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UFO Witness: US Has Collected “Non-Human Bodies”

Mediaite reports: South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace got quite the answer from a witness at the House Oversight committee’s UFO hearing on Wednesday. Mace asked whether he believes “we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted” crashed crafts that are in possession of the government. “As I’ve stated publicly already in my NewsNation interview, Biologics came with some …

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Cops: Three Marines Died In Car Of Carbon Monoxide

The Messenger reports: The three United States Marines found dead in a car outside a North Carolina convenience store suffered carbon monoxide poisoning, the Pender County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. The lance corporals, who were found on Sunday, were identified as Tanner J. Kaltenberg, 19, of Madison, Wisconsin; Merax C. Dockery, 23, of Pottawatomie, Oklahoma; and Ivan R. Garcia, 23, …

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Irish Pop Singer Sinead O’Connor Dies At Age 56

The Daily Mail reports: Sinead O’Connor has died at the age of 56, it was reported last night. The Irish singer shot to stardom across the world in 1990 by her heartrending cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U.  It comes a year after the mother-of-four’s son Shane, 17, took his own life in January 2022 after escaping hospital while …

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Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal On Verge Of Falling Apart

The New York Times reports: From the start, the judge seemed highly skeptical of the unusual deal — which offered Hunter Biden broad immunity from prosecution in perpetuity, questioning why it had been filed under a provision that gave her no legal authority to reject it. When she asked Leo Wise, a prosecutor, if there was any precedent for the …

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Construction Crane Collapses In Midtown Manhattan

The New York Daily News reports: A massive construction crane atop a high rise in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards caught fire and collapsed, striking the building across the street before plummeting more than 45 stories onto the street below Wednesday morning. Terrified pedestrians scrambled for cover as a plume of thick black smoke could be seen for miles. The crane caught …

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Ohio Abortion Rights Measure Qualifies For Ballot

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports: It’s official: Ohioans will vote on abortion access this November. A proposed amendment to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution submitted enough valid signatures to make the November ballot, the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office announced Tuesday. That means Ohio will be the only state in the nation voting on reproductive rights this year. The …

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Israeli Police Use Water Cannons On Protesters After Knesset Votes To Impose Limits On High Court Rulings

The New York Times reports: The Israeli Parliament passed a law Monday that limits the Supreme Court’s ability to overturn decisions made by government ministers, completing the first stage of a wider and deeply contentious effort to curb the influence of the judiciary. The court is now barred from overruling the national government using the legal standard of “reasonableness,” a …

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Right Wing Bloc Fails To Win Power In Spanish Election

CNN reports: Spain appears destined for painful political negotiations after Sunday’s elections, when no single party won enough parliamentary seats to form a government. Prospects for coalition-building now remain uncertain. With over 99% of the vote counted, the center-right Partido Popular (PP) is set to come in first, winning 136 seats. The upstart far-right Vox party, a possible coalition partner …

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Netanyahu Hospitalized For Pacemaker Implantation

Reuters reports: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in hospital after being fitted with a pacemaker on Sunday, as tens of thousands of people converged on Jerusalem to protest a planned overhaul of the Supreme Court being debated in parliament. With Israel embroiled in its most serious domestic political crisis in decades, the 73-year-old leader was rushed to Sheba Medical …

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Lawsuit: Crypto Lobbyist Wanted To Buy Pacific Island Nation To Build Apocalypse Bunker For Tech Billionaires

CNBC reports: Sam Bankman-Fried’s younger brother, who was a top lobbyist for failed crypto exchange FTX, considered purchasing the island nation of Nauru in the Pacific to create a fortified apocalypse bunker state, a lawsuit filed in Delaware bankruptcy court shows. Gabe Bankman-Fried was looking at buying Nauru in the “event where 50%-99.99% of people die” to protect his philanthropic …

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JFK’s Grandson Trashes “Embarrassing” RFK Jr [VIDEO]

Earlier this week multiple Kennedy family members trashed RFK Jr. after his lie-filled appearance before the US House. Today John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, joins in. From his Instagram post: President John F. Kennedy is my grandfather, and his legacy is important. It’s about a lot more than Camelot and conspiracy theories. It’s about public service and courage. It’s …

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Pop Music Legend Tony Bennett Dies At Age 96

The New York Times reports: Tony Bennett, a singer whose melodic clarity, jazz-influenced phrasing, audience-embracing persona and warm, deceptively simple interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around the world and won him generations of fans, died on Friday in New York City. He was 96. In February 2021, his wife, Susan Bennett, told AARP Magazine that Mr. …

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Supreme Court Declines To Halt Execution By Alabama

The Birmingham News reports: Alabama has executed James Barber for the 2001 beating death of a 75-year-old Madison County woman. The execution early Friday morning at Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore came after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by Barber, 64, to stop the lethal injection execution because he claimed the previous two attempts on other inmates in …

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Poll Shows Little Interest In Third Party Bid By Manchin

Bloomberg News reports: A new poll finds just 16% of registered voters would consider supporting a fusion third-party ticket with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin for president, highlighting the uphill path for the Democrat if he were to enter the 2024 race. The Monmouth University poll released Thursday highlights dissatisfaction among a significant bloc of American voters at the prospect …

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Berlin Neighborhood On Lockdown Over Escaped Lion

Deutsche Welle reports: A “loose, dangerous animal,” suspected to be an escaped big cat, was reportedly sighted in a Potsdam region on the fringes of the German capital on Thursday, police said. Authorities are using helicopters to track what they believe is a female lion and have called on residents to stay indoors, the RBB public broadcaster reported. Residents have …

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CMT Pulls Country Star’s Inflammatory Music Video

Billboard Magazine reports: CMT has pulled Jason Aldean’s incendiary video for his new single, “Try That In a Small Town.” The video, which has received more than 1 million views on YouTube since its release, features Aldean performing in front of courthouse with an American flag hanging from the entrance. The performance is interspersed with footage of a flag burning, …

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Wilton Manors Sees New Invasive Species: Bunnies

The Associated Press reports: When Alicia Griggs steps outside her suburban Fort Lauderdale home, Florida’s latest invasive species comes a-hoppin’ down the street: lionhead rabbits. The bunnies, which sport an impressive flowing mane around their heads, want the food Griggs carries. But she also represents their best chance of survival and moving where this domesticated breed belongs: inside homes, away …

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Musk And Tesla Board Members To Return $735 Million

Ars Technica reports: Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and other current and former Tesla board members agreed to return over $735 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit that alleged Tesla directors “grossly” overpaid themselves. The Tesla directors, who also include Musk’s brother Kimbal Musk, further agreed to forego stock options and other compensation for board service in 2021, 2022, and 2023. …

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Taco Bell Wins Trademark Battle Over “Taco Tuesday”

Reuters reports: Yum Brands’ Taco Bell prevailed on Tuesday in its self-described bid to “liberate” the phrase “Taco Tuesday,” as competing fast-food chain Taco John’s told the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) it would abandon its federal “Taco Tuesday” trademark. Taco Bell had asked the USPTO in May to cancel the trademark, calling it a common phrase that Taco …

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Woman Gored By Bison At Yellowstone National Park

Via press release from the National Park Service: A 47-year-old female from Phoenix, Arizona, was gored by a bison near the Lake Lodge Cabins on the north shore of Lake Yellowstone the morning of July 17. The female was walking with another individual in a field in front of the Lake Lodge when they saw two bison. Upon seeing them, …

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