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Fox News:
NY vehicle explosion at Rainbow Bridge border crossing is attempted terror attack: sources — Rainbow Bridge, which connects Niagara Falls, New York to Niagara Falls, Canada, is currently shut down as the investigation unfolds — The FBI is investigating a vehicle explosion Wednesday …
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Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls closed after explosion of vehicle reportedly entering U.S. from Canada — “I've been briefed on the incident on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls and we are closely monitoring the situation.” Gov. Kathy Hochul said. — The FBI is investigating …
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Have You Listened Lately to What Trump Is Saying? — He is becoming frighteningly clear about what he wants. — In 2019, Kennedy Ndahiro, the editor of the Rwandan daily newspaper The New Times, explained to readers of The Atlantic how years of cultivated had hatred led to death on a horrifying scale.
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Why Trump Represents a ‘Trifecta of Danger’
Why Trump Represents a ‘Trifecta of Danger’
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Dean Phillips hits Biden over handling of Hamas hostages: ‘Absurd, shocking and dismaying’ — Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) bashed President Biden Tuesday for the recently negotiated hostage deal between the militant group Hamas and Israel. — “No, because we have nine Americans held hostage right …
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Hostage Release in Gaza
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Hostage Release in Gaza
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The Times of Israel:
Cabinet okays deal for release of 50 Israeli hostages in exchange for 4-day Gaza truce
Cabinet okays deal for release of 50 Israeli hostages in exchange for 4-day Gaza truce
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Mark Scheer / Niagara Gazette:
Witnesses saw smoke, fire from vehicle at Rainbow Bridge — The Rainbow Bridge has been closed to all traffic amid reports of a vehicle explosion just outside the border inspections plaza on the American side. — Traveling down Niagara Street, the car sped onto the bridge plaza …
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
GOP official's wife convicted in months-long 2020 voter-fraud scheme — As Tam and Thien Doan tried to file for absentee ballots in Iowa in 2020, they were surprised to find out that votes had already been cast in their names. The siblings, both Democrats, were even more astonished to learn …
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Sheila Brummer / Iowa Public Radio:
Woodbury County supervisor's wife found guilty of 52 counts of voter fraud — Prosecutors say Kim Phuong Taylor wanted her husband to win elections in 2020 “by any means necessary.” — A jury spent about five hours deliberating before convicting Kim Phuong Taylor on 52 counts of voter fraud in federal court Tuesday in Sioux City.
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Rebecca Kern / Politico:
Democrats can't quit Elon Musk's X — X is becoming more toxic for liberals. But they're still posting — and it's not clear where they'd go next. — For politicians, it turns out an addictive social media platform is hard to quit, in spite of any moral qualms they might have about its owner.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP rallies around Musk after his self-inflicted antisemitism mess — Elon Musk's new lawsuit against Media Matters, which X Corp. filed late Monday, has been dismissed by legal experts as a frivolous effort to bully a prominent critic into silence. But some Republicans apparently …
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Anjali Huynh / New York Times:
Plying Voters With Free Food, Ramaswamy Struggles to Win Them Over — The political newcomer's surge over the summer has fizzled. But Vivek Ramaswamy is still spending freely to keep up a breakneck pace in Iowa and New Hampshire. — While many people were heading home for the Thanksgiving holiday …
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Timothy Noah / New Republic:
The Red State Brain Drain Isn't Coming. It's Happening Right Now. — On Memorial Day weekend in 2022, Kate Arnold and her wife, Caroline Flint, flew from Oklahoma City to Cabo San Lucas for a little R&R. They had five kids, the youngest of them five-year-old twin girls, and demanding jobs as obstetrician-gynecologists.
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Breccan F. Thies / Washington Examiner:
Catholic women's college to accept transgender women — An all-women's Catholic school in Indiana will begin admitting transgender women in the fall 2024 semester, according to an email obtained by the Washington Examiner. — In a Tuesday evening email from St. Mary's College president Katie Conboy …
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Politico:
Donor allegedly offered $20M to recruit a Tlaib primary challenger — The lucrative proposal to Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Hill Harper arrived on Oct. 16, according to a source with direct knowledge — and got rejected. — A Michigan businessman called Democratic Senate candidate Hill Harper …
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Will Sommer / Washington Post:
Will ProPublica cross a picket line by publishing its next big scoop? — The media nonprofit's union wants to stop a collaboration with a newspaper whose reporters are on strike. Editors say the story is more important than solidarity: 'We've got to do journalism on this'
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Spyglass Says Melissa Barrera Was Fired From ‘Scream’ Due to Rhetoric That ‘Flagrantly Crosses the Line Into Hate Speech’ (EXCLUSIVE) … But now the production banner behind the hit horror franchise's revival is pushing back on a narrative that has quickly coalesced around the decision …
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New York Times:
How Many Abortions Did the Post-Roe Bans Prevent? — The first estimate of births since Dobbs found that almost a quarter of women who would have gotten abortions carried their pregnancies to term. — The first data on births since Roe v. Wade was overturned shows how much abortion bans …
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National Review
Bernie Sanders / New York Times:
Justice for the Palestinians and Security for Israel — There have been five wars in the last 15 years between Israel and Hamas. How do we end the current one and prevent a sixth from happening, sooner or later? How do we balance our desire to stop the fighting with the need to address the roots of the conflict?
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
November 2023 National Poll: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden — A new Emerson College Polling national survey of registered voters finds former President Donald Trump with a four-point lead over President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, 47% to 43%, within the poll's margin of error.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Johnson Learns on the Job, Drawing the Ire of the Republican Right — The new House speaker is facing complaints from his members that his leadership is no different from his predecessor's. His style, however, is in stark contrast. — Speaker Mike Johnson struggled to defend himself …
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil — Washington warned India over concerns of government involvement in assassination conspiracy — US authorities thwarted a conspiracy to assassinate a Sikh separatist on American soil and issued a warning to India's government …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lee get Jan. 6 footage — but trying to blame the FBI could backfire — No surprise from a guy who took the lead defending Donald Trump's attempted coup, but the newly appointed Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., moved quickly to abuse his power …
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Post and Courier:
Cogswell claims victory in Charleston mayor race — Charleston will have a new mayor. — William Cogswell won in a nail-biter runoff election on Nov. 21, delivering a stunning defeat to incumbent Mayor John Tecklenburg after a hard-fought campaign. — Cogswell declared victory shortly …