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‼️ Hard-Right Zemmour backs Le Pen ahead of French Presidential runoff - LIVE UPDATES
🗳 With 95% of ballots counted, Macron maintains his lead over Le Pen with over 27% of the votes
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💊 Feds seize $3.2 million in cocaine in papier-mâché shipment
US Customs and Border Protection officers on Friday seized more than $3 million in suspected cocaine concealed within a shipment of papier-mâché handicrafts at a border crossing in Laredo, Texas.
Investigators at the World Trade Bridge discovered 101 packages containing a total of 427 pounds of alleged cocaine concealed within a tractor-trailer arriving from México.
During fiscal year 2021, the CPB said it seized 87,652 pounds of narcotics at ports comprising the Laredo Field Office with a street value of around $786 million, including 8,592 pounds of cocaine, up 98% from fiscal year 2020. They seized 588 pounds of fentanyl, up 1,066% from FY 2020.
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US Customs and Border Protection officers on Friday seized more than $3 million in suspected cocaine concealed within a shipment of papier-mâché handicrafts at a border crossing in Laredo, Texas.
Investigators at the World Trade Bridge discovered 101 packages containing a total of 427 pounds of alleged cocaine concealed within a tractor-trailer arriving from México.
During fiscal year 2021, the CPB said it seized 87,652 pounds of narcotics at ports comprising the Laredo Field Office with a street value of around $786 million, including 8,592 pounds of cocaine, up 98% from fiscal year 2020. They seized 588 pounds of fentanyl, up 1,066% from FY 2020.
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🗣 Florida groups canvass spring breakers to warn of fentanyl
The group blitzed beaches, warned spring breakers of a surge in recreational drugs cut with the dangerous synthetic opioid and offered an antidote for overdoses, which have risen nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Street teams handed out samples of naloxone, a drug known by the trade name Narcan, which can help revive overdose victims.
In 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported for the first time that more than 100,000 Americans had died of drug overdoses over a 12-month period. About two-thirds of the deaths were linked to fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.
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The group blitzed beaches, warned spring breakers of a surge in recreational drugs cut with the dangerous synthetic opioid and offered an antidote for overdoses, which have risen nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Street teams handed out samples of naloxone, a drug known by the trade name Narcan, which can help revive overdose victims.
In 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported for the first time that more than 100,000 Americans had died of drug overdoses over a 12-month period. About two-thirds of the deaths were linked to fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.
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🏌️♂️ Scottie Scheffler wins 2022 Masters of Augusta
That new No. 1 ranking for Scottie Scheffler looks even better in a Masters green jacket. Two months after Scheffler finally broke through for his first PGA Tour victory, he capped off a most incredible 56-day stretch by making his fourth win the biggest of them all - the Masters by three shots over Rory McIlroy for his first major.
Scheffler, who finished at 10-under 278, won $2.7 million from the $15 million prize fund, bringing his total to $8,872,200 over his last six starts.
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That new No. 1 ranking for Scottie Scheffler looks even better in a Masters green jacket. Two months after Scheffler finally broke through for his first PGA Tour victory, he capped off a most incredible 56-day stretch by making his fourth win the biggest of them all - the Masters by three shots over Rory McIlroy for his first major.
Scheffler, who finished at 10-under 278, won $2.7 million from the $15 million prize fund, bringing his total to $8,872,200 over his last six starts.
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🏙️ Manhole Explosion Prompts Chaos in Times Square as Locals, Tourists Scramble to Safety MORE VIDEOS
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📦 Amazon says union and NLRB “suppressed and influenced” Staten Island election
Amazon has officially filed its objections to the Amazon Labor Union’s win in Staten Island, New York, and is asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to order a new election.
The objections expand upon a document the company recently submitted that signaled its intent to fight the election results — the company now says that ALU members “intimidated employees,” “recorded voters in the polling place,” and “distributed marijuana to employees in exchange for their support.”
In 2021, after workers at Amazon’s Bessemer facility voted against unionization nearly two to one, the NLRB ruled that the company had broken labor law during the election.
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Amazon has officially filed its objections to the Amazon Labor Union’s win in Staten Island, New York, and is asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to order a new election.
The objections expand upon a document the company recently submitted that signaled its intent to fight the election results — the company now says that ALU members “intimidated employees,” “recorded voters in the polling place,” and “distributed marijuana to employees in exchange for their support.”
In 2021, after workers at Amazon’s Bessemer facility voted against unionization nearly two to one, the NLRB ruled that the company had broken labor law during the election.
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‼️Elon Musk has opted out of joining Twitter's board, CEO reveals
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⚡️📹 Footage released by the Russian MoD showing Iskander operational-tactical missile systems during the special military operation in Ukraine
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❗️ The Russian MoD's latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ On the southern outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk, the Russian armed forces destroyed equipment hidden in a hangar for an S-300 division delivered to Kiev from Europe using "Kalibr" missiles.
▪️ The Russian Army destroyed two more ammunition depots in Ukraine.
▪️ High-precision air-launched missiles destroyed a base used to repair Ukrainian air defence weapons, including the Buk-M1 and Osa-AKM, in the region of Velyka Novoselovka overnight.
▪️ Precision strikes near Vozdvizhenka-2 and Ivanovka in the Donetsk region destroyed 9 tanks, 5 2S3 "Akatsiya" self-propelled artillery mounts, 5 BM-21 "Grad" launch rocket systems, and more than 60 nationalists.
▪️ Russian air defeces in the Izyum region shot down 2 Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft.
▪️ A Ukrainian Mi-24 military helicopter was shot down by concentrated fire from small arms near Posad-Pokrovsky in the Kherson region.
▪️ Some 129 Ukrainian aircraft, 99 helicopters, 243 S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM anti-aircraft missile systems, 441 drones, 2,079 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 239 MLRS installations, and 909 guns have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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▪️ On the southern outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk, the Russian armed forces destroyed equipment hidden in a hangar for an S-300 division delivered to Kiev from Europe using "Kalibr" missiles.
▪️ The Russian Army destroyed two more ammunition depots in Ukraine.
▪️ High-precision air-launched missiles destroyed a base used to repair Ukrainian air defence weapons, including the Buk-M1 and Osa-AKM, in the region of Velyka Novoselovka overnight.
▪️ Precision strikes near Vozdvizhenka-2 and Ivanovka in the Donetsk region destroyed 9 tanks, 5 2S3 "Akatsiya" self-propelled artillery mounts, 5 BM-21 "Grad" launch rocket systems, and more than 60 nationalists.
▪️ Russian air defeces in the Izyum region shot down 2 Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft.
▪️ A Ukrainian Mi-24 military helicopter was shot down by concentrated fire from small arms near Posad-Pokrovsky in the Kherson region.
▪️ Some 129 Ukrainian aircraft, 99 helicopters, 243 S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM anti-aircraft missile systems, 441 drones, 2,079 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 239 MLRS installations, and 909 guns have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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⚡️ Head of Sputnik Meedia slams accusations against her as Estonian court bans her from leaving country
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⚡️ Borrell calls on EU members to provide Ukraine with weapons Kiev asks for, reports suggest
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⚡️ Lavrov: Russian special operation in Ukraine aims to put end to US course for world domination
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🤔 🙄 A group of shareholders has accused Meta* CEO Mark Zuckerberg of failing to tackle the firm's stock tumbling 34% earlier this year as they plan to push for checks on his power, the New York Post (NYP) has reported.
In February, Mark Zuckerberg's net worth sank $29.7 billion in a single day after Meta stock nosedived earlier that month. The first-ever decline in active users came after the company announced that it would be investing $10 billion in its new Metaverse.
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*Meta, Facebook, and Instagram are banned in Russia over extremist activities.
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In February, Mark Zuckerberg's net worth sank $29.7 billion in a single day after Meta stock nosedived earlier that month. The first-ever decline in active users came after the company announced that it would be investing $10 billion in its new Metaverse.
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*Meta, Facebook, and Instagram are banned in Russia over extremist activities.
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😇 🤔 Joe Biden's sister and political campaign manager, Valerie Biden Owens, has defended the president's son's behaviour that sparked controversies over the alleged use of his father's name and purported shady deals with a Chinese businessman in an interview with USA Today. Owens stressed that Hunter Biden bears no responsibility for the alleged actions and quickly switched to his "courage" and "strength" in fighting a crack cocaine and alcohol addiction.
"Hunter walked through hell. He didn't wake up and say, 'Aunt Val, I think I'm going to be an addict. And so whatever happens, it's my responsibility", Owens said.
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"Hunter walked through hell. He didn't wake up and say, 'Aunt Val, I think I'm going to be an addict. And so whatever happens, it's my responsibility", Owens said.
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⚡️ 📹 Ammunition fired by Ukrainian security forces fell into the courtyard of an apartment building and on the premises of a retail outlet in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk
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⚡️ Russia's ambassador to Warsaw does not rule out Poland taking more steps to seize Russian diplomatic property
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❗️ The meeting between Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Russian President Vladimir Putin is over.
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