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• TV Host Lets Biden's 'Rambling Mess' of Press Sec Have It for 'Train-Wreck' Interview: 'It's Just Gibberish'

  14-03-2023 23:55
  
  It seems as if White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre could not give a decent interview or press conference if her life depended on it.
  On Friday, we saw another example of that when she did an interview with Chris Hayes at MSNBC, who, one would suspect, would be rather friendly to Jean-Pierre and one would assume she would have no trouble with the interview.
  However, Hayes then asked her a tough question about illegal immigration, specifically, whether the Biden administration would ret
  
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• FBI refutes Trump's claim that he 'sent' agents to stop Florida voter fraud during 2018 election

  14-03-2023 23:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  The FBI has said it can find no records related to former President Donald Trump’s assertions in November that he “sent in the FBI and the U.S.
  
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• Virginia Deputies Charged in Man's Death at Mental Hospital

  14-03-2023 23:50
  A Virginia prosecutor says seven sheriff’s office employees have been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a 28-year-old man at a state mental hospital last week
  
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• Arkansas Lawmakers OK Anti-Abortion Monument at Capitol

  14-03-2023 23:50
  
  An anti-abortion monument would be built near Arkansas' Capitol under legislation on its way to the governor's desk
  
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• Watch: 'Captain America' Crushes 3-Run Bomb in Mercy Rule-Invoking Victory Over Canada

  14-03-2023 23:49
  
  Canada couldn’t make it out of the seventh inning against the United States in the World Baseball Classic.
  Team USA crushed Canada in a Monday contest of the international tournament, held at Chase Field in Phoenix.
  Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout launched a three-run home run in a mammoth nine-run first inning for the U.S.Big fly for @MikeTrout to cap off a nine-run first for Team USA! #WorldBaseballClassic pic.twitter.com/RjioUh8EnX
  — MLB (@MLB) March 14, 2023Trout lived u
  
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• Ryan Redington Arrives in Nome, Alaska to Win Iditarod Sled Dog Race

  14-03-2023 23:44
  
  By Dan Whitcomb(Reuters) - Ryan Redington, who hails from a family of hall-of-fame mushers, reached Nome, Alaska, ahead of his rivals on Tuesday to...
  
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• US Watching Developments at First Republic, Other Banks - White House

  14-03-2023 23:43
  
  By Andrea ShalalWASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House is carefully monitoring developments at First Republic and other smaller banks after actions...
  
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• Tucker Carlson Asked GOP Presidential Hopefuls For Their Position on Ukraine - There Are Major Differences

  14-03-2023 23:41
  
  Fox News host Tucker Carlson reached out to both declared and potential 2024 Republican presidential candidates about their position on the country’s policy on the war in Ukraine.
  The answers, as the host noted on his show Monday, were different for each candidate. Minus a few outliers, most people who have been floated as serious contenders said they are opposed to a blank-check policy toward arming Ukraine in its stalemate against Russia.
  The U.S. has provided billions of dollars in aid
  
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• Judge Strikes Down Alabama Laws Against Panhandling

  14-03-2023 23:40
  A federal judge last week struck down Alabama laws against panhandling as unconstitutional, statutes that opponents said criminalized poverty
  
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• Kamala Harris to make first trip to Iowa since becoming vice president

  14-03-2023 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday will make her first trip to Iowa since taking office for an abortion rights event, a White House official told CNN.
  
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• FAA to Investigate Runway Wrong Turn at DC-Area Airport

  14-03-2023 23:37
  The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a plane took a wrong turn and crossed a runway at a Washington-area airport as another prepared to take off
  
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• U.S. Withdraws Trump-Era Land Deal in Alaska Wildlife Refuge

  14-03-2023 23:35
  
  By Nichola Groom(Reuters) - The Biden administration said on Tuesday it rescinded a land swap deal struck by former President Donald Trump's...
  
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• Ann Uccello, First Female Mayor in Connecticut, Dies at 100

  14-03-2023 23:34
  Antonina “Ann” Uccello, the first woman elected a mayor in Connecticut when she won an upset victory in Hartford as a Republican in 1967, has died
  
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• Gallego Slams Sinema Over 2018 Bank Deregulation Vote

  14-03-2023 23:33
  
  Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego is slamming independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for backing a bank deregulation bill he says contributed to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
  
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• Lawyers Want Roger Goodell Role Cut in NFL Race Bias Claims

  14-03-2023 23:32
  Lawyers for NFL Coach Brian Flores and two other Black coaches have asked a judge to reconsider her decision letting some of a federal lawsuit's racial discrimination claims possibly go before Commissioner Roger Goodell in arbitration proceedings
  
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• Democrats Propose Reversal of Trump-Era Bank Rule After SVB Collapse

  14-03-2023 23:32
  
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren and a group of Democrats unveiled legislation on Tuesday to reverse banking regulations that they say led to the banking collapse days ago.
  
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• NC Senate Approves Increased Drug Distribution Penalties

  14-03-2023 23:31
  North Carolina’s Senate has unanimously approved legislation to increase criminal penalties for drug dealers whose distribution of fentanyl and other controlled substances causes an overdose death
  
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• Mandatory Paid Time Off: 'A Strain' for Illinois Business

  14-03-2023 23:31
  
  Doug Knight’s family has owned Springfield amusement park Knight’s Action Park since 1930, and the park has seen its share of economic ups and downs
  
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• Kentucky Prison Supervisor Convicted of Covering up Assaults

  14-03-2023 23:28
  A former supervisor at a federal prison in Kentucky has been convicted of writing false reports to cover up assaults on two inmates by corrections officers
  
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• Georgia City Sued Over 2021 Death in Police Interview Room

  14-03-2023 23:25
  A Georgia city and its police department are being sued by the family of a 60-year-old man who killed himself after being left alone in a police station interview room
  
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• Michigan Senate Votes to Repeal 2012 Law Restricting Unions

  14-03-2023 23:24
  
  The Michigan Senate has approved legislation to repeal the state's “right-to-work” law, further advancing one of Democrats' top legislative goals since taking control of the state government this year
  
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• Denver to Pay $1.6M to Protesters Injured by Police in 2020

  14-03-2023 23:24
  Denver will pay $1.6 million to settle lawsuits filed by seven people who police injured during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd in 2020
  
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• Green Groups Sue Biden Admin Over Approval of Alaska Willow Oil Project

  14-03-2023 23:23
  
  By Timothy GardnerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday over the Biden administration's approval of...
  
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• Prominent BLM Activists Facing Federal Charges After Alleged $1M Scheme Uncovered by Police

  14-03-2023 23:20
  
  That old white privilege problem still plagues the Grants.
  It was right at a year ago that Monica Cannon-Grant, a major Black Lives Matter activist, was indicted along with her husband, Clark Grant, on 18 federal fraud charges, much of it related to BLM.
  Now the feds are back, filing nine more charges, bringing the total to 27, a legal package threatening convictions that can lead to a lot of prison time.
  A year ago, Cannon-Grant, blamed jealous black activists who “partnered with white su
  
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• Medicaid Agreement in North Carolina Closes in on Passage

  14-03-2023 23:20
  The details of a deal reached by North Carolina legislative Republicans to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults has received overwhelming initial approval from the state Senate
  
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• Ex-Rep: Legislative Plans in Mississippi Are 'Jim Crow 2.0'

  14-03-2023 23:16
  
  A former Mississippi lawmaker says efforts by the majority-white state Legislature to create courts with appointed rather than elected judges and to expand patrols by state police inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson amount to “Jim Crow 2_0."
  
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• ComEd, Madigan Focus of Federal Bribery Trial in Illinois

  14-03-2023 23:14
  Jury selection has begun at a federal trial in Chicago that could offer an inside look at pay-to-play politics in Illinois that prosecutors say involved the state’s largest electric utility and one of the state’s most powerful politicians at the time
  
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• Islamic State Claims Responsibility for East Congo Attack That Killed 19

  14-03-2023 23:12
  (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for an east Congo village attack that killed 19 people on Sunday, according to the group's Amaq...
  
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• Biden Confronts Gun Violence With Thoughts, Prayers – and Executive Action

  14-03-2023 23:12
  
  The president visited the site of a recent mass shooting to announce an executive order stretching current law to get as close as possible to universal background checks for gun buyers.
  
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• Ukraine's Zelenskiy: Command Unanimously Favours Defending Bakhmut

  14-03-2023 23:09
  
  (Reuters) - Ukraine's top military command is unanimously in favour of defending the sector of eastern Ukraine, including the besieged city of...
  
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• Teenage Cheerleader's Mother Issues Plea After Daughter Goes Into Cardiac Arrest at Competition

  14-03-2023 23:06
  
  The mother of a 17-year-old cheerleader is expressing gratitude that an automatic external defibrillator was available at the facility where the girl suddenly went into cardiac arrest on March 5.
  Andrea Joe told WRAL-TV that her daughter, Keianna, was warming up for a cheerleading competition at Broughton High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, when the people around her became aware something was wrong.
  “They had just gotten finished with the very first stunt,” Andrea told the TV st
  
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• Proposal to Ban Slot-Like Machines Sent to Kentucky Governor

  14-03-2023 23:06
  
  Kentucky's Senate has voted to ban devices resembling slot machines that have proliferated in the state
  
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• Bill to Halt Mining Near Okefenokee Gets Hearing but No Vote

  14-03-2023 23:03
  
  A proposal to ban future mining near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge has received a hearing before Georgia lawmakers
  
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• N. Carolina Senate OKs Harsher Penalties for Utility Damage

  14-03-2023 23:01
  
  The North Carolina Senate has unanimously passed legislation to increase punishments for intentionally damaging utility equipment after substation shootings in Moore County cut power to 45,000 homes and business for several days last year
  
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• Girls' school deemed ineligible for future activities after forfeiting game against transgender student

  14-03-2023 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  A Vermont girls' high school that withdrew from a basketball tournament last month after refusing to play against a team that had a transgender player is no longer able to participate in future Vermont Principals' Association (VPA) activities and tournaments, the group said in a news release Monday.
  
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• Girls' high school deemed ineligible to play in future activities and tournaments after forfeiting basketball game against team with transgender student-athlete

  14-03-2023 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  A Vermont girls' high school that withdrew from a basketball tournament last month after refusing to play against a team that had a transgender player is no longer able to participate in future Vermont Principals' Association (VPA) activities and tournaments, the group said in a news release Monday.
  
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• Minnesota Bill to Legalize Marijuana Gets Major Rewrite

  14-03-2023 23:00
  
  Legislation to legalize recreational marijuana for adults in Minnesota has undergone a major rewrite with the addition of new language to regulate and protect the state’s industry in low-potency edibles
  
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• Moscow Sees U.S. Drone Incident as Provocation -Russia's Ambassador to U.S.

  14-03-2023 22:57
  (Reuters) - Moscow views the incident involving a Russian Su-27 fighter jet and a U.S. military drone over the Black Sea as provocation, Russia's...
  
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• Moscow Sees Drone Incident as Provocation -Russia's Ambassador to U.S

  14-03-2023 22:57
  (Reuters) -Moscow views the incident involving a Russian Su-27 fighter jet and a U.S. military drone over the Black Sea as provocation, Russia's...
  
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• Expert Who Predicted Lehman Collapse: Fed Reserve Is Carrying Out Financial 'Arson' During Banking Crisis

  14-03-2023 22:54
  
  The Federal Reserve is desperately hiking interest rates to stave off further financial collapse even as President Joe Biden’s government continues to throw obscene amounts of money into bailouts all of which is putting a huge strain on the banking system. And the result is that the banks are lighting the financial fires while at the same time pretending to be the firefighters putting it out.
  As in past financial crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis, these banks are engaging in risky
  
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• Man Arrested After Minivan Rams Police Headquarters Entrance

  14-03-2023 22:50
  Authorities say a man is facin charges after allegedly intentionally ramming a minivan into the entrance of the new Philadelphia police headquarters
  
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• What's Known — and Not — About US-Russia Military Air Crash

  14-03-2023 22:48
  
  When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, it was a rare but serious clash that triggered a U.S. diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sensitive technology
  
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• What's Known — and Not — About US Drone and Russia Jet Crash

  14-03-2023 22:48
  
  When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, it was a rare but serious clash that triggered a U.S. diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sensitive technology
  
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• New Mexico voting rights bill heads to governor for signature

  14-03-2023 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  A New Mexico voting rights bill that would expand voting access in the state, including restoring the rights of felons to vote upon release from incarceration, is headed to Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to sign after final passage from the state legislature this week.
  
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• Conductor of Train That Killed Woman Cleared of Wrongdoing

  14-03-2023 22:45
  The conductor of a San Francisco train that in 2021 dragged to death a woman has been cleared of wrongdoing by federal investigators
  
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• U.S. Senate's Banking Panel Chairman: Congress Unlikely to Tighten Banking Rules

  14-03-2023 22:41
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress should enact financial regulations to strengthen stress tests and capital and liquidity standards for...
  
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• Lawsuit Blames Deadly Fire on City Agency, Lighter Importer

  14-03-2023 22:36
  
  The first lawsuit filed over a Christmas tree fire that killed 12 family members faults the Philadelphia Housing Agency for lax oversight of the property
  
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• Explainer-Storms in California: What Are 'Atmospheric Rivers?'

  14-03-2023 22:36
  
  (Reuters) - Atmospheric rivers are storms akin to rivers in the sky that dump massive amounts of rain and can cause flooding, trigger mudslides and...
  
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• Biden Tells Bizarre Story About Seeing Two Men Kiss in High School, And There's a Giant Issue with His Tale

  14-03-2023 22:34
  
  Joe Biden has gone viral with a bizarre story about how he began to support same-sex marriage, and there is a massive problem with his claim.
  During a Monday interview for “The Daily Show,” Kal Penn, the interviewer, asked, “My question for you, Mr. President, is, you codified support for same-sex marriage … I’m curious what your evolution was like on marriage equality, and what the federal government might be able to do to protect LGBTQ Americans, especially trans
  
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• Judge clears path for Miami Beach to roll back 5 a.m. last call

  14-03-2023 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  Travelers headed to South Beach for its ballyhooed, party-till-dawn bar and dance club scene will soon find their revelries shortened by hours.
  
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