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Trump’s internet influence drops to five-year low as much-promoted blog falls flat, report says
Mentions of Donald Trump on social media have gone down 95 per cent since January, to their lowest point since 2016
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Florida makes it illegal for Facebook and Twitter to ban politicians
Leaders compare Big Tech to “communist rule,” will issue $250,000 per-day fines.
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Democrats unveil $30bn bill to cancel water debts and bail out utility firms
Legislation to cancel utility debts for millions of low-income households and bail out struggling utility companies is to be introduced in the US Senate on Thursday. Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator from Oregon, will propose a $30bn low-interest loans program for electric, water and sewage and broadband providers as part of the Maintaining Access to Essential Services During the Covid Emergency Act of 2021.
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NASA gets billion-dollar increase in Biden's 2022 budget proposal
NASA stands to receive a notable boost in funding to the tune of more than $1 billion if the Biden administration's 2022 budget request works its way through Congress.
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U.S. manufacturers blame Trump-era tariffs for inflation’s rise
Economists and policy makers are debating whether stimulus spending and easy monetary policy are fueling inflation. Many businesses say there is another culprit that should share the blame: import tariffs. The Trump administration implemented tariffs on products including lumber, steel and semiconductors to shield American companies from a glut of cheap imported products from China and other countries.
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Facebook says Trump now suspended until at least January 2023
Facebook announced Friday that former President Donald Trump would be suspended from its platform until at least January 7th, 2023 -- two years from when he was initially suspended.
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The End of Democracy as We Know It
Without Manchin, is the For the People Act dead? Probably, unless Biden can convince one Republican senator to join him in supporting it.
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Biden revokes and replaces Trump executive orders that banned TikTok
Biden's order calls for a review of the TikTok apps instead.
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Biden Says He Expects To Run For A 2nd Term
President Biden said he also expects Vice President Harris to join him on his reelection bid in 2024. Still, he noted he was a "great respecter of fate" and could not say anything for certain.
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'Truth embargo': UFOs are suddenly all the talk in Washington
After 75 years of taboo and ridicule, serious people can finally discuss the mysterious flying objects, and even skeptics say that's a good thing.
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'Fact-checking nightmare': Publishers are openly mocking Trump's inability to land a book deal
A presidential memoir by Donald Trump would almost certainly become a best seller, but the problem is nobody wants to publish one. The twice-impeached one-term president is struggling to score a major book deal, which is unheard of in the literary world, because publishers worry that the memoir would be ripped apart by fact-checkers and because the Trump brand is radioactive after the Jan. 6 insurrection, reported Politico.
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Biden Has Now Cancelled $3 Billion Of Student Loans
What this means for your student loans.
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Trump asked whether the DOJ and the FCC could investigate 'SNL' after it mocked him, report says
Trump said in 2019 that he wanted officials to investigate "SNL" and late-night shows. The Daily Beast reports that he actually tried to take action.
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You Can Have Billionaires or You Can Have Democracy
The billionaire class isn’t just a group of people who happen to be superrich. It’s a dynastic oligarchy with a single overriding objective: controlling the government to protect its inherited wealth.
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General Milley pushes back on G.O.P. accusations of a ‘woke’ military.
“I want to understand white rage, and I’m white,” General Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Republican congressman who objected to the teaching of “critical race theory.”
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QAnon supporters express boredom with "same old" Trump speech: "This is getting ridiculous"
"Judging by the Trump-supporting normies I live with, they were bored with his speech," wrote one QAnon user.
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YouTube Bans and Then Unbans Right Wing Watch, a Media Watchdog Devoted to Exposing Right-Wing Conspiracies
Right Wing Watch was banned while the right-wing extremists they merely exposed via the platform continue to publish misinformation on YouTube.
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Government must have power to reverse crypto transactions, says co-chair of blockchain caucus
Many in the cryptocurrency industry have long demanded that Congress provide "regulatory clarity" on how it will tax and regulate digital assets. But as powerful figures in Washington weigh in, it's doubtful crypto enthusiasts are liking what they hear.
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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who oversaw Iraq war, dies at 88
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who oversaw the Pentagon's response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has died at the age of 88.
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2 out of 3 Americans believe U.S. democracy is under threat
Ahead of the first Fourth of July since an attack on the Capitol, fueled by baseless claims of voter fraud, and as several GOP-led states work now to enact stricter voting rules, majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents express worry about the health of democracy.
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