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Las Vegas pushes to become first to ban ornamental grass
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A desert city built on a reputation for excess and indulgence wants to become a model for restraint and conservation with a first-in-the-nation policy banning grass that nobody...
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Dwayne Johnson Responds “It’d Be My Honor” to Poll Showing 46% Want Him to Run for President
The movie star has repeatedly said he was seriously considering a run for the White House.
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The Matt Gaetz Investigation: What We Know
The Justice Department is said to be investigating the congressman’s encounters with women recruited online for sex and whether he had sex with a 17-year-old girl.
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Matt Gaetz Is Said to Be Investigated Over Possible Sexual Relationship With a Girl, 17
An inquiry into the Florida congressman was opened in the final months of the Trump administration, people briefed on it said.
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Do You Think You Can Tell How a Neighborhood Voted Just by Looking Around?
An interactive, street-level tour of America’s full political landscape.
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The new journalist
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U.S. launched "more than 2 dozen" cyber operations to protect election, top official says
General Paul Nakasone said U.S. Cyber Command conducted "more than two dozen" operations to counter foreign attempts to interfere in the 2020 elections.
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Why do Americans share so much fake news? One big reason is they aren’t paying attention, new research suggests
Americans who share fake news on social media might not lack media literacy skills. Chances are they don't stop to check accuracy, a new study suggests.
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Study: No partisan benefit from mail voting in 2020 election
Donald Trump last year publicly worried that the explosion in voting by mail during the pandemic would increase turnout so much that “you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
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QAnon's ‘collateral damage’: Families struggle to pull loved ones back from the brink
No easy answers when a family member has fallen into the clutches of "Q," the conspiracy theory popular with supporters of former President Trump.
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'Climate facts are back': EPA brings science back to website after Trump purge
Canceled four years ago by a president who considered global warming a hoax, climate crisis information has returned to the website of the US government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of Joe Biden’s promise to “bring science back”.
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States are finally moving to ban the homophobic ‘gay panic’ defence
Lawmakers in New Mexico took a step forward for LGBT+ people recently by advancing a bill to ban the so-called “gay panic” defence – a strange, backward legal idea that’s evaded the march of sexual and gender equality across the US with remarkable resilience.
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A year into the pandemic, Florida is booming and Republican Gov. DeSantis is taking credit
After a year of criticism by health experts, mockery from comedians and blistering critiques from political rivals, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is standing unabashedly tall among the nation's governors on the front lines of the coronavirus fight.
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U.S. intelligence finds Russia and Iran sought to influence 2020 election, but China did not
The report assesses that Putin "had purview over" Giuliani associate Andrii Derkach's activities.
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Inside Gab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Right Extremists
The hacked data from Gab contains 65 gigabytes of data, including 4 million Gab accounts, 31,000 groups, and 39 million posts.
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Watch: John Oliver Dedicates Entire Segment to Exposing Tucker Carlson as a 'White Supremacist'
John Oliver railed against Tucker Carlson yet again on Sunday's Last Week Tonight -- this time dedicating the bulk of his show to exposing the prime time host as "the most prominent vessel in America for white supremacist talking points.”
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Trump spoke to his base. Biden speaks to the entire nation.
As president, Trump always seemed to speak to his base. During his first primetime address as president, Biden spoke to the entire nation. MSNBC's Brian Williams has more.
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What Is Happening to the Republicans?
In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.
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GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead
President Joe Biden and the Democrats were on the brink of pushing through sprawling legislation with an eyepopping, $1.9 trillion price tag. But many Republican politicians and conservative commentators had other priorities in recent days. A passionate defense of Dr. Seuss. Serious questions about the future of Mr. Potato Head. Intense scrutiny of Meghan Markle.
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Biden Endorses Female Generals Whose Promotions Were Delayed Over Fears of Trump’s Reaction
President Biden has nominated two female generals to elite, four-star commands, the Defense Department announced, months after their Pentagon bosses had agreed on their promotions but held them back out of fears that President Donald J. Trump would reject the officers because they were women.
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