In the fall of 2012, as I was planning out a reporting trip into Syria, one of the story ideas I hoped to sell on to editors back home involved retracing the itinerary of Austin Tice, a fellow freelancer who had disappeared somewhere in Syria about eight weeks earlier. One …
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Four candidates have declared their intention to compete for chair of the Democratic National Committee, but as the race heats up, an aggressively polite, exceedingly Midwestern cold war has broken out between factions backing the two state party chairs in the race: Ben Wikler of Wisconsin and Ken Martin of …
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President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t even taken office, and congressional Republicans are already taking cues from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and the pair’s new playground, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. GOP lawmakers immediately lined up against the original short-term government funding bill released this week after Musk voiced …
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When Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats endorsed Ron DeSantis in his ultimately fruitless bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump accused the Florida governor of buying the endorsement. Trump questioned whether DeSantis had committed “a major Campaign Finance Violation by paying for… Bob Vander Plaats’ useless endorsement.” He …
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Less than 48 hours before defaulting and triggering a shutdown, Congress is still scrambling to pass a stopgap funding resolution that will keep the U.S. government funded and functional through the next few months. After several starts and stops, Republicanswere reduced to infighting on Wednesday after Elon Musk — Trump’s …
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Elon Musk, self-described “First Buddy” of President-elect Donald Trump, went all out to thwart a last-minute funding deal to avert a government shutdown. The move was a direct challenge to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who rolled out the sweeping plan on Tuesday night. Now, it appears Musk has successfully …
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WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association is liquidating investments as it bleeds cash amid legal turmoil, internal tumult, and dwindling membership revenue, according to an independent audit reviewed by Rolling Stone. In February, the NRA liquidated nearly $17 million worth of stocks and fixed-income assets from its investment portfolio and …
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A Georgia appeals court has disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from heading the state’s RICO prosecution against Donald Trump and several of his allies over their alleged attempts to interfere with Georgia’ 2020 election results. The decision is another blow to Georgia’s efforts to try the president-elect for …
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Elon Musk has not been elected to any public office, but after tanking Republicans’ most recent attempt at a stopgap funding bill to avoid a shutdown, some right-wing lawmakers are entertaining the idea of installing him as speaker of the House. Democrats, by contrast, are pointing out that if the …
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President Joe Biden should commute the sentence of Charles Littlejohn, the former IRS contractor who was sentenced in January 2024 to five years in prison. By disclosing the federal tax records of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires to news organizations, Littlejohn enabled vital reporting about how …
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