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The U.S. Postal Service failed to answer lawmakers’ questions in a Wednesday briefing about its alleged spying on Americans, according to Rep. Nancy Mace, South Carolina Republican. Chief Postal Inspector Gary R. Barksdale briefed lawmakers on Wednesday about its “Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP)” that allegedly monitored Americans’ social media posts. Mr. Barksdale could not give a date for when the program started and denied that it was even a program but said an ‘executive’ was overseeing it, according to Ms. Mace’s office.(Snip)Ms. Mace’s office said Mr. Barksdale did not know how much taxpayer money was spent on the program, could not say what legal
WKRN-TV [Nashville, TN],
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Alex Denis
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Nashville, Tenn.—Brandy Parker-McFadden sits in her Vanderbilt hospital bed, unable to stand. “Our youngest is like–are you ever going to walk again? We just reassure him this is extremely rare.” The mother of three received her second Pfizer COVID shot on April 16. Hours later, an unusual sensation started in her legs. “Then it turned into a horrible neck pain, and it just kept getting worse and worse,” recounted Brandy. Her husband James knew something was terribly wrong. “She was screaming in pain.(Snip) Ten days later, Brandy is able to move her arms again and wiggle her toes. She will now undergo intensive
Washington Times,
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Victor Morton
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Cindy McCain blasted the media’s treatment of presidential son Hunter Biden in an interview released Tuesday night, calling it cruel and intended to ridicule.
The widow of 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain said her remarks were “not to be political,” but to say that the extensive reporting on Mr. Biden was unhelpful to addicts. “In the case of Hunter Biden, whether you like him or not, whether you agree with him or not, I don’t care. But the fact of the matter, they have once again shamed a man who is struggling in addiction, and the media has taken no sense of responsibility
New York Post,
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Ben Feuerherd
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Federal authorities in Manhattan raided the Upper East Side apartment of Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday as part of a criminal probe into the former mayor’s dealings in Ukraine, a report said.
The investigators confiscated Guiliani’s electronic devices as part of a search warrant, the New York Times reported, citing sources.
A spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment on the reported raid. A call to Giuliani’s cellphone went straight to voicemail Wednesday afternoon.
WJZ-TV [Baltimore, MD],
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Amy Kawata
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Baltimore–A Baltimore County man said he was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for not wearing a mask while eating Twizzlers and wants to share his story in the hopes things will change. Avi Mandel said he was a frequent Southwest flyer until his flight Sunday out of Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington International Airport. He showed WJZ a selfie video he made during the flight, in which he said, “I, Avi Mandel, just got kicked off a plane because I wasn’t wearing my mask in between bites while I was eating.”(Snip) After he emailed Southwest, he found out a new federal mask mandate
Reuters,
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Hasbro said Tuesday it would raise prices of toys and games to counter higher raw material costs as the company sees surging demand for its Nerf blasters and board games from families spending more time at home. Shares of the Monopoly maker, which late on Monday announced the sale of Entertainment One Music to Blackstone Group for $385 million, rose 1 percent in midday trading. The toymaker, like most US manufacturers, has had to contend with rising resin, packaging and metal prices, as well as soaring transportation costs due to high demand and supply disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.(Snip) “Freight and input cost
Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK),
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Harriet Alexander
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President Joe Biden will call for free preschool for all three and four-year-old children on Wednesday—a $200 billion investment to be rolled out as part of his sweeping American Families Plan. The president will make the announcement in his first joint address to Congress—a fulfillment of a campaign promise.
Biden campaigned on a national plan for universal preschool that would invest $775 billion over a 10-year period. The administration said the historic investment would benefit five million children and save the average family $13,000. It calls for providing federal funds to help the states offer preschool, with teachers and other
New York Post,
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Rebecca Rosenberg
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A man was caught at JFK Airport on Monday allegedly trying to smuggle in 35 live finches from Guyana—stuffed inside plastic hair curlers and concealed inside his clothes, authorities said. Kevin Andre McKenzie is just the latest alleged would-be songbird smuggler busted using the hair-accessory method to bring in the coveted creatures, which are used in high-stakes singing contests popular in Brooklyn and Queens. McKenzie allegedly told them he had been offered $3,000 to traffic the finches into the US. He was charged with the illegal importation of wildlife and was released on a $25,0000 bond, authorities said.
Newsweek,
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Danya Hajjaji
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The CEO of a telemedicine company has denied harassing a teenage boy over his prom dress in a viral video of the confrontation, which has prompted accusations of homophobia and renewed outrage over intolerance for men choosing to wear dresses.
In the video filmed by the teenager's boyfriend, VisuWell CEO Sam Johnson can be seen arguing with a visibly upset high schooler wearing a floor-length red tulle gown at a hotel in Tennessee. Johnson then appears to try smacking the phone of Stevens' boyfriend Jacob Geittmann. In a pair of TikTok videos giving his side of the story, Geittman said Johnson
Washington Times,
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Valerie Richardson
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One hundred days into the Biden administration, The Washington Post is calling a lid on the presidential fact-checking database. Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer of the Fact Checker, tweeted late Monday that the team would continue to fact-check President Biden “rigorously” but would no longer maintain the database started under former President Trump. “Here’s the Biden database—which we do not plan to extend beyond 100 days,” Mr. Kessler tweeted. “I have learned my lesson.”
He cited the enormous workload associated with keeping up with Mr. Trump. In February 2017, the Fact Checker launched a “new interactive graphic” to track “every suspicious
KOMO-TV [Seattle WA],
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Samantha Mitchell
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Washington—When you think of cicadas you might not think 'yum, I'd eat that!' But, if you were wondering, you can and many people do. And with an influx of the 17-year bugs reappearing, it may just be the opportunity for you to try them for yourselves. In fact, the University of Maryland has even put together an entire cookbook of recipes just for cicadas.(Snip) "They're safe to eat, I'll certainly be snacking on cicadas, there are many recipes," he said. "One of my favorites, of course, is the soft-shelled cicadas. Just after they mold, their skin is soft like
Kaiser Health News,
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Stephen Findlay
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Robin Hauser, a pediatrician in Tampa, got COVID-19 in February. What separates her from the vast majority of the tens of millions of other Americans who have come down with the virus is this: She got sick seven weeks after her second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. "I was shocked," said Hauser.(Snip)These "breakthrough" infections occurred among people of all ages. Just over 40% were in people 60 or older, and 65% occurred in women. Twenty-nine percent of infected people reported no symptoms, but 7% were hospitalized and just over 1%, 74 people, died, according to the CDC.
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Yet another bLACK repeat criminal on the streets and attacking people. Experts say the motives are inconclusive; maybe a hate crime, maybe not. (Marxist "hate crime" concept is absurd, and applied very unevenly.)