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Along the way, a host of former officials and advocates give an intimate view of how long-erected safeguards against corruption were dismantled from the inside

firms that built ties to the Trump administration have been calling him in a panic, asking which Democrats they should donate to or recruit for their boards. “They essentially made the cardinal sin of forgetting that pendulums reliably do one thing — and it swings back most of the time”

After watching parents return to work while their babies were still in intensive care, Pittsburgh nurses fought to secure the nation's first countywide 12-week paid parental leave policy.

But in a “public apology” issued Sunday, Grob expressed deep regret over the meeting that he suggested was used as a "political photo opportunity” after White House officials shared images and footage of a moment of prayer...which Grob claims was posted without the bishops’ consent

Early signs from Brazil’s institutions and from leaders across the region, including conservative presidents who oppose Lula, suggested the results will be respected nationally and internationally. Even with the vote extension, Lula’s win was decisive [>4M votes] a margin of nearly 4%.

In the first half of this year, it lost $80bn, versus $13bn for the same period in 2025. One-fifth of its $16.3bn in revenue came from just two customers, and Anthropic expects a “significant portion” of its revenue to “come from a limited number of customers in the foreseeable future”.

Comey is known for bringing criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs during her tenure Furman added: "Indeed, to accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system."

“Instead of working to lower grocery costs as they promised the American people they would, House Republicans are pulling the rug out from under millions of families by taking away federal assistance to put food on the table...all to fund more tax breaks for the wealthy.”

It is tempting to dismiss this whole thing as another episode of Trumpian absurdity...Yet the spectacle is revealing. Republican politics has increasingly become a form of personal loyalty theater...demonstrated through extravagant praise, public displays of affection and performances of devotion.

“As election officials, we don’t have the kind of megaphone that the president of the United States has,” Crane said. “He has much more ability to spread disinformation and lies about our election process than we do to spread the truth about what really happens.”

The BBC reported, “Last year, Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre explained to Trump it was an independent committee based in Norway, not the Norwegian government, which decides who will receive the prize” ...The president also took a moment to compliment rapper Nicki Minaj’s “beautiful ass.”

“Trump’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory.” - Barack Obama in Ohio.

On Wednesday, the tech giant said it would create a new class of non-voting shares for shareholders, allowing Mr Zuckerberg to sell his stock and settle a tax bill without diluting his control of the company.

He said he hadn’t made all that much money working with ICE. But city records show that his earnings from the agency already totaled $18,793.25 in nine months, more than a quarter of his base salary. “I think it’s skewed a little bit,” he said, looking at the pay stubs we had gathered.

Starlink across Ukraine and occupied territories have been subjected to strict operational constraints since early 2026...Starlink connectivity is...deactivated across sovereign Russian territory. “Very strange that Elon Musk does not know about the restrictions on Starlink operations in Ukraine”

Kufta was required to register as a sex offender in Florida but was not listed on Texas's public registry. His absence from the Texas registry should not, by itself, be taken as evidence of a registration violation... The prior Florida conviction...does not establish guilt in the Texas proceedings.

Ohio state Sen. Rob McColley, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor "...admits Vivek believes that Amy was raped by her Mother’s husband and that Amy’s Mom chose to stay with Amy’s rapist...Vivek Ramaswamy decided to use this woman in an ad anyway. Truly horrifying.”

Leo contacted Putin and asked him to arrange a ceasefire to allow food and humanitarian assistance into Oleshky. The Kremlin confirmed Putin’s October 16 call with the pope, saying he agreed to help protect residents and provide essential supplies. ...Leo spoke with Zelenskyy three days later

according to reporting...citing two people familiar with Noem’s role at the State Department, the former secretary’s post was never authorized. “This was not a press release put out by the State Department,” one of his sources revealed. “Noem went rogue and created a fake letterhead to post on X.”

“They plant terrorists all the time,” Tamra Jer, who voted for Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024, told Tabet. “Who knows how he was raised? Even though he was raised here, he could be ‘Allah, Allah,’ and blow up everybody when he gets in the Senate. Who knows?”

A local official in Iowa is taking heat for appearing in a political ad denouncing a Democrat as “just plain dangerous” for kids — while having once been arrested for child endangerment herself...

Trump didn't cook the books. He deep-fried them.

“Musk” was released by Bleecker Street Films, which was sold in the last week to ebay founder Pierre Omidyar — not considered a friend of Elon Musk, but a billionaire nevertheless.

Florida Republicans paid a sham candidate named Alex Rodriguez to siphon votes from Democratic incumbent José Javier Rodríguez in 2020, when Republican Ileana Garcia won by just 32 votes.

“These records show that Kash Patel worked hand in hand with the former White House deputy chief of staff on the 2025 DOJ-FBI memo, which stated there would be no further investigation or release of the Epstein files"

Mitchell’s campaign did not challenge the video’s legitimacy, arguing through an attorney that political opponents were attempting to undermine his congressional bid... The revelations come just one day after Mitchell [presented Trump] with a self-created “Man of the Century Award.”

The coin also features an engraved image of Trump “flipping the bird.” ...The person who died during the shooting was 50-year-old Corey Comperatore, who “dove on his family” to “protect them”...Comperatore was the father of two daughters and worked as an engineer in Butler, Pennsylvania.

With fundamentals tilting the playing ground so fully in the Democrats’ favor, Deace argues, Republicans’ only hope is to disenchant all but the most engaged parts of their base. They need moderate Republicans and independents–“normies”–to stay home.

Former Alaska state elections attorney Libby Bakalar called the government’s argument “laughably bad, almost to the point of sanctionably frivolous,” while Notre Dame Law School election law professor Derek Muller called the argument “one of the worst ones I’ve ever seen.”

According to the Associated Press, the legal move kicks off “what many have feared could become a lengthy battle between the U.S. government and states over certifying an election where the president’s party is struggling.”

"Thank God you’re getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don’t ride bicycles in Iowa” Evidence shows however that people in Iowa very much do ride bikes, especially during the RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa), a seven-day cycling tour...the largest in the world

...at one point telling the reporter, “you don’t know anything” when he was informed that Acton’s stepfather had been indicted for raping her... He also said other Republican politicians who have denounced Ramaswamy’s use of the ad “don’t know the facts”...

“As an official White House photographer, I documented press conferences of two Presidents of the United States (Obama and Reagan). As a photojournalist, I documented press conferences of three (Bush 41, Clinton and Bush 43)” “[In Trump's] own words: ‘What is wrong with you?’”

Crank, alongside most other House Republicans, worked to block efforts to force a vote on the issue and refused to sign on to a discharge petition forcing a vote. Once it became clear the discharge petition would succeed, the White House gave House Republicans permission to vote for the release

Notably, neither Karl nor @PollTracker2024 claimed Hinson called Vance himself “ridiculous” — only that she had used the word to describe his comments about the Ramaswamy ad.

...the employees who won’t be getting rings received an email about them that turned out to be nothing more than cybersecurity testing...The employees who clicked the link were “forced to attend a mandatory cybersecurity class”