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CNN reports: Top acting State Department official deleted at least half a dozen tweets that ridiculed his now boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, including ones calling him “low IQ” and repeating a false rumor about Rubio’s sexuality. The deleted tweets from Darren Beattie, the acting under secretary of state for public diplomacy, were uncovered as part of a CNN …

Courthouse News reports: Former U.S. Representative George Santos’ campaign fundraiser Samuel Miele was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Friday for his role in the congressman’s scheme to inflate campaign fundraising numbers and redirect donor contributions for his personal benefit. The sentence comes over a year after Miele pleaded guilty to wire fraud and admitted to …

Reuters reports: Tesla’s stock has dropped by nearly half in three months. Even so, investors are still debating whether Elon Musk’s electric-vehicle maker remains overpriced. The company’s market capitalization has dropped 45% since hitting an all-time high of $1.5 trillion on December 17, erasing most of the gains the stock made after CEO Musk helped finance the election victory of …

ABC News reports: Democrats want to force President Donald Trump’s administration to rehire veterans who were laid off as part of large-scale efforts by Trump and Elon Musk to reshape the federal government and its workforce, ABC News has exclusively learned. Sens. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Andy Kim of New Jersey plan to introduce the Protect Veteran Jobs Act …

Semafor reports: Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered fighting talk in his acceptance speech after being elected Liberal Party leader Sunday night, vowing to resist US threats of annexation and to maintain tariffs on US imports until “America shows us some respect.” “Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” Carney said. “We …

“Well, first, just to set the stage for this, I want to make it clear that Republicans control the House, Republicans control the Senate, and they, of course, control the White House. If there is a government shutdown, it will be because Republicans want one. That’s number one. Number two, we are already in a government shutdown or at least …

Orlando’s ABC affiliate reports: A 17-year-old boy is in custody after Sanford police say he threatened a school shooting. Police said the student is enrolled in Elevation High School, but the threat was made against Seminole High School. Officials said the teen posted a concerning video online, which led to his arrest. Police are praising the person who informed law enforcement …

The Washington Post reports: They came in aggressively, a former official who witnessed Elon Musk’s team take over the Social Security Administration said, demanding access to sensitive taxpayer data and refusing briefings on how the agency ensures the accuracy of its benefit systems. They recklessly exposed data in unsecured areas outside Social Security offices, the official said, potentially disclosing personally …

“All of the crashes that have happened over the course of our first two weeks in office, they have nothing to do with air traffic control specifically. “The last administration, they focused on a lot on green, they focused on a lot of social justice. And we’re focused on actual infrastructure. If we can get the money up front and …

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: Offended that some Congress members displayed Ukrainian flags in the House of Representatives chamber during President Donald Trump’s Tuesday speech, U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno is introducing legislation that would ban flying foreign flags on Capitol Hill. “When I came to this country as a child, I swore allegiance to America and America alone, which is …