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Washington—Former Vice President Mike Pence urged Republicans to move on from the 2020 election and declared that "there is no room in this party for apologists for Putin" as he further cemented his break from former President Donald Trump. Pence, in a speech Friday evening to the party's top donors in New Orleans, took on those in his party who have failed to forcefully condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. "Where would Russian tanks be today if NATO had not expanded the borders of freedom? There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin," Pence said, according to excerpts from the speech
New York Times,
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Alan Rappeport
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Washington—At the Internal Revenue Service's sprawling Kansas City, Missouri, processing center, teams of clerks earning $15 per hour work through the night, trying to help the agency clear a backlog of more than 20 million tax returns that are a year overdue. The conditions are subpar: Scanners sputter, forcing workers to enter data by hand, staplers are scarce, and piles of tax documents overflow from carts. "The general theme for the time I've been there has been chaos," said Shawn Gunn, a clerk in the receipt and operations group at the IRS who started working at the facility in Kansas City in June and is transitioning to become
WMC-TV [Memphis, TN],
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Parker King
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Memphis, Tenn.—Memphis Police have arrested a man accused of shooting three children outside of a Whitehaven library on Thursday. Javontay Paige has been taken into custody for three counts of attempted first-degree murder, possession a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.(Snip)MPD says Paige knows the three victims, one of them, who family has identified as 11-year-old Broderick Smith, is still at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in critical condition. “It was devastating because he’s only a kid,” said Quinteshala Smith, Broderick’s Cousin. Smith got the news shortly after the shooting,
Associated Press,
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Don Thompson
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Sacramento, Calif.—The gunman who killed his three daughters, a chaperone who was supervising his visit with the children and himself in a Northern California church this week was in the United States illegally, immigration officials said Friday. David Mora, 39, overstayed his visa after entering California from his native Mexico on Dec. 17, 2018, on a non-immigrant visitor visa, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Alethea Smock told The Associated Press. She didn’t say when his visa expired. But because he overstayed his visa, ICE asked to be notified when he was released from jail last week after he was arrested in Merced County for assaulting a California
Daily Mail (UK),
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Chris Pleasance
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Nikki Schwab
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The White House confirmed Friday that Vice President Kamala Harris will pay a visit to NATO allies Poland and Romania next week, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Russian Presiden Vladimir Putin's assault on Ukraine will only get worse. From Brussels, Blinken reported 'what we're seeing on the battlefield is Russian forces seeking to encircle the major cities, including Kyiv, and we're seeing them use increasingly brutal methods, including going at civilians and civilian populations.' 'So I think the terrible expectation is that the suffering we've already seen is likely to get worse before it gets better for as long Russia pursues these methods,' the secretary of state
KING-TV [Seattle, WA],
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Christine Pae
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Olympia, Wash.—A bill creating an alert system for missing indigenous women and people within Washington passed the state Senate. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Debra Lekanoff from Skagit County, would create an early alert system that would distribute information about the missing person, similar to a Silver Alert.
"This isn't just an Indian issue. This is a Washington state crisis and Washington state is better than that," Lekanoff told KING 5.(Snip) Indigenous women and people go missing more than four times than white women, according to research conducted by the Urban Indian Health Institute in Seattle.
Fox News,
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Timothy H.J. Nerozzi
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Thirteen states have signed on to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking Biden administration records on any FBI surveillance of parents protesting school boards. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a former member of Congress, has taken the lead in the lawsuit against President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, citing a failure of U.S. officials to honor FOIA requests.(Snip)Cardona solicited the National School Boards Association’s (NSBA) much-criticized letter to Biden that compared protesting parents to domestic terrorists and suggested using the Patriot Act against them, according to an email exchange first reported by Fox News Digital.
New York Post,
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Mark Lungariello
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In a deal to avoid facing the death penalty, a Salvadoran serial killer who was in the US illegally was slapped with consecutive life sentences after he admitted to four Nevada murders. Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, 23, worked as a landscaper for all four victims before he shot them during a deadly robbery spree in January 2019—but prosecutors said his crimes weren’t motivated by a need for money.(Snip)“This case is about him getting a thrill out of committing burglaries and killing,” Jackson said, according to the Reno Gazette Journal.(Snip)Martinez-Guzman shot Jerry David, 81, and his wife, Sherri David, 80, using a .22-caliber gun
Daily Mail (UK),
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Snejana Farberov
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A San Francisco shoplifter was filmed filling a bag with stolen goods behind the counter of a Walgreens store as staff stood helplessly and watched. The heist took place on Tuesday at a Walgreens in the Richmond area of the city, and saw the brazen shoplifter hurl bananas and cookies at one man who confronted him.
It is the latest in a long line of shocking shoplifting outrages to hit the famously-liberal Bay Area. San Francisco and its Bay Area neighbors have been hit hard by a wave of property crimes and smash-and-grab robberies since the start of the pandemic. That has forced multiple branches of Walgreens
New York Post,
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Callie Patteson
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The State Department is urging America’s embassies across Europe to not repost a tweet from the US Embassy in Kyiv that called Russia’s attack on a nuclear plant “a war crime,” according to multiple reports. An internal message obtained by NBC News and CNN revealed the Department has warned the embassies to avoid sharing language posted by the Kyiv outpost, or delete their post if they already have. “All–do not/not retweet Embassy Kyiv’s tweet on shelling of the facility being a possible war crime,” the message reportedly reads. “If you have retweeted it–un-retweet it ASAP.”(Snip)A State Department spokesman later told The Post it was “assessing
Daily Mail (UK),
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov pounced on Sen. Lindsey Graham's comment calling for someone to take out Russian Vladimir Putin—questioning his sanity and suggesting he was drunk. The slap from Putin's mouthpiece came after Graham Tweeted Thursday night that it was time for a 'Brutus' to emerge amid Putin throwing Russia's forces into a bloody invasion of Ukraine—a comment that U.S. commentators immediately warned could fuel Russian propaganda.
'Unfortunately, in such an extremely tense atmosphere, there is a hysterical escalation of Russophobia,' Peskov responded. 'These days, not everyone manages to maintain sobriety, I would even say sanity, and many lose their mind,' he added.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Gina Martinez
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Senator Lindsey Graham has called for 'somebody in Russia' to assassinate their president Vladimir Putin. The Republican Senator invoked a Julius Caesar-style assassination of the Kremlin strongman—currently leading an invasion of Ukraine—during an appearance on Fox News' Hannity show and in a series of incendiary tweets on Thursday. 'Is there a Brutus in Russia? he asked. 'Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?' he tweeted, referencing the army officer who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler. 'The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.(Snip)Graham's call for Putin to be assassinated drew a stern rebuke from Russia
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