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• More cities and states make homeless encampments a crime, leaving low-income people with few options

  16-01-2023 23:50
  
  As the number of people experiencing homelessness increases across the country, more cities have passed laws making it illegal to sleep in public.      
  
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• Here's the biggest news you missed this weekend

  16-01-2023 23:46
  
  At least 40 people were killed in a missile strike in Ukraine. And Republicans seek answers on Biden's handling of classified documents.      
  
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• 'Crazy shift in my perception': How first transgender war correspondent is now fighting with Ukraine

  16-01-2023 23:46
  
  Sarah Ashton-Cirillo was the first transgender war correspondent, covering the conflict in Ukraine since the beginning. Now she's on the front lines.      
  
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• Man Plugs His $115k Electric Hummer in to Charge on Sunday, Finds Out It Won't Be Done Until Friday

  16-01-2023 23:38
  I still remember that Sunday night in my foolish youth driving a Volkswagen on a 67-mile trip while low on gas.
  Desperate, I got off the interstate once or twice to poke around small towns trying to find what was in those days a rarity – a gas station open on a Sunday night.
  I don’t remember if I found an open station or if there were enough fumes in that little bug to successfully get me to my destination, but I made it. Whew!
  That was decades ago, and yet in 2023, I hear – an
  
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• Walgreens removes online purchasing limits for children's fever medications

  16-01-2023 23:18 via cnn.com
  
  After weeks of high demand that stretched supply, Walgreens removed its online purchasing limits for children's pain- and fever-reducing medications on Monday morning, spokesperson Zoe Krey told CNN.
  
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• Countdown Begins: ATF Will Consider You a Criminal If You Don't Register, Surrender, Alter or Destroy This Firearm

  16-01-2023 23:18
  President Joe Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives might have made millions of law-abiding Americans into felons overnight.
  On Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland signed off on a new ATF rule that restricts the use of stabilizing braces on firearms.
  The whopping 293-page rule redefines firearms that make use of the braces as short-barreled rifles.
  A stabilizing brace is an attachment designed to allow a long gun to be fired with one hand. The tools resemble the
  
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• Daily Wire's Matt Walsh Announces Life-Changing News and Naturally the Left Is Losing It

  16-01-2023 22:32
  For all of the ink that has ever been spilled analyzing leftists and their Marxist ways, there appears to be a key, core tenet of leftism that has borne out to be true time and time again: They are a joyless lot.
  Well, joyless in most avenues. The left is a ghoulishly gleeful bunch when it comes to dead people.
  But all that glee instantly dissipates the instant life is introduced to the equation.
  Case in point, popular Daily Wire pundit Matt Walsh announced Saturday on Twitter that his
  
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• Unique Program Saves Life of Elderly Woman After Deputy Realizes She's in Trouble

  16-01-2023 22:22
  Plenty of families live far from their elderly loved ones, and not every senior citizen has family or friends who check up on them regularly. The distance or absence of such important people in their lives is lonely, can be dangerous, and is a real issue for many seniors living on their own.
  The Lake County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois has an answer for this particular problem: their R.U.O.K. program. According to Sheriff John D. Idleburg, it helped save a woman’s life last Friday.
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• As World Elites Flock to Davos, Pay Attention to What World Economic Forum Considers a Top Threat

  16-01-2023 22:20
  The World Economic Forum (WEF) names “misinformation” as one of the most severe threats facing the world in 2023, according to an annual report.
  “Misinformation” is ranked 16th, or moderately severe, on a list of the 32 risks having the most impact over a two-year period, showed the 2023 WEF Global Risks Report, which displays the results of a survey of over 1,200 experts across multiple fields.
  The ranking aligns with the WEF’s accelerated efforts in recent years t
  
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• Publish Something on 'Replacement Theory,' And You're in Danger - New Bill Promises

  16-01-2023 22:06
  As a congressional Democrat, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee might personify the modern vision of her party better than even President Joe Biden.
  She’s ignorant to the point of absurdity when it comes to issues like guns. She’s dishonest to the point of delirium when it comes to issues like the border.
  And, as a bill Jackson Lee has introduced into the 118th Congress shows, when it comes to respecting Americans’ freedom of speech, she’s spitting on the Founders’ memory
  
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• This Democratic Congressman Has a Key Role at the WEF's Weeklong Davos Meeting

  16-01-2023 21:59
  A panel composed of members of the media, a European regulator and a Democratic congressman will convene to discuss “disinformation” Tuesday as part of the World Economic Forum’s weeklong meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
  The panel will include Harvard’s Brian Stelter, president and CEO of Internews Jeanne Bourgault, chairman and publisher of The New York Times A.G. Sulzberger, vice-president for values and transparency Vera Jourová of the European Commission and Demo
  
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• Hundreds gather for MLK remembrance at Virginia church, celebration of 'Day of Service'

  16-01-2023 21:58
  
  The keynote speaker at Tabernacle Baptist Church's King celebration likens the legacy of the civil-rights icon to the story of the Good Samaritan      
  
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• Photos: Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2023

  16-01-2023 21:47
  
  Martin Luther King Jr. Day, honors the civil rights leader who led the drive to end racial segregation.      
  
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• Dad Says FEMA Tried to Bribe Him After Teen Son's Post-Vaccine Death: He Refused and Went Public

  16-01-2023 21:46
  Ernest Ramirez says he wanted to do the right thing for his son, so he decided to have 16-year-old Ernesto take the COVID-19 vaccine.
  After all, what was the harm? Ramirez was told the vaccine was 100 percent safe.
  Five days later, on April 24, 2021, his son died from complications related to an enlarged heart, Ramirez told LifeSiteNews.
  Soon after his son’s death, Ramirez says, he received a call from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. According to him, agency officials asked h
  
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• Alabama Coach Releases Statement After Murder Charge Rocks Team: 'Grieving'

  16-01-2023 21:33
  Alabama men’s basketball coach Nate Oats said Monday the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide is going through “kind of a grieving process” after player Darius Miles and another man were charged with capital murder following a fatal shooting near campus.
  Speaking at a news conference, Oats said he couldn’t discuss any specifics related to the case.
  He said he spoke with Miles’ mother multiple times Sunday, and met with the team that night.
  “I thought it was important th
  
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• Record Shattered at Our Southern Border - This Is an All-Time High

  16-01-2023 21:29
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection migrant encounters at the southern border surpassed 250,000 for the month of December, the highest ever recorded, a Department of Homeland Security source, who requested anonymity as they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, disclosed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  The new total surpasses May 2022’s more than 241,000 migrant encounters, which was the highest DHS ever recorded before December 2022.
  The total encounters include Border Patrol an
  
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• NYC mayor slams fed gov't on migrant crisis

  16-01-2023 21:26
  During a visit to the Texas border city of El Paso, New York Mayor Eric Adams criticized the federal government's response to the influx of immigrants into U.S. cities. He said Sunday, "We need clear coordination." (Jan. 16) (Production: Vanessa A. Alvarez)      
  
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• It Looks Like Roe v. Wade's Demise Saved Many Lives - State Sees Dramatic 99% Decrease in Abortions

  16-01-2023 21:22
  There are a great many people who would have you believe that the state of Texas began issuing Handmaid’s Tale outfits before the ink had dried on the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade last summer.
  In truth, as soon as the immoral decision that effectively legalized abortion in the United States for nearly five decades was overturned, states like Texas were finally able to uphold moral laws that protect the lives of unborn babies.
  And in the Lone Star State, thousands of bab
  
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• Police seek suspects in deaths of 6 in Calif. home

  16-01-2023 20:56
  Six people — including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby — were killed in a shooting early Monday at a home in central California, and authorities are searching for at least two suspects, sheriff's officials said.(Jan. 16)      
  
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• Watch: Biden Sings Happy Birthday to MLK III's Wife and Completely Forgets Her Name

  16-01-2023 20:49
  In remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, President Joe Biden delivered remarks at the National Action Network’s annual MLK breakfast. The event was held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.
  It happened to be the birthday of Arndrea Waters King, the wife of Martin Luther King III, who was turning 30.
  Biden told the group, “Look, my wife has a rule in our family. When it’s somebody’s birthday, you sing Happy Birthday. You ready?”
  He began to sing
  
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• TikTok access from government devices now restricted in more than half of US states

  16-01-2023 20:48 via cnn.com
  
  More than half of all US states have partially or fully banned TikTok from government devices, according to a CNN analysis, reflecting a wave of recent clampdowns by governors and state agencies targeting the short-form video app.
  
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• Warning Goes Out During Unusually Active Tornado Season - Prepare to Take Shelter This Week

  16-01-2023 20:46
  A new round of severe thunderstorms, including some capable of producing tornadoes, will rumble across the southern United States from Wednesday to Thursday night, AccuWeather meteorologists say.
  Areas at risk for this week’s round of storms include some of the same cities and towns that were hit hard by damaging and deadly severe weather just one week earlier.The first 15 days of January 2023 have been incredibly busy in terms of the number of tornadoes.
  “As of mid-month, there have
  
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• Fitting: CNN Reportedly Considering Several Big Name Comedians to Host Prime Time Show

  16-01-2023 20:45
  It’s no secret that CNN has lost their credibility on an epic scale.
  Look no further than the fact that CNN has been seriously hemorrhaging viewers in recent years. It’s hard to blame those viewers for leaving when what was once a semi-reliable hard news operation has become more and more of an unreliable joke.
  News that the network is said to be considering several big names in comedy to host a primetime program during the crucial 9 to 11 p.m. time slot appears to be the flailing ne
  
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• Hunter Biden Reaches New Low as He Takes Action Against His 4-Year-Old Daughter

  16-01-2023 20:35
  Hunter Biden is a lot of things, but it looks like we can add “deadbeat father” to that list.
  Not only is the president’s son fighting tooth and nail in the court system to lower the amount of child support he will have to remit to Lunden Roberts, a former Washington D.C.-based exotic dancer with whom Hunter Biden had a child, but he’s also exhausting all possible legal maneuver to prevent the child from bearing the family surname.
  According to the New York Post, Hunter B
  
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• Biden pays tribute to MLK in Washington

  16-01-2023 20:11
  President Joe Biden attended a Martin Luther King Day breakfast in Washington Monday with the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, telling a crowd which included members of Congress, "This is a time for choosing." (Jan. 16)      
  
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• Teen mother, infant among six killed in shooting at central California home

  16-01-2023 20:06
  
  Deputies said they believe the shootingin Central California involved gang members.      
  
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• We Have a Winner: Historic $1.35B Jackpot Goes to 1 Ticket

  16-01-2023 19:40
  Someone in the state of Maine matched all five numbers as well as the Mega Ball to win a massive Mega Millions jackpot on Friday night, the multistate lottery consortium said in a news release Saturday.
  The winning numbers in the $1.35 billion drawing were 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and Mega Ball 14.
  The name of the winner was not released as of Monday morning.
  The winner will have the option of taking the $1.35 billion grand prize — the second-largest jackpot in the history of the game — wi
  
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• Biden's political trajectory has dramatically shifted in the span of just one week

  16-01-2023 19:34 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden began the new year with the political winds at his back.
  
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• Why some cars from the 1990s are soaring in value

  16-01-2023 19:12 via cnn.com
  Not that long ago, cars from the 1990s were just used cars. And, really, most of them still are, if they're still running at all. But as millenials get older, gain some disposable income, and pine for the cars of their own youth, many of these cars have crossed the threshold to becoming sought after collectibles with rising values in the car collecting world.
  
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• Former 'American Idol' Contestant Dies Suddenly from Apparent Heart Attack at 31

  16-01-2023 19:12
  A former “American Idol” contestant who went on to tour with other former contestants and perform at The Grand Ole Opry died Sunday.
  CJ Harris was 31, and died of “an apparent heart attack,” according to TMZ.
  He was in his hometown of Jasper, Alabama, TMZ reported.
  “A family member tells me CJ suffered an apparent heart attack in Jasper, Alabama … he was taken to a local hospital by ambulance, but didn’t make it,” TMZ senior news producer Brendon
  
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• Missing Hurricane Ian victim found dead on sailboat months after storm

  16-01-2023 18:57
  
  The remains of the last missing person from Hurricane Ian have been identified: James "Denny" Hurst of Fort Myers Beach.      
  
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• Watch: Police Forcibly Remove Greta Thunberg from Coal Mine Protest

  16-01-2023 18:47
  One day after throwing mud at German officials for expanding a coal mine, climate activist Greta Thunberg was escorted through the protest as police removed protesters from the site of a former village.
  The German village of Lützerath, which is now deserted, is scheduled to be razed for the expansion of a mine. For the past two years, a standoff has taken place between climate activists and police, according to Politico.
  As reported by the Guardian, the final decision to go ahead with the p
  
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• California's Pot Industry Is Entering a 'Bust' Cycle and Taking Entire Towns Down with It

  16-01-2023 18:32
  California’s struggling marijuana industry is crushing some local economies, as overproduction and inept regulations have caused the wholesale price of cannabis to crater as much as 95 percent.
  While lower prices may be good news for consumers, they’re destroying the livelihoods of marijuana farmers. Just ask the residents of Humboldt County in Northern California.
  “The economy here has crashed,” Laura Lasseter, the director of operations for the Southern Humboldt Busines
  
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• Tiger Escapes Enclosure and Attacks Man, Residents on High Alert as Big Cat Stalks the Shadows

  16-01-2023 18:23
  Authorities in South Africa are searching for a tiger that escaped from its enclosure at a private farm near Johannesburg over the weekend, injured a man and killed a dog.
  Local media said the man survived the attack but was taken to the hospital.
  Residents have been warned to be on high alert in the Walkerville region south of Johannesburg and avoid confronting the animal, as a group of about 30 people search the area where its latest tracks were identified.
  Officials directing the search suspe
  
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• California Deputy Public Defender Killed in Mexico

  16-01-2023 18:18
  A deputy public defender from California has died while on vacation in Mexico, but differing explanations are being offered as to how.
  The Orange County Register is reporting that Elliot Blair of the Orange County Public Defender’s Office was “slain” Saturday, writing that “Public Defender Martin Schwarz confirmed” the information.
  Blair and his wife were celebrating their first wedding anniversary, Schwarz said,Elliot Blair was a public defender in Orange County. H
  
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• Terror Group Took This Man Captive Nearly a Decade Ago, But There's Been a Big Development: Report

  16-01-2023 17:47
  Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group, released the first footage of a man believed to be Avera Mengistu, an Israeli man captured in 2014 after he crossed into the Gaza Strip, according to the Times of Israel.
  Mengistu reportedly had mental health issues and was disqualified from serving in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), according to the Times.
  The footage shows Mengistu sitting in front of a camera, asking how long he will be kept a prisoner.
  “For how long will I be in captivity?”
  
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• Damar Hamlin Has Elated Response as His Replacement Makes Huge Play to Help Bills Advance in Playoffs

  16-01-2023 17:39
  For the past two weeks, the Buffalo Bills safety who was in the minds and hearts of the sports world was Damar Hamlin.
  But on Sunday, it was Dean Marlowe, filling in while Hamlin recovered from the cardiac arrest he suffered earlier this month during “Monday Night Football,” who captured the attention of those watching — including Hamlin himself.
  Marlowe stepped up and intercepted a pass from Miami quarterback Skylar Thompson early in Buffalo’s 34-31 playoff victory over
  
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• Major Update on Man Who Went Missing on Sailboat During Hurricane Ian

  16-01-2023 17:15
  The remains of a man who was reported missing after Hurricane Ian hit Florida’s Gulf Coast last year have been recovered from a sunken sailboat, sheriff’s officials said.
  The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday that the remains were identified as James “Denny” Hurst who was last known to be aboard the sailboat “Good Girl” as the category 4 storm hit the region in late September.
  The boat was recovered Friday afternoon in the Matanzas Pass area of For
  
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• Investigation underway after human remains found on UC Berkeley campus

  16-01-2023 17:15
  
  The remain were found around noon on Tuesday on the school's Clark Kerr Campus, about a mile from the main campus.      
  
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• White House counsel's office says there are no visitors logs at Biden's Wilmington home

  16-01-2023 17:05 via cnn.com
  
  The White House counsel's office says there are no visitors logs that track guests who come and go at President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware.
  
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• Soros-Backed Group Operating Like 'Shadow Organization' Takes Major Swing at DeSantis

  16-01-2023 16:58
  A George Soros-backed organization suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may face its own legal scrutiny for violating federal tax laws.
  Alianza Americas, a nonprofit funded by Soros’ Open Society Foundations, has been made the target of an ethics complaint for failing to disclose lobbying on two years of its IRS Form 990 IRS tax returns, according to the Washington Examiner.
  Alianza is suing DeSantis for transporting illegal aliens from his state to Martha’s Vineyard last year, according
  
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• Mafia Legend Arrested After Three Decades on the Run - Here's Where They Caught Him

  16-01-2023 16:47
  Police in Italy arrested a Cosa Nostra Mafia boss who had been on the run for about three decades, prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia announced Monday, according to CNN.
  Matteo Messina Denaro, a fugitive since 1993 and Italy’s most wanted man, was apprehended while receiving treatment at a private health clinic in Palermo, Sicily, de Lucia told the outlet.
  He was sentenced in absentia to life in prison in 1992 for involvement in the murders of two anti-Mafia prosecutors, with suspected culpabili
  
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• Content Warning: Passenger on Doomed Nepal Flight Livestreamed the Moment Everything Went Wrong

  16-01-2023 16:47
  A plane crash Sunday near the resort town of Pokhara, Nepal, is the deadliest the country has experienced in 30 years, according to multiple reports.
  In the aftermath of the disaster that has led to at least 68 deaths, footage has emerged that documents the accident — from inside the cabin.
  The footage is extremely disturbing.
  The footage linked below shows a passenger livestreaming the landing, according to TMZ. From the man’s expression, it appears he is not aware that anything is
  
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• Dallas Zoo monkey enclosure fencing was cut on the same day as tampering that allowed a leopard to escape, police say

  16-01-2023 16:46 via cnn.com
  
  Fencing that was cut at the Dallas Zoo's clouded leopard habitat Friday -- resulting in the escape of one of the animals -- wasn't the only apparent tampering at the zoo that day, police said.
  
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• Bitcoin rallies 25% as crypto markets rebound

  16-01-2023 16:36 via cnn.com
  
  The bitcoin bulls are back.
  
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• School Official Searched 6-Year-Old Before Teacher's Shooting and Missed the Pistol - But There's One Problem That Nobody's Addressing

  16-01-2023 16:14
  On Jan. 6, first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner was shot and critically wounded by a 6-year-old who brought a gun to class.
  After the incident at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, administrators came clean with parents: Yes, there was an indication the young suspect may have had a weapon on him, but administrators only checked his backpack, according to WAVY-TV.
  As it turns out, the gun was on his person — and hours later, he shot Zwerner.
  The solution, administrators told
  
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• Why Was Hunter Paying Joe Biden $50,000 in Monthly Rent for the House Where Classified Documents Were Found?

  16-01-2023 16:05
  Last Monday, CBS News reported that classified documents from President Joe Biden’s vice presidency had been found inside a closet in an office at the Penn Biden Center, a Washington think tank with offices Biden used after the Obama administration ended in 2017.
  On Wednesday evening, it was reported that a second batch of classified material had been discovered in a separate undisclosed location, which was later revealed to be in the locked garage of Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, ho
  
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• Chinese Laundry

  16-01-2023 16:01
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Chinese Laundry appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Giants Knock Off Vikings in Wild-Card Upset - First Playoff Win Since 2012

  16-01-2023 15:58
  The New York Giants defeated the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday in the franchise’s first playoff win in over a decade.
  The Giants secured the playoff win on the road at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis and against the odds, defeating the NFC North champions and conference’s No. 3 seed 31-24.
  Quarterback Daniel Jones threw for 301 yards and two touchdowns in the victory, as well as leading his team in rushing yardage, according to ESPN.
  No quarterback has combined the first two metrics w
  
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• The steep plunge in used car prices -- what it means, and what's ahead

  16-01-2023 15:53 via cnn.com
  
  Tracking used car prices is enough to give anyone whiplash.
  
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