Republicans versus the “enemy within,” a New Hampshire campaign that has nothing to do with the presidential primary, and a Supreme Court ruling with a cliffhanger ending.
Category: Politics
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Parsing Steve Scalise’s attempt to rewrite Trump’s history with Ukraine
The House Minority Whip offered an extremely generous assessment of Trump’s efforts to leverage Ukraine’s need for weapons.
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Michigan GOP candidate says he tells daughters to ‘lie back and enjoy it’ if rape is inevitable
Michigan GOP candidate Robert Regan, who is running for the state’s House of Representatives, said he tells his daughters to “lie back and enjoy it” if raped, in comments comparing the 2020 election to sexual assault.
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White House reaches out to Venezuela, a longtime foe, amid Russia crisis
Venezuela has long been one of America’s most bitter adversaries. But amid the crisis with Russia and soaring gas prices, the Biden administration is reaching out to the Latin American country.
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To Whom It May Concern: NATO is already on Russia’s border
A quick geography lesson for any cable news hosts requiring it.
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Will producing more oil lower gas prices? It hasn’t in the past.
The economics of gas prices are global — though that doesn’t mean that banning Russian imports wouldn’t have an effect.
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Biden sends Harris to Poland and Romania amid global crisis
The vice president will promise aid and support to Eastern European allies as part of an urgent effort to keep NATO united. Despite overall agreement, rifts may loom on how best to aid Ukraine militarily.
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Senate unanimously passes anti-lynching bill after century of failure
The measure’s passage by the Senate comes after lawmakers tried, and failed, to pass anti-lynching bills nearly 200 times.
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Mark Meadows, his wife, Debra, and their trailer-home voter registration
Meadows decried voting by people who were not “actual residents” of a state. But that’s what he and his wife appear to have done.
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Inside the Jan. 6 committee’s effort to trace every dollar raised and spent based on Trump’s false election claims
The Jan. 6 committee is focusing heavily on fundraising efforts by the Trump campaign, aligned super PACs and other groups to if they were willingly telling lies about the election raise money. It is doing this to determine whether there is a need to tighten campaign finance laws and whether it should make criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
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A judge uses Tucker Carlson’s own words against Fox News
The judge says Carlson’s skepticism of Sidney Powell’s voting-machine claims is the best evidence that Fox meets a key legal standard for defamation.
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In break with Trump, Rep. McCarthy says he doesn’t think there’s ‘anything savvy or genius’ about Putin
The former president made comments praising Russian President Vladimir Putin more than two weeks ago, but McCarthy did not publicly weigh in on them until Wednesday.
