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Jacksonville shooting suspect had history of mental illness

New details are emerging about the young man accused of opening fire at a video game tournament in Florida over the weekend. The shooter, David Katz, had a history of mental illness and was hospitalized twice.

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Study: A Third Of Teens Haven’t Read A Single Book In Past Year

Click here: Stunning research shows just 2% of sophomores read daily newspaper — compared to third of same-aged teens in 1990s.
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Football participation declines for the second consecutive year nationally

Click here: For the second consecutive year, participation in 11-player high school football declined nationwide, according to the annual survey by the National Federation of State High School Associations. However, football remains the No. 1 participatory sport for boys by a wide margin.

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Welfare Generation? 52.1% of Kids Live in Households Getting Means-Tested Government Assistance

Click here: According to the most recent data from the Census Bureau, there were approximately 73,586,000 people under 18 in the United States, and 38,365,000 of them — or 52.1 percent — resided in households in which one or more persons received benefits from a means-tested government program. These included the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), Medicaid, public housing, Supplemental Security Income, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the National School Lunch Program.
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Illegal Alien charged with Mollie Tibbetts’ murder

Click here: An “illegal alien” is in custody for the murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts, according to Iowa police officials. Cristhian Rivera, 24, was charged Tuesday in Poweshiek County after being brought in without incident by local cops.
Click here for more on the murder: “He went to get her out of the trunk and noticed blood on the side of her head… he then dragged Tibbetts on foot to a secluded location in a cornfield, put her over his shoulder and took her 20 meters into the field where he left her, covered up in some leaves”
Illegal Alien Cristhian Bahena Rivera; University of Iowa Student, Mollie Tibbetts
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The Last Straw

The claim that Americans use 500 million plastic straws daily is based on a nine-year-old’s school project. We explain in this short 4-minute video.

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Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy Linked To Autism In Children

Click here: Pregnant women with higher levels of a banned pesticide that’s still found in many foods today are more likely to have children diagnosed with autism, a new study finds.
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A Nation of Immigrants

The media narrative today is that America has become “xenophobic” and is turning its back on new immigrants. But that narrative is sharply contradicted by the fact that the United States maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world. In this week’s new 5-minute video, CRTV host and best-selling author Michelle Malkin explains how ill-conceived immigration policies threaten to destroy the American Dream for everyone.

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Like Socialism? Look at the stacks of cash Venezuelans must use to buy basics

Click here: Shocking images show the amount of cash required to buy some basic supplies as socialist Venezuela’s hyperinflation spirals out of control.
In socialist Venezuela it takes a stack of bank notes worth 2,600,000 bolivars to purchase a single roll of toilet paper.
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Archaeologists find ancient city in a rural field in Kansas

Click here: According to Spanish records from 1601, they ran into a tribe called the Escanxaques, who told of a large city nearby where a Spaniard was allegedly imprisoned. The locals called it Etzanoa, home to perhaps 20,000 people between 1450 and 1700.