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“A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.” Richard Dawkins
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Trump invokes Fifth Amendment nearly 450 times in N.Y. AG’s civil probe of his business practices
An attorney for Trump said the former president answered only one question, about his name, during the four-hour deposition.
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Senior FIFA official resigns over Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan. Second says it deceived staff apnews.com/article/cord...
Senior FIFA official resigns over Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan. Second says it deceived staff
Two senior FIFA officials have criticized Gianni Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan with one resigning as a presidential adviser and a second saying staff were deceived by project that must not go ah...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said he would invoke the Fifth Amendment and decline to answer questions during a Senate hearing Wednesday. Committee chair Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., subpoenaed Fauci to appear at the hearing aimed at again questioning him on the origins of the coronavirus.
After RFK Jr. failed to respond to his first inquiry, Sen. Ossoff is again pressing Sec. Kennedy on cuts to cyclosporiasis monitoring. “Your silence amidst an ongoing outbreak of diarrheal disease is indicative of the reckless arrogance with which you demolished America's public health defense."
AOC: Ask Peter Thiel. Ask Elon Musk. Ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these centers, please raise your hand.
"The other commissioner who approved the Paramount merger, FCC Chair Brendan Carr, and his wife sat in a private skybox with Paramount CEO David Ellison and other executives from Paramount and CBS. Such seats sold for $125,000 a ticket..." www.propublica.org/article/para...
FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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Social media influencers Andrew and Tristian Tate arrested in Miami, US Marshals service tells AP apnews.com/article/tate...
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristian Tate arrested in Miami, US Marshals service tells AP
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by federal authorities Saturday in Miami. That's according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
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The writer E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million held in escrow since a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed but were denied an emergency order to block the payment from being made.
Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8M in Trump sex abuse and defamation case; Trump appeals
A federal judge has ruled that E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million held in escrow since a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her.
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Judge blasts Trump's IRS lawsuit as filed for 'improper purpose,' recommends attorney discipline apnews.com/article/trum...
Judge blasts Trump's IRS lawsuit as filed for 'improper purpose,' recommends attorney discipline
A federal judge says President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose” as she referred attorneys for disciplinary actions.
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Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum, implies during a press conference her government will take action after an ICE agent killed Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
US support for Israel slips as Democrats grow more critical, AP-NORC poll finds apnews.com/article/isra...
US support for Israel slips as Democrats grow more critical, AP-NORC poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll reveals a dramatic erosion of support for Israel, after decades of bipartisan backing.
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I think at this point the US team has to speak or make some moves or we will think they are aligned with this nonsense.
Didn’t see this coming. Another Senate race to watch closely. Lindsey Graham spent years acting like South Carolina belonged to him. The voters might have other plans. Dr. Annie Andrews is at 45%, and among informed voters, she leads Graham 46% to 43%.
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Dwight D. Eisenhower