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• Medicare negotiating drug prices will likely save the U.S. billions, study says

  27-01-2023 23:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  The provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices could save the U.S. billions, researchers estimate.
  
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• Rap Star Heaps Praise on DeSantis After Leaving California for Florida and Loving What She Found: 'He's Focused on the Basic S***'

  27-01-2023 23:46
  
  You know something is up when foul-mouthed rapper Azealia Banks praises Ron DeSantis.
  Thankfully, there are some people besides conservatives who can still tell left from right and up from down. Somewhat, at least.
  In a Guardian feature story on, among other things, her new record label, Banks said she left Los Angeles for Miami.
  There, she said, she feels “way safer” and doesn’t feel the need to have a gun.
  Most of her credit goes to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “He’
  
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• What to know about George Santos and his campaign finance issues as questions grow

  27-01-2023 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. George Santos began his third week as a congressman with an array of questions still swirling around the New York Republican's personal and campaign finances.
  
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• Suspect in stabbing of Indiana University student has history of 'severe mental illness,' says defense attorney

  27-01-2023 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  The woman accused of stabbing an Indiana University student "has a long history of severe mental illness" and was "seeking help managing her condition up to and including the day of the alleged attack," according to her defense attorney.
  
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• Ronna McDaniel wins re-election to fourth term as RNC chair

  27-01-2023 23:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ronna McDaniel won re-election to a fourth term as Republican National Committee chairwoman Friday, besting insurgent challenger Harmeet Dhillon.
  
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• Sorbo's "Rise of the Antichrist" Movie Modernizes "Left Behind" Story, Showing Govt's New Power to Control

  27-01-2023 23:32
  
  Kevin Sorbo — who directed and stars in the latest offering from the “Left Behind” series — has brought a gritty, modern-day feel to the film that audiences are sure to appreciate.
  “Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist” began a limited four-day release in 1,500 theaters nationwide Thursday, but the run will be extended if the demand is there, according to Sorbo.
  “Rise of the Antichrist” is the sequel to 2014’s “Left Behind” mo
  
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• Listen: Strange Paul Pelosi 911 Call Released, Alleged Attacker Says He's a 'Friend'

  27-01-2023 23:15
  
  A recording of a 911 call in which Paul Pelosi notified San Francisco emergency services that a man had entered his home was released to the public Friday.
  The husband of California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized after he was attacked in the couple’s San Francisco home on Oct. 28.
  In the 911 call, Paul Pelosi spoke as if he was under duress, seemingly requesting police assistance without wanting to tip off his assailant.
  “There’s a gentleman here just waiting for
  
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• Manhunt: Violent Suspect is Using Dating Apps to Find Victims, Flee Police

  27-01-2023 23:05
  
  A man accused of torturing a woman he held captive in Oregon, and who was convicted in Nevada of keeping another woman in captivity, is using dating apps to find people who can help him avoid the police or to find new victims, authorities said Friday.
  Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, is the subject of an intensive, round-the-clock search by police after a woman was found unconscious, bound and near death in Grants Pass, Oregon, on Tuesday. She was hospitalized in critical condition.
  On Thursday nigh
  
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• Second lawyer who participated in Molotov cocktail attack during George Floyd protests sentenced to over a year in prison

  27-01-2023 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  A second former New York lawyer has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for participating in a Molotov cocktail attack during a New York City protest in 2020 following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
  
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• Elon Musk Meets with Top Biden Administration Officials in Washington, D.C.

  27-01-2023 22:59
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a pair of top aides to President Joe Biden met in Washington Friday to discuss the electric vehicle industry and the broader goal of electrification.
  Musk and Biden did not meet, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
  The two haven’t had the smoothest of relationships, with Biden, a big supporter of labor unions, disappointed by Musk’s refusal to allow them into his factories.
  White House aides Mitch Landrieu and John Podesta sat down with the Te
  
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• Felony criminal charges filed against two former Florida officers over alleged beating of homeless man

  27-01-2023 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  Two former Hialeah City police officers and one civilian are facing charges in connection to the alleged kidnapping and beating of a homeless man, as well as witness tampering on part of the civilian in an effort to cover up the officers' actions, officials announced Thursday.
  
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• Firefighter Leaving Work Late Spots Fiery Crash, Saves Unresponsive Man Trapped in Burning Jeep

  27-01-2023 22:49
  
  Our lives are full of little inconveniences that slow us down and seem to have no purpose other than to aggravate: multiple red lights in a row, an almost empty gas tank, or getting off of work late are just a few of the more common headaches.
  But sometimes those minor inconveniences end up being someone else’s blessing, as in this case.
  Tavaris Patton of Jackson, Mississippi, was leaving work later than usual on Monday when he came across a fiery scene.
  Two cars had hit each other head-on
  
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• Man who threatened to detonate bomb near US Capitol pleads guilty

  27-01-2023 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Friday to threatening to use explosives during a four-hour standoff with police in 2021 outside the Library of Congress near the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
  
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• FDA proposal would allow more men who have sex with men to donate blood

  27-01-2023 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing a blood donation policy that focuses on individual risk instead of blanket assessments, the agency said Friday -- opening donation to more gay and bisexual men.
  
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• Third-Richest Man in the World Tumbles from Position, Has Billions of Net Worth Evaporated After Damning Report Is Released

  27-01-2023 22:32
  
  It has been a rough week for one of the richest men on Earth after a large swath of his wealth was wiped away following a report alleging billions of dollars in fraud.
  Gautam Adani, formerly the world’s third-richest man, was knocked down to fourth place after his company was accused of “a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of decades,” according to Time magazine.
  Shares in Adani Group companies took a hit of more than $50 billion following th
  
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• RNC chairwoman beats lawyer and Mike Lindell to win fourth consecutive term

  27-01-2023 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was elected to a fourth consecutive term Friday after a vote by RNC members who gathered here for their winter meeting.
  
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• Trump's Plan to Save Every American School Is So Simple: 'Have Them Fired and Escorted from the Building'

  27-01-2023 22:11
  
  If a hostile force wants to take over a country without the use of arms, it will infiltrate the education system and manipulate it to that end.
  It’s all about the children.
  Hostile forces have not only infiltrated the American education system, but they are on the verge of taking it over. Former President Donald Trump has a no-nonsense plan to take it back.
  “Our public schools have been taken over by the radical left maniacs,” he said in a video posted on Thursday.
  He then laid
  
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• WH Hopeful Blasted for Slow Response to Pregnant Wife Fainting as He Announced Presidential Bid

  27-01-2023 22:04
  
  A Republican White House hopeful is taking heat on social media for his slow response to his pregnant wife fainting as he announced his intention to run for president.
  On Jan. 20, West Virginia businessman Rollan Roberts II held a press conference at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston to announce that he was running for president.
  But in the middle of his speech, his announcement took an unexpected turn when his wife Rebecca Lea Roberts, who is five months pregnant, wobbled and f
  
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• Former Vice President Pence talks about classified docs found at his home

  27-01-2023 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he had been previously unaware classified documents were at his Indiana home but that "mistakes were made" and he takes full responsibility.
  
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• Mike Pence Ends Silence on Classified Documents Found at His House: 'Mistakes Were Made'

  27-01-2023 21:29
  
  Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he takes “full responsibility” after about a dozen classified documents were found at his home in Indiana last week.
  In his first public comments since the self-reported discovery, which was made public earlier this week, Pence said he hadn’t been aware that the documents were in his residence but acknowledged his lack of awareness wasn’t an excuse.
  “Let me be clear: Those classified documents should not have been in
  
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• Top Author Infuriates Transgender Community with Single Piece of Advice About Looking in the Mirror

  27-01-2023 21:20
  
  Few things in modern media have been more dizzying than watching once-beloved “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling become public enemy No. 1 in some people’s eyes because of her stringent belief that men are men and women are women.
  Rowling became a highly public target of vitriol from the far left, and LGBT activists in particular, in 2019, when she criticized the firing of a researcher who, among other things, said “it is impossible to change sex.”
  “Dress howe
  
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• Body camera footage shows moment Paul Pelosi is attacked at his home

  27-01-2023 21:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Police body camera footage from last year's vicious hammer attack on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband at their San Francisco home was made public Friday.
  
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• MSU Football Players Charged Over Scuffle with Rivals to Be Let Off With 'No Criminal Responsibility'

  27-01-2023 21:11
  
  At least four more Michigan State football players facing misdemeanor charges for a skirmish inside the Michigan Stadium tunnel will likely have their cases dismissed in exchange for community service and other conditions, lawyers said Friday.
  “It’s going to happen outside of court,” said Max Manoogian, an attorney for Angelo Grose.
  “There is going to be no criminal responsibility whatsoever. There are no admissions being made, no pleas being tendered.”
  Scuffles bro
  
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• Damar Hamlin’s recovery fuels anti-vaccine conspiracy theories

  27-01-2023 21:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was seized on by people pushing unfounded claims about the dangers of Covid vaccines. His recovery pushed them to stranger theories.
  
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• Men seeking services of sex workers keep knocking on door of fed up Texas retiree

  27-01-2023 21:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Internet scammers have been using the address of a Texas retiree to send sex-seeking men to her Plano home, prompting authorities to set up nearby traffic cameras to dissuade would-be Johns, police said Friday.
  
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• Animal Shelter Reunites Abandoned Dog with Homeless Owner and They Are Getting Help in Big Way

  27-01-2023 20:18
  
  When McKamey Animal Shelter in Chattanooga, Tennessee, posted a story of an abandoned dog and a heartbreaking situation Tuesday, it received a massive outpouring of love and support.
  Now, we’re happy to be able to report that the abandoned dog, Lilo, and its owner have been reunited, and the shelter and others are working to help them be able to stay together.
  It started with a good Samaritan finding a dog, by herself, leash still on, with a heartbreaking note attached to her collar.&ldquo
  
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• World-Famous Comedian Reveals the Moment God's Wake-Up Call Changed His Life - He's Lucky to Be Alive

  27-01-2023 20:09
  
  Kevin Hart had reached a season in his life when he could have pretty much anything he wanted.
  His gift for making people laugh had made him a man who was sought after, rich and famous.
  “The biggest drug — it’s not cocaine, it’s not heroin, it’s not Molly or opioids. The biggest drug is fame,” he said during the Jan. 9 episode of “On Purpose with Jay Shetty.”
  “When you’re winning and you’re succeeding, there’s this idea that
  
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• Two inmates, including a murderer convicted of double homicide, escape Virginia prison

  27-01-2023 19:55 via cnn.com
  
  Authorities are looking for two inmates who escaped from a recreational yard at the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority in Abingdon, Virginia, Thursday afternoon and are on the run, according to a Facebook post from the Washington County Virginia Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Man Allegedly Tries Selling Stolen Car on Facebook, Gets Caught in the Act When Cops Try to Buy It

  27-01-2023 19:52
  
  I will confess to not being an expert in car robberies. If I were, I probably wouldn’t confess it anyway. But I know enough about how the world works that I have a bit of a pro tip if you plan to pilfer a car and want to 1) profit from the crime and 2) not get arrested:
  Don’t sell the car in a public venue — particularly, especially on Facebook.
  And if the car has identifying stickers on it, for Pete’s sake, take them off if you do.
  You’d think these nuggets of comm
  
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• Sheriff 'Disgusted': Vengeful Nanny Allegedly Steals Family Dog and Sets It Loose After Being Fired

  27-01-2023 19:44
  
  Correlation does not imply causation, but when one Florida family’s dog suddenly went missing, they had a pretty good hunch about what had happened to her.
  On Wednesday, the family in Fort Myers fired their long-term nanny, Eileen Schultz.
  While the reason for her termination was not shared, she must have felt pretty put out by it, as she allegedly nabbed the family’s Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Lady before making her final exit.
  When the family realized their beloved pet was
  
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• Hundreds of the 'Worst of the Worst' Sex Offenders to Be Released into Taxpayer-Funded Homes

  27-01-2023 19:35
  
  They’re convicted sex offenders considered so dangerous that the state of Washington — liberal, latte-loving Washington — once thought they needed to be housed on an island in Puget Sound.
  They’re now going to be released into communities across the state — including in homes that are next to a playground and less than a half-mile from a school bus stop. And it’ll cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to pull off.
  According to The Post Millenn
  
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• Veteran Fined After Praying in 'Censorship Zone' Outside Abortion Clinic – Report

  27-01-2023 19:29
  
  Twenty-two years ago, Adam Smith-Connor made a decision he regrets. The child his girlfriend was carrying was killed in an abortion he paid for; one he drove her to obtain.
  For Smith-Connor, the life never lived became the burden that could never be lifted. With that in mind, last November he went to a Bournemouth, England, abortion clinic to pray.
  The police gave him a scolding and sent him away. Then came a 100-pound fine for admitting to police he was praying for his son. And then came the fi
  
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• DOJ charges 3 men in murder-for-hire plot against journalist critical of Iran

  27-01-2023 19:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has charged three members of an Eastern European criminal group with ties to Iran with attempting to assassinate a prominent U.S. journalist and activist critical of the Iranian regime.
  
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• FDA pulls authorization for AstraZeneca’s Covid antibody drug Evusheld

  27-01-2023 18:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  The FDA withdrew the emergency use authorization for AstraZeneca’s Covid antibody cocktail Evusheld because it does not work against omicron subvariant XBB.1.5
  
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• World's First Worm Dating Back 220 Million Years Ago Unearthed

  27-01-2023 18:47
  
  The world’s first worm dating back 220 million years, has been unearthed in Arizona.
  It’s a “missing link” in evolution – shedding fresh light on the origins of amphibians.
  Named Funcusvermis gilmorei, it lived at the beginning of the age of the dinosaurs.
  The primitive creepy-crawly was identified from its tiny jaws and teeth – which remarkably survived fossilization.
  The world’s first worm dating back 220 million years, has been unearthed in Arizona.
  
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• Adults Predict They Could Only Go Without Their Phone And TV For This Long

  27-01-2023 18:46
  
  Adults predict they could only go without their phone and TV for just five hours – while they could manage three days without a laptop or tablet.
  A UK study of 2,000 people found 71 percent admitted they’d struggle to manage their life if they didn’t have access to the internet.
  A woman taking curiosity thinking of not having a phone. But people would only be able to manage an average of five hours and 11 minutes without their phone, relying on it for online banking (44 percen
  
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• Georgia Governor Declares State of Emergency, Activates National Guard Over Anti-Police Riots

  27-01-2023 18:41
  
  Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency and issued an order that allows for up to 1,000 members of the Georgia National Guard to be called to duty to quell any violence that might erupt.
  The order comes days after a Saturday protest in downtown Atlanta devolved into rampant violence that led to six people being arrested after police and their vehicles came under attack.
  Kemp’s order seeks to “subdue riot and unlawful assembly” and is in effect
  
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• Goldman Sachs CEO got 30% pay cut -- but still made $25 million

  27-01-2023 18:33 via cnn.com
  
  Goldman Sachs had a rough year in 2022. And CEO David Solomon was punished for that. Sort of.
  
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• Goldman Sachs CEO gets a 30% pay cut

  27-01-2023 18:33 via cnn.com
  
  Goldman Sachs had a rough year in 2022. And CEO David Solomon was punished for that. Sort of.
  
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• Demon-Like Sculpture Installed Atop Historic 1896 Courthouse

  27-01-2023 18:26
  
  When artist Shahzia Sikander was commissioned to create an exhibition with a sculpture that would sit atop the historic Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State in Manhattan, she said she felt the opportunity was “screaming for a female,” according to The Art Newspaper.
  What she created to sit atop that courthouse, however, is striking for its decidedly inhuman qualities. It is even being derided by some as “satanic.”
  Sikander was commissioned to create the statue
  
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• Breaking: Paul Pelosi Bodycam Footage Finally Released - Watch It Here

  27-01-2023 18:13
  
  Police bodycam footage of the struggle between Paul Pelosi and the man accused of attacking him in his San Francisco home was released Friday.
  News organizations had gone to court to have the audio and video released. The prosecutors in the case and the defense lawyers for David DePape, who faces charges including assault, attempted kidnapping and attempted murder in the Oct. 28 incident, had said the footage could damage his chances of a fair trial.
  The district attorney’s office argued t
  
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• Woke Lawmakers Call for 'Accountability' Over Atlanta Shooting - Georgia Bureau of Investigation Gives Them a Big Reminder

  27-01-2023 18:12
  
  The latest cause célèbre among woke liberals is the death of “Tortuguita” — the chosen pseudonym of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, a nonbinary environmentalist activist who was killed by police in Atlanta last week after he allegedly shot at a state trooper during a protest over the construction of a law enforcement training center in the city.
  Naturally, two members of the so-called progressive “squad” in Congress — and boy, do they ever beco
  
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• Jury awards $1M to Oregon woman who was told 'I don't serve Black people'

  27-01-2023 18:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station employee who told her, “I don’t serve Black people.”
  
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• Black maternal deaths and disparities increase in Mississippi

  27-01-2023 18:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  Deaths from pregnancy complications have become more prevalent in Mississippi, and racial disparities in the health of those who give birth have widened.
  
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• This luxury car zooms past Tesla when it comes to automated highway driving

  27-01-2023 17:58 via cnn.com
  
  Mercedes-Benz will take a step towards offering a self driving car in the United States, or at least in some states, when it begins selling cars featuring its new Drive Pilot system later this year.
  
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• Mercedes leapfrogs past Tesla on automated highway driving

  27-01-2023 17:58 via cnn.com
  
  Mercedes-Benz will take a step towards offering a self driving car in the United States, or at least in some states, when it begins selling cars featuring its new Drive Pilot system later this year.
  
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• DeSantis Airs Out Grievances with RNC, Chimes in on Who Should Be Chair

  27-01-2023 17:46
  
  Count Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis among those who think there needs to be change atop the Republican National Committee after the red wave turned into a red trickle.
  In an interview with conservative activist Charlie Kirk published Thursday, DeSantis said “we need a change” at the RNC — and endorsed lawyer and former Republican Party official Harmeet Dhillon to replace current chair Ronna McDaniel when the party votes Friday.
  “We’ve had three substandard election cycl
  
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• President Carter Once Found Classified Docs at His Home, But Bill He Signed Into Law Changed It All

  27-01-2023 17:33
  
  Neither former President Donald Trump nor President Joe Biden is the first executive accused of improperly storing classified government documents.
  Arguments over presidential storage of documents stretch back decades.
  In 1978, then-President Jimmy Carter signed the Presidential Records Act — a law that provided the National Archives and Records Administration with proper custody over the records of former presidents.
  The documents are, in turn, stored in official presidential libraries.
  C
  
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• Supreme Court did not disclose financial relationship with expert brought in to review leak probe

  27-01-2023 17:31 via cnn.com
  
  • Justice Brett Kavanaugh calls US News law school rankings 'highly problematic'
  • Opinion: This law from the 1870s could imperil abortion in blue states
  
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• Exclusive: Supreme Court did not disclose financial relationship with expert brought in to review leak probe

  27-01-2023 17:31 via cnn.com
  
  • Justice Brett Kavanaugh calls US News law school rankings 'highly problematic'
  • Opinion: This law from the 1870s could imperil abortion in blue states
  
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