A Republican senator accused of insider trading for dumping some $1.6 million in stock ahead of the coronavirus stock market crash reportedly called his brother-in-law the same day he made the sale. Within a minute of the call, the brother-in-law was on the phone with his broker to sell his …
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If it seems like you’re seeing more conservative than liberal politicians on your Twitter feed, it’s because you are. The company released a study last Thursday finding a “statistically significant difference favoring the political right wing,” when it comes to which tweets are amplified. There is nothing more sacred to …
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Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday named John Scott Texas‘ interim secretary of state. But there’s one issue. Scott, who as secretary of state will serve as Texas’ chief election officer, worked as an attorney for former-President Trump in a suit trying to overturn the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania. Scott …
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Getting vaccinated can significantly reduce your chances of dying from Covid-19. Like, really significantly. Throughout the month of August, unvaccinated adults were 11 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than fully vaccinated adults, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC also …
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Since the 1980s, the number of people in urban areas exposed to extreme heat events has skyrocketed, tripling between 1983 and 2016. Scientists warned in a new study published Mondaythat urban population growth paired with warmer temperatures due to climate change have contributed to increasing numbers of people experiencing extreme …
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The same journalism organization that leaked the Panama Papers has uncovered a new trove of 11.9 million documents, dubbed the Pandora Papers, that contain explosive details about how global elites and billionaires hide their assets. Revelations from the leak included that a woman who gave birth to a child reportedly …
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The CIA reportedly plotted to kidnap Julian Assange, and some senior officials in the agency and the Trump administration allegedly went so far as to consider options for how to assassinate the WikiLeaks founder, Yahoo! News reported Sunday. According to the report, then-director Mike Pompeo was apparently motivated to get …
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One out of 320 Mississippi residents has died from Covid-19, making it the state with the highest rate of Covid deaths in the nation. But Governor Tate Reeves, who opposes President Biden’s vaccine mandates, says he wouldn’t do anything differently. In an interview onState of the Union,host Jake Tapper confronted …
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Republicans are doing everything they can to thwart Congress’ inquiry into the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol, including by threatening to purge their party of members who participate in the select committee tasked with that investigation. Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who has repeatedly spread Trump’s election lies, …
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The American military carried out a second drone strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, this time targeting a car carrying “multiple suicide bombers” intending to attack the Kabul airport, U.S. officials said, according to the AP. An earlier drone strike this weekend in Nangarhar Province killed two ISIS-K targets. Both …
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