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Comment on this storyComment ATLANTA — The last of former president Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Fulton County, Ga., racketeering case turned themselves in for mug shots, fingerprinting and processing Friday, giving way to intense legal maneuvering over the time and direction of the case. Trump, who surrendered late Thursday, and his allies are …

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Comment on this storyComment George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley occupies an unusual spot in the cloud of lawyers and legal experts that has orbited around Donald Trump over the past eight years. He never worked for the former president, sparing him from being exiled by Trump into the ever-growing universe of declared Trump opponents. …

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Comment on this storyComment After a 2015 cybersecurity hack exposed personal data of more than 21 million federal employees and contractors, the Pentagon took over development of a new IT system from the Office of Personnel Management. Defense Department officials launched plans in 2016 for a National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) system that would manage …

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Comment on this storyComment A picture may be worth a thousand words. Donald Trump’s Fulton County mug shot is worth all that and 13 counts in the Georgia indictment filed last week. Trump, 77, is known for mugging for the camera. Now, he has a mug shot, the first former president to be the subject …

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Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election Updated August 25, 2023 at 7:34 a.m. EDT|Published August 25, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT (Washington Post illustration; iStock) Comment on this storyComment Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation, …

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Comment on this storyComment “The climate change agenda is a hoax … The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.” — Vivek Ramaswamy, during the first GOP presidential primary debate, Aug. 23 We did an instant fact check of Wednesday’s presidential debate but decided …

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Comment on this storyComment Former president Donald Trump made a return to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, late Thursday, with his account sharing his mug shot and a link to his website hours after his surrender and subsequent release from an Atlanta jail on charges connected to his attempts to reverse the 2020 …

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Comment on this storyComment After her well-received debate showing, Nikki Haley’s campaign worked the phones, collected checks from donors and raised more online in the last 24 hours than on any day since the campaign started, according to an adviser. Onstage the night before, the former U.N. ambassador had positioned herself as the biggest general …

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Comment on this storyComment A federal judge Thursday denied a request to let Montgomery County parents pull their children out of the classroom when books with LGBTQ characters are read aloud. Several Muslim and Christian families sued Montgomery County Public Schools in May, saying the use of LGBTQ storybooks forces religious parents to either forgo …

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Comment on this storyComment Roughly 12.8 million people watched the Republican primary debate on Fox News on Wednesday night — in line with expectations that the first debate of the 2024 presidential cycle would fall far short of the 24 million people who watched the comparable election-season kickoff eight years ago. The Milwaukee debate featured …

Ratings for first Republican debate of 2024 couldn’t compare with 2016 Read More »