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• Norfolk Southern CEO meets with East Palestine residents after promising to 'help make things right'

  18-02-2023 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  The head of Norfolk Southern, the company who operated the train carrying hazardous materials that derailed earlier this month, met with residents and local leaders of the East Palestine, Ohio, community on Saturday, a company spokesperson said.
  
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• Attorney for GOP Rep. Gaetz's ex-girlfriend says prosecutors didn't have credible evidence to charge

  18-02-2023 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  A defense attorney who represented the former girlfriend of Rep. Matt Gaetz says that prosecutors made the right decision not to charge the Florida Republican after a yearslong federal sex trafficking investigation.
  
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• Twitter to charge for SMS two-factor authentication

  18-02-2023 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  Twitter Blue subscribers will be the platform's only users able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method, Twitter announced Friday.
  
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• Three Small Details in Photo of First Taliban-Trained Pilots Could Be Damning for Biden

  18-02-2023 22:33
  
  It’s been a year and a half since the Biden administration’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, and a new photo released by the Taliban is rubbing salt in the wound.
  When the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, it left a staggering amount of military equipment in the country to be used by the Taliban, including hundreds of aircraft.
  Now it seems that the Taliban is putting those abandoned aircraft to good use.
  Last week, the Taliban released a photo of three pilots who h
  
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• Jackson State Football Player Hospitalized After Suffering Cardiac Arrest

  18-02-2023 22:27
  
  A 21-year-old college football player has been hospitalized in Mississippi after going into cardiac arrest.
  Kaseem Vauls, a defensive lineman at for Jackson State University, is being treated at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, according to local news outlet WLBT.
  Vauls, whose Twitter bio says he stands 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 270 pounds, was a red-shirt freshman who transferred from Alabama A&M ahead of the 2022 season. This is now his second season with the Tigers. Ac
  
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• Analysis: Online superstore surpasses Amazon and Walmart to become most downloaded app in US

  18-02-2023 21:55 via cnn.com
  
  Analysis: A new online shopping platform linked to one of China's top retailers has quickly become the most downloaded app in the United States, surpassing Amazon and Walmart. Now it's looking to capitalize from an appearance on America's biggest stage.
  
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• Buttigieg's Heartless Response to Ohio Disaster Leaves Americans Outraged

  18-02-2023 21:39
  
  “It happens all the time,” said the captain as his ship sank. “Nothing to see here.”
  When everything is reduced to statistics, humanity drowns in the depths of meaningless numbers.
  U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg seems oblivious to the fact that his ship is sinking. Disasters like the toxic train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, have become so commonplace under his watch that it’s just another day at the office.
  About ten minutes into an interview with
  
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• Jimmy Carter, 98, Refuses Medical Intervention and Enters Hospice Care

  18-02-2023 21:31
  
  The Carter Center said Saturday that former President Jimmy Carter has entered home hospice care.
  The charity created by the 98-year-old former president said on Twitter that after a series of short hospital stays, Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.”
  It said he has the full support of his medical team and family, which “asks for privacy at this time and is grateful for the conc
  
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• Body found in car during drone search of a flooded area in Kentucky

  18-02-2023 21:24 via cnn.com
  
  A body has been found in a vehicle submerged in Kentucky flood waters, Marion County Rescue Chief Brian Smith said.
  
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• Twitter to make you pay to secure your account this way

  18-02-2023 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  Twitter Blue subscribers will be the platform's only users able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method, Twitter announced Friday.
  
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• Fire Breaks Out at 'Green' Energy Plant, Noxious Smoke Is So Bad Mayor Urges Residents to Stay Indoors

  18-02-2023 21:07
  
  Smoke from a fire at a facility designed to turn waste into energy is forcing officials to urge residents near the Florida plant to stay indoors.
  The fire broke out Sunday at the Covanta Energy plant in Doral, according to CNN.
  As of Friday, officials said they were trying to demolish walls to gain better access to the burning trash but had no timetable for when the fire would be extinguished.
  “Residents in the area should stay indoors as much as possible, and keep your windows closed,&rdq
  
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• Pete Buttigieg Gets Bad News from Congressman Regarding His Handling of Ohio Crisis

  18-02-2023 21:00
  
  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is being slammed by an Ohio congressman whose constituency is at the center of a devastating train derailment.
  On Saturday, GOP Rep. Bill Johnson spoke with Fox News about the Feb. 3 disaster in which a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed near the town of East Palestine, Ohio, resulting in the town and surrounding area being polluted with toxic chemicals.
  Johnson told Fox News that the residents of his constituency, which includes East Palestine, remai
  
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• Biden Judicial Nominee's Sick Request in Child Rape Case Exposed After Ted Cruz Reads Judge's Own Words

  18-02-2023 20:27
  
  One of President Biden’s judicial nominees is seeing his past actions come back to haunt him, as a sick incident from earlier in his career was brought up during his confirmation hearing.
  On Wednesday, Michael Delaney, who was nominated for a seat on the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the First Circuit, was grilled by Senate Republicans at his confirmation hearing. The senators probed for details regarding how a prestigious New Hampshire private school Delaney represented dealt with a sexua
  
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• Writing Code to Flip Votes Is 'Very Easy to Do' but 'Hard to Stop,' Says Democratic Computer Programmer

  18-02-2023 19:47
  
  The Arizona Senate Elections Committee heard from a computer programmer this week who testified that any computer-operated voting machine is vulnerable to tampering.
  Clinton Curtis, who previously worked as a computer programmer for multiple federal agencies, urged a return to paper ballots during the Monday hearing.
  Curtis began his presentation to the committee by playing a video of himself testifying before Congress in 2004, following the presidential election won by George W. Bush.
  He t
  
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• Why Pizza Hut's red roofs and McDonald's play places have disappeared

  18-02-2023 19:41 via cnn.com
  
  For decades, bright, playful and oddly-shaped fast-food restaurants dotted the roadside along America's highways.
  
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• Why McDonald's buildings no longer have golden arches

  18-02-2023 19:41 via cnn.com
  
  • This company employed children to clean razor-sharp saws using hazardous chemicals
  
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• Used car prices are poised to rise after steep fall

  18-02-2023 19:27 via cnn.com
  
  The price of used cars has been falling steadily, and steeply, for much of the last year. Unfortunately for car buyers, that could be about to change.
  
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• After a steep fall, used car prices poised to rise again

  18-02-2023 19:27 via cnn.com
  
  The price of used cars has been falling steadily, and steeply, for much of the last year. Unfortunately for car buyers, that could be about to change.
  
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• WWE Legend Doesn't Hold Back on Rihanna's Halftime Performance: 'I Was Disgusted by It'

  18-02-2023 19:07
  
  Count pro wrestling legend Goldberg among those who weren’t quite amused by Rihanna’s crotch- and attention-grabbing antics at last Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show.
  On the car podcast he co-hosts with Adam Carolla and Matt “The Motorator” D’Andria, Goldberg — whose full name, outside of WWE’s squared circle, is Bill Goldberg — expressed his disgust with the spectacle.
  “I thought Rihanna was frickin’ horrible,” he said, acc
  
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• Tragedy as 'American Idol' Alum and Country Star Kellie Pickler's Husband Dies by Suicide

  18-02-2023 18:34
  
  Kyle Jacobs, the husband of country music singer Kellie Pickler, died Friday in what police said they believe was a suicide.
  The Nashville Police Department said it was called to a home Friday at 1:21 p.m.
  Jacobs, 49, was found “deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” police said in the statement, according to People.
  “His death is being investigated as an apparent suicide,” the statement said.The Academy is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Kyle
  
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• Why these bottled Starbucks drinks have been recalled

  18-02-2023 18:28 via cnn.com
  
  Distributor PepsiCo is recalling more than 300,000 Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino bottles because they might have glass in them, the FDA said this week.
  
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• Why these bottled Starbucks drinks are recalled

  18-02-2023 18:28 via cnn.com
  
  Distributor PepsiCo is recalling more than 300,000 Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino bottles because they might have glass in them, the FDA said this week.
  
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• Andrea Mitchell's Face Says It All After Kamala Harris Wraps Up Interview with Word Salad

  18-02-2023 18:13
  
  After launching her campaign this week, former UN ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley subtly emphasized the age of the two presumptive front-runners in the 2024 presidential campaign — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump — by calling for older politicians to submit to “mental competency tests.”
  “In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire,” Haley said on Wednesday, according to Fox News. “We’ll ha
  
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• FEMA Takes Action Hours After News Breaks of Trump's Planned Visit to Ohio Disaster Site

  18-02-2023 18:01
  
  On Thursday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency gave Ohio the cold shoulder when it requested assistance for the troubled town of East Palestine, where a train wreck and resulting chemical spill have spurred fears of grave contamination.
  Then on Friday, two things happened.
  First, former President Donald Trump announced that he would be making a visit to East Palestine, a trip guaranteed to bring hordes of media representatives to the community.
  Then, on Friday night, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine
  
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• Family Demands Answers After 12-Year-Old Son Dies During Football Practice: 'He Was a Healthy Kid'

  18-02-2023 17:30
  
  The family of a 12-year-old New Jersey boy who died earlier this month at a football practice is lashing out over the boy’s death.
  Elijah Jordan Brown-Garcia of Newark died on Feb. 10, according to the Daily Mail.
  “He didn’t get hit, like no contact or anything. He ran about 20 yards, said he was going to take a little break. I don’t think he took enough time,” Elijah’s brother Mekhi, who was at the practice, said.
  His mother, Raven Brown, said she has no idea
  
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• Twitter Users Notice Something Strange with Putin's Feet in New Video: 'Not Normal'

  18-02-2023 17:25
  
  Twitter users are questioning the health of Russian President Vladimir Putin after a Friday joint appearance with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
  The dictatorial Russian leader appeared to move his feet strangely as he met with Lukashenko in Moscow.
  Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian government, suggested Putin was moving his feet to convey a Morse Code message.Putin’s feet during his meeting with Lukashenko.
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• Biden Tries to Slam DeSantis, Instead Accidentally Tweets Out Argument for School Choice

  18-02-2023 16:45
  
  Joe Biden tweeted what he thought was a perfect slam on Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis, but it ended up having other, unintended implications.
  On Friday, Biden took to Twitter to lambast the Republican governor for his pushback against the College Board’s AP African American Studies course, which included topics such as critical race theory and Black Lives Matter, until it was forced to strip it down due to the backlash, according to the New York Times.
  The president said that he feared
  
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• At least 17 injured in predawn fire at Maryland highrise

  18-02-2023 16:42 via cnn.com
  
  At least six people were injured -- one critically -- during a fire early Saturday that left some residents trapped on balconies of a highrise apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, a fire official says.
  
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• Kevin Costner Breaks Silence with Emotional Video Amid Rumors That 'Yellowstone' Is Ending

  18-02-2023 16:16
  
  The star actor of “Yellowstone” shared an emotional video amid reports that his role — as well as the show itself — may soon end.
  Kevin Costner shared a video to social media on Wednesday thanking his supporters as he unboxed his Golden Globe award for his role on the show.
  Costner, who didn’t attend the awards ceremony last month because of flooding near his home in Santa Barbara, California, won the Golden Globe this year for best actor in a television drama serie
  
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• Analysis: This is why you want to announce your presidential bid early

  18-02-2023 16:04 via cnn.com
  
  The nascent 2024 presidential campaign seemed to hit a different gear this week with Nikki Haley entering the Republican primary. The former South Carolina governor and onetime United Nations ambassador joins former President Donald Trump as the only major competitors to declare bids for the presidency.
  
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• US has formally determined that Russia committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Harris says

  18-02-2023 16:02 via cnn.com
  
  The US government has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity during its war in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris announced Saturday in Germany.
  
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• FBI Computer Systems Used to Investigate Child Pornography Images Hacked: Report

  18-02-2023 15:49
  
  Hackers have invaded the FBI’s computer network, according to a new report.
  Few details were being released about the incident, which was reported by CNN.
  The network said that the target appeared to be a system used to investigate images of child sex abuse, based on what it was told by two sources it did not name.
  “The FBI is aware of the incident and is working to gain additional information,” the agency said in a statement.
  “This is an isolated incident that has been c
  
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• Spontaneous Revival Now Going for 10 Days Straight as People Travel Thousands of Miles to Join

  18-02-2023 15:11
  
  The nonstop Christian worship service at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, that began last week entered its 10th day on Friday as thousands continue to stream in to experience God.
  The whole thing started on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at a regularly scheduled chapel service that simply did not end.
  Zach Meerkreebs, with the Christian and Missionary Alliance organization Envision, was the featured speaker that morning and he spoke on the importance of experiencing God’s love.
  “You canno
  
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• 'Never Give Up': Dramatic Footage Shows 24-Year-Old Woman Fighting Off Attacker in Empty Gym

  18-02-2023 15:00
  
  A 24-year-old Tampa woman gave a stranger more than he bargained for after she fought off an attack in the gym of her apartment complex.
  The incident took place on Jan. 23 at the Inwood Park Apartment Complex. Nashali Alma, 24, said she had battled her way free of a man who tried to attack her, according to a news release on the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office website.
  Police would later arrest Xavier Thomas-Jones, 25. Jones faces charges of sexual battery, false imprisonment and kidn
  
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• Biden's other student loan forgiveness plan could be more generous in the long run

  18-02-2023 14:12 via cnn.com
  
  While President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program promising up to $20,000 in one-time debt relief for low- and middle-income borrowers is tied up in the courts, the Department of Education is working on a new repayment plan that has the potential to significantly help both current and future borrowers.
  
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• Biden's other student loan forgiveness plan could be more generous

  18-02-2023 14:12 via cnn.com
  
  While President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program promising up to $20,000 in one-time debt relief for low- and middle-income borrowers is tied up in the courts, the Department of Education is working on a new repayment plan that has the potential to significantly help both current and future borrowers.
  
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• Great Lakes ice cover reaches historic low. Here's what we know.

  18-02-2023 11:05
  
  Lack of ice can upend the lakes' ecosystem and make shipping conditions more dangerous.      
  
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• After an onslaught of tragedy, are young Michiganders on high alert?

  18-02-2023 11:05
  
  Survivors of multiple traumatic events might find themselves becoming hypervigilant. Here's what that means.      
  
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• Afghan girls are defying the Taliban. Inside their secret classes with a teacher in the US.

  18-02-2023 11:04
  
  A group of Afghan girls and women join a virtual class based in New Jersey to learn English, defying Taliban rules forbidding Afghan girls' education.      
  
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• A Kentucky 'revival' has people talking about a Christian tradition

  18-02-2023 10:13 via cnn.com
  
  • Students denounce bullying in New Jersey school district where teenager died by suicide
  
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• Grassroots groups in Baltics strive to help Ukraine

  18-02-2023 08:41
  
  Grassroots groups in Baltics strive to help Ukraine      
  
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• Legally armed civilian shot and wounded suspected gunman in fatal El Paso shooting, police say

  18-02-2023 07:51 via cnn.com
  
  A civilian used his legally licensed gun to shoot and wound a suspect in a mall shooting in El Paso, Texas, that left one dead and three injured earlier this week, police said.
  
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• Unrest bolsters Peru's Indigenous activists

  18-02-2023 06:31
  Peruvian Indigenous, rural demonstrators that travelled to join the protests in the capital, have been surviving in shelters for the past two months, awaiting the president to hear their demands for resignation. (Feb 18)      
  
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• Gunman kills 6, including ex-wife, in shooting spree in rural Mississippi town, officials say

  18-02-2023 04:26
  
  Six people were shot dead Friday in a small town in rural Mississippi, officials said. A suspect was in custody.      
  
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• Federal prosecutors charge man with 2 hate crimes after allegedly shooting 2 Jewish men in LA

  18-02-2023 03:10 via cnn.com
  
  Police in Los Angeles have charged a man with two hate crimes after he allegedly shot two different Jewish men earlier this week, US Attorney Martin Estrada said in a news conference Friday.
  
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• Man held woman against her will for a year before escape, officials say

  18-02-2023 03:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  A man in New Jersey is accused of holding a woman against her will for a year before she escaped and asked for help at a gas station earlier this month, authorities said Friday.
  
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• Fox News knowingly broadcast election lies

  18-02-2023 02:53 via cnn.com
  
  Fox News has been exposed like never before.
  
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• Analysis: Fox News knowingly broadcast election lies

  18-02-2023 02:53 via cnn.com
  
  Fox News has been exposed like never before.
  
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• Residents worry chemicals from toxic train wreck in Ohio may already be impacting their health

  18-02-2023 02:40 via cnn.com
  
  Some residents of East Palestine, Ohio, say they have developed rashes, sore throats, nausea and headaches after returning to their homes this week, and they're worried these new symptoms are related to chemicals released after a train derailment two weeks ago.
  
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• East Palestine residents worry symptoms may be tied to chemicals from train crash

  18-02-2023 02:40 via cnn.com
  
  Some residents of East Palestine, Ohio, say they have developed rashes, sore throats, nausea and headaches after returning to their homes this week, and they're worried these new symptoms are related to chemicals released after a train derailment two weeks ago.
  
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