When election night comes in November, it will be up to thousands of local election officials to certify election results in their counties. Among those election officials are scores of Donald Trump supporters who believe his lies and conspiracies about stolen elections — and will be in prime position to …
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It was the summer of 2016 when a manager at the Central Intelligence Agency pulled him into a conference room, sat him down at a table, and asked him to read the intelligence they had brought. Michael van Landingham wasn’t naive about what the Kremlin was capable of. His work …
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In an election year where the Senate map is objectively advantageous to Republicans, Texas and Florida have been seen as the two red states where a Republican seat could maybe flip if everything broke just right for Democrats. Then in December, a poll from Nebraska showed a steamfitter and industrial …
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C larissa Ward has reported from famine-stricken Somalia, flood-ravaged South Sudan, Afghanistan as it slipped back into the grip of the Taliban, Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, and from Ukraine, where last year she chronicled Russia’s ongoing invasion while pregnant with her third child. But nothing she has encountered in her two-decade …
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Democrats insist they are learning from their mistakes — and are ready to attack the Donald Trump-led 2024 ticket full-bore, and hit below the belt if they feel like it. “Shaking off the stink of … ‘when they go low, we go high,’” is how one Democratic operative put it, …
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Just before the three-day Bitcoin 2024 conference got underway in Nashville this week, Tyler Winklevoss, the bitcoin billionaire who founded the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini with his twin brother Cameron, had harsh words for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. He was incensed that after years of tension between the Biden …
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A little more than a week after Donald Trump was nearly assassinated at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Ohio state Sen. George Lang was warming up the crowd ahead of a speech from Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio),when he started idly vamping about how the country might need …
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It’s been 11 days since the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Investigations by law enforcement and journalists so far have produced few details about the apparent shooter’s motivations — while revealing major security failures. The Trump rally shooting, from a nearby rooftop, was the …
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In the days since Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, several Republicans close to Donald Trump, including at least two MAGA lawmakers, have reached out to the former president to offer him a sober warning: Do not laugh off Kamala Harris. According to two people with knowledge of …
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When conservative lawyers and other prominent allies of Donald Trump started floating the idea that they could launch a barrage of lawsuits to keep President Joe Biden’s name on state ballots — even if he dropped out of the 2024 race — attorneys working on or close to the Biden-Harris …
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