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• Cause of Death Released for 23-Year-Old College Swimmer Who Died Suddenly

  07-02-2023 23:59
  A coroner has released the cause of death of a recent University of Arizona graduate and swimmer who died suddenly last month.
  Ty Wells passed away on Jan. 27 at the age of 23 after a successful swimming career, the school announced on Jan. 30.We are deeply saddened by the loss of recent alum Ty Wells, who passed away on Friday.
  Our heartfelt condolences are with his family, his friends and the entire @ArizonaSwimDive family. pic.twitter.com/ksUtynhXWy
  — Arizona Athletics (@AZATHLETICS) Ja
  
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• Child Shocks World with Accomplishment That Usually Takes Others 18 Years, Gives Inspiring Message

  07-02-2023 23:50
  
  It’s like something out of the 2017 movie “Gifted,” except the story of this gifted child is actually true.
  Nine-year-old David Balogun has managed to graduate from Reach Cyber Charter School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, earning a place in the school’s history as its youngest graduate.
  “I realized that I am able to graduate at the age of 10 or 9 as long as I put the effort in, and with the help of my mom and my dad and, of course, Reach Cyber Charter School, I was a
  
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• Viral: Ben Affleck's Photo During Satantic Grammy Awards Perfectly Captures How We All Felt

  07-02-2023 23:30
  
  A viral photo of actor Ben Affleck from Sunday night’s Grammy Awards is perfectly summing up how most ordinary Americans felt about the show.
  Sunday night’s Grammys were defined by a controversial performance by Sam Smith and Kim Petras of their song “Unholy,” which was a performance that seemed to worship Satan.
  WARNING: The following video contains scenes that some viewers will find offensive.The apparent “highlight” from the 2023 Grammys: Sam Smith performi
  
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• Rural American Town Rocked by Food Factory Closure After Nearly 100 Years in Business, 300 Jobs Gone

  07-02-2023 23:20
  
  It’s sobering to see the loss of urban American business.
  Whether it’s the rubble of Detroit or East St. Louis, the post-industrial hulks in Gary, Indiana, or the decades-idle rusting blast furnaces still overlooking former steel town Pueblo, Colorado, it’s a sad sight.
  And the decline of American business affects rural areas, too.
  After nearly a hundred years, the Sidney Sugars processing plant in Sidney, Montana, is shutting down. The announcement came in a news release
  
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• Want your tax refund faster? Here's what to do

  07-02-2023 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  However you feel about doing your taxes, chances are that, if you expect to get a refund, you'll want it fast.
  
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• Megyn Kelly Lets Loose on 'Devil-Themed' Grammy Performance, Blasts Sam Smith for Nipple Covers

  07-02-2023 22:36
  
  Megyn Kelly offered a takedown of “nonbinary” singer Sam Smith’s Grammys performance on her SiriusXM radio show on Monday.
  The host took particular issue with the nipple covers the British singer sported in one of his latest music videos, astutely pointing out that they were wholly unnecessary.
  Not only did Kelly dissect Smith’s performance of a song he decided to call “Unholy,” but she also offered an assessment of whether it was an intentional celebration of
  
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• Sen. Daines' Twitter account suspended

  07-02-2023 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Twitter has suspended Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines's account for violations of the company's sensitive media policy.
  
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• CNN's Adam Kinzinger Gets Himself in Tight Spot After Whining About Musk on Twitter

  07-02-2023 21:57
  
  Former RINO Congressman Adam Kinzinger has found another way to embarrass himself, this time, by complaining about Elon Musk’s management of Twitter . . . on Twitter.
  On Monday, Kinzinger took to Twitter to express his disgust with Musk, saying, “I muted @elonmusk. I couldn’t handle the rage injection every time he tweeted.”I muted @elonmusk. I couldn’t handle the rage injection every time he tweeted
  — Adam Kinzinger #fella (@AdamKinzinger) February 7, 2023Thi
  
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• Americans are 'reluctant' to make larger purchases, Fed report shows

  07-02-2023 21:51 via cnn.com
  
  As retail sales took a bit of a breather in December, so did the credit cards.
  
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• Liberal Media Hype 'Surge' in Grammy Award Ratings, But Here's the Ugly Truth

  07-02-2023 21:49
  
  Much of the establishment media spent Monday celebrating a “surge” in the ratings for this year’s Grammy Awards telecast, when in fact the morally bankrupt sideshow was a colossal failure.
  Historically speaking, the woke exercise in celebrating Satan and passing out awards to noise polluters was among the least-watched shows in the Recording Academy’s more-than-six-decade run.
  The only thing Sunday’s ceremony accomplished was toppling the even more pathetic ratings
  
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• Kyle Rittenhouse Expertly Dismantles Lib Biden Supporter Calling Him a Domestic Terrorist

  07-02-2023 21:46
  
  A liberal activist took to Twitter to try to smear Kyle Rittenhouse’s name, but Rittenhouse came back at her with an excellent response.
  On Monday, Erica Marsh — who, according to her Twitter profile, previously worked on the Biden campaign and volunteers for the Obama Foundation — posted, “Kyle Rittenhouse is a domestic terrorist. Do you agree?”Kyle Rittenhouse is a domestic terrorist. Do you agree?— Erica Marsh (@ericareport) February 6, 2023First off, we sh
  
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• Elon Musk Responds with 4 Words to Disturbing Satan Worship at Grammys

  07-02-2023 21:43
  
  Most Americans probably never thought a literally satanic performance on national television would become part of the national conversation.
  But after the Grammy Awards telecast Sunday, when a pair of sexually confused “entertainers” staged a primetime paean to the Prince of Darkness, it appears anything is possible.
  And for all the social media comment the performance of the aptly titled song “Unholy” has generated, Twitter owner Elon Musk might have summed it up best in
  
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• Memphis city attorney: 7 more police officers facing discipline for Tyre Nichols beating

  07-02-2023 21:27 via cnn.com
  
  The Memphis City Council is set to discuss nearly a dozen public safety proposals and departmental reforms with the police chief and fire chief on Tuesday morning at the council's first public hearing since the release of disturbing video showing the police beating of Tyre Nichols.
  
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• Fed Chair Powell: Inflation fight will take 'a significant period of time'

  07-02-2023 20:26 via cnn.com
  
  The US labor market remains "extraordinarily strong" and Friday's monster jobs report underscored that the central bank has more work to do to bring down inflation, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday.
  
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• 5 Memphis police officers charged in deadly beating of Tyre Nichols allegedly assaulted another man just three days before, federal lawsuit says

  07-02-2023 20:19 via cnn.com
  
  Five Memphis police officers charged in the deadly police beating of Tyre Nichols last month are accused of assaulting another young Black man just three days prior, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
  
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• Look: US Navy Releases Close-Up Photos of Recovered Chinese Balloon

  07-02-2023 20:17
  
  Using underwater drones, warships and inflatable vessels, the Navy is carrying out an extensive operation to gather all of the pieces of the massive Chinese spy balloon a U.S. fighter jet shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday.
  In the newest images released by the Navy on Tuesday, sailors from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 are seen leaning over a rigid hull inflatable boat and pulling in broad swaths of the balloon’s white outer fabric and shell structure.ATLANTIC OCEA
  
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• 4 people hospitalized after battery fire in United plane cabin

  07-02-2023 20:17 via cnn.com
  
  A fire from the battery of an electrical device aboard a United Airlines flight forced a Newark-bound plane to return to San Diego on Tuesday and sent four people to the hospital, officials say.
  
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• Key Cabinet Secretary Ditching Biden Administration for Professional Sports: Report

  07-02-2023 20:08
  
  U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is expected to leave the Biden administration to run the National Hockey League Players’ Association, according to two people familiar with his plans.
  The hockey players’ union has been searching for a new executive director to take over for Don Fehr. An association representative had no official update on the situation when reached Tuesday.
  A serious fan of the Boston Bruins, Walsh showed an encyclopedic knowledge of the sport in videos posted online
  
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• Labor Secretary Marty Walsh expected to leave Biden administration

  07-02-2023 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is expected to depart the Biden administration soon, according to two people familiar with the matter, marking the first Cabinet secretary departure of President Joe Biden's presidency.
  
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• Disney has bigger problems than Ron DeSantis

  07-02-2023 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  Disney has found itself in the middle of a culture war battle that could end up transferring Disney World's governance to a board appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. And that may be the least of Disney's problems.
  
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• 5 derailed train cars carrying hazardous material at risk of exploding are no longer burning, official says

  07-02-2023 20:03 via cnn.com
  
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• Twitter Suspends GOP Senator's Account Over What's in His Profile Picture

  07-02-2023 20:01
  
  This picture was worth way more than 1,000 words — especially for what it says about the way Twitter is apparently still conducting business.
  Sen. Steve Daines, the Montana Republican and an outspoken critic of President Joe Biden, had his Twitter account suspended Monday over a profile picture that offended someone’s sensibilities.
  Even though it’s a picture any hunter would be proud of.
  In an email to The Western Journal on Tuesday, Daines’ deputy press secretary, Blake
  
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• NASCAR Champion Arrested in Mexico After Handgun Found in Baggage, Sentenced to Years in Prison

  07-02-2023 19:52
  
  NASCAR champion Kyle Busch has been sentenced to serve more than three years in a Mexican prison after he brought a handgun into the country while on vacation last month.
  In a news release Friday, federal prosecutors in Quintana Roo, the Mexican state that is home to Cancun, said Busch was caught carrying a loaded .380 caliber pistol in his baggage during a Jan. 27 search at Cancun International Airport.
  The release said he had been found guilty and sentenced to 3.5 years in prison and a fine of
  
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• New York City to end vaccine mandate for city workers this week

  07-02-2023 19:34 via cnn.com
  
  New York City this week will end a controversial Covid-19 vaccine mandate for city employees, ending a policy that has at times pitted the city's leadership against its municipal workforce.
  
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• 'Fox & Friends' Announces Major News About Co-Host: 'We Are So Excited for You'

  07-02-2023 19:11
  
  “Fox & Friends First” co-host Carley Shimkus is doing well after giving birth to a healthy baby boy.
  Shimkus shared the happy news Friday on Instagram and was barraged with congratulatory wishes from her friends and fans.
  “Welcome to the world sweet Brock,” the Fox News host wrote. “You have unlocked a place in our hearts we didn’t even know we had. Your dad and I love you so much!”
  Brock Edward was born Jan. 30 and weighed in at a healthy 7 pounds,
  
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• Police Credit 'the Grace of God' After Mass Shooting Suspect Is Killed Following Lengthy Chase

  07-02-2023 18:46
  
  A man suspected in a mass shooting in central Florida last month was fatally shot by a police officer Monday following a long chase and a carjacking, authorities said.
  The car driven by Alex Greene, 21, eventually crashed into a business in Winter Haven. That’s a short distance from Lakeland, where 11 people were injured in the Jan. 30 shooting, Lakeland Police Chief Sammy Taylor said.Multiple people were shot, two of them critically, in Lakeland’s midtown Monday afternoon. https://t
  
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• Senators form bipartisan Colorado River caucus as tensions rise in West over water crisis

  07-02-2023 18:29 via cnn.com
  
  As the Colorado River sinks further into crisis and tensions rise between Western states over how to divvy up painful water cuts, a bipartisan group of senators are formalizing a new caucus to examine how Washington could help.
  
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• Buffalo Bills Owner Suffers Brain Injury After Cardiac Arrest, Daughter Reveals

  07-02-2023 18:10
  
  Tennis star Jessica Pegula, whose family owns the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, said Tuesday that her mother suffered a brain injury after she went into cardiac arrest last year.
  Kim Pegula was hospitalized last June after what had vaguely been reported as a serious and unexpected health issue. She has remained out of the public eye since.
  The Bills shared a statement from her family in November that asked for privacy.
  “Kim is progressing well and is resting and
  
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• Horrors Beyond Comprehension: Cyber Sickos Using New AI Technology, Latest Victim Speaks Out

  07-02-2023 17:41
  
  The latest high-profile victim of deepfake porn has spoken out after her likeness was used in a graphic video that has spread across the internet.
  The popular video game streamer QTCinderella is accustomed to engaging with her 831,000 fans on the streaming platform Twitch. Last week, the 28-year-old discovered someone had used advanced software to modify an existing pornographic video to make her its “star.”
  The video and its creator(s) used artificial intelligence to make her life a
  
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• Cuban who shot to fame after he was rescued as a boy from Florida straits is set to become a lawmaker

  07-02-2023 17:25 via cnn.com
  
  Elián González, the Cuban boy whose custody battle stoked Cold War-era tensions, has been nominated to serve in the island's National Assembly, the communist-party daily Granma said Monday.
  
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• Cuban boy who shot to fame after he was rescued from the Florida straits set to become a lawmaker

  07-02-2023 17:25 via cnn.com
  
  Elián González, the Cuban boy whose custody battle stoked Cold War-era tensions, has been nominated to serve in the island's National Assembly, the communist-party daily Granma said Monday.
  
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• US senators seek answers from Meta on whether user data was accessed by China, Russia and others

  07-02-2023 17:18 via cnn.com
  
  Top US lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee want answers from Meta on a newly disclosed internal investigation it conducted in 2018 that found tens of thousands of software developers in China, Russia and other "high-risk" countries may have had access to detailed Facebook user data before the company clamped down on that access beginning in 2014.
  
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• Arizona Rancher, 73, Held on $1 Million Bond for Allegedly Killing Illegal Alien on His Property

  07-02-2023 17:17
  
  A 73-year-old Arizona rancher is being held on $1 million bond after a man believed to be a Mexican citizen was shot to death on the rancher’s property.
  The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s office in Nogales, Arizona, said George Alan Kelly, 73, was arrested last week and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the Jan. 30 incident, according to The Associated Press.
  The victim has been identified as Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, 48, of Nogales, Mexico, based on a Mexican voter regist
  
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• '1923' TV Show Pays Tribute to 32-Year-Old Production Supervisor Who Died Suddenly

  07-02-2023 17:02
  
  The cast and crew of the television show “1923” are mourning the loss of a production supervisor who worked on the show.
  Derek Chavez, 32, died in January, according to an IMDb biography.
  Sunday’s episode of the show was dedicated in his memory, with a message indicating as such after the final shot, according to Business Insider: “In memory of Derek Chavez.”
  Chavez is credited as a production supervisor for the show’s first season, which finishes airing this
  
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• Furious Transgender Activists Flood State Capitol Building in Opposition to New Legislation

  07-02-2023 16:41
  
  Activists jammed the state Capitol on Monday to protest against any legislative effort to stem the flood of surgeries “turning” underage boys into girls and vice versa.
  About 150 people flooded the Capitol, according to Newsweek.
  Protesters carried signs saying “You can’t erase us” and “save trans lives,” according to Tulsa World.“We are Oklahoma” https://t.co/qYqoKDiMNG pic.twitter.com/XG7L183PZX
  — Nick Camper (@nickcamper) February 6,
  
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• School and food vendor apologize for insensitive lunch served on first day of Black History Mont

  07-02-2023 16:40 via cnn.com
  
  A middle school in New York and its food vendor, Aramark, apologized after students were served chicken and waffles, along with watermelon on the first day of Black History Month.
  
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• Out of Thin Air

  07-02-2023 16:20
  
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Out of Thin Air appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Patrick Mahomes Opens Super Bowl Week by Pointing to God: 'I Want to Make Sure I'm Glorifying Him'

  07-02-2023 16:18
  
  As Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes kicked off a week in the media spotlight before Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, he put the focus where it belongs — on God.
  “My Christian faith plays a role in everything that I do,” Mahomes told reporters on Monday during the Super Bowl’s Opening Night event at Footprint Center in Phoenix.
  “I mean, I always ask God to lead me in the right direction and let me be who I am for His name,” he said
  
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• Autopsy Reveals Cause of Death for Air Force Cadet Who Collapsed and Died on Way to Class

  07-02-2023 15:50
  
  A U.S. Air Force cadet and football player died suddenly last month from a blood clot resulting from a foot injury he sustained during practice two months earlier, according to an autopsy report.
  Offensive lineman Hunter Brown, 21, collapsed and died on Jan. 9 after he left his dorm room and as he was walking to class at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  His shocking death captivated and alarmed much of the country, coming amid a string of similar incidents involving apparentl
  
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• Memphis City Council to take up reform proposals at first hearing since release of Tyre Nichols video

  07-02-2023 15:45 via cnn.com
  
  The Memphis City Council is set to discuss nearly a dozen public safety proposals and departmental reforms with the police chief and fire chief on Tuesday morning at the council's first public hearing since the release of disturbing video showing the police beating of Tyre Nichols.
  
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• College Basketball Star Goes Viral for Showing What a True Leader Looks Like in Post-Game Press Conference

  07-02-2023 15:36
  
  At a time when so many of our leaders fail us, men like Zach Edey bring a smile to our faces.
  If you’re not a college basketball fan, you might not be familiar with Edey, a national Player of the Year contender and junior at Purdue University in Indiana. The center is the top scorer on the No. 1-ranked Boilermakers, averaging 22.4 points per game, according to ESPN.
  And, despite the fact that Edey dropped 33 points and grabbed 18 rebounds against their intrastate rival Indiana Hoosiers on
  
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• Clip of John Fetterman Goes Viral for What Came Out of His Mouth When He Tried to Say 'Water'

  07-02-2023 15:29
  
  Pennsylvania voters, rejoice. Your newly elected senator is hard at work making sure you have clean drinking work.
  No, not water — at least if you listen to him. In an event at a Philadelphia water treatment plant with President Joe Biden on Friday, Democratic Sen. John Fetterman — whose ability to do the job after experiencing a stroke just before the primary became an issue on the campaign trail — yet again demonstrated his unfitness for his new role by searching for the word
  
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• BP posts record profit and boosts investment in oil and gas

  07-02-2023 15:28 via cnn.com
  
  BP's annual profit more than doubled last year to nearly $28 billion, extending a record run of earnings for the world's oil majors that is adding to calls for higher taxes on the windfall gains.
  
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• Boeing is cutting 2,000 HR and finance jobs, outsourcing some to India

  07-02-2023 15:28 via cnn.com
  
  Boeing plans to cut about 2,000 white-collar jobs in finance and human resources, and it will be shifting some of that work to an outside contractor in India.
  
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• Seminary Student, Youth Director Killed in Accident Hours After Teaching on Promise of Heaven

  07-02-2023 15:10
  
  A Kansas woman who on Thursday morning was teaching others about the promise of heaven as presented in the Book of Revelation was killed in a highway crash that afternoon.
  Caylee Dugger, 30, was the youth director at First Baptist Church North Kansas City and a divinity student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, according to the Baptist Press.
  She was killed in a three-car crash near Bluejacket, Oklahoma, according to WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri.
  The Baptist Press reported she
  
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• Bed Bath & Beyond is closing 150 more stores

  07-02-2023 14:37 via cnn.com
  
  Bed Bath & Beyond is closing 150 more stores — just a week after the struggling retailer announced the closure of 87 locations.
  
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• Louisiana State Police investigating deadly shooting of an unarmed Black man by officer

  07-02-2023 14:19 via cnn.com
  
  Authorities in Louisiana are investigating the deadly shooting of an unarmed Black man by an officer, state police said in a statement.
  
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• Don Lemon's At-Work Blowup Got Worse After CNN Exposed His Behavior Toward Co-Hosts: 'Lost His Mind'

  07-02-2023 14:17
  
  Don Lemon is having a moment. A very, very long moment.
  After the latest in a spate of recent reports regarding his problematic behavior toward his morning show co-hosts was highlighted by an internal CNN newsletter, Lemon reportedly “went ballistic,” the entertainment news website Radar Online reported, citing a “well-placed insider” as its source.
  The report was the latest in a slow-motion weeks-long train wreck for Lemon’s career prospects, as low ratings fo
  
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• White House looks to undercut GOP arguments ahead of border security hearing

  07-02-2023 14:00 via cnn.com
  
  The White House is looking to flip the script on border security politics, accusing House Republicans of "staging political stunts" and undermining border security ahead of a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday that will probe the Biden administration's handling of the US southern border.
  
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• State of the Union, recession, crypto woes and more tech layoffs: What investors are watching

  07-02-2023 13:51 via cnn.com
  
  Here's what investors are paying attention to this Tuesday morning:
  
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