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Fox News host did not expect his Biden conspiracy to get blown apart on live TV

Fox News host did not expect his Biden conspiracy to get blown apart on live TV

At the heart of every single Republican conspiracy about both President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine is a single claim. The claim is that Joe Biden got Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin sacked in order to protect energy company Burisma, where Hunter Biden was on the board. That was the claim former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani brought back from Ukraine, and the basis on which Donald Trump tried to blackmail Ukraine and earned…

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NFL star likes Bud Light, COVID shots, and Taylor Swift, and the right is raging

NFL star likes Bud Light, COVID shots, and Taylor Swift, and the right is raging

Taylor Swift left Arrowhead Stadium with Kansas City NFL star Travis Kelce after cheering him on in his Sunday game while seated next to his mother. And yes, there’s a political angle here, thanks to the likes of right-wing personality Charlie Kirk—and thanks to Kelce’s own decisions. At age 33, he’s presumably contemplating what his life after the NFL will look like. Swift’s attendance at the game followed rumors that she and Kelce were dating, as well as him publicly…

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Ukraine Update: Abrams is in the house

Ukraine Update: Abrams is in the house

On Monday morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted that American M1 Abrams tanks were “already in Ukraine and are preparing to reinforce our brigades.” This confirmed a statement that President Joe Biden made last week when he indicated the tanks were to arrive within days. It was only in May that Ukrainian troops began training in the operation and maintenance of the United States’ main battle tank, and some had suggested that the tanks were unlikely to see combat before…

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As shutdown looms, Kevin McCarthy does … nothing

As shutdown looms, Kevin McCarthy does … nothing

There are just six days until a government shutdown unless a stopgap funding bill passes, and Congress is out Monday to observe Yom Kippur. As of Monday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy doesn’t have that short-term funding bill. Instead, the House Rules Committee spent part of the weekend advancing the scheme cooked up by Rep. Matt Gaetz last week, one guaranteed to shut the government down. The committee met to line up four appropriations bills to consider this week: Defense, Agriculture,…

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Inside the courtroom of Trump’s D.C. judge

Inside the courtroom of Trump’s D.C. judge

U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan is poised to preside over a historic trial that will feature a defendant unlike any who has set foot in her court or any other: former President Donald Trump. But last week, in a much lower-profile trial — her first since Trump’s federal indictment for election subversion — Chutkan took on some of the same thorny issues that will, on a much grander scale, come into play when the former president faces a jury…

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Here’s who made the second Republican presidential debate

Here’s who made the second Republican presidential debate

The stage is set for the second GOP presidential primary debate — and once again, the frontrunner is nowhere to be seen. On Monday night, the Republican National Committee confirmed that seven candidates have been invited to Wednesday’s debate: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessperson Vivek Ramaswamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. This stage represents…

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All you need to know about the return of federal student loan payments

All you need to know about the return of federal student loan payments

Tens of millions of Americans are gearing up to make student loan payments in the coming weeks for the first time in years as a pandemic-era reprieve finally comes to an end. Payments have already begun pouring into the Education Department as some borrowers begin to repay. But the major test for the federal student loan system — and the Biden administration — lies ahead when official due dates arrive in October. Individual borrowers face a series of decisions about…

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Defiant Menendez doubles down against resignation calls

Defiant Menendez doubles down against resignation calls

UNION CITY, N.J. — A defiant Sen. Bob Menendez on Monday doubled down that he will not resign under the cloud of a damning federal bribery indictment and a state party apparatus that has largely abandoned him. The remarks were made in Union City, Menendez’s hometown where he started his political career as a school board member in the 1970s and eventually became mayor. Menendez said “this will be the biggest fight yet” for him, although he doubled down on…

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History Offers Democrats a Way Out of the Menendez Problem

History Offers Democrats a Way Out of the Menendez Problem

Senator Robert Menendez had a bad week. A New Jersey Democrat currently serving his third full term in the Senate, Menendez was indicted last Thursday by federal prosecutors who laid out an elaborate and damning case involving secret payments funneled through an American-based businessman, all tracing back to favors the senator allegedly performed on behalf of the Egyptian government. Even for New Jersey, which a 2014 Harvard study named one of the two most politically corrupt states in the country,…

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