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After months of disappointing retirements, redistricting fears and a high-profile electoral shutout, House Democrats got some good news on Tuesday: They’re still in the fight for 2022. Democrat Melanie Stansbury trounced her GOP opponent by two dozen points in a special election for a traditionally blue district in New Mexico. And while it’s hard to draw …

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Minneapolis city workers early Thursday removed parts of a memorial at the intersection where George Floyd took his final breaths, as the city stated its plans to create a permanent memorial and reopen the area to through-traffic. On Thursday morning, multiple workers could be seen moving cement barricades in the intersection of Chicago Avenue and 38th …

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A wedding in India took a morbid turn when the bride collapsed and died just before completing her wedding rituals. Instead, the groom ended up marrying her younger sister on the same day – with the original bride’s body lying in another room. The incident took place May 27 in the village of Samaspur, in …

A bride collapsed and died at her wedding. The groom then married the woman’s sister with her dead body lying in the next room. Read More »

Former Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield on Thursday told Vanity Fair he received death threats from other scientists for saying he suspected COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Redfield told Vanity Fair the death threats came after he told CNN in March, “I am of the point of view that I still …

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At 10 McDonald’s locations in Chicago, workers aren’t taking down customers’ drive-thru orders for McNuggets and french fries — a computer is, CEO Chris Kempczinski said Wednesday. Kempczinski said the restaurants using the voice-ordering technology are seeing about 85% order accuracy. Only about a fifth of orders need to be a taken by a human at those …

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Former special counsel Robert Mueller will teach a class at the University of Virginia law school about the roughly two-year-long, $32 million Trump-Russia collusion probe. The “Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel,” will be taught by Mueller and three former federal prosecutors, James Quarles, Andrew Goldstein, and Aaron Zebley, the school announced Wednesday. The …

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Amid surging shooting and in the aftermath of an explosive Holiday weekend Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison appeared on WBAL Radio. “It’s a lack of consequences for carrying guns, fear or a lack of fear for those consequences.” Those words, often repeated by critics took many by surprise including Republican State Delegate Kathy Szeliga. “It …

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Throughout last summer, left-wing activists and their elected allies in the Democratic Party embraced a legitimately Marxist concept: Abolishing, through “defunding,” local police departments, ostensibly on the grounds all cops are “systemically racist.” While the useful idiots who hopped aboard the bandwagon aren’t the brightest bulbs in the room, the ringleaders of the ‘defund’ movement …

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Texas is taking the border crisis into its own hands, issuing a disaster declaration because “the Biden administration has abandoned it,” according to GOP Gov. Greg Abbott on Newsmax. “They’re completely ignoring the crisis on the border, and because of that, as governor, I am having to step up and do the federal government’s job,” Abbott told  “Greg Kelly …

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Conservative venture capitalists are investing in Rumble, a new video platform designed to be an alternative to YouTube. The website has recently reached an agreement with venture capitalists Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance to invest in the service and grow its reach and expand into live-streaming. Many on the right have complained that YouTube used selective …

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