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• Protests erupt in Paris following shooting

  23-12-2022 22:56
  Unrest continued in Paris following a deadly shooting at a Kurdish cultural center on Friday that left three people dead and three others wounded (Dec. 23)      
  
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• Parody Song by Babylon Bee Skewers Biden Over His Disastrous Time in WH

  23-12-2022 22:52
  The wildly popular website The Babylon Bee is so good at parody that Twitter suspended its account back in March after it awarded “Man of the Year” honors to Rachel Levine, a transgender official in the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services. Apparently, the Twitter mafia didn’t like their reality being turned into a joke.
  Elon Musk reportedly expressed interest in restoring the Babylon Bee account hours after his takeover in October. Lucky for the
  
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• Mass shooting fears in houses of worship: How religious leaders are trying to keep worshippers safe

  23-12-2022 22:33
  
  Guards in church, security training for rabbis: In USA, thousands of churches, synagogues, temples and mosques have beefed up security.      
  
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• Some 'green' innovations turned into disappointments in 2022: Here are 4 that faltered

  23-12-2022 22:29
  It's not all bad news: some ideas are fading in favor of better ones; some may have another chance to shine in 2023.      
  
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• Kinzinger Attempts to Give 'Expertise' on 5th Amendment, Gets Roasted in Comments for How Bad It Is

  23-12-2022 21:51
  It’s obvious these days that freedom of speech and religion are under attack. As is the right to bear arms and to be secure in one’s property and privacy.
  So, with the First, Second and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution in jeopardy, Rep. Adam Kinzinger is now gutting the Fifth Amendment regarding self-incrimination.
  A member of Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 committee, Kinzinger suggested that those involved in the Capitol incursion who invoke Fifth Amendment protection are, in effe
  
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• Health Official Pushes Depraved 'Call' With Mrs. Claus Comparing Unvaccinated Kids to Christmas Trees

  23-12-2022 21:34
  Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, got torpedoed on Twitter for politicizing Christmas in order to push COVID-19 vaccinations for children.
  Tam — a vocal proponent of masking and coronavirus vaccines — apparently is unaware of the mountain of alarming news reports spotlighting the potential dangers posed by the jabs and the changing scientific consensus about their efficacy.
  The brouhaha erupted on Wednesday, when Tam tweeted a video of herself calling the N
  
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• Child's Body Found Under Floorboards of Arkansas Home - Sister's Condition and Police Docs Reveal True House of Horrors

  23-12-2022 21:23
  Police searching for a young boy found the child’s decaying remains on Dec. 16 under the hallway floorboards of his Arkansas home.
  The boy’s mother told police her boyfriend had drowned the child in a toilet bowl after the boy bit the man’s finger, NBC News reported.
  The mother, Ashley Rolland, 28, and boyfriend Nathan Bridges, 33, were arrested and charged with capital murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and endangering the welfare of a minor, according
  
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• TV sports anchor braves the cold weather shift

  23-12-2022 21:11
  As winter weather blankets the U.S., sportscaster Mark Woodley from Iowa TV station KKWL braved blizzard conditions Thursday morning to report. (Dec. 23)      
  
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• San Francisco Neighborhood Turns Into a 'Living Hell' After City Cedes Entire Street to Homeless

  23-12-2022 21:08
  Residents and businesses in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood have expressed frustration about the city’s handling of a local “safe sleeping” site, citing erratic behavior from homeless people along with interruptions to traffic and normal business functions, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
  The city announced plans to build the sleeping site next to an existing soup kitchen in 2020 and promised security and trash pickup along with other city services it said
  
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• House passes spending bill with Ukraine aid

  23-12-2022 21:06
  A $1.7 trillion spending bill financing federal agencies through September and providing more aid to a devastated Ukraine cleared the House on Friday. (Dec. 23)      
  
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• Special counsel Durham has spent at least $6.5 million on inquiry into Trump-Russia probe

  23-12-2022 20:58 via cnn.com
  
  John Durham, the special counsel investigating potential misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe, has spent nearly $6.5 million on his inquiry, including $2 million this year, according to financial documents released Friday by the Justice Department.
  
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• Hunter Biden Lawyers Up with Someone Who Has Big Connection to Clinton - He Knows What's Coming

  23-12-2022 20:13
  Successful grifters can smell trouble coming from a mile away.
  Though it remains to be seen if Hunter Biden is guilty of influence peddling for his pops and other crimes, it does appear that the GOP is going to draw the curtain back on Hunter’s life. What lies behind the curtain promises to be a sordid affair, judging from Hunter’s notorious laptop from hell.
  In an effort to shield himself from the coming drama — as his father, the Democrats and the establishment media have bee
  
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• House passes $1.7 trillion spending bill that rewrites U.S. election law, sending it to Biden to sign

  23-12-2022 20:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  The House passed a massive $1.7 trillion government funding bill, sending it to President Joe Biden, with aid to Ukraine and an overhaul to election law.
  
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• Alert: Government Safety Board Recalls Over 200,000 Units Days Before Christmas - Item Caused Simultaneous Death of Sisters

  23-12-2022 20:03
  A massive recall has been ordered just days before Christmas — despite a calamitous tragedy being linked to the product all the way back in April.
  The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall for the Pillowfort brand of weighted blankets.
  The recall date is listed as December 22, 2022. The hazard description warns, “[a] young child can become entrapped by unzipping and entering the blanket, posing a risk of death by asphyxiation.”
  The CPSC is suggest
  
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• Is It All Over?: Sam Bankman-Fried in FBI Custody, Biggest Name Yet Turns on Him

  23-12-2022 19:57
  The disgraced former executive of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has been arraigned in an American courtroom after his extradition from the Bahamas.
  Sam Bankman-Fried secured his release on a whopping $250 million bond during a Thursday appearance in Manhattan’s U.S District Court, according to CNBC.
  The alleged fraudster was extradited from the Bahamas on Wednesday.
  The parents of the 30-year-old ex-billionaire provided surety for his bond, according to the New York Times.
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• Here's the 18 Republican Senators Who Sided With Dems to Pass a Massive $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill

  23-12-2022 19:41
  On Thursday, 18 Republican senators voted with the Democrats for a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill which will send our national debt farther into the stratosphere.
  These GOP Senators betrayed America and sided with the Democrats to pass the bloated, dangerous, and un-American budget proposed by Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.18 GOPers voted yes on omnibus: BluntBoozmanCapitoCollinsCornynCottonGrahamInhofeMcConnellMoran
  
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• Adnan Syed is hired by Georgetown University to work on prison reform

  23-12-2022 19:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was tossed after he served 23 years behind bars, has been hired by Georgetown University to work on prison reform.
  
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• Watch: Flight Attendant Pulls No Punches With Rude Passenger: 'You Shut Up! I Am Not Your Servant'

  23-12-2022 19:21
  A flight attendant ran out of patience with a disruptive passenger on a flight from Turkey to India.
  Another passenger captured video of the contentious exchange between a flight attendant of the Indian airline IndiGo and the passenger.
  The flight from Istanbul to Delhi occurred earlier this month, according to the New York Post.
  “My crew is crying because of you,” the attendant explained to a passenger in a video that began after the parties began arguing.
  The distressed female flig
  
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• Henrietta Lacks statue will replace Robert E. Lee monument in Roanoke, Virginia

  23-12-2022 19:17 via cnn.com
  
  A statue of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were used without her consent in crucial medical research, will replace a monument to Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Roanoke, Virginia.
  
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• NORAD: Arctic blast won't derail Santa's travels

  23-12-2022 19:16
  The U.S. military agency known for tracking Santa Claus's Christmas Eve travels doesn't expect COVID-19 or the "bomb cyclone" to impact his global travels. NORAD runs a Santa tracking service that allows people to follow the Christmas journey. (Dec. 23)      
  
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• Intense Walmart Hostage Situation Caught On Video - Comes to 'Devastating' End When Police Arrive

  23-12-2022 19:02
  A hostage situation in a Walmart store in Richland, Mississippi, ended when local police shot the 21-year-old suspect.
  The Richland police posted on Facebook just after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday that they were “working an incident at Walmart involving a weapon the scene is secure and we will provide updates when they become available.” They asked locals to “avoid the area at and around Walmart at this time.”
  It was almost two hours later when they posted an update.
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• Judge Kept One Big Secret from FTX Founder to Get Him to US

  23-12-2022 18:59
  A judge kept secret that two of Sam Bankman-Fried’s closest associates had turned against him so the cryptocurrency entrepreneur wouldn’t get spooked and fight extradition from the Bahamas, according to court transcripts made public Friday.
  U.S. prosecutors in New York waited until Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX, was in FBI custody before revealing that his business partners, Carolyn Ellison and Gary Wang, had secretly pleaded guilty to fraud charges
  
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• Storm brings frigid temps, snow and floods to US

  23-12-2022 18:56
  Winter weather is blanketing the U.S. as a massive storm bringing frigid temps, snow and floods. (Dec. 23)      
  
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• Rare footage of moose losing its antlers goes viral

  23-12-2022 18:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  When a snowstorm headed toward Alaska the evening of Dec. 15, Tyra Bogert headed to her sister’s house in case the power went out.
  
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• Special counsel Durham has spent more than $6.5 million on inquiry into Trump-Russia probe

  23-12-2022 18:22 via cnn.com
  
  John Durham, the special counsel investigating potential misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe, has spent nearly $6.5 million on his inquiry, including $2 million this year, according to financial documents released Friday by the Justice Department.
  
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• Adidas scrambling to sell $530 million in Yeezys after cutting ties with Ye, report says

  23-12-2022 18:17
  
  At the end of this year alone, Yeezys made up an estimated $1.8 billion in annual revenue for Adidas, or 7% of their totals, the Financial Times said.      
  
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• Purdue reprimands chancellor for racist remarks, as faculty call for his resignation

  23-12-2022 18:06 via cnn.com
  
  The Purdue Board of Trustees has issued a formal reprimand to Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon in response to a racist comment he made during a commencement ceremony earlier this month, according to a statement from the board's chairman.
  
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• The IRS went easy on Trump's tax returns because he used accountants, congressional report says

  23-12-2022 17:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  In 2019, an IRS agent recommended a "limited" exam into Trump's taxes because they were complex, his case was sensitive and he used professional accountants.
  
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• Biden signs vital $858 billion defense bill into law, nixing military's Covid-19 vaccine mandate

  23-12-2022 17:49 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Friday signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law, a massive defense spending bill with provisions that will give service members a pay raise, fund support for Ukraine and Taiwan and rescind the US military's Covid-19 vaccine mandate.
  
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• California university apologizes for dermatology experiments that exposed inmates to pesticides more than 4 decades ago

  23-12-2022 17:32
  
  The University of California San Francisco apologized for 1960s and 1970s dermatology experiments that exposed inmates to herbicides and pesticides.      
  
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• Tucker Carlson: Media Hysterics Over Reps Who Didn't Clap for Zelenskyy Shows How Rigged the Narrative Is

  23-12-2022 17:25
  On Wednesday night, the media wasn’t just interested in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during his unprecedented speech before a joint session of Congress. They were interested in who wasn’t wildly applauding it.
  Zelenskyy, as you’ve doubtlessly seen by now, appeared on Capitol Hill in a sweatshirt and cargo pants to ask for more money for the Ukrainian war effort against Russia, something he said wasn’t just a handout.
  “Your money is not charity.
  
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• Democrat Who Ran Unopposed Received Mysteriously Massive Donation

  23-12-2022 17:04
  It’s an oddity, needless to say, when someone who’s running unopposed in the primary for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives receives a $200,000 donation for his race. After all, it’s not going to improve his chances of winning — they’re already 100 percent.
  If it all smells a bit rotten, prepare for that stench to become overwhelming when you find out who the donor was: Sam Bankman-Fried.
  According to Chicago’s WLS-TV, a PAC funded by Bankman-Fried &m
  
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• Kari Lake Breaks the Internet With Epic 2-Word Response to Alleged Contract on Her Life

  23-12-2022 16:57
  People have become so used to injustice in the justice system, it was a surprise when Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake actually had a trial scheduled regarding her allegations of irregularities in the 2022 vote. For once, a court actually reviewed evidence of potential election fraud.
  According to at least one social media user, Lake presented such a threat that there was a plot developing against her. The message took the form of a warning which was itself a possible attempt at intimid
  
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• Biden Caves to Republican Demands, Begrudgingly Removes Military's COVID Vaccine Mandate

  23-12-2022 16:56
  President Joe Biden signed a nearly $858 billion defense spending bill into law Friday despite his opposition to a Republican-backed provision that repeals the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for U.S. troops.
  Biden had agreed with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s determination that lifting the mandate was not in the best interests of troops or the military, according to White House officials. But ultimately, Biden accepted Republican demands to lift the vaccine requirement to win passage
  
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• Opinion: The free market is failing American families. Congress just took a small step to fix that

  23-12-2022 15:26 via cnn.com
  Over the past three years, several catalytic events should have opened the door to new, permanent policy investments in families and a re-writing of rules to promote fairness and gender, racial and economic equity.
  
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• Georgia Supreme Court Rules on 2020 Election Ballots Case, Tells Lower Court to Reconsider

  23-12-2022 15:14
  The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a lower court to reconsider a case involving the 2020 election.
  In the case, Jeffords v. Fulton County, the plaintiffs say their votes were “diluted by the inclusion of allegedly unlawful ballots” in the election two years ago. They are seeking a review of 147,000 absentee ballots to determine whether they are illegitimate.
  Superior Court Judge Brian Amero dismissed the lawsuit last year. Since then, it has snaked its way to the Georg
  
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• Lib Writer Shreds Jan. 6 Committee's Trump Referral: Like a 'Magic Marker' Letter Written by Bozo the Clown

  23-12-2022 15:06
  In what is considered a historic move, the Jan. 6 select House committee this week voted to send a criminal referral to the U.S. Department of Justice concerning former President Donald Trump and the role the committee believed he played in sparking the Capitol incursion on Jan. 6, 2021.
  According to CNBC, in a unanimous vote Monday, the committee determined that it believes ample evidence exists for an investigation and potential criminal action against the former president for “obstructi
  
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• Fed's favorite inflation gauge shows prices continue to moderate

  23-12-2022 15:06 via cnn.com
  
  The Federal Reserve's preferred measurement of inflation continued to cool off in November, providing yet another welcome indication that this period of painfully high prices has peaked.
  
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• Lula promises no deforestation but challenges loom

  23-12-2022 15:01
  When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sworn in as president of the second most populous country in the Western Hemisphere on Jan. 1, few challenges will be greater than fulfilling his promise to end all deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by 2030. (Dec. 7) (AP video - Tatiana Pollastri)      
  
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• Kari Lake Trial: Maricopa County's Expert Witness Didn't Even See 1 Ballot in Bombshell Admission

  23-12-2022 14:31
  If you listen to the left, you’d think Kari Lake’s legal team got destroyed in the courtroom on Thursday.
  Lake, the GOP Arizona gubernatorial candidate, lost by a count of 17,000 votes in a midterm election plagued by irregularities and delays in in-person voting. She’s challenging the results — and, as KVOA-TV reports, the fate of that challenge is now in the hands of a Maricopa County judge.
  While these challenges are long shots to begin with, if just because of how the
  
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• As Pelosi Departs Speaker Position, She Gets Herself Something Tucked Away on Pg. 610 of Spending Bill

  23-12-2022 14:06
  The Democrat-led Congress is giving a parting gift to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as her long tenure as the party’s leader in the lower chamber comes to an end.
  The 2023 omnibus spending bill contains a provision that renames a federal building in California after the 82-year-old congresswoman.
  Republican Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina pointed out that the outgoing speaker was so honored in a Tuesday tweet.
  “$65 million in two programs for Senator Leahy, and a federal building name
  
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• Jan. 6 transcript mockery highlights a disappointing misunderstanding

  23-12-2022 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jan. 6 report transcripts paint Trump cronies like Stefan Passantino in a bad light. But witnesses taking the Fifth like Flynn or Eastman should not be mocked.
  
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• The tech we couldn't live without in 2022

  23-12-2022 13:52 via cnn.com
  
  Bone conduction headphones, TV streaming devices and Bluetooth speakers are among the tech gadgets topping holiday wish lists this year. Other notable products -- ahem, the new 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max -- are near impossible to find.
  
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• At least 3 killed and several injured in central Paris shooting; suspect arrested

  23-12-2022 13:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  At least three people were killed in a shooting in central Paris, the Paris prosecutor said Friday, adding that the suspected attacker was known to authorities.
  
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• The best food marketing stunts of the year

  23-12-2022 13:20 via cnn.com
  
  Comically oversized snack foods. A cocktail infused with processed cheese. And a fine dining establishment for feline lovers.
  
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• Why 'Women Talking' isn't your typical Hollywood story about rape

  23-12-2022 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  'Women Talking,' inspired by a true story of rape in a Mennonite community, examines patriarchal violence and the way women and men handle it. Can Hollywood?
  
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• McConnell calls out 'diminished' Trump, vows not to bow to his candidates in 2024

  23-12-2022 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sen. Mitch McConnell deferred to former President Donald Trump’s candidates in midterm races, leading to jarring defeats. He promises that won't happen in 2024.
  
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• Abortion rights groups look to build on their victories with new ballot measures

  23-12-2022 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Energized by a perfect record on ballot measures in the midterms, abortion-rights groups are setting their sights on more initiatives in 2023-2024.
  
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• Senate passes $1.7 trillion spending package, Arctic air is here: 5 Things podcast

  23-12-2022 12:46
  
  The Senate sends a $1.7 trillion spending bill to the House, arctic air chills most of the country, 'Glass Onion' arrives on Netflix: 5 Things podcast      
  
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• Winter storm affects thousands of US flights

  23-12-2022 12:16
  Thousands of flights have been cancelled or delayed across the U.S. as frigid weather puts frigid more than 100 million people under wind chill advisories. (Dec. 23)      
  
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