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Attorney General James Takes Action to Force Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump to Comply with Ongoing Investigation Into Trump Organization's Financial Dealings — Motion to Compel Filed After Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., — and Ivanka Trump Refuse to Provide Sworn Testimony
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N.Y. Attorney General Outlines Pattern of Possible Fraud at Trump Business — The attorney general, Letitia James, released new details of her investigation into whether the company misrepresented the value of its assets, but her office did not file a lawsuit.
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N.Y. attorney general alleges Trump's business inflated property values, wealth statements — NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James alleged on Tuesday that former president Donald Trump's business inflated the value of his properties and misstated his personal worth in representations …
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Sen. Mark Kelly supports change to Senate's filibuster rule for voting-rights legislation — Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., will support a change to the filibuster rule, The Arizona Republic has learned, showing for the first time a willingness to bend on an issue that has tied the Senate in knots …
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The case for a better way to poll — Issue polling makes America seem very liberal. Combining party trust polling would help explain why Republicans win elections. — Editor-at-Large — In recent years, progressives have invested heavily in crafting a narrative which holds …
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Restoring the Senate to Protect the Freedom to Vote
Restoring the Senate to Protect the Freedom to Vote
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In Voting Rights Fight, Democrats Train Ire on Sinema and Manchin
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National Pro-Democracy Coalition Calls On Senate Democrats To Hold The Floor Until The Freedom To Vote Act: John R. Lewis Act Is Passed
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Senate Democrats will try to force ‘talking filibuster’ on two partisan election bills
Senate Democrats will try to force ‘talking filibuster’ on two partisan election bills
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Exclusive: Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle's phone records subpoenaed by January 6 committee — Washington (CNN)The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has subpoenaed and obtained records of phone numbers associated with one of former President Donald Trump's children …
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The long slide: Inside Biden's declining popularity as he struggles with multiple crises — The second week of August began as a time for vacation for President Biden and some of his team. Then Afghanistan imploded. The reports out of Kabul were harrowing: Images of desperate Afghan nationals clinging …
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How Biden's first year became a tale of two presidencies
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Biden's report card: 1 year in, accomplishments and stalled priorities
Biden's report card: 1 year in, accomplishments and stalled priorities
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Florida could shield whites from ‘discomfort’ of racist past — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees …
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Secretary Blinken's Meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy — The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv as part of our close and continued coordination with Ukraine following …
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Senate President Stuart Adams tested positive for COVID twice Tuesday before publicly announcing he was negative — Acknowledgment of positive tests came after Tribune inquiries, records request. — (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Elder Gerrit W. Gong …

Police said the male suspect (pictured) is believed to be homeless and fled through the back door before calming walking down an alley — The architectural design student from Pacific Palisades was alone in the Croft House store on La Brea Avenue in LA's upscale Fairfax neighborhood when a man entered around 1:50 p.m. and stabbed her.
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Biden plans giveaway of 400M masks as Omicron surges — The Biden administration is planning to distribute hundreds of millions of free, high-quality masks through pharmacies and community health centers, a White House official said Wednesday. — The 400 million newly available masks …
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Biden promises free masks in the ‘largest deployment’ of such equipment in U.S. history.
Biden promises free masks in the ‘largest deployment’ of such equipment in U.S. history.
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The Administration Knew the Afghan Air Force Would Collapse after a U.S. Withdrawal — On the menu today: A declassified special-inspector-general report proves that the Pentagon and the Biden administration were warned in January 2021 that Afghanistan's air force did not have the capabilities to survive after a U.S. withdrawal.
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Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’ — Ramon Perez came to court last month ready to fight the tickets he'd been handed by Brookside police, including one for rolling through a stop sign and another for driving 48 mph in a 40 zone.

How many people has Murdoch killed during pandemic? — We'll never know … Subscribe to PRESS RUN — After spending much of 2020 and the first half of 2021 raging against mask mandates and whining about how forcing workers to get vaccinated represented the trampling of individual liberties …
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Ivanka Trump Returns to Instagram With a Photoshoot Pretending to Be a Good Person — The former first daughter would like you to know she's very charitable in her free time. — One person who Donald Trump's time in the White House really hurt was Ivanka.
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Firearms, a drone and 30 days of supplies: New details of Oath Keepers Jan. 6 weapons cache — Oath Keepers planning to violently subvert the 2020 election stockpiled 30 days of supplies and a cache of rifles and ammunition just outside of Washington, D.C., prosecutors alleged in a late-night court filing.
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Biden's favorite columnists revolt — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With Allie Bice. — Even JENNIFER RUBIN thinks JOE BIDEN is in trouble. — “Biden needs a reset. Here's how he can do it,” …
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Man's agonizing penis pain is found to be rare side effect of COVID — A man's agonizing penis pain was blamed on COVID infection, as docs warned of the rare side effect. — Writing in a medical journal, the Iranian team described how the virus led to blood clotting in the poor man's shaft.

Biden renewed a free program to feed needy kids. Most states haven't even applied. — At its height, Pandemic-EBT fed millions of low-income students. Now it's faltering as burdened administrators opt out. — Odessa Davis worked three jobs to get by, until the pandemic shutdowns …

The Republican Parallel Universes Strategy — And how Democrats can break through it. — Shortly after the 2020 election I was chatting with a Republican strategist who'd done some work for several vulnerable-seeming GOP candidates who ultimately won their races, outperforming Donald Trump by several points.

Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state — (CNN)Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this year's elections, alarming local voting and civil rights groups.

Silvio Berlusconi Angles for Italy's Presidency, Bunga Bunga and All — The billionaire former prime minister is working hard to persuade lawmakers to vote for him next week, despite an unusual résumé for a job resting on moral authority. — ROME — Early this month …
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André Leon Talley, Editor and Fashion Industry Force, Dies at 73 — Called “a creative genius,” he was the rare Black editor at the top of a field that was mostly white and notoriously elitist. — André Leon Talley, the larger-than-life fashion editor who shattered …
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