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Exclusive: New audio of 2019 phone call reveals how Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate baseless Biden conspiracies — (CNN)Never-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed …
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First on CNN: US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers — Washington (CNN)US investigators have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month, according to people briefed on the matter.
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Justice Dept. says it recovered most of the ransom paid after the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack. — The Justice Department said on Monday that it had recovered much of the ransom paid to hackers last month who shut down the computer systems of Colonial Pipeline, a critical pipeline operator.
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How Joe Manchin's awful new stance could blow up in his face — By now you've heard that Sen. Joe Manchin III has essentially declared he has consigned us to a future of minority rule. In a new piece, the West Virginia Democrat says he'll vote against his party's voting rights legislation and will never …
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Are we going to let Joe Manchin sink democracy?
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Time to call Manchin's bluff
Time to call Manchin's bluff
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Steve Bannon pushes ‘major effort’ to ‘bring Joe Manchin into the Republican party’
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Democrat calls Manchin ‘the new Mitch McConnell’ and says he is working to thwart Biden's agenda
Democrat calls Manchin ‘the new Mitch McConnell’ and says he is working to thwart Biden's agenda
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Gripped by ‘Dinner Party-gate,’ Yale Law Confronts a Venomous Divide — A dispute centering on the celebrity professor Amy Chua exposes a culture pitting student against student, professor against professor. — NEW HAVEN, Conn. — On March 26, a group of students at Yale Law School approached …
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The Tiger Mom and and the Hornet's Nest For decades, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld were Yale Law power brokers. A new generation wants to see them exiled. — Photo: Photograph by Gillian Laub for New York Magazine — It's supposedly haunted," Amy Chua says brightly as she ushers …
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Guatemala's prez blames Biden for border crisis as protesters tell Kamala Harris ‘Trump won’ — Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted Monday by protesters in Guatemala telling her “Trump won” and “go home” — as the country's president blamed President Biden for this year's migrant crisis.
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Schumer recommending 2 voting rights lawyers to be judges — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate's top Democrat is recommending President Joe Biden nominate two prominent voting rights attorneys to serve as judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and on the federal bench in Manhattan.
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Schumer Recommends Two Powerhouse Voting Rights Attorneys For Federal Bench
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Supreme Court declines to hear lawsuit challenging male-only draft
Supreme Court declines to hear lawsuit challenging male-only draft
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Trump's Deranged Theory That Democrats Would Replace Biden Might Have Helped Him Lose 2020 — The president was obsessed with the idea that Democrats would strip the primary win from Joe Biden and nominate Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama instead, reporter Michael Bender writes in an upcoming book.
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Federal Prosecutors Subpoena Material Related to Andrew Cuomo's Book — State officials who edited early versions of New York governor's memoir were among those receiving requests for information — Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed material related to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent memoir …
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U.S. Report Concluded Covid-19 May Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab — The 2020 lab report was used by the State Department in its own inquiry during Trump administration — WASHINGTON—A report on the origins of Covid-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming …
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Jeff Bezos announces he'll be on first crewed spaceflight of Blue Origin rocket — The billionaire says he and his brother will be aboard the New Shepard when it takes flight July 20 — roughly two weeks after he steps down as CEO of Amazon — A couple of weeks after Jeff Bezos officially steps …
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Jeff Bezos is going to space on first crewed flight of rocket
Jeff Bezos is going to space on first crewed flight of rocket
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Muslim family members targeted in fatal hit and run, police say, driver charged with murder — 3 adults and 1 teen dead, child in London, Ont., hospital with serious injuries from Sunday incident — A 20-year-old man was charged Monday with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder …
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Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman resigns, fueling 2022 speculation — Republican Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman has announced her resignation from her seat on the bench without stating a reason, fueling speculation she may have her sights set on running for a different office in 2022.
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The Scandal Rocking the Evangelical World — “This is an earthquake,” a prominent Christian writer told me. — The publication of an extraordinary February 24, 2020, letter by Russell Moore, one of the most influential and respected evangelicals in America (and a friend), has shaken the Christian world.
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Video appears to show GOP Oregon lawmaker telling protesters how to enter closed state Capitol — (CNN)An Oregon state lawmaker who has been charged after he allegedly allowed protesters into the closed state Capitol building during a debate over Covid-19 restrictions is seen in new video appearing …
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Supreme Court rules against immigrants with temporary status — WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. — Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court …
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Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory — Atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at NOAA's Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2021 in May at a monthly average of 419 parts per million (ppm), the highest level since accurate measurements began 63 years ago …
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Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on Puerto Rico — Today, the Department of Justice will file a brief in the Supreme Court in the case United States v. Vaello-Madero, which addresses whether a provision in the Social Security Act that declines to provide Puerto Rico residents …
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Who Will Read Niall Ferguson's Doom? — In November 2006, Niall Ferguson traveled to the Bahamas. Then a professor of history at Harvard, he had been invited to address Morgan Stanley's swank annual gathering for investors in Lyford Cay, a 1,000-acre gated community (and tax shelter) of 450 homes in the British Colonial style.
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Biden Capitulates: Cuts Corp Taxes & Cuts Infrastructure Spending — Reuters reported last week that Biden announced a massive shift in his fiscal policy, cutting (not raising) corporate taxes even further than had Trump, AND cutting his proposed infrastructure spending bill by hundreds …
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Twitter Suspends Anti-Big Tech Activist Mike Davis For Defending CNN Comparison To ‘Pulp Fiction’ — Twitter suspended Internet Accountability Project (IAP) founder Mike Davis on Sunday after the anti-Big Tech activist defended a post comparing CNN's Brian Stelter to the Gimp from “Pulp Fiction.”
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Too many people are still underestimating the Trump threat — Former president Donald Trump's secret weapon has always been that it is hard for educated people to take him seriously. He acts like a preening buffoon with pretensions of grandeur — doltish and delusional in equal measure.
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Exclusive: Eric Adams jumps in front, Yang slips in NY1/Ipsos poll — Eric Adams has surged to the front of the pack, overtaking Andrew Yang and building a six-point lead in the Democratic primary for mayor, according to the exclusive results of a new Spectrum News NY1/Ipsos poll. — What You Need To Know
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GOP chair expects former Nevada AG Laxalt to run for Senate — LAS VEGAS (AP) — The head of the Senate Republican political arm says he expects former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt to challenge Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada next year.
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What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Social Media — When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday, Facebook said the former president would not be allowed …
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Here's How Georgia Could Conduct A Forensic Audit Of November's Election — Auditors split into seven teams of two conducted a manual recount of around 71,000 presidential ballots in Macon, Ga., part of the recount held November 2020. In 2021, efforts to hold so-called “forensic audits” …
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