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CIA says ‘Havana Syndrome’ not result of sustained campaign by hostile power — In a new intelligence assessment, the CIA has ruled out that the mysterious symptoms known as Havana Syndrome are the result of a sustained global campaign by a hostile power aimed at hundreds of American diplomats and spies …
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Politico and Political Wire
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Most ‘Havana Syndrome’ Cases Unlikely Caused by Foreign Power, C.I.A. Says — A report concluded that most cases have environmental or medical causes, but the government remains focused on investigating two dozen incidents that remain unexplained. — WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. has found …
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In Rebuke to Trump, Supreme Court Allows Release of Jan. 6 Files — The House committee investigating the riot received hundreds of pages of documents from the former president's White House within hours of the ruling. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused a request …
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How Jan. 6 Gave the 14th Amendment New Life — Legal scholars say a long-forgotten provision of the Constitution could bar from office anyone who encouraged the Capitol riot. — An obscure 19th-century provision of the U.S. Constitution that barred members of the Confederacy …
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FBI agents descended on Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar's house, but won't say what they're investigating — An FBI spokesperson said the agency was present on two streets around Cuellar's house in Laredo “conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity.” — Copy link
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Biden asks, ‘What are Republicans for?’ Republicans have already chosen not to answer. — During a news conference held one day shy of his first anniversary in office, President Biden was asked whether he had made bigger promises to the electorate than he was able to fulfill.
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The media wants to paint Joe Biden as a failure. He won't let that happen.
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New York Times, Fox News, The White House, Insider and Progress Pond
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Biden held a record-long news conference. Conservative media jumped at the chance.
Biden held a record-long news conference. Conservative media jumped at the chance.
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Biden: The GOP epiphany I predicted didn't come
Biden: The GOP epiphany I predicted didn't come
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Does the Trump Family's Grift Add Up to Fraud? — The Trump family has run-ins with law enforcement almost as frequently as other families go grocery shopping. Those confrontations often produce court filings loaded with salacious details about the clan's machinations …
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Politico
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The eternally unfulfilled dream of Trump's opponents: This time, they've got him
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New Republic, Mother Jones, The Daily Wire and NY State Attorney General
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Eric Trump Pleaded The Fifth More Than 500 Times In Deposition, Court Filing Says
Eric Trump Pleaded The Fifth More Than 500 Times In Deposition, Court Filing Says
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Is Old Music Killing New Music? — All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs—how did we get here, and is there a way back? — I had a hunch that old songs were taking over music streaming platforms—but even I was shocked when I saw the most recent numbers.
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Supreme Court hears arguments on campaign finance law, issues statement on NPR report — Three Supreme Court justices issued statements Wednesday addressing an NPR story about relations among the justices. On Tuesday, NPR reported that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a longtime diabetic …
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Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’ — Ramon Perez came to court last month ready to fight the tickets he'd been handed by Brookside police, including one for rolling through a stop sign and another for driving 48 mph in a 40 zone.
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Omicron Is in Retreat — What's next? — The latest Omicron developments continue to be encouraging. New Covid-19 cases are plummeting in a growing list of places. The percentage of cases causing severe illness is much lower than it was with the Delta variant.
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Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
Biden says no ‘cause for panic’ over omicron, calling it ‘the new enemy’
Biden says no ‘cause for panic’ over omicron, calling it ‘the new enemy’
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Washington Times, NPR, The National Interest and Politico
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Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto — I recently resigned from my position as full tenured professor at the University of Toronto. I am now professor emeritus, and before I turned sixty. Emeritus is generally a designation reserved for superannuated faculty …
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The Daily Wire
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Hana Horka: Czech singer dies after catching Covid intentionally — A folk singer from the Czech Republic has died after deliberately catching Covid, her son has told the BBC. — Hana Horka, 57, was unvaccinated and had posted on social media that she was recovering after testing positive, but died two days later.
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The Man Putin Fears — From the confines of his barracks, he still runs a network of dissidents devoted to ousting President Vladimir Putin. Its top leaders are fugitives from Russian law, though they were not hard for me to find while reporting this story.
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Manchin, Sinema join with GOP in rejecting attempt to change filibuster rules, effectively killing Democratic voting bill — The year-long Democratic push for federal voting rights legislation died in the Senate Wednesday night, after Republicans blocked an elections bill for the fifth …
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Joe Manchin finally makes it plain: He is in favor of minority rule
Joe Manchin finally makes it plain: He is in favor of minority rule
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Kathy Griffin Is Trying to Get Back on the D-List — Ever since her Trump joke went wrong in 2017, Griffin has been seeking a professional rebirth, and wondering who among the canceled gets a second chance. — When Kathy Griffin met last summer with a surgeon to discuss the removal …
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Variety
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Hinson, Grassley, Bustos, Blunt, Durbin Announce $829 Million in Funding to Modernize Lock and Dams on the Upper Mississippi & Illinois Rivers — Washington, D.C. - Today, Congresswomen Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and Cheri Bustos (D-IL) as well as Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Dick Durbin (D-IL) …
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HuffPost and Iowa Starting Line
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Citing Stand-Your-Ground Law, D.A. Won't File Charges in Kansas Teen's Death — Cedric Lofton, 17, was handcuffed and placed face down at a detention center in Wichita, Kan., last year. The district attorney says the employees were acting in self-defense.
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Texas GOP Candidate For Governor Won't Fire Staffer With Deep White Nationalist Ties — Don Huffines, a candidate with harsh anti-immigrant views, says dismissing Jake Lloyd Colglazier would be “cancel culture.” — A Republican candidate for governor of Texas says he will not fire …
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'Succession's Brian Cox Goes Full Beast Mode On Donald Trump, Talks Jeremy Strong, Johnny Depp, & ‘Adaptation’ Absence In New Memoir — “What I have an opinion about 25 years ago, it's not necessarily the opinion I have now,” admits Brian Cox as response to the viewpoint the Succession star offers …
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Insider
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Family of Wyoming Marine killed in Afghanistan suing Alec Baldwin for defamation, privacy invasion — The sisters and widow of a Wyoming Marine killed in Afghanistan are suing Alec Baldwin in federal court, alleging the actor defamed them on his social media after he learned one of the sisters attended …
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has fought vaccine mandates, tests positive for COVID-19 — Paxton's office said the Republican “remains working diligently for the people of Texas from home.” — Copy link — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said Wednesday.
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Scoop: Jill Biden expands communications team ahead of midterms — Jill Biden is expanding her communications team in anticipation of increased demand for the first lady ahead of this fall's midterm elections, Axios has learned. — Why it matters: First ladies are often more popular …
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The Hill
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Biden's road back: Asking Republicans ‘What are they for?’ — The old joke about Wagner's music being better than it sounds applies to President Biden's first year in office: It's better than it looks. Alas for Biden, that's not good enough. — With the president's approval ratings languishing …
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Sotomayor, Roberts say they did not ask Gorsuch to wear a mask on Supreme Court bench — Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in a statement Wednesday that she did not ask Justice Neil M. Gorsuch to wear a mask on Supreme Court bench, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. followed up by saying …
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Trump's VA Legacy: Human Capital Mismanagement — A human resources modernization system has made it impossible for the Veterans Health Administration to hire anyone. — Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough testifies before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, July 14, 2021, on Capitol Hill.
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Youngkin names a new diversity officer for the state, orders a new focus for the office's work — Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday named Angela Sailor, a policy expert at the Heritage Foundation who has criticized school lessons on systemic racism in the U.S., as the state's new director of diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Senate President Stuart Adams tested positive for COVID twice Tuesday before publicly announcing he was negative — Acknowledgment of positive tests came after Tribune inquiries, records request. — (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Elder Gerrit W. Gong …
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DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS INAUGURATE THE CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TORAH VALUES — The Congressional Caucus For the Advancement of Torah Values was recently inaugurated in Washington, DC by a bi-partisan group of Democrats and Republican congressmen and congresswomen.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Oath Keeper Podcast Interviews - New Insights Into Jan. 6 and Continued Threats — In documents filed by the Department of Justice against members of the Oath Keepers militia in recent days, prosecutors reference podcast appearances by Edward Vallejo, one of the Oath Keepers indicted …
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LGBTQ Nation and ABC News