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• Op-Ed: 4 Devastating Truths About 2020 Election Disputes and What to Do Before 2024

  13-01-2023 23:58
  Our legislative and judicial standards are woefully inadequate in the modern era of mail-in ballots, which are often submitted without identification, save for a signature.
  In the good old days, a person could not vote until he walked into a local precinct, identified himself, and wrote his signature in front of election staff. Disputes generally involved misconduct by election officials, faulty equipment, voter intimidation, illegal voting or false vote counts. In the courtroom, the plaintiff c
  
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• Biden admin preparing to ask Congress to approve sale of F-16 jets to Turkey

  13-01-2023 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve the sale of 40 F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, after weighing a Turkish request for the planes for more than a year, congressional sources familiar with the deliberations told CNN.
  
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• "Disgraced" George Santos Reveals That He Will Resign - There's Just One Catch

  13-01-2023 23:13
  The George Santos saga continued as the embattled GOP freshman resisted calls from his colleagues to resign over the  his falsified background.
  The New York Republican, who flipped a Democrat-held seat in Long Island, has held his ground despite the pressure, vowing to serve his two-year term.
  According ABC reporter Lalee Ibssa on Twitter, Santos told journalists that if a certain number of people asked him to resign, he would.
  “If 142 people ask for me to resign, I’ll resign,&r
  
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• European Lunacy: Hollywood Director Charged with 'Taking a Life' on Set of Blockbuster

  13-01-2023 23:00
  Hollywood director and producer Michael Bay has been charged by Italian authorities in connection with an on-set death during the filming of the Netflix movie “6 Underground,” TheWrap reported Thursday.
  Unlike the other famous on-set death in recent memory (here’s looking at you, Alec Baldwin), Bay isn’t accused of being involved in taking another human being’s life.
  Bay’s charges are connected to the alleged death of a pigeon on set.
  Yes, seriously.
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• In Final Days of Power, Dems Quietly Changed Rule to Benefit Themselves

  13-01-2023 22:48
  Imagine a line of work where you get to make rules for your bosses.
  Imagine the same job allowing you to vote on raising your own pay while foisting the bill on your bosses.
  Sound too good to be true? Well, it’s as true President Joe Biden being under federal investigation, because that job is simply called “being a Democratic member of the House of Representatives.”
  As a parting gift to themselves before Republicans could fully commandeer the majority, Democratic House members
  
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• Supreme Court takes up Christian postal worker's religious claim

  13-01-2023 22:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Supreme Court will hear a Christian mail carrier's employment discrimination claim over the accommodation of his religious practices.
  
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• Comer: Biden Family 'Compromised,' Must Learn if China Had Access to Classified Docs

  13-01-2023 22:17
  House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer of Kentucky identified Thursday the potential national security risks caused by President Joe Biden storing classified documents from his vice presidency in his garage at his Wilmington, Delaware, home.
  This revelation came on top of another earlier this week that Biden kept classified documents at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., a think tank where he kept an office after leaving the vice presidency in 2017.
  “The story doesn&rs
  
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• One more thing for Democrats to fix: the Republican Party

  13-01-2023 21:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  At some point, the GOP will be in charge. That is why we must do everything we can to ensure a more moderate, saner version of it is in place when that happens.
  
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• Elvis Presley's Daughter Appeared Frail as She Uttered 5 Words at Golden Globes Just Days Before Death

  13-01-2023 21:42
  Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, appeared unsteady on her feet at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles Tuesday night, just two days before she died at the age of 54.
  She and Priscilla were at the awards show in support of the movie “Elvis,” starring Austin Butler in the lead role and Tom Hanks as Elvis’ manager Col. Tom Parker.
  During an interview on the red carpet at the Globes with “Extra” host Billy Bush, Presley linked arms with 80-year-o
  
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• RNC braces for three-way chair race at winter meeting

  13-01-2023 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  A three-way race for chairman of the Republican National Committee could deal another setback to a party looking to enter the 2024 cycle with a unified front.
  
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• Evel Knievel's Son, Robbie Knievel, Dead at 60

  13-01-2023 21:33
  Robbie Knievel, the son of daredevil motorcycle stunt rider Evel Knievel who carried on his father’s famous exploits, died Friday after a long illness.
  He was 60 years old.
  The younger Knievel’s brother, Kelly, said he lost his battle with pancreatic cancer after being in hospice care in Nevada for three days, CBS News reported.
  “It was expected,” Kelly Knievel told the outlet. “He was in Reno with his three daughters by his side.”
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• Fox News Crushes, Takes All 15 Top Spots in Ratings - Look at Where CNN's 1st Show Appears in Comparison

  13-01-2023 21:30
  Fox News continues to clobber its competition in the ratings, and, frankly, it’s not even close.
  In fact, just this Wednesday, Fox News beat both CNN and MSNBC combined across most time slots, according to ratings compiled by Mediaite.
  Remarkably, Fox’s top rated show – “The Five” – telecast at 5 p.m. ET, is not even in prime time.
  Not only that, but Fox News beat CNN and MSNBC in most time slots for the 25-54 age demographic. That coveted age range is of part
  
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• Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva cleared by RUSADA, WADA to review doping decision and consider appeal

  13-01-2023 21:10 via cnn.com
  
  The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) found figure skater Kamila Valieva violated anti-doping rules but bore no "fault or negligence" for the transgression, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
  
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• Warning: The Nightmare Scenario That Could See Kamala Harris Serve 10 Years as President

  13-01-2023 20:48
  Here’s a nightmare scenario for those hoping for a return to competent White House leadership, and it involves Vice President Kamala Harris.
  President Joe Biden will reach the halfway mark of his first term on Jan. 20 and for all intents and purposes has become a lame duck already, thanks to his advanced age, which he is certainly showing, and the Republicans taking over the House of Representatives.
  Who really believes Biden is fit to serve a second term? And with House Republicans gearin
  
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• Thieves Make Off with $300K Using Diversion Tactic on Truck Driver - Would You Fall for This Trick?

  13-01-2023 20:37
  “I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers,” Blanche Dubois breathes in the 1951 classic film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
  It’s a sign of the times when criminals openly rely on that same brand of kindness.
  Thieves stole a bag from an armored truck in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Jan. 6, according to the New York Daily News. One man grabbed a sack of cash while two others distracted a Brink’s gua
  
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• Bank earnings fail to impress investors

  13-01-2023 20:29 via cnn.com
  
  JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and asset management giant BlackRock posted results that topped Wall Street's forecasts Friday, but investors were nonetheless a little disappointed at first.
  
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• Justice Department announces new rule to regulate pistol-stabilizing braces

  13-01-2023 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  Attorney General Merrick Garland and Steve Dettelbach, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announced new regulations Friday that would subject pistol-stabilizing braces to additional regulations, including higher taxes, longer waiting periods and registration.
  
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• Analysis: Just how bad was the war in Ukraine for Europe's biggest economy last year?

  13-01-2023 20:26 via cnn.com
  
  Germany's economy grew slightly last year despite battling an energy crisis sparked by Russia's war in Ukraine.
  
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• Mud, mold, and destruction: California businesses face catastrophic damage

  13-01-2023 20:23 via cnn.com
  
  At the end of a long wooden California pier that juts out above the Pacific ocean sits the Wharf House. It's now almost entirely unreachable.
  
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• Mud and destruction: California businesses face damage

  13-01-2023 20:23 via cnn.com
  
  At the end of a long wooden California pier that juts out above the Pacific ocean sits the Wharf House. It's now almost entirely unreachable.
  
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• Trump Org. fined $1.6 million after conviction for 17 felonies, including tax fraud

  13-01-2023 20:16 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump Organization was fined $1.6 million -- the maximum possible penalty -- by a New York judge Friday for running a decade-long tax fraud scheme, a symbolic moment because it is the only judgment for a criminal conviction that has come close to former President Donald Trump.
  
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• NFL Warns Referees to Be on High Alert After Cameras Catch Several Teams Apparently Using Illegal Device

  13-01-2023 20:08
  Mere days before the NFL playoffs are set to kick off, referees are reportedly being warned about a shadowy new trick that appears to be gaining a foothold with certain teams.
  And no, shockingly, it’s got nothing to do with the New England Patriots.
  Instead, according to a Football Zebras report, it appears that multiple teams in the NFL have been partaking in the use of a small, unidentified object to aid in the kicking game.
  The NFL has reportedly warned the referees to pay extra attenti
  
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• Bachman-Turner Overdrive Co-Founder Dies at Age 69

  13-01-2023 19:50
  Robbie Bachman, the drummer for the Canadian hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive — known for such 1970s hits as “Takin’ Care of Business” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” — has died at age 69.
  His death was announced on social media Thursday by his brother and bandmate, Randy Bachman.
  No cause was given.
  “The pounding beat of BTO has left us,” Randy Bachman wrote. “He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n roll machine
  
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• Backpack of 6-year-old boy was searched prior to Virginia school shooting after tip about weapon

  13-01-2023 19:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  A school administrator in Newport News, Virginia, was alerted to a possible weapon on a 6-year-old boy on the day a first-grade teacher was shot, but a search of the student's bookbag that morning turned up empty.
  
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• House Republicans Consider Handing Democrats the Ultimate Defeat by Wiping Trump's Impeachments Off the Books Altogether

  13-01-2023 19:40
  From the moment former President Donald Trump took his oath of office six years ago, Democrats had one goal in mind: impeachment.
  First, with a big assist from the Department of Justice, the FBI and the legacy media, they alleged he had colluded with the Kremlin to win the presidency. Their hopes were dashed when Robert Mueller’s 22-month witch hunt ended in failure in the spring of 2019.
  Next, they seized on a phone call during which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to
  
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• Watch: Armed with Soup Container, Quick-Thinking Man Thwarts Would-Be Car Thieves

  13-01-2023 19:32
  It was bright and sunny in New Orleans on Dec. 25 when a man, apparently filled with the Christmas spirit, decided to drop off a tasty present for a neighbor, WDSU-TV reported.
  Unfortunately, his attempt to deliver a container of soup as a holiday kindness turned into a wild battle with a carjacker.
  Video from a front-door camera shows the unidentified man, who was wearing a suit, pull up in front of the residence in a red SUV and walk through the gate and up the steps carrying his gift of gumbo
  
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• Feud Over Soccer Player Refusing to Kneel Gets Worse After She Wins $100K Settlement

  13-01-2023 18:58
  A First Amendment feud between a college soccer player and her school has only grown worse despite the fact that she won a large monetary settlement.
  Former Virginia Tech women’s soccer player Kiersten Hening filed a lawsuit against head coach Charles “Chugger” Adair, saying that he verbally attacked her and decreased her playing time after she refused to kneel in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
  She eventually agreed to a monetary settlement of $100,000, which inclu
  
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• Carrying a concealed loaded gun without a permit may soon be legal in most states

  13-01-2023 18:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Florida could soon become the 26th state to allow individuals to carry concealed loaded guns anywhere without permits.
  
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• College Athlete Trades Jersey for New Faith-Filled Path: 'Bigger Than Football'

  13-01-2023 18:16
  For too many elite athletes, there’s no higher calling than winning. Winning the big game. Taking home the award. Getting the glory.
  Cam Lamanuzzi is not one of those athletes. Instead, he’s giving the glory where it belongs: to God.
  Lamanuzzi decided to leave the Fresno State Bulldogs football team this fall despite the fact he still had a year of eligibility left, according to KFSN-TV.
  However, he’s still working with his former teammates. Not as a coach or as a trainer,
  
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• Nearly Identical Strangers with Same Name and Career Take DNA Test, Make Surprising Discovery

  13-01-2023 18:09
  There are two Brady Feigls. Both are Minor League Baseball pitchers. They each had the same surgery and even used the same surgeon. If they were to put on identical eyeglasses, they might easily be mistaken for the same person. As it is, their looks are so similar that one often is confused with the other.
  Moreover, each man is 6 feet 4 inches tall and has red hair. Their commonalities were so striking that the young men decided to take a DNA test, according to the New York Post.
  To their s
  
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• Biden Administration Hands Foreign Company $700 Million Loan in Bid to Boost Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

  13-01-2023 18:02
  The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a conditional loan of $700 million to an Australian mining company to pursue a proposed lithium project in Nevada, as the U.S. seeks domestic supplies for a key component in electric vehicle batteries.
  Ioneer Ltd. has hoped to begin mining by 2026 in Esmerelda County.
  The company projects the site could produce enough lithium to support production of about 400,000 electric vehicles annually for decades.
  The government’s announcement Friday
  
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• Poll: Only 1 Group of People Americans Trust Less Than Politicians, Highlights Glaring Issue in Politics

  13-01-2023 18:00
  Americans have lost trust in their elected representatives.
  Members of Congress came in as the second least trusted profession in a Gallup poll released this week.
  The one profession that Americans hold in lower regard than members of Congress? Telemarketers.
  The poll, conducted from November to December with a +/- 4 percent margin of error, asked 1,020 Americans to assess the ethics and honesty of members of 18 professions.
  Members of Congress came in 17th place, with 9 percent of Americans vou
  
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• Exclusive: Rocket CEO says housing isn't a buyer's or a seller's market. Now it's even

  13-01-2023 17:41 via cnn.com
  
  Covid-19 set off an epic housing boom that left first-time homebuyers feeling desperate amid relentless bidding wars and all-cash offers.
  
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• Man Armed with a Knife Was Terrorizing a Walmart - Then a Nearby Veteran's 'Military Training Kicked In'

  13-01-2023 17:40
  Demario Davis and his son were in a South Carolina Walmart last week when an incident erupted that required Davis to be more than a spectator.
  The Richland County Sheriff’s Department was called to respond to the Columbia store around 2 p.m. Jan. 4.
  Deputies were told that a man with a pocket knife was making threats, according to WIS-TV in Columbia.
  However, the situation was neutralized before they arrived in an incident caught on video.
  “I was at the checkout when my son noticed t
  
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• EV Owner Needs Replacement Battery, Told She'll Have to Wait Four Years to Get It

  13-01-2023 17:28
  An electric vehicle owner from rural Alaska found out that owning an EV is less than ideal when she was told it would take four years for her to get a replacement battery pack for her Chevy Bolt.
  Patricia Atkinson, who lives in Sitka, in Southeast Alaska, a town so small and isolated it has no public charging stations, bought her electric car from a dealer in Seattle, Washington. She had to travel to Washington to buy the car because there are no car dealers in her small town. But recently she w
  
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• US carrier strike group begins operating in South China Sea as tensions with China simmer

  13-01-2023 17:15 via cnn.com
  
  A US carrier strike group began operating in the South China Sea on Thursday, the Navy announced, amid heightened tensions with Beijing, which claims much of the body of water as its sovereign territory.
  
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• Consumer sentiment has perked back up to its highest level since April

  13-01-2023 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  As inflation continues its slow and steady descent, consumer sentiment is climbing back out of a trough hit last year.
  
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• Photo of Foreign Politician with Hillary Clinton Lands Him in Jail

  13-01-2023 16:54
  Belarusian investigators are using a photo of an opposition politician shaking hands with former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as evidence in a criminal case tied to the mass protests after Belarus’ disputed 2020 presidential election.
  The Investigative Committee of Belarus on Friday published the photo of Andrey Dzmitryeu, who ran in the election against President Alexander Lukashenko and is now facing up to four years in prison over his involvement in the protests. In a stateme
  
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• Struggling Tesla Forced to Make Dramatic Change to Lure Customers

  13-01-2023 16:53
  With its sales slowing and its stock price tumbling, Tesla Inc. slashed prices dramatically Friday on several versions of its electric vehicles, making some of its models eligible for a new federal tax credit that could help spur buyer interest.
  The company dropped prices nearly 20% in the United States on some versions of the Model Y SUV, its top seller.
  That cut will make more versions of the Model Y eligible for a $7,500 electric-vehicle tax credit that will be available through March.
  The cu
  
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• CBS News Anchors Can't Believe How Karine Jean-Pierre Attempted to Defend Biden Over Classified Documents Scandal

  13-01-2023 16:50
  When a leftist administration has lost CBS News, you know it’s in trouble.
  Yesterday’s press briefing, if it can even still be called that anymore, consisted primarily of press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre alternating between explaining why she couldn’t answer whatever question she was asked and claiming that the Biden administration is and has been “transparent” on the issue of the classified documents discovered in unsecured locations on President Joe Biden’
  
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• Watch: Days Before Lisa Marie Presley's Death She Honored Elvis' 88th Birthday with 'Moving' Speech

  13-01-2023 16:40
  In what became her final speech to the fans who came to Graceland to mark her father’s birthday, Lisa Marie Presley on Sunday told those gathered she loved them.
  Four days later, Presley, 54, the daughter of icon Elvis Presley, was dead, hours after she was brought to a hospital in full cardiac arrest, according to The Associated Press.
  On Sunday, Presley made a brief appearance for fans of her father gathered at Graceland, on what would have been his 88th birthday.
  “It’s been
  
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• Man Tries Towing 10,000-Pound Trailer with EV Truck in Winter, Goes Only 100 Miles - But It Gets Worse

  13-01-2023 16:25
  Electric vehicles underperform gas-powered cars in numerous ways, but the disparity becomes even starker when you haul a trailer in cold weather.
  EV fan Zack Nelson — who runs the tech-centric YouTube channel JerryRigEverything — chronicled his disastrous experience towing his 10,000-pound electric Hummer in 34-degree weather using his Rivian R1T electric truck.
  Rivian is a struggling EV company backed by Amazon and Ford.
  Nelson discovered he was able to drive only 100 miles on
  
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• Local Official Indicted on Voter Fraud Charges Connected to Both Primary and General Elections

  13-01-2023 15:56
  A local official in Alabama has been charged with election fraud in connection with last year’s Democratic primary election and general election.
  Albert Turner Jr., chairman of the Perry County Commission, was indicted for allegedly voting multiple times in the May Democratic primary and putting multiple completed ballots into a tabulator, according to a news release from the office of the Alabama secretary of state.
  Turner has been indicted on a charge of ballot harvesting in connection w
  
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• Top Dem Suggests Classified Documents at Biden Residence May Have Been 'Planted'

  13-01-2023 15:45
  Remember when the liberal media had a conniption after former President Donald Trump merely suggested FBI agents might have planted evidence during the raid of his Mar-a-Lago residence in August?
  Never mind that the suggestion was just tossed off in a Truth Social post in a tone that sounded half-serious at worst.
  “Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be alone,” Trump wrote, “without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, &
  
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• Tim Cook agrees to a pay cut after shareholders revolt

  13-01-2023 15:44 via cnn.com
  
  Apple CEO Tim Cook has agreed to cut his pay this year after shareholders rebelled.
  
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• Tim Cook agrees to a pay cut

  13-01-2023 15:44 via cnn.com
  
  Apple CEO Tim Cook has agreed to cut his pay this year after shareholders rebelled.
  
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• Why your Pepsi Zero Sugar will soon taste different

  13-01-2023 15:35 via cnn.com
  
  Pepsi Zero Sugar will soon taste different.
  
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• Pepsi is changing its Zero Sugar recipe

  13-01-2023 15:35 via cnn.com
  
  Pepsi Zero Sugar will soon taste different.
  
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• Chinese Researchers Develop “Bionic Penis” To Restore Erectile Function

  13-01-2023 15:22
  A man shocked about erectile dysfunction through facial express. A bionic penis that could restore erectile function has been developed by scientists. CAST OF THOUSANDS/SWNS TALKER
  A bionic penis that could restore erectile function has been developed by scientists.Chinese researchers are hopeful it will work after successful experiments on pigs.
  The synthetic penis mimics a fibrous sheath of tissue that keeps men up to the job. Lab tests showed the device described in the journal Matter is not
  
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• Paper Trail

  13-01-2023 15:11
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Paper Trail appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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