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    We're a Democrat and former Trump official—we agree on one thing | Opinion

    Well, you're an expert on being a moron, so there's that.
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    Trump boasts of plan to 'pardon everyone': report

    Trump boasts of plan to 'pardon everyone': report | Watch
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    We're a Democrat and former Trump official—we agree on one thing | Opinion

    One of us worked for Donald Trump. The other is a political science professor and an elected Democrat in the hometown we share. We disagree on most major public policy issues. On our front porches, we have had our share of red-faced arguments over candidates, ideas, and policies, and no doubt...
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    F.B.I. Assigns Scores of Analysts to Examine Election Records in Georgia

    Idiotic and deplorable: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is assigning an army of 260 investigative analysts to a “priority” investigation related to the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., a reflection of President Trump’s ongoing push to prove his baseless claims that the 2020 election...
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    U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators

    U.S. officials believed that Israel might have been plotting to kill Iran’s top negotiators while Washington was engaged with Tehran in delicate talks this spring to reach an interim peace deal, according to current and former American officials. Killing senior Iranian leaders had been part of...
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    Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found by UK National Archives in papers of captured US ship

    Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain’s National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings painstakingly cataloging documents for the benefit of future researchers. Then one day last May the retired insurance executive made a discovery of his own while sifting...
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    Former Iowa City woman accused of disposing of baby’s body wants murder charge dropped

    A former Iowa City woman, who is accused of putting her newborn son in a trash receptacle that was taken to the landfill in 1992, is asking a judge to dismiss her case because there’s no evidence the baby was killed. Cindy Sue Elder, 59, was extradited from Christian County, Missouri, to Iowa...
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    Polls: Iowa’s U.S. Senate campaign tight, Sand leads for governor

    New public polling published this week suggests Iowa’s open-seat U.S. Senate campaign, four months out from the election, is as competitive as they come. In fact, the two new polls are split on which candidate is currently favored by Iowa voters. Both polls...
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    Ex-Nebraska wrestler AJ Ferrari accused of assaulting pregnant woman in Lincoln

    Just days after law enforcement arrested former Husker wrestler AJ Ferrari following a pursuit in North Platte, Lancaster County issued a warrant for his arrest for allegedly assaulting a pregnant woman in Lincoln. On Thursday, an arrest warrant for Ferrari was issued, charging him with...
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    David Hoffmann is investing millions to preserve local newspapers

    We ran a nationwide search and figured out that we had the right guy right here,” Hoffmann says. The local tie that binds One of the first things Hoffmann made clear was that he’s not interested in eliminating the print versions of his newspapers — or Lee’s. Strengthen digital content and...
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    David Hoffmann is investing millions to preserve local newspapers

    Meet the man who’s on a mission to save your newspaper. David Hoffmann is ignoring the naysayers who wrote off newspapers a long time ago. He sees things differently. Hoffmann believes in the power of local news to strengthen communities and the country, and he’s backed that conviction with tens...