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  • Windows 11 Start menu ads now rolling out

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  • A Taxing Timeat Tax Time

    Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...

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  • Assisted suicide in Minnesota? Critics point to Canada as cautionary tale

    MINNEAPOLIS — Kathy Ware was on Instagram recently when she saw a story about Canada's medical assistance in dying law. It shook her.

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    Meadows, Giuliani, 11 'fake electors' from 2020 are among those indicted in Arizona

    A grand jury in Arizona has indicted a slew of Trump allies for their efforts to try to keep him in power after the 2020 election. Arizona is now the fourth state where "fake electors" face charges.

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  • Windows 11 Start Menu Ads Now Under Testing From Microsoft—Could You Disable It?

    Microsoft's Windows 11 is now seeing ads, with Microsoft testing them by default. The beta version of Windows 11 is now testing the availability of ads on the Start menu, a.

  • Grand jury indicts 11 who falsely declared Trump won Arizona in 2020

    PHOENIX >> Eleven Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election were charged today with conspiracy, fraud and forgery, marking the fourth state to bring charges against “fake electors.”