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Newest addition to Trump's legal team sidelined in Mar-a-Lago search case — The newest addition to former President Donald Trump's legal team, Chris Kise, has been sidelined from the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation less than a month after he was brought on to represent Trump in the matter …
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served with subpoena, court record says — In an affidavit, a process server said that the state's top attorney tried evade him as he attempted to deliver a subpoena from an abortion fund's lawsuit against the state. — Copy link
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Flees Home in Truck to Avoid Subpoena
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Ex-Staffer Says DeSantis TORCHES Trump in Private: ‘Moron Who Has No Business Running For President’ — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis routinely torches former President Donald Trump in private, calling him a “moron who has no business running for president” according to a former DeSantis staffer.
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Ron DeSantis: The Making and Remaking (and Remaking) of a MAGA Heir
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How Democrats Gave Ron DeSantis a Pass
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Florida Contracts Go to Companies That Flooded Ron DeSantis Campaign Fund
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DeSantis faces the true test of any Florida governor
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Secret Service took the cellphones of 24 agents involved in Jan. 6 response and gave them to investigators — Senior leadership at the Secret Service confiscated the cellphones of 24 agents involved in the agency's response to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and handed them over to the Department …
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Gas leaks from Russian pipelines to Europe raise sabotage fears — Europe was investigating leaks in two Russian gas pipelines that churned up the Baltic Sea on Tuesday and raised concerns from Copenhagen to Moscow about sabotage on infrastructure at the heart of an energy standoff.
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Lawsuit aims to stop Biden's student loan forgiveness plan — A public interest lawyer in Indiana is suing to block President Biden's plan to cancel some student debt, arguing that the policy will force him to pay state taxes on the forgiven amount. — The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court …
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Lawsuit filed to stop Biden administration's unlawful student loan cancellation
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Polls are useful. They just can't predict elections in swing states. — Polls now suggest Democrats have a good chance of keeping control of the U.S. Senate and a smaller-but-real chance in the House, after it seemed for much of President Biden's tenure that the party was destined to have a bad midterm cycle.
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Ron DeSantis Is Making an Asylum Crisis of His Own — When nearly 50 migrants were lured onto a pair of planes in San Antonio and dumped on Martha's Vineyard this month, a sequence of events arranged by Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, it was an escalation of what his fellow Republican governor …
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Justice considering U.S. Senate run — WHEELING — Gov. Jim Justice said he may not be done with public office when his second term as governor concludes in 2024, and that a seat in the U.S. Senate just might pique his interest. — The next time one of West Virginia's two Senate seats is up is 2024 …
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Political Wire


Republican ex-congressman suggests colleagues ‘had serious cognitive issues’ — Paul Gosar and Louie Gohmert were eager to believe ‘wild, dramatic fantasies’, claims Denver Riggleman in new book — The Republican congressmen Louis Gohmert and Paul Gosar adopted such extreme …
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Hailey Bieber's ‘Brownie Glazed Lips’ Look Is Yet Another Example of Cultural Appropriation in Beauty — Hailey Bieber faced criticism over the weekend after a TikTok video she made about “brownie glazed lips” was called out for appropriating a makeup technique favored by Latinas and Black and brown women since the '90s.
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In 2019, Doug Mastriano said women who violated proposed abortion ban should be charged with murder — In 2019, state Sen. Doug Mastriano sponsored legislation barring abortions at around six weeks. Asked if women who broke that law should be charged with murder, he said, “Yes.”
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The Dictator and the Diva — Meet Alla Pugacheva, the Russian pop mega-star who is challenging Putin. — Of all the different reasons given for Vladimir Putin's decision last week to order “partial mobilization” of Russian reservists, the most unusual one has been offered …


Brett Favre is the face of a scandal, but Mississippi's issues go deeper — In 2017, a Mississippi nonprofit called Operation Shoestring received a federal grant worth more than $200,000. But when the organization sought to renew the funding a year later, the money was no longer available.
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Chris Wallace's CNN celebrity talk show debut tanks in ratings — Chris Wallace's debut as the host of his own celebrity interview talk show on struggling cable news outfit CNN proved to be a dud in the ratings. — Sunday night's premiere of “Who's Talking to Chris Wallace” …
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Russia Admits to Draft Problems as Anger Flares Into Violence — The Kremlin's spokesman tried to shift blame for errors in the call-up to regional agencies on Monday, the same day a gunman attacked a draft office in Siberia. — In a rare admission of official mistakes …
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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From China and Russia — Today, we're sharing our findings into two covert influence operations — from China and Russia — that we took down for violating our policy against Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB). We shared information with our peers …
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FBI Seized $86 Million In Raid On Innocent Americans' Safe Boxes After Duping Judge For Warrant — 'The government's theory is that having cash makes you a presumptive criminal, and I think every American should be worried about that.' — There is no denying anymore that our federal agencies …
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Woke is now a dog whistle for Black. What's next? — There's “urban” of course. And urban's cousin “inner-city.” — And then there's “at-risk,” “underserved” and “fatherless” if talking about our children. “Marginalized,” “low-income” and “welfare-dependent” if talking about the parents of those children.
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Texas 2022: Greg Abbott Leads Beto O'Rourke By Eight in Gubernatorial Election — Home Polls Texas 2022: Greg Abbott Leads Beto O'Rourke By Eight in Gubernatorial Election — An Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey of Texas voters finds Republican Governor Greg Abbott with an eight point lead …
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Abbott holds 7-point lead in Texas governor race: survey
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Alabama GOP chair's family believed voter ID was mark of the beast, brother said in deposition — This is an opinion column. — When Alabama's voter ID was before the state Legislature, if I had come up with a hypothetical like the Wahl family, the proponents of that bill would have rolled …
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Activist charged in Jan. 6 attack is among Herschel Walker's campaign ‘captains’ — Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker's campaign recently listed a woman who was arrested in March on charges of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as one of his “county captains.”
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Limited-English voters face barriers to casting ballots in Arkansas — Language poses a big challenge for voters with limited English proficiency in Arkansas, where ballots are only printed in English. — Newly naturalized citizens are often afraid to vote because they don't understand the ballot …