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‘Maelstrom of legal trouble’: Trump dealt ‘setback after setback’ in one ‘very bad day’

Donald Trump suffered a series of courtroom defeats in one "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day" that will expose him to a new level of legal liability on a variety of fronts, and an investigative reporter compared his predicament to Bill Cosby's downfall.

The former president was dealt losses in courts across the country that could result in the exposure of his tax records, the dismantling of his family business, a civil trial for rape, and bearing the full weight of the Department of Justice, reported The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery.

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Cop who resigned over sexual misconduct gets another job investigating sexual assaults

A University of Massachusetts Dartmouth police officer resigned over an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him in 2010, but was later re-hired as a school resource officer at the Blackstone-Millville Regional School District in the nearby town of Blackstone where he was tasked with investigating reported sexual assaults, WBUR reports.

Officer David Laudon had given a 20-year-old college student a ride back to her dorm in his cruiser, and then gave her a hug and groped her breast, and subsequently harassed her repeatedly with unwanted texts and calls, according to a campus police report.

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Investors may see Tesla as a 'house of cards' after watching Elon Musk sow chaos at Twitter: CNBC analyst

Venture capitalist Bradley Tusk argued on Wednesday that Elon Musk's chaotic tenure as CEO of Twitter could soon spill over to his other businesses.

In particular, he said that a Musk failure at Twitter could have dire consequences for electric car manufacturer Tesla.

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'We're looking at you': Denver Post editorial points finger at Lauren Boebert in wake of Club Q shooting

On Wednesday, The Denver Post editorial board tore into Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) by writing "we're looking at you" for her hateful rhetoric against the LGBTQ community in the runup to the mass shooting at Club Q.

"Lauren Boebert ... tweeted this out on Sunday in the wake of the Club Q shooting: 'The news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful. This morning the victims & their families are in my prayers. This lawless violence needs to end and end quickly,'" wrote the board. "This is the same person who has previously offered up these gems: 'Take your children to CHURCH, not drag bars' and 'We went from Reading Rainbow to Randy Rainbow in a few decades, but don’t dare say the Left is grooming our kids!'"

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Morning Joe panelists mock Kevin McCarthy's flailing efforts to gain power: 'No one accused him of being smart'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough went off on House minority leader Kevin McCarthy for "overselling" his threats to investigate various members of President Joe Biden's administration.

The California Republican has vowed to open a string of investigations of Biden and his family, as well as Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas -- whose resignation he demanded over a surge in undocumented migrants across the southern border -- and the "Morning Joe" host and his panelists ripped his flailing efforts to draw support from the GOP's right flank to become House speaker.

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‘Blood on your hands’: Critics blast Boebert for spreading anti-LGBTQ hate and lies after Club Q mass shooting

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is being highly criticized for her role in spreading anti-LGBTQ hate and lies after this weekend's horrific anti-LGBTQ mass shooting in her home state of Colorado, which left dead five patrons of a nightclub that caters to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community, and another 25 injured.

Without mentioning any details, including that this was apparently a targeted attack on the LGBTQ community, Sunday morning Congresswoman Boebert tweeted: "The news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful. This morning the victims & their families are in my prayers. This lawless violence needs to end and end quickly."

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'You don’t care': Twitter bulldozes Ted Cruz for defending guns while 'praying' for Club Q victims

It took less than eighteen hours for United States Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to politicize Saturday night's mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where a twenty-two-year-old man armed with an "AR-15-style rifle" murdered five people and injured eighteen others before being subdued by two courageous patrons and taken into custody.

While law enforcement has yet to reveal the motive behind the heinous crime, on Sunday afternoon, Cruz – an opponent of LGBTQ+ equality and gun control – exploited the tragedy to attack Democrats over proposals to regulate firearms. Cruz's home state of Texas sees the most individual gun deaths per year out of all fifty.

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Colorado lawmaker demands Lauren Boebert 'stop' demonizing LBGTQ+ community

Colorado's first transgender lawmaker demanded controversial GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert stop smearing the LGBTQ+ community after the fatal shooting at Club Q that left five dead and 25 wounded.

After bartender Michael Anderson gave a harrowing first-hand account of surviving the massacre to NBC reporter Steve Patterson, anchor Alicia Menendez interviewed state Rep. Brianna Titone.

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Lauren Boebert admits that 'loud' rhetoric almost cost her the midterms

Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert has boosted QAnon and and voter fraud conspiracy theories, but she's admitting that pushing far-right rhetoric almost cost her the midterms, Newsweek reports.

Speaking to Colorado Springs' KRDO-FM on Friday morning, Boebert, who won her race against Democrat Adam Frisch, admitted that her "loud" rhetoric over the last several years may have turned off many of the independent voters.

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GOP's Lauren Boebert narrowly wins re-election after horse race that shocked America: report

Former Aspen City Council member Adam Frisch shocked the nation by coming so close to upsetting controversial first-term Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert in a sprawling Colorado district long considered to be a GOP stronghold.

According to projections by CNN, Boebert is the projected winner of the race for Colorado's third congressional district. Denver Post reported Friday that Frisch had called Boebert to concede the race.

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Recount expected as Boebert holds slight but healthy lead over Frisch

After almost all remaining ballots were processed in the undecided Colorado 3rd Congressional District race, the tally showed Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert ahead of Democratic challenger Adam Frisch by 551 votes.

That meets the threshold for an automatic recount. It’s also well beyond the margin at which a recount would be expected to alter the outcome of the race.

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GOP's Madison Cawthorn has vacated his offices 'nearly two months' before his term ends

In North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, Rep. Madison Cawthorn became a lame duck earlier this year when he lost a U.S. House primary to fellow Republican Chuck Edwards (who went on to defeat Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara in the general election). Cawthorn, a far-right MAGA conspiracy theorist, will not be part of the U.S. House of Representatives’ new GOP-controlled majority when it is seated on January 3, 2023. And according to Asheville Citizen Times reporter Joel Burgess, Cawthorn is now missing in action.

Cawthorn, Burgess reports in an article published on November 16, “has apparently vacated his Washington and district offices nearly two months before the end of his term.”

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Pace of ballot curing quickens as Boebert-Frisch race approaches finish line

In a race still too close to call, voters in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District are resolving issues with rejected ballots ahead of a Wednesday night deadline.

Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and Democratic challenger Adam Frisch more than a week after the midterm election are still in a contest for one of the few remaining undecided House races in the country. As of late Wednesday morning Boebert with 162,040 votes remained 1,122 votes ahead of Frisch, whose 160,918 votes put him several hundred votes away from the threshold at which state law would mandate a recount.

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