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Rep. Liz Cheney lost her GOP primary in Wyoming Tuesday night, falling to a Donald Trump-endorsed challenger after becoming a vocal Republican dissident against the former president following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.Cheney, who was seeking a fourth term, was defeated by Harriet Hageman, an attorney and former Cheney supporter

August 17, 2022

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President Biden signed into law sweeping legislation to lower prescription drug prices, boost the renewable energy sector, and impose new taxes on large corporations.The Democrat-backed package is one of Mr. Biden’s most consequential accomplishments since taking office, the latest in a string of legislative victories that the president’s aides hope will

August 16, 2022

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The NBA won’t hold any games on November 8 — Election Day for the 2022 midterms — in an effort to focus on encouraging fans to vote.” The scheduling decision came out of the NBA family’s focus on promoting nonpartisan civic engagement and encouraging fans to make a plan to vote during midterm elections,” the league said in a tweet.

August 16, 2022

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He recently shocked fans by claiming his ‘expiration date’ is ‘coming really soon’ – and Mike Tyson’s appearance in a wheelchair will do little to ease the fears of those who worry about him. Tyson, 56, posed for selfies with fans and was wheeled through the terminal at Miami International Airport Tuesday. The iconic heavyweight boxer has been

August 16, 2022

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A Cuban doctor has been shot to death at a hospital in a rough neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City, prosecutors in the state of Mexico confirmed late on Monday. The doctor, whose name was not provided, was killed on Friday along with a nurse and another woman at a hospital in the suburb of Ecatepec. The killing comes after criticism of President

August 16, 2022

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A federal judge in Florida will hear arguments Thursday over whether to make public the affidavit laying out what evidence led to the extraordinary FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, as investigators begin to pore over documents and other items seized from the sprawling private club.The affidavit would provide more detail

August 16, 2022

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The former Pop Idol contestant and theatre star Darius Campbell Danesh was found dead in his US apartment at 41, his family announced. The singer and actor were found in Rochester, Minnesota, on 11 August. The cause of death is as yet unknown. A statement said: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Darius Campbell Danesh. Darius was found

August 16, 2022

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4moms is recalling more than 2 million of its MamaRoo and RockaRoo infant swings and rockers because of entanglement and strangulation hazards, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced. There have been two reports of children becoming entangled in the restraint straps of the Mamaroo swing, which hang below the seat of the

August 16, 2022

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One person died, and nine were seriously injured after an electric self-driving BMW test car veered into oncoming traffic in Germany, triggering a series of collisions involving four vehicles. The electric BMW iX, which had five people on board, including an 18-month-old toddler, swerved out of its lane at a bend in the road in the southwestern town of Reutlingen on Monday,

August 16, 2022

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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday moved to make hearing aids available to consumers to buy over the counter without a prescription or medical exam, a long-awaited goal for nearly 30 million consumers.“As early as mid-October, Americans will be able to purchase more affordable hearing aids over the counter at pharmacies and stores across the country,”

August 16, 2022

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First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for Covid, the White House announced Tuesday. She tested negative for Covid on Monday “during her regular testing cadence” but “began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening,” her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, said in a statement.”She tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive.

August 16, 2022

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Rep. Liz Cheney’s supporters have mixed feelings about the brutal defeat likely heading her way in Tuesday’s Republican primary: resignation about her fate, pride in her for standing up to former President Donald Trump at a personal price, and hope that she will rebound to a more prominent place in national politics. There are few visible signs that Cheney is even trying to win

August 16, 2022

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Ecuador’s embattled president, Guillermo Lasso, has declared a fourth state of emergency in the violence-racked city of Guayaquil after a deadly bomb attack killed at least five and injured 17 people. Ecuador’s interior minister, Patricio Carrillo, described Sunday’s explosion as a “declaration of war on the state” by organized crime in the country’s largest city, and it has been classified

August 16, 2022

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A$AP Rocky has been formally charged with assault with a firearm after being arrested in April over the alleged shooting of A$AP Relli during a disagreement in Los Angeles last November, Rolling Stone reports. Rocky, AKA Rakim Meyers, faces charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm with allegations of personally using a firearm. The US rapper could face up to

August 16, 2022

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago at a rally in Arizona, asserting that federal law enforcement agencies are being “weaponized” against political enemies. Stumping for Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, DeSantis accused the department of having gone “totally off the rails” with its raid of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.“ These agencies

August 16, 2022

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Donald Trump has furiously called for the immediate release of the ‘completely unredacted’ affidavit that sanctioned the FBI raid on his Florida mansion. The former president said it was ‘in the interest of transparency the document be made public following the ‘horrible and shocking break-in’ at Mar-a-Lago. He slammed the ‘very large number of gun-toting FBI agents’who entered his

August 16, 2022

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The Justice Department objected on Monday to making public the affidavit used to justify the search of former President Donald J. Trump’s home in Florida, saying its release would “compromise future investigative steps” and “likely chill” cooperation with witnesses.In a 13-page pleading filed in a federal court in southern Florida in response to requests by The New York Times and other

August 16, 2022

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The Trump Organization’s former finance chief is expected to plead guilty later this week to criminal charges stemming from his indictment on tax-fraud charges, according to people familiar with the matter. Records show that a court hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning for longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg. The people said that the guilty plea, which is expected

August 16, 2022

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Mayor Eric Adams plans to convert the Row NYC — formerly known as the Milford Plaza and located in pricey, tourist-packed Times Square — into an intake center and shelter for as many as 600 migrant families amid the city’s spiraling homelessness crisis, three sources familiar with the matter said.“In a month or two, we’re about to open up for [the city Department of Homeless

August 15, 2022

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A federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack has subpoenaed Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann for documents and testimony, according to a person familiar with the matter. Herschmann represented Donald Trump in the former president’s first impeachment trial and later joined the White House as a senior adviser. He did not work in the White House counsel’s office

August 15, 2022

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Pete Carril, the Hall of Fame coach who brought notoriety to the “Princeton Offense” during his 30-year tenure with the Tigers, died Monday morning at the age of 92.”We kindly ask that you please respect our privacy at this time as we process our loss and handle necessary arrangements. More information will be forthcoming in the following days,” the Carril family said in a statement

August 15, 2022

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A prominent Manhattan neurologist found guilty of raping six female patients, drugging them, and making them watch him masturbate hanged himself in Riker’s Island early Monday. Ricardo Cruciani, 67, who was convicted last month by a Manhattan jury on four counts of sexual abuse after six of his former patients testified against him, was found hanging in a common shower area

August 15, 2022

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Lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have been told that he is a target of a criminal investigation in Georgia into election interference by Donald J. Trump and his advisers, one of Mr. Giuliani’s lawyers said on Monday. Mr. Giuliani, who spearheaded efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power as his personal lawyer, emerged in recent weeks as a central figure in the inquiry being conducted by Fani T. Willis,

August 15, 2022

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A federal judge on Monday denied Sen. Lindsey Graham’s request to quash his subpoena in Georgia prosecutors’ investigation into potential criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election by President Donald Trump and his allies, signaling he must testify in the probe.Graham had argued that he should be exempt from testifying due to speech or debate clause protections, sovereign

August 15, 2022

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Police fired a stun gun at two Arizona parents as they tried to force their way into a school that police had locked down after an armed man was seen trying to get on campus. The parents were arrested, along with one other, as they tried toget to their children to protect them, authorities said. Officers in the Phoenix suburb of El Mirage used a Taser stun gun to stop two of them as they tried to

August 15, 2022

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On Monday, lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner filed an appeal against her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession, Russian news agencies reported Monday. Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted on Aug. 4. She was arrested in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after vape canisters containing

August 15, 2022

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An anti-Trump Republican group already spending millions of dollars this fall to oppose election-conspiracy candidates is now upping its investment. In a $3 million ad buy launching Monday, the Republican Accountability Project’s nonprofit arm is setting out to remind voters in seven critical swing states of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 — a message they believe will resonate with some

August 15, 2022

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Sen. Rand Paul is calling for the Espionage Act to be repealed amid a federal investigation into whether former President Donald Trump violated that law.”The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment,” Paul wrote. The statement comes less than a week after the FBI search

August 15, 2022

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China’s economy stumbled in July as a two-month boost from easing lockdowns faded, prompting the country’s central bank to unexpectedly cut two key interest rates in an effort to shore up faltering growth.A raft of data released Monday showed economic activity slowed across the board in July, including factory output, investment, consumer spending, youth hiring, and real estate,

August 15, 2022

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On Monday, an Iranian government official denied that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie in remarks that were the country’s first public comments on the attack. The comments by Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, come over two days after the attack on Rushdie in New York. However, Iran has denied carrying out other operations abroad

August 15, 2022

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A Kentucky judge was suspended with pay on Friday following testimony that he pressured a lawyer practicing in his court to support his reelection campaign. Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission voted 3-2 to suspend 42nd Judicial Circuit Judge Jamie Jameson following a daylong hearing in which he told commissioners they were being used for political purposes, The Paducah Sun reported.

August 15, 2022

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Donald Trump has seen his poll numbers improve after the raid at his Mar-a-Lago estate, at the expense of what many see as one of his key rivals in 2024. Trump’s share of the potential Republican primary voters boosted from 53 percent in mid-July to 57 percent on August 10, according to a Politico/Morning Consult poll. That combines with a six-point dip for his biggest potential rival

August 15, 2022

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The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have issued a joint intelligence bulletin warning of a spike in threats to federal law enforcement officials since the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-lago club in Florida, two senior law enforcement officials told NBC News.“The FBI and DHS have observed an increase in threats to federal law enforcement and, to a lesser

August 14, 2022

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Mexico’s president has begun exploring plans to sidestep congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army, a move that could extend the military’s control over policing in a country with high levels of violence.That has raised concerns because President Andrés Manuel López Obrador won approval for creating the force in 2019 by pledging in the constitution that it would be

August 14, 2022

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A man died by suicide after driving his car into a vehicle barricade near the Capitol; police said Sunday morning. As the man got out of his car, it “became engulfed in flames,” the Capitol Police said, and then the man “fired several shots into the air.”As officers started approaching the man, he shot himself, according to the police. No officers appeared to have fired their weapons,

August 14, 2022

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At least 41 people were killed and 14 injured when a fire ripped through a Coptic church and children’s nursery in the Egyptian city of Giza just as worshipers were gathering for Sunday services, authorities here said. More than three dozen ambulances poured into the Imbaba district of Giza, the impoverished city on the western bank of the Nile River across from Cairo, where the Abu

August 14, 2022

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Another group of U.S. lawmakers are visiting Taiwan over the weekend after China issued a stark warning and began military drills near the island following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit less than two weeks prior. A five-member delegation, led by Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, is in Taiwan on Sunday and Monday as part of a larger trip through Asia, according to the

August 14, 2022

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According to reports and officials, five Americans were among the eight victims of a Sunday morning mass shooting in Jerusalem. Two United States citizens are being cared for at the Hadassah Medical Center, and three at Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Four of the five American victims were part of a family from Williamsburg, Brooklyn — home to a large Hasidic Jewish population — who arrived

August 14, 2022

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Saudi oil company Aramco’s half-year profits peaked just shy of $88 billion for the first half of the year as oil prices remain high globally, the company said Sunday. The oil and gas company, which is nearly entirely state-owned by Saudi Arabia, also saw a 90% surge in net profits for the second quarter of 2022 compared to the same time last year. Aramco said the results set a new

August 14, 2022

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A damning report from the FBI has concluded that Alec Baldwin pulled the gun trigger that killed the cinematographer on the set of Rust – despite him repeatedly stating that he did not.The actor, 64, accidentally shot dead Halyna Hutchins, 42, on the set of his film ‘Rust’ in October 2021 and injured director Joel Souza in the Bonanza Creek Ranch, Santa Fe incident New Mexico. Baldwin has

August 14, 2022

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Stock investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, dubbed India’s Warren Buffett with an estimated net worth of $6 billion, died early on Sunday at age 62, his family said. A chartered accountant by profession from the desert state of Rajasthan, Jhunjhunwala started dabbling in stocks while in college and went on to manage a stock trading firm, RARE Enterprises.“Rakesh-ji passed away

August 14, 2022

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Two people are dead and at least 17 were injured in Pennsylvania after police say a man fatally plowed his car into a fundraiser event for the families of 10 people who died in a recent house fire and then fled the scene and murdered a woman with a hammer.One death and all of the injuries occurred in the crash at the fundraiser in Berwick before the driver fled the scene and beat

August 14, 2022

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For the first two centuries of U.S. history, outgoing presidents simply took their documents with them when they left the White House. The materials were considered their personal property. But for the past four decades, every presidential document — from notebook doodles to top-secret security plans — is supposed to go directly to the National Archives as the material is

August 14, 2022

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A federal jury awarded Republican Roy Moore $8.2 million in damages Friday after finding a Democratic-aligned super PAC defamed him in a TV ad recounting sexual misconduct accusations during his failed 2017 U.S. Senate bid in Alabama. Jurors found the Senate Majority PAC made false and defamatory statements against Moore in one ad that attempted to highlight the accusations against

August 14, 2022

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Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and was able to talk on Saturday, his agent has confirmed, as the US president hailed the writer’s courage and voiced horror at the attack on him. The Indian-born British novelist remains hospitalized with serious injuries, but fellow author Aatish Taseer tweeted Saturday evening that he was “off the ventilator and talking (and joking).” Rushdie’s

August 14, 2022

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A bishop under house arrest, priests harassed by the police, the Missionaries of Charity expelled, and numerous restrictions on worship: this is the situation that the Catholic Church in Nicaragua is experiencing today under the current government of President Daniel Ortega.But how did the Central American country come to such a crisis?This story begins in 1979 with the overthrow of

August 13, 2022

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Three days before he became prime minister, Boris Johnson’s final column for the Daily Telegraph was published: a call for Britain to heed the lessons from the 1969 moon landings and embrace a “can-do spirit” while implementing Brexit. Such political insight did not come cheap, with Johnson pocketing a £275,000 salary for working 10 hours a month on his weekly opinion

August 13, 2022

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A French Bulldog taken at gunpoint in a brazen daylight abduction has been found dead. The 14-month-old pup named Bruno was on a walk with his owner in the Brightwood neighborhood of Washington D.C. on April 13 when four men accosted his owner and took the dog, along with a wallet and cell phone. Bruno’s owner, Jamaica Harvey, said she received a call from police in Maryland’s

August 13, 2022

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Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney’s husband is a partner at the law firm now representing Hunter Biden. Philip Perry has worked at Latham & Watkins since 2007 and focuses on white-collar cases, and commercial and Supreme Court litigation, according to his company biography. Another Latham partner, Chris Clark, has been representing Hunter Biden since December 2020 — but

August 13, 2022

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As Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, packs his suitcase for a five-day trip to campaign for Trump-endorsed candidates, he might afford himself a dastardly chuckle.The trek, taking in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, is nominally aimed at boosting Republicans’ chances ahead of November’s crucial primaries. For DeSantis, however, there is surely a grander design. Each rising

August 13, 2022

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The Internal Revenue Service faces political opposition and staffing challenges as it prepares for an $80 billion infusion to be spent – over the coming decade.The new funding is a key component of the climate, healthcare, and tax legislation that President Biden is expected to soon sign into law.Proponents say the money will increase government revenue by enhancing efforts

August 13, 2022

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A Texas airline agent was suspended Friday after being caught in a wild viral video trading blows with a woman who yelled racial and homophobic slurs at him. The unidentified Spirit Airlines representative was seen at the start of the 90-second clip squaring up to the female passenger at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW).“You have lost your mind! Don’t touch me ever in your life!”

August 13, 2022

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Jeffrey Toobin is leaving CNN after two decades on the network — where he survived a masturbation scandal that got him fired from the New Yorker magazine. According to Deadline, the commentator made the abrupt announcement Friday on Twitter as CNN was not expected to renew his contract.“Friends, I’ve decided that, after 20 years, I’m leaving @cnn after my vacation,”

August 13, 2022

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Paraguay’s vice president, a candidate in the country’s presidential elections next year, announced his resignation on Friday after U.S. officials blacklisted him for alleged “significant acts of corruption.”Analysts and officials said that the news had thrust the South American nation into a moment of political uncertainty, fostering a lack of trust in the government in the midst of an electoral season.

August 13, 2022

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