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Woman convicted of trespassing at Trump’s club deported to China over weekend

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By Jay Weaver, Miami Herald (TNS) Troy Warren for CNT MIAMI — A Chinese businesswoman who was held in immigration custody for two years after serving her eight-month prison sentence for trespassing at former President Donald Trump’s exclusive Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago, was deported over the weekend and arrived in China on Sunday, according to federal authorities. Yujing Zhang, 35, had finished her sentence and was transferred to immigration custody in early December 2019, officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. But she was held at the Glades County Detention Center for three times as long as her prison term mainly…

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BREAKING: Trump ally Bannon taken into custody on contempt charges

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By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, surrendered to federal authorities on Monday to face contempt charges after defying a subpoena from a House committee investigating January’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Bannon was taken into custody Monday morning and is expected to appear in court later in the afternoon. The 67-year-old was indicted Friday on two counts of criminal contempt — one for refusing to appear for a congressional deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents in response to the committee’s subpoena. …

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9-year-old Dallas boy dies after Astroworld festival crush

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By The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks HOUSTON — A 9-year-old Dallas boy has become the youngest person to die from injuries sustained during a crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival in Houston. Ezra Blount of Dallas died Sunday at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, family attorney Ben Crump said. Ezra was placed in a medically induced coma after suffering serious injuries in the Nov. 5 crush of fans during a performance by the festival's headliner, rapper Travis Scott. He is the 10th person who attended the festival to die. “The Blount family tonight is grieving the incomprehensible loss…

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New rail tracks touted as ‘important tools’ in ending supply chain woes

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By Michael E. Kanell, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #Business With the economic spotlight on the snarls in global supply chains, the Port of Savannah on Friday touted expensive investments aimed at bolstering its ability to handle more cargo. The Georgia Ports Authority formally opened its Mason Mega Rail terminal, adding nine new rail tracks to the nine already completed. Officials said the number of ships waiting to unload has been reduced since hitting a high of 30 vessels queuing up in the harbor earlier this year. The line has been cut in half, according to the ports authority.…

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Phoenix: Grant Woods hailed as an authentic Arizona voice at memorial service

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Mary Jo Pitzl | Arizona Republic Troy Warren for PhoenixNewsAndTalk.Com Grant Woods was remembered Friday as an authentic Arizonan, whose passions ran from sports to civil rights, music to impish pranks. The former attorney general was “a white John Lewis,” the Rev. Warren Stewart Sr. said as he opened a two-hour service attended by judges, attorneys, former governors and friends accumulated across his colorful lifetime. "Grant Woods was a white John Lewis, yes, a white John Lewis," said Stewart, who chaired the 1990 campaign that established a state Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, a cause Woods championed. Stewart recalled the…

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Black high school principal forced to resign amid critical race theory controversy

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By ArLuther Lee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #Lifestyle A Black high school principal in Fort Worth, Texas, has been forced out of his job following months of racial controversies, including a social media photo that showed him kissing his white wife and accusations that he endorsed critical race theory to students. James Whitfield was on suspension from his administrative post at Colleyville Heritage High School since September when the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District board of trustees voted Monday to terminate his contract, according to NBC News. “This is beyond me,” he told the network in an interview since the…

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Man who went to space with William Shatner dies in plane crash

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By The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A man who traveled to space with William Shatner last month was killed along with another person when a small plane crashed in northern New Jersey, according to state police. Glen M. de Vries, 49, of New York City, and Thomas P. Fischer, 54, of Hopatcong, were aboard the single-engine Cessna 172 that went down Thursday in a wooded area of Hampton Township. The aircraft had departed from Essex County Airport in Caldwell and was headed to Sussex Airport when the Federal Aviation Administration alerted public safety agencies to look…

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2021

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Big Bird backlash: Vaccine lands even Muppet in political flap

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By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #COVID-19 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Smokey Bear taught kids the importance of preventing wildfires. McGruff the Crime Dog warned them not to talk to strangers. And in 1972, Big Bird lined up on “Sesame Street” to receive a measles vaccine as part of a campaign to get more youngsters inoculated against the disease. But when that same iconic, 8-foot children’s character tweeted last weekend that he had been vaccinated against COVID-19, conservative politicians immediately pushed back. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican, grilled Big Bird for what he called "government propaganda." Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe described it as "brainwashing children"…

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U.S. consumer prices soared 6.2% in past year, most since 1990

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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #Business #Lifestyle WASHINGTON — Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.2% in October compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, gas and housing left Americans grappling with the highest inflation rate since 1990. The year-over-year increase in the consumer price index exceeded the 5.4% rise in September, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. From September to October, prices jumped 0.9%, the highest month-over-month increase since June. Inflation is eroding the strong gains in wages and salaries that have flowed to America’s workers in recent months, creating political headaches for the Biden administration and…

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Widespread coronavirus infection found in Iowa deer, new study says

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By Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times Troy Warren for CNT #COVID-19 #EditorsPicks A new study of hundreds of white-tailed deer infected with the coronavirus in Iowa has found that the animals probably are contracting the virus from humans and then rapidly spreading it among one another, according to researchers. Up to 80% of deer sampled from April 2020 through January 2021 in the state were infected, the study indicated. Scientists said the findings pose worrisome implications for the spread of the coronavirus, although they were not able to identify how the deer might have contracted the virus from humans. There…

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