The Jan. 6 committee announced on Monday that it will refer former President Donald Trump for criminal charges for his role in the attack on the Capitol as Congress was certifying the 2020 election. The referral, which was expected, came during the committee’s final meeting before releasing the final report …
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The Jan. 6 committee voted on Monday to refer former President Donald Trump to the Department of Justice on four criminal charges. It also announced that it will refer four Republican members of the House to the Congressional Ethics Committee for failing to comply with committee subpoenas, including prospective Speaker …
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There are 7,386 state lawmakers in the United States of America. Together, they’re responsible for more discretionary spending each year than the entire federal government. They are also, for the most part, total amateurs: inexperienced part-time elected officials, woefully underpaid and understaffed, vastly outnumbered by armies of lobbyists whose only …
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Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), whose twelve-year stint in Congress will end next month, said Sunday that former President Donald Trump hasn’t maintained his iron grip on the Republican Party due in part to Republicans’ underperformance in the midterms and the manner in which Trump launched his re-election bid. Appearing on …
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Three prominent Democrat groups say they will be returning funds donated by Sam Bankman-Fried to duped FTX customers. On Friday, the political groups, including the Democratic National Committee, announced they would return the contributions made by the founder of the now-collapsed FTX cryptocurrency exchange. “Given the allegations around potential campaign …
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Donald Trump’s latest cash grab has even his most reliable allies rolling their eyes. The former president launched a series of digital NFT trading cards on Thursday to much mockery from opponents, and clear frustration from some of his most prominent supporters who think he should be focusing on politics …
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Elon Musk’s flagship company Tesla’s stock hit a new two-year low of $150.04 on Friday morning, prompting renewed concerns that the billionaire’s recent acquisition and chaotic management of Twitter is crumbling the bedrock of his financial empire. The stock dive took place the morning after Musk booted several prominent journalists …
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The House Jan. 6 committee will vote on whether to make a recommendation to the Department of Justice to file criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, according to a report from The Guardian. Politico later confirmed that the committee is mulling whether to refer Trump for charges, with sources …
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Elon Musk has turned on the reporter he hand picked to “expose” Twitter’s content moderation decisions after she … criticized his content moderation decisions. Writer Bari Weiss was hand-selected by Musk as one of the conduits for a multi-part expose, dubbed “The Twitter Files,” that purported to unveil a grand …
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Elon Musk sold around $3.6 billion worth of shares of his flagship company Tesla this week, despite reassuring investors in April that he had “no further TSLA sales planned” after he secured the funds to acquire Twitter in a $44 billion deal. The sale was revealed in an SEC filing …
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