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 Doesn’t sound like former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore thinks much of Blanche’s closing.
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 Closing arguments underway at Trump hush money trial.

The dramatic finale could determine if a former president will be convicted of felonies for the first time in U.S. history.
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 JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Donald Trump says he will give pardoning Julian Assange “very serious consideration” if elected President.
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 Donald Trump declares US must not settle for ‘second place’ in crypto industry. Former United States President Donald Trump claims he is "very open minded" to "all things related to this new and burgeoning industry."

The United States must not settle for anything but top place in the cryptocurrency industry, according to former U.S. President Donald Trump.

“I am very positive and open minded to cryptocurrency companies, and all things related to this new and burgeoning industry,” he claimed, before taking aim at the current president, Joe Biden, whom he is up against in the 2024 presidential race, with the US election day scheduled on November 4.
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 Former President Donald Trump: “I will ensure that the future of crypto and the future of Bitcoin will be made in the USA…I will SUPPORT the right to SELF CUSTODY.”
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 Nikki Haley says she will vote for Donald Trump following their disputes during Republican primary.
Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Haley’s announcement.
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 Trevor Reed’s mom, on the difference between Trump/Pompeo and Biden/Blinken on efforts to free her son from Russia.
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 Meet Keir Starmer: Britain’s next prime minister?
The buttoned-up lawyer is about to roll up his sleeves on the campaign trail.
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 As the November election approaches, it’s worth revisiting exactly how much would change in US-China relations if Donald Trump retakes the presidency.

🇺🇸Trump vs. 🇨🇳China: Round II
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 Marge Greene says Merrick Garland should be impeached for plotting to assassinate Trump: “Merrick Garland basically issued a kill order for President Trump.”
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 Five Takeaways from POLITICO’s ‘Election 2024: The Future of Taxation’ event.

1. Conservatives could be split on important policy issues such as tariffs and the corporate tax rate

2. Democrats are looking to make investments in family support and affordable housing

3. Progressives are gearing up to put up a fierce fight against the business lobby

4. The legacy of the Trump tax cuts will be a focus of debate

5. The Biden administration will likely be paying more attention to how tax policy advances racial equity
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 White House Opposes Crypto Bill FIT21 — Offers to Work With Congress on Balanced Framework for Digital Assets.
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 Trump: Outside looks like it’s supposed to be Fort Knox. There’s more police than I’ve ever seen anywhere because they don’t want to have anyone come down. There’s not a civilian within three blocks of the courthouse.
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 'Really Stupid and a Huge Mistake:' Putin Blasts US Actions Blocking Payments to China; Exporters Turn to Small Banks and Crypto.
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 Trump last week claiming his crowd was bigger than Springsteen’s, followed by Trump’s crowd walking out in the middle of his low energy speech, followed by Springsteen’s crowd today.
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 Montage of clips of something Trump doesn’t want to talk about anymore with RFK Jr in the race: “We pushed the FDA beyond what the bureaucrats wanted .. We produced the vaccines before we knew they were going to work.”
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 Conservative group tries to accelerate court fight over Biden-Hur audio.

Democrats contend that Republicans want to use the recording as clips for campaign ads.
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 Biden may rethink SAB 121 veto due to political support for cryptocurrencies.

The US Congress' bipartisan vote overwhelmingly demonstrated its rejection of the SEC's SAB 121. President Biden threatened to veto the decision. Will the executive branch overturn Congress' decision?
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 Using WhatsApp To Jack Up Oil Prices? FTC Accuses Scott Sheffield of Price Collusion With OPEC.
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 Russia and Iran are collaborating on creating a single BRICS currency, the Iranian ambassador to Russia has claimed. He noted that over 60% of the two nations’ bilateral trade is conducted in Russian rubles and rials, reflecting a shift away from the U.S. dollar.
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 Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders traded her national position for the top spot back home — but she brought Trump’s DC with her.
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 White House not thrilled by Macron’s D-Day invite to Russia. ‘Perhaps this will remind the Russians that they actually fought real Nazis once, not imaginary ones in Ukraine,’ an administration official said.
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 RFK Jr.'s vice presidential candidate drops $8M more into campaign.

Nicole Shanahan’s cash influx comes as the campaign pushes to get on the ballot and qualify for presidential debates.
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 Cohen is being grilled under cross-examination from Trump's defense team. He is expected to be the final witness called by the prosecution.
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 Justice Department poised to post plans for marijuana reclassification. This is the next step in the rescheduling process begun by President Joe Biden in October 2022 that is set to be the largest shift in federal drug policy in decades.
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 Tens of Thousands Show Overwhelming Support for Abolishing the Fed, US Policymaker’s Poll Reveals.
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 Marge is raging about Mike Johnson’s trip to NYC to make a statement outside Trump’s trial. She says he wasted taxpayers money to fly up there to fake outrage when he can’t even do anything about it because it’s a state case not federal.
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 Vaccine skeptic meets skeptical court as RFK Jr. challenges Google. Candidate said his First Amendment rights were violated when YouTube took down videos it said contained misinformation.
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 Biden, Trump agree to presidential debates in June, September
Biden challenged Trump to two debates, Trump said he's "ready and willing."
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 TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Former President Donald Trump’s Boeing 757 clipped a parked private jet at West Palm Beach International Airport on Sunday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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 Trump thought yesterday was a good day for him? “In your dreams”—& he looked like he was having some in court. Come and join to discuss.
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 Back in 2018, lawmakers of both parties greeted President Donald Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on Chinese imports with widespread derision. Six years later, most members of Congress are applauding President Joe Biden’s extension — and in some cases, expansion — of those tariffs, if not calling for him to go even further.
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 New York Times reporters are circulating a draft of an open letter to Joe Kahn, criticizing the paper’s top editor over comments they said were dismissive of young reporters.
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 A U.K. election is expected to happen this year, but it likely won't change the trajectory of the country's crypto policy efforts.

Regardless of who is elected, crypto policy should still continue developing as it has been, said Adam Jackson, director of policy at Innovate Finance.
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 President Biden ordered a halt to the MineOne operation near Warren Air Force Base, citing Chinese ownership, foreign technology and proximity to a strategic missile base.
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 RFK Jr. is defying the odds — against getting on ballots around the country. The independent campaign turned in more than twice the signatures needed to qualify in Texas.
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 Veteran Trader Peter Brandt Warns of SEC's Full-Scale Assault on Crypto Staking — 'It's Going to Be a Bloodbath'.
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 Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign says he has qualified for just more than a fifth of the 50 states he’s targeting before November.
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 🇺🇸 Donald Trump says he's "fine with" crypto and makes fun of Joe Biden for not knowing what it is. "If you're in favor of crypto, you better vote for Trump."
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 Independent Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Joins Consensus as a Headline Speaker.
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 Poll: Most People Cringe About Crypto, But Enough Care to Warrant Politicians' Attention.

A survey of swing-state voters shows that as many as 21% of them are serious about crypto policies, though more than two thirds of people distrust the digital-assets movement.
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 A Trump election victory could be positive for crypto as his administration would likely push for a more supportive regulatory environment, the report said.
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 To survive the most sordid of the legal cases against him, Donald Trump is relying on unseen — and unwilling — character witnesses: his family.

In the opening weeks of Trump’s criminal hush money trial, the former president has attempted to brandish his family-man bonafides amid a slew of salacious testimony.
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 Former White House adviser Hope Hick's testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial was a "devastating" blow to his defense on the 34 felony count trial that wrapped up its second week of testimony on Friday.
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 What’s Really Happening on College Campuses, According to Student Journalists.

Have there been instances of antisemitism as part of these protests and counterprotests? What does that look like?

Have there been instances of Islamophobia as part of these protests and counterprotests? What does that look like?

Have you seen a rise in antisemitism on campus outside of the protests? Have you seen a rise in Islamophobia or anti-Arab sentiment?
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 Messari CEO Criticizes US President's Crypto Stance, Foresees 'Mass Wealth Confiscation' if Biden Gets Reelected.
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 Noem: Well, you know, how the fake news works. They leave out some or most of the facts. I hope people buy the book and they find out the truth of the story because the truth is that this was a working dog and it was not a puppy.
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 Compare and contrast: Trump speaking during his June 2015 campaign launch speech vs. Trump speaking at West Point today, almost exactly five years later.
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 Brian Rose, known as London's 'Joe Rogan' and cryptocurrency advocate, launches candidacy for mayor.

The former Wall Street and City of London banker is making his second attempt to become Mayor of London.
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 The second week of Donald Trump’s criminal trial closed Friday with his defense team working to show inconsistencies in David Pecker’s testimony — but the former tabloid executive largely stuck to the narrative prosecutors have used to lay out their theory of the case.
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 President Joe Biden was “ignored by virtually everyone” at a Pittsburgh-area gas station.
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 President Biden on Howard Stern: Trump promised that if he doesn't win, there's going to be a ‘bloodbath.’ When he was in Paris, he wouldn't go to an American military gravesite and said they're ‘losers.’ 
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 Trump Allies Draw Up Plans to Blunt Fed’s Independence.
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 Republicans are starting to worry about RFK Jr.

Republicans are waking up to the reality that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could sink their standard-bearer just as easily as he could hurt President Joe Biden, after a pair of new polls showed the presence of third-party candidates on the ballot might not necessarily benefit former President Donald Trump.
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 Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes says he has hundreds of thousands of smaller MAGA investors in Trump Media, and they are calling him asking why the stock is tanking, so he filed a complaint with the SEC and says Biden is conspiring with Wall Street bankers to screw him.
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 California Gov. Gavin Newsom may have found his footing on the national stage, but he could be on shaky political ground back home, according to a POLITICO analysis of how his signature ballot measure fared in different counties across the state in last month’s primary.
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 Trump Pledged to End DEI, His New Media Company Has a Diversity and Inclusion Policy. Is that decentralization? How to explain Diversity and Inclusion?
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 States made voting by mail easier amid COVID-19 in 2020. Trump is wrong to call that cheating.

- Many states changed procedures in 2020 to make it easier to vote by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some states loosened restrictions that required voters to provide excuses for using mail ballots. Other states sent mail ballots or mail ballot applications to all registered voters.

- States applied these changes through authorized public processes that are open to public scrutiny, such as changing law or issuing executive orders or guidance. The changes applied to all voters, regardless of party affiliation. 

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 Says 326,000 migrants were flown to Florida with taxpayer dollars under President Joe Biden’s secret migrant flight program.

"Fox & Friends First" said that these flights were not paid for by taxpayers. The migrants who flew to the U.S. did so as part of a parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that is meant to reduce the number of migrants crossing the southern U.S. border. The U.S. grants parole based on "significant public benefit or urgent humanitarian reasons."

People coming through the program are lawfully entering the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security publicly introduced the program in October 2022, initially for 24,000 Venezuelans.

 
 Doctor’s office notice not proof of COVID-19 vaccines’ danger to young athletes

The notice from the doctor’s office — Morris Sussex Family Practice in Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey (now called Morris Sussex Direct Family Practice) — is real. But one notice from a single doctor’s office does not equate to evidence that COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of sudden cardiac arrests in young athletes.

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 Jury selection begins monday in trump criminal trial.
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 Max Keiser:" US politicians that attack Tether don’t understand that USDt *is* the $USD. So they are attacking the USD. It’s funny to watch. So dumb."
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 Trump Courted by Once-Scorned Speaker Hopeful Tom Emmer as Mike Johnson Teeters.
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 RFK Jr.’s Sister Fears His ‘Dangerous’ Campaign Will Take Votes From Biden, Return Trump to White House.
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 👀DeSantis tries to find room on Trump’s right in abortion fight.
💥The relationship between the two Republicans has deteriorated, and they’re still throwing jabs.
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 Trump Team: NYC prosecutors are trying to expand the GAG order; Trump has been relentlessly attacking the judge's daughter.
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