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Biden lawyer shovels dirt on impeachment probe in sarcasm-filled letter to Mike Johnson

White House counsel Edward Siskel on Friday sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in which he declared the GOP-led impeachment probe of the president dead.

As Axios reports, Siskel encouraged Johnson to formally drop the impeachment probe and concentrate on solving problems that matter to American voters.

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U.S. ambassador says Beijing stance on TikTok ban 'supremely ironic'

The U.S. ambassador to China said Friday that Beijing's position on a potential TikTok ban in the United States was "supremely ironic" given the ruling Communist Party's censorship of online platforms within its borders.

The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force the wildly popular short-video app to break with its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban.

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Federal lawsuit targets use of AI deepfakes to attack voting rights

New Hampshire residents and voting rights groups on Thursday launched a federal lawsuit against a Democratic consultant and two companies behind January robocalls featuring audio that mimicked Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden's voice using artificial intelligence to discourage recipients from participating in the state's primary election.

"These types of voter suppression tactics have no place in our democracy," declared Celina Stewart, chief counsel at the League of Women Voters (LWV) of the United States. "Voters deserve to make their voices heard freely and without intimidation."

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GOP school candidate who demanded Obama's execution doubles down after being exposed

A new report revealed Thursday that the North Carolina Republican nominee for state superintendent had repeatedly called for former President Barack Obama to be publicly executed for treason — and she's responding by doubling down on her demands.

"According to @KFILE and @CNN @CNNPolitics, Obama's drone attacks on hundreds of innocent Muslims in Yemen are not treasonous," wrote Michele Morrow on X. "The insanity of the media demonstrates the need to teach K-12 students real history and critical thinking skills. #ncpol"

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Navarro could have dodged prison by just showing up at Jan. 6 committee: legal analyst

All he had to do was show up.

Donald Trump's former adviser Peter Navarro looks set to become a prisoner next week after a final appeal against a contempt of Congress conviction failed Thursday — and a legal expert said it's a sentence that would have been so simple for him to avoid.

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Ex-Trump lawyer says Biden worked with DOJ to 'make a big show' of being better than Trump

As Judge Aileen Cannon denied President Donald Trump’s to have the case over his handling of classified documents dismissed Thursday, his ex-lawyer appeared on TV.

CNN's Boris Sanchez spoke with attorneyTimothy Parlatore about his thoughts on special counsel Robert Hur's report announcing his decision not to charge President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents.

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'Pay-per-view in front of firing squad': GOP candidate called for Obama's public execution

The Republican candidate to oversee schools in North Carolina has repeatedly called for executing Democratic presidents, a CNN report claimed.

According to an investigation by CNN's KFILE, "Michele Morrow, a conservative activist who last week upset the incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Carolina’s Republican primary, expressed support in 2020 for the televised execution of former President Barack Obama and suggested killing then-President-elect Joe Biden."

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Trump spokesperson accuses Alvin Bragg of admitting violations in new hush money filing

Former President Donald Trump's campaign claimed Thursday that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was "conceding serious discovery violations" in his criminal hush money case when he said he would not oppose a 30-day delay in the trial.

Trump shared a comment from campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung on Truth Social minutes after news spread of Bragg's three-page filing in response to the former president's motion to dismiss.

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'It's perverse': Psychologist hits media for 'normalizing' Trump & 'pathologizing' Biden

A psychologist Thursday took the media to task for normalizing former President Donald Trump while "pathologizing" President Joe Biden in a misguided attempt at balanced coverage.

"The press edits out the most disordered parts of Trump’s speeches or normalizes his behavior with innocuous euphemistic words, like 'rambling,'" Dr. John Gartner said in an interview with Salon. "The press is pathologizing the normal in the case of Biden and normalizing the pathological in the case of Trump. It’s perverse."

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'Running as a dictator': Rhetorician flags alarming change in Trump's speeches

Former President Donald Trump has made a disturbing shift in his 2024 presidential campaign stump speeches, according to a rhetorician raising the alarm about authoritarianism.

“He's running as a dictator," Professor Jennifer Mercieca told progressive commentator Aaron Rupar, "He's determined to destroy the Constitution.”

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U.S. VP Harris to make landmark abortion clinic visit

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will tour an abortion clinic Thursday, highlighting a key election issue in what US media reported was the first such visit by a president or vice president.

Her visit in the northern state of Minnesota is part of Harris's nationwide tour highlighting reproductive rights following the Supreme Court's 2022 reversal of the nationwide right to abortion.

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Biden opposes Nippon Steel takeover of U.S. Steel

President Joe Biden said Thursday he is against the proposed sale of U.S. Steel to Japan's Nippon Steel, as election year considerations appeared to outweigh the risk of angering key ally Japan.

Biden's intervention in the planned $14.1 billion acquisition comes less than a month before he hosts Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit to the White House aimed at boosting ties and countering China.

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Red flags raised over ex-Trump official’s TikTok bid

Former Trump Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin announced Thursday he is putting together a group of investors to buy the highly-influential social media platform TikTok, and it immediately raised red flags.

A House Republican-sponsored bill to force the sale to a U.S. company passed by a wide, bipartisan margin on Wednesday. If it passes in the Senate, and President Joe Biden signs it, Mnuchin, like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, could be in charge of a company whose algorithms affect what information Americans see, how that information is framed, and by whom. Mnuchin just last week said he would be open to working in a second Trump administration.

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