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While investigators have charged his ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old Jaylyn Lee, with disseminating the pictures, they say the former Washington High School student who made them didn’t break the laws they applied to his case, which included “promotion of an altered sexual depiction” and...
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Requiem for an Empire
President Joe Biden greets President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, November 13, 2024, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith) By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove...
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The downfall of Matt Gaetz
It is hard to know which of the myriad allegations swirling around Matt Gaetz finally put an end to the former Florida congressman’s short-lived bid to become Donald Trump’s attorney general. The 42-year-old, who Trump had nominated to become the nation’s top law enforcement official, has variously...
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What to know about Pam Bondi, Trump's new pick for attorney general
NEW YORK (AP) — Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, was chosen Thursday by Donald Trump to serve as U.S. attorney general hours after his first choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew from consideration after a federal sex trafficking investigation and ethics probe made his ability to be confirmed...
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Inside Trump’s dramatic potential plan to shake up the FBI
President-elect Donald Trump is considering shaking up the leadership at the FBI by firing the director and installing an experienced former agent and MAGA loyalist in the top two roles. Trump has planned for months to fire Christopher Wray if he was elected, but in recent days has struggled to find...
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US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza ceasefire, saying it doesn’t guarantee release of hostages
CNNThe United States has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, on the grounds it would not have secured the release of hostages. “We made clear throughout negotiations we could not support an unconditional ceasefire...
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Federal Reserve’s likely slowdown in rate cuts could disappoint borrowers
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a few weeks ago, the path ahead for the Federal Reserve looked straightforward: With inflation cooling and the job market slowing, the Fed appeared on track to steadily cut interest rates. In September, its officials...
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The Advancing MAGA Mob is Not a Monolith
According to the old cliché, a frog dropped into a pot of boiling water will immediately leap out, while the same frog placed in a pot of room-temperature water is incapable of noticing the water slowly coming to a boil, and will remain in the pot, unaware of the impending doom, until it is cooked...
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Musk and Ramaswamy to fire civil servants who stay at home
US civil servants will be fired if they do not go to the office five days a week under Elon Musk’s plan to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. “If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,” Musk and Vivek...
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The fate of MSNBC could be in Trump’s hands
Months into President Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, his Justice Department sent shockwaves through the media industry by suing to block AT&T’s takeover of CNN owner Timer Warner. The unusual challenge set off speculation that the lawsuit was driven at least in part by a desire to...
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