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Beetleboob Boasts Of $20M Project She Voted Against

The Insider reports: Earlier this month, Rep. Lauren Boebert voted against a must-pass government funding bill that contained more than $20 million for the Colorado district she’s now abandoning. On Monday night, she celebrated the impending arrival of that funding anyway. “Can’t wait for the ribbon cuttings and to see these priorities come to fruition,” the congresswoman said in a …

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Biden Campaign Launches Outreach To Latino Voters

Axios reports: President Biden will use a stop at a Mexican restaurant in Phoenix today to announce a national program to reach Latino voters — “Latinos con Biden-Harris” — as his campaign rushes to reverse gains that former President Trump appears to be making with Hispanic voters. Why it matters: Four years ago, Biden won Latino voters 2-to-1 over former …

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Paris Olympics Lifts “Intimacy” Ban, Stocks Condoms

CBS News reports: The intimacy ban that had been in place for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been lifted for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the Olympic village, where the athletes stay during the event, will be stocked with 300,000 condoms, Laurent Michaud, director of the village, told Sky News. In an interview about the upcoming games, which will be …

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US Capitol Police Begin Body Camera Pilot Program

ABC News reports: The U.S. Capitol Police on Monday started wearing body-worn cameras as part of its pilot program to protect its officers and members of Congress as well as enhance public trust, its chief said. Seventy Capitol Police officers will wear the body cameras during the 180-day program. Body cameras will not be used inside buildings on the Capitol …

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Sean Hannity: I’ve Told Trump To Attack Biden’s Base

“If I was Trump — and I’ve had discussions with him about it, you know — I’d go after Joe Biden’s base. The base of the Democratic Party is a coalition party demographically. You see these massive numbers in polls, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, young people, suburban women. I would also unite the Republican Party around principles and ideas and …

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EPA Issues Ban On Last Type Of Asbestos Still In Use

Ars Technica reports: The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized a ban on the only type of asbestos still used in the US, chrysotile asbestos. This move was decades in the making. Chrysotile asbestos, aka “white asbestos,” is still imported, processed, and used in the US for diaphragms (including those used to make sodium hydroxide and chlorine), sheet gaskets, brake …

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RNC Sues Nevada Secretary Of State Over Voter Rolls

Courthouse News reports: The Republican National Committee, along with the Nevada Republican Party and a registered voter, sued Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar and other election authorities Monday claiming several counties have outdated or inaccurate voter rolls. “Election integrity starts with clean voter rolls, and that’s why the National Voter Registration Act requires state officials to keep their rolls …

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“Billionaire” Trump Wails That He May Be “Forced To Mortgage Or Sell Assets, Perhaps At Fire Sale Prices”

“Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision. In other words, he is trying to take my Appellate Rights away from me when I have already won at the Appellate Division, but he refuses to accept their already made decision. “Nobody has ever heard of anything like …

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Trump Sues ABC And Stephanopoulos For Defamation

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News on Monday, arguing that the anchor George Stephanopoulos had harmed his reputation by saying multiple times on-air that Mr. Trump had been found liable for raping the writer E. Jean Carroll. A jury in a Manhattan civil case last year found Mr. Trump …

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Judge In Docs Case Slammed For “Bizarre Order” That Suggests Trump Can Claim Docs Are Personal Property

The Washington Post reports: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified-documents case issued an unusual order late Monday regarding jury instructions at the end of the trial — even though she has not yet ruled on when the trial will be held, or a host of other issues. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon instructed lawyers to file proposed jury …

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