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☆ Secret Service says agent on Harris’ detail was removed from assignment after distressing behavior
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Michael Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Washington CNN —A Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris’ detail was removed from their assignment after displaying behavior that colleagues found “distressing,” the agency said. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement that the agent began “displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing.” The statement did not clarify what that behavior entailed. “The agent was removed from their assignment while medical personnel were summoned,” Guglielmi said. Harris was at the Naval Observatory during the incident and there “was no impact on her departure” from the base. “The U.S. Secret Service takes the safety and health of our employees very seriously,” Guglielmi said.

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☆ Opinion | The Birth Dearth and the Smartphone Age
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

My newsroom colleagues Jason Horowitz and Gaia Pianigiani have a lovely report this week about family-friendly policies in the Italian province of Alto Adige-South Tyrol, which has the highest birthrate of any region in an aging, depopulating Italy. Their story is a portrait not just of a particular policy matrix but also the culture that policy can help foster. Some of what Carney describes is a set of habits that’s beyond the reach of policy. (I don’t think there’s much the government can do to persuade parents to “Have Lower Ambitions for Your Kids,” to select one of his more striking chapter titles.) But some of the sense of overwhelmingness that comes with modern parenting seems like it could be mitigated, not just through a once-a-year benefit or tax credit, but also through small consistent signals of support: the family discount on groceries, the convenient in-home child care option, the open play space, the flexible work space.

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☆ I spent a day as a 'Truthsayer' on Truth Social — it was a bizarre mix of conspiracy theories and Biden-hate
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe company behind Donald Trump's alt-right social media platform, Truth Social, made its stock market debut last week. Its parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, merged with Digital World Acquisition Corp. and began trading under the ticker DJT on Tuesday. I decided to take a day-long visit its core platform, Truth Social, to see what goes on. Most of the content on Truth Social is highly political, and my feed was littered with fellow "Truthsayers" spouting conspiracy theories. AdvertisementUnless you have a burning desire to fill your days with overly political content, Truth Social might not be the social media platform for you.

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☆ CNN Exclusive: Conservative bigwig Matt Schlapp agreed to hefty settlement to end sexual assault lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Jamie Gangel | Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The Republican operative who accused American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp of sexual assault last year received a significant financial settlement in exchange for dropping his lawsuit against Schlapp, multiple sources familiar with the case told CNN. The $480,000 settlement was paid to Carlton Huffman through an insurance policy, according to a source familiar with the details. The original lawsuit filed by Huffman against Schlapp asked for more than $9 million in damages. Huffman told CNN that Schlapp made unwanted sexual advances, including groping and fondling his groin without consent, on the ride back from two Atlanta-area bars on October 19, 2022. A former official on the Walker campaign told CNN he does not believe the settlement exonerates Schlapp.

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☆ Opinion: Trump catches a bond break, and maybe Democrats do, too
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Opinion W. James Antle Iii | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The action may also spare Democrats backlash from voters who would be incensed at the potential seizure of Trump’s assets. W. James Antle III Courtesy W. James Antle IIITrump became an A-list celebrity as a symbol of extreme, almost gaudy wealth. The New York civil fraud case raises questions about how Trump acquired much of his wealth in the first place. My inbox is filled with fundraising appeals asking donors to help stop James from taking Trump Tower. If so, Trump could once again turn a legal and personal setback into a political windfall.

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☆ Opinion: Haley loses to Trump in her home state. If she wants a political future, she needs to drop out
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Opinion W. James Antle Iii | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

W. James Antle III Courtesy W. James Antle IIIHaley had steadfastly maintained that she wouldn’t budge if South Carolina Republicans opted for Trump over her. Polling in Michigan and many of the Super Tuesday states suggests the results will get increasingly worse for Haley from here. And given the deep commitment so many delegates have to Trump, Haley stretching out a long negative primary does not make her a likely Trump emergency replacement. In the coming days, Haley will hear from many Republicans who don’t want the Republican primary to end any time soon. But past primaries have gone on longer because other candidates have kept winning; Haley has no wins on the horizon.

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☆ Florida GOP chair defies DeSantis, won’t step down as new details of sexual assault allegation emerge
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Steve Contorno | Carlos Suarez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Ziegler admitted to having sex with the alleged victim, but said the sex was consensual and that he recorded the encounter. In one alleged exchange on October 27, the alleged victim wrote: “I’m not okay with what happened the other day between us”. “Yeah I know but that was not cool and you didn’t bring her [Bridget] and then did that to me,” the alleged victim responded. In one call, the alleged victim allegedly told Ziegler “he sexually assault her” and Ziegler replied, “Those are big words, please don’t, no I didn’t. Christian Ziegler, 40, has also fiercely defended DeSantis’ agenda against national backlash from LGTBQ groups.

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☆ Elizabeth Warren Takes on ‘Big Sandwich’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( James Freeman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in Washington earlier this month. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg NewsA Journal editorial notes that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) But don’t expect the senator to stop promoting misguided market interventions, no matter how ludicrous. “Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Big Sandwich,” reads the headline on a Washington Examiner op-ed from Tom Joyce. Since consumers tend to love a big sandwich, a little explanation is in order—not that it will make Ms. Warren’s latest campaign any more appetizing.

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☆ Far-right hosts are blaming the GOP's big election losses on Taylor Swift
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Some far-right commentators are blaming Taylor Swift for the GOP's Tuesday election losses. The pop star encouraged her fans to vote, but a GOP strategist warned election losses weren't her fault. AdvertisementAdvertisementFar-right commentators are putting the blame for the GOP's major election losses during Tuesday's races on one celeb: Taylor Swift. He fumed in another all-caps post that "THE CHILDLESS, UNMARRIED ABORTION ARMY MOBILIZED BY BARBIE, TAYLOR SWIFT, AND TIKTOK" was "CRUSHING REPUBLICANS AT THE BALLOT BOX." Kirk continued: "All the Swifties want is swift abortion.

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☆ A former McDonalds franchise owner dubbed 'McCongressman' wants to be the GOP's next House Majority Leader — and he's handing out McGriddles to win his colleagues over
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

GOP Rep. Kevin Hern, a former McDonald's franchise owner, wants to be House Majority Leader. AdvertisementAdvertisementRep. Kevin Hern wants to be the next House Majority Leader, and he's got at least one unconventional trick up his sleeve to try to pull it off: McDonald's. "I fucking wish," one House GOP staffer told Insider via text when asked if they'd received a delivery. "Pissed," a staffer from another House GOP office wrote, saying they also hadn't received any McGriddles. Hern, the current chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, launched his campaign for majority leader on Wednesday after House Republicans nominated current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise to replace McCarthy as speaker.

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☆ Republicans face crucial vote in House speaker race that could shape Israel aid, government funding
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Scalise and Jordan will address the House GOP during a candidate forum at 5 p.m. this evening. Republican lawmakers will hold a vote Wednesday morning to select a candidate for speaker, which will then face a full floor vote. It is unclear whether Scalise or Jordan can secure the 217 votes needed to win the speakership on the House floor. Scalise said Monday that House Republicans needed to "get back on track" after McCarthy's ouster exposed deep divisions between hard-right Republicans led by Gaetz and more centrist members. Paul Ryan, a former speaker of the House, told CNBC he doesn't see a path forward for McCarthy.

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☆ Opinion | Ibram X. Kendi and the Problem of Celebrity Fund-Raising
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The turmoil at Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, which recently laid off more than half its staff, has been a schadenfreude bonanza for the right. Three years later, there are considerable questions about what’s been accomplished with all that money. Conservatives who see Kendi as the living embodiment of the style of social justice activism they deride as “wokeness” are, naturally, gleeful. It’s almost hard to blame right-wingers for their delight; Kendi’s mistakes played right into their hands. It exemplifies the lamentable tendency among left-leaning donors to chase fads and celebrities rather than build sustainable institutions.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The departure of Rupert Murdoch as the leader of Fox’s parent company and his News Corp. media holdings after decades at the helm is unlikely to have as much of an impact on conservative media overall as it would have a decade ago. “I think if Rupert Murdoch had stepped down in 2000 it would have had a much greater impact," said Howard Polskin, whose website The Righting.com monitors conservative media. "The conservative media landscape is just much more diverse now.”Fox News' website had nearly 74.8 million viewers in July 2023, while the No. Conservative media personalities such as Tucker Carlson, who was ousted by Fox in April, Daily Wire podcaster Ben Shapiro, and talk show host and podcaster Megyn Kelly, also a former Fox host, are increasingly influential as well. While Rupert Murdoch had a complicated relationship with Trump, Fox News' audience largely admires him.

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☆ Marjorie Taylor Greene once again teases running for Senate or governor of Georgia: 'I have options'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again teasing a potential higher office bid — even governor of Georgia. AdvertisementAdvertisementAlso said to be a potential vice presidential pick for Trump, Greene said she hasn't "closed the door on anything." Greene said her book would be about "setting the record straight" and to allow "people to hear my side of the story." This isn't the first time the congresswoman has floated herself as a statewide candidate in Georgia. Wherever she runs, we'll beat her," Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, currently the head of Senate Democrats' campaign arm, told Insider in March when asked about a potential 2026 Senate bid by Greene.

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☆ Fog is the latest tool retailers are deploying to fight theft
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One such system fills a space with a dense, dry fog to reduce visibility and disorient criminals. In particular, the system was so effective at curbing cigarette theft from UK convenience stores, the company said, that thieves began targeting stores without the tech. Large retailers including Target and Dick's Sporting Goods have blamed a rise in retail theft for taking a larger bite out of profits, as well as jeopardizing the safety of workers and customers. Industry groups estimate inventory shrink costs companies more than $100 billion, with external theft contributing about 37% of that figure. A small business owner in Chicago told the local CBS affiliate she installed the Density system after her store was hit with a pair of robberies within one year.

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☆ It Is Impossible to Break Your Phone Addiction Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Paris Marx | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

In many ways, we've so thoroughly integrated the devices into our lives, it's become impossible to break free. It's not just people's personal lives that are affected, but their work lives, too. To enter the store, customers need to download a separate app, connect it to their Amazon account, load a credit card, and swipe into the location. Instead, it lets customers register to scan their own items while they shop and pay from their phone. When internet connections aren't reliable, phone batteries run low, or you don't have a smartphone, these changes actually make everything much harder.

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☆ Opinion: Trump indictment in Georgia leaves Republicans sleepwalking toward disaster
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Opinion W. James Antle Iii | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Trump has denied wrongdoing in all the cases, saying “the witch hunt continues” in response to the Georgia state court indictment on alleged interference in the 2020 election results. This is true purely as a practical matter, regardless of what Republicans or anyone else think of the merits of the legal cases against him. Paradoxically, the state cases could be an even bigger problem in this area than either of special counsel Jack Smith’s. If convicted of a state crime, Trump wouldn’t possess even the theoretical ability to pardon himself after the election. Unless the reality of the political danger these indictments pose soon sets in, Republicans could be sleepwalking toward disaster in 2024.

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☆ Tim Scott sees big money donor interest while Ron DeSantis hunts for cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Nicholas Pfosi | ReutersSen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is seeing a wave of wealthy donor interest as he runs for president, while Florida Gov. Herring has already donated $6,600 to Scott's 2024 run for president, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Nikki Haley will be in the Hamptons on Sunday for a fundraising event, according to an invitation reviewed by CNBC. Sobel, who is a managing partner at Valor Capital Group, donated $6,600 to DeSantis' campaign in late June, according to Federal Election Commission records. Andrew Romeo, a spokesman for the DeSantis campaign, pointed CNBC to their fundraising efforts in the second quarter.

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☆ Opinion: Judge’s rejection of Hunter Biden’s plea deal vindicates Republicans
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Opinion W. James Antle Iii | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

On Wednesday, the GOP position on Hunter Biden received vindication from US District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who rejected an “unusual” plea bargain the Department of Justice had offered him. Noreika had been asked to approve to a plea deal that would have spared the president’s son prison. Hunter Biden is one reason Trump is able to survive, even thrive, under circumstances that would have felled almost any other candidate. But the voters who will decide the next GOP presidential nominee are not wrong in thinking that something about Hunter Biden’s treatment doesn’t sit right. Republican voters believe Hunter Biden is getting off with a slap on the wrist while their favored candidate is the one being hunted.

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☆ A film, websites, and even a Twitter fan account praising Clarence Thomas were all part of a coordinated public relations campaign backed by nonprofit groups tied to a Federalist Society chairman
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But one recent PR campaign has centered on Justice Clarence Thomas, The Washington Post reported. But one more recent campaign was directed at Justice Thomas, who had already spent about three decades on the Court's bench. According to the Post, a nonprofit called the Judicial Education Project paid the lawyer about $300,000 in 2016 for "media projects." "Since his confirmation on October 15, 1991, Justice Thomas has been a stalwart defender of the original meaning of the Constitution." The comment was made years ago in a 2007 biography of Thomas, "Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas."

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☆ Oregon lawmakers want to decriminalize homeless camps and allow unhoused people to sue if they are forced to leave
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Taylor Ardrey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Oregon lawmakers have proposed a bill to decriminalize homeless encampments. The Right to Rest Act would allow the unhoused to sue if they are harassed while camped in public spaces. If passed, the bill would grant unhoused parties the right to sue for up to $1,000 if they are harassed, the Washington Examiner reported. The number of unhoused people in the state rose by 23% between 2020 and 2022, according to The Oregonian, far higher than the national average. Some residents complain that the homeless population is driving up crime and some have even considered leaving the state, according to the Washington Examiner.

☆ Trump's 27-minute speech in Mar-a-Lago after his arrest sounded like a man 'griping to you about his bad divorce,' Chris Christie says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Christie said the speech made Trump sound like a man "'griping to you about his bad divorce." Chris Christie says former President Donald Trump's fixation on the past is getting tired and overblown. During an April 9 appearance on ABC's "This Week," Christie commented on Trump's post-arrest speech at Mar-a-Lago — a defiant, 27-minute, campaign-style address to rally the MAGA faithful. No way," Christie told Axios. Christie told Fox News on March 23 that he will "probably make a decision in the next 60 days on what to do or not to do."

☆ Chris Christie has vowed to not support Trump in 2024: 'I just can't'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Chris Christie has vowed not to support former President Donald Trump in 2024, making him the first in a field of potential GOP presidential candidates to explicitly say so. No way," Christie told Axios in an interview published on Tuesday. Christie ran against Trump in 2016 but became an ally and a close advisor to Trump after the election. But Christie has distanced himself from Trump in the last year and is now a vocal Trump critic. Representatives for Trump and Christie did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.

☆ Biden's Education Department blasts the GOP's new plan to strike down student-loan forgiveness, saying it's a 'shame' for the borrowers who live in their districts
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Cardona said it's a "shame" for the millions of borrowers who would benefit in the GOP lawmakers' districts. After the Republicans introduced the resolution, Cardona said in a statement that those lawmakers "represent millions of borrowers who have applied for student debt relief." Biden's plan to cancel student debt has been paused since November due to two conservative-backed lawsuits seeking to permanently block the relief. And Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat, previously called the debt relief "excessive." "We're talking about more than 2.1 million borrowers who have applied for student debt relief in Texas, more than 380,000 borrowers in Louisiana, more than 250,000 borrowers in Iowa."

Trump has said he would stay in the race if he is indicted. Trump, meanwhile, is making a forward-looking pitch to voters, NBC News’ Allan Smith and Jonathan Allen report. And the Washington Post reports Friday that prosecutors investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have obtained a report commissioned by Trump’s campaign that undercut his falsehoods about the election. Santos mulls re-election: New York GOP Rep. George Santos told the Associated Press he is a “maybe” on running for re-election. Sparks fly in the Windy city: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., endorsed Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson in Chicago’s mayoral race on Thursday.

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