This week, Washington’s top Israel lobby is rallying its supporters to go to Capitol Hill and falsely claim to lawmakers that people aren’t starving in Gaza and Israel isn’t blocking aid shipments, according to talking points obtained by the American Prospect. Israel has led a brutal siege on Gaza since …
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The House of Representatives has advanced a bill that could effectively ban TikTok within the United States. The legislation will now advance to the Senate, where it will likely face a steeper road to adoption. The bill, titled the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would require TikTok …
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A judge in Georgia has dismissed some of the charges that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought against Donald Trump last year. Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Wednesday tossed six charges against the former president and some of his co-defendants, but let the bulk of the criminal …
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Kristi Noem probably wasn’t smiling after being served a lawsuit on Wednesday. Earlier this week, the South Dakota governor released a highly produced video on multiple social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and Truth Social, touting the dental work she had done at Smile Texas. Travelers United, …
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Trump is reshaping the Republican National Committee to the point that its leadership were not only on his payroll, but peddled lies about the 2020 election being stolen. Among the new hires is Christina Bobb, an attorney who represented Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and former on-air reporter …
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Wisconsin is famous for its booze. The brands Miller, Schlitz, Pabst, and Blatz were all founded in Milwaukee, a city whose baseball team is the Brewers, and which is often called the “beer capital of the world.” Across the state, bars outnumber grocery stores roughly three-to-one, for a total of …
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is leading renewed efforts to institute a 32-hour work week nationwide — one that crucially does not result in a decrease in pay. Sanders, who helms the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), will introduce a bill Thursday that seeks to reduce the …
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Former Special Counsel Robert Hur’s highly anticipated testimony before the House Judiciary Committee began with a compilation of Donald Trump’s many gaffes and errors — undercutting the MAGA Republicans who presumably want to use the hearing to impugn President Joe Biden’s mental fitness. The supercut, prepared by Ranking Member Jerry …
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Ken Block couldn’t believe it. The mild-mannered Republican elections expert had seen a lot of things in his brief work as a consultant for former President Donald Trump’s campaign, after he was hired in late 2020 to find proof of mass election fraud that could stand up in court. This, …
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Colorado Rep. Ken Buck is abruptly leaving Congress, calling the institution a “dysfunctional” mess that has “devolved into this bickering and nonsense and not really doing the job for the American people.” Buck issued a statement through his office on Tuesday announcing that he will “depart Congress at the end …
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