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Judge removes Trump’s public lands boss after governor sued
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration’s leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully and has blocked him from continuing in the position.
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Facebook’s Oversight Board won’t launch in time to oversee the election — and activists aren’t happy
One activist called Facebook "a roiling cauldron of lies, violence and danger."
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Trump moves to open Tongass National Forest for logging, to environmentalists' dismay
During his first term, President Trump has rolled back or weakened more than 100 environmental regulations. On Friday, his administration moved to open up the country’s largest national forest for development. Alaska’s Tongass National Forest has been called “America’s Amazon,” and it absorbs about 8 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. Amna Nawaz talks to The New York Times’ Coral Davenport.
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Over 860,000 Americans have already voted, compared to fewer than 10,000 by this point in 2016
The reported number is a sign of Americans' excitement for the upcoming election, as well as an increased commitment to voting early fueled by the coronavirus pandemic and concern over the U.S. Postal Service.
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NYT got 2 decades of Donald Trump income taxes — paid no federal income taxes for 10 of past 15 years, and $750 for two years
The New York Times has obtained two decades of impeached and manifestly unfit U.S. President Trump. The resulting report shows he is in massive debt, and The full $100 million comes due in 2022.
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Maine Becomes First State To Try Ranked-Choice Voting for President
Voting for Libertarian, Green, or independent candidates will not mean “throwing your vote away.”
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Joe Biden releases 2019 tax returns ahead of presidential debate
The former vice president and his wife, Jill, reported $944,737 in taxable income last year and paid $299,346, or a 31% tax rate, in federal income taxes.
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New Big Data Sentiment Analysis Show Potential Biden Election Landslide
LUX Election 2020, a big data analysis program running on a supercomputer shows a growing divide in voter sentiment, with Democrat Joe Biden gathering positive sentiment, even among Republicans.
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Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say
The people behind the video appear to have made an abrupt decision to release the video sooner than planned.
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Trump to far-right extremists: 'Stand back and stand by'
President Donald Trump on Tuesday didn’t condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a “left-wing” problem and telling one...
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Amazon blocks sale of merchandise with "stand back" and "stand by"
President Trump's message to the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, is now showing up on T-shirts.
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Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump
Cornell University researchers analyzing 38 million English-language articles about the pandemic found that President Trump was the largest driver of the “infodemic.”
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Trump, first lady test positive for Covid-19
The announcement comes shortly after the president said he and the first lady were in the "quarantine process" following senior aide Hope Hicks' positive test.
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Jacob Wohl May Have Screwed Up for Good This Time
The young dirty trickster and his sidekick, already infamous for false smears, are charged with felonies over alleged robocalls to scare Black voters.
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A second Trump term would be 'game over' for the climate, says one of the world's top climate scientists
Michael Mann, one of the world’s most eminent climate experts, says Earth’s future ‘is in the hands of American citizens’
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Gay men have taken over the Proud Boys Twitter hashtag
The Proud Boys hashtag, which members of the far-right group have been using, was trending Sunday after gay men on Twitter hijacked it and flooded the feed with photos of their loved ones and families and with memes.
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Top aides accuse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of bribery, abusing office
Top aides of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have asked federal law enforcement authorities to investigate allegations of improper influence, abuse of
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Twitter bans posts wishing for Trump death. The Squad wonders where that policy was for them
The four progressive Democratic congresswomen known as "The Squad" expressed surprise on Friday night when Twitter posted about its policy against wishing harm or death to someone in light of President Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis.
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