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Trump grand jury will not hear ‘hush-money’ case for the rest of this week: source — Trump's Manhattan ‘hush-money’ grand jury will not consider the case this week. — The grand jury has not heard evidence in the case since Monday, when a surprise witness testified.
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NY grand jury not expected to consider Trump case Thursday, source says … A Manhattan grand jury will not hear testimony, deliberate or vote on the hush-money case against former President Donald Trump Thursday, a source has confirmed to Fox News. — Since the grand jury does not sit on Fridays …
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March 22, 2023 — This week, news has been focused on the former president's possible indictment for paying $130,000 in hush money to adult film performer Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their 2006 affair before the 2016 election. The information currently being thrown about has been shaped …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
How to Pay Off a Porn Star (If You Really Must)
How to Pay Off a Porn Star (If You Really Must)
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Sinema Trashes Dems: ‘Old Dudes Eating Jell-O’ — The Arizona senator courts GOP donors by ridiculing her former Democratic colleagues. Ever since Sen. Kyrsten Sinema became an independent in December, her Democratic colleagues have been restrained about the shift, careful not to alienate …
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DeSantis Calls Putin a ‘War Criminal,’ Clarifying Earlier Comment on Ukraine — The Florida governor and presumed G.O.P. presidential candidate previously described the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a “territorial dispute” and did not mention the Russian president.
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DeSantis brands Putin ‘a war criminal’ who should be ‘held accountable’ for Ukraine invasion — Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis has branded Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” and demanded he be “held accountable” for his barbaric invasion of Ukraine. Taking a tougher tone from his statement …
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DeSantis-aligned PAC staffs up, brings on Ted Cruz's campaign manager
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Most trans adults say transitioning made them more satisfied with their lives — The Washington Post and KFF surveyed one of the largest randomized samples of U.S. transgender adults to date about their childhoods, feelings and lives — Transgender Americans experience stigma …
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Biden approval dips near lowest point: AP-NORC poll — Approval of President Joe Biden has dipped slightly since a month ago, nearing the lowest point of his presidency as his administration tries to project a sense of stability while confronting a pair of bank failures and inflation that remains stubbornly high.
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Block: How Inflated User Metrics and “Frictionless” Fraud Facilitation Enabled Insiders To Cash Out Over $1 Billion — GET OUR LATEST REPORTS DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX — Block Inc., formerly known as Square Inc., is a $44 billion market cap company that claims to have developed a …
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CEO testifies before Congress, as China says it will oppose a forced sale — TikTok got its first major congressional boost on... Chew has said repeatedly that TikTok's source code... TikTok removes clip threatening violence against panel after lawmaker rebuke
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
China Says It Opposes a Forced Sale of TikTok
China Says It Opposes a Forced Sale of TikTok
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Ike Ekweremadu: Organ-trafficking plot politician and wife guilty — A senior wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical “middleman” have been found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot, after they brought a 21-year-old man to the UK from Lagos. — Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60 …
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Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
Nigerian Senator Found Guilty of Organ Harvesting Plot in UK
Nigerian Senator Found Guilty of Organ Harvesting Plot in UK
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Man at Center of Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory Demands Retraction From Fox — A lawyer for Ray Epps has demanded that the Fox host Tucker Carlson publicly apologize for “false and defamatory statements” that Mr. Epps served as a federal agent during the Capitol attack.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Fox Argues Top Executives Weren't Involved in Voter Fraud Broadcasts
Fox Argues Top Executives Weren't Involved in Voter Fraud Broadcasts
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Bragg fights GOP effort to force his testimony on Trump probe — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) called demands from House GOP leaders to force his testimony an “unlawful incursion” on his ongoing probe into former President Trump's role in a hush money scandal.
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Mental health curriculum is the latest target in Miami-Dade schools — Invoking Florida's new parents' rights law, the Miami-Dade School Board is embarking on a review of how students learn about managing their emotions, collaborating with others and developing their identities …
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Florida's crackdown on LGBTQ issues in schools is getting worse
Florida's crackdown on LGBTQ issues in schools is getting worse
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A nightmare for women in Idaho could be coming to all of us soon — There's news from Idaho, and it's not good. The only hospital in Sandpoint, Idaho, is terminating the provision of labor and delivery services. Sandpoint is the largest city in Bonner County, with just shy of 9,000 people.
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Where is DeSantis traveling on state business? Legislature wants to make it a secret — Citing an increase in public records requests for the governor's travel schedule, Florida legislators are advancing a bill that would shield from the public any information about how and where Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials go.
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Court rejects Trump's urgent bid to keep lawyer's records from special counsel — The ruling effectively permits the Justice Department to circumvent Trump's attorney-client privilege after a lower-court judge found that the documents likely contain evidence of a crime.
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Federal Trade Commission Proposes Rule Provision Making it Easier for Consumers to “Click to Cancel” Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships — Proposal seeks to make it as easy to cancel enrollment as it was to sign up — Tags: - Consumer Protection - Bureau of Consumer Protection …
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Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
Subscriptions can be hell to cancel. Now, the FTC wants a new “click to cancel” rule.
Subscriptions can be hell to cancel. Now, the FTC wants a new “click to cancel” rule.
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What connects Trump's likely arrest with the bank bailouts? — Answer: the anti-democracy movement — What connects the two biggest stories now dominating the news — Donald Trump's likely arrest and the Fed's bailouts of shaky banks? — Start with multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and follow the money.
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Matt Taibbi Can't Comprehend That There Are Reasons To Study Propaganda Information Flows, So He Insists It Must Be Nefarious — from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Over the last few months, Elon Musk's handpicked journalists have continued revealing less and less with each new edition of the …
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AP source: Blackhawks will not wear Pride-themed jerseys — The Chicago Blackhawks will not wear Pride-themed warmup jerseys before Sunday's Pride Night game against Vancouver because of security concerns involving a Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBTQ rights in the country.
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Video Shows ‘Heroic’ Security Guard Wrestle Gun From Masked Man Entering Strip Club — Michael Rudman was wearing a devil mask and had “kill” and “darkk one” written on his arms as he attempted to enter the Florida venue, police in Tampa said. — Security guards at a Florida strip club …
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California could become the 1st state to ban caste discrimination — A bill introduced Wednesday in the California Senate could be a historic win in the fight against caste discrimination in the U.S. If it is signed into law, it would make the state the first to explicitly name caste as a protected category.
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Israel passes law shielding Netanyahu from being removed amid protests over judicial changes — The Israeli parliament on Thursday passed a law that would limit the ways a sitting prime minister can be declared unfit for office as part of a package of bills the government is pushing through in its controversial judicial overhaul.
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Arizona Supreme Court rejects most of Kari Lake's election challenge — Arizona's top court has declined to hear Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's challenge to her election loss, but kept the case alive by sending one of Lake's claims back to a county judge to review.
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The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa — In the 1980s, South African libertarians set up a deregulated zone that they sold to the world as 'Africa's Switzerland'. It was a sham, but with its clusters of sweatshops, it was very modern - and in some ways it anticipated the world we live in today
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The Trump RINO Test Is Ridiculous — He's the real Republican In Name Only. — Records aren't kept on such things, but Donald Trump is clearly the most promiscuous user of the word “RINO” in Republican Party history. Francis Chung/POLITICO — Rich Lowry is editor in chief of National Review …
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Abortion legal again in Wyoming after judge blocks ban — Abortion is legal again in Wyoming after a Teton County judge Wednesday temporarily blocked a new ban on the procedure while a new legal challenge winds through the courts. — “Wyomingites voted into law that they have a fundamental right …
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Drug Trafficking Investigation Yields Largest Methamphetamine Bust in West Virginia History — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia — Federal Grand Jury Indicts 30 For Their Roles in Methamphetamine Trafficking Organization Operating in Charleston
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Proud Boys attorneys: Informant had contact with defense team, defendants — It's the latest wrench in the seditious conspiracy trial, which has stretched into its fourth month and is the most significant to emerge from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. — Attorneys for five Proud Boys …
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