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America 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:

“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”

“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”

“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”

“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”

“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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President Trump’s aides have promised transparency about the funding of a new ballroom, but the White House withheld the identities of several donors to the project, including some with business before the administration, The New York Times found.
Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito
Many corporate interests that have donated to the president’s pet project have business before his administration.
nyti.ms
November 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@ponekeben.bsky.social hey Ben, has Wellington Council considered putting solar on some of these great roofs. Was on a walk and thought this should have solar. North facing with no obstacles. Could be a real earner 💵💵💵
October 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.
October 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Withdrawing from the War on Cancer: an extraordinarily successful scientific research system that took decades to build, saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits is being dismantled in short order. @jonathanmahler.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Senator Bill Cassidy’s vote secured the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy jr. He’s now issued a brief statement faintly calling Kennedy’s destruction of vaccine research “unfortunate”
August 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...
June 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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November 28, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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JD Vance attempts to justify spreading lies about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio:

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people then that's what I'm going to do”
September 15, 2024 at 1:43 PM