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• Watch: CNN Host's Reaction as GOP Rep. Sneaks in Brutal Dig at Network on Live TV

  06-01-2023 23:41
  A Republican Congressman ended his appearance on CNN with a witty jab against the leftist news outlet, and the host had absolutely no idea how to respond.
  On Friday, Texas Republican Rep. Troy Nehls, who represents Texas’s 22nd District, appeared on Erin Burnett OutFront, where he discussed the ongoing battle on Capitol Hill regarding the position of speaker of the house.
  Nehls, who is backing Kevin McCarthy for the position, responded to Burnett’s question about whether there was an
  
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• Parents Reveal Stance on Death Penalty for Daughter's Alleged Killer: 'If You Want to Play God's Role ...'

  06-01-2023 23:34
  Analysis of virtually everything surrounding Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students, has been front-page news since his apprehension Dec. 30.
  Kohberger is accused of the Nov. 13 stabbing deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin as they slept in a rental house near their campus in Moscow, Idaho.
  Should Kohberger’s charges result in convictions, Steve and Kristi Goncalves, the parents of Kaylee Goncalves, said they don&r
  
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• FDA grants accelerated approval to Alzheimer's drug that appears to slow cognitive decline

  06-01-2023 23:15 via cnn.com
  The US Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval Friday for the Alzheimer's disease drug lecanemab, one of the first experimental dementia drugs to appear to slow the progression of cognitive decline.
  
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• McCarthy Makes Major Progress, Switches 15 GOP Reps to His Side - Here Are Their Names

  06-01-2023 22:44
  Kevin McCarthy inched closer to the speaker’s gavel Friday.
  McCarthy secured 15 additional Republican votes for Speaker of the House in two different votes in the chamber on Friday.
  The Republican leader broke through with 14 new votes in the 12th vote for speaker, according to NPR.
  The latest tally leaves McCarthy with 214 votes, leaving him four short of the 218 needed for the speaker’s gavel in a format where all 435 members of the House of Representatives cast a vote.
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• Real Housewives of Salt Lake City cast member sentenced to over six years in prison in telemarketing fraud scheme

  06-01-2023 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  Jennifer Shah, a cast member on Bravo's "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City," was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for defrauding thousands of victims in a long-running telemarketing scheme that targeted the elderly and vulnerable.
  
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• Scaros: The Jan. 6 Committee's Report Is 845 Pages of Nothing

  06-01-2023 21:59
  On Jan. 6, 2021, tens of thousands of Americans traveled to Washington to support President Donald Trump as he made his case that the 2020 election was stolen.
  I was planning to attend, but ultimately decided against going. I was still depressed about the election outcome. I couldn’t believe Joe Biden, of all people, was actually going to be our president.
  Attending would have only further saddened me, because it would have reminded me of the other times I had traveled to D.C. to see Trump
  
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• Biden awards Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 6 anniversary

  06-01-2023 21:53 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Friday commemorated two years since the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol -- a day he's called "one of the darkest periods of our nation's history" -- seeking to elevate the law enforcement and election officials who held firm against the most serious effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power in American history.
  
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• 'Maybe we cried too much' over shoplifting, Walgreens exec says

  06-01-2023 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  Throughout the pandemic, major retailers have warned about surging theft and a rise in brazen shoplifting attempts. But a top Walgreens executive now says the freakout may have been overblown.
  
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• CNN Hit with Another Big Departure - Had Been with Company for Over Two Decades

  06-01-2023 21:29
  What’s that old adage about rats and sinking ships?
  The mightily struggling news conglomerate CNN has been experiencing a level of upheaval that paints a bleak picture of its future.
  Twenty-year correspondent and anchor Suzanne Malveaux is leaving the network, Deadline reported Friday.
  Malveaux’s move follows a string of high-profile departures from CNN, starting with disgraced host Chris Cuomo in December 2021. (Although that was not by his choice. CNN terminated former New Yor
  
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• Major New York hospital is moving infants to other hospitals ahead of planned nursing union strike

  06-01-2023 20:55 via cnn.com
  Famed Manhattan hospital Mount Sinai is moving newborns in their intensive care unit to other hospitals ahead of a planned New York nursing union strike.
  
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• US Shells Out $3 Billion for Ukraine, Announces Powerful Armored Fighting Vehicles Are Also Being Handed Over

  06-01-2023 20:44
  The Biden administration announced a $3.1 billion security assistance package for Ukraine on Friday, including for the first time dozens of heavy infantry vehicles.
  Of the total, $2.85 billion will come directly from existing U.S. weapons stocks, including 50 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles and 500 anti-missiles, according to a White House news release.
  Ukrainian officials expect Russia to conduct a second mobilization and renewed offensive in the coming months, according to Reuters.
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• Arizona Spending $76 Million to Tear Down $95 Million Border Protection Measure for New Dem Administration

  06-01-2023 20:39
  Former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s border barrier of shipping containers has been largely dismantled in time for a new Democratic administration, costing tens of millions of dollars over just a few months as they were set up and taken down again.
  Removal of the hulking red, gold and blue steel boxes is creating a stark visual shift in affected sections of Arizona’s southern landscape as a new governor takes power and another $76 million in state funds is spent to remove the
  
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• Fiancée Loses Engagement Ring Down In-Law's Toilet, Gets Incredible Christmas Gift 21 Years Later

  06-01-2023 20:24
  Married couples go through a lot together — for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health — but one couple hadn’t even made it to the vows when they encountered an unusual trial.
  Nick Day and his now-wife Shaina were engaged and living with his parents in Lakeland, Florida, more than 20 years ago when Shaina’s engagement ring went missing.
  “I had taken my ring off,” Shaina told WTVT-TV. “It was sitting on the counter, so when I sopped up the water, I g
  
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• Rare Success Against Alzheimer's: FDA Approves a Fast-Tracked Treatment

  06-01-2023 20:17
  U.S. health officials on Friday approved a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug that modestly slows the brain-robbing disease, albeit with potential safety risks that patients and their doctors will have to weigh carefully.
  The drug, Leqembi, is the first that’s been convincingly shown to slow the decline in memory and thinking that defines Alzheimer’s by targeting the disease’s underlying biology.
  The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug for patients with Alzheimer
  
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• Until a Speaker of the House Is Chosen, Here's Who Wields the Gavel

  06-01-2023 20:07
  Standing up to nominate Rep. Byron Donalds for House speaker, Republican Rep. Chip Roy addressed the woman presiding over the chamber as “Madam speaker.”
  The third-term congressman quickly corrected himself. “Madam clerk,” he acknowledged with a smile.
  The flub, coming on the second day of voting, illustrated the rising stature of House clerk Cheryl Johnson, a central figure in the drama that has become a dayslong effort to select a speaker. Round by round, she has called
  
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• Former USC official sentenced in college admissions scandal

  06-01-2023 19:51 via cnn.com
  
  A former athletics official at the University of Southern California was sentenced Friday to six months in prison after pleading guilty in an admissions scandal for allegedly helping students cheat their way into acceptances at the prestigious college.
  
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• Biden Gets Lambasted After Two Big Errors in 'Disaster' Press Conference

  06-01-2023 19:40
  With his 2024 re-election bid in mind, President Joe Biden finally acknowledged the “situation” at our southern border — massive numbers of illegal immigrants streaming into this country — during a Thursday news conference at the White House.
  Biden announced his intention to visit the border at long last — he’ll travel to El Paso, Texas, on Sunday — and unveiled his administration’s new plan to address the border crisis.
  The strategy, as you might
  
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• Buffalo Bills Announce Damar Hamlin Delivered a 3-Word Message to His Teammates After Taking Another Big Recovery Step

  06-01-2023 19:26
  The Buffalo Bills announced Friday that safety Damar Hamlin’s breathing tube was removed overnight and that he communicated his love for his teammates.
  “Damar Hamlin FaceTimed into our team meeting today to talk to players and coaches. What he said to the team: ‘Love you boys,'” the Bills tweeted.Damar Hamlin FaceTimed into our team meeting today to talk to players and coaches.
  What he said to the team: “Love you boys.”pic.twitter.com/8dorrWNaxt
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• Infamous CBS Scare-Segment Ecologist Defends Self With Ludicrous Tweet: 'Sure I've Made Some Mistakes ...'

  06-01-2023 19:17
  “To err is human,” ecologist Paul D. Ehrlich once said. “But to really foul things up, you need a computer.”
  This may indeed be the one thing the former Stanford academic has been right on. If he’d thrown in television cameras, bam, he’s nailed it. For instance, if the 90-year-old Ehrlich would have just shut up, we likely wouldn’t remember he wrote the most hilariously wrong environmentalist scare screed of all time, 1968’s “The Population B
  
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• Doctors Sound the Alarm After FDA Allows Pharmacies to Dispense Dangerous New Drug

  06-01-2023 19:09
  A recent decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowing pharmacies to dispense abortion pills could lead to harmful and even lethal consequences for women, according to medical professionals who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  This week, the Biden administration agency announced it would allow certified pharmacies to administer the drug mifepristone, which induces a chemical abortion. Women no longer are required to see a physician before obtaining mifepristone, leading
  
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• Good Samaritan Hears Screams, Immediately Knows What Has to Be Done as He Stops Car

  06-01-2023 19:03
  A good Samaritan is being hailed as a hero after rescuing a family from a burning building in Detroit on Tuesday morning.
  According to WJBK-TV, the fire happened in a house on the city’s east side.
  Reports say the father in the family was at work when the blaze started. As the good Samaritan drove by, the mother was outside screaming for help.
  (WJBK later identified the good Samaritan as a cousin of the family’s. The cousin works for the family’s company.)
  The family’s th
  
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• 'Maybe we cried too much' over shoplifting, Walgreens executive says

  06-01-2023 19:01 via cnn.com
  
  Throughout the pandemic, major retailers have warned about surging theft and a rise in brazen shoplifting attempts. But a top Walgreens executive now says the freakout may have been overblown.
  
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• Tucker Carlson: Speaker Vote Isn't 'Disaster' for Republicans, and Here's Why

  06-01-2023 18:51
  The arguments against letting Kevin McCarthy waltz into a two-year term as House speaker, from a conservative’s perspective: he’s unaccountable, he’s made no promise to pursue an authentically conservative agenda, he’s refused to address criticisms of his shortcomings from the right and he still views any challenge by the right wing of the party to hold him accountable on these measures an affront to … well, something.
  The arguments for letting Kevin McCarthy waltz
  
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• Report: 36-Year-Old Former NFL Star in Intensive Care After Making Heroic Rescue

  06-01-2023 18:41
  Former Arkansas Razorback and Cleveland Browns star Peyton Hillis was reportedly hospitalized after going through one of the very worst experiences any parent could imagine.
  Hillis, 36, was hospitalized after an incident in which he had to save his kids from drowning, according to TMZ.
  KNWA-TV reporter Alyssa Orange shared a Facebook post from Hillis’ uncle:Peyton Hillis’ uncle posted this on Facebook and @OtisKirk23 brought it to my attention. #WPS pic.twitter.com/jYRvQPGAXF
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• Prince Harry Has 'Target on His Back,' Now Made Worse After What He Claimed to Have Done in Afghanistan War

  06-01-2023 18:33
  In a book full of startling revelations, Prince Harry’s assertion that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan is one of the most striking — and has drawn criticism from both enemies and allies.
  In his memoir, “Spare,” Harry says he killed more than two dozen Taliban militants while serving as an Apache helicopter copilot gunner in Afghanistan in 2012-2013. He writes that he feels neither satisfaction nor shame about his actions, and in the heat of battle regarded enemy combat
  
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• Idaho Suspect's Sister Starred in Horror Film with Similarities to Moscow Murders - Director Shocked

  06-01-2023 18:33
  Eleven years before four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death, murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s sister appeared in a horror film about college students being stabbed to death.
  While she was in college, Amanda Kohberger appeared in the 2011 movie “Two Days Back” in which several college students are slaughtered in a remote forest, according to the New York Post.
  Bryan Kohberger has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary i
  
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• Watch: This Looks Like a War - High Ranking Drug Lord Arrested in Successful Operation

  06-01-2023 18:09
  A Mexican city erupted in violence Thursday after authorities arrested a major figure in the Sinaloa Cartel.
  With a visit to Mexico from President Joe Biden days away, Mexico on Thursday sought to show it was attacking the drug cartels by capturing Ovidio Guzmán, the son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, according to The Washington Post.
  In retaliation, cartel forces fired on government troops, as well as helicopters and planes. Within hours, the city of Culiac&aacut
  
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• DNC officials recommend giving New Hampshire and Georgia extra time to meet requirements under proposed 2024 calendar

  06-01-2023 18:03 via cnn.com
  
  The co-chairs of the Democratic Party's rule-making arm are recommending that New Hampshire and Georgia be given extra time to take steps toward changing their presidential primary dates.
  
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• Man Exposes 'All the Bad Things' About His Tesla Model 3 - 'I'd Rather Own a Petrol Car Again'

  06-01-2023 17:36
  If there’s ever anyone who’s cut out to be an electric vehicle owner, it’s not @lukeerwintv of TikTok fame.
  The creator is best known for his videos of giving back to others on the social media website, but he recently got a Tesla Model 3. To say that he’s unhappy with things is an understatement.
  In the first video — filmed on a sunny day inside the car and posted on Dec. 27 — the creator describes how the large glass roof makes it “boiling hot” i
  
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• Breaking Exclusive: President Trump Tells Gen. Flynn He Would Serve as House Speaker

  06-01-2023 17:36
  There has been a stunning development in the ongoing House speaker drama: Former President Donald Trump said he would accept the role of speaker if elected.
  Both Kari Lake and Gen. Michael Flynn confirmed the news to The Western Journal.
  “I talked to President Trump last night and told him he would be great and he should do it,” Lake told The Western Journal. “[I said] that he could take Congress from the most hated branch of [government] to the favorite branch.”
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• US imposes sanctions on Iranian officials connected to drone program

  06-01-2023 17:30 via cnn.com
  
  The US Treasury on Friday imposed sanctions on officials tied to an Iranian defense manufacturer that designs and produces drones which have been used by Russia in the war in Ukraine, as well as the director of "the key organization responsible for overseeing Iran's ballistic missile programs."
  
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• EPA proposes new rule to crack down on deadly air pollution

  06-01-2023 17:13 via cnn.com
  
  For the first time since 2012, the US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing an update to the federal air quality standard for fine soot -- a long-awaited step to reduce deadly air pollution.
  
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• GOP Governor Orders Special Election After Rep.-Elect Is Charged with Stealing Narcotics

  06-01-2023 17:00
  Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp has ordered a special election for Jan. 31 after a newly elected state representative was charged with stealing drugs.
  Representative-elect Daniel Rampey resigned from the Georgia House of Representatives this week.
  Rampey was charged with stealing prescription drugs from an assisted living facility he manages, the Athens Banner-Herald reported in December.
  The state legislator-elect was facing more than 19 different felonies, the Washington Examiner reported, citing
  
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• Grammy Winner Accused of Assault and Kidnapping Gets Fatally Shot During Encounter with Police

  06-01-2023 16:51
  A Grammy-winning sound engineer accused of kidnapping and threatening his wife and stepdaughter at gunpoint in Tennessee was fatally shot by police, authorities said.
  A Metro Nashville Police officer killed Mark Capps, 54, during an encounter Thursday at the man’s home in the Hermitage neighborhood, agency spokesman Don Aaron said.
  Officers had gone to the home to arrest Capps on warrants charging him with two counts each of aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping, Aaron said.
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• Largest Fuel Pipeline in US Abruptly Shut Down After Leak Is Discovered

  06-01-2023 16:48
  A diesel fuel leak in Virginia shut down part of the Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel pipeline, which supplies roughly half the fuel consumed on the East Coast, but it is expected to restart Saturday, the company said.
  The spill was discovered Tuesday.
  And while this particular line is shut down, the rest of the system is operating normally, spokesperson David Conti said in an email.
  The incident shouldn’t have much impact on gas prices, according to Patrick De Haan, head
  
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• Buffalo Bills Head Coach in First Public Comments Since Hamlin Collapse: 'Glory to God'

  06-01-2023 16:42
  Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott thanked a long list of people for going above and beyond since safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field Monday night in Cincinnati, but he had one very important shout-out at the end of the list.
  “Finally and just as important as anything is glory to God for his keeping Damar and his family in the palm of his hand over the last couple of days and his healing powers,” McDermott said during a Thursday news conference.
  “The
  
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• Surveillance Footage: Armed Customer Snaps Into Action as Man Robs Restaurant Diners

  06-01-2023 16:40
  Dumb: Bringing a knife to a gunfight.
  Dumber: Bring a toy to a gunfight.
  Dumberer: Using a toy to provoke a gunfight.
  Yet that’s what happened just before 11:30 Thursday night at a Rachito Taqueria restaurant in Houston. Surveillance video from inside the restaurant showed a masked robber brandishing what appeared to be a firearm and taking wallets, cellphones and cash from customers.
  One of those customers, however, was armed, and as the robber turned from him, he drew and fired his weapo
  
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• Analysis: Why good news is bad news on Wall Street

  06-01-2023 16:37 via cnn.com
  
  Strong jobs reports, robust manufacturing data, still-hot consumer spending. Any time America reports its economy is strong, Wall Street has a freak-out.
  
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• At least 10 injured outside Miami area restaurant where French Montana was shooting a video

  06-01-2023 16:23 via cnn.com
  
  At least 10 people were injured in a shooting outside a Miami Gardens, Florida restaurant where rapper French Montana was shooting a music video, according to statements from the restaurant and Miami Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR).
  
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• Pattern of Location Pings Revealed on Alleged Idaho Murderer's Phone - Was He Stalking Them?

  06-01-2023 16:02
  Our society is so saturated in technology, it has become invisible to us. It’s similar to the brain teaser about whether fish know they are wet. We are so surrounded and supported by technology, we don’t even notice it. We take it for granted.
  It takes an extreme act to bring about consciousness of how tracked, transmitted, broadcast and stored our every move can be these days.
  The brutal murders of four University of Idaho college students might end up being solved because of this w
  
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• Southwest meltdown may cost it $825 million

  06-01-2023 15:43 via cnn.com
  
  The cost of the service meltdown at Southwest Airlines over the year-end holidays cost the airline nearly $1 billion and will cause the company to report a loss rather than a profit in the fourth quarter, the airline said in a filing on Friday.
  
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• 'Our Country is Being Poisoned': Trump Unveils His Plan to Wage War Against Drug Cartels

  06-01-2023 15:34
  Drug cartels pumping death across America are in former President Donald Trump’s cross-hairs.
  “The drug cartels are waging war on America — and it’s now time for America to wage war on the cartels,” Trump said in a video released Thursday.
  Trump, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, posted his aggressive message on his Truth Social account and the Trump War Room account on Twitter.
  Trump’s comments came after a year in which 110,236 American
  
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• Hamlin's Teammate: 'Praise This Name,' Things Could Be Much Different Without His Life-Saving Actions

  06-01-2023 15:15
  The NFL world ground to a halt when Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest during the Bills’ “Monday Night Football” game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
  That game ended with Hamlin’s frightening first-quarter injury, but Hamlin’s fight for his life had just started.
  The fighting chance he was given seemingly would not be possible without the assistance of Bills assistant athletic trainer Denny Kellington.
  In a Thursday tweet, Bills left tackle Dion D
  
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• Broken Border System

  06-01-2023 15:15
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Broken Border System appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Southwest meltdown may cost the airline up to $825 million

  06-01-2023 14:56 via cnn.com
  
  The cost of the service meltdown at Southwest Airlines over the year-end holidays cost the airline nearly $1 billion and will cause the company to report a loss rather than a profit in the fourth quarter, the airline said in a filing on Friday.
  
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• Lawmaker Dies in Fiery Wrong-Way Crash After Attending His Own Swearing-In Ceremony

  06-01-2023 14:33
  A Connecticut state legislator is dead after a wrong-way highway crash.
  Democratic Rep. Quentin Williams of Middletown, 39, died in a crash that occurred on Route 9 early on Thursday, according to The New York Times.
  The Connecticut State Police accident report indicated the other driver was traveling on the wrong side of the highway and struck Williams’ vehicle.
  That driver, 27-year-old Kimede Katie Mustafaj, also died in the collision.
  Police responding to the scene of the crash describe
  
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• These three big unknowns will drive markets in 2023

  06-01-2023 14:06 via cnn.com
  
  We're in the salad days of the New Year — that period where many feel refreshed and motivated and perhaps even optimistic about the year to come. There's a certain clarity that comes during this time in January.
  
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• Will Damar Hamlin Play Again? He Wouldn't Be the First After Waking from Cardiac Arrest Episode

  06-01-2023 13:56
  Will Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin ever play in the NFL again after suffering cardiac arrest on Monday during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals?
  There is precedent for the return of a top-level athlete after such an experience.
  In June 2021, Danish soccer player Christian Eriksen was playing for his national team against Finland when he collapsed on the field, according to the Daily Mail.
  “Instantly it became clear how serious the incident was. He, essentially, died on the pitch an
  
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• Boebert Does Not Back Down as Hannity Presses Her on Opposition to McCarthy Becoming Speaker

  06-01-2023 13:41
  GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado did not back down when pressed repeatedly by Fox News host Sean Hannity about her opposition to Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California becoming House speaker.
  Hannity opened the segment Wednesday night by recounting that Boebert has called on former President Donald Trump to intervene and tell McCarthy that he does not have the votes to be speaker and should withdraw his name.
  “Let me turn the tables, congresswoman,” Hannity said. “Kevin McCarthy
  
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• Federal Judge Sentences Reality TV Star to 6.5 Years in Prison

  06-01-2023 13:35
  A judge sentenced a member of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” to 6 1/2 years in prison on Friday for defrauding thousands of people nationwide in a telemarketing scam, many of them vulnerable or elderly.
  U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein announced the sentence for Jennifer Shah after she sobbed while apologizing for the fraud. Stein presided over her guilty plea in July to a conspiracy charge for participating in a massive fraud for nearly a decade.
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