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Are the Anti-Trump GOP Forces Starting to Implode? — A mission-control breakdown for DeSantis and smooth launch for Scott bode ill for those hoping to thwart the former president. — NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Will this go down as the week that the grand plan to deny Donald Trump the nomination fell apart?
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‘Trump has the charisma of a mortician’: Donald Jr confuses dad with DeSantis — In online show, former president's son also accidentally says father's energy ‘makes Jeb Bush look like an Olympian’ — Donald Trump Jr accidentally insulted his father on Thursday night …
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DeSantis, Day One: Trump ‘turned the country over to Fauci’ — The News — MIAMI, FL - If day one of Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign showed the country anything, it's that COVID is here to stay. — At least in the Republican primaries. — On his first day in the ring …
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DeSantis Campaign Says It Raised $8.2 Million in First 24 Hours
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Inside Twitter's failed Space launch — How a decimated team and shrinking server capacity rained on Ron DeSantis' parade — Programming note: Platformer will be off Monday for Memorial Day. — At around 5PM PT on Wednesday, Elon Musk and David Sacks joined a call with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' campaign manager, Generra Peck.
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Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches — An engineering chief at Twitter says he is leaving the company a day after the launch of Ron DeSantis' US presidential campaign on the platform was hit with technical glitches.
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DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk's SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’ — The Florida governor's signature comes a day after his 2024 presidential campaign announcement on Twitter … The law exempts “spaceflight entity from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting …
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‘Not a Big Social Media Guy’: DeSantis Tells Newsmax He'd Rather Watch Cable News ‘Than Be on Some App’ After Disastrous Twitter Launch
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The DeSantis Doctrine — Column: Ron DeSantis and the battle for the New Right
The DeSantis Doctrine — Column: Ron DeSantis and the battle for the New Right
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Push to Make an Obscure Congressman Trump's VP Pick
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Deal with it: Negotiators may be zeroing in on a debt ceiling agreement — The News — The details aren't final, and the parties are still clashing on a few major issues, but the contours of a potential debt ceiling deal are finally coming into view. — So far, it looks little …
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The (many) perils of a debt default, explained by an economist
The (many) perils of a debt default, explained by an economist
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Four Messages in the Big Sentence for Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes — A FEDERAL COURT IN WASHINGTON yesterday sent a message to the country: There is a serious price in prison time to be paid for taking the law into your own hands to achieve political ends. — District Court Judge Amit Mehta …
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Jessica Watkins: Oath Keepers member and Army veteran sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for January 6 — Jessica Watkins, an Army veteran and member of the far-right Oath Keepers, was sentenced Friday to 8.5 years in prison for participating in a plot to disrupt the certification …
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The Path From The Tea Party Through Jan. 6 To Today
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Ron DeSantis administration officials solicit campaign cash from lobbyists — The practice raises ethical and legal questions about state employees trying to raise campaign cash from lobbyists who have business currently before the governor. — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Officials who work …
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Evidence grows that Trump hoarded documents — and showed them to people — We have reached one of those points in reporting on Donald Trump's post-presidency retention of documents when it's useful to take a step back. — On Thursday, The Washington Post teased out another aspect of this complicated situation.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment. Here's how that works in Texas. — The Texas Legislature has never removed an attorney general. If the House votes to impeach, the Senate will hold a trial. — Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been at the center of several scandals, faces a possible impeachment.
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Aide to Ken Paxton calls investigation into attorney general “illegal,” says Paxton can't be impeached for current allegations
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Texas Panel Recommends Impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton
Texas Panel Recommends Impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton
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My Son Spends Too Much Time at the Library. I'm Disgusted By What He's Doing There. — Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. — Dear Care and Feeding, — A month back, my 16-year-old son “Dylan” used some of his money to subscribe to the Bulwark.
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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum Poised to Enter GOP Presidential Race — Wealthy former software entrepreneur is planning a June 7 announcement in Fargo — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is poised to enter the Republican presidential nomination race and is planning a June 7 event in Fargo …
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Boebert dismisses antisemitism push as effort to target conservatives — Aftter White House announces effort to combat hatred of Jews, GOP congresswoman says it's a way to ‘go after conservatives’ — President Biden on Thursday released the country's first national strategy for combating antisemitism …
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How I Won $5 Million From the MyPillow Guy and Saved Democracy — A software forensics expert investigated Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked the 2020 election. He was stunned by what he found. — If you watch TV, especially conservative TV, you know Mike Lindell.
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How Supreme Court's EPA ruling will affect U.S. wetlands, clean water — The decision could affect tens of thousands of acres of wetlands, including in the Everglades and the Mississippi River basin — Bogs. Marshes. Swamps. Fens. All are examples of wetlands.
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Brute force and the reactionary SCOTUS majority's assault on clean water
Brute force and the reactionary SCOTUS majority's assault on clean water
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Doctor in 10-year-old rape victim's abortion could lose license — Indiana's medical licensing board will determine as soon as Thursday whether to take any disciplinary action against a doctor who made headlines last year for performing an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim …
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Judge halts South Carolina's new stricter abortion law until state Supreme Court review — A judge on Friday put a temporary halt to South Carolina's new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.
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Meet the ex-food writer advising Tommy Tuberville on national security — As a former college football coach, Tuberville (R-Ala.) is an improbable power player in Washington. But the story of how his top military adviser got here is even stranger. — When Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) …
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Israeli agents conducted targeted killings in civilian area, killing a child — Videos from a March 16 raid in Jenin show increasingly deadly tactics by Israeli officers — The traffic was barely moving on March 16 in central Jenin, an unusually busy Thursday afternoon in the West Bank.
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Members of a No Labels-allied caucus erupt at No Labels — The group is under fire for its unity presidential bid and for an attack on a Problem Solvers Caucus member. — A group of House Democrats with ties to No Labels is turning on the centrist group after it attacked one of their founding members.
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My father, Henry Kissinger, is turning 100. This is his guide to longevity. — David Kissinger is president of the television production company Conaco. — On Saturday, my father, Henry Kissinger, celebrates his 100th birthday. This might have an air of inevitability for anyone familiar …
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'He doesn't need help' Rep. Lauren Boebert tells deputies not to come after son calls 911 for help — GARFIELD COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — In a series of 911 calls in December, one of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's sons called 911, saying his father and her then-husband was, “throwing (her son) around the house.”
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