Category: Politics
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Former Rep. David Rivera of Florida arrested in Venezuela probe
WASHINGTON — A former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government was arrested Monday in connection with an ongoing federal criminal investigation, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. David Rivera, a Republican who served from 2011 to 2013, was arrested at Atlanta’s airport, said Marlene Rodriguez, a spokesperson…
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Post Politics Now: Warnock, Walker make final pitches in Georgia Senate runoff – The Washington Post
Post Politics Now: Warnock, Walker make final pitches in Georgia Senate runoff The Washington Post
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Bipartisan panel criticizes State Dept.’s religious freedom list
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the Biden administration’s priorities for U.S. foreign policy on Capitol Hill on March 10, 2021, in Washington, D.C. | Ken Cedeno-Pool/Getty Images A congressionally mandated religious freedom watchdog panel is “disappointed” in the U.S. State Department’s decision Friday to leave…
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Milo Yiannopoulos Fired From Kanye West Campaign: Report – Rolling Stone
Milo Yiannopoulos has been released from his position on Kanye West’s 2024 presidential campaign, The Daily Beast reported. “Ye and I have come to the mutual conclusion that I should step away from his political team,” Yiannopoulos wrote on his Telegram account on Sunday. “Ye is a genius whom I have come to love and…
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Pence Claims Trump Was ‘Genuinely Remorseful’ After Jan. 6 – Rolling Stone
Former vice president Mike Pence claimed that Donald Trump showed “genuine remorse” when the two met five days after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. Yes, you read that correctly. The man for whom Trump supporters constructed a gallows somehow believes the former president harbors regret regarding that day. While promoting his new book,…
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Supreme Court to rule on businesses that decline same-sex weddings
LGBTQ advocates fear a decision will weaken anti-discrimination laws covering businesses. Others say an important First Amendment principle is at stake. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case on Monday. WASHINGTON – A spontaneous celebration erupted outside the Supreme Court in 2015 when a slim majority of the justices legalized same-sex marriage across the nation. Gay…
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Who is Herschel Walker? What to know about Georgia Senate candidate
Senate candidates in Georgia will face off Tuesday when the runoff race between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker comes to a head. The race in Georgia went to a runoff after neither Democratic incumbent Warnock nor Republican challenger Walker earned more than half the votes cast in November. While Democrats have already locked the Senate majority for the next two years, a win…
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Debt ceiling politics could diminish US world power
The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. The U.S.A. is the greatest country in the world. The “debt ceiling” is boring. But those often misunderstood words represent a prime reason for America’s standing as a dominant power…
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Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi release Twitter docs on Hunter Biden tapes
WASHINGTON — Elon Musk promoted a series of tweets Friday that shows Twitter executives struggled with handling tweets surrounding a report on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 presidential election as the company took steps to block it. “This will be awesome,” Musk, CEO of Twitter, wrote before the release of what he billed “The Twitter files” – a lengthy Twitter thread by journalist Matt Taibbi detailing internal…
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Biden brings back state dinners, holiday parties to White House
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Walker, Warnock campaign, rail strike prevented, this week in politics
Walker, Warnock campaign, rail strike prevented, this week in politics For You News Sports Entertainment Life Money Tech Travel Opinion The week after the Thanksgiving holiday, Congress was back in action to pass legislation preventing what could have been an economically devastating freight rail strike. Also in the Senate, the Respect for Marriage Act passed…
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Donald Trump OK’d alleged tax fraud scheme, prosecutor argues
NEW YORK – Former President Donald Trump “explicitly” sanctioned the alleged tax fraud scheme at the heart of the criminal trial of two Trump companies, a prosecutor argued Friday, citing trial evidence. Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass made the assertion during closing arguments in the trial of the Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation. He said…