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Two adults passed away in Tennessee after they were fatally wounded during an apparent camel attack. The Obion County Sheriff’s Office reported that it got a call Thursday about a camel attacking people, and when deputies arrived they discovered two unconscious individuals, as well as a camel. “On Thursday, March 10, 2022, at approximately 4:44PM,
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A new Wall Street Journal poll is out and it shows no improvement for the electoral prospects of Democrats going into the midterm elections in November. In fact, on some key issues, Democrats have lost ground to Republicans. Despite the overall approval of Biden’s state of the union speech last week and support from Americans
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A judge in Texas temporarily blocked an order from Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to investigate parents obtaining “sex-change” procedures for their transgender children as incidents of child abuse. District Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued a temporary injunction Friday based on a lawsuit from a family with a transgender teenager against the governor’s order. They argue
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Video of a news reporter covering one of the most dangerous traffic areas of Los Angeles went viral on Friday after news cameras captured a car accident during his report. The car accident occurred while KTLA-TV reporter Gene Kang narrated from the intersection of Hoover street and 84th street, which officials said was one of
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Ukraine is saying that Russia has abuducted Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of Melitopol. “They have transitioned into a new stage of terror, in which they try to physically liquidate representatives of Ukraine’s lawful local authorities,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared in a video address Friday, according to the Associated Press. Zelenskyy’s comments come as Ukraine
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.) is calling on President Joe Biden to raise the refugee admissions cap for this fiscal year in light of the humanitarian crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine has created an escalating humanitarian crisis. The United States must respond by opening its
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During remarks on Friday at the House Democrats’ retreat in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden said that “inflation is largely the fault” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden said that prices have been rising as a result of factors related to COVID-19, including supply chain issues and heavy demand for certain goods. He also directed blame
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Jake Tapper interviewed Bill Barr, the former U.S. attorney general, and many liberals lashed out angrily at CNN for giving the former Trump official a platform. Tapper challenged Barr to explain why he worked under former President Donald Trump despite some of the criticisms he offered in his book about his time as attorney general.
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My esteemed colleague, Stephen Kruiser, thinks Jussie Smollett, who was sentenced to 150 days in jail, got a slap on the wrist. But I’m here to tell you that’s not the case. Judge James Linn gave Smollett a punishment he will not soon forget: incarceration in the Cook County Jail for six months. CCJ is
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Democrat Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington, D.C., appeared to minimize a shocking carjacking in her city that, once again, ended with the victim losing his life. Police say 33-year-old Rakesh Patel, a D.C. area MedStar physician, was pronounced dead after at least one carjacker allegedly stole his vehicle and then killed him with it. Dr.
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Sure, if it’s been said once, it’s been said a thousand times: Never bring a knife to gunfight. Naturally, a whole bunch of other dangerous objects could be used in place of the word “knife,” and the warning still would work. Now, we can add “cordless saw” to it. What happened? Multiple people reported hearing
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Talk about damning with faint praise. . .  On Friday’s New Day, CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt interviewed Luliia Mendel, Ukrainian President Zelensky’s former spokeswoman, and asked about her tweet [since deleted after blowback] in which she said it would be a “tragedy” if Kamala Harris became president. Mendel told Marquardt that she was referring to Harris’s laughing/cackling response
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After Cook County Judge James Linn told Jussie Smollett he’d be starting 150 days in jail right then and there Thursday night for staging a hate crime against himself in 2019 and lying to police about the hoax, Smollett turned more than a few heads with a bizarre soliloquy of sorts. ‘I am not suicidal!’
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New York Times Miami bureau chief Patricia Mazzei took another rhetorical bat to Florida’s new surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo for rejecting overbearing Covid restrictions and regulations, in Tuesday’s edition: “Against C.D.C. Advice, Florida to Advise Against Covid Vaccines for Healthy Children.” Two weeks ago she unloaded on Ladapo, an appointee of Governor Ron DeSantis
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The social media giant Meta will permit Facebook and Instagram users in certain nations to advocate violence toward Russian troops as it pertains to the invasion of Ukraine, according to internal emails, Reuters has reported. Russia has been wreaking death and destruction in Ukraine since invading the sovereign nation last month. “As a result of
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Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics shared on Twitter a local horror story from the Chicago area. His fifth-grader came home from school with a vocabulary assignment in Science class. The words included “transgender,” cisgender,” “non-binary,” and “consent.” The last word carries the most irony. Because the educational elite in this country isn’t interested in
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A federal judge said in an emergency hearing Thursday that employees of a state-funded shelter meant to help female victims of sex trafficking were revictimizing them. An employee of The Refuge Ranch in Bastrop, Texas, was accused of selling inappropriate photographs of the two children. That money was allegedly used to buy illegal drugs and
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The U.S. Senate passed a massive $1.5 trillion spending package on Thursday, sending it to President Biden even as Americans suffer under the financial strain caused by skyrocketing inflation. The package passed in a bipartisan 68 to 31 vote. It will fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, which runs through the
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