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• Looking For a New Career? Kansas City Mayor Announces Large Sign-On Bonus for 911 Dispatchers: 'Grave Concern'

  30-12-2022 23:57
  If you’re a resident in the Kansas City, Missouri, area and need a quick buck, there might be an exciting new opportunity for you.
  Of course, if you’re a resident of Kansas City, you’re probably already aware that the city has been plagued by a recent issue prompting that aforementioned fiscal opportunity — there is a distinct lack of 911 dispatchers to take emergency calls.
  As KCUR-FM reported in June, when this issue first began rearing its ugly head, Kansas City is str
  
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• Trump had bank account in China while president, tax returns show

  30-12-2022 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  Six years of Donald Trump's federal tax returns released on Friday show the former president paid very little in federal income taxes the first and last year of his presidency, claiming huge losses that helped limit his tax bill, among other revelations.
  
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• Suspect in Idaho Murders Canvassed Ex-Cons Months Before Killings, Asked Haunting Questions: Report

  30-12-2022 23:40
  A suspect arrested in connection to four murders in Idaho has a background in the world of criminology.
  Bryan Kohberger, then a graduate criminology student at DeSales University, asked members of an “ExCons” Reddit forum to participate in a research project of his in June, according to Insider.
  Kohberger asked offenders to share information on their own thoughts and feelings regarding their crime in the project.
  “I am inviting you to participate in a research project that seek
  
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• Mark Meadows won't face voter fraud charges in North Carolina, state AG says

  30-12-2022 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Mark Meadows, ex-White House chief of staff to Donald Trump, won’t face voter fraud charges related to his 2020 registration and absentee vote in North Carolina
  
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• Young Mechanic Breaks Into Empty School and Leaves a Note - Now He's Being Hailed as a Hero

  30-12-2022 23:33
  The winter storm that ravaged the nation during the Christmas holiday last weekend was unprecedented, but it was also a chance for people to show generosity and charity toward each other in adverse circumstances.
  One such instance of this kindness occurred in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York.
  Over the past few days, local media outlets have reported on the story of a mechanic, Jay Withey Jr., who found himself stranded on the road during the storm, but made an effort to save not only himself but
  
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• Democrats Released Trump's Tax Returns, Now Their Dirty Trick Could Backfire in Their Face

  30-12-2022 22:58
  Yet another Trump witch hunt has concluded not with a bang but a whimper.
  The Democrat-controlled House Ways and Means Committee released thousands of pages of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, Fox News reported. What did they show? As Tucker Carlson put it, Trump got poorer while others, like Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi, got richer.
  No evidence of Russian collusion or other nefarious dealings. Nada.
  Any lack of proper taxation on Trump’s earnings appears to
  
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• Jan. 6 transcripts detail numerous warning signs of potential for violence before Capitol attack

  30-12-2022 22:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Interviews with law enforcement officials released by the Jan. 6 committee reveal the panel learned numerous security concerns had been raised before the attack
  
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• Biden Highly Paranoid, Believes MAGA Agents Are Hiding All Around Him: Book

  30-12-2022 22:51
  If you create monsters in the night, they’ll haunt your dreams.
  It often appears — when shaking hands with people who are not there or reminiscing about defeating notorious gangster Corn Pop —  that President Joe Biden is living inside a dream. Or is it a nightmare?
  Chris Whipple, in his new book, “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House,” writes that Biden became uncomfortable early in his presidency after learning that “some of&rdquo
  
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• Grandma Has No Sympathy for 10-Year-Old Accused of Heinous Crime: 'He Needs to Pay for What He's Done'

  30-12-2022 22:32
  A 10-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide for killing his mother with her own gun.
  Reports have since emerged that the boy committed this alleged crime because he was upset that he wasn’t allowed to order a virtual reality headset on Amazon and was woken up by his mother, Quiana Mann, 44, earlier than usual.
  Now, a heartbroken family has spoken out.
  “He needs to pay for what he’s done,” Lueritha Mann, Quiana’s mother, said according to W
  
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• Biden signs TikTok ban for government devices, setting up a chaotic 2023 for the app

  30-12-2022 22:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Security concerns have inspired a wave of TikTok bans across the US over the last several weeks. It could be just the beginning.
  
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• Woman Survives 200-Foot Fall From Icy Peak: 'Call Out to Jesus and He Will Help You'

  30-12-2022 22:17
  A Colorado woman is lucky to be alive after falling nearly 200 feet during a Christmas Eve hike.
  Ruth Woroniecki, 40, was hiking near Cucamonga Peak in California when she slipped and fell.
  As she prepared for surgery, she wanted to make one thing clear to those who’d hear her story — place your trust in Jesus; He will help you.
  “As Woroniecki hiked down the switchbacks, she slipped on ice and fell approximately 200 feet,” San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department
  
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• Markets close their worst year since 2008

  30-12-2022 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  Wall Street has said goodbye — and good riddance — to 2022, a year most investors would rather forget.
  
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• Goodbye 2022 -- and good riddance. Markets close their worst year since 2008

  30-12-2022 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  Wall Street has said goodbye — and good riddance — to 2022, a year most investors would rather forget.
  
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• Mesmerizing Photos Show Homes Encased in Ice After Massive Winter Storm Pummeled Region

  30-12-2022 21:26
  It looked like something out of the C.S. Lewis classic “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,” where it’s always winter in Narnia but never Christmas.
  Unfortunately, the massive blizzard that took place over the Christmas weekend was all too real for people living in the areas of Crystal Beach, Canada, and Erie County, New York.
  The City of Buffalo was considered the worst-hit spot in New York, with at least four feet of snow, according to Reuters.
  Photos in Crystal Beach show
  
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• Aerosmith Front Man Steven Tyler Sued for Alleged Sexual Assault of Child

  30-12-2022 21:19
  A woman who has previously said Steven Tyler had an illicit sexual relationship with her when she was a teenager is now suing the Aerosmith front man for sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
  The lawsuit brought by Julia Misley was filed Tuesday under a 2019 California law that gave adult victims of childhood sexual assault a three-year window to file lawsuits for decades-old instances of assault. Saturday was the deadline to file such claims.
  The 65-ye
  
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• NFL Quarterback Helped Save Family From Helicopter 'Submerged Into Water' After Power Loss Mid-Flight

  30-12-2022 21:07
  Any sports fan will tell you that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is Tom Brady’s team. He’s arguably the greatest quarterback of all time.
  This week, however, it’s his far lesser-known backup, Blaine Gabbert, making headlines.
  According to multiple reports, including those from Fox News and ESPN, a helicopter tour that ended with a family trapped in the water hundreds of yards from shore sparked an impromptu rescue effort that included Buccaneers quarterback Blaine Gabbert charging on
  
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• Man in Custody Over Idaho Killings Is Ph.D. Candidate with Interesting Area of Study... Did He Use What He Learned in School?

  30-12-2022 20:56
  For nearly seven weeks, authorities have been stumped by the murder of four college students in Moscow, Idaho.
  But a suspect is now in custody in Pennsylvania, and there’s a clue as to how he may have escaped detection for so long: Bryan Christopher Kohberger studied criminal justice.
  The 28-year-old Kohberger is listed as a Ph.D. student at Washington State University, which is not far from Moscow, WPLG-TV reported. His area of study perhaps helped him stay ahead of authorities for so lon
  
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• FTX Founder Met With White House Officials - Look What Happened Next

  30-12-2022 20:52
  Just months before cryptocurrency firm FTX declared bankruptcy amid a meltdown, CEO and founder Sam Bankman-Fried was at the White House meeting with top officials in President Joe Biden’s administration.
  According to Bloomberg, the last meeting — which was previously unreported — occurred on Sept. 8.
  Bankman-Fried met with Steve Ricchetti, a senior adviser to the president. This, according to Bloomberg, “was the latest in a handful of sessions.”
  “Bankman-Frie
  
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• Election Official: 'Human Error' to Blame for Thousands of Voters Assigned Wrong Ballots

  30-12-2022 20:28
  Nashville election officials made erroneous updates to voter lists for last month’s election and failed to follow steps to make sure they were accurate, leading more than 430 Tennessee voters to cast ballots in the wrong races, the state’s elections coordinator determined in a review released Friday.
  A report by state Elections Coordinator Mark Goins cited “human error” as the main cause of the problem in Nashville. The Davidson County Election Commission confirmed in the
  
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• Police See Small White Dot on Screen, Instantly Rush to Location of Missing Child

  30-12-2022 20:27
  Sometimes, it doesn’t take a gun or a baton for police to capture a bad guy or to protect the innocent. All it takes is a drone.
  In Freetown, Massachusetts, a drone equipped with a heat-detection camera was able to locate a woman who allegedly stabbed a 61-year-old relative and made off with her 2-year-old child.
  According to a media release by the Freetown Police Department, the incident occurred on the evening of Dec. 16, when a resident called emergency services to report “that a
  
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• Pelé remembered for transcending soccer around world

  30-12-2022 19:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  Pelé was remembered for a life beyond the field, for transcending the sport of soccer and becoming perhaps the most well-known person on Earth. “Before Pelé, ’1
  
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• International Boxing Organization Makes Huge Move on Trans Fighters: 'A Man Fighting a Woman Must Never Be Accepted'

  30-12-2022 19:41
  The delusional progressive movement in America would have you believe that a biological male beating a biological woman to a pulp or choking her unconscious for entertainment is “brave.”
  Take, for instance, transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox, who was declared the “bravest athlete in history” by pro-LGBT sports website Outsports back in 2020.
  Fox is known for being MMA’s first openly transgender fighter and was also the first biological male to fracture the skull of
  
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• Alaska man misses heart transplant surgery after winter storm cancels his flight to Seattle

  30-12-2022 19:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  In the span of eight hours, Patrick Holland went from excitement to hope to crushing disappointment after a massive winter storm caused him to miss a
  
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• Huge Turn in Unsolved Idaho Murders - Man Arrested, Will Be Extradited to the State

  30-12-2022 19:03
  Authorities arrested a 28-year-old man on Friday in northeast Pennsylvania in connection with last month’s murder of four college students in Moscow, Idaho.
  According to WPVI-TV, law enforcement tracked Bryan Kohberger down to a location in the Pocono Mountains.
  The outlet reported that a SWAT team entered the place Kohberger was staying and took him into custody. The Pennsylvania State Police and the FBI were involved in the operation.
  Kohberger “appeared before a judge in Pennsylva
  
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• Biden Pardons Woman Convicted of Murdering Her Husband

  30-12-2022 18:50
  President Joe Biden has pardoned six people who have served out sentences after convictions on a murder charge and drug- and alcohol-related crimes, including an 80-year-old woman convicted of killing her abusive husband about a half-century ago and a man who pleaded guilty to using a telephone for a cocaine transaction in the 1970s.
  The pardons, announced Friday, mean the criminal record of the crimes is now purged. They come a few months after the Democratic president pardoned thousands of peo
  
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• Home Depot Co-Founder Goes Scorched Earth on Biden and Woke Leftists: 'I'm Too Lazy, I'm Too Fat, I'm Too Stupid'

  30-12-2022 18:37
  The late comedian Mitch Hedberg, best known for his off-kilter observational non-sequiturs, once said this about America’s most successful big-box home-improvement store: “I went to the Home Depot, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying, ‘We don’t have to fix anything.’”
  I’m not sure if Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus has ever heard the joke, but
  
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• Elizabeth Warren's Claim to Fame Just Landed in Front of a Conservative Supreme Court

  30-12-2022 18:23
  Because progressives rely on situational ethics and deceit to advance their agendas, they have a difficult time keeping their stories straight.
  Usually, they just ram their way through any challenges over their inconsistencies or hypocrisy, but sometimes the law gets involved, and the contradictions must be addressed.
  Now, in a case heading to the Supreme Court, some once expedient testimony from government officials could threaten a major Obama-era government bureau.
  Questions about the funding
  
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• Did AOC Incite Violence? Video Shows Brawl, Arrests at Drag Queen Protest She Promoted

  30-12-2022 18:08
  Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is ever ready to call Republicans out for so-called “incitement” of violence.
  In November of 2021, she was featured in an ill-considered anime video posted by Arizona GOP Rep. Paul Gosar in which her face was copy-pasted onto a character who was taken down by the hero. She was incensed that Republicans wouldn’t join Democrats in censuring him.
  ”What I believe is unprecedented is for a member of House leadership of either p
  
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• Scientology Leader Nowhere to Be Found After Prosecutors List Him as Defendant in Heinous Child Trafficking Case

  30-12-2022 18:02
  Florida prosecutors are trying to find a missing Scientology leader listed as a defendant in a federal lawsuit concerning child trafficking.
  David Miscavige is the leader of the controversial Church of Scientology and the company Sea Org and chairman of the board of the Religious Technology Center.
  Process servers have visited 10 Church of Scientology properties and have made 27 attempts to serve Miscavige, but the church leader has been missing for months, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
  Plai
  
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• McCarthy offers his critics a key concession in effort to clinch House speakership

  30-12-2022 17:30 via cnn.com
  
  • Release of Trump's federal tax returns ushers in a charged new era of presidential oversight• Trump Jr. explains his text about keeping his father in office, and other key transcript findings
  
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• US Plane Forced to Take Evasive Maneuvers After Chinese Fighter Intercepts It

  30-12-2022 17:26
  A Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. spy plane over the South China Sea last week, the U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) said Thursday.
  A Chinese Navy (PLAN) J-11 fighter jet intercepted the U.S.-operated RC-135 Rivet Joint that was performing a routine intelligence-gathering operation in the waters off China’s southeast coast on Dec. 21, according to a statement from the U.S. military.
  A video shows the two aircraft flying within 20 feet of one
  
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• New Year's Eve will be wet on both coasts and an 'atmospheric river' will target California

  30-12-2022 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  Another significant storm system will plow into the West Coast on Friday, bringing heavy rain, mountain snow and strong winds -- and the last day of the year will be a wet one in the Northeast and the Southwest.
  
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• Watch: Fed Up Citizen Opens Fire on Looter in Buffalo - 'Sick of Them'

  30-12-2022 16:56
  Criminals in America’s Democrat-run cities won’t rest, even during weather emergencies, but one business owner took matters into his own hands against lawless looters trying to take advantage of the Christmas week snow storms on the East Coast.
  Like many U.S. cities, Buffalo was buried in snow over the Christmas holiday. The storms were so bad that more than two dozen people died in New York, as authorities found bodies in stranded cars, freezing cold homes, and driveways where they
  
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• Authorities Seize $3.5 Billion in Assets from Democratic Mega-Donor

  30-12-2022 16:44
  The Securities Commission of the Bahamas announced late Thursday that it had seized $3.5 billion worth of crypto assets from bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, formerly owned and headed by disgraced billionaire and Democratic mega-donor Sam Bankman-Fried.
  FTX lost nearly half a billion dollars in a suspected hack on Nov. 11, with the attack beginning just hours after it filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., CNBC reported.
  The regulator decided to seize the assets on Nov. 12 because it believed there was
  
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• Is Kanye Missing? Rapper's Former Business Manager Says He Can't Find Him to Serve $4.5 Million Lawsuit

  30-12-2022 16:43
  One of Kanye West’s former business partners says he can’t find the erratic rapper as he seeks to serve him with legal documents.
  Thomas St. John is attempting to locate West — legal name “Ye” — to serve him with a $4.5 million lawsuit, according to the New York Post.
  St. John formerly worked as West’s business manager.
  He’s accusing the rapper of violating an 18-month guaranteed employment contract and refusing to pay him $900,000 he’s owed
  
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• Trump's returns show he paid little in taxes

  30-12-2022 16:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  A House committee on Friday made public six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns, which showed he paid relatively little in federal taxes in
  
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• 'Dead White Women' Will Be Course Offered to Students Next Year at a Red State School

  30-12-2022 16:14
  Westminster College, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, will offer a course titled “Dead White Women” during the spring 2023 semester which will analyze society’s “(unhealthy) obsession with the death of white women,” according to the course catalog.
  The four-credit course is offered in both the film studies and gender studies departments, according to the catalog.
  The class will study why shows on the Investigation Discovery channel feature the deaths of white women
  
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• Evil: Trans Killer Who Confessed to Slaughtering Parents Reassigned 'Female' in Prison - It Gets Worse

  30-12-2022 15:58
  This is sick.
  A man who was convicted of murdering his parents because they supposedly wouldn’t accept his “trans” identity has been registered as a female in prison.
  The Maine Department of Corrections has designated Andrew Balcer as a “female” in prison records, according to Reduxx. Balcer was listed as male as recently as September.
  In 2018, Balcer was convicted of stabbing his mother and father to death with a Ka-Bar knife on Halloween 2016, according to Fox New
  
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• Happy Fed Year: What's on deck for the central bank in 2023

  30-12-2022 15:14 via cnn.com
  
  America's central bank found itself in a glaring spotlight for much of this past year, as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell wielded blunt tools of interest rate hikes and quantitative tightening to curb surging inflation.
  
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• Southwest has promised today will be much better. Here's what we know

  30-12-2022 14:31 via cnn.com
  
  After canceling almost 15,800 flights since December 22 in a disruption that has shaken the company to its core, Southwest Airlines has promised a resumption of its normal schedule on Friday.
  
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• What is a 'dead pool' and why are the two largest manmade reservoirs in the country in danger of becoming one

  30-12-2022 13:26 via cnn.com
  
  Deep uncertainty looms over the Colorado River and the 40 million people who depend on it for their water supply as the basin enters a critical year that could determine its future stability.
  
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• Wall Street kills its darlings

  30-12-2022 13:03 via cnn.com
  
  Verbose writers afflicted with the tendency to deliver copy well above their requested word count are often advised by editors to kill their darlings -- to throw out large swaths of stories that they're particularly fond of.
  
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• The year in space: Why 2022 was a pivotal year for exploration and discovery

  30-12-2022 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The most important milestones, achievements, moments and photos from an important year in space exploration.
  
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• Predictions that Trump would kill our democracy in 2022 were premature

  30-12-2022 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  It's too soon to think that the United States' democracyis completely safe, but we can celebrate that predictions Trump would kill it in 2022 were premature.
  
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• Senior citizens will soon get that big hike in their Social Security benefits

  30-12-2022 11:00 via cnn.com
  
  Senior citizens and other Social Security recipients will start getting a heftier monthly benefit next month due to an 8.7% annual cost-of-living adjustment aimed at helping them cope with high inflation.
  
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• How did that Southwest meltdown happen? Insiders point to outdated tech

  30-12-2022 10:15 via cnn.com
  
  Ask Southwest Airlines employees about their company's technology, and one word keeps coming up: "antiquated."
  
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• China has abandoned its zero-Covid policy. What will the economy look like in 2023?

  30-12-2022 07:55 via cnn.com
  
  As China moves ever closer to fully reemerging from three years of government-imposed Covid isolation and reintegrating with the world, economic expectations are high.
  
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• Eleven NBA Players Suspended After Mid-Game Scuffle Erupts - $500,000 in Pay Forfeited

  30-12-2022 04:06
  Detroit guard Killian Hayes and Orlando’s Moritz Wagner each were given multi-game suspensions for their roles in a scuffle in a game this week, while the NBA suspended nine Magic players one game apiece Thursday for leaving the bench area during an altercation.
  The 11 suspensions will result in just over $500,000 in forfeited salary.
  Hayes, who struck Wagner in the back of the head, was given a three-game suspension without pay. Wagner was banned two games, and the Pistons’ Hamidou
  
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• Recount confirms Democrat Kris Mayes won Arizona attorney general race

  30-12-2022 01:56 via cnn.com
  
  Democrat Kris Mayes won the Arizona attorney general race, an automatic recount confirmed. The Arizona Superior Court in Maricopa County announced the results of the recount Thursday.
  
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• '9-1-1: Lone Star' Teen Actor's Cause of Sudden Death Revealed

  30-12-2022 01:54
  When “9-1-1: Lone Star” actor Tyler Sanders died in June of this year, he was only 18 years old.
  Having died so young and so suddenly, an autopsy was done to learn what happened to this young man.
  We now know that Sanders died of an accident fentanyl overdose, according to the Los Angeles Times.
  According to the Times, a friend found Sanders, known for his role in “Just Add Magic: Mystery City” in his locked apartment on June 16, one day after Sanders confided in his frie
  
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