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Ryan Mac / New York Times:
X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post — IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.
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Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
White House Condemns Elon Musk's ‘Abhorrent’ Endorsement of Antisemitism — European Commission and IBM halt X ads, citing hate speech — Antisemitic incidents have spiked amid Israel-Hamas war
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Nicholas Vinocur / Politico:
No more ads on Elon's X, EU Commission tells staff — Ads on Musk-owned social media site risk causing ‘reputational damage’ to the EU, its executive says in internal note. — The European Commission has decided to stop advertising on social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, over …
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
As Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content
As Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content
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The Economist:
Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024 — What his victory in America's election would mean — Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. — A shadow looms over the world. In this week's edition we publish The World Ahead 2024, our 38th annual predictive guide …
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Shauneen Miranda / Axios:
The Economist names Trump “biggest danger” for 2024
The Economist names Trump “biggest danger” for 2024
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Politico:
Playbook: The case for triangulation on immigration
Playbook: The case for triangulation on immigration
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James D. Zirin / Washington Monthly:
Has Trump Gone Even Crazier?
Has Trump Gone Even Crazier?
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CNN:
House Ethics chairman introduces resolution to expel George Santos from Congress — House Ethics Chairman Michael Guest, a Mississippi Republican, introduced a resolution Friday to expel GOP Rep. George Santos of New York from Congress, one day after the Ethics Committee released a damning report on its investigation into Santos.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
George Santos faces new motion to expel him from Congress — Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is facing a new motion to expel him from Congress, one day after the House Ethics Committee released a scathing report that found “substantial evidence” Santos had knowingly violated ethics guidelines, House rules and criminal laws.
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Associated Press:
Michigan Supreme Court asked to hear appeal of ruling in Trump ballot case — A lower court judge denied a liberal group's effort to bar the former president from the state ballot under the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on those who engaged in insurrection running for office.
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Posts Tirade Against Judge, Court Clerk Hours After Gag Order Paused
Donald Trump Posts Tirade Against Judge, Court Clerk Hours After Gag Order Paused
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
CNN Airs New Tape of Trump Discussing Capitol Trip on Jan. 6 — WON'T BACK DOWN — In a taped interview for ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's book, Tired of Winning, former President Donald Trump said that if he had been allowed to go to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection …
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
The election interference case against Trump is taking shape
The election interference case against Trump is taking shape
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Christie tells donors he still can beat Trump … - The former New Jersey governor's appeal in the Granite State has made it difficult for any other non-Trump candidates to get within striking distance of Trump in the state — namely former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has been rising in polls lately.
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Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
‘No Labels’ Tax Forms Reveal Execs Cashing In on 2024 Hype — According to tax documents obtained by The Daily Beast, the centrist group plotting a 2024 challenge is raising lots of dough, padding its leaders' paychecks. … No Labels, No Worries — As the centrist group No Labels gears …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Republicans get ready to roll Tuberville on military holds — Republican senators are laying the groundwork to vote before Christmas on a Democratic-drafted resolution to circumvent the blockade that Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) has placed in front of more than 400 military nominees.
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Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
2 Michigan lawmakers trapped as police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters in D.C. — Washington ― Michigan Democratic U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell and Hillary Scholten were briefly trapped with other lawmakers inside a Democratic National Committee building on Capitol Hill …
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Reuters:
Israel-Hamas War — Israeli Army Takes Journalists on Controlled Visit to Gaza Hospital … The Israeli Army escorts Times journalists to Al-Shifa, a focus of its invasion. — Almost 48 hours after entering Gaza's largest medical complex, the Israeli military escorted journalists …
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Washington Post:
The hidden biases at play in the U.S. Senate — People of color get significantly less representation than White voters. And that's not the only way the Senate is skewed. — The United States Senate was never designed to represent all people equally. But over recent decades …
U.S. Department of Education:
List of Open Title VI Shared Ancestry Investigations — Protecting Students > Race, Color, or National Origin Discrimination > Issues >> — As a public service, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) publishes this list of elementary-secondary and post-secondary institutions …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump classified documents trial running about four months behind schedule — Judge Aileen Cannon put off setting deadline for Trump to submit notice about what classified information he intends to use at trial — Donald Trump's trial on charges that he retained classified documents …
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Washington Post:
Failure at the fence: How Israel's vaunted ‘Iron Wall’ crumbled — In December 2021, Israel's military said a high-tech upgrade to the barrier that had long surrounded the Gaza Strip would protect nearby Israeli residents from the threat of violence from militants.
Reuters:
Argentina on a knife-edge as presidential election offers clashing visions of the future — Argentine voters are angry and afraid. Which is stronger will tip the balance of the South American country's presidential election on Sunday and may reshape its diplomatic ties, economic future, and the wider region's political fault lines.
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A.L. Lee / UPI:
Study: 58% of world's richest companies quietly lobby against climate policies — Pledges by the world's largest corporations to fight climate change frequently do not align with their lobbying efforts, with more than half of companies at risk of engaging in misleading practices known as …
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Peter Stone / The Guardian:
As the NRA fades, a more zealous US pro-gun group rises as a lobbying power — Gun Owners of America, formed in belief NRA was ‘too liberal’, spent $3.3m lobbying against gun control and boasts 2m members — A zealous gun rights group, even more uncompromising than the once formidable …