Politics

Haley: Pardoning Trump Is In America’s “Best Interest”

“You know, if you’re talking about pardoning Trump, it’s not a matter of innocence or guilt at that point because that means he would have already been found guilty. I believe in the best interest of bringing the country together. “I would pardon Donald Trump because I think it’s important for the country to move on. We’ve got to leave …

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Alabama Supreme Court: Frozen Embryos Are Children

The Huffington Post reports: The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos are children, which pro-choice rights groups have warned could have dangerous implications for fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization. The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday reversed Mobile County Circuit Court Judge Jill Parrish Phillips’ decision to dismiss a lawsuit in which a couple sued an Alabama …

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Haley Dodges On Backing Trump As Nominee [VIDEO]

Mediaite has the transcript: HALEY: We are going to have a we are going to have a female president of the United States. It will either be me or it will be Kamala Harris. And if Donald Trump is the nominee of the in for the Republican Party, he will not win. Every poll shows that he will not win. …

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Hundreds Arrested While Mourning Aleksei Navalny

The New York Times reports: For the second day in a row, mourners walked purposefully along Moscow’s snow-heaped Garden Ring on Saturday carrying bouquets to lay at one of the improvised memorials to Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition figure who perished in a prison colony the day before. The flowers, wrapped in paper to shield them from the icy …

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Haley: RNC Will Become Trump’s “Personal Piggy Bank”

“My biggest issue is, I don’t want the RNC to become, you know, his legal defense fund. I don’t want the RNC to become his piggy bank for his personal court cases. We’ve already seen him spend $50 million worth of campaign contributions towards his personal court cases. “Now, we see him trying to get control of the RNC so …

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Tens Of Thousands Protest Hungary’s Viktor Orban

Reuters reports: Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest on Friday at the biggest rally against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government for years, after a sex-abuse case pardon by President Katalin Novak caused public uproar and led to her resignation. Conservative Orban, who has been in power since 2010, has sought to defuse the week-old scandal that brought down …

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Manchin To Announce He Won’t Run For President

NBC News reports: Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., will announce Friday that he will not run for president, according to two sources familiar with the decision, after spending months mulling a bid that would have shaken up the 2024 campaign. Manchin, 76, had previously said he would not seek re-election to his Senate seat this year, leading to speculation that he …

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LIVE VIDEO: Testimony Resumes In Fani Willis Hearing

USA Today reports: A second day of testimony resumes Friday in the Georgia hearing to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will be disqualified from the trial of Donald Trump and 14 remaining co-defendants on charges of election interference. Defense lawyers contend Willis and Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired for the case, should be removed because …

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Raskin Demands End To Biden Impeachment Probe: “Key Evidence At Heart Of Inquiry Is Based On A Lie”

“In a detailed indictment, Special Counsel David Weiss — who was appointed by former President Donald Trump — has demonstrated how key evidence at the heart of House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry is based on a lie. “Special Counsel Weiss’s investigation is just the most recent to debunk the Ukraine-Burisma conspiracy theory at the heart of this fraudulent impeachment inquiry. “It …

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FL House Approves Bill Making Left Lane Passing Only

Florida Politics reports: Florida may have fewer left-lane laggards on high-speed roadways next year if the Senate approves legislation that just zipped through the House. The bill (HB 317) cleared the Legislature’s lower chamber on a 113-3 vote. Its twin companion (SB 258) now awaits consideration beside it on the Senate floor. If approved, the measure would provide that the …

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Prominent Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Dies In Prison

The Guardian reports: The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in jail, the country’s prison service has said, in what is likely to be seen as a political assassination attributable to Vladimir Putin. Navalny, 47, one of Putin’s most visible and persistent critics, was being held in a jail about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle where he …

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GOP Rep Drops Montana Senate Bid After Six Days

Helena’s NBC affiliate reports: Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale has dropped out of the Montana U.S. Senate race MTN has confirmed. He entered the race Friday morning after months of speculation and hints of a potential run, with the goal of ultimately challenging Democrat U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in the general election. In a statement, Rosendale said knew the race …

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Shapiro: Endless Chaos Will Cost GOP House Majority

“Democrats are way better at this game than Republicans. Republicans are by and large a fragmentary group, it’s a coalitional group. “The confused messages coming out of the Republican Party is one reason why despite the unpopularity of the Democratic Party, Republicans are cruising for a bruising in November. I think people are whistling past the graveyard. “I don’t mean …

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DeSantis Complains Cultists Have “Hijacked” Book Bans

The New Republic reports: Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday came out in support of a proposal to limit book bans in schools—the direct result of his own stupid policies. In a press conference, DeSantis tried to claim that accusations that he has enabled book bans in the state of Florida are “a fraud” and “a big hoax.” He blamed “activists” …

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Tennessee GOP Bill Would Outlaw Sales Of Cold Beer

Memphis’s CBS reports: A bill working its way through the Tennessee legislature could put a chill on cold beer sales in the state. SB 2636, according to its summary on the state website, “prohibits a beer permittee from selling at retail refrigerated or cold beer.” It passed two votes in the Senate and was referred to a committee. The bill …

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Dem Bill Would Connect TX Power Grid To Rest Of US

The Hill reports: Reps. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have introduced legislation that would connect Texas’s self-contained grid with the rest of the nation, three years after extreme winter weather knocked out the grid and killed hundreds of Texans. Casar and Ocasio-Cortez announced the legislation on Wednesday, the third anniversary of the winter storm. The Connect the Grid …

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Haley Mocks Trump With Valentines To Dictators

The New York Post reports: Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is ushering in Valentine’s Day with a tongue-in-cheek dig at her old boss, former President Donald Trump, by penning some “love letters” on his behalf. “Happy Valentine’s Day from Donald Trump to dictators around the world! Over the years, Trump has professed his love for the world’s most brutal dictators …

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NATO Chief: Members’ Defense Budgets Are Rising

Bloomberg News reports: A record 18 out of NATO’s 31 countries are expected to meet the alliance’s defense spending goal this year, a commitment Donald Trump has been pushing for in his White House reelection campaign. “European allies are spending more” toward the bloc’s target to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told …

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Dem Tom Suozzi Flips Santos’s Former House Seat

NBC News reports: Democratic former Rep. Tom Suozzi is heading back to Congress after he won the special election in New York’s 3rd District to replace former GOP Rep. George Santos, NBC News projects. Suozzi’s victory Tuesday over Republican Mazi Pilip cuts Republicans’ already razor-thin House majority by one seat, making legislating even more difficult moving forward. The result is …

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House Dems May Go Around Johnson On Ukraine Aid

Newsweek reports: Senior Democrats are suggesting that a discharge petition could be introduced to bring a $95-billion overseas aid bill to a vote in the House of Representatives if Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to introduce it. On Tuesday the bill passed the Senate in a 70-29 vote, but it must also be approved by the House before President Joe Biden …

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