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Walgreens to close 1,200 stores as part of turnaround effort
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Walgreens to close 1,200 stores as part of turnaround effort

By Daniella Genovese  | Fox Business Walgreens plans to close at least 1,200 stores over the next three years as the pharmacy giant seeks to reduce costs and turn around operations under a new leader.  One of the largest drugstore chains in the country, Walgreens said about 500 stores are slated to close as early as fiscal year 2025. In June, the company had announced its intention to close a "significant" number of underperforming stores across the U.S. as it contended with profitability challenges and declining margins. But CEO Tim Wentworth, who took over in October 2023, didn't give an estimate at the time of how many stores would be affected. He noted that a "meaningful percent" of the underperforming locations would shutter.  READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX BUSINESS
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Child sex trafficking reports triple under Harris and Biden, feds admit
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Child sex trafficking reports triple under Harris and Biden, feds admit

By Neil Munro | Breitbart Youth sex trafficking and its myriad cruelties tripled under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report in TheFreePress.com. TheFreePress.com described some of the harms inflicted on youth migrants under the lax policies sex by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas’ tenure: Sex-trafficking victims often suffer horrific abuse, as I discovered when I spoke to Landon Dickeson, the 36-year-old executive director for Bob’s House of Hope in Denton, Texas, the only shelter for male sex-trafficking victims ages 18 and up in the country. Dickeson says they’ve seen teens from Central and South America who have been so tortured by their traffickers they can barely function. READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
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Kamala Harris’ book publisher directing ‘very sensitive’ plagiarism questions to higher-ups
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Kamala Harris’ book publisher directing ‘very sensitive’ plagiarism questions to higher-ups

By Josh Christenson | New York Post The publisher of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2009 book on criminal justice reform is redirecting “very sensitive” inquiries about apparently plagiarized passages to the highest levels, according to the conservative activist who revealed the copying. Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo — who first unveiled the plagiarism allegations on Monday — posted screenshots of leaked internal emails ordering publicity reps at Chronicle Books not to immediately respond to press inquiries about “Smart on Crime.” Chronicle executive director of marketing and publicity Lauren Hoffman asked for all inquiries to be forwarded to her, with one employee on the email chain emphasizing that the accusations touched on “a very sensitive topic....
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Why yesterday’s SpaceX launch was such a huge deal for space travel
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Why yesterday’s SpaceX launch was such a huge deal for space travel

By  Ellie Zolfagharifard, Morgan McFall-Johnsen | Newsbreak SpaceX achieved an incredible engineering feat on Sunday. The company launched the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket . After liftoff, the Super Heavy booster returned to the launchpad in a world-first maneuver. SpaceX's Starship rocket achieved a world first on Sunday during its fifth test flight, showing for the first time that the launch system may really have what it takes to change spaceflight. The launch system includes a Starship rocket ship stacked atop a 233-foot-tall Super Heavy booster and stands taller than the Statue of Liberty . READ THE FULL STORY AT NEWSBREAK
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Telepromptergate: Harris caught on-prompter for town hall
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Telepromptergate: Harris caught on-prompter for town hall

By MIG Reports Key Takeaways: A viral clip of Kamala Harris using a teleprompter during an "unscripted" town hall raises concerns about her authenticity. Conservatives and Independent voters use the incident as evidence of failed leadership and lack of issue proficiency. Many also discuss media manipulation, as the event fueled distrust about how media outlets frame political figures, fueling accusations of crafted, artificial public personas.  Social media reactions wend wild with a clip of Kamala Harris using a teleprompter during an alleged "unscripted" town hall. Discussions revolve around public trust in media, Harris’s inauthenticity, and political engagement in today’s polarized climate. READ THE FULL STORY AT MIG REPORTS
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California government blocks new Musk rocket launches, citing Trump support
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California government blocks new Musk rocket launches, citing Trump support

By Kenneth Schrupp  | The Center Square The California government denied an Air Force request to allow Elon Musk’s SpaceX to increase its California rocket launches, citing Musk’s politics. The Department of Defense and a large bipartisan coalition of lawmakers endorsed the launch expansion, with some center-left housing activists attacking the vote as no different than the California Coastal Commission’s consistent denial of housing.  The Air Force and Space Force had requested that the California Coastal Commission allow SpaceX to increase its annual permitted launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara from 36 to 50. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE CENTER SQUARE
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Mortgage rates surge higher, further hurting demand
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Mortgage rates surge higher, further hurting demand

By Breck Dumas  | Fox Business Mortgage rates jumped markedly this week, sending demand down for a second straight week. Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage surged to 6.32% from last week's reading of 6.12%. The average rate on a 30-year loan was 7.57% a year ago. "Following the release of a stronger-than-expected September jobs report, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage saw the largest one-week increase since April," said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist.  READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX BUSINESS
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 Iran Assassination Plots ‘Extraordinarily Serious’
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 Iran Assassination Plots ‘Extraordinarily Serious’

By Michael Katz   | Newsmax Iran's efforts to assassinate Donald Trump and former senior officials in retaliation for the drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani are more extensive and aggressive than previously believed, Politico reported Friday. "This is extraordinarily serious," Matt Olsen, the Department of Justice's assistant attorney general for national security, told Politico. "Iran has made it very clear that they are determined to seek retaliation against former officials in connection with the Soleimani strike." Iran has not been hiding its intentions to assassinate Trump and those who oversaw his national security strategy since January 2020, when Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Soleimani, Iran's most powerful military general, at an Iraqi air...
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Kamala Harris’ career of releasing murderers and drug dealers proves she won’t be ‘tough on crime’
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Kamala Harris’ career of releasing murderers and drug dealers proves she won’t be ‘tough on crime’

By Beth Brelje | The Federalist Harris’ disastrous policies as the San Francisco district attorney increased crime, freed murderers, and cost lives. Kamala Devi Harris often points to her time as a prosecutor to prove she is a tough-on-crime champion of public safety. And since she is so proud of her record, if elected president, she will try to implement the same policies she tried before. But the truth is that her disastrous policies as the San Francisco district attorney (DA) increased crime, freed murderers, and cost lives. Harris oversaw crime in San Francisco as DA from 2004 to 2010. In her first year, San Francisco saw the violent crime rate increase 19 percent, an upward trend that continued for much of her reign. Her policies, implemented and proposed, drew critici...
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China’s espionage machine is overwhelming the west
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China’s espionage machine is overwhelming the west

By Nick Pope | The Daily Caller The Chinese government is conducting espionage activities on such a broad scale that Western governments are struggling to keep Beijing’s spying in check, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. In just the last month, the FBI said that Chinese government-linked hackers breached 260,000 internet-connected devices across the U.S. and Europe, while federal officials alleged that a former top aide to Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was a Chinese agent and a congressional report found that Chinese-made cargo cranes at America’s ports contained technology that would allow China to control them discreetly, according to the WSJ. Western intelligence agencies are sounding the alarm and asking the public to be vigilant for possible Ch...
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