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    House Republicans subpoena Hunter and James Biden as their impeachment inquiry ramps back up

    NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty Tuesday to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying Trump directed him to arrange the payment of hush money to inappropriate content star Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to fend off...
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    Ex-cop on the run after allegedly killing ex-wife at her school, murdering girlfriend and abducting kid as he was due in court for child rape

    Agreed "According to Murray, Huizar’s ex-wife was an underaged student wrestler that he had coached when they first met." "Officer I. Suarez in his police report noted that an ultrasound photo belonging to [Jane Doe, not the ex-wife] showed that she would have been only 15 years old when she...
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    Current GOP efforts to make it harder to vote: list from 538

    I don't think whatever point you're making is clear. The 'but' suggests that you disapprove of this favoritism [?] The Supreme Court is afraid of a slippery slope fallacy? Because they are not smart enough to issue a narrow ruling?
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    Current GOP efforts to make it harder to vote: list from 538

    I don't know the ins and outs of the law, but voting is not a benefit or an 'entitlement', but rather a right for all citizens of voting age. Perhaps we can restrict handgun purchases at gun shows to those over 65.
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    Jan 6 Breach of the Capitol: Consequences & Repercussions III

    Jan. 6 rioter with 'I heart TRUMP' hat and a Confederate flag gets 30 months in prison for assaults on officers Isreal Easterday took "a symbol of treason, defiance of the law, and insurrection" to the Capitol before he temporarily blinded two officers with chemical spray, prosecutors said...
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    Current GOP efforts to make it harder to vote: list from 538

    SCOTUS is cool with that. Supreme Court rejects challenge to vote-by-mail restrictions in Texas Seven states – Texas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee – allow older voters to request an absentee ballot for any reason but let others do so only under certain...
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    Inside the rural Texas resistance to the GOP’s private school choice plan

    TN school voucher bill dead for the year: 'I am extremely disappointed,' governor says The school choice legislation, a longtime priority for Lee, stumbled out of the gate over vast differences between dueling Senate and House versions, in addition to significant pushback from local public...
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    A federal judge says migrants can sue the company that flew them to Martha's Vineyard

    Migrants Get Visas for Being 'Victims' of Ron DeSantis The roughly four dozen migrants that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis helped fly from Texas to Martha's Vineyard about a year and a half ago have been granted legal designations due to the Republican's crimes against the "victims." "The cases...
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    This is interesting. GPS errors on the Finland Russia border.

    Russia Is Jamming Airplane GPS For Thousands Of Flights Across Europe Over 46,000 planes have reported GPS issues over the Baltic Sea since last August
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    Ex-cop on the run after allegedly killing ex-wife at her school, murdering girlfriend and abducting kid as he was due in court for child rape

    An ex-school cop is on the run after allegedly gunning down his ex-wife and his 17-year-old girlfriend in Washington state – on the same day he was due to face court on child rape charges. Police are frantically hunting for Elias Huizar, 39 – who they say is “armed” and “likely to commit more...
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    Earth in hot water? Worries over sudden ocean warming spike

    Just one million years? Going back almost that far, we see the CO2 fluctuating a bit, but on scales of thousands of years, where the recent rise due to human activity is essentially a vertical line. Going back hundreds of millions of years, there is even more variation, including times when the...
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    Search Warrant Executed at Mar-a-lago

    Trump co-defendant (Walt Nauta) in classified documents case was told he’d be pardoned in Trump's second term, notes in FBI interview say Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta was told that if he was charged with lying to the FBI, the former president would pardon him when he won a second term in...