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• Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Starts Term Strong, Reveals 'Bold' Agenda and Introduces 1st Executive Order

  10-01-2023 23:58
  Sarah Huckabee Sanders broke all sorts of “glass ceilings” on Tuesday when she was sworn in as Arkansas’ first female governor, making her also the youngest governor in the country currently and the first daughter of a former governor to assume the office once filled by her father.
  I’m sure her Annie Leibovitz spread for Vogue would have already been booked if it were not for the fact that, in the eyes of the progressive left at least, the fact that she’s a Republic
  
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• Bipartisan House Duo Calls for ESPN to Drop Sponsor That 'Poses a Significant Threat to U.S. National Security'

  10-01-2023 23:53
  Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have called on ESPN to re-evaluate its relationship with the social media company TikTok as a top sponsor.
  This comes after the sports network allowed the social media platform to be a main fixture of their NCAA halftime shows.
  According to the bipartisan letter sent to ESPN’s Chief Executive James Pitaro on Monday, lawmakers are concerned about the exposure TikTok is receiving from such advertisements; the authors deem the platform a danger to nation
  
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• Damaging 5-Year-Old Video of Biden Surfaces After Bombshell Classified Documents Story

  10-01-2023 23:44
  It’s not hard to make Joe Biden look bad — when Joe Biden is around to do it himself.
  Amid Tuesday’s furor over news that classified documents had been found in a suite of Washington, D.C., offices Biden used in his post-vice presidency period, damaging video from a 2018 interview resurfaced that shows Biden declaring he had no access to “classified information.”
  As it turns out, classified information wasn’t all that far away.
  Check out this snippet of Biden&
  
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• Major Classified Material Found in Biden's Private Office, But CNN Still Plays Damage Control

  10-01-2023 23:19
  After spending months attacking former President Donald Trump for having classified documents in his possession, CNN was singing a different tune after it was revealed that Joe Biden also had classified documents in his possession.
  Instead of condemning the president, as it did Trump, the liberal network launched a defense of the Democrat on social media.
  CBS News and other outlets reported Monday that a cache of documents from the time when Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president was foun
  
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• House Republican files articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Mayorkas

  10-01-2023 23:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Texas Republican has filed articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
  
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• Prince Harry Facing Cries to Be Put on Trial After Admitting to Killing 25 People

  10-01-2023 23:11
  Some are calling for an investigation and possible prosecution in connection with Prince Harry’s discussion of his military exploits in his new memoir, “Spare.”
  The book, which was officially released Tuesday, was already making headlines last week after the media got hold of the Spanish-language version. Of particular interest was Harry’s revelation that he had killed 25 people during his military tours in Afghanistan.
  The Duke of Sussex, who was a gunner copilot in an A
  
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• New York City man who fatally struck Chinese woman with a rock sentenced to 20 years in prison

  10-01-2023 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  A New York City man who fatally struck a 61-year-old Chinese woman with a rock in an unprovoked attack in November 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison.
  
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• Is the DNA in the Idaho case foolproof?

  10-01-2023 22:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Idaho murders DNA evidence on knife sheath helps police in arrest of Bryan Kohberger as suspect in four University of Idaho students death. But is it foolproof?
  
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• NICU mom stays by her son's side after his nurses leave to strike

  10-01-2023 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Lora Ribas hasn't left her son's bedside in four days.
  
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• GOP Gets Right to Work on Holding Biden Admin Officials Accountable - Files First Impeachment of Session

  10-01-2023 22:43
  House Republicans have fired their first shot at the Biden administration, filing impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
  Republican Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas had promised last week to file articles of impeachment and did so on Monday, according to Fox News.
  The impeachment process has two steps. First, the House must decide whether an official should be charged. Then, a trial is conducted in the Senate on those charges. Given that the House has a GOP majority
  
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• Southern US At Risk From Severe Cross-Country Winter Storm

  10-01-2023 22:33
  The same cross-country storm poised to unleash wintry weather across portions of the central and eastern United States during the latter part of the week will bring severe weather hazards to the South, AccuWeather forecasters say.
  Mild air will build to early springlike levels as warm, moist air flows northward from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of the coast-to-coast storm. Tens of thousands of feet above the ground at the jet stream level, a burst of high winds will accompany this storm.
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• Judge temporarily blocks parts of New Jersey gun law that restricted concealed carry in certain places

  10-01-2023 22:13 via cnn.com
  A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the enforcement of portions of a New Jersey gun law that restricted concealed carry in certain places.
  
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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders focuses on education as she's sworn in as Arkansas' first female governor

  10-01-2023 21:55 via cnn.com
  
  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who gained national recognition as White House press secretary in the Trump administration, was sworn in Tuesday as Arkansas' 47th governor.
  
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• 15-Year-Old Boy Collapses During Basketball Game, Heart Stops - Bystander Administers CPR

  10-01-2023 21:55
  A New Jersey teenager was enjoying playing a basketball game with his school team on Saturday evening when he suddenly found himself in cardiac distress.
  John Maro, an eighth-grader at St. James School in Basking Ridge, had a stellar start in the game at the Auten Road Intermediate School in Hillsborough, the regional cable news channel News 12 New Jersey reported.
  The 15-year-old had scored four points in the first two minutes when he suddenly collapsed on the court, St. James basketball coach
  
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• As Biden Admin Considers Ban of Gas Stoves, Damning Photo of Jill Biden Goes Viral

  10-01-2023 21:43
  The Biden administration is considering banning all gas stoves.
  Well, except maybe for one. More on that in a bit.
  The Consumer Product Safety Commission is suggesting that the 35 percent of U.S. homes using gas stoves should get rid of them, Bloomberg said Monday.
  You’ll kill your kids, the CPSC says. Or at least give them asthma. And you’ll mess up your lungs, get cardiovascular disease, cancer and more.
  “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can
  
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• 'All Glory to God': Tim Tebow Gets the Best News of His Career Live on Air

  10-01-2023 21:32
  Tim Tebow’s fellow on-air ESPN personalities surprised him before Monday’s college football national championship game with the announcement that he had been accepted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
  Joe Tessitore launched into the list of the 18 players and four coaches inducted this year, but did not include Tebow, who played quarterback for the University of Florida from 2006 to 2009.
  The Gators won the national championship in 2007 and 2009, and Tebow won Most Valuable Pla
  
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• Biden's Classified Docs Case Gets Even Worse for Him After It's Revealed Who Will Be Investigating

  10-01-2023 21:11
  On Monday, a bombshell report revealed that a batch of documents, some of which were marked “classified,” was discovered in a closet at the Washington D.C.-based Penn Biden Center, where President Joe Biden maintained an office after his vice presidential service.
  Richard Sauber, Biden’s special counsel, indicated that the White House Counsel’s office was alerted immediately after the documents were discovered. The National Archives and Records Administration quickly took
  
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• GOP Legislators Turn Backs on Katie Hobbs, Walk Out of Her First State of the State Address

  10-01-2023 21:03
  If Katie Hobbs remains governor of Arizona, she’s going to have to get used to this.
  The lingering distaste over Arizona’s disaster of an election in November is clearly giving lawmakers a bad case of heartburn.
  On Monday, they showed there’s a limit to how much they can stomach.
  The Democrat responsible for the Grand Canyon State’s chaotic election in November went before Arizona lawmakers to deliver her State of the State address — and got a reception that didn&rs
  
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• McCarthy Gets Revenge on Dems for Kicking Gosar, MTG Off Committees; Omar, Schiff, Swalwell Will Pay

  10-01-2023 20:48
  Newly-minted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans to make good on his vow to kick Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, both of California, off the powerful House Intelligence Committee and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
  After House Democrats stripped GOP Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia of their committee memberships in 2021, Republicans warned they would live to regret it.
  McCarthy told Punchbowl News, “Swalw
  
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• Fed Chair Powell: Bringing down inflation requires 'measures that are not popular'

  10-01-2023 20:38 via cnn.com
  
  Investors are shifting their focus Tuesday from the stock market to Stockholm as they await a fairly rare public speaking appearance by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
  
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• Top Dem Bows Out of Party After Getting Rude Awakening About How Party Treats Black Voters

  10-01-2023 20:11
  Another prominent Democrat has said goodbye to the Democratic Party.
  South Carolina state Sen. Mia McLeod, who ran unsuccessfully for governor last year, said that she was leaving the party “because it no longer espouses the values my constituents and I hold dear.”
  In an email to supporters Tuesday morning, McLeod said she made the decision after “seven months of prayer and reflection,” presumably since coming in second in the gubernatorial primary on June 14. She had bee
  
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• Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's FTX stake will probably get wiped out

  10-01-2023 19:32 via cnn.com
  
  Less than a year after Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen appeared in a series of Super Bowl ads for FTX, the former couple have emerged as some of the biggest equity holders in the now-bankrupt enterprise.
  
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• GOP leaders and McCarthy holdouts defend deals as some Republicans complain they're in the dark

  10-01-2023 19:24 via cnn.com
  
  House GOP leaders and key negotiators won't commit to publicly releasing details about the side deals Kevin McCarthy cut in order to secure the speakership, undercutting the Republican pledge to run their chamber openly and transparently and as some rank-and-file members call for more information about the promises that were made.
  
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• Huckabee: 'Someone' Will Be 'Very Unhappy That Elon Opened These Files'

  10-01-2023 19:08
  We’re still waiting for the release of the highly anticipated “Twitter File” focusing on Dr. Anthony Fauci, which had been forecast for the end of last week but is taking a little longer to be made public. But before that, another one dropped, this one from independent journalist Alex Berenson.
  The irony is rich, because Berenson was “permanently” suspended from Twitter for “repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules,” and he filed suit aga
  
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• Construction Begins on Biden's Wall as He Visits Border, But It's Not Where You Think

  10-01-2023 18:57
  Finally, it appears that President Joe Biden has been convinced that walls work.
  Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to have been enough to change his mind about securing the U.S. border with Mexico, which remains as unsecure as ever despite his recent visit there. His administration has, however, begun work on a project a little closer to home.
  To his home, that is.
  Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, is getting new “security fencing” — at taxpay
  
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• Florida's Last Statewide Dem Reminds America of DeSantis' Great Win in Congress - Doesn't Even Realize It

  10-01-2023 18:53
  Nikki Fried is not a read-the-room kind of gal.
  On Jan. 3, Fried left office as the last Democrat elected to statewide office in Florida. Not that it was a major job — she was the state’s commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, which is more responsibility than I have in Florida but not exactly a kingmaker in the whole scheme of things.
  She hoped to be, mind you, given that she was one of the candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor. I’m not quite sure i
  
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• America Waking Up? Christian Colleges Weather Shocking Trend as Leftist Colleges Nosedive

  10-01-2023 18:44
  In the woke world of American academia, things aren’t looking so rosy.
  U.S. Census Bureau data shows enrollment at America’s institutions of higher learning is down 13 percent over the past decade — and this was before COVID-19 hit and many schools went to online instruction while still demanding the same amount of money for an inferior education.
  There is a bright spot in the world of higher ed, however — although not that many in academia want to hear it.
  As Jeremy
  
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• America Waking Up? Christian Colleges Thriving as Leftist Colleges Nosedive

  10-01-2023 18:44
  In the woke world of American academia, things aren’t looking so rosy.
  U.S. Census Bureau data shows enrollment at America’s institutions of higher learning is down 13 percent over the past decade — and this was before COVID-19 hit and many schools went to online instruction while still demanding the same amount of money for an inferior education.
  There is a bright spot in the world of higher ed, however — although not that many in academia want to hear it.
  As Jeremy
  
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• Sick Leftists Waste No Time Celebrating Death of Diamond - Here Are Some of the Worst Tweets

  10-01-2023 18:34
  The sudden and tragic death of one of former President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters is prompting some rather sickening responses from leftists on Twitter.
  On Monday, it was announced on social media that Lynette Hardaway, better known as “Diamond” of “Diamond & Silk,” had tragically passed away.
  “Diamond & Silk” were two North Carolina sisters known for their vocal support of Donald Trump and their conservative political commentary.
  Unfor
  
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• Pentagon Announces Ukrainian Troops Are Coming to Heartland America for Training

  10-01-2023 18:24
  About 100 Ukrainian troops will head to Oklahoma’s Fort Sill as soon as next week to begin training on the Patriot missile defense system, getting Kyiv closer to obtaining a long-sought protection against Russia continued missile attacks.
  Ukraine has requested that the U.S. provide the Patriot surface-to-air guided missile defense system for months because it can target aircraft, cruise missiles and shorter-range ballistic missiles. During his late December visit to the U.S., Ukrainian Pre
  
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• House Intelligence Leader Makes Move After Biden Classified Document Discovery - 'Damage Assessment' Requested

  10-01-2023 18:14
  The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that the U.S. intelligence community conduct a “damage assessment” of classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden’s former institute.
  Rep. Mike Turner sent the request Tuesday to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, saying that Biden’s retention of the documents put him in “potential violation of laws protecting national security, including the Espion
  
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• Latest 'Twitter Files' Drop: Top Pfizer Exec Got White House-Level Censorship Access, Targeted Former FDA Head

  10-01-2023 18:11
  The latest release of the “Twitter Files” exposed actions taken by Pfizer board member and former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb to suppress debate over the necessity of COVID vaccines for those with natural immunity.
  The findings were revealed by independent journalist Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, who gained recognition as a contrarian voice during the pandemic.
  Berenson’s full report can be viewed on his Substack website, “Unreported Truths.&rdq
  
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• Gen. Flynn Exclusive: 1 Rule House Just Adopted Set to Expose FBI, DOJ, Intel Deep State

  10-01-2023 18:10
  The establishment media viewed the 15 votes required to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House as evidence of a dysfunctional Republican Party. The talking heads repeatedly misrepresented that heroic battle as a personality conflict, or a fight for certain members to be appointed to certain committees.
  However, it was that very resistance offered by members of the House Freedom Caucus that led to the adoption of a vitally important House rule that could give us one more opportunity to rest
  
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• Levin Cites Ben Franklin to Argue GOP Needs to Stay Focused on Biden Admin, the 'Enemy of the Republic'

  10-01-2023 18:09
  Fox News host Mark Levin exhorted House Republicans to keep their eyes on the prize of stopping the tyrannical and destructive acts of the Biden administration.
  His remarks on his program “Life, Liberty & Levin” on Sunday came at the end of a week-long fight over who would be the next speaker of the House of Representatives.
  Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California ultimately won the gavel on the 15th ballot by a narrow margin — 216-212 — early Saturday morning, with six Rep
  
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• US intercepts Iranian shipment of 2,000 assault rifles destined for Yemen

  10-01-2023 18:03 via cnn.com
  
  The US intercepted a shipment of more than 2,000 Iranian assault rifles destined for Yemen, according to a statement from the US military.
  
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• 7,000 Nurses Take a Stand in the Streets of New York - 'Desperate Crisis' Can No Longer Be Ignored

  10-01-2023 17:56
  More than 7,000 nurses went on strike Monday at two New York City hospitals.
  Pay and staffing levels were the two major issues that compelled around 3,600 nurses to walk off the job at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Another 3,500 nurses went on strike at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, according to CBS.
  “We are not out here for wages. We are out here because we want patient safety,” nurse Lorena Vivas said as she walked outside Mount Sinai, according to The New York Times
  
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• 18-Year-Old Dies Suddenly While Playing Basketball in The Bahamas, Authorities Want Autopsy

  10-01-2023 17:47
  An 18-year-old woman died unexpectedly during a basketball game Thursday in The Bahamas.
  The teen had not complained about her health or feeling poorly prior to her collapse, local police told The Nassau Guardian.
  Observers were described as “visibly shaken” by the incident. Some were “wailing and sobbing” at the scene.
  The incident occurred at a park in the Masons Addition subdivision on the island of New Providence, the most populated island in The Bahamas and location
  
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• Anti-Trump GOP Member Abandons Senate Seat Midterm, Leaving Key Opening for Special Election

  10-01-2023 17:44
  GOP Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska officially vacated his seat in Congress on Sunday to take a position as president of the University of Florida.
  Sasse was among the seven Republican senators who voted to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion in his second impeachment trial.
  The former lawmaker, who resigned two years into his second term, recognizes his opposition to Trump at various points in the Republican’s presidency likely will be what he&
  
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• Video: Reporter Confronts Biden on Classified Documents Discovery

  10-01-2023 17:22
  President Joe Biden on Monday studiously ignored a question about the discovery of classified documents relating to his time as vice president in the Obama administration in an office he used before being elected president.
  The 2-month-old discovery of documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement was announced Monday, according to The New York Times. Details about the contents of the documents were not released other than that they were found in a locked closet.
  However
  
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• Man Devastated as Home Is Left in Ashes, But Then Fellow Veteran Steps Up to Provide Comfort

  10-01-2023 17:15
  Two Texas veterans have found common ground after a devastating tragedy.
  Volunteer firefighters responded to the scene of a serious house fire in Terrell, Texas, earlier this month, according to KDFW-TV.
  The home belongs to Navy veteran Larry Hickson.
  Everything inside the Kaufman County home had been destroyed by the time Hickson made it home, according to KDFW.Terrell volunteer firefighter and Army veteran Colby McFadden noticed one of Hickson’s possessions had been destroyed when respon
  
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• Minnesota teachers to be required to push CRT, support trans identity to obtain teacher’s licenses

  10-01-2023 17:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The state of Minnesota’s teacher licensing board is soon set to require all aspiring teachers to teach and promote the core tenets of LGBTQ ideology and critical race theory. According to updated "Standards of Effective Practice," promulgated by Minnesota’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB), educators are required to commit to affirming various and "diverse perspectives on race, culture, language, sexual identity, ability," etc. in the classroom in order to
  
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• US Navy Intercepts Fishing Vessel Containing a Dangerous Shipment from Iran

  10-01-2023 16:44
  In the past two months alone, the U.S. Navy has intercepted three illegal shipments of “lethal aid” from Iran destined for Houthi rebels in Yemen.
  The most recent incident occurred when the USS Chinook boarded a fishing vessel in international waters and discovered six Yemeni nationals smuggling 2,116 AK-47 rifles.
  Previously, “more than 50 tons of ammunition rounds, fuses and propellants for rockets” had been discovered in a Dec. 1 occurrence, and on Nov. 8 U.S. forces i
  
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• World Economic Forum Boasts About 'Record Participation' of Global Elites but Keeps Davos Guest List a Secret

  10-01-2023 16:43
  The Swiss town of Davos will host 52 heads of state and government and nearly 600 CEOs as the World Economic Forum hosts its annual meeting in the Alps next week, organizers said Tuesday.
  Forum organizers said their latest lineup for the elite gathering of political leaders, business executives, cultural trend-setters and international organization chiefs will tackle issues facing a divided world as 2023 begins, with war and conflict, economic pressures and climate change in focus.
  “There
  
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• Florida Democratic Party Chair Abruptly Quits After Getting Destroyed by DeSantis

  10-01-2023 16:40
  Casting blame far and wide for the dismal showing of Florida Democrats in November, state Democratic Party chair Manny Diaz resigned Monday.
  November saw Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis charge to a 19-point victory over Democrat Charlie Crist as the GOP built a supermajority in the state Legislature and gained ground even in formerly Democratic areas.
  The former Miami mayor said in a statement that entrenched obstacles hobbled the party, according to Politico.
  “During my tenure, I hoped to ad
  
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• Federal officials acting on 'thousands' of complaints related to Southwest meltdown

  10-01-2023 16:27 via cnn.com
  
  Federal officials say they are acting on "thousands" of complaints by Southwest Airlines customers after its days-long holiday travel meltdown -- including complaints that Southwest is not making good on its pledge to issue refunds.
  
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• Biden Caught on Camera Confusing Salvation Army for Secret Service - Gets Reality Snap After Perplexed Look

  10-01-2023 16:27
  The dumpster fire that is Joe Biden’s failed presidency rages on, as the 80-year-old career politician committed another embarrassing gaffe at a public event.
  On Sunday, Biden appeared to confuse a Salvation Army officer for a Secret Service agent while visiting a migrant services center in El Paso, Texas.
  This was the first time in his presidency — and the only time during his 51-year political career — that Biden has visited the nation’s southern border, which is being
  
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• Violence Is Silence

  10-01-2023 16:24
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Violence Is Silence appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Donald Trump Threatened with Death in Disturbing New Video: 'Coming Soon ...'

  10-01-2023 16:07
  The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a designated terrorist organization which is also branch of the Iranian armed forces — neither forgives nor forgets, apparently.
  In January 2020, you may recall, the IRGC made headlines because then-President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike that killed the head of the organization, Maj. Gen. Kasem Soleimani, in Iraq. This led to threats of escalation and the accidental shootdown of a airliner by Iranian forces. The Trump administration stil
  
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• Armed Robber Comes Face-To-Face with Armed Mother Protecting Her Children - Her Weapon Was Better

  10-01-2023 16:06
  Sean Connery, as police officer Jim Malone in 1987’s “The Untouchables,” once accused a would-be assailant of being so dumb that he brought a knife to a gunfight. (OK, technically he accused him of being so Italian that he brought a knife to a gunfight — but the implication was clear enough.)
  One wonders what Malone would have said about a guy who brought a lug wrench and a shovel to a gunfight. Nothing positive, probably.
  Nevertheless, that’s what happened early Su
  
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• Republicans Vote to Slash $71 Billion in New IRS Funding, Passing First Bill Since Taking Control of House

  10-01-2023 15:53
  In a largely symbolic vote illustrating the legislative cross-currents that will roil Congress for the next two years, House Republicans on Monday voted to claw back $71 billion of the $80 billion in funding a Democratic-controlled Congress bestowed upon the Internal Revenue Service last year.
  The bill passed the House on a 221-210 vote, according to The Hill. However, it has no chance of passing in the Democratic-controlled Senate or being signed by President Joe Biden, as  The New York Ti
  
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