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Criminal summons erroneously issued against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo — ALBANY — A criminal summons charging former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo with forcible touching was erroneously issued by Albany City Court on Thursday after a sheriff's investigator shared paperwork with the court summarizing their investigation.
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Criminal summons erroneously issued against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo — ALBANY — A summons charging former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo with misdemeanor forcible touching was prematurely issued by Albany City Court on Thursday after a sheriff's investigator filed paperwork with the court summarizing …
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Former New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo accused in misdemeanor complaint of forcible touching, court says — A misdemeanor complaint was filed Thursday against former New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo accusing him of forcibly touching a woman in the governor's executive mansion last year.
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Misdemeanor Forcible Touching Charges Filed Against Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, Officials Say — Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been charged with a misdemeanor count of forcible touching, a spokesperson the state courts confirmed Thursday afternoon.
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Fox News Poll: Youngkin pulls ahead of McAuliffe among Virginia likely voters — The race is largely focused on education, and this has energized Republicans — Concha: McAuliffe, Biden fixate on Trump in desperate attempt to win Virginia race — Republican Glenn Youngkin has moved ahead …
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Terry McAuliffe Hires Controversial Ex-Clinton Lawyer Marc Elias — As a long-standing associate of the Clintons, Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has long ties with the Democratic establishment. That history was placed into sharp relief this week when he made a hefty …


Trump Plans Monday Tele-Rally for Youngkin in Virginia Race — Donald Trump plans to hold a tele-rally for Republican Glenn Youngkin on Monday night, a day before the Virginia gubernatorial election, according to a person familiar with his plans. — The former president on Wednesday teased …
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Team McAuliffe emails reveal effort to ‘kill this’ Fox News story — ‘Can we try to kill this,’ a spokesperson asked — Virginia gubernatorial candidate McAuliffe abruptly ends TV interview — Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe's campaign raised eyebrows …


Holy cow: Youngkin 53, McAuliffe 45 in new Fox News poll
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Youngkin Leads McAuliffe in New Poll of Likely Virginia Voters Less than a Week before Election Day
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Glenn Youngkin up 4 points over Terry McAuliffe in poll
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Progressives win again: No infrastructure vote tonight — House Democratic leaders on Thursday abandoned a second attempt to clear the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill as progressives held firm to their refusal back it without a concrete agreement on a separate social spending package.
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Biden Can't Quite Close the Deal—with His Own Party
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Dems punt House infrastructure vote in blow to Biden agenda
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President Biden Announces the Build Back Better Framework
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Biden unveils revised spending plan, exhorts Democrats to back it
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Manchin signals he'll support $1.75T price tag for spending plan
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Liberals weigh their options: Settle for half a loaf, or fight
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Here's what's in the $1.75 trillion economic plan Biden will try to sell his party
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The Facts on Trump's Fraud Letter — His 2020 monomania is news, and it reflects on his fitness for 2024. — By The Editorial Board — The progressive parsons of the press are aflutter that we published a letter to the editor Thursday from former President Trump, objecting …
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Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company — Facebook's new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it's done to our existing reality. — Jason Koebler — Moments before announcing Facebook …
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Facebook just revealed its new name: Meta — The company announced the rebranding during Facebook Connect — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday at the company's Connect event that the company's new name will be Meta. “We are a company that builds technology to connect,” Zuckerberg said.
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Chief federal judge in D.C. assails ‘almost schizophrenic’ Jan. 6 prosecutions: ‘The rioters were not mere protesters’ — The chief judge presiding over the federal court in Washington on Thursday unleashed a blistering critique of the Justice Department's prosecution of Capitol rioters …
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The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them — Twenty-somethings rolling their eyes at the habits of their elders is a longstanding trend, but many employers said there's a new boldness in the way Gen Z dictates taste. — As a millennial with a habit of lurking on TikTok …
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Burr's Brother-in-Law Called Stock Broker, One Minute After Getting Off Phone With Senator — According to the SEC, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, then chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had material nonpublic information about coronavirus impact.
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Biden Administration in Talks to Pay Hundreds of Millions to Immigrant Families Separated at Border — Government is considering payments of $450,000 per person affected by Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy in 2018 for asylum seekers illegally crossing border


“White People, You Are the Problem” — AT&T's new racial reeducation program promotes the idea that “racism is a uniquely white trait.” — Economy, finance, and budgets — The Social Order — AT&T Corporation has created a racial reeducation program that promotes the idea that …
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Justice Department Announces Multi-Million Dollar Civil Settlement in Principle in Mother Emanuel Charleston Church Mass Shooting — Department Agrees to Settle Allegations Surrounding FBI Actions — Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has reached an agreement in principle …
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Voting machine missing after Michigan clerk stripped of election power … LANSING — Michigan officials say they are preparing to launch a criminal investigation after election equipment at the center of a voting tabulator conspiracy theory went missing this week in a rural, conservative community.
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Jan. 6 committee allows Trump DOJ official to postpone appearance after he loses his lawyer — Jeffrey Clark, the Trump-era Justice Department official who sought to support President Donald Trump's false claims of massive voting fraud in the 2020 election, has received a postponement …
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Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 election didn't work. Next time it might
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Democracy's sudden peril was an inside-job — Not too long ago, anyone who seriously worried about the future of democracy would have been written off as a fringe figure or paranoiac. — Today, however, that list includes former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, eminent historians …
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Inside Jedi Blue, Facebook's Secret Deal With Google — As a torrent of bad press consumes Facebook — or whatever the company may soon be renamed — it's worth remembering that to become an industry-dominating social-media Goliath, sometimes you need a little help from your friends.