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Elon Musk targets advertisers who boycott X with expletive-filled rant

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 7:15pm
Musk appeared to specifically call out Disney chief executive Bob Iger, whose company is among those who paused advertising on X.
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MAGA celebrity comes at a political cost, and evidence is growing

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 7:14pm
Biden is trying to tie the GOP to Rep. Lauren Boebert, who embodies the perverse political incentives in the modern Republican Party.
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Speaker Johnson expresses ‘real reservations’ about motion to expel Santos

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 6:43pm
The House speaker said GOP leadership would allow lawmakers to “vote their conscience” on a motion to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.).
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Supreme Court conservatives seem dubious about SEC’s in-house tribunals

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 6:17pm
While critical of the Security and Exchange Commission’s procedures, the justices seemed to be looking for a narrow — not wide-ranging — solution.
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House GOP may vote to formalize impeachment inquiry despite lack of direct evidence

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 5:37pm
House Republicans were told Wednesday that they probably will have to vote on formally authorizing the inquiry into President Biden in the coming weeks.
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Biden blasts Rep. Boebert on her home turf

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 5:12pm
President touts wind energy as he seeks to use hard-right House Republicans as a foil
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Ukraine funding’s fate hangs on thorny immigration issue in Senate

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 5:09pm
Republicans demand border security changes before sending billions of dollars more in aid.
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Arizona officials charged with conspiring to delay midterm election outcome

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 4:12pm
The indictments mark a rare example of potential criminal consequences in battleground Arizona, where county officials, state lawmakers and GOP candidates have helped delegitimize election outcomes and procedures.
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No one in the modern era has blown a primary lead as wide as Trump’s

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 3:41pm
The only candidate to poll higher than Donald Trump in the year before an election was George W. Bush in 2000.
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Liz Whitmer Gereghty drops out of competitive New York congressional race

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 3:20pm
Gereghty’s exit from the race gives a boost to Mondaire Jones, who previously represented the district.
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Officers are on trial for Elijah McClain’s death. Here’s what to know.

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 3:15pm
The trial of suspended Aurora, Colo., police officer Nathan Woodyard begins a day after one fellow officer was convicted and a second acquitted.
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11 of the most scathing allegations in the House ethics report about Santos

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 1:56pm
The House Ethics report details evidence to support a lengthy list of allegations. Here’s some of what investigators found.
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James Comer’s most dishonest Biden attack yet

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 1:10pm
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee made clear just how far he is willing to go.
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See the evolution of lies in George Santos’s campaign biography

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 12:58pm
George Santos’s campaign site was edited to add or change details in his biography. Once his fabrications came to light, many details were removed altogether.
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The misleading Ukraine claim at the heart of the GOP’s impeachment push

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 12:07pm
There’s one false story in particular that Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) and his allies keep telling.
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Trump’s edge over Haley and DeSantis might be bigger than you think

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 9:51am
Trump has greatly expanded his lead in national polls. But that actually might undersell how much the race has swung in his favor.
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Jury to weigh: Was fatal shooting of handcuffed man by police criminal?

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 7:52pm
Prince George’s County police officer Michael Owen fatally shot a man. Was it murder or self-defense?
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Trump lawyers ID election denial’s Patient Zero: Russian interference

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 5:52pm
Russia’s efforts to swing 2016 to Trump are now being deployed to (his lawyers hope) keep him out of prison.
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Hunter Biden offers to testify publicly before House panel

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 5:20pm
The offer escalates a battle with House Republicans, who have subpoenaed the president’s son to testify in a closed-door session.
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Koch network endorses Nikki Haley for president as it looks to stop Trump

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 4:51pm
The endorsement comes as Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and S.C. governor, has gained momentum in the Republican primary, and has in many ways surpassed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the top alternative to Trump.
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