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Chattanooga, Tenn.—A former Tennessee governor's administration helped fund a contract murder of a key federal witness decades ago while embroiled in the state's largest political scandal, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday. The new details revealed for the first time Wednesday have elements that ring of a movie: a trusted ally of union boss Jimmy Hoffa gunned down after testifying about a corrupt governor selling prison pardons and a gunman who donned a wig and blackface to throw authorities off the scent. Investigators in Hamilton County, which encompasses Chattanooga, have been chipping away at the 42-year-old cold case of Samuel Pettyjohn
Washington Times,
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Thomas Howell Jr
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The Biden administration is planning to buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to share with the rest of the world. President Biden teased the plan Wednesday before boarding Air Force One for his first foreign trip, saying he would outline his strategy at the Group of Seven nations summit in England. The White House declined to comment, but a source familiar with the plan said 200 million doses from the purchase will be donated this year and 300 million during the first half of 2022. The doses will be filtered through COVAX, the main global vaccine-sharing partnership, and go to
New York Daily News,
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Jessica Schladebeck
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A North Dakota teen who was violently attacked while she skateboarded to her mother’s house earlier this week has succumbed to her stab wounds, according to her family. Daisy Paulsen, who often went by the nickname, Jupiter, died on Tuesday, less than a week after what her father, Robert Paulsen, previously described as a “random attack,” Valley News reported. He said the family is working to ensure the 14-year-old’s organs are donated and that her ashes are scattered across California’s Bay Area, per her request.(Snip) Her father said she was riding her skateboard when she was “beaten, strangled, and stabbed” 25 times as she traveled
Business Insider,
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Mary Meisenzahl
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Many Starbucks stores are facing shortages of vital products, and the issues could be getting worse. Starbucks is putting orders for at least 25 items on "temporary hold" as of June 4 due to supply chain issues, according to an internal company update viewed by Insider.(Snip) "We are constantly running out of food," and customers sometimes get angry with employees over these shortages, the employee said. "It is out of our control. We try to tell them the company cannot keep up with demand… They end up getting mad and most of the time they just drive away. We try to explain there are shortages but
Daily Mail (UK),
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Geoff Earle
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Even the Biden administration appears to be baffled by Kamala Harris' trip to Guatemala and Mexico to address the border crisis. White House insiders were 'perplexed' by her answers to her questions over whether she would visit the Rio Grande and 'hoped her first foreign trip would be a success', CNN reported. White House also fear that any progress she made during her meetings with the Guatemalan and Mexican presidents may be undone by her mixed messages and terse encounters with reporters.(Snip) But she made a series of seemingly conflicting statements about her decision not to visit the border and enraged progressives by telling migrants: 'Do not come'.
Daily Mail (UK),
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More than 16,200 children are still in custody of Health and Human Services, which is 50 per cent higher than the levels in March, the agency reported Tuesday. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra appeared before the Ways and Means Committee to face questions on the border crisis. President Joe Biden has promised to reunite families separated during the Trump administration and to expedite processing unaccompanied minors who arrived at the border in the last few months.(Snip) The dismal showings in reunification is being blamed on the Trump administration's failure to keep accurate and organized data on families and children when they were separated at the border.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Emily Crane
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Daunte Wright, the black man shot dead by a white police officer in Minneapolis, has been accused of being involved in two separate shooting incidents before he was killed. The new allegations against the 20-year-old black man have emerged just two months after he was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center cop Kim Potter during an April traffic stop.(Snip) LeMay told the Star Tribune in a 2019 interview that her son spent 33 days in intensive care and had part of his skull removed to relieve pressure on his brain.
She said the medical costs had surpassed $545,000. 'I didn't ask for my child to be
WNCN-TV [Raleigh, NC],
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A new poll found that those Americans who don’t want to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot are unlikely to ever change their mind about doing so.
According to the poll published Tuesday by the analytics and advisory company Gallup, 78 percent say they are unlikely to reconsider their vaccination plans, including 51 percent who say they are “not likely at all” to change their mind and get vaccinated.(Snip) States are also trying creative approaches to encourage those who are reluctant to get vaccinated, including offering lottery prizes of varying amounts, savings bonds, free amusement park tickets and free hunting and fishing licenses.
Washington Times,
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Victor Morton
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Hunter Biden repeatedly used the N-word in conversations with his lawyer and kept a racist meme involving his father and former President Barack Obama on his laptop, according to multiple media outlets. The racist exchanges in conversations with attorney George Mesires, which also included lewd sexual talk, were taken from the presidential son’s abandoned laptop, the New York Post and Britain’s Daily Mail reported Tuesday.(Snip) Mr. Biden also kept a picture on his laptop of now-President Biden and Mr. Obama embracing, according to the Post and the Mail. The meme’s text reads: “Obama: Gonna miss you, man. Joe: Can I say it? Just this once?
New York Post,
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Joshua Rhett Miller
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A Houston-based hospital system has suspended 178 employees without pay for two weeks for refusing to get the coronavirus vaccine, according to reports. Houston Methodist CEO Marc Boom wrote in an internal message obtained by the Washington Post Tuesday that nearly 25,000 of the health care system’s employees were fully vaccinated by Monday’s deadline—but some chose not to comply.(Snip) Another 285 employees got a medical or religious exemption from the vaccine, while 332 workers were given deferrals due to pregnancy or other reasons, Boom wrote.
A group of 117 unvaccinated staffers at Houston Methodist Hospital sued the hospital system in May, claiming the required
Daily Mail (UK),
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The Guardian has been mocked for branding apple pie racist after one of its writers said the treat was linked to 'a vast and ongoing genocide of indigenous people. Writing in the famously liberal publication, food writer Raj Patel claimed the all-American dessert was born of colonialism and slavery, after highlighting how apples had first arrived in the west from central Asia 4,000 years ago. The piece, titled 'Food injustice has deep roots: let's start with America's apple pie', claims the pie has 'bloody origins' and is 'as American as stolen land, wealth and labor.' Patel is a British Indian author and documentary maker
Daily Mail (UK),
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James Robinson
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A mother-of-two law student who was investigated by university chiefs after saying 'women have vaginas' has today been cleared of misconduct. Mature student Lisa Keogh, 29, was hauled before a disciplinary panel at the University of Abertay in Dundee after her comments made during a seminar on transgender issues were reported to tutors by her classmates. But after a two month probe, which took place while she underwent her final year exams, the university's disciplinary board has decided not to uphold the misconduct charge against her.(Snip) She said during the seminar that women were born with female genitals and the difference in physical strength
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