May 2022

NATION & WORLD WATCH

1 dead in shooting after Tennessee high school graduation MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – One person was killed and another injured in a shooting Wednesday night after a high school graduation at Middle Tennessee State University, according to police.

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911 dispatcher in Buffalo call put on leave

A 911 dispatcher has been placed on leave and may lose her job after allegedly hanging up on a supermarket employee hiding during this weekend’s shooting rampage in Buffalo, New York. “Termination will be sought” for the dispatcher at a disciplinary hearing later this month, said Peter Anderson, spokesperson for the executive of Erie County, in an email to The Associated Press on Wednesday.

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House passes domestic terrorism bill

WASHINGTON – The House passed legislation late Wednesday that would bolster federal resources to prevent domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. The 222-203, nearly party-line vote was an answer to the growing pressure Congress faces to address gun violence and white supremacist attacks – a crisis that escalated following two mass shootings over the weekend.

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Inflation blame game of President Biden

President Biden took to the stage this past week to blame inflation on anyone but his own failed policies. Americans don’t buy his diversions, or his embarrassing attempts to attribute responsibility to any host of targets. The president inherited a strong economy that he is singlehandedly destroying, a secure border that he is determined to make more porous, and a thriving energy sector that he is regulating out of business. His Democrat enablers in Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer continue to support this radical administration, even as the American people suffer under their watch. The Biden agenda has harmed every facet of American life, from rising gas prices to baby formula shortages.

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TRUE CRIME STORIES

I think it was seeing the truck. An early scene in Hulu’s drama “The Girl From Plainville,” a series based on the death of a teenager by suicide in 2014, shows a black pickup truck similar to the one in which Conrad Roy III died.

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Reentry bumpy; it will get better

Lipgloss, lipstick, laptop, pens, chargers, keys, book, work badge, gum, glasses, notebook, sweater, veggies, water and half-shaken protein shake in a shaker bottle. My checklist was complete, my hair and makeup were done and I was dressed in a carefully selected blazer and ripped mom jeans.

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