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• Thousands of tech and media workers laid off this week

  21-01-2023 23:43 via cnn.com
  
  • Shopping carts are disappearing from stores
  •A burger chain switches to Coca-Cola. Pepsi fans are furious
  • Most retailers are bending over backward to appeal to younger shoppers. This 60-year-old Wisconsin-based brand isn't
  
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• Op-Ed: For the Countercultural Christian Family, Sitting in the Pews on Sunday Isn't Enough

  21-01-2023 23:07
  
  If there’s one lesson to learn from NHL player Ivan Provorov’s refusal to don the LGBT colors in a recent pregame warmup, it’s that Christ’s followers, as Jesus himself warns in John’s Gospel, will be despised as outcasts in the world’s eyes.
  Last summer, four Tampa Bay Rays players were similarly scorned and pilloried for failing to recite the “pride” creed. Worse, the faith-based decisions condemned as “sh***y personal opinions” today
  
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• Biden Gets Terrible News: High-Level Staffer Is Heading for the Exit - Report

  21-01-2023 22:58
  
  White House chief of staff Ron Klain is reportedly planning to step down in the very near future, making him the highest-level staffer to leave the Biden administration yet.
  Although rumors of his impending departure have been swirling for several months, they have intensified considerably since the midterm elections.
  Expected or not, Klain’s exit will be a blow to President Joe Biden. He is losing one of his closest allies.
  According to The New York Times, Klain is the longest-serving fir
  
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• Wife fatally shoots terminally ill husband at Daytona Beach hospital, police say

  21-01-2023 22:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 76-year-old woman allegedly shot and killed her terminally ill husband at a Daytona Beach, Florida, hospital following a pact police said the couple made several weeks ago.
  
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• Ron Klain is expected to step down as White House chief of staff in the coming weeks

  21-01-2023 22:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  WASHINGTON — White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is expected to depart the Biden administration in the coming weeks as the White House reconfigures its team ahead of the 2024 election, according to two sources familiar with the decision.
  
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• Gun Found in "Forest Defender" Death as 7 Others Charged with Domestic Terrorism During Insurrection

  21-01-2023 22:38
  
  Officials have released a photo of a gun they say was used by a protester to shoot a Georgia State Patrol officer Wednesday in the ongoing battle over the construction of what protesters have termed a “Cop City” near Atlanta.
  Officers returned fire and killed the protester, who was identified as Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, 26, according to a news release by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
  The Georgia trooper had surgery that day to remove bullet fragments and remained hospitalize
  
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• Sports Personality Wants Kimmel's Late Night Show Gig, Promises Not to Be 'One-Sided'

  21-01-2023 22:00
  
  ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith is apparently gunning for woke comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night TV gig, and claims he “wouldn’t be one-sided.” That’s a nice sentiment in today’s woke mess of late night television, but Smith’s many years of left-wing rants makes that hard to believe.
  The outspoken sports personality, who claims to be a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, sat down for an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity to promote his memoir,
  
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• Sabotage? Hours Before NFL Playoff Game, One Team Notices Something Wrong with Their Showers

  21-01-2023 21:46
  
  Few things in sports are better than an honest-to-goodness rivalry.
  There’s a reason why sports fans who don’t watch baseball can admire the Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees rivalry. There’s a reason why sports fans who don’t watch basketball can regale you on the Los Angeles Lakers-Boston Celtics rivalry. There’s a reason why sports fans who don’t watch college sports can wax poetic about rich collegiate rivalries like Michigan-Ohio State or Duke-North Carolin
  
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• Wife of slain NYPD officer Jason Rivera says she’s expecting their ‘miracle’ baby

  21-01-2023 21:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  The widow of a New York City police officer fatally shot in Harlem one year ago announced that she is expecting their "miracle" baby.
  
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• A top Border Patrol official resigned after allegedly pressuring female employees for sex, officials say

  21-01-2023 21:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Border Patrol official Tony Barker quit after allegedly pressuring women for sex and is now under investigation by CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
  
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• Town's Pharmacy Bills Secretly Paid for Years, Then Hero Who Was Behind It Is Revealed: 'A Blessing from the Lord'

  21-01-2023 20:56
  
  Charity is the most excellent of virtues. It is the friendship of man with God manifested in the love of neighbor.
  There’s a lot of ill will swirling around these days. The culture wars are in full swing. Politicians lie. There are wars and rumors of war.
  And then there’s Hody Childress, a retired farmer from Geraldine, Alabama.
  About 10 years ago, Childress walked into Geraldine Drugs and asked owner Brooke Walker if there were any families in town who couldn’t afford their me
  
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• Punks Think They Have an Easy Target, But They Start Running After Realizing What 76-Year-Old Nun's Prayer Has Done

  21-01-2023 20:26
  
  Two punks thought they would make an easy profit by robbing a Christian community center, but instead they experienced one nun’s divine inspiration.
  According to Buffalo News, last Saturday, two would-be thieves allegedly tried to steal copper downspouts from the roof of the Response to Love Center in Buffalo, New York.
  One of the thieves climbed up to the roof on a ladder, while the other stayed on the ground to keep watch. That’s when something unexpected happened.
  Sister Mary John
  
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• Inmates Escape from Heartland Jail, But Things Take a Turn When Lawmen Start Up the Hunt

  21-01-2023 19:46
  
  Authorities are piecing together how five inmates escaped from a Missouri jail.
  The inmates escaped from the St. Francois County Jail in Farmington, about 75 miles south of St. Louis on Tuesday evening, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
  Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Gregory Armstrong told the newspaper that the inmates got into a cell that was supposed to be closed off due to plumbing repairs, removed the sink and toilet, climbed through the wall and made it down from the roof using a ladder
  
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• Watch: Wild Sideline Incident Sees NFL Hall of Famer Square Off with NBA Team and NBA Superstar's Dad

  21-01-2023 19:28
  
  The moribund Los Angeles Lakers snapped the 11-game winning streak of the red-hot Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night, but nobody really wanted to talk about LeBron James inching closer to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time scoring record, or the Lakers getting back to within a game of a play-in playoff spot, or the Grizzlies falling a full game and a half behind the Denver Nuggets for the top seed in the Western Conference.
  Indeed, the sports world was abuzz after that Lakers-Grizzlies game, bu
  
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• The Great Salt Lake is at risk of completely drying up. Lawmakers are scrambling to buy more time.

  21-01-2023 19:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The shrinking Great Salt Lake is facing ecological collapse as salinity levels rise. State leaders hope a hearty snowpack and a surplus in the state budget can save the it.
  
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• The days of 'fun flying' are long gone: How U.S. air travel became a nightmare

  21-01-2023 18:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  It came off as a rare moment of candor for the airline industry on Wednesday, when United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby told analysts and reporters that after a year of constant disruptions, including canceled and delayed flights, lost luggage and worse, passengers could expect more of that in 2023.
  
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• College wrestler missing after friends say he jumped into California ocean for 'polar plunge'

  21-01-2023 18:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  A San Francisco State University wrestler is missing after jumping into Esplanade Beach for a "polar plunge," friends and authorities said.
  
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• 'Everyone Was Surprised': Cheerleaders Take Charge When Sound System Malfunctions During National Anthem

  21-01-2023 18:11
  
  The American spirit is contagious. That’s why wokesters and those who seek to undermine the patriotic love of country hate it.
  Cheerleaders from Muskegon High School in west Michigan spontaneously started singing the national anthem at a cheer competition last week, according to Michigan’s ABC 13.
  Students and parents from Reeths-Puffer, Mona Shores, Zeeland East and Muskegon were gathered at Muskegon High School waiting for the national anthem to play over the school’s sound s
  
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• Foreign Minister Dies Suddenly After Suffering Heart Attack in Middle of Top-Level Meeting

  21-01-2023 18:02
  
  The foreign minister of the African nation of Gabon died Friday.
  Gabon, an American ally, is a former French colony on the west coast of Africa and lies along the equator.
  Michael Moussa Adamo died due to a heart attack, President Ali Bongo said in a statement.
  According to Reuters, citing three government sources it did not name, Adamo, 62, was in a meeting with other government ministers when he was stricken.
  “He sat down at the start of the Council of Ministers and started to feel bad,&
  
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• 'I Felt Like I Was Dying': Elon Musk Makes Scary Claim About Booster Shot

  21-01-2023 17:53
  
  Amid a Twittersphere debate about the extent of major side effects from the coronavirus vaccine, Elon Musk revealed that he felt “like I was dying”  after getting his second booster shot.
  The extent and severity of side effects from the various vaccines has long been a subject of sharp disagreement.
  The official position of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is that the vaccines are safe and that side effects are rare, posting on its website that “The&n
  
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• US strike kills approximately 30 al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia

  21-01-2023 17:40 via cnn.com
  
  The United States carried out a strike in Somalia that killed approximately 30 al-Shabaab fighters, US Africa Command said in a statement Saturday.
  
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• NFL Champ Kills Giant Mountain Lion, Environmentalists Get Up in Arms and Make Fools of Themselves

  21-01-2023 17:39
  
  A former NFL player triggered environmentalists on social media when he posted a picture of himself holding a dead mountain lion.
  On Thursday, former Denver Broncos defensive lineman Derek Wolfe posted a picture of himself with a mountain lion he had killed in rural Colorado, KDVR-TV reported.
  According to Wolfe’s post, the mountain lion was killing family pets in the area and was living under a resident’s porch, and Wolfe was called in to deal with it. The Super Bowl champion stalke
  
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• After baby formula problems, Abbott Laboratories under DOJ investigation

  21-01-2023 17:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Abbott Laboratories is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice over baby formula.
  
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• Astronaut Buzz Aldrin marries longtime love on 93rd birthday

  21-01-2023 17:18
  
  Astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin announced on Facebook that he has married his “longtime love” in a small ceremony in Los Angeles.
  The announcement was made on Twitter, alongside some photos of the two.
  You can take a look at those below:On my 93rd birthday & the day I will also be honored by Living Legends of Aviation I am pleased to announce that my longtime love Dr. Anca Faur & I have tied the knot.We were joined in holy matrimony in a small private ceremony in Lo
  
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• Amid 'Velma' pushback, Mindy Kaling is a 'lightning rod' held to impossible standard, some critics say

  21-01-2023 17:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  A week in, the response to “Velma,” HBO Max's new animated series, has hardly been the stuff of reboot dreams.
  
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• Ted Cruz Absolutely Humiliates Eric Swalwell After Dem Requests to Bet on NFL Game

  21-01-2023 16:36
  
  When it comes to sports, politicians love nothing more than making cute public bets on big games. The public, on the other hand, couldn’t be more disinterested.
  I can think of one personal exception: After the 2000 season, my beloved New York Giants lost one of the most lopsided Super Bowls ever played to the Baltimore Ravens. As part of a bet between the senatorial delegations of New York and Maryland, then-New York Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chuck Schumer were forced to read Edgar
  
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• Man Learns He Has $52K Fine After Checking Out Book to Fight Traffic Ticket

  21-01-2023 16:12
  
  A man recently decided to return to his hometown of Dudley, England, to return a book he had borrowed over 50 years prior, only to find out that he owed the library over $52,000 in library fines.
  In 1964, 17-year-old David Hickman borrowed “The Law for Motorists” from the Dudley library, according to the Express & Star.
  Hickman had been in an accident that summer near the Dudley High School for Girls when he crashed into the car of the then-Mayor of Dudley.
  Facing a minor traffic
  
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• Alert: Traffic Cameras Recording More Than Images These Days

  21-01-2023 16:08
  
  After the relative quiet of the pandemic, New York City has come roaring back.
  Just listen:
  Jackhammers. Honking cars and trucks. Rumbling subway trains. Sirens. Shouting.
  Over the years, there have been numerous efforts to quiet the cacophony. One of the latest is traffic cameras equipped with sound meters capable of identifying souped-up cars and motorbikes emitting an illegal amount of street noise.
  At least 71 drivers have gotten tickets for violating noise rules during a yearlong pilot prog
  
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• Tennis Star Stops Game, Demands to Know Why Umpire Hasn't Handled Situation in the Stands

  21-01-2023 16:02
  
  As Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic makes a controversial return to the Australian Open, critics have targeted him both online as well as in the stands.
  This was Djokovic’s first appearance at the Australian Open since 2021. Due to his refusal to get the COVID vaccine, he was previously barred from competing in January 2022 and consequently deported from the country.
  People Magazine reported that he was granted a temporary visa by the Australian Immigration Minister, allowing him to comp
  
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• Transgender Sex Offender, 4 Others Break Out of Prison - Security Footage Shows Part of Escape

  21-01-2023 15:52
  
  A manhunt is continuing for four prisoners, including one transgender sex offender, who escaped from a Missouri county jail on Tuesday.
  Five prisoners originally escaped, but one has been captured, authorities said Friday. All five escapees were being held on felony charges. Three still on the run are sex offenders, the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department posted on Facebook.
  The captured prisoner, Michael Wilkins, was not a sex offender. He was apprehended without incident and is bein
  
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• Franklin Graham Shouts Out NFL Playoff QB Who 'Gives All the Credit to the Lord Jesus Christ'

  21-01-2023 15:42
  
  Rev. Franklin Graham is taking a side in Sunday’s playoff game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys — the side of a quarterback who puts God first.
  In a post on his Facebook page, Graham cited the saga of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy, who not only rose to the occasion when he stepped in due to injuries, he surpassed all expectations.
  In his post, Graham noted that the Iowa State graduate “was the very last player chosen in the draft last year, a
  
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• Most retailers are bending over backward to appeal to younger shoppers. This 60-year-old Wisconsin-based brand isn't

  21-01-2023 15:35 via cnn.com
  
  Most retailers are tripping over themselves to stay relevant by courting younger Millennial and Gen Z shoppers. Not Lands' End.
  
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• Franklin Graham Melts Internet with Who He Brought to 'Spicer & Co.' Set Ahead of March for Life

  21-01-2023 15:26
  
  Franklin Graham was one of the most prominent speakers at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Friday — but when he appeared on Newsmax’s “Spicer & Co.,” it was his granddaughter who stole the show.
  In a viral photo shared by the evangelist on social media, Graham was pictured with his granddaughter Margaret sitting in the chair normally reserved for show guests.
  “It was great to have my granddaughter Margaret with me this evening in the studio of N
  
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• Fox News Executive Dies Suddenly at 47 After Heart Attack

  21-01-2023 15:02
  
  A longtime Fox News executive has died.
  Fox News Senior Vice President of News & Politics Alan Komissaroff passed away on Friday, according to the network.
  The 47-year-old channel executive died after a heart attack that occurred two weeks ago, according to a GoFundMe organized by a family friend.
  “This is an extremely difficult day for all of us who worked closely with Alan, and we are completely heartbroken,” Fox News Media President Jay Wallace and CEO Suzanne Scott said of th
  
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• State AG Declares War on Biden Administration - 'All Options Are on the Table'

  21-01-2023 14:59
  
  Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey of Missouri said that his office would use “every tool” at its disposal to “root out” an “enterprise of censorship” built by the Biden administration, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  Bailey’s remarks came just weeks after he was sworn into office on Jan. 3 to replace former Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who now represents the state in the U.S. Senate, according to the Missou
  
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• Police fine U.K. PM Rishi Sunak for failing to wear a seatbelt in Instagram video

  21-01-2023 14:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  LONDON — Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was fined by police Friday, for failing to wear a seatbelt whilst filming a clip for social media in a moving vehicle.
  
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• Red-hot rental market is cooling in a good sign for inflation

  21-01-2023 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Renters are on track to get some relief in 2023 as a growing number of indicators suggest the red-hot rental market has started to cool.
  
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• Why shopping carts create large losses for retailers — and taxpayers

  21-01-2023 12:52 via cnn.com
  
  Santa Fe, New Mexico, paid a local contractor $47,000 to round up about 3,000 shopping carts around the city in 2021 and 2022.
  
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• Abandoned shopping carts cost taxpayers thousands of dollars

  21-01-2023 12:52 via cnn.com
  
  Santa Fe, New Mexico, paid a local contractor $47,000 to round up about 3,000 shopping carts around the city in 2021 and 2022.
  
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• Young alligator abandoned in New Jersey heads for new life in Florida

  21-01-2023 12:02 via cnn.com
  
  A young alligator found in a plastic container in New Jersey has been relocated to another zoo in the state until it is transferred to an alligator sanctuary in Florida.
  
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• Lucky man from Luck, Wisconsin, wins $15.1 million lottery prize

  21-01-2023 11:03 via cnn.com
  
  The tiny town of Luck, Wisconsin, is living up to its name, at least for one lucky lottery winner.
  
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• Meet the man set to replace Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand PM

  21-01-2023 10:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Chris Hipkins, who played a significant role in New Zealand’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, is set to replace Jacinda Ardern as prime minister after emerging on Saturday as the only candidate to lead the ruling Labour Party.
  
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• Over 50 injured as protests cause ‘nationwide chaos’ in Peru

  21-01-2023 10:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Dozens of people were injured after tensions flared again on Friday night as police clashed with protesters in anti-government demonstrations that are spreading across Peru.
  
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• Prosecutors say Brian Walshe searched online for, 'Can you be charged with murder without a body?' The law says you can

  21-01-2023 10:06 via cnn.com
  
  Ana Walshe -- a Massachusetts mother of three who hasn't been seen since the new year -- is still missing, even as her husband was charged this week with her murder.
  
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• 'Can you be charged with murder without a body?' Prosecutors reveal what Brian Walshe searched online

  21-01-2023 10:06 via cnn.com
  
  Ana Walshe -- a Massachusetts mother of three who hasn't been seen since the new year -- is still missing, even as her husband was charged this week with her murder.
  
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• 'Rust' will be completed and still star Alec Baldwin as he faces involuntary manslaughter charges in death of crew member, attorney says

  21-01-2023 09:17 via cnn.com
  
  Alec Baldwin, who is set to face involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of a crew member during a "Rust" film rehearsal, will continue starring as the lead role, a production attorney told CNN on Friday.
  
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• Prosecutors: Convicted CEO a Flight Risk, Shouldn't Be Allowed Outside Prison Walls

  21-01-2023 08:53
  
  Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk and shouldn’t be allowed to remain out of prison while she appeals her 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors, according to federal prosecutors.
  Holmes had a one-way plane ticket to Mexico booked for Jan. 26, 2022, three weeks after being convicted by a jury on four counts of fraud and conspiracy, federal prosecutors said in a motion filed Thursday in federal court in Northern California.
  Holmes, who was CEO of Theranos during
  
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• Egg shortage sends New Zealanders rushing to buy their own hens

  21-01-2023 05:02 via cnn.com
  
  Eggs have soared in cost around the world over the past year as avian flu decimated chicken flocks and fallout from Russia's war with Ukraine raised the prices of energy and animal feed.
  
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• Huge: Whistleblower Testimony Puts US Election Worker Data in China

  21-01-2023 04:13
  
  A Michigan-based election infrastructure firm stored poll workers’ private data in China, a new whistleblower complaint obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation says, matching earlier allegations against the company and CEO Eugene Yu.
  Grant Bradley, a former employee at Konnech, a software firm that provides logistics for poll stations at 32 locations across the U.S., also said that the company’s “developers, designers and coders are all Chinese nationals based out of Wuhan
  
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• New Jersey AG files emergent application for recount and recheck of four towns in county impacted by voting system error

  21-01-2023 03:38 via cnn.com
  
  The New Jersey attorney general's office on Friday filed an emergent application in superior court to ask for a full recount and recheck of vote tallies in a handful of towns in Monmouth County, which was impacted by a voting system error during the November election.
  
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