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• Idaho Murder Suspect Didn't Make 2,000 Mile Cross-Country Drive Alone - There Was Someone Else in Car

  02-01-2023 23:44
  The suspect charged in an Idaho quadruple homicide undertook a cross-country drive from Washington to Pennsylvania in December.
  Bryan Kohberger made the lengthy trip with his father, according to CNN, citing the criminal complaint against the alleged murderer and a witness who encountered the two men.
  Law enforcement began surveillance of Kohberger as he drove across the country to his parents’ Pennsylvania residence.
  Kohberger’s father flew to Washington for the cross-country trip,
  
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• Man Hated His Tesla Model S So Much, He Traded It for a Chrysler - 'I Couldn't Be Happier'

  02-01-2023 23:35
  Tesla makes some of the most recognizable cars on the road.
  Its line of electric vehicles is championed by a large number of alternative energy advocates, but Tesla continues to battle one persistent problem. It’s still Tesla.
  Instead of ride with the continued issues with his Tesla, one Reddit user, identified as Jack B. by Jalopnik, did what my and many others’ parents did growing up: He threw up his hands and bought a Chrysler.
  According to his Reddit post, he “couldn’
  
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• Trump could soon learn whether or not he's allowed back on Facebook

  02-01-2023 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  Facebook's parent company Meta is considering whether to allow former President Donald Trump back on to its platforms and is due to announce its decision in the coming weeks, a company spokesperson told CNN on Monday.
  
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• Flight disruptions: Florida hit by air traffic control issue; Denver by freezing fog

  02-01-2023 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  Air traffic control issues are triggering hours-long flight delays to Florida airports, the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN.
  
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• Kamala Harris Makes Demand for Senate Swearing-In Photos, Highlights Just How Hypocritical Biden Admin Is

  02-01-2023 23:14
  It’s a new year. It’s a new Congress.
  But it’s the same old Kamala Harris — imperious, arrogant and just as obnoxious as ever.
  And according to a Breitbart News report Monday, she’s not above using even the Senate swearing-in ceremony Tuesday to remind everyone that she carries some weight — and put her own hypocrisy on display.
  The vice president’s office is requiring anyone who wishes to participate in a photographed swearing-in — including spous
  
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• Suspect in Times Square machete attack on New Year's Eve arrested and faces attempted murder charges

  02-01-2023 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  The 19-year-old suspect accused of attacking New York police officers with a machete near Times Square on New Year's Eve has been arrested and faces charges of attempted murder of a police officer.
  
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• Accused Idaho Killer's Classmate Reveals What He Noticed About Suspect's Behavior Days After Killings

  02-01-2023 22:53
  As the world continues to wait for more substantive updates on alleged Moscow, Idaho, murderer Bryan Kohberger and the crime itself, details have begun trickling out that help paints a more complete picture of the man Kohberger was leading up to the murders.
  One such account of Kohberger came courtesy of former classmate Benjamin Roberts, who divulged some fascinating tidbits in an interview with NewsNation.
  In his interview, Roberts described Kohberger as a “perpetually exhausted” p
  
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• 3 dead and 2 hurt after a scaffolding collapse

  02-01-2023 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Three people were killed, and two others injured after a scaffolding collapse at a construction site in Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday, according to tweets from Charlotte Fire Rescue.
  
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• Alert: Woman Going Blind After Tattoo Goes Horribly Wrong - Warn Your Children

  02-01-2023 22:42
  Just because you see something on the internet doesn’t mean you should do it.
  In Belfast, Northern Ireland, Anaya Peterson learned this lesson the hard way.
  According to The Sun, Peterson disregarded her 7-year-old daughter’s warnings and decided to get her eyes tattooed.
  Her right eye was tattooed in July 2020, and she experienced no serious complications, just some eye dryness and headaches.
  Peterson decided that her left eye needed the same treatment in December 2020. And everythi
  
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• Tesla Catches Fire in Dead of Night Inside Garage Just After Christmas, Spreads Into Home

  02-01-2023 22:27
  Missouri firefighters were called in to battle a blaze in the early hours on Monday.
  When responders arrived at the scene, they determined that a Tesla vehicle was on fire in a Webster Grove home’s attached garage, KMOV reports.
  At approximately 3 a.m., responders found the on-fire Tesla in the garage, along with a non-electric vehicle, according to the report.
  According to KMOV, sources reported that the fire had spread into the home and did cause additional damage.
  Fortunately, no injuri
  
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• Airline Worker Dead After Being 'Ingested' Into Engine, But Nobody Is Sure How It Happened

  02-01-2023 22:08
  An airline ground crew member was killed at approximately 3 p.m. Saturday in what is being referred to as an accident at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama.
  According to Insider, the National Transportation Safety Board, or NTSB, said that the worker had been “ingested into the engine.”
  It’s a baffling tragedy.
  According to the report by the NTSB, an American Airlines Embraer 170, a twin-engine passenger plane per Delta Airlines’ site, was parked at a gate and had
  
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• Everybody Missed It: Bombshell Huckabee Announcement - SCOTUS Case Could Flip 2020, Boot Biden, Harris

  02-01-2023 22:00
  Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee published a piece recently calling attention to the case Brunson v. Adams set to be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
  What the plaintiff/appellant, Raland Brunson of Ogden, Utah, and his three brothers seek is nothing less than the removal of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris from office, arguing members of Congress failed to fulfill their constitutional duty on Jan. 6, 2021 by not review
  
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• CBS Kicks Off 2023 with New Scare from Anti-Human Ecologist, But He Has a Long Record of Failed Doomsday Predictions

  02-01-2023 21:20
  Biologist Paul Ehrlich has issued so many warnings about the pending doom of mankind that he could make the boy who cried wolf blush a crimson red.
  The 90-year old Ehrlich is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of Stanford University and President of Stanford’s Center for Conservation Biology, per his school profile, but is perhaps best known for ceaseless doom mongering predicting the end of humanity as we know it.
  Given that, perhaps it shouldn&
  
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• Jan. 6 Committee Shutting Down, Final Criminal Referral of Trump Has No Real Legal Standing

  02-01-2023 21:05
  The House Jan. 6 committee is shutting down, having concluded an 18-month investigation of the 2021 Capitol incursion and having sent its work to the Justice Department along with a recommendation for prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
  The committee’s time officially ends Tuesday when the new Republican-led House is sworn in. With many of the committee’s staff already departed, remaining aides have spent the last two weeks releasing many of the panel’s materials, includ
  
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• Conservative Radio Show Host Dies Suddenly - Leaves Behind Wife and 3 Children

  02-01-2023 21:00
  Seattle-based conservative radio host Dori Monson died Saturday night at a local hospital.
  As the host of “The Dori Monson Show” on KIRO-FM, Monson actively covered government and social issues, becoming one of the station’s top-rated midday hosts at the time of his death, according to a Sunday news release from the station.
  The news release hailed him as a “longtime watchdog of government and social issues” and a “man of deep faith.”
  In his show, weekda
  
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• Rescue Group Issues Warning After Cat Ingests 38 Common Household Items and Dies

  02-01-2023 20:46
  Certain household items have a reputation for disappearing into thin air. Socks lose its mates, bobby pins seem to sneak off and hide in the most unlikely places, and hair ties vanish without a trace.
  But sometimes when hair ties disappear, they create surprisingly dangerous threats — especially if a cat also lives in the house.
  A trio of cats was brought to the Charleston Animal Society in South Carolina after their owners reportedly left them outside and moved, abandoning them and leavin
  
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• 'Drastic Scene' on Texas Highway: Six Dead and Several Others Injured After Deadly Chain of Events

  02-01-2023 20:11
  A minivan trying to overtake a vehicle in a no-passing zone on a Texas highway crashed head-on into an SUV, which was then rear-ended by another vehicle, authorities said.
  Six people died, and five others were injured.
  The crash happened around 6:20 p.m. Friday near George West, about 60 miles northwest of Corpus Christi, said Sgt. Guadalupe Casarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
  “It was a pretty drastic scene,” Casarez said.
  The crash remained under investigation Monday,
  
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• Brutal Attack Just 10 Miles from US Border Kills 14 and Frees Dozens of Prisoners

  02-01-2023 19:51
  As if we need another reminder that an unsecured border endangers public safety, dozens of prisoners escaped from a jail in Mexico that’s just minutes from Texas.
  Ten security guards and four prisoners were killed Sunday during a brazen jail attack in the deadly Mexican border city of Juarez, an epicenter of drug cartel violence, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported.
  Amid the chaos that ensued, 27 prisoners escaped. None of the 27 escapees has been located, El Paso Matters reported Monday.
  
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• Watch: CCTV Captures Eerie Moment Security Guard Greets 'Ghost Patient'

  02-01-2023 19:37
  Security footage at the Finochietto Sanatorium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, appeared to show a security guard greeting an invisible patient early on the morning of Nov. 11, prompting some to speculate that he might have interacted with a ghost.
  CCTV footage shared on YouTube showed the security guard manning the front desk getting up and appearing to greet a phantom patient after the front doors slid open that morning.
  The security guard proceeded to unlatch a retractable belt barrier in a way th
  
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• Watch: Anderson Cooper and CNN Security Team Barge Through Newsmax Broadcast, Step on Wires

  02-01-2023 19:15
  Not even liberals can pretend CNN had a great New Year’s Eve.
  The network is likely to go down in television history for anchor Don Lemon’s inexcusable failure to catch the all-important countdown of the final seconds of the old year in the Central Time Zone.
  And fellow anchor Anderson Cooper was making news for all the wrong reasons.
  At one point during the festivities, Cooper and his security team traipsed straight through a New Year’s Eve segment by rival Newsmax — on
  
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• Blanket Anti-Gun Law Went Into Effect January 1: We Can't Let This Spread

  02-01-2023 19:05
  A new anti-gun law went into effect on New Year’s Day in one California city, and it is effectively a blanket anti-gun law.
  According to NBC Bay Area, the new law in the city of San Jose requires that all gun owners have proof of insurance covering accidents involving firearms, and it also requires that gun owners pay an annual $25 fee to the city.
  The new law applies to all gun owners in the city of San Jose, regardless of what type of gun they own.
  Mayor Sam Liccardo likened the new ordi
  
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• Longtime Vatican Insider Exposes 'Dark Maneuvers' in Explosive Tell-All

  02-01-2023 18:19
  Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s longtime personal secretary has written a tell-all book that his publisher on Monday promised would tell the truth about the “blatant calumnies,” “dark maneuvers,” mysteries and scandals that sullied the reputation of a pontiff best known for his historic resignation.
  Archbishop Georg Gaenswein’s “Nothing but the Truth: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI” is being published this month by the Piemme imprint of Italian publ
  
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• Archaeologists Excavate 'Highly Significant' Site of One of Jesus Miracles: 'It Affirms Scripture'

  02-01-2023 18:05
  Excavations will be taking place at the biblical Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem, leading to unprecedented public access to the site of a miracle performed by Jesus Christ.
  The Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel National Parks Authority and the City of David Foundation announced the project on Tuesday, according to Fox News.
  “The Pool of Siloam’s excavation is highly significant to Christians around the world,” Pastor John Hagee, the founder and chairman of Christians United
  
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• Embarrassing Limitations of EVs Became Painfully Clear During Arctic Blast

  02-01-2023 17:48
  Electric vehicles have been all the rage in recent years. As our society becomes more and more concerned with “climate change” EVs are often presented to us by our leaders as an efficient and environmentally-friendly alternative to gas-powered vehicles.
  With this promotion in mind, people likely expect EVs to be efficient and reliable in some of the most adverse weather and road conditions.
  That turned out not to be the case. The unprecedented winter storm that hit the country the we
  
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• Quiet Neighborhood Starts 2023 in Nightmare Scenario - 2 Houses Completely Leveled, Cars Sent Flying

  02-01-2023 17:29
  It was a terrifying start to the new year for several residents in Port Richmond, Philadelphia.
  The Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD) was called to the scene of an explosion that happened at the 3500 block of Miller Street in Port Richmond, according to the City of Philadelphia.PFD responded around 2:50 a.m. to an explosion in Port Richmond that destroyed at least two houses and damaged many others. Updates to come. pic.twitter.com/xPxP2albiv
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• San Francisco Bicycle Rider Has Hysterical Meltdown After Seeing Emergency Vehicle in Her Lane

  02-01-2023 17:14
  Stay yourself, San Francisco. Always stay yourself.
  Sure, crime rates, drug abuse and homelessness are sky-high in the Bay Area metropolis. But a start-up founder has discovered a problem that really necessitated a social media meltdown:
  An ambulance parked in the bike lane.
  According to KTVU-TV, the video was originally posted on the account of @drivingmzstacey, the social media handle of Stacey Randecker.
  In the video, which is a little under two minutes long, Randecker is seen having a h
  
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• LeBron James Roasted for His Comment on NFL Star Who Faced 2 Dozen Sexual Assault Allegations

  02-01-2023 17:03
  NBA star LeBron James was taken to task after tweeting his support of an NFL quarterback who has faced multiple sexual assault claims.
  Deshaun Watson, who was traded to the Cleveland Browns from the Houston Texans, threw three touchdown passes Sunday as the Browns defeated the Washington Commanders 24-10, according to Cleveland.com.
  Along the way, James tweeted his support for Watson, who in the past had called for the NFL to back protests by NFL players, according to The New York Times.
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• Prince Harry Goes On British TV to Point Fingers: 'They Have Shown Absolutely No Willingness to Reconcile'

  02-01-2023 16:56
  Prince Harry said that he wants to have his father and brother back and that he wants “a family, not an institution,” during a TV interview ahead of the publication of his memoir.
  The interview with Britain’s ITV channel is due to be released this Sunday. In clips released Monday, Harry was shown saying, “They feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains,” and “they have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile” — though it wa
  
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• Diary investigators believe belongs to Times Square machete attack suspect includes last will and testament, sources say

  02-01-2023 16:56 via cnn.com
  
  A diary investigators believe belongs to the suspect in the attack on three police officers outside Times Square on New Year's Eve ends with a last will and testament.
  
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• MSNBC Host 'Shocked and Appalled' Her Kids Think for Themselves on COVID

  02-01-2023 16:47
  I doubt you’d find many MSNBC hosts who would put up too much of a fit if their child were to decide his or her own gender — a medical and biological impossibility, but one that’s been leftist gospel so quickly that you’ll be canceled quicker than you can say “Dave Chappelle” if you question whether it can actually happen.
  Allowing your child to choose whether he or she can choose to get a COVID booster? That’s a horse of a different color.
  On Thursday,
  
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• Suspect in Times Square machete attack wrote in diary that he wanted to die a martyr, sources say

  02-01-2023 16:38 via cnn.com
  
  The 19-year-old being held by New York City police as the suspect in a New Year's Eve machete attack against three police officers just outside a Times Square security screening zone carried a handwritten diary that expressed his desire to join the Taliban in Afghanistan and die as a martyr, law enforcement sources said.
  
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• NASA Chief Sounds the Alarm - Chinese Moon Base May Soon Be Over Our Heads

  02-01-2023 16:34
  China’s escalating space program may pose a serious national security concern for the United States — especially as it relates to the moon.
  NASA administrator and former U.S Senator Bill Nelson sounded the alarm in an interview with Politico published Sunday.
  Nelson is also a former astronaut.
  “It is a fact: we’re in a space race,” the agency’s administrator said said of international space development.
  Nelson warned that China might seek a permanent presence
  
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• All Wired In

  02-01-2023 16:30
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post All Wired In appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Idaho Murder Suspect Receiving Jailhouse Accommodation in One Important Way

  02-01-2023 16:25
  The suspect jailed in connection to an Idaho quadruple homicide is receiving a special accommodation behind bars.
  Bryan Kohberger is receiving jail rations that accommodate his vegan diet.
  In a Twitter post on Sunday, citing Kohberger’s public defender Jason LaBar, Law & Crime Network correspondent Angenette Levy reported that the “strict vegan” was receiving food that suited his dietary preferences.Also, BK is a strict vegan and accommodations are being made for his diet a
  
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• Movie Star Jeremy Renner in Critical Condition After 'Weather Related Accident'

  02-01-2023 16:14
  Actor Jeremy Renner suffered a serious injury last week after an accident near his home.
  “We can confirm Jeremy is in critical but stable condition with injuries suffered after experiencing a weather related accident while plowing snow earlier today,” a representative for Renner told Variety.
  “His family is with him, and he is receiving excellent care,” the representative said.
  Details were not revealed. Renner owns a home in Nevada, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.
  
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• US May Execute First Openly Transgender Prisoner - He Was Convicted of a Haunting Crime

  02-01-2023 16:04
  Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin will become the first openly transgender prisoner executed in the U.S. He is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for murdering a former girlfriend in 2003.
  McLaughlin’s attorney, Larry Komp, said there are no court appeals pending.
  The clemency request focuses on several issues, including McLaughlin’s traumatic childhood and mental health issues, which the jury never heard in his trial. A foster parent rubbed feces
  
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• Petito Parents' Attorney Alleges Brian Laundrie's Mother Made an Unsettling Offer to Son

  02-01-2023 15:40
  Did the mother of Brian Laundrie, the suspected killer of Gabby Petito, offer to assist her son in covering up the crime?
  That’s what Petito’s family is alleging. In a Dec. 5 letter that became public record on Dec. 20, the lawyer for the Petito family said Laundrie’s mother offered to lend him a shovel after Petito was killed, Fox News reported.
  Petito family attorney Pat Reilly, in the letter to Laundrie family lawyer Matt Luka, detailed what documents the parents of Brian La
  
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• California storm brings major flooding and heavy snow, prompting evacuation warnings

  02-01-2023 15:39
  
  A powerful storm brought drenching rain or heavy snowfall to California, prompting evacuation warnings in Northern rural areas on New Year's Day.      
  
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• House Conservatives Put McCarthy's Leadership Spot in Jeopardy Just Before Vote, Urge 'Radical Departure from the Status Quo'

  02-01-2023 15:28
  House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s quest to become speaker of the House has run into new headwinds as the lower chamber of Congress prepares for a leadership vote on Tuesday.
  Republicans gained control of the 435-member House in the November elections, with 222 seats. To be elected speaker over Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona — the only other Republican who has publicly said he wants the post — McCarthy needs 218 votes. That means any more than four Republicans opposing him, a
  
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• Second quake in two weeks sends Northern California back to response mode

  02-01-2023 15:17 via cnn.com
  
  Northern California officials are back in clean-up mode after the second earthquake in two weeks struck the region Sunday morning, cracking walls and roads.
  
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• Recession or soft landing? Five reasons to be cautiously optimistic about 2023

  02-01-2023 15:14 via cnn.com
  
  Last year was dominated by scary headlines about crushing inflation, super-sized interest rate hikes and mounting recession fears.
  
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• America's 'Most Dangerous' Law Just Went into Effect - It's Like Democrats Are Sabotaging the Country

  02-01-2023 15:04
  “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session,” American lawyer, politician and newspaper editor Gideon T. Tucker wrote in 1866.
  How could the Honorable Mr. Tucker have known about 21st-century Illinois way back then?
  Most of that state’s SAFE-T Act went into effect on Sunday, putting new constraints on law enforcement and giving new freedom to criminals.
  Thankfully, a last-minute ruling Saturday by the Illinois Supreme Court suspended o
  
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• Whitmer urges both parties to 'stand up' to violent rhetoric and threats as she embarks on second term

  02-01-2023 14:43 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, sworn in for a second term Sunday, called the sentencing last week of two men convicted of plotting to kidnap her "just," while urging both parties to confront threats and violent rhetoric.
  
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• RNC chair reveals Trump called her about Pence and more highlights from the latest release of January 6 transcripts

  02-01-2023 14:42 via cnn.com
  
  The House January 6 committee on Sunday released another wave of witness interview transcripts.
  
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• Highlights from the latest release of January 6 transcripts

  02-01-2023 14:42 via cnn.com
  
  The House January 6 committee on Sunday released another wave of witness interview transcripts.
  
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• Arrest Warrant Issued for Ex-President Living in South Africa

  02-01-2023 14:15
  An arrest warrant has been issued in Botswana for former President Ian Khama on a charge of illegal possession of firearms.
  Khama, currently residing in neighboring South Africa, denies the charge, his lawyer said.
  The former president was formally charged in April last year but has not yet appeared in court.
  A Botswana court issued the warrant for Khama’s arrest on Thursday.
  The 69-year-old Khama, who was president of Botswana between 2008 and 2018, has been in South Africa for about a ye
  
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• Pele Fans Pay Respect at Stadium He Made Famous - Soccer Legend to Be Buried Near the Arena

  02-01-2023 13:47
  Mourners began paying their respects to Pelé in a solemn procession past his coffin at the Vila Belmiro Stadium in his hometown of Santos, Brazil, on Monday.
  The soccer legend died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 82.
  Pelé’s coffin was placed on the field where he scored some of the best goals of his career. Mourners walked past his casket in the 16,000-seat stadium outside Sao Paulo. His burial will take place Tuesday in a cemetery only 600 yards away.A look insid
  
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• Pelosi Announces Major Pay Increase: 'Dear Colleague'

  02-01-2023 13:38
  House staffers can expect a hefty pay increase in 2023 — courtesy of outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
  Pelosi announced that the House of Representatives would raise its maximum annual salary for staffers to $212,000 in a Friday “Dear Colleague” letter to fellow lawmakers.
  Pelosi previously established a new minimum annual salary of $45,000 for congressional staffers, a policy she touted in the letter announcing the maximum salary increase.
  The outgoing speaker pointe
  
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• Russia attacks Kyiv on New Year's Eve, Pope Benedict XVI lies in state: 5 Things podcast

  02-01-2023 13:15
  
  Russia pummels Ukraine during the holidays, Pope Benedict XVI lies in state, plus tips for improving your mental health in 2023: 5 things podcast      
  
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• The AP Interview: US Rep. makes history in Congress

  02-01-2023 13:06
  When the new Congress convenes on Tuesday, Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur will become the longest-serving woman in its history. Yet after 40 years, she sometimes feels like an outsider. (Jan. 2) (AP Video: Patrick Orsagos and Mike Household/Production: Patrick Orsagos)      
  
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