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#10 Mike Rowe Says Four-Year Degrees no Longer Resonate With Pride: They're 'Shameful' - Alicia Warren for Fox Business
Mike Rowe claims a PR problem is unfolding for four-year institutions as graduates’ degrees "no longer resonate with pride." During an appearance on "The Bottom Line" on Wednesday, Mike Rowe, CEO of Mike Rowe Works Foundation, claimed that the "bottom is falling out of the perception market for a four-year degree." "Back in the mid-'60s, higher-ed needed a PR campaign, a good one, and it got one. Unfortunately, it came at the expense of every other form of education. And then we wound up with a skills gap and no shop class and so forth and so on," Rowe said. "I think something really extraordinary happened during the lockdowns," Rowe told "Bottom Line" co-hosts Sean Duffy and Dagen McDowell. "Everybody’s getting a trophy" and an A, despite attending the country’s most prestigious universities, Rowe explained...
#9 Microsoft Lays off 1,900 Workers, Nearly 9% of Gaming Division, After Activision Blizzard Acquisition - Rohan Goswami for CNBC
Microsoft is laying off 1,900 workers in its Gaming unit. The cuts represent around 9% of the 22,000 Microsoft Gaming employees and come three months after Microsoft closed on its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.Blizzard’s president, Mike Ybarra, is leaving, along with Blizzard co-founder and design leader Allen Adham...
#8 British Ballet Dancer Dies in US After Eating Mislabelled Cookie - Stuti Mishra for the Independent
A British ballet dancer with a severe peanut allergy has died in the United States after eating a cookie that did not have nuts listed on the label of ingredients. Órla Baxendale, a 25-year-old woman living in New York, bought the cookie from a Stew Leonard’s grocery store in Connecticut earlier this month. She was not aware that the Vanilla Florentine Cookies contained peanuts, and there was no mention of nuts on the packaging. Baxendale carried an EpiPen, but it was not enough to counter the severe allergic reaction she suffered after eating the cookie, according to a statement issued by her attorneys. She died of anaphylactic shock on 11 January. “Orla was very careful and hyper-vigilant about everything she ate and always thoroughly checked the ingredients on all packaging. In addition, she always carried an EpiPen with her and surrounded herself with people who know how to administer one,” the attorney said.
#7 Feds Announce Drug Enforcement Task Forces Arrest Nearly 200 Suspected Drug Traffickers - Jake Gibson and David Spunt for Fox News
Nearly 200 people have been arrested and charged in a series of law enforcement actions targeting large-scale drug-trafficking organizations throughout the country, according to the Justice Department. The cases in question led to the arrests of defendants in 10 states across the nation, including Alaska, netting nearly 50 kilograms of fentanyl and over 70 kilograms of meth. These arrests come as the nation continues to deal with a fentanyl crisis. The latest numbers show that drug deaths hit a new record in 2022, when 109,680 people died, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
*Note: Are the Feds helping to let illegals in the country in order to make these huge arrests to get accolades?
#6 Trump Opposes Plan to Pressure RNC Into Making Him the GOP's 'Presumptive Nominee' - Timothy H.J. Nerozzi for Fox News
Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he does not support efforts to pressure the Republican National Committee into declaring him a "presumptive nominee."The former president made the remarks Thursday on his proprietary social media platform, Truth Social. "While I greatly appreciate the Republican National Committee (RNC) wanting to make me their PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE, and while they have far more votes than necessary to do it, I feel, for the sake of PARTY UNITY, that they should NOT go forward with this plan, but that I should do it the ‘Old Fashioned’ way, and finish the process off AT THE BALLOT BOX," Trump wrote.
#5 Former Congressman Seeks Comeback After Leaving Office Amid Cancel Culture Controversy - Randy DeSoto for The Western Journal
Former Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks is seeking to win back the House seat he gave up during the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017. The eight-term congressman admitted to discussing the topic of surrogacy with two of his female staff members in 2015 while he and his wife were struggling with fertility issues. One of the staffers complained to the House speaker’s office two years later, leading to Franks’ resignation. Now, he is running to fill the 8th Congressional District seat being vacated by retiring GOP Rep. Debbie Lesko. It is located to the north and west of Phoenix in Maricopa County.
#4 Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger Back Nikki Haley, Donate to Campaign - Paul Bois for Breitbart
Former Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, hardcore anti-Trumpers and the only two Republicans to serve on the January 6 committee, have both thrown their weight behind Nikki Haley for president. Kinzinger announced on X that he donated $250 to Haley’s campaign even after she lost to former President Trump in the New Hampshire primary. “I just donated $250 to [Haley]; I want to make sure I am never invited to that cheap and awful S-hole club called Mar-A-Lago. I don’t want to catch weak victimitis. I’m Thankful that sweaty Don gave us a way to ban ourselves,” said Kinzinger. Kinzinger added he had no intention of giving to Haley until Trump posted on X that anyone who contributes to Haley would be “permanently banned” from the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement...
#3 Fani Willis, Nathan Wade Expected to Be Subpoenaed for Alleged Affair, Financial Ties - Bradley Jaye for Breitbart
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor and alleged paramour hired by Willis in her criminal case against Donald Trump, are among those expected to be subpoenaed after allegations the two have carried on an affair. Wade and a former and current law partner have been told to expect a subpoena to testify at a hearing next month regarding allegations of inappropriate financial ties amid an alleged affair between Wade and Willi...
#2 Biden-Harris Administration Announces Temporary Pause on Pending Approvals of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports - The White House
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing a temporary pause on pending decisions on exports of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to non-FTA countries until the Department of Energy can update the underlying analyses for authorizations...#1 Half of US Governors Side With Texas in Border Dispute With Biden, Say Prez is Leaving Country ‘Vulnerable’ to Illegal Immigration - Victor Nava for The New York Post
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott received the support Thursday of all but one of the nation’s Republican state governors in his feud with the Biden administration over border security. GOP governors from 25 states signed onto a joint statement in support of Abbott and the Lone Star State’s “constitutional right to self-defense” days after the US Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration could remove razor wire installed by Texas along a 30-mile stretch of land near the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass.
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