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BIDEN, HUNTER, OBAMA, HOUSE
Former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain contacted President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, in September 2012 to ask for a "low, low key" donation to the Vice Presidents Residence Foundation nonprofit.
Klain, who was the chair of the organization that helps
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, WAR, ZELENSKYY
(CNN) The top US military officer told lawmakers Tuesday that the world is becoming more unstable and the "potential for significant international conflict is increasing, not decreasing."
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary
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TRUMP, UPTON, JAN, IVANKA
Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) on Tuesday announced his exit from Congress, notching up a 40-percent exit rate among House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump.
Just before announcing his retirement, Upton noted in a campaign email on Tuesday “very positive”
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TWITTER, MUSK, ELON, BOARD
US Elon Musk Twitter via Associated Press
Elon Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors a day after disclosing that the Tesla CEO took a 9% stake in the social media platform.
Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it entered into an agreement
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42, TITLE, BIDEN, BORDER
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., on Tuesday became the latest Democratic lawmaker to oppose the Biden administration’s move to end the use of Title 42 to expel migrants at the border, warning that doing so prematurely risks national security.
"I'm strongly opposed
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BIDEN, STUDENT, EXTEND, LOAN
On Tuesday, the Biden White House announced a new policy that will fill one of the major remaining holes in coverage under the health law. The change, proposed as a new regulation, would allow the relatives of people with health coverage through their employer
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SACRAMENTO, SHOOTING, MASS, SUSPECT
Police announced the arrests of two more suspects Tuesday in connection with the chaotic shooting in downtown Sacramento that left six dead over the weekend, bringing the total number of arrests to three as police continue to investigate.
Sacramento Police
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WOODS, TIGER, MASTERS, PLAY
Tiger Woods plant to play in the Masters, marking his return to golf tournaments Tiger Woods said Tuesday that he plans to play at the Masters. It's his first major tournament since a terrible car accident last year. Woods has won the Masters five times, including
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MAYOR, NYC, ADAMS, FLORIDA
RedState reported earlier on how New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has launched a campaign seeking to capitalize on the Democrat/media-driven fauxtrage over Florida’s new “Parental Rights in Education” law, which was signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on March
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OKLAHOMA, ABORTION, BAN, TOTAL
Similar anti-abortion bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature and in other conservative states in recent years have been stopped by the courts as unconstitutional, but anti-abortion lawmakers have been buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow
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Evidence-based explanations of the Covid-19 pandemic, including how it started, how it might end, and how to protect yourself and others.
Another surge of Covid-19 seems nearly inevitable — whether sooner, from the BA.2 omicron variant, or later, when the
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SOUTH, STORMS, SEVERE, TORNADOES
A tornado watch will be in effect until 7 p.m. CT across the South.
Severe weather continues to strike the South with damaging winds, tornados and huge hail.
Chunks of hail the size of golf balls were reported Monday night in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
On
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SMITH, BROTHER, ROCK, OSCARS
Chris Rock's brother is addressing Will Smith's attack on the night of the Oscars.
Speaking during an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Kenny Rock admitted that it ate away at him having to watch and rewatch footage of the moment Smith stormed onto the
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FOX, CAPITOL, CAPTURED, POLICE
Fox news made its way to Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Rep. Ami Bera (D-Elk Grove) identified himself as the victim of a fox attack. Bera, a doctor, told reporters he was walking near a Senate office building Monday when he felt something around his ankle.
“Yeah,
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CAROLINA, KANSAS, NORTH, BASKETBALL
Kansas uses a historic rally to claim its fourth men's NCAA basketball title
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The Kansas Jayhawks rallied behind the greatest comeback in national championship history
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JUSTICE, BARRETT, COURT, CONEY
(L-R) Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas arrive at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images
Virginia "Ginni" Thomas runs a little-known consulting
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GAETZ, SECRETARY, DEFENSE, AUSTIN
Tuesday’s House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Defense Budget Request produced some great theater as Florida Representative Matt Gaetz took on the shabby and incompetent record of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
It all started innocently
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DARWIN, MISSING, NOTEBOOKS, RETURNED
Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University's library have been returned, two decades after they disappeared.
The university said Tuesday that the manuscripts were left in the library inside a pink gift
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VOTED, 2016, STATES, TRUMP
Legal experts say Mowers’ actions could violate a federal law that prohibits “voting more than once” in “any general, special, or primary election.” That includes casting a ballot in separate jurisdictions “for an election to the same candidacy or office.”
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SHANGHAI, COVID, LOCKDOWN, EXTREMELY
Residents of Shanghai have reported that ''armed police'' have begun patrolling around the gates of residential communities while the Chinese financial hub of 26 million people is under another COVID-19 lockdown.
''The city will continue to implement closures
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