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• Uprising in Brazil: National Congress Seized, Riot Officer Ripped from Horse and Dogpiled

  08-01-2023 23:01
  Scenes emerging from Brazil on Sunday are painting a dramatic picture of a nation on the verge of implosion.
  The Associated Press reported that supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have stormed multiple sites, including the country’s Congress and Supreme Court, as well as the presidential palace in the country’s capital.
  This chaos took place just a week after the inauguration of far-left socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil.
  The AP not
  
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• Nurses at Mount Sinai Morningside and West reach tentative agreement as more than 7,000 nurses still due to strike

  08-01-2023 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  Mount Sinai Morningside and West hospital reached a tentative agreement with the state nursing union on a new contract Sunday, avoiding a strike Monday morning, according to a news release from the union.
  
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• Mother Goes Missing on New Years Day, Then the Case Gets a Strange Twist Days Later

  08-01-2023 22:54
  Officials in Massachusetts are becoming more concerned as each day passes over the safety and health of a Cohasset mom of three who disappeared on New Year’s Day, but now an odd development has made the mystery all the stranger.
  The Cohasset Police Department has thus far categorized the still unsolved disappearance of Ana Welshe as merely a “missing persons” case, because to date there is no evidence of any sort of crime.
  But friends and family say that it is highly suspicious
  
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• Arkansas man arrested after hammering open an altar at a preparatory school church, police say

  08-01-2023 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  A 31-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly broke into a church in Arkansas, hammered open an altar and stole two relic boxes that were embedded in the altar, officials said.
  
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• 31-year-old Arkansas man arrested after hammering open an altar at a preparatory school church, police say

  08-01-2023 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  A 31-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly broke into a church in Arkansas, hammered open an altar and stole two relic boxes that were embedded in the altar, officials said.
  
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• McCarthy Gives a Massive Shoutout After Winning Speaker's Gavel, And the Left Won't Like Who He Thanked One Bit

  08-01-2023 22:22
  After now-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally secured the votes early Saturday to hold the gavel in the lower body of Congress, one of the first items on his agenda was to express gratitude to one of the men who made it possible.
  They were exactly the kind of words that Democrats, their mainstream media propagandists and too many Republican opponents of former President Donald Trump didn’t want to hear.
  But they’re going to echo throughout the next year heading into the presidential
  
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• Arrest Made After Alleged Terror Attack in Las Vegas - Attacker Left Key Clue After Disabling Energy Facility

  08-01-2023 22:12
  A 34-year-old man has been arrested after a car was set ablaze at a power facility near Las Vegas.
  Mohammed Mesmarian, has been charged with committing an act of terrorism, first-degree arson, third-degree arson, destroying or injuring real or personal property of another and escape by a felony prisoner, police said, according to the Las Vegas Sun.
  The arrest stems from an incident at the Mega Solar Array facility near Las Vegas on Wednesday.
  The facility provides power to 13 MGM properties on t
  
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• Top Russian Security Official Calls for Warship Deployment to American Coast

  08-01-2023 21:35
  Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev responded to an American effort to support anti-war protests in Russia with a call to put a Russian warship off of the American coast.
  Last week, the U.S. embassy in Russia released a video it called “an appeal to the people of Russia.”
  “Throughout history, our countries have been united by a common culture and our achievements. We believe that what is happening is not worthy of you, and we stand in solidarity with each of you who strive
  
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• This Is Puzzling Cops in Idaho Murder Case - 8-Hour Window for 911 Call After Roommate Spotted Figure

  08-01-2023 21:18
  Eight hours before police were called to the scene of a quadruple murder in Moscow, Idaho, one resident of the rented house had a terrifying encounter with a stranger, but never called authorities.
  The gap “has been something that we have puzzled over — we don’t know if it was an issue of intoxication, or of fear,” a law enforcement official told the New York Post.
  The encounter came to light in an affidavit released on Thursday by authorities who have charged Bryan Kohbe
  
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• Update on Teacher Shot by 6-Year-Old Student - Educator Has Been Identified

  08-01-2023 21:16
  The Virginia teacher who authorities say was shot by a 6-year-old student is known as a hard-working educator who is devoted to her students and enthusiastic about the profession that runs in her family, according to fellow teachers and city officials.
  John Eley III, a former member of the Newport News School Board, identified the first-grade teacher as Abby Zwerner. Zwerner was shot Friday at Richneck Elementary School, authorities said.
  Shortly after the shooting, police said Zwerner had life-
  
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• 7-Year-Old Louisiana Girl Dies After Being Mauled By Neighbor's Dog - Owner Taken Into Custody

  08-01-2023 21:06
  The owner of a pit bull that attacked a 7-year-old girl has been charged with criminally negligent homicide after the girl died as a result of her Friday attack.
  Erick Lopez, 20, was charged Saturday, according to CBS.
  Sadie Davila had been playing outside the home of a relative at the time of the attack, according to WAFB.
  A family member of the girl tried to stop the attack by hitting the animal with a cane, but to no avail, according to The Advocate.Sadie Davila, 7, of East Baton Rouge, Louis
  
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• 12-year-old in custody in Oklahoma for fatally stabbing 9-year-old brother while parent slept upstairs, police say

  08-01-2023 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  A 12-year-old girl is in custody in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after fatally stabbing her 9-year-old brother, according to police.
  
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• 12-year-old in custody in for fatally stabbing 9-year-old brother while parent slept upstairs, police say

  08-01-2023 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  A 12-year-old girl is in custody in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after fatally stabbing her 9-year-old brother, according to police.
  
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• Leftist 'Scientific' Rag Exploits Damar Hamlin's Health Scare, But NFL Legend Has Only 2 Words for It

  08-01-2023 20:42
  “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emmanuel once said in 2008, bastardizing the famous Winston Churchill quote.
  That quote has really been the crux of the far left in America, and it’s easy to see why: There’s no more effective time to emotionally blackmail people than in the immediate aftermath of a crisis when emotions and tensions are running high.
  The latest example of this leftist doctrine comes from the wildly inaccurately named “Scientific
  
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• Former Child Star Dead, Cause of Death Currently Under Investigation

  08-01-2023 20:30
  Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences in the late 1970s as “America’s little brother” on “Eight is Enough,” has died.
  He was 54.
  Rich died Saturday in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, said Lt. Aimee Earl of the Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner Coroner’s office.
  The cause of death was under investigation but was not considered to be suspicious.
  Rich had a limited acting career after playing Nicholas Bradford, the you
  
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• Border Town Pulls Sneaky Trick Ahead of Biden's First Visit - Are They Masking the Border Crisis? - Report

  08-01-2023 20:05
  President Joe Biden’s scheduled trip to El Paso, Texas, on Sunday, to finally get a first-hand look at the illegal immigration crisis plaguing America’s border towns might be more of a rose-colored glasses situation than it should be.
  According to the U.K. Daily Mail, witnesses on the ground in El Paso claim that local officials have made considerable efforts to clean up some of the migrant camps that had been set up in late December as waves of illegals anticipated the end of Title
  
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• McCarthy speaker saga shows Trump is far from untouchable ahead of 2024

  08-01-2023 19:46 via cnn.com
  
  Kevin McCarthy's seven-year-plus dream to become House speaker finally became reality early Saturday morning. The California Republican's tumultuous journey concluded after six Republican holdouts voted "present," allowing him to win on the 15th ballot with a lower majority threshold.
  
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• Most of California could experience significant flooding this week

  08-01-2023 19:37 via cnn.com
  
  Widespread flooding is possible across much of California on Monday as more heavy rain hits the state, forecasters say.
  
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• GOP Mocked for Taking 15 Rounds to Vote in Speaker, But Rep. Biggs Reminds Nation What a Republic Truly Is

  08-01-2023 19:33
  Democrats and the mainstream media might be mocking, but Rep. Andy Biggs is looking at the bigger picture.
  The Arizona Republican was one of the chief architects of the opposition to Rep. Kevin McCarthy becoming speaker of the House of Representatives.
  And even after McCarthy won the post early Saturday after a brutal week of battles on the House floor, Biggs sees three big wins for his own side — and for the country as a whole.
  In a statement released Saturday night, Biggs maintained his
  
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• Woman sentenced to three years for role in viral GoFundMe scam

  08-01-2023 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to three years in state prison for her role in scamming more than $400,000 from GoFundMe donors, by claiming to be collecting money for a homeless man.
  
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• Woman sentenced for role in viral GoFundMe scam

  08-01-2023 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to three years in state prison for her role in scamming more than $400,000 from GoFundMe donors, by claiming to be collecting money for a homeless man.
  
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• Dog owner faces charges following death of 7-year-old girl in Louisiana

  08-01-2023 19:23 via cnn.com
  
  A man was arrested and is facing negligent homicide charges after failing to restrain his pit bull terrier, which attacked and killed a 7-year-old girl in Louisiana on Friday, authorities said.
  
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• Dog owner faces charges following death of 7-year-old girl

  08-01-2023 19:23 via cnn.com
  
  A man was arrested and is facing negligent homicide charges after failing to restrain his pit bull terrier, which attacked and killed a 7-year-old girl in Louisiana on Friday, authorities said.
  
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• Disturbing Movement Taking Place as Men Invent Completely New Reason to Become Transgender

  08-01-2023 18:20
  A community of men who consider themselves involuntarily celibate, or “incels,” are transitioning to the opposite sex to escape sexual rejection, according to numerous posts on Discord servers and other social media platforms reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  While many transgender advocates argue that one’s sense of gender is innate, unchangeable and largely unrelated to one’s biological sex, members of the online “transmaxxer” community encourage
  
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• Mount Sinai Hospital continues moving infants out of NICU ahead of planned nursing strike

  08-01-2023 18:09 via cnn.com
  
  New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital is continuing to move infants out of intensive care units to other area hospitals, is diverting ambulances to other facilities and postponing elective surgeries and heart surgeries ahead of a planned nursing strike Monday.
  
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• Mount Sinai Hospital continues moving infants out of NICU

  08-01-2023 18:09 via cnn.com
  
  New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital is continuing to move infants out of intensive care units to other area hospitals, is diverting ambulances to other facilities and postponing elective surgeries and heart surgeries ahead of a planned nursing strike Monday.
  
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• Watch This Incredible Moment Before NFL Game: "There Is Power in Prayer!"

  08-01-2023 18:05
  The NFL Playoffs don’t begin until Jan. 14, but that doesn’t mean some teams aren’t already fighting for their figurative lives.
  Case in point, while not a playoff game per se, the Saturday night slugfest between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans pretty much had the stakes of a playoff game. The winner of that game would claim the AFC South and (by virtue of winning their division) immediately qualify for the playoffs.
  Given the enormous, playoff-like stakes of this
  
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• Family of 5, including minors, found dead in North Carolina home believed to be a murder-suicide

  08-01-2023 17:30 via cnn.com
  
  Three minors and two adults were found dead Saturday morning in a North Carolina home, in what police say they are investigating as a murder-suicide.
  
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• Royal Fraud? Prince Harry Admits to Insulting Media 'Stunt' in Tell-All Book

  08-01-2023 17:18
  In a new book, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, claimed that he pretended to be his own brother’s best man in his 2011 wedding.
  Harry alleged that two of Prince William’s friends — James Meade and Thomas Van Straubenzee — fulfilled the role of best men at a wedding reception, in an advance copy of his book “Spare” obtained by the Daily Mail.
  Harry goes so far as to claim that he was made to go along with the “bare-faced lie” that he was the real best
  
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• Fulton County Women at the Center of 2020 Voter Fraud Claims Given Huge Award from Biden

  08-01-2023 17:12
  Two Georgia women, who in 2020 were alleged to have hidden suitcases filled with ballots under the table where they worked, were among those honored Friday with the Presidential Citizens Medal.
  President Joe Biden used the anniversary of the Capitol incursion to honor 14 people for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021 and in the tumult over the 2020 elections.
  Fulton County poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss were later cleared of the allegations.
  During the ceremony, Biden praised the honorees f
  
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• 'Simply Common Sense': A Federal Ruling On Transgender Bathrooms Could Also Apply To Women's Sports, Legal Experts Say

  08-01-2023 16:59
  A ruling by a federal appeals court that upheld a Florida school district’s policy of separating restrooms by “biological sex” could be used to bar men from joining women’s sports teams, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  In a 7-4 decision on Dec. 30, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a prior ruling by a district judge and ruled that a Florida school board’s policy that required students to use bathrooms that correspond to their
  
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• Want to improve your mental health and relationships? Lean in to conflict.

  08-01-2023 16:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Social media and Covid-19 contribute to ghosting, quiet quitting and other conflict avoidance. Instead we need face-to-face contact and hard conversations.
  
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• Rising MMA Star Dead at 18

  08-01-2023 16:17
  Hawaiian-born mixed martial artist Victoria Lee has died at only 18 years old.
  The youngest fighter in ONE Championship, Lee started her professional career at the age of 16. Within the first year of signing on, she had a 3-0 record in ONE.
  Lee comes from a family of fighters. Both her sister Angela and her brother Christian are current MMA champions.
  Lee’s first MMA fight was in February 2021 against Sunisa Srisen of Thailand. She won by submission in Round 2, according to the South China
  
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• Report: Orange-Clad Men Seen Before Katie Hobbs' Inauguration - Is This the Kind of Administration She's Running?

  08-01-2023 16:09
  Pictures have emerged showing orange-clad men at the Arizona state Capitol on Monday setting up for the inauguration of incoming Gov. Katie Hobbs. But now, some shocking reports have emerged about who these men actually were.
  Hobbs was sworn in as Arizona’s 24th governor on Monday after defeating Republican rival Kari Lake in a hotly contested election during the November midterm elections.
  It’s worth noting that Lake has challenged those results and is still fighting them. Lake&rsqu
  
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• TikTok Is Banned on Government Devices for Good Reason, But Look What Democrats Were Just Caught With

  08-01-2023 16:02
  Some lawmakers are active on TikTok even after concerns about the social media platform’s surveillance capabilities prompted Congress to ban it on some federal devices in December.
  The bipartisan omnibus spending bill — passed on Dec. 23 — prohibits TikTok on executive branch mobile devices, with limited carveouts for national security, law enforcement and research purposes. However, Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Jamaal Bowman of New York, Cori Bush of Missouri and
  
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• Years After Work for Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Set to Make History in Arkansas

  08-01-2023 16:00
  After running a campaign heavily focused on national politics and her time as President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she wants to keep her attention on Arkansas as she takes charge as the state’s 47th governor.
  Sanders will be sworn in Tuesday, becoming the first woman governor of Arkansas, her home state. She also is ascending to the post her father, Mike Huckabee, held for more than a decade.
  Sanders, who served nearly two years as White House press secre
  
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• Look What's Happening in the Bahamas After Total FTX Collapse

  08-01-2023 16:00
  Dressed in a canary blue suit on a warm December night, sweat dripping from his brow, Bishop Lawrence Rolle belts out the lyrics to his latest hit song for the hundreds of children and adults gathered to celebrate Christmas.
  “FTX!,” he sings, bent over and shaking his head for emphasis. “The money is gone!”
  “FTX!,” his backup singer and audience scream back. “The money have done gone!”
  The cryptocurrency exchange FTX was supposed to be the crown je
  
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• The ground search for a missing Massachusetts mother is over -- but the investigation continues, authorities say

  08-01-2023 15:50 via cnn.com
  
  Investigators have "concluded" their ground search for Ana Walshe, a Massachusetts mother of three who has been missing since New Year's Day, Cohasset and Massachusetts State Police said in a joint statement Saturday.
  
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• Forensic Expert Reveals the One Clue That Tells Him Who Idaho Killer Was Targeting

  08-01-2023 15:48
  Amid official silence about the motive behind the murders of four Idaho college students, one expert said the evidence is indicating who might have died first in the early hours of Nov. 13.
  Bryan Kohberger has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary in the Nov. 13, deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
  Joseph Scott Morgan, a distinguished scholar of applied forensics at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, told Fox News t
  
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• American convicted of spying for Cuba released from prison after 20 years

  08-01-2023 15:38 via cnn.com
  
  Ana Montes, an American citizen convicted of spying for Cuba, has been released from US federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, according to Federal Bureau of Prison online records.
  
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• Socialist Caucus Revived by Freshmen Democrats

  08-01-2023 15:27
  It’s been 90 years, but socialism is back in the Wisconsin Legislature.
  After taking their oaths of office Tuesday, two freshmen Assembly members made it their first order of business to revive a socialist caucus that has been dormant since the 1930s.
  As self-identified democratic socialists, Reps. Ryan Clancy and Darrin Madison plan to hold their own meetings to advance their policy goals while also caucusing with Assembly Democrats.
  In the Republican-controlled Legislature, however, the
  
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• Brad Pitt considering 'semi-retirement' after selling majority stake in production company: report

  08-01-2023 14:56 via foxnews.com
  
  Among being an Academy Award-winning actor and producer, Brad Pitt is also a businessman.  With the recent lucrative sale of 60% of his production company, Plan B Entertainment, worth $300 million to French group Mediawan, Pitt is considering taking a step back from it all. "Brad has decided that he wants to live a peaceful life going forward and is deciding what ‘semi-retirement’ looks like for him," a source told Page Six. "One thing he’s decided is that he will likely c
  
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• Georgia inmates reportedly caught brutally beating another face additional charges

  08-01-2023 14:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Two Georgia inmates have been charged with attempted murder after video evidence of a brutal attack at the Clayton County Jail surfaced. A source brought the video to the attention of Sheriff Levon Allen on Jan. 4, FOX 5 Atlanta reports. Allen told the station that is when he opened an investigation into the incident through the internal affairs unit. The two inmates involved in the beating were charged with possession of prohibited items, aggravated assault and aggravated battery after 48 hours
  
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• California storm knocks out power for 560,000 as NWS warns of impending floods

  08-01-2023 14:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Severe storms in California knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes Sunday morning as the state continues to reel under severe weather. Power outage trackers reported that 560,000 homes in the state lacked electricity Sunday. California has faced days of severe weather events, and the National Weather Service has warned that the recent downpours are likely to overflow rivers in central California and cause widespread flooding, Reuters reported. Six people have reportedly been killed
  
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• McCarthy Quiet as Massive Monetary Tie to FTX Is Uncovered

  08-01-2023 14:46
  A former co-CEO of the disgraced and bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX donated to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, according to federal records.
  Federal Election Commission records show that in the 2022 campaign cycle, Ryan David Salame made two donations to McCarthy, totaling $8,700. However, that pales next to the $2 million FEC records show Salame gave to the Congressional Leadership Fund, which is closely aligned with McCarthy.
  According to the website Open Secrets, the $2 million donation m
  
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• Bodycam video shows Grammy-winning Nashville producer killed by police after allegedly holding family hostage

  08-01-2023 14:44 via foxnews.com
  
  A Grammy-winning Nashville music producer was shot and killed by police Thursday after allegedly holding his wife and stepdaughter hostage at gunpoint inside their home overnight.  The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department released partial body camera video showing SWAT officers descending on the home located on Summit Run Place in the Hermitage neighborhood that afternoon after the wife and stepdaughter already managed to escape the residence to a police precinct to report what allegedl
  
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• Colorado avalanche kills 1 person and leaves another missing

  08-01-2023 14:18 via cnn.com
  
  Recovery efforts will resume Sunday for a missing snowmobiler believed to be buried in the Colorado mountains after an avalanche that has already claimed the life of one person, the Grand County Sheriff's Office said.
  
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• Bus Punctures Tire and Collides with Oncoming Traffic, 40 Dead and Even More Injured

  08-01-2023 14:01
  At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in a bus crash in central Senegal, the country’s president said Sunday.
  President Macky Sall said in a tweet that the accident happened in Gnivy village, in the Kaffrine region, at about 3:30 a.m.
  “I am deeply saddened by the tragic road accident today in Gniby causing 40 deaths and many serious injuries. I extend my heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to the injured,” Sall said.
  He de
  
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• Republicans enter Congress with record number of women after putting up diverse slate of GOP candidates

  08-01-2023 14:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Congressional Republicans set a new record early Saturday with the swearing-in of the 118th Congress. The total number of Republican women serving in the House and Senate reached a historic high. A total of 149 women now serve in Congress with 124 serving in the House of Representatives, and 25 in the Senate. Republican women occupy 33 House seats and nine Senate seats, an increase of one seat in each body from the previous Congress for a total of 42 female GOP members. The previous Republican r
  
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• Former Green Beret warns of extreme narrative pushed into the military and US institutions

  08-01-2023 14:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Former Green Beret Ivan Raiklin argued on a recent episode of "Tucker Carlson Today" on Fox Nation that the military has moved away from its focus, which he says is to win wars and defend the United States Constitution.  Raiklin, a former lieutenant colonel, retired from the military after serving for 25 years because the Pentagon began promoting vaccine mandates and equity training. He stressed to host Tucker Carlson that in order to defend the nation’s Constitution, one must kn
  
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