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AOC rebuked for doubting smash-and-grab sprees are happening: ‘Tone-deaf and offensive’

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at an event at the US Climate Action Center at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) **FILE**

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that the smash-and-grab crime wave is a hoax drew howls from fellow lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as retailers and police refuted the claim by detailing the huge impact of organized theft.

In this March 30, 2021, photo, minors are shown inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. As the Biden administration ponders cutting $450,000 checks to compensate illegal immigrants who suffered emotional trauma from the Trump administration's zero-tolerance border policy, figuring out exactly the right comparison with previous government payouts is fraught with complications. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool) **FILE**

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Congress approves emergency $1.6 billion for care of illegal immigrant children

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A U.S. district judge has ruled that Lainey Armistead, a scholarship athlete who plays varsity women's soccer for West Virginia State University, "may permissively intervene" to defend the constitutionality of a state ban on biological males playing in women's sports. (Alliance Defending Freedom)

Federal judge allows female soccer player to defend West Virginia ban on transgender athletes

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Fairfax parents angry school system is returning ‘Lawn Boy,’ ‘Gender Queer’ to library shelves

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Fairfax parents angry school system is returning ‘Lawn Boy,’ ‘Gender Queer’ to library shelves

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In this April 10, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington. Last spring, as false claims about vaccine safety threatened to undermine the world's response to COVID-19, researchers at Facebook wrote that they could reduce vaccine misinformation by tweaking how vaccine posts show up on users' newsfeeds, or by turning off comments entirely. Yet despite internal documents showing these changes worked, Facebook was slow to take action. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

U.S. commission dings Facebook in report calling for social media to fight religious hate speech

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this March 23, 2021, file photo, pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange in New York's Financial District. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

One thing partisan voters agree on: Woke CEOs miss the mark

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In this Tuesday, July 6, 2021, file photo, Nikole Hannah-Jones is interviewed at her home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Hannah-Jones accepted a faculty position at Howard University amid controversy over whether she would be granted tenure at the University of North Carolina after critics questioned her credentials, specifically her Pulitzer Prize-winning work “The 1619 Project,” which traces the country’s history with slavery. Coates, a Howard graduate, is a journalist and best-selling author who also recently joined the university's faculty. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

It’s 1619 vs. 1776 as Nikole Hannah-Jones takes on Robert Woodson

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In this Nov. 4, 2019, file photo cargo cranes are used to take containers off of a Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation boat at the Port of Tacoma in Tacoma, Wash. Experts say the Biden administration could ease the supply-chain crisis simply by removing a massive tariff it slapped on a relatively obscure piece of trucking equipment imported from China, but so far the administration has refused to budge. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) **FILE**

Biden administration won’t remove tariff that experts say could ease supply chain bottleneck

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President Joe Biden listens to a reporters question after delivering remarks on the November jobs report, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden blames raspy voice, cough on cold he got from grandson

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Jonathan Rodriguez, 6, of Worcester, Mass., focuses on a spinning toy as he receives a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, at a Worcester Department of Health &amp; Human Services mobile vaccination clinic, in Worcester. As the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of the omicron variant, doctors across the country are experiencing a more imminent crisis with a delta variant that is sending record numbers of people to the hospital in New England and the Midwest. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

WH: Boosters, new vaccinations combined for highest 24-hour total in six months

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President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. Biden is set to kick of more urgent campaign for Americans to get COVID-19 booster shots on Dec. 2, as he unveils a his winter plans to combat the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Host’s headache: Invite list for Biden’s democracy summit proves divisive

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., talks with reporters after meeting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as the Senate grapples with raising the debt limit, funding the government, and negotiating President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manchin backs GOP-led effort to overturn Biden’s vaccine mandate for private employers

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Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark speaks as he stands next to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Oct. 21, 2020. Clark, who aligned himself with former President Donald Trump after he lost the 2020 election has declined to be fully interviewed by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, ending a deposition after around 90 minutes on Friday, Nov. 5. (Yuri Gripas/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Former Trump DOJ official postpones last-chance deposition due to medical condition

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testify during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Elizabeth Warren sicced SEC on Trump’s social media start-up deal

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at an event at the US Climate Action Center at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) **FILE**

AOC rebuked for doubting smash-and-grab sprees are happening: ‘Tone-deaf and offensive’

By Kerry Picket and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

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Migrants arrive in Villa Comaltitlan, Chiapas state, Mexico, on Oct. 27, 2021, as they continue their journey through Mexico to the U.S. border. The Biden administration struck agreement with Mexico to reinstate a Trump-era border policy next week that forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, U.S. officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

DHS to restart Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy after Mexico agrees to conditions

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Pete Buttigieg, with his hand on a Bible held by husband Chasten Buttigieg, is sworn in as Transportation Secretary by Vice President Kamala Harris in the Old Executive Office Building in the White House complex on Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

No rivalry here? Buttigieg lavishes praise on Harris amid staff shakeup, 2024 speculation

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Anti-abortion and Abortion rights advocates demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, as the court hears arguments in a case from Mississippi, where a 2018 law would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, well before viability. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Pro-life advocates urge liberal justices to ‘follow the science’ on abortion

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A security guard stands outside the Nordstrom store at The Grove retail and entertainment complex in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. Los Angeles police say a group of thieves smashed windows at the department store at the luxury mall late Monday, the latest incident in a trend of smash-and-grab crimes is part of a national trend. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)

Smash-and-grab crime wave baffles congressional Democrats

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This Friday, March 22, 2019, photo shows the Department of Justice Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

DOJ launches probe into abuses at suburban New York police department

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FILE - Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in March, is led into a courtroom for a hearing Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. Experts have found Alissa is mentally incompetent to proceed in the case, attorneys said during a court hearing, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski/Pool, File)

Colorado supermarket shooting suspect found incompetent for trial

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Members and supporters of the of the United Mine Workers of America demonstrate outside BlackRock headquarters, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, in New York. BlackRock is the largest shareholder of the Warrior Met Coal Inc. where union members have been on strike for nearly eight months seeking a contract that provides fair wages, affordable healthcare and reasonable rest and time-off for its workers. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

10 states pressed about pension funds’ investments with China-cozy BlackRock

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This Aug. 31, 2017, photo, shows a Barnes and Noble Booksellers store in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) **FILE**

Black conservatives rip Barnes & Noble for hyping only ‘victimization’ books by Black authors

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Washington Football Team safety Landon Collins (26) reacts after an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, in Landover, Md. Washington won 17-15. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Landon Collins, J.D. McKissic out for Washington

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon reacts during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Virginia Tech, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in College Park, Md. Virginia Tech won 62-58. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Mark Turgeon out as Maryland men’s basketball coach

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Washington Football Team running back Antonio Gibson (24) scores on a two-point conversion against the Seattle Seahawks during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

As star running backs fall, Washington’s run-game-by-committee thrives

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Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal (3) goes to the basket in front of Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (50) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Nov. 26, 2021, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Three problems facing Wizards’ offense

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