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• Soldier watched ‘Cops’ to learn to train Afghan police – watchdog

  22-09-2017 06:20 via rt.com
  
  A government watchdog tasked with studying the effects of reconstruction in Afghanistan finds US forces to be ill-equipped to train the Afghan National Police. One military official even used “Cops” to learn law enforcement techniques.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Trump accuses RFK Jr. of being a 'Democrat plant' and 'wasted protest vote'

  27-04-2024 13:17
  
  Former President Donald Trump is speaking out aggressively against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who he claims is a Democratic Party "plant."Trump made the accusations on Friday night via his proprietary social media platform, Truth Social."RFK Jr. is a Democrat "Plant," a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected," Trump wrote.RFK JR 'DISTURBED' BY 'WE
  
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• NY vs. Trump: Cross examination of DA Bragg's first witness unravels important truths

  27-04-2024 13:00
  
  "Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth."Those words by legendary lawyer John Henry Wigmore in 1923 are derived from the Sixth Amendment. A defendant has the right to confront his accusers; to shine light on false statements by witnesses and dark distortions by overzealous prosecutors who hide the truth.  It’s an effective method to test the veracity of evidence.  It was tested on Friday, and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg failed. 
  
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• Italian PM Meloni ally fires back against criticism says policies the same but 'Europe has changed'

  27-04-2024 12:00
  
  FIRST ON FOX - A close ally to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told Fox News Digital that criticism against her for abandoning policies on illegal migration and other issues is unfounded.  Italian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Edmondo Cirielli told Fox News Digital, "Giorgia Meloni hasn't changed, Europe has changed." Cirielli is the co-founder and national coordinator of Meloni's party, the Fratelli D'Italia Party.He said Italy is inspiring the European Union president to follow i
  
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• Hot headlines: Teen reels in monster catch, America's tastiest food stories and more in Lifestyle this week

  27-04-2024 12:00
  
  Lifestyle headlines from this week included stories focused on American cuisine, a teenager's jaw-dropping catfish catch — and much more.Fun quizzes and crosswords are always available to dive into as well.(Fox News Digital publishes daily crossword puzzles 24/7!)CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERGrab your coffee or tea, lean back — and soak up even more trending articles at www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.From tacos to pierogi to gumbo to lobster rolls, there's probably a
  
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• 104-year-old time capsule discovered during demolition of Minnesota high school

  27-04-2024 11:31
  
  During a demolition project of a former Minnesota high school, construction workers discovered in the rubble a time capsule from 1920.The capsule, which was buried at Owatonna High School in Owatonna, Minnesota, was found as the construction crew was pulling down the front pillars and doors of the school.The time capsule was opened during a community event on Monday, with the items found inside including a roster of the teachers and administrators at Owatonna Public Schools in 1920, the high sch
  
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• More than 20 senior DC cops to be dismissed, including several due to alleged serious misconduct

  27-04-2024 10:20
  
  More than 20 senior Washington, D.C., police officers will not be returning to the force after the end of the month, with more than half due to alleged serious misconduct. The 21 officers had all retired and were rehired by the Metropolitan Police Department on a year-by-year basis, according to Fox 5 DC. These officers' contracts all end on April 30.The Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022 prohibited the police department from "appointing police officers who
  
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• Choppers, dogs and towers: Inside the Fed's fight against illegal immigrant intruders

  27-04-2024 10:00
  
  SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — As Border Patrol agents work to combat the movement of illegal immigrants across the southern border in the El Paso Sector, they say a multi-layered enforcement system that has been expanded in recent years and combines the use of barriers with technology and other forms of enforcement has helped thwart cartel smuggling operations and nab illegal immigrants moving into the U.S.Overshadowing the border in Sunland Park, New Mexico, is miles of border wall. Some of it is
  
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• DC nightclub shooting leaves multiple people wounded

  27-04-2024 09:10
  
  A shooting Friday night inside a nightclub in the Dupont Circle neighborhood in Washington, D.C., left multiple people wounded.The Metropolitan Police Department said officers responded to a shooting in the 1200 block of Connecticut Ave Northwest and 18th Street Northwest at around 11:30 p.m.Five adult victims were found suffering from gunshot wounds and were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, MPD Assistant Chief Ramey Kyle said in a video message posted on X.Kyle said
  
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• Britney Spears settles bitter legal battle with estranged father Jamie Spears

  27-04-2024 06:07
  
  Britney Spears has reached a settlement in her legal battle with her estranged father Jamie Spears.The 42-year-old pop star's conservatorship case with Jamie, 71, has come to an end more than two years after the controversial legal arrangement that controlled her life and money for 14 years was terminated. The details of the case, which was related to an outstanding dispute over Jamie's request for Spears to pay his legal fees, were not made public."It has been our honor and privilege to re
  
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• Freight train carrying gasoline, propane derails near Arizona-New Mexico line amid aftermath of severe weather

  27-04-2024 05:21
  
  A freight train derailed on Friday near the Arizona-New Mexico border, halting traffic along Interstate 40 as the area recovers from severe weather in the region.The New Mexico State Police said that they responded, alongside multiple other agencies, to the freight train splayed out along the interstate on Friday evening."NMSP is on the scene of a train derailment along with multiple other agencies on Interstate 40 milepost 8 near the Arizona border," the department said in a press release.WATCH
  
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• SEAN HANNITY: Gaffe-prone Biden spins 'tall tales' during Howard Stern sit-down

  27-04-2024 04:50
  
  Fox News host Sean Hannity breaks down the gaffes and "tall tales" from President Biden's week, which included a rare sit-down interview with XM shock jock Howard Stern.SEAN HANNITY: President Trump spent yet another day in court missing his wife Melania's birthday while Joe Biden was shuffling around the city without a care in the world. Last night attending a glitzy fundraiser, mixing up a date that is near and dear to his heart, telling the crowd, "We certainly never forget the dark days
  
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• Columbia University’s policy-making senate votes for resolution calling to investigate school’s leadership

  27-04-2024 04:12
  
  The Columbia University Senate in New York City voted in favor of a resolution calling for an investigation into the school’s leadership amid anti-Israel protests that have taken place on the campus for over a week.A source within the school’s leadership confirmed the details of the resolution, saying it was adopted by a vote of 62-14, with three senate members abstaining.The resolution alleges Columbia President Minouche Shafik, who has been on the job less than a year, violated est
  
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• JESSE WATTERS: Biden's the most highly produced candidate in American history

  27-04-2024 03:59
  
  Fox News host Jesse Watters highlighted the Biden White House's reportedly strained relationship with the New York Times and how the administration's efforts to hide President Biden's weaknesses are no longer a secret Friday on "Jesse Watters Primetime."JESSE WATTERS: All winning campaigns have one thing in common: They had a good story to tell. But all of Joe Biden's stories are about himself, The kinds of stories so crazy that you can't even question. Last week, Biden said cannibals ate h
  
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• Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler sexual assault lawsuit dismissed for good by federal judge

  27-04-2024 03:58
  
  A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a sexual assault lawsuit filed against Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler for good, meaning the plaintiff won’t be allowed to amend or file a similar lawsuit in the future. Jeanne Bellino, 66, a former teen model, filed a lawsuit against the 76-year-old last fall, accusing him of forcibly groping her inside a New York City phone booth in 1975. "While holding her captive [in the phone booth], Tyler stuck his tongue down her throat, and put h
  
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• Florida man charged after 150 pounds of meth seized in largest bust in city's history

  27-04-2024 03:49
  
  A Florida man has been charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine after approximately 150 pounds of the drug was seized by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents earlier this month, according to the Middle District of Florida State Attorney's Office on Friday. Along with the meth, the agents also found two kilograms of cocaine, one kilogram of fentanyl, more than 100,000 pills pressed to look like legitimate pharmaceuticals, and multiple firearms after
  
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• UN warns Sudan paramilitary forces are encircling a capital in western Darfur, urges against attack

  27-04-2024 03:27
  
  Sudanese paramilitary forces are encircling the only capital they haven’t captured in the western Darfur region, the United Nations said Friday, warning that an attack would have "devastating consequences" for the city's 800,000 inhabitants.At the same time, the U.N. said, the rival Sudanese Armed Forces "appear to be positioning themselves."SUDAN CONFLICT SPREADS TO KEY HUMANITARIAN SAFE HAVENU.N. Secretary-General António Guterres again called on the paramilitary Rapid Support For
  
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• Travis Kelce Thrown Under the Bus, Gets Exposed for Flashing Comedian During Interview

  27-04-2024 03:22 via westernjournal.com
  
  Should a curious soul wandering the wilds of the internet find the 2019 podcast comedian Andrew Santino did with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, there might be something […]
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• Columbia student banned from campus after remarks about 'murdering Zionists'

  27-04-2024 03:00
  
  The Columbia University student who discussed "murdering Zionists" was "banned from campus" Friday, according to a university spokesperson.Junior Khymani James expressed "regret" early Friday after he went viral online for previously suggesting people should be "grateful" he wasn't "murdering Zionists," whom he likened to "White supremacists" and "Nazis."Without explicitly mentioning what they were, James copped to inflammatory comments that were first reported by The Daily Wire, during a livest
  
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• Orca calf swims out of Canadian lagoon where it had been trapped more than a month

  27-04-2024 02:59
  
  A young killer whale that was trapped for more than a month in a lagoon on Vancouver Island swam past a bottleneck at high tide early Friday, reaching an inlet that could take it to the open sea, officials said.The Ehattesaht and Nuchatlaht First Nations said in a statement that a team monitoring the 2-year-old calf saw it swim past the area where its mother had died, pass under a bridge and head down the inlet "all on her own."ORCA CALF STRANDED IN CANADIAN LAGOON TO BE AIRLIFTED AND REUNITED W
  
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• Oregon man sentenced to 50 years in the 1978 killing of a teenage girl in Alaska

  27-04-2024 02:57
  
  An Oregon man who was convicted in the 1978 killing of a 16-year-old girl in Alaska was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison.Donald McQuade, 67, told Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson that he maintains his innocence and did not kill Shelley Connolly, the Anchorage Daily News reported. McQuade in December was convicted of murder in the death of Connolly, whose body was found near a highway pullout between Anchorage and Girdwood in 1978.OREGON MAN ARRESTED IN 1978 COLD-CASE MURDER OF ALASKA T
  
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• $15 toll to enter busiest part of Manhattan will take effect June 30

  27-04-2024 02:55
  
  The start date for the $15 toll most drivers will be charged to enter Manhattan's central business district will be June 30, transit officials said Friday.Under the so-called congestion pricing plan, the $15 fee will apply to most drivers who enter Manhattan south of 60th Street during daytime hours. Tolls will be higher for larger vehicles and lower for nighttime entries into the city as well as for motorcycles.The program, which was approved by the New York state Legislature in 2019, is suppos
  
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• Michigan man caught after attempting to flee US to Hong Kong after fatal building explosion, fire: police

  27-04-2024 02:51
  
  The owner of a Michigan company that exploded in March, killing a 19-year-old and injuring a firefighter, was charged with involuntary manslaughter on Thursday, after authorities received an alert that he attempted to leave the country with a one-way ticket to Hong Kong.The Clinton Township Police Department said during a press conference Friday morning that Noor Noel Kestou, 31, attempted to flee the U.S. after the fatal explosion at his vape and smoke business, Goo Smoke Shop/Select Distributo
  
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• Wynonna Judd’s daughter has prostitution charge dropped after allegedly stripping down on busy highway

  27-04-2024 02:50
  
  A prostitution charge against Wynonna Judd's daughter, Grace Kelley. has been dropped after the 27-year-old was arrested for allegedly exposing herself on a busy highway intersection in Alabama.After her arrest April 5, Kelley was charged with three misdemeanors, including soliciting prostitution, indecent exposure and obstructing governmental operations, according to the Elmore County Sheriff’s Office. On Thursday, Kelley appeared at the Millbrook Municipal Court, where the pros
  
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• Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid fighting through Bell's palsy amid NBA playoffs

  27-04-2024 02:49
  
  Joel Embiid, star center for the Philadelphia 76ers, revealed on Thursday that he has been battling through a Bell's Palsy diagnosis for the past 10 days, playing through the diagnosis as the Sixers feel their backs against the wall.Embiid shared the news of his condition with the media after Game 3's 125-113 win by Philly.Bell's Palsy leads to partial paralysis of the face. In Embiid's case, the left side of his face has been affecting him during the ongoing series against the New York Knicks.
  
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• LAURA INGRAHAM: DA Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump is 'flatlining'

  27-04-2024 02:46
  
  Fox News host Laura Ingraham says media personalities are getting "nervous" as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against former President Trump isn't turning out "exactly as they hoped" Friday on "The Ingraham Angle."TRUMP SUGGESTS WHITE HOUSE AS VENUE FOR DEBATE WITH BIDEN: 'WOULD BE VERY COMFORTABLE'LAURA INGRAHAM: Dead dogs can't bark. But from day one of this ludicrous case against Trump, the Manhattan D.A. has been pounding on the canine corpse, trying desperately to resuscitat
  
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• Watch: Georgia State Trooper Puts NFL Pros to Shame with Ruthless Tackle on Anti-Israel Protester

  27-04-2024 02:39 via westernjournal.com
  
  As a neophyte graduate student in history in the late 1990s, I once asked a veteran professor how he managed to focus on grad school during the campus protests of […]
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• Trump Stunned by 'Amazing Testimony' During Hush Money Trial, Says It Was 'Breathtaking'

  27-04-2024 01:56 via westernjournal.com
  
  As an acrimonious battle rages over the gag order issued against former President Donald Trump in his current New York City trial, Trump emerged from court Thursday with happy talk […]
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• Another Grocery Staple Surging to Record High - The Days of Cheap Breakfasts Are Gone

  27-04-2024 01:18 via westernjournal.com
  
  Joe Biden alone has already caused the price of everyday staples to soar, but there are other pressures also forcing an increased burden to fall on all Americans. Thanks to […]
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• Billionaire's Teen Daughter Missing: Frightening Theory Put Forward by Police

  27-04-2024 01:17 via westernjournal.com
  
  The teenage daughter of a high-tech billionaire goes missing, and one’s thoughts go to the possibility of abduction or kidnapping for ransom. Police don’t think that’s the case, but present […]
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