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• Supreme Court Considers Biden’s Authority to Cancel Student Loan Debt

  28-02-2023 23:58
  
  Conservative justices raised questions about the president’s authority to waive hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt in order to check boxes on his education agenda.
  
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• Memphis Teen 1 of 2 Charged in Church Leader's 2022 Killing

  28-02-2023 23:53
  
  Prosecutors say a 15-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man have been indicted in the carjacking and fatal shooting of a prominent United Methodist Church leader in Memphis, Tennessee
  
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• Water Main Break Leaves Many Without Service in NJ City

  28-02-2023 23:48
  A water main break that has left most residents of a small New Jersey city across the Hudson River from Manhattan with no water service or low water pressure will likely not be repaired until at least Wednesday
  
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• Mayor: Water Pressure Should Return to NJ City After Break

  28-02-2023 23:48
  Officials say water pressure should be gradually returning to a small New Jersey city across the Hudson River from Manhattan stricken by a water main break that left most residents with no water service or low water pressure
  
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• Swalwell Commits Self-Own with Tweet Blaming Trump for Train Derailment - But There's an Even Bigger Problem

  28-02-2023 23:45
  
  Leftist Rep. Eric Swalwell of California is being blasted for an embarrassing tweet in which he tried to pin the Ohio train disaster on former President Donald Trump.
  On Monday, Swalwell took to Twitter to blame Trump for the disaster unfolding in East Palestine, Ohio, claiming that the deregulation of railroads led to train cars “exploding.” He posted a screen shot of a Fortune magazine article from 2018 warning about that possibility.A news headline warned Trump’s deregulatio
  
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• Browns Could Restructure Deshaun Watson's $230M Contract

  28-02-2023 23:44
  
  The record-setting contract Deshaun Watson received from the Browns could undergo some revising
  
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• Man Sentenced for Shooting at Police During Wichita Protests

  28-02-2023 23:39
  A man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting at police during racial protests in Wichita in 2020
  
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• Florida Shooting Spree Suspect Faces Additional Murder Charges

  28-02-2023 23:38
  
  By Dan Whitcomb(Reuters) - A Florida man accused of killing three people, including a television journalist and a 9-year-old girl, in a shooting...
  
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• Reward Offered After Bald Eagle Killed in Southern Indiana

  28-02-2023 23:37
  Indiana conservation officers are offering a reward of up to $500 for information leading to an arrest after a bald eagle was shot and killed in southern Indiana
  
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• Tractor-Trailer Driver Ticketed in Collision With Train

  28-02-2023 23:33
  Vermont authorities say the driver of a tractor-trailer that was hit by an Amtrak train has been ticketed for attempting to cross railroad tracks when it was unsafe to do so
  
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• New College Conservative Board Votes to Abolish DEI Office

  28-02-2023 23:33
  
  Trustees picked by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee New College of Florida have voted to abolish its small office that handles diversity, equity and inclusion programs targeted by conservatives throughout the state university system
  
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• CCP Gives Ominous Warning to Musk: Don't 'Bite the Hand That Feeds You'

  28-02-2023 23:30
  
  China was not clearly not amused by the news that the U.S. Energy Department now concludes with “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.
  On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the agency had revised its assessment based on new intelligence, according to sources familiar with a “classified intelligence report.”
  Although this was always the most logical conclusion, the Chinese have n
  
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• US House Democrat Opposes Giving Biden Power to Ban TikTok

  28-02-2023 23:21
  
  By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Tuesday he opposes a Republican bill that...
  
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• FDA Panel Narrowly Backs Pfizer RSV Vaccine for Older Adults

  28-02-2023 23:21
  
  Federal health advisers have narrowly backed an experimental vaccine from Pfizer that could become the first shot to protect older adults against the respiratory illness known as RSV
  
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• Family Questions Delay in Medical Aid for Man Shot by Police

  28-02-2023 23:21
  The family of Colorado man fatally shot by police is questioning why it took so long to provide medical help to him as he lay slumped on the ground near a fence
  
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• Human Rights in North Korea to Stay on UN Security Council Radar

  28-02-2023 23:19
  
  By Michelle NicholsUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The issue of human rights in North Korea will stay on the U.N. Security Council agenda at the request...
  
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• Tears for School Shooting Survivor's 'American Idol' Tryout

  28-02-2023 23:18
  
  An emotional audition on “American Idol” by a survivor of a Texas high school shooting prompted tears from the judges and criticism of the country’s response to gun violence
  
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• Morgan Wallen Continues to Defy Cancel Culture as One Song Gets Him #1 On Billboard Country Music Charts

  28-02-2023 23:18
  
  Back in 2021, the leftist cancel culture tried to end country singer Morgan Wallen’s career over something he said on a viral video. But fans have ignored the left-wing scolds and continue to support the singer. And here at the start of 2023, he has a number-one hit despite the attacks against him and despite the lack of a new album since his cancellation.
  Wallen’s song, “Last Night,” topped the streaming, airplay and the sales chart called Hot Country Songs this month fo
  
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• McCarthy Defends Giving Tucker Carlson Jan. 6 Trove Access

  28-02-2023 23:16
  
  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is defending his decision to give Fox News’ Tucker Carlson “exclusive” access to Jan. 6 security footage of the Capitol attack
  
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• DeSantis Embarks on National Tour as Speculation Swirls About His Future

  28-02-2023 23:16
  
  Policy retreats, donor meetings, a national book tour: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is showing all the signs of running for president – without actually announcing.
  
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• West Virginia GOP Auditor Announces 2024 Run for Governor

  28-02-2023 23:04
  West Virginia’s Republican state auditor says that he will run for governor next year
  
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• House OK's Bill Aimed at Shoring up Juvenile Justice System

  28-02-2023 23:03
  
  The Kentucky House has passed a bill to shore up the juvenile justice system
  
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• Residency Fights Could Snare Many Georgia Voters Under Bill

  28-02-2023 22:56
  
  Georgia Republicans are considering legislation that could let residency challenges knock thousands of people from the voter rolls
  
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• DeSantis Gives National Democrats a Terrifying Message About What Happened to Their Florida Brethren: 'A Dead, Rotten Carcass'

  28-02-2023 22:56
  
  Ron DeSantis just gave liberals another reason to be petrified — and it’s called reality.
  Florida’s Republican governor — the second-most despised name among Democrats after former President Donald Trump — sat down with Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer on a book promotion tour and described the strategy that helped him turn a purple state ruby red in just four years’ time.
  It’s a strategy that could work well beyond the Sunshine State, too.
  The whole
  
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• North Carolina State of the State Speech Set for Next Week

  28-02-2023 22:54
  North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will give what’s likely his final State of the State address next week at the Legislative Building
  
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• India Leads World in Cutting Internet Access for 5th Year in a Row -Watchdog

  28-02-2023 22:54
  
  By Kanishka Singh(Reuters) - India imposed by far the highest number of internet shutdowns in the world in 2022, internet advocacy watchdog Access...
  
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• Op-Ed: While Deployed with the IDF, I'm Seeing the Harsh Reality of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  28-02-2023 22:52
  
  The city of Shechem, also called Nablus, rests in a bowl-shaped valley of rolling green ridges and wadis framed by endless clear skies.
  But while the scenery may be idyllic, the biblical location where Jacob’s daughter Dinah was raped and her brothers took revenge 4,000 years ago is still a hotbed of violence and strife.
  Palestinian Arab terrorist infrastructure is strong in Shechem under the look-the-other-way “supervision” of the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian Arab gunmen
  
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• FBI Says Man Had Guns, Ammo, Fake Marshal ID in Baggage

  28-02-2023 22:50
  A felon faces two charges after federal agents say he tried to board a plane with three guns, ammunition and a fake U.S. marshal's badge
  
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• Rapper Kodak Black Ordered Into Drug Rehab by Judge

  28-02-2023 22:46
  
  A Florida judge has ordered rapper Kodak Black to drug rehab for 30 days after he allegedly tested positive for fentanyl while awaiting trial on a drug trafficking charge
  
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• Tone-Deaf SAG Awards President Calls Hollywood's Woke Initiative The Biggest Effort to Save Planet Since WWII

  28-02-2023 22:41
  
  Actress Fran Drescher compared Hollywood’s latest vow to use less plastic with the sacrifices of those who prevented the enslavement of the globe during World War II.
  Drescher spoke during Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild awards, where she called on the film and TV industry to force its “woke” agenda on people far away from morally bankrupt Hollywood.
  “Our industry brings billions of production dollars to states across the nation,” Drescher said, Deadline reported
  
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• Tennessee Officers' Conduct Probed in Woman's Death

  28-02-2023 22:40
  
  Four Tennessee police officers are on leave during an internal investigation of how they treated a woman who died a day after she was discharged from a hospital but refused to leave the property
  
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• Watch: Jon Stewart Is Fuming After Gov Report Revealed Wuhan Lab Leak Theory Most Likely - 'I'm Done'

  28-02-2023 22:39
  
  Jon Stewart spoke about the backlash he received from the left after he discussed the potential that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab during an interview with Stephen Colbert in 2021.
  At the time, Stewart was essentially written off as a has-been and a conspiracy theorist by people on his own side of the aisle after he said on “The Late Show” he believed it was likely the coronavirus had escaped a lab in the city where it was first discovered.
  His comments took on a new significa
  
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• Reporters From Independent Egyptian News Outlet Referred to Trial

  28-02-2023 22:35
  CAIRO (Reuters) - Three journalists from Egypt's most prominent independent news outlet, Mada Masr, have been referred to trial on charges of...
  
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• Fire Officials: 2 Dead, 1 Hurt After Rowhouse Blaze

  28-02-2023 22:30
  
  Fire officials say two people were killed and a third person was hurt when a fire broke out in a Baltimore County rowhouse
  
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• Man Charged After Alabama Toddler Dies in Hot Car

  28-02-2023 22:29
  A south Alabama man has been arrested on reckless murder charges after his 2-year-old child died Monday after being left in a car
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes Has 2nd Child as She Tries to Avoid Prison

  28-02-2023 22:29
  
  Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes recently gave birth to her second child
  
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• Police's Search for Fugitive Remains Unsuccessful Until Brave Toddler Takes Literal Stand for Truth

  28-02-2023 22:28
  
  It’s good to be honest, Tina Hicks.
  That’s what you — and we all — can learn from a little child.
  Authorities in Williamsburg, Kentucky, Friday were attempting to serve arrest warrants on 45-year-old Tina Hicks.
  Deputies from the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department, along with Williamsburg police and Kentucky State Police, were at a home in Williamsburg, which is in eastern Kentucky 14 miles north of the Tennessee border.
  At the home, no adult family member would te
  
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• Expected Dodgers SS Lux Out for Season After Knee Injury

  28-02-2023 22:27
  
  Gavin Lux will miss the season for the Los Angeles Dodgers because of torn ligaments in his right knee
  
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• Dodgers SS Gavin Lux Out for Season After Knee Injury

  28-02-2023 22:27
  
  Gavin Lux will miss the season for the Los Angeles Dodgers because of torn ligaments in his right knee
  
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• Brazil's Amazon Must Be Protected to Reach Global Climate Goal, U.S. Envoy Says

  28-02-2023 22:26
  
  By Jake Spring and Lisandra ParaguassuBRASILIA (Reuters) - The world cannot meet its climate goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degree...
  
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• Pearl Harbor Survivor Jack Holder Dies in Arizona at Age 101

  28-02-2023 22:25
  Jack Holder, a Pearl Harbor survivor who went on become a decorated World War II flyer, has died in Arizona
  
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• Arizona County Board Votes to Give Recorder Election Duties

  28-02-2023 22:22
  
  A rural Arizona county board that was embroiled last year in voting machine conspiracies has voted to give all election duties through 2024 to the county’s elected Republican recorder
  
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• Biden Adviser and 'Defender' Leaving White House for Senior Post at EPA

  28-02-2023 22:19
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Todd Zubatkin, one of U.S. President Joe Biden's top researchers and fact checkers since the early days of his 2020 campaign...
  
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• Jimmy Carter's Niece Provides Health Update on Uncle After He Refused Medical Intervention, Entered Hospice

  28-02-2023 22:17
  
  A member of former President Jimmy Carter’s family has given an update on his health, as the aging politician sees out the rest of his days in hospice care.
  On Sunday, Carter’s niece, Leanne Smith revealed that he was having a “good day” and that the former chief executive still has some fight in him, as reported by Fox News.
  Smith said Carter is still eating regularly and conversing with those around them, even requesting some of her cheese and broccoli soup.
  “In f
  
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• Stellantis Idles Illinois Plant, Takes Step Toward Closure

  28-02-2023 22:16
  
  Stellantis is moving closer to closing its factory in Belvidere, Illinois, as it prepares for the costly transition from internal combustion to electric vehicles
  
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• U.S. FDA Panel Votes for Pfizer's RSV Vaccine

  28-02-2023 22:15
  
  (Reuters) - A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday recommended Pfizer Inc's respiratory syncytial...
  
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• U.S. State Dept Okays Potential Javelin Anti-Tank Missile Sales to UK -Pentagon

  28-02-2023 22:14
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of anti-tank Javelin missiles to the United Kingdom for an...
  
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• Putin Can’t Win: New Western Insights Show Russia Won’t Claim Victory in Ukraine

  28-02-2023 22:09
  
  A bold assessment from the Pentagon along with analysis that undermines conventional thinking about the Russian army presents a devastating bottom line for the would-be czar.
  
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• Ohio toxic train disaster leads to more concerns in other states while scientists say chemical tests in East Palestine are unusually high

  28-02-2023 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  The aftermath of the toxic train wreck in Ohio keeps spreading to more states as scientists say tests in East Palestine unusually high levels of some chemicals.
  
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• West Virginia House Backs Cap on Deliberate Intent Damages

  28-02-2023 22:06
  
  Republicans in the West Virginia House have passed a bill that would cap the damages workers and their families can receive if their employer deliberately puts them in harm’s way on the job
  
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