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TX Gov Claims He’ll Address Insane Spike In Power Bills

Houston’s ABC News affiliate reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called an emergency meeting late Saturday to address the spike in electricity bills due to the impact of the winter storm. In a statement, Abbott said, “It is unacceptable for Texans who suffered through days in the freezing cold without electricity or heat to now be hit with skyrocketing energy costs.” …

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Cruz Children To Quarantine Due To School Policy

Politico reports: Three weeks before Sen. Ted Cruz embarked on his ill-fated Cancun trip to escape the aftermath of Texas’s devastating winter storm, the elite K-12 Houston private school attended by his two daughters emailed a Covid warning to parents about international travel. The bottom line: St. John’s School students who travel internationally must quarantine for 7 to 10 days …

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SNL Tees Off On Coumo And Cruz Scandals [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: This week’s cold open began with a Britney Spears-hosted talk show called Oops, You Did It Again—and the guests joining Chloe Fineman’s Britney were none other than Aidy Bryant’s Ted Cruz, fresh off his embarrassing trip to Cancun during an energy crisis in his home state of Texas. Bryant’s Cruz emerged to roars from the crowd …

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Airline Seeks Leaker Of Ted Cruz’s Flight Information

Politico reports: Cruz at first insisted on Thursday that his trip to Cancun, Mexico, in the middle of a power and water crisis in Texas, was at the behest of his daughters and skirted the issue of when he originally planned to return. But earlier that day, Edward Russell, a reporter at travel news website Skift, tweeted that he had …

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TX Gov. Greg Abbott Calls For Winterizing Power Grid

The Texas Tribune reports: Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday blasted the nonprofit operator of Texas’ energy grid for its handling of this week’s winter storm and called on the Legislature to consider updates to the state’s power plants to avoid future widespread power outages. “What happened is absolutely unacceptable and can never be replicated again,” Abbott said at a news …

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Hannity Tried To Give Cruz A Pass But Cruz Confessed

Mediaite reports: “You went and you took your daughters to Cancun and you came back,” Hannity said, clearly teeing up a friendly gloss on the GOP Senator’s conduct. “I think you can be a father and be the senator of Texas all at the same time and make a round-trip quick drop-off trip and come home.” But just moments after …

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Lyin’ Ted Cruz Admits He Only Cut Mexico Trip Short Because He Saw The “Firestorm” On Twitter [VIDEO]

Houston’s CBS News affiliate reports: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is taking heat after flying to Cancun as his home state suffers through a deadly winter storm crisis. He arrived back in Houston Thursday to a political storm. A handful of protesters with signs were waiting to greet Cruz outside his Houston home. He was roasted on social media once photos …

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Minor Charges For SD Attorney General In Fatal Crash

The Daily Beast reports: South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg will, in fact, be criminally prosecuted for killing a man with his car last fall. But the top law-enforcement official in the state ducked more serious felony charges in connection with the fatal crash. On Thursday, a Hyde County prosecutor broke more than five months of silence after the Sept. …

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Texas Democrats Demand Resignation Of Ted Cruz

The Washington Post reports: The Texas Democratic Party is calling on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to resign after unverified photos surfaced on social media purportedly showing him traveling to Cancun, Mexico, as millions of Texas residents were without power amid blackouts from the freezing weather. “Texans are dying and you’re on a flight to Cancun,” the Texas Democrats said in …

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Steve Schmidt Resigns From Board Of Lincoln Project

The New York Times reports: The crisis engulfing the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project deepened on Friday when Steve Schmidt, a co-founder, resigned abruptly from the board and former employees renewed demands to be released from nondisclosure agreements in order to provide more information about the organization’s handling of harassment allegations against another co-founder, John Weaver. He stepped down from …

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Evangelical Outfit Sorry After Founder Accused Of Rape

The Christian Post reports: Ravi Zacharias International Ministries issued an apology Thursday as it announced the results of a monthslong independent investigation in which victims claimed the late Christian apologist engaged in “sexting, unwanted touching, spiritual abuse, and rape” during his life. Atlanta law firm Miller & Martin, independent investigators hired by RZIM, released an in-depth report this week detailing …

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REPORT: Hospital Offered Vax To 100+ “Major Donors”

The Seattle Times reports: Last Friday, Molly Stearns, chief development officer at Overlake Medical Center & Clinics, emailed about 110 donors who gave more than $10,000 to the Eastside hospital system, informing them that highly coveted vaccine slots were available. “Dear Overlake major donors…” the email read. “We’re pleased to share that we have 500 new open appointments in the …

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Police Open Investigation, Visit Conway’s NJ Home

The New York Post reports: Police have launched an investigation into a topless photo of Kellyanne Conway’s 16-year-old daughter, Claudia — which the teen says was posted on her mom’s Twitter — and cops paid a visit to the family’s New Jersey mansion Tuesday. Just before noon, four officers showed up with papers in hand at the Conways’ home in …

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Court: NFL Owner Sex Sting Tapes Must Be Destroyed

The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports: Sex videos of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft are set to be destroyed under a court order. It’s been two years since the 79-year-old billionaire was among more than two dozen people secretly videotaped by police during a massage parlor prostitution sting in Palm Beach County. U.S. District Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz II …

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Hungary’s Right Wing Ruling Party Tries To Shrug Off Closeted Anti-LGBT Pol’s Capture At Belgian “Gay Orgy”

The Guardian reports: Hungary’s rightwing ruling party has tried to brush off accusations of hypocrisy over a “gay orgy” scandal in Brussels, involving one of its inner circle, the MEP József Szájer. The prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and his ruling Fidesz party have enacted a range of legislation over the past decade infringing on LGBT rights, and Szájer himself boasted …

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Lawsuit Alleges Iowa Tyson Foods Plant Managers Had Betting Pool On Number Of Infected Workers [VIDEO]

Des Moines’ CBS News affiliate reports: A lawsuit filed this week by a deceased Tyson employee’s son, claims managers at the business had bet money on how many employees would test positive for COVID-19. Isidro Fernandez was an employee at Tyson Foods’ Waterloo facility. He died from COVID-19 complications on April 26. Court records show that Sheriff Thompson advised the …

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Vatican: We Knew About Accusations Against Cardinal

The National Catholic Reporter reports: In an explosive report that calls into question the decision-making of three Catholic popes, the Vatican has revealed a series of institutional failures that led to the repeated promotion of now disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick despite rumors of his alleged sexual misconduct with young men as early as the 1990s. The Vatican places an abundance …

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Rudy Giuliani: I Was Only “Tucking In My Shirt”

The Daily Beast reports: Rudy Giuliani issued his first public defense after details emerged from his big cameo appearance in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. While it may look like he was touching himself inappropriately with his hands down his pants in a hotel room alongside an actress posing as a reporter, he swore that he was actually just tucking in his …

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OxyContin Maker Pleads Guilty In $8.3B Settlement

The New York Times reports: Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges of defrauding federal health agencies and violating anti-kickback laws, and faces penalties of roughly $8.3 billion, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. The company’s owners, members of the wealthy Sackler family, will pay $225 million in civil penalties. Still, it is …

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Wells Fargo Fires 100+ For Seeking Bailout Funds

Bloomberg News reports: Wells Fargo & Co. fired more than 100 employees for improperly getting coronavirus relief funds, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, Bloomberg News reports. The firm found staffers who it believes defrauded the U.S. Small Business Administration “by making false representations in applying for coronavirus relief funds for themselves,” according to an internal memo …

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