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Mar-a-Lago pool flood raises suspicions among prosecutors in Trump classified documents case

Washington CNN — An employee at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence drained the resort’s swimming pool last October and ended up flooding a room where computer servers containing surveillance video logs were kept, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. While it’s unclear if the room was intentionally flooded or if it happened by mistake, the incident occurred amid a series of events that federal prosecutors found suspicious. At least one witness has been asked by prosecutors about the flo ...

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George Santos' lawyers argue identities of 3 people who secured his $500K bail should remain sealed

Defense attorneys for Rep. George Santos, Republican of New York, filed a motion under a court-imposed deadline Monday night, arguing the court should keep sealed the records identifying the three people who helped him make the $500,000 bond in his federal criminal fraud case. Federal judge Anne Y. Shields had ordered Santos to respond by Monday at 5 p.m. to court motions by media outlets who have asked to unseal records showing the identities of the three individuals. His defense argues the t ...

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Cornel West announces 2024 run for president as People's Party candidate

Progressive activist Cornel West announced his 2024 campaign for president with the People’s Party on Monday. “I have decided to run for truth and justice, which takes the form of running for President of the United States as a candidate for the People’s Party,” West said in a video announcement on Twitter launching the third-party presidential bid. “I enter in the quest for truth, I enter in the quest for justice, and the presidency is just one vehicle to pursue that truth and justice — what ...

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RFK Jr heaps praise on Elon Musk saying he is 'rescuing American Democracy' during Twitter event

Presidential candidate and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr heaped praise on Twitter owner Elon Musk for defending free speech, during a Twitter spaces event with the executive on Monday afternoon. Mr Kennedy, who has long promoted the discredited theory that vaccines play a role in causing autism, participated in a Twitter Spaces event on Monday and praised Mr Muk for his stewardship of the social media giant for supposedly stopping censorship of voices that dissent from or ...

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Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin

A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin. . . . Other intelligence officials, both active and retired, with knowledge of these programs through their work in various agencies, have independently provided similar, corroborating information, both on and off the record. The ...

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States Are Stifling the Voices of Cities and Their Voters

(New York Times) Gov. Greg Abbott, Republican of Texas, is expected to sign a bill in the next few days that would make it immeasurably more difficult for cities in the state to govern themselves. The bill would strip cities of the ability to set standards for local workplaces, to ensure civil rights, and to improve their environments, trampling on the rights of voters who elected local officials to do just that.

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How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud

(NPR) The organization (ERIC) is a nonprofit voting partnership — completely voluntary — that allows member states an efficient way to share data to keep their voter rolls more up-to-date. It lets local election officials know when their voters move, die or illegally vote in more than one state in the same election. But in January 2022, the tool drew the ire of one of the most prolific misinformation peddlers on the internet: a website called the Gateway Pundit.

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'Cowards': Soledad O'Brien rips former CNN colleagues for silence as Chris Licht wrecks the network

(Raw Story) Former CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien had some harsh words for her former colleagues who have remained silent as CEO Chris Licht has tarnished their network's reputation. O'Brien on Sunday night made the comments in response to a report from The Atlantic's Tim Alberta that revealed a Licht henchman demanded that CNN's graphics department take down a chyron that referenced Trump being found liable by a jury for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll during last month's town hall event.

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Texas Republicans' troubles could have national implications

(MSNBC) I hesitate to call a situation as messy and embarrassing as this one hopeful, but when it comes to Texas politics, the bar has historically been set lower than the deepest offshore drilling operation. We have to take our wins where we can get them. Whether state Republicans consider Paxton a genuine threat to the remaining shreds of their party’s integrity or simply want to end a public relations nightmare, for once they’re actually doing the right thing for all Texans. And the implications for the nation writ large are massive.

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George Santos' lawyers argue identities of 3 people who secured his $500K bail should remain sealed

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