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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Friday, April 16, 2021

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FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2021 file photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Greene was briefly suspended from Twitter Sunday, April 4 in what the platform called an error. It's the second time in less than a month that that has happened to the Georgia Republican's account. Twitter said Monday, April 5 that automated systems were to blame for both. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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New conservative group would save ‘Anglo-Saxon’ traditions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hard-right House Republicans on Friday were discussing forming an America First Caucus, which one document described as championing “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and warning that mass immigration was putting the “unique identity” of the U.S. at risk.

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Biden’s appeals for action on guns, policing face reality
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President Biden urges Senate to 'step up and act' on gun reform
Oath Keeper is 1st suspect to plead guilty in Capitol riot
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White House Walks Back Order On Refugee Limits After Backlash
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Russia bars entry to DNI Haines, FBI Director Wray, DHS Secretary Mayorkas, others, in response to sanctions
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Gunman who killed 8 workers at Indianapolis FedEx site had been detained for mental illness
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Gaetz does damage control, telling GOP colleagues he's been treated unfairly
Secret Facebook groups of special operations officers include racist comments, QAnon posts: report
FBI says it interviewed FedEx mass shooter last year
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Pelosi reiterates call for commission to investigate January 6 insurrection
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'Shameful,' 'unacceptable and unconscionable': Biden faces blowback from Democrats over refugee cap
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House committee alleges Biden admin used funds to back anti-government protests in Israel

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The Biden-Harris administration is accused of misusing taxpayer dollars to fund protests in Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to Oct. 7.

The House Judiciary Committee recently released a memo outlining the allegations and showing a possible money trail.

"The Committee’s oversight has revealed that the Biden-Harris Administration provided grant funds to groups that contributed directly and indirectly to the judicial reform protests that sought to undermine the Israeli government," the committee wrote in the memo.

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Republican who lost to Tim Walz in 2022 announces another Minnesota gubernatorial bid

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Former Minnesota state Sen. Dr. Scott Jensen, the Republican who lost the state's 2022 gubernatorial contest to incumbent Gov. Tim Walz, has announced another bid for the governorship.

"Two decades of liberal policies have made Minnesota too expensive, too dangerous, and thrown our culture outta whack. Tim Walz made it worse. A leader must take responsibility. Tim Walz didn't. And so he shouldn't be governor," Jensen said in a campaign video posted on Thursday.

Then-former President Donald Trump endorsed Jensen before the Minnesotan lost in the...
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GOP senator reveals the 'dirty' secret to Trump's Make America Healthy Again movement

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FIRST ON FOX: For one lawmaker, the path to making Americans healthier starts in the dirt.

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., has styled himself as an early adopter of the Make America Healthy Again movement, a political slogan born on the 2024 campaign trail that has since seen major companies tweak their products to nix artificial additives.

But Marshall sees the initiative, commonly known as MAHA, as one that can start sooner than switching the oil in deep friers or swapping out high-fructose corn syrup for cane sugar in soda.

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Colombian gold miners rescued after about 18 hours trapped underground

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Eighteen miners are in good health after a 12-hour-long rescue operation, Colombia's National Mining Agency says.
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Biden DOJ actively sought 'federal hook' for school board memo about 'domestic terrorists,' documents reveal

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FIRST ON FOX: A conservative legal group revealed a tranche of correspondence on Friday from the Biden administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) shedding new light on the behind-the-scenes correspondence about a controversial memo former Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote about school boards.

The document dump included an email from an aide to the deputy attorney general that the DOJ was searching for a "federal hook" to use to address a letter by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) raising alarm about parents who were expressing...
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Obama admin 'manufactured' intelligence to create 2016 Russian election interference narrative, documents show

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EXCLUSIVE: The Obama administration "manufactured and politicized intelligence" to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise, Fox News Digital has learned.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Friday declassified documents revealing "overwhelming evidence" that demonstrates how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid...
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Meet Annie Tomasini, the longtime Biden loyalist subpoenaed to testify Friday about his mental health

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Annie Tomasini, former assistant to President Joe Biden and former deputy chief of staff, is the latest Biden aide subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee, as Republicans investigate the alleged cover-up of the former president's cognitive decline and the potentially unauthorized use of the autopen for pardons and executive actions.

Tomasini's counsel requested that House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., issue a subpoena for her scheduled appearance before the staff-led hearing this Friday.

Her former colleague, Anthony Bernal, the...
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Mamdani walks back ‘globalize the intifada’ stance during NYC business meeting

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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani told business leaders during a closed-door meeting this week that he would not use the slogan "Globalize the Intifada" and would discourage others from using it moving forward, Fox News has confirmed.

After months of refusing to condemn the anti-Israel rallying cry, which, according to the American Jewish Committee, "calls for people from around the globe to participate in rising up against Israel," Mamdani told more than 140 business leaders that a conversation with a Jewish woman about how this...
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Mamdani confronted on streets of NYC about 'communist' label, refuses to answer

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EXCLUSIVE: ASTORIA, N.Y. - New York City's Democratic mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani, refused to respond to questions from Fox News Digital about critics calling him a communist and whether he plans to walk back any of his far-left statements.

Outside his Queens apartment on Friday morning, Mamdani laughed off the questions and did not answer, despite mounting scrutiny as the mayor's race between himself, Mayor Eric Adams, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa heat up.

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Three killed in explosion at Los Angeles police training facility

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Federal agents are investigating, but the cause of the blast is not immediately clear.
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Court orders Bolsonaro to wear ankle tag and puts him under curfew

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A court in Brazil also bars the ex-president from using social media and put him under 24-hour surveillance.
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Romance scam victim travels 700km 'to marry French beauty queen'

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The Belgian turned up at the home of Sophie Vouzelaud in France only to realise he had been a victim of fraud.
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Colbert says The Late Show will end after 33 years

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Network CBS called it a financial decision tied to the "challenging backdrop in late night" TV.
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'Reserved in the womb' and sold for £500: Police bust baby trafficking ring

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Police uncover an international baby trafficking syndicate which sold at least 25 infants in Singapore.
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Mamdani silent on 'communist' label, refuses to say if he will walk back radical positions

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EXCLUSIVE: New York City's Democratic mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani, refused to respond to questions from Fox News Digital about critics calling him a communist and whether he plans to walk back any of his far-left statements.

Outside his Queens apartment on Friday morning, Mamdani laughed off the questions and did not answer, despite mounting scrutiny as the mayor's race between himself, Mayor Eric Adams, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa heat up.

"Do you have any response to those who label you a communist?" Fox...
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