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• Bad News for Woke Marvel: New DC Comics Head Honcho Uses Old Superman Tagline the Left Will Hate

  02-02-2023 23:56
  
  There are few fictional characters more endearing and emblematic of Americana than Superman.
  The corn-fed farm boy alien from Smallville, Kansas, by way of Krypton has always exuded so much of the American spirit that his tagline was that he fought for “Truth, Justice and the American Way.”
  That is, until October 2021, when DC Comics announced that Superman’s motto would be “evolving” into “Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow.”
  It felt like a slap in th
  
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• Hae Min Lee's family demands appellate court reinstate Adnan Syed's murder conviction

  02-02-2023 23:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  Lawyers for the family of Hae Min Lee, the Baltimore high schooler whose slaying was profiled on the hit podcast “Serial,” asked appellate judges Thursday to reinstate a murder conviction against the man once blamed for her death.
  
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• Lake Erie water levels continue falling from record highs. Here's every Great Lakes' 2023 forecast

  02-02-2023 23:37
  
  Lake Erie's water levels have gone down from record highs but how low will the water levels go? Here's an outlook for the rest of 2023.      
  
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• University of Connecticut Student Dies After Suffering 'Medical Emergency' in Dorm Room

  02-02-2023 23:36
  
  The University of Connecticut has identified a student who died last week on the Storrs campus as 19-year-old Joy Iwuagwu.
  Iwuagwu was pronounced dead on Jan. 26 after having what school officials described as a “medical emergency” in her dorm room, the Connecticut Post reported Friday.
  University public safety officials were called to the North residence complex around 1:25 p.m., according to the report.
  “Upon arrival, they were directed to a room in which the resident had bee
  
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• McCarthy: Omar ousted, no deal yet on debt crisis

  02-02-2023 23:36
  The Republican-led House voted after raucous debate Thursday to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the chamber's Foreign Affairs Committee, citing her anti-Israel comments. (Feb. 2)      
  
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• An Iowa woman was declared dead and sent to a funeral home. Then she 'gasped for air,' report says.

  02-02-2023 23:33
  
  An Iowa woman was taken to a funeral home from hospice care after a nurse practitioner declared her dead, but she was still alive, a report said.      
  
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• New England Patriots Have One Last Request for Tom Brady: 'We Will Do Everything in Our Power to Bring Him Back'

  02-02-2023 23:15
  
  Love him or hate him, it’s hard to argue against the fact that Tom Brady has been one of the most wildly successful quarterbacks in NFL history.
  It’s also hard to not uncouple Brady from the New England Patriots, despite the just-retired quarterback having won his most recent Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
  The 45-year-old Brady, after all, helped win six Super Bowls while a Patriot, going through incredible highs (six Super Bowl wins) and incredible lows (Deflategate, the
  
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• 'Dances With Wolves' actor Nathan Chasing Horse in court in sex abuse probe

  02-02-2023 23:11
  A former "Dances With Wolves" actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous girls has faced a judge for the first time since his arrest. (Feb. 2)      
  
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• Biden promised to address hate crime reporting. 20 months later, here's what's been done.

  02-02-2023 23:03
  
  While members of the community are generally happy with the Biden administration, key initiatives to tackle AAPI hate crimes have not been launched.      
  
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• Kevin McCarthy Reveals Major Trump Ally to Deliver GOP Response to State of the Union

  02-02-2023 22:48
  
  President Joe Biden will deliver his third State of the Union speech next Tuesday in front of Congress and the American people viewing from home.
  Undoubtedly, most of the positive news he touts that evening will be heavily spun. As usual for Biden, he’ll probably focus on issues that most Americans aren’t talking about around their kitchen tables.
  However, whatever Biden says — if he can get through the speech without venturing too far into gaffe territory — will be count
  
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• Suspected Chinese spy balloon found over northern U.S.

  02-02-2023 22:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  The government has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern U.S. and officials have discussed shooting it down.
  
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• Biden, Clinton mark 3 decades of Family Leave Act

  02-02-2023 22:41
  President Joe Biden hosts former President Bill Clinton at the White House to mark the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act, the first piece of legislation that the 42nd president signed into law after taking office in 1993. (Feb. 2)      
  
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• Patrons of NYC gay bar incapacitated and robbed of thousands via facial recognition on their phones

  02-02-2023 22:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Three men visiting The Eagle NYC were incapacitated and then robbed of between $1,000 and $5,000, the NYPD said Thursday.
  
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• While All Eyes Were on House, McConnell Made Big Move Against 2 GOP Senators

  02-02-2023 22:36
  
  As Democrats face removal from their committee assignments in the House of Representatives, two Republican senators are losing their committee seats — at the behest of their own party leadership.
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is moving against two of his Republican critics.
  The Republican senate leader removed Sens. Rick Scott (FL) and Mike Lee (UT) from the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday, according to Fox News.
  Both senators are among McConnell’s critics in the sena
  
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• NJ councilwoman fatally shot outside her home

  02-02-2023 22:36
  New Jersey borough councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was found shot to death in an SUV outside of her home, authorities said Thursday. (Feb. 2) (AP video: Ted Shaffrey, Robert Bumsted)      
  
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• Law barring people with domestic violence restraining orders from having guns is unconstitutional, court rules

  02-02-2023 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  A federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, a conservative-leaning appeals court ruled Thursday.
  
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• House Republicans vote to oust Democrat Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs committee

  02-02-2023 22:26
  House Republicans have voted to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The vote in a raucous session on Thursday to remove the Somali-born Muslim lawmaker came after her past comments critical of Israel. (Feb. 2)      
  
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• Teen High School Student on Life Support After Going Into Cardiac Arrest During Basketball Game

  02-02-2023 22:25
  
  A Detroit high school student is on life support after going into cardiac arrest during a basketball game Tuesday.
  Cartier Woods, a senior at Northwestern High School, was playing in a varsity game against Frederick Douglass Academy when the incident occurred, according to the Detroit Free Press.
  Detroit Public Schools Community District superintendent Nikolai Vitti told the outlet that CPR was administered before Woods was rushed to nearby Henry Ford Hospital.
  The young man was placed on life s
  
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• 20 Republican attorneys general warn CVS, Walgreens against selling abortion pills by mail

  02-02-2023 22:21
  The letter, from Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, said selling the pills would violate abortion laws in the state.      
  
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• Twitter will start charging for tools used by thousands of developers

  02-02-2023 22:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Twitter will start charging developers to get access to its API, a vital tool that powers popular services like TweetDelete and bots that send users prompts on data in real time.
  
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• Republicans vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee

  02-02-2023 22:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Republicans on Thursday voted to oust Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the Foreign Affairs Committee over past antisemitic remarks.
  
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• Family of double amputee killed by police call police encounter a 'murder'

  02-02-2023 22:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  The family of a double amputee who was gunned down by police in Southern California took initial action Thursday to sue the city that employs the officers.
  
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• Man Books Flight for Australian Vacation, One Look Out Plane Window and He Knows He Made a Mistake

  02-02-2023 21:56
  
  A New York man’s dream of an Australian vacation hit a massive snag last week when he realized he had booked his flight to a completely different location.
  Kingsley Burnett was going on a cruise departing from Sydney, Australia. That was the plan, anyway.
  Where he actually went was Sidney, Montana.
  According to KTVQ-TV, Burnett figured out he had a real problem when he looked out his plane window only to see a snow-topped mountain.
  “At that point, I knew I was in trouble,” he s
  
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• Rev. Sharpton calls out Black former officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death

  02-02-2023 21:48 via cnn.com
  
  • VP Harris mourns Nichols at funeral and calls for police reform: He 'should have been safe'
  • In pictures: Tyre Nichols' funeral service
  • Opinion: The deplorable reason Memphis police stopped Tyre Nichols
  
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• The used car bubble is bursting -- and when to skip tipping

  02-02-2023 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  "Nightcap's" Jon Sarlin asks CNN's Peter Valdes-Dapena if used cars will keep getting cheaper and if more EV price cuts are coming. Plus, Lizzie Post, the great-great granddaughter of etiquette icon Emily Post, shares when to tip and when to skip. To get the day's business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.
  
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• Inside the used car bubble that's bursting -- and when you can skip tipping

  02-02-2023 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  "Nightcap's" Jon Sarlin asks CNN's Peter Valdes-Dapena if used cars will keep getting cheaper and if more EV price cuts are coming. Plus, Lizzie Post, the great-great granddaughter of etiquette icon Emily Post, shares when to tip and when to skip. To get the day's business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.
  
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• Inside the used car bubble that's bursting -- and when to skip tipping

  02-02-2023 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  "Nightcap's" Jon Sarlin asks CNN's Peter Valdes-Dapena if used cars will keep getting cheaper and if more EV price cuts are coming. Plus, Lizzie Post, the great-great granddaughter of etiquette icon Emily Post, shares when to tip and when to skip. To get the day's business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.
  
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• Pope Francis is welcomed in Congo

  02-02-2023 21:41
  More than 65,000 people attended a rally by Pope Francis with young people at the Martyrs stadium in Kinshasa on Thursday, according to Vatican estimates. (Feb. 2)      
  
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• Memphis police chief behind the Scorpion unit ran a similarly aggressive squad in Atlanta

  02-02-2023 21:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis is under scrutiny for her oversight of Atlanta’s Red Dog anti-crime unit, after officers with the similar Scorpion unit killed Tyre Nichols.
  
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• Athlete Suffers Cardiac Arrest and Seizure During Game, Athletic Trainer Performs CPR for 10 Minutes

  02-02-2023 21:27
  
  A middle-school athlete has been hospitalized after going into cardiac arrest Tuesday during a basketball game.
  A Southside Christian School spokesman said Kamari “K Will” Williams, an eighth-grader, “experienced a seizure and cardiac arrest” during the event, according to WYFF-TV.
  “By God’s grace, trainer Chris Young was on-site at the game and stepped in to perform CPR for close to 10 minutes until EMTs could arrive,” Denny Vauters told the news outlet
  
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• UPS Driver Snaps Into Action When He Hears Screams from Behind Customer's House, Ends Up Saving Woman's Life

  02-02-2023 21:16
  
  A Wisconsin woman’s life suddenly came into jeopardy when she slipped last week while taking some refuse to a burn barrel in her backyard and fell into a creek.
  After crawling out of the stream that runs through the rear of her property in the village of Union Center, she was stuck for 45 minutes lying in the ice and snow before a UPS man heard her crying for help and came to rescue her, WMTV-TV in Madison reported.
  Now, thanks to a Jan. 24 ordeal that could well have taken Mariann Rott&rs
  
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• Police arrest man and seize guns from Hollywood high-rise, including some pointed at park

  02-02-2023 21:06
  A man who reportedly made violent threats was arrested,and investigators found guns and ammunition in his Hollywood high-rise apartment, where several rifles were pointed at a nearby park, police said Wednesday. (Feb. 2)      
  
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• A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in Hawaii had nets and plastic debris in its stomach

  02-02-2023 21:06
  Scientists said a dead sperm whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend had nets and plastic debris in its stomach, highlighting the threat to wildlife from the millions of tons of plastic that ends up in oceans every year. (Feb. 2)      
  
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• Texas power outage tracker: 432,000 outages reported as state battles ice, winter weather

  02-02-2023 20:57
  More than 400,000 homes and businesses in Texas were without power Thursday morning. Follow USA TODAY's power outage tracker for updates.      
  
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• Kyle Rittenhouse wrongful death lawsuit can proceed, a federal judge rules

  02-02-2023 20:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled Wednesday that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others.
  
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• New Jersey town's councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour found fatally shot, police say

  02-02-2023 20:31
  
  Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was found shot to death in her vehicle near her home Wednesday night, authorities said.      
  
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• Biden Administration Releases Guantanamo Bay Detainee Who Worked for Al-Qaida

  02-02-2023 20:17
  
  U.S. military officials said Thursday they released and sent to Belize a onetime al-Qaida courier who had completed his sentence.
  The transfer of Majid Khan ended an imprisonment that included torture at clandestine CIA sites and 16 years at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
  Khan, a Pakistani citizen who grew up outside Baltimore, wound up in the Central American nation under a Biden administration agreement with that government.
  Khan’s lawyers said he should have been freed last Februa
  
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• Hunter Biden Admits the Laptop Is His, Attempts to Sic His Dad's DOJ on Those Who Exposed It

  02-02-2023 20:09
  
  Just when you thought the Biden camp’s handling of the notorious “laptop from hell” belonging to wayward first son Hunter Biden couldn’t possibly take another jaw-dropping turn, it’s done just that.
  According to Axios, Hunter Biden’s attorneys are requesting that his father’s Department of Justice probe the people involved in releasing the contents of his laptop to the media — marking a stark deviation from the party line that it was all just &ldqu
  
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• Ukraine groundhog predicts six more weeks of winter

  02-02-2023 20:06
  Every year for nearly 20 years a groundhog in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine has been awoken on February 2 to help predict the upcoming spring. (Feb. 2)      
  
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• Did the groundhog see his shadow? Get the results of Punxsutawney Phil's winter forecast

  02-02-2023 20:00
  
  The weather predicting groundhog Punxsutawney Phil has made it official. After seeing his shadow, he forecast six more weeks of winter for the U.S.      
  
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• Colorado River Basin water levels drop to historic low, states mandated to cut use

  02-02-2023 20:00
  
  California broke from six other Western states in proposal to cut Colorado River use as water levels reach historic lows.      
  
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• How do you make a mummy? Ancient Egyptians’ surprising formulas revealed

  02-02-2023 19:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  The discovery of an unusual set of ceramic vessels has shed new light on the mummification process in ancient Egypt, according to a new study.
  
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• How do you make a mummy? Ancient Egyptians’ surprising formula revealed

  02-02-2023 19:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  The discovery of an unusual set of ceramic vessels has shed new light on the mummification process in ancient Egypt, according to a new study.
  
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• Final Nail in Netflix Coffin? Streaming Giant Reveals Details of Password-Sharing Crackdown

  02-02-2023 19:45
  
  Netflix has announced some dramatic policy updates in a reinvigorated bid to crack down on users who may not be paying their fair share for the streaming titan’s services.
  While reports that Netflix would be cracking down on “password sharing” have been in circulation for months now, the streaming service confirmed its plan with an update to its Help Center, specifically under its “Sharing your Netflix account” page.
  Netflix was about as straightforward as it could
  
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• Biden Loses Another Top Staffer Just Days After His Chief of Staff Stepped Down

  02-02-2023 19:24
  
  Within a week of the announced departure of White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, President Joe Biden said Thursday top economic adviser Brian Deese is on the way out too.
  Biden credited Deese, director of the National Economic Council, with helping craft major pieces of legislation that have defined the 46th president’s time in office to date.
  “Brian’s work was critical to the passage of the most significant economic agenda in generations: the American Rescue Plan, which broug
  
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• Woman in Crosswalk Hit, Killed by Police Officer Responding to High-Priority Call

  02-02-2023 19:14
  
  A 23-year-old college graduate student was killed in Seattle Jan. 23 by a speeding police car.
  Jaahnavi Kandula was walking the crosswalk at Dexter Avenue North and Thomas Street around 8 p.m., when a Seattle police vehicle hit the young woman.
  Police performed CPR on Kandula until Seattle Fire Department arrived, who drove her to Harborview Medical Center, according to KING-TV.
  She later died.
  Kandula was expected to graduate from Seattle’s Northeastern University in December.
  The Traffic
  
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• Republicans pick new Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to give GOP response to State of the Union

  02-02-2023 19:14 via cnn.com
  
  Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden's upcoming State of the Union address, according to an announcement from GOP congressional leaders.
  
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• Republicans pick ex-Trump press secretary and new Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to give GOP response to State of the Union

  02-02-2023 19:14 via cnn.com
  
  Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden's upcoming State of the Union address, according to an announcement from GOP congressional leaders.
  
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• Newsom Attacks DeSantis for Gun Bill, Then Father of Shooting Victim Gives Him Awakening: 'Sit This One Out'

  02-02-2023 18:53
  
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom might be trying to build a nascent presidential campaign by lobbing cross-country bombs at his fellow governor in Florida over the Sunshine State’s stance on Second Amendment rights.
  But the father of a girl who died in a notorious school shooting had a news flash for Newsom this week:
  Criminals don’t really respect the law.
  Ryan Petty’s daughter, 14-year-old Alaina Petty, was one of 17 students and staffers who were killed in the 2018 massacre at M
  
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• FBI is expected to search Mike Pence's home and office for classified materials soon

  02-02-2023 18:53 via cnn.com
  
  The FBI is expected to search former Vice President Mike Pence's house in Indiana and office in Washington for additional classified materials soon, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
  
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