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ILLINOIS's highest-profile GOP primary is the race between Republican Reps. Rodney Davis and Mary Miller in the new 15th District, one of the nation’s six incumbent-versus-incumbent primaries. ... < > 13th District in south-central Illinois to be a D+7 seat ... But the GOP could still hold this seat in a Republican-leaning midterm environment. Republicans look likely to pick either former federal prosecutor Jesse Reising or nonprofit president Regan Deering, as they’ve raised the most money and are on the National Republican Congressional Committee’s list of candidates to watch.
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The six high school students were packed into a small, 2015 Chevy Spark with just four seats - and only the two teenaged girls riding in the front seat were wearing seatbelts, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Wednesday. The six girls were all students of Tishomingo Public School, according to the district's superintendent. The driver was 16 years old, three of the other girls were 15 and the other two passengers were both 17. The two vehicles collided around 12.19pm on Tuesday at the intersection of U.S. 377 and Oklahoma 22 in Tishomingo, a rural city of about 3,000 located...
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Hiya: I now have 5 confirmations - the 5th from my pal fighter @brokenpixelua - this story is true, that Ukrainians have surrounded the Russian Army at Bucha, NW of Kyiv.
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Former President Donald Trump spoke with Laura Ingraham Wednesday night as Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale attack against Ukraine. Trump says “this is something that shouldn’t have happened,” and people are going to be “needlessly killed.” “This is something that should have never happened,” he said. “This would not have happened during my administration. In fact, some people were saying, why didn’t this take place over the past four years during my administration? And it didn’t for a very good reason. I’ll explain that to you someday. But it wouldn’t have taken place, and it wouldn’t have taken...
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TULSA, Okla. — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is expected to announce his resignation on Monday, according to a New York Times report Thursday. The report says Inhofe would remain in his seat through the end of the congressional session. Inhofe, 87, already announced after his reelection in 2020 that this would be his last term. He's been in office since 1994. If Inhofe resigns on or before March 1, a special election for the vacancy would be a part of the November ballot.
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Less than two years after the price of oil briefly plummeted to roughly negative $37 a barrel, an oil boom is underway in America—even in places where drilling was all but abandoned two years ago. “Private oil producers are leading an industry return to places like the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma and the DJ Basin in Colorado, where drilling had almost completely stopped in mid-2020,” reports The Wall Street Journal. The Anadarko Basin, for example, has surged from just seven active drilling rigs to 46, according to energy analytics firm Enverus, while the DJ Basin in Colorado saw its number...
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A jury has convicted Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on five of six counts related to the abuse and trafficking of underage girls. Maxwell faced a six-count indictment for allegedly conspiring with and aiding Epstein in his sexual abuse of underage girls between 1994 and 2004. She has been held without bail since her arrest in July 2020 and has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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The Department of Defense is threatening the Oklahoma National Guard with drastic action over the state’s rejection of the Biden administration’s federal vaccine mandates. The Voice of America’s Pentagon correspondent reported that: “Defense official reportedly says, if the Oklahoma National Guard doesn’t comply with COVID vaccine requirements, they will no longer be ‘maintaining national recognition,’ thus, state will no longer have a Nat[ional] Guard, but rather a militia.” This represents a dangerous escalation for a federal government that is pressing confrontation with state governments. On Monday, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby insisted that the national guard units follow the Pentagon’s orders...
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Defense official says if the Oklahoma National Guard doesn’t comply with COVID vaccine requirements, they will no longer be “maintaining national recognition,” thus, state will no longer have a National Guard, but rather a state militia – VOA Pentagon correspondent.
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PUSHMATAHA COUNTY, Okla. — A homeowner shot and killed an accused intruder over the weekend in southeastern Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Just after 4 p.m. on Oct. 31, Pushmataha County Sheriff’s Office requested assistance from the OSBI after a home invasion turned shooting near the intersection of County Road 4330 and Highway 147. Officials say 25-year-old Shawn Blake Watts arrived at a residence on North 4327 Lane, entered the home and assaulted the homeowner. During the ongoing assault, the homeowner retrieved a pistol and shot Watts, according to authorities. After being transported to Pushmataha Hospital...
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A Texas man who had organized a “Freedom Rally” in protest of COVID-19 restrictions is now on a ventilator after becoming infected with COVID, according to his pregnant wife. ...The San Angelo Standard-Times had reported that Caleb had been hospitalized with COVID for more than a month, with Wallace telling the paper that her husband initially refused to get tested for the virus and tried his own vitamin regimen to treat himself rather than seeing a doctor. Most days his wife said that she and her three daughters FaceTime him in the hospital with the help of a nurse, though...
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KNWA/KFTA) - Oklahoma State Representative Sean Roberts, R-Hominy, announced Tuesday he is requesting that the State Election Board Secretary call for a forensic and independent audit of the 2020 general election results in Oklahoma County and two other random Counties in the state. “Oklahomans have the right to know their election results can be trusted,” Roberts said. Roberts said in a letter to the Election Board Secretary that he believes there were signs of election fraud in states such as such as Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, and he believes Oklahoma should defend the integrity of its elections. The...
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KNWA/KFTA) — Oklahoma State Representative Sean Roberts, R-Hominy, announced Tuesday he is requesting that the State Election Board Secretary call for a forensic and independent audit of the 2020 general election results in Oklahoma County and two other random Counties in the state. “Oklahomans have the right to know their election results can be trusted,” Roberts said. Roberts said in a letter to the Election Board Secretary that he believes there were signs of election fraud in states such as such as Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, and he believes Oklahoma should defend the integrity of its elections. The...
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Two families sued Universal Orlando for $30,000 after an actor dressed as the Disney character 'Gru' flashed a white-power hand gesture in two separate photos with young girls of color. The lawsuit - filed in Orange County, Florida on June 23 - includes the photos from February and March 2019 with the 'Despicable Me' character making the 'OK' white-supremacist hand gesture in both photos. One of the victims is a six-year-old biracial girl and the other victim is a five-year-old Hispanic girl. 'He openly and pointedly displayed towards them a universally-known and universally-used hate symbol that indicates white power,' the...
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e Need To Get To 70 Percent By July 4th': Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava Hopes To Meet Biden Admin. Goal Astro is rolling in to help out. After the order is placed, Astro waits for the food and brings it to the table, freeing up the server to do other things. “I can go to other tables to take their order. I can have one, two, three, four tables. While he’s on the line with the food, I can prepare the toast, the coffee, the juice,” said server Claudia Lozano. While Lozano is making coffee, Astro’s being loaded up...
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On Sunday, AZGOP Chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward Tweeted an outstanding Arizona audit update. Kelli Ward: “WA, GA, VA, PA, NV, UT, CO, WI, OK, AK, MI, SC, MO have all recently visited the first full forensic audit of an American election – THIRTEEN states. #AmericasAudit is soon to be #AmericasAudits! Arizona is leading the way to #ElectionIntegrity in America.” 13 states have now toured the historic Arizona audit with hope of all 50 states doing the same! Requests to review this audit have been coming in droves and more states are expected to tour the audit this week, as it...
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LONDON — In England, it’s going to be time to hug again. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to give the go-ahead for that much-missed human contact when he announces the next round of lockdown easing later Monday in the wake of a sharp fall in new coronavirus infections. The U.K. is now recording around 2,000 new coronavirus cases a day, compared with a daily peak of nearly 70,000 in January. Daily deaths have also plummeted with only two recorded on Sunday.
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Amidst the pomp-and-circumstance introductions of Tuesday night's Jeopardy!, a three-day returning champion flashed an 'OK' sign with three fingers, sending the Twitter world into a frenzy. When Kelly Donohue was announced by guest host Anderson Cooper, Donohue smiled and made a gesture of the sideways 'OK' gesture with three fingers out. This hand gesture has been used by far right-wing groups to represent white supremacy, and The Anti-Defamation League classified it as an official symbol of hate in 2019. But, this is not the only use of the symbol and Donohue has made very clear there was no 'hidden agenda...
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Image from indystar.com video, cropped, scaled, arrows and lettering added by Dean Weingarten One of the tactics used by the far left to disrupt the lives of private citizens and to show their power, is to block roadways, streets, and public right of ways. Blocking public right of ways has been a minor crime. Most states have statutes that require vehicles to give way to pedestrians.The far-left found this weakness in the system, which allowed them to disrupt and endanger tens of thousands of other people without serious penalty for themselves.Once vehicles were stopped, the drivers and passengers would be...
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