The path back to mainstream respectability
Category: Politics
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Amazon, Facebook, other tech giants spent roughly $65 million to lobby Washington last year
The sizable sums foreshadow the political blitz that Silicon Valley is likely to mount in the face of fresh promises from President Joe Biden and his new Democratic majorities in Congress that they plan to rein in the tech industry.
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Fauci, unchained
The government’s leading infectious-disease expert exults in being able to speak frankly.
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Biden’s inaugural address was a call for help: ‘We have to be different’
The new president issued a rallying cry to the American public clearly shaped by the Capitol riot incited by the rhetoric of his predecessor.
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At Voice of America, a sweeping ouster of Trump officials on Biden’s first full day
With a veteran reporter taking the place of controversial overseer Michael Pack, the dominos started falling in other top offices.
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Senate confirms Avril Haines as director of national intelligence
Haines, a former deputy director at the CIA, will be the first woman to lead the intelligence community.
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The Trailer: Seven questions for the new political year
What happens to the filibuster? What will “unity” mean, in practice? And more.
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Harris to delay move into vice presidential residence
The second couple will stay at a temporary home while the 128-year-old Naval Observatory residence undergoes repairs.
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QAnon believers seek to adapt their extremist ideology for a new era: ‘Things have just started’
With Q having vanished and Trump out of office, far-right extremist groups are targeting disillusioned believers online in hopes of further radicalizing them to a new cause.
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Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah bid adieu to Trump: ‘America just got a brand-new dad’
Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah and other late-night hosts roasted President Trump’s departure from the White House with one last round of jokes, after four-plus years of bashing him relentlessly.
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Every Cabinet job is about climate change now
How Biden can direct every part of the government to attack the problem
