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      <title>Duke Lacrosse accuser being released</title>
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      <description>Crystal Mangum, the woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, was released from prison Friday morning. She was convicted of second-degree murder in 2013 for the 2011 stabbing death of her boyfriend, Reginald Daye, and sentenced to 14 to 18 years. Mangum claimed the stabbing was in self-defense. Read more at: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article314861021.html#storylink=cpy&quot;&gt;www.charlotteobserver.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:04:34 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>President Trump blasted Democratic politicians who declined to endorse his State of the Union message that the &quot;first duty&quot; of the US government is to protect American citizens over illegal migrants. &quot;One of the great things about the State of the Union is how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe,&quot; Trump said during his Tuesday night remarks in the House chamber. &quot;So tonight, I'm inviting every legislator to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.&quot; Duly cued, Republicans led by Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rose to their feet while scores of Democrats remained firmly seated.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:41:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump files scrubbed from Epstein probe</title>
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      <description>The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump. Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:41:32 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>It will be the biggest Republican landslide ever</title>
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      <description>The leftist congresswoman's Munich stumbling on Friday, Feb. 13, started the critical firestorm and has conservatives questioning her fitness for a potential 2028 Democrat presidential primary campaign.</description>
      <wordzilla:extended>And her &quot;partner&quot; snoring in the background is icing on the cake.</wordzilla:extended>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:33:17 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>On Monday, the Washington State House Democrats voted to raid $4 billion from the law enforcement and firefighter pension plan to cover their deficit caused by out-of-control spending. Democrats in the Washington State House of Representatives have approved House Bill 2034, authorizing the transfer of approximately $2.5 billion, with projections of up to $4 billion over time, from the Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' (LEOFF) Plan 1 retirement system. The legislation passed on a 55&quot;39 vote, with every Republican voting against it.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:28:53 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Was it the "gun" or the Transgender?</title>
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      <description>The crazed gunman who killed two people and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday afternoon has been identified as a transgender dad who railed against anti-trans hate in family legal disputes and deranged social media rants. Robert Dorgan, 56 &quot; who shot four family members and a family friend before he turned the gun on himself following the deadly rampage at the Pawtucket ice rink &quot; used the female alias Roberta Esposito, Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said during a press conference Monday night. &quot;We have identified the person, the suspect, by a birth name, the birth name was Robert Dorgan,&quot; Goncalves said. &quot;We have also learned that the person does go by the name of Roberta, also uses a last name of Esposito.&quot;</description>
      <wordzilla:extended>The real story:
&lt;p&gt;https://nypost.com/2026/02/16/us-news/robert-dorgan-idd-as-rhode-island-hockey-shooter/</wordzilla:extended>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:15:56 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Greenhouse Gas Rules Gone</title>
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      <description>Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday will eliminate the &quot;2009 Obama EPA Endangerment Finding,&quot; which set in motion most federal greenhouse gas emissions standards ...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:33:39 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>This is why the U.N. isnt taken seriously</title>
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      <description>The Islamic Republic of Iran has been elected Vice-Chair of the U.N. Commission for Social Development.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:13:33 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Mainstream media ignoring Trans who killed 10 kids</title>
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      <description>Canadian police confirmed ten deaths and at least 35 injuries following a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia. The shooter, who also killed himself, was identified by a close family member as Jesse Strang, a transgender person identifying with she/her' pronouns. According to media reports, an active shooter alert was issued at 3.15pm Mountain Time (MT) by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), covering a large area including Chetwynd and Dawson Creek.</description>
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      <title>The Epstein Emails</title>
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      <description>Hacker creates an email clone of Jeffery Epstein's email account so you can sift through it as if it were your own email account.</description>
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      <title>145,000 missing children found; media silent</title>
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      <description>Border czar Tom Homan recently announced that authorities have located more than 145,000 children that had been lost amid the millions of illegal immigrants that poured across the U.S. border under the Biden administration. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have been working tirelessly &quot;to locate more than 300,000 unaccompanied alien children that the Biden administration turned over to unvetted sponsors, lost track of, and weren't looking [for],&quot; Homan said in a Jan. 30 post on X.</description>
      <wordzilla:extended>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlA.xhXB.xck_iE-fxmp4&amp;smid=url-share&lt;p&gt;Scott Lloyd, who led the resettlement office in the Trump administration, said he realized in 2018 that the number of unaccompanied Guatemalan boys being released to sponsors in South Florida seemed to be growing.&lt;p&gt;&quot;I always wondered what was happening there,&quot; he said.
&lt;p&gt;But his attention was diverted by the chaos around the Trump administration's child separation policy, and he never looked into it. The trend he saw has only accelerated: For example, in the past three years, more than 200 children have been released to distant relatives or unrelated adults around Immokalee, Fla., an agricultural hub with a long history of labor exploitation.</wordzilla:extended>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:17:19 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>80+% of Americans support voter ID; Why dont Democrats?</title>
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      <description>I know this poll is a couple of years old, but it's results still havent changed. 76% of U.S. adults favor the concept of early voting. Two other election law policies are supported by even more Americans -- requiring photo identification to vote (84%) and providing proof of citizenship when registering to vote for the first time (83%). Smaller majorities of Americans -- 60% each -- favor automatic voter registration, whereby citizens are registered when they do business with state agencies such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, and sending absentee ballot applications to all eligible voters.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump uses captialism to invest in our kids future</title>
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      <description>Build your child's financial foundation right from the beginning. With $1,000 from the U.S. Treasury, your child has a huge head start on the American dream.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:54:46 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>NATO Without the U.S.: 'Good Luck'</title>
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      <description>NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte insisted Monday that Europe is incapable of defending itself without U.S. military support ...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:32:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>Democrats have claimed that Ramos was &quot;kidnapped&quot; as his father was being detained in Minneapolis. Columbia Heights school district superintendent Zena Stenvik said Ramos was &quot;used as bait.&quot; Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as well as other Democrats, shared an image of a 5-year-old boy online and claimed he was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents while coming home from pre-school, DHS officials said officers were approaching Conejo Arias when he ran and left his son.</description>
      <wordzilla:extended>&quot;This little boy was abandoned by his own father. His own father was being approached by ICE agents when he darted, ran, and abandoned the child,&quot; DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. &quot;Our law enforcement in these frigid temperatures stayed with the child, tried to bring him into custody with the mother, who actually would not take the child into custody, which is so sad, so horrific.&quot;</wordzilla:extended>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:19:06 -0500</pubDate>
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