New York’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes a big part of Long Island.
  Santos, who was born to Brazilian immigrants in Queens, became the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a nonincumbent when he defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman
  
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• Here's what's in the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill

  20-12-2022 18:56 via cnn.com
  
  Senate leaders unveiled a $1.7 trillion year-long federal government funding bill early Tuesday morning.
  
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• Government funding bill would give DOJ extra money for Jan. 6 prosecutions

  20-12-2022 18:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Congress' $1.7 trillion government funding bill includes needed extra money for the Justice Department to prosecute Jan. 6 cases.
  
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• USPS Announces Plan to Spend Billions in Taxpayer Dollars to Convert Delivery Fleet to All Electric Vehicles

  20-12-2022 18:44
  In a major boost for President Joe Biden’s pledge to eliminate gas-powered vehicles from the sprawling federal fleet, the United States Postal Service said Tuesday it will sharply increase the number of electric-powered delivery trucks — and will go all-electric for new purchases starting in 2026.
  The post office said it is spending nearly $10 billion to electrify its aging fleet, including installing a modern charging infrastructure at hundreds of postal facilities nationwide and pu
  
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• Taliban Doubles Down on Ruthless Treatment of Women, Make Sick Announcement

  20-12-2022 18:39
  Women are banned from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said Tuesday — the latest edict cracking down on their rights and freedoms.
  The decision was announced after a meeting of the Taliban government.
  Despite initially promising a more moderate rule and women’s and minority rights, the Taliban have widely implemented their harsh interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia.
  They have banned girls
  
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• Lame-Duck Congress Proposes Massive Changes to Election Law in Final Act

  20-12-2022 18:34
  In one of the last acts of the Democratic-led Congress, the House and the Senate are set to pass an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act, the arcane election law that then-President Donald Trump tried to use after the  2020 election.
  The legislation, which left-leaning legislators have been working on since the Jan. 6, 2021, incursion at the Capitol, is the most significant policy response so far to the attack and Trump’s efforts to assert a victory.
  Led by Republican Sen. Susan Collin
  
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• First on CNN: Treasury Department to roll out new policy to make global humanitarian support easier

  20-12-2022 18:31 via cnn.com
  
  With humanitarian and food crises growing more dire around the world, the Biden administration plans to roll out new steps on Tuesday to make it easier for humanitarian assistance to continue flowing without concerns about US sanctions, according to senior Treasury officials.
  
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• 18-Year-Old 'Rising Hockey Star' Suddenly Dead - 'Thoughts Are with His Family, Friends and Teammates'

  20-12-2022 18:16
  An 18-year old hockey player considered a rising star is dead after falling from an apartment building.
  The London Knights, a Canadian hockey team, announced that Abakar Kazbekov had suddenly passed in a Saturday tweet.
  In a statement issued jointly with the Ontario Hockey League, the two entities indicated that “our thoughts are with his family, friends and teammates.”Statement from the London Knights and the Ontario Hockey League on the sudden passing of Abakar Kazbekov. pic.twitte
  
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• Wells Fargo ordered to pay $3.7 billion for 'illegal activity'

  20-12-2022 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  Federal regulators fined Wells Fargo a record $1.7 billion on Tuesday for "widespread mismanagement" over multiple years that harmed over 16 million consumer accounts.
  
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• Famous California Cougar Caught and Euthanized After Attacking Family Pets, Getting Hit by Car

  20-12-2022 17:52
  California is known for a lot of things, and not all of them are positive. But there was one interesting creature that many within and without the state enjoyed following — P-22.
  P-22 is one of the oldest consistently tracked mountain lions in southern California and was believed to be around 12 years old, according to the Los Angeles Times. He was as well-mannered as a mountain lion could be living in an increasingly urban area, mostly minding his own business.
  For years he inhabited the
  
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• Solomon: Will Elon Musk Really Step Down as Twitter CEO?

  20-12-2022 17:45
  On Sunday, Elon Musk did what very few CEOs do — he turned to social media to ask people whether he should be replaced as the head of Twitter.
  The Twitter poll, which he lost by a 57-43 margin, is Musk’s way out of a self-created mess.Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
  Musk has often tweeted the phrase “vox populi, vox Dei” since he began to “consult” Twitter users on
  
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• Man arrested for allegedly vandalizing menorah with a Nazi symbol in California

  20-12-2022 17:40 via cnn.com
  
  A man was arrested after he allegedly vandalized a menorah in California and carved a Nazi symbol into its base, the Beverly Hills Police Department said in a news release.
  
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• Utah Man's 2020 Election Case Quietly Makes It to the Supreme Court - Biden, Harris and 385 Lawmakers Named

  20-12-2022 17:38
  A little-known lawsuit filed by a Utah man could rehash the ongoing controversy surrounding the 2020 presidential election, which he and many other Americans insist was marred by irregularities that undermine its legitimacy.
  The lawsuit, Brunson v. Adams, was quietly added to the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court in late October and has since been scheduled for a hearing on Jan. 6 — fittingly, the two-year anniversary of the day that supporters of then-President Donald Trump protested the e
  
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• Woke Disney Gets Terrible News Days After Releasing $2 Billion Budget 'Avatar 2'

  20-12-2022 17:30
  The Walt Disney Company’s stock continued its multi-year decline after the much anticipated “Avatar: The Way of Water” failed to hit opening weekend box office projections.
  The film brought broke the $100-million mark for its opening — the first time a James Cameron-directed film has ever done that — but at $134 million in domestic box office receipts failed by a significant margin to hit the $170 million expected by industry analysts, Yahoo Finance reported yesterd
  
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• As National Debt Skyrockets, Congress Wants Biggest Package Yet for Ukraine

  20-12-2022 17:29
  Congress allocated an additional $45 billion in emergency assistance to help Ukraine repel Russia’s invasion in its ominbus 2023 spending bill released early Tuesday.
  The bill is Congress’ largest assistance package for Ukraine to date, following a $40 billion package signed into law in May, a $12 billion supplement in September and $800 million authorized in Congress’ defense spending budget, bringing the total anticipated support for Ukraine in 2022 to nearly $100 billion.
  It
  
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• 'Fit and Healthy' 14-Year-Old Boy's Heart Stops Beating While Riding Bike - In Coma for 4 Days

  20-12-2022 17:24
  Fourteen-year-old Oscar was biking with his stepfather, Adam Dawe, in Cornwall, England, when he started to fall behind and complained of dizziness.
  For someone who had loved mountain biking for years, having done multiple 18-mile rides with his stepfather, Oscar’s struggles were alarming.
  “It wasn’t like Oscar,” Dawe said, according to EssexLive.
  “We managed to get him back to the car park when he said he felt dizzy, but when we got there he just collapsed, his hea
  
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• Star of 'The Middle' Announces Landmark Moment in Her Faith: 'I Finally Did It!'

  20-12-2022 17:08
  Actress Patricia Heaton is leading by example with the accomplishment of reading through the Bible in a year, which she made public to her followers Sunday on her Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts.
  The actress is likely best known for her roles in “The Middle” and “Everybody Loves Raymond,” but she has been in quite a few other productions, according to IMDB.
  In a post titled, “A year in the making. I finally did it!” Heaton expressed that she surprised
  
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• 25 GOP Governors Call on Biden to End COVID Emergency Declaration

  20-12-2022 16:53
  Twenty-five Republican governors in a joint letter Monday called on President Joe Biden to end the COVID-19 national emergency.
  In March 2020, then-President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency, citing the need to take action to confront the virus outbreak, including strengthening the strained health care system.
  “It has been nearly three years since the federal government has declared a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the governors opened their lette
  
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• Lawmakers unveil sweeping $1.7 trillion government funding bill to avert shutdown

  20-12-2022 16:46 via cnn.com
  
  Lawmakers early Tuesday unveiled legislative text of a massive full-year government funding bill that Congress hopes to pass to avert a shutdown at the end of the week.
  
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• As Twitter backlash grows, rival Mastodon reaches 2.5 million monthly users

  20-12-2022 16:28 via cnn.com
  
  Twitter rival Mastodon has grown eight times its size in a matter of weeks, going from approximately 300,000 users in October to 2.5 million in November, according to a blog post by the platform's founder, Eugen Rochko.
  
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• EPA finalizes tougher pollution standards for large vehicles like trucks and buses

  20-12-2022 16:00 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized tougher pollution standards for heavy-duty vehicles like large trucks, delivery vans and buses starting with model year 2027.
  
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