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U.S. Senate Ratifies Adding Finland and Sweden to NATO — Resolution passed 95-1 as senators emphasize the expansion's importance to American security worldwide — Watch: Senate Votes to Add Finland and Sweden to NATO … The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly ratified the addition of Finland …
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Hawley is only senator to vote against Finland, Sweden NATO membership — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was the only senator to vote against a resolution on Wednesday backing Finland's and Sweden's entry to NATO. — The Senate approved the resolution in a 95-1 vote. One senator, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), voted present.
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McConnell says ‘good luck’ to senators looking for excuse to oppose Finland, Sweden NATO bids
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Senate votes to approve NATO membership for Sweden and Finland
Senate votes to approve NATO membership for Sweden and Finland
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Republican ‘doomsday ticket’ ready for November — LURCHING RIGHT — Even before Donald Trump, Arizona Republicans had a soft spot for hard-liners. Think Evan Mecham and Joe Arpaio, or the party's pre-Trump censuring of the late Sen. John McCain. — But what may soon be different …
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Trump's pandora's box — A growing number of Republican candidates this cycle are refusing to concede elections they indisputably lost, promoting conspiracy theories about the results and engaging in local battles over certification. — Why it matters: The undercurrent of election denialism pervading …
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The GOP is sick. It didn't start with Trump — and won't end with him. — It began where it ended, on the West Front of the United States Capitol. — On Jan. 6, 2021, an armed mob invited and incited by President Donald Trump smashed barriers, overpowered police and stormed the Capitol.
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How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Will Have The Last Laugh on Samuel Alito — Justice Samuel Alito, in drafting Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, said he and the other justices who joined him in ending a constitutional right to abortion had no ability to foresee what the political implications would be.
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How abortion rights organizers won in Kansas: Horse parades and canvassing
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Kansas Result Suggests 4 Out of 5 States Would Back Abortion Rights in Similar Vote
Kansas Result Suggests 4 Out of 5 States Would Back Abortion Rights in Similar Vote
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Biden and Democrats falter in efforts to capitalize on Kansas abortion vote
Biden and Democrats falter in efforts to capitalize on Kansas abortion vote
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Exclusive: Jan. 6 Committee Prepares to Subpoena Alex Jones' Texts, Emails — The committee would like to know more about any contacts with Donald Trump's team regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — The January 6th House committee is preparing to request the trove of Alex Jones's text messages …
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After Alex Jones' lawyers accidentally leak years of emails, Infowars financial documents are revealed in court — Lawyers for Alex Jones appeared to have accidentally sent over the entire contents of the Infowars founder's phone to the lawyers for the plaintiffs in his defamation trial, according to court proceedings Wednesday.
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South Korea's president skips Nancy Pelosi meeting due to staycation — SEOUL — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met leaders of Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan in her closely-watched tour this week — but not the South Korean president. The official reason: He was on a staycation.
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Sinema inquires about Democrats' proposed tax hike on companies as lobbying intensifies for her vote — (CNN)Republican senators and the business community are mounting a full-court press on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to sink — or substantially change — the Democrats' economic package …
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Trump Lawyer Proposed Challenging Georgia Senate Elections in Search of Fraud — On the day of President Biden's inauguration, John Eastman suggested looking for voting irregularities in Georgia — and asked for help being paid the $270,000 he billed the Trump campaign.
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‘Never seen it this bad’: America faces catastrophic teacher shortage — Rural school districts in Texas are switching to four-day weeks this fall due to lack of staff. Florida is asking veterans with no teaching background to enter classrooms. Arizona is allowing college students to step in and instruct children.
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Homeland Security watchdog previously accused of misleading investigators, report says — The Homeland Security watchdog now under scrutiny for his handling of deleted Secret Service text messages from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack previously was accused of misleading Justice Department investigators and running …
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‘Social contagion’ isn't causing more youths to be transgender, study finds — “Social contagion” is not driving an increasing number of adolescents to come out as transgender, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Pediatrics. — The study also found that the proportion …
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Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen — BISBEE, Ariz. (AP) — MJ was a tiny, black-haired girl, just 5 years old, when her father admitted to his bishop that he was sexually abusing her. — The father, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints …
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Reuters US Journalists Plan to Strike For First Time In Decades — Thomson Reuters Corp. journalists in the US are preparing to launch a daylong strike Thursday, the first walkout in decades among the media company's long-unionized staff. — Employees plan to start a 24-hour strike at 6 …
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Podcast Guests Are Paying Up to $50,000 to Appear on Popular Shows — People will confess all sorts of things to podcasters, from their unpopular political beliefs or embarrassing romantic mishaps to their worst fears. But there's one revelation certain guests will never disclose—namely …
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Trump and Orban set to take stage in Texas as activists gather for conservative confab — Dallas (CNN)Former President Donald Trump, who is weighing when to announce his expected third run for the Republican presidential nomination, will address a gathering of conservative activists here this weekend.
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Kelley says there were ‘unprecedented oddities’ in Tuesday's GOP gov. primary election — Ryan Kelley participates in a GOP gubernatorial debate on WKAR's Off the Record, July 15, 2022 | After coming in fourth place in the GOP gubernatorial primary Tuesday and refusing to concede to nominee Tudor Dixon …
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WH chief John Kelly was secretly ‘listening to all’ of Trump's calls: Jared Kushner — John Kelly was secretly “listening to all” of President Donald Trump's conversations without telling him, first son-in-law Jared Kushner reveals in his forthcoming book. — Kushner writes that Trump …
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After a deadly 2009 attack, the CIA's hunt for Zawahiri became personal — Years before the CIA strike that ended his life, Zawahiri played a key part in the deaths of American operatives — It was one of the darkest days in CIA history: Seven operatives killed after being lured by a rogue informant into a deadly trap.
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Dems Want Billions More for ‘Green Energy’ — Doubling down on their failures. — Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. — Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, who courageously slammed the brakes on the Dems' drunken-sailor Build Back Better tax-and-spend spree, seems to have lost his nerve.
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Fearing looters, Kentucky flood victims refuse to leave wrecked homes — “A lot of people are going primitive,” a survivor said. “They're just sitting on their porch, hoping somebody's coming to save them.” — KNOTT COUNTY, Ky. — First came the floods, then came the vultures.
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HBO Max Quietly Removed Six Warner Bros. Streaming-Exclusive Movies … Warner Bros. Discovery has been quietly culling content from HBO Max — including several Warner Bros. movies that were exclusively streaming on the service — in what appears to be an effort to cut costs.
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