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CBS News A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday after an emotional hearing in which victims described being deceived by a man who appeared kind, educated and…
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Washington Examiner Mortgage rates declined to their lowest level since February 2023 after the Federal Reserve instituted a significant interest rate cut. In the past week, the standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.09%, according to data released by Freddie Mac on Thursday, compared to 6.35% the week of Sept. 5 and a…
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Breitbart A Serbian judo champion was left stunned when he was informed that he was being suspended for five months for daring to make the sign of the cross after his match in the Paris Olympic games this year. Nemanja Majdov, 28, has been told that he will not be allowed to…
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Washington Stand Do you plan to vote this November? You’re not alone. Experts say somewhere between 1.5 million and 2.7 million illegal immigrants are likely to cast a ballot in the 2024 elections, impacting races from dog catcher to president of the United States. The historic flood of illegal immigrants…
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Axios The International Brotherhood of Teamsters won’t endorse a presidential candidate this cycle, the union’s General Executive Board decided Wednesday. The decision is a blow to Democrats, who have historically enjoyed the Teamsters’ support, but there had been suspense over a possible endorsement this year after Sean O’Brien in July became the…
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Breitbart Car insurance rates have skyrocketed under the leadership of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and Americans are feeling the squeeze. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that car insurance prices rose 55 percent from January 2021 — when Biden and Harris first took office — to…
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ABC 33-40 News People in Talladega County have questions and concerns regarding a reported influx of Haitian immigrants in the community. Last week, the public comment portion of the Sylacauga City Council meeting was cut short after those concerns were brought up. Councilors addressed the community then, by saying they…
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Breitbart News Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder of Oracle, believes that artificial intelligence will enable a vast surveillance system capable of monitoring citizens and ensuring they remain on their “best behavior.” Business Insider reports that during a recent Oracle meeting with financial analysts, Larry Ellison shared his thoughts on the future of…
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CBS News House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Tuesday that the House will move forward with a plan to vote on a partisan stopgap measure to keep the government funded this week, despite Democratic opposition and intra-party pushback that foiled a vote on the measure last week. “Congress has an immediate obligation…
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Axios Instagram on Tuesday announced major changes to teen accounts that give parents more control over their teen’s messaging and content settings. Worldwide, over 100 million accounts will likely be impacted. The company faces intense regulatory pressure around privacy and safety for younger users, but Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri said the changes…
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Business Insider The “Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban says he would buy Fox News and X if he could. Cuban expressed his interest in acquiring both media properties during a wide-ranging interview with Wired’s Lauren Goode that was published Thursday. “If I had enough money to do it, which I don’t, I’d buy it…
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The Hollywood Reporter In the biggest surprise of the weekend, conservative provocateur Matt Walsh‘s Am I Racist? opened in fourth place with an estimated $4.8 million from 1,517 locations, the top debut of 2024 so far for a doc and the third biggest since Disney’s nature film Bears a decade ago. Am I Racist? is doing big…
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The New York Times Last February, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. sent his eight Supreme Court colleagues a confidential memo that radiated frustration and certainty. Former President Donald J. Trump, seeking to retake the White House, had made a bold, last-ditch appeal to the justices. He wanted them to…
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Breitbart Democrats are fearing a “Trump surge” with male voters, based on polls historically not accurately reflecting support for former President Donald Trump, according to a report. “Trump is winning men who have not [previously] voted,” Celinda Lake, one of two leading pollsters for President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign told the Hill. “Most…
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Axios U.S. mortgage rates are at lows not seen since early 2023, ahead of next week’s expected interest rate cut. Easing mortgage rates offer house-hunters some relief. But experts say it’s going to take a bigger drop to revive the sluggish home market. A small but growing number of people are taking out new mortgages. READ…
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Washington Examiner A military court in Congo sentenced 37 people to death, including three Americans, after convicting them on charges of participating in an attempted coup on Friday. Among those sentenced were a Belgian, Briton, and Canadian. Court president Freddy Ehume delivered the verdict, stating, “The court pronounces the harshest sentence: the death penalty for…
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Hollywood Reporter Kevin Hart‘s vegan fast-food chain, Hart House, has closed all its locations after just two years. “To our team, guests, and community, who helped make the change we all craved. A Hartfelt goodbye for now as we start a new chapter,” the restaurant wrote on its official Instagram Tuesday. Hart…
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Breitbart President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s administration have overseen a record surge in the foreign-born population, with about 2-in-13 United States residents having been born in a foreign country. Analysis published by the Center for Immigration Studies, which reviewed data from the Census Bureau’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement…
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Washington Examiner The House Foreign Affairs Committee will move forward with a resolution to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress after the top Biden administration official failed to comply with a subpoena to testify on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The committee will meet for a full markup on…
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Axios There are now two election-related betting contests legally trading on events-based marketplace Kalshi, following an opinion by a federal judge in favor of the company. Why it matters: Hundreds of millions of dollars has already been wagered on this year’s U.S. election, but all of those bets were made in a legal…
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The Federalist Taking a page out of her boss’s playbook, Vice President Kamala Harris told major whoppers during her Tuesday night debate against Donald Trump. With help from left-wing activists masquerading as debate moderators, Harris whitewashed her extreme record, lied about Trump’s policy positions, and more. Here are some of…
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Daily Caller Republican South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson was hospitalized after collapsing Tuesday night at an event in Washington, D.C, his office announced. The 77-year-old congressman, who has represented South Carolina’s 2nd District since 2001, was at a Ukrainian Independence Day celebration when he fell ill, according to Politico. He received immediate…
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Washington Examiner Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard, dubbed “America’s worst mayor,” spent $85,000 on a party for the suburban Chicago village while she faces an investigation for taxpayer-funded expenditures. Henyard spent $50,000 in taxpayers’ money on one hour of entertainment from two musical artists and then over $35,000 on other costs such as…
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The Hill SpaceX launched four private citizens into orbit early Tuesday morning for an ambitious flight that aims to venture farther into space than most astronauts have flown before — aside from the 24 Apollo astronauts who have been to the moon. The daring flight, called Polaris Dawn, also seeks to include…
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Politico The European Union’s top court backed a €2.4 billion (about $2.6B) EU antitrust fine for Google, a welcome boost for regulators battling Big Tech. The Court of Justice said Google’s practice of favoring its own shopping search results over rival services “was discriminatory.” The ruling can’t be appealed. Judges…
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NBC News The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Monday to remove former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from state ballots ahead of the general election. The 4-3 ruling upholds an appeals court ruling Friday that said Kennedy’s name should be taken off the ballot. A lower court had previously denied Kennedy’s…
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The Daily Caller Conservative radio host Mark Levin announced on Monday that he suffered a major injury and will likely require surgery. Levin said he fell over the weekend and tore his quadricep, a group of muscles at the front of the thighs, and his right knee. The injury will likely…
Read MorePolitico Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has had her second run-in with police in just a week, this time during a pro-Palestinian protest in Stockholm on Monday afternoon. Thunberg was part of a group of demonstrators that set up tents inside Stockholm University’s library, demanding that the university end its…
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CBS News Design features allegedly make Snapchat a favored platform of sexual criminals targeting kids, according to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico Thursday against Snap, the company that operates the popular social media app. An undercover investigation by the state found Snapchat has crafted “an environment where predators can easily target…
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Fox News A federal judge last week ruled in favor of a whistleblower advocacy group that sued the Justice Department to unseal documents related to its secretly obtaining communications about congressional staffers who were investigating the DOJ. Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research won a partial victory in a lawsuit it filed in…
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Washington Examiner There are so many races in Maricopa County, Arizona, this year that general election ballots will be printed on not one but two pages. One precinct in Phoenix will have 87 contests, which is the highest number of contests out of all the local ballots. It’s the first time since the 2006 midterm election that…
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Axios Montana Republican Tim Sheehy leads Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) in one of the most critical races of the 2024 election, according to new AARP polling. Whichever party wins Montana is likely to control the Senate in 2025, as most signs suggest at this point. With West Virginia all but certain to flip…
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Breitbart Germany’s AfD has has acquired a list of the forenames of all 2023 gang rape suspects in one federal state, claiming it shows the vast majority are of migrant heritage. “A clear trend is evident” in the forenames of those named as suspects in gang rapes in the western…
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CBS News The Biden administration is debating changes that would make it harder to lift the sweeping asylum restrictions it enacted in June, drafting plans to alter the criteria that would be used to deactivate the strict border measure, two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News. The proposed changes concern…
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The Associated Press The White House is signaling an openness to blocking the acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel, as a government review of the proposed takeover by the Japanese company is on the cusp of ending. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that President Joe Biden plans to stop the…
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Breitbart In a significant victory for Elon Musk’s social media platform X, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has partially blocked a California law that mandates social media companies to disclose their policies for addressing disinformation, harassment, hate speech, and extremism. Reuters reports that…
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Catholic News Agency The historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, was ravaged by arson on the night of Sept. 2. The suspect, a multi-recidivist who has attempted to set fire to numerous places of worship in the past, was apprehended a…
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Breitbart The latest development between the Biden/Harris administration and the government of Mexico on the immigration front will see migrants provided bussing from two southern Mexico cities to the United States border. The plan will provide the migrants headed to the United States with meals and security during travel from…
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Axios A former deputy chief of staff in the New York governor’s office was arrested on Tuesday and charged with acting as an agent of the Chinese Communist Party. The FBI and Department of Justice have been warning for years about covert Chinese efforts to influence American politics. These charges are a particularly stark…
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CBS News The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request from Oklahoma officials seeking to restore federal family planning grant funding to the state’s health department after it refused to offer patients a hotline phone number that would provide counseling on pregnancy options, including abortion. The justices turned down the bid for…
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Washington Examiner Former President Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he plans to vote for Florida‘s abortion referendum this fall, which would reverse his home state’s six-week abortion ban that went into effect following the Supreme Court’s 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade. Though Trump has taken credit for installing the Supreme Court justices who struck…
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The National Desk College athletes are being offered cash through Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deals in exchange for endorsing Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., according to emails obtained by The National Desk (TND) Thursday. The senator is up for reelection in a tight race against GOP candidate and former Navy…
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Axios Google is rolling out new protections for its generative AI products as election season heats up. Google on Friday said it would extend the policies it announced for its search and YouTube products last December to more of its AI products, including Search AI Overviews, YouTube AI-generated summaries for Live Chat, Gems, and image generation in…
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Fox News The Mexican border state of Chihuahua is on alert for members of a violent Venezuelan gang called Tren de Aragua, or TdA, after receiving reports that members of the gang were moving through the state to cross into the U.S. near El Paso, Texas. Chihuahua Secretary of Public Safety Gilberto…
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CBS News Attorneys for the man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022 say the pressure to convict is so severe that some Latah County residents are predicting lynch mobs or riots if he is acquitted. Bryan Kohberger’s defense lawyer Elisa Massoth made that argument in a…
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Breitbart An illegal alien is accused of killing 48-year-old Mark Deane of Gretna, Louisiana, a longtime local journalist and producer, in a crash on the Crescent City Connection bridge on August 23. Jorge Alberto Martinez-Sanchez, a 29-year-old illegal alien who was previously denied a visa to enter the United States, has…
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Axios OpenAI said on Thursday that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users — twice as many as it had a year ago. ChatGPT remains the leader among generative AI chatbots, but it’s an intensely competitive space with the other big names in tech offering frequent updates in hopes of grabbing share.…
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Sky News Pavel Durov, the chief executive of Telegram, has been charged with allegedly allowing criminal activity on the messaging app. French judges have barred Mr Durov from leaving France pending further investigation, but he has avoided jail with a 5m euro bail. The billionaire founder of the encrypted messaging…
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