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Jared Kushner helped create a Trump campaign shell company that secretly paid the president's family members and spent $617 million in reelection cash
Kushner directed Lara Trump, the vice president's nephew John Pence, and Trump campaign CFO Sean Dollman to serve on its board, a person familiar with the operation told Insider.
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Abolish the Space Force
Joe Biden, please, I’m begging you.
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Biden Unveils His Climate Team, Promising To Fight 'With The Urgency It Demands'
President-elect Joe Biden formally introduced his climate team on Saturday, saying that the people he has selected will lead his administration's "ambitious plan to address the existential threat of our time, climate change."
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Trump Tries to Ruin the Environment as Much as Possible Before Leaving
“This is a disaster,” a San Carlos Apache tribal leader said of one drilling project the administration is pushing forward
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Trump pressing aides on how to get an airport named after him: report
According to a report from the Daily Beast, Donald Trump is now looking past leaving the White House and querying close aides on what he has to do to get an airport named after himself as part of his legacy.
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With the Election Over, Facebook Gets Back to Spreading Misinformation
Turns out what's good for the world is bad for Mark Zuckerberg’s bottom line.
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UN independent expert asks outgoing US president: Pardon Wikileaks’ Assange
In an open letter to Donald Trump on Tuesday, an independent UN human rights expert asked the departing United States President to pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
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Congress Legalizes Smokey the Bear Impersonations
The $2.3 trillion spending bill repeals criminal penalties for using Smokey the Bear's likeness without government permission.
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Trump pardons Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraq civilians
Donald Trump has pardoned four security guards from the private military firm Blackwater who were serving jail sentences for killing 14 civilians including two children in Baghdad in 2007, a massacre that sparked an international outcry over the use of mercenaries in war.
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Trump pardons Manafort, Stone, father of Jared Kushner
Trump issued full pardons to 26 individuals and commuted the sentences of three others.
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Pardons in killings of Iraqi civilians stir angry response
WASHINGTON (AP) — The courtroom monitors carried the image of a smiling 9-year-old boy as his father pleaded for the punishment of four U.S. government contractors convicted in shootings that...
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Coalition Sues Trump Administration Over 'Outrageous Assault' on Tongass National Forest Protections
"Trump's reckless plan to clearcut old-growth trees in the Tongass will irreversibly damage our climate, kill wildlife, and devastate Southeast Alaska communities."
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A Pardoning Time of Year
The resistance to the apparent election of Joe Biden as President of the United States is continuing to play out.
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Even If It's 'Bonkers,' Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories
A significant number of Americans believe misinformation about the origins of the coronavirus and the recent presidential election, as well as conspiracy theories like QAnon, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll. Forty percent of respondents said they believe the coronavirus was made in a lab in China even though there is no evidence for this. Scientists say the virus was transmitted to humans from another species.
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‘Covid, Covid, Covid’: In Trump’s Final Chapter, a Failure to Rise to the Moment
As the U.S. confronted a new wave of infection and death through the summer and fall, the president’s approach to the pandemic came down to a single question: What would it mean for him?
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Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
Trump’s false claims about the election and coronavirus are taking a dangerous toll. Can the divide be healed?
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Julian Assange Will Likely Die In Prison Without A Pardon From Donald Trump, Journalist Says
Journalist Glenn Greenwald issued a dire prediction on Sunday about the future for Julian Assange — who is currently imprisoned in London, England — without the help of a pardon from Donald Trump.
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McConnell offers no clues for how Senate will avoid government shutdown
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered no clues for how the chamber might convince Senators Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders to drop demands that have put Washington on the brink of a government shutdown. The Kentucky Republican only briefly mentioned the need to pass a House-approved stopgap spending measure and get it to Donald Trump before midnight during his opening remarks on Friday.
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Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps
The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.
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Raphael Warnock’s Win Is One for the History Books
A Baptist preacher born and raised in Georgia, he will become his state’s first Black senator, breaking a barrier with distinct meaning in American politics.
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