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Jul 05, 2022
Election Day 2022 is now four months away. Democrats are trying to hold on to slim majorities in both the House and Senate. They're doing so against the backdrop of high inflation and an economy viewed in poor shape, which is the issue dominating voters' minds.
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Jul 05, 2022
Few people noticed when the Federal Election Commission deadlocked last month over whether US Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida in 2020 had broken a law intended to keep money raised for a state campaign out of federal elections.
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Jul 05, 2022
The central paradox of the abortion debate is that the red states racing to outlaw or severely limit the procedure may be the places least prepared to deal with the practical consequences of the new restrictions. And that, experts project, could mean significantly more infant and maternal deaths and childhood poverty in states that, as a group, already rank at the bottom on those critical outcomes for kids and families.
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Jul 05, 2022
America's latest mass shooting turned a cherished July Fourth parade from a scene of patriotic joy into one of fear and death.
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Jul 04, 2022
WNBA star Brittney Griner, in a handwritten letter to President Joe Biden, said she fears she will be detained in Russia indefinitely and pleaded with the President not to forget about her and other American detainees.
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Jul 04, 2022
President Joe Biden began Independence Day by sharing a message that looked to the country's future, but quickly had to respond to another mass shooting in the United States.
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Jul 04, 2022
President Joe Biden began Independence Day by sharing a message that looked to the country's future, but quickly had to respond to another mass shooting in the US.
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Jul 04, 2022
WNBA star Britney Griner, in a handwritten letter to President Joe Biden, said she fears she will be detained in Russia indefinitely and pleaded with the President not to forget about her and other American detainees.
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Jul 04, 2022
An examination of the bullet that killed Al Jazeera correspondent and Palestinian-American citizen Shireen Abu Akleh "could not reach a definitive conclusion" regarding its origin, due to the condition of the bullet, but the US Security Coordinator has "concluded that gunfire from [Israel Defense Forces] positions was likely responsible" for her death, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement Monday.
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Jul 04, 2022
Read CNN's Fast Facts about Lindsey Graham and learn more about the Republican US senator from South Carolina.
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Jul 04, 2022
President Joe Biden on Monday marked Independence Day by sharing a message that looked to the country's future.
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Jul 04, 2022
An examination of the bullet that killed Al Jazeera correspondent and Palestinian-American citizen Shireen Abu Akleh "could not reach a definitive conclusion" regarding its origin, due to the condition of the bullet, but the US Security Coordinator has "concluded that gunfire from [Israel Defense Forces] positions was likely responsible" for her death, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement Monday.
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Jul 04, 2022
Rarely have Americans been so divided on what their country stands for as on the 246th anniversary of independence.
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Jul 03, 2022
Hershel W. "Woody" Williams, who was the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, will lie in honor at the US Capitol, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Sunday.
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Jul 03, 2022
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday warned migrants "not to take the dangerous journey" and attempt to cross the US-Mexico border after 53 migrants died in a sweltering semitruck in San Antonio, Texas, last week, in what is being called the deadliest human smuggling incident in US history.
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Jul 03, 2022
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem on Sunday defended her state's abortion ban, which includes an exception when the pregnant person's life is at risk but not in cases involving incest or rape.
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Jul 03, 2022
The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection could make multiple criminal referrals, including of former President Donald Trump, the panel's vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
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Jul 03, 2022
Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis aren't just avatars for the different futures of their parties, but also for the separate realities blue and red Americans are living in -- two people of opposing viewpoints looking at the exact same set of facts and coming to vastly different conclusions.
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Jul 03, 2022
Before becoming the Trump-backed Republican nominee for Michigan secretary of state, Kristina Karamo said that abortion is "child sacrifice" and a "satanic practice."
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Jul 02, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday drew a connection between the Supreme Court overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling to the legacy of the US government "trying to claim ownership over human bodies" during an appearance at the Essence Festival in New Orleans.
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Jul 02, 2022
The marshal of the Supreme Court is asking Maryland officials to direct law enforcement to enforce the state's laws prohibiting picketing outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, according to letters sent to Gov. Larry Hogan and Mark Elrich, the county executive of Montgomery County.
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Jul 02, 2022
The Texas Supreme Court issued an order late Friday partially granting state Attorney General Ken Paxton's request to stay a lower court order that had temporarily blocked a nearly century-old abortion ban in the state.
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Jul 02, 2022
The Supreme Court's majority decision overturning Roe v. Wade has allowed states to begin setting their own abortion policies. Just days after the ruling, it has already resulted in a patchwork system in which access to the procedure is, for many people, determined largely by whether a state is controlled by Republicans or Democrats.
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Jul 02, 2022
The marshal of the Supreme Court is asking Maryland officials to direct law enforcement to enforce the state's laws prohibiting picketing outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, according to letters sent to Gov. Larry Hogan and Mark Elrich, the county executive of Montgomery County.
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Jul 02, 2022
As Americans pause to celebrate their Independence Day, it's worth taking a step back to consider the totality of what we've learned about the attempted insurrection that tried to undo it.
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Jul 02, 2022
Former President Donald Trump is anxiously mulling when, exactly, he should announce a presidential run for 2024 -- a decision that has become even more pressing as he tries to reclaim control of his image following a spate of damaging revelations by the House select committee investigating his role in January 6, 2021.
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Jul 02, 2022
The US Supreme Court ended its most explosive term in decades this week deeply split along ideological lines, surfacing two different visions of America and the Constitution.
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Jul 01, 2022
New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday signed into law a bill restricting the concealed carry of firearms in locations such as government buildings and schools after the US Supreme Court last week struck down the state's century-old law that placed restrictions on carrying a concealed handgun outside the home.
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Jul 01, 2022
The New York State Legislature on Friday passed a constitutional amendment that, if fully enacted, would enshrine the right to an abortion and contraception access in the state constitution.
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Jul 01, 2022
The New York State Legislature on Friday passed a bill restricting the concealed carry of firearms in locations such as government buildings and schools after the US Supreme Court last week struck down the state's century-old law that had placed restrictions on carrying a concealed handgun outside the home.
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Jul 01, 2022
An apparent cyberattack this week on Florida-based IT provider Geographic Solutions has disrupted unemployment and workforce benefits for thousands of people in multiple states and Washington, DC.
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Jul 01, 2022
The 5-year drilling plan comes at a time when the Biden administration is caught between conflicting goals -- the President's climate agenda and the desire to ease gas prices.
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Jul 01, 2022
A push by major US companies to help employees gain access to reproductive services following the US Supreme Court's ending of federal abortion rights has rankled prominent Republicans and could deepen the GOP's disaffection with corporate America as the party finds itself on the brink of winning back the US House this fall.
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Jul 01, 2022
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday signed two bills into law that protect out-of-state residents seeking reproductive services and reproductive health care providers.
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Jul 01, 2022
A leading Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, continues to put lies about the 2020 presidential election at the center of her campaign -- this week calling it "disqualifying" and "sickening" for a rival candidate not to say that the election was stolen, though it wasn't stolen.
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Jul 01, 2022
The Supreme Court's majority decision overturning Roe v. Wade has allowed states to begin setting their own abortion policies. Just days after the ruling, it has already resulted in a patchwork system in which access to the procedure is, for many people, determined largely by whether a state is controlled by Republicans or Democrats.
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Jul 01, 2022
The Biden White House is going out of its way to tamp down on whispers that he might not run for a second term in 2024.
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Jul 01, 2022
With recent decisions on abortion, gun control, religious freedom and the environment, the US Supreme Court once again reasserted its central role in America.
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Jul 01, 2022
Russian hackers carried out a "cyberattack" on Ukraine's biggest private energy conglomerate in retaliation for its owner's opposition to Russia's war in Ukraine, the firm said Friday.
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Jul 01, 2022
The Atlanta grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's 2020 election reversal plots will run into legislative privilege issues if it asks subpoenaed Georgia lawmakers about communication with other legislative members or their staff, a state court judge said Friday.
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Jul 01, 2022
One of people who may have been trying to influence Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony did so at the behest of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to multiple sources familiar with information gathered by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
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Jul 01, 2022
Republican House lawmakers are introducing legislation that would require the Biden administration to provide Congress with a detailed report on the status of major arms sales to Taiwan, an effort that comes as there is a mounting sense of urgency about getting Taiwan the weapons it would need to fend off a potential Chinese invasion.
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Jul 01, 2022
Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and berated his protective detail when he didn't get his way, according to two Secret Service sources who say they heard about the incident from multiple agents, including the driver of the presidential SUV where it occurred.
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Jul 01, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris will speak at the Essence Festival in New Orleans on Saturday, a White House official said, marking an opportunity to discuss the Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade with one of the Democratic Party's key constituencies -- Black women.
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Jul 01, 2022
Everyone, by now, is at least aware of the fact that a House select committee is investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. That committee -- through its public hearings -- has drawn scads of attention.
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Jul 01, 2022
President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor -- to 17 recipients next week, with his first slate of honorees since taking office featuring Olympians, an Academy Award winner, the first American to receive the Covid-19 vaccine outside of trials, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and civil rights advocates.
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Jul 01, 2022
Politics of the Day
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Jul 01, 2022
US officials say a trio of assassination attempts targeting pro-Russian officials over the past two weeks suggests a burgeoning resistance movement against pro-Russian authorities occupying parts of southern Ukraine.
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Jul 01, 2022
Members of the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, went public this week with allegations that former President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to influence witnesses with potential intimidation tactics intended to keep them in line.
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Jul 01, 2022
The Supreme Court reached into every corner of American life, reordering intimate family choices, breaching the separation of church and state, and diminishing the steps government can take to prevent gun violence or protect the environment.
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Jul 01, 2022
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is on the front lines of protecting abortion rights in Michigan, where a court injunction is the only thing keeping the state from reverting to a 1931 law that banned and criminalized abortion.
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Jul 01, 2022
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide, told the House January 6 committee that she was contacted by someone attempting to influence her testimony, three sources familiar with the hearing presentation told CNN.
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Jul 01, 2022
A series of failures led to a fuel leak at a Hawaii military facility that sickened families who relied on a nearby well for their water, the Navy found after an investigation into the problems at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility.
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Jul 01, 2022
The Supreme Court spent recent weeks triggering political and legal earthquakes across America. But its latest audacious blow could affect the entire planet.
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Jun 30, 2022
Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, told CNN on Thursday she wants US officials to do whatever they have to do to bring the basketball legend home -- and she needs to see them do more.
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Jun 30, 2022
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney cast the Republican Party as "threatened by fealty to an individual" -- former President Donald Trump -- and defended her work on the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection during a debate with her four GOP primary challengers Thursday night.
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Jun 30, 2022
The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, met with former White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato on two occasions in January and March as part of its investigation, according to a source familiar with his testimony.
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Jun 30, 2022
Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont is "comfortably recovering" following surgery to repair a broken hip after he fell in his Virginia home on Wednesday.
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Jun 30, 2022
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
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Jun 30, 2022
President Joe Biden intends to nominate an anti-abortion Republican lawyer to a federal judgeship, two Kentucky Democrats informed of the decision say.
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Jun 30, 2022
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has issued a major warning to Democrats: Republicans won't agree to a bill to bolster US competitiveness with China if Democrats continue to pursue an economic agenda they are trying to pass along straight party lines this summer.
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Jun 30, 2022
It's very good to be Ron DeSantis these days.
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Jun 30, 2022
In decisions handed down in recent weeks, the conservative Supreme Court transformed the legal landscape around an assortment of hot-button issues, including abortion, gun rights, immigration and religious liberty.
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Jun 30, 2022
A US delegation that traveled to Venezuela this week was unable to secure the release of any of the Americans detained there.
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Jun 30, 2022
It's a travel season unlike any other.
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Jun 30, 2022
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
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Jun 30, 2022
Rep. Judy Chu of California was among the more than 100 people arrested at an abortion rights protest in Washington, DC, on Thursday, according to a statement from her office.
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Jun 30, 2022
A group of Senate Democrats on the Armed Services Committee led by Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono wants Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to take immediate steps to ensure that military service members' access to abortion is protected no matter what state they are stationed in.
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Jun 30, 2022
Republican Michigan congressional candidate John Gibbs is falsely claiming that the 2020 election results could not possibly be correct -- and citing irrelevant statistical tidbits as his supposed evidence.
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Jun 30, 2022
The Defense Department is reviewing 1,300 proposals from 800 companies for innovative new weapons and commercial capabilities they may be able to develop and produce for Ukraine to use in its fight against Russia's invasion of the country, a defense official told CNN on Thursday.
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Jun 30, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the first Black female justice on the Supreme Court today as the court finished the term with major rulings on climate and immigration. Watch live and follow here for news updates.
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Jun 30, 2022
The latest test of a US hypersonic weapon failed after an "anomaly" occurred during the first test of the full system, the Pentagon said Thursday.
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Jun 30, 2022
A Kentucky state court on Thursday halted enforcement of two Kentucky laws passed in 2019 that had stopped abortion services in the state last Friday, after the Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Jun 30, 2022
In a setback for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers, a Florida judge has ruled that a new state law banning abortions at 15 weeks is unconstitutional and he intends to block it from taking effect on Friday.
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Jun 30, 2022
Experts tell CNN the EPA ruling is a major setback in the country's effort to rein in the climate crisis and its deadly, costly impacts.
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Jun 30, 2022
The US Treasury on Thursday notified a Delaware-based trust that it is blocking $1 billion in assets for its connection to sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov.
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Jun 30, 2022
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide, told the House January 6 committee that she was contacted by someone attempting to influence her testimony, three sources familiar with the hearing presentation told CNN.
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Jun 30, 2022
President Joe Biden and his fellow NATO leaders departed a highly consequential summit Thursday that left the defense alliance larger, more muscular and more focused.
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Jun 30, 2022
President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he would support making an exception to the filibuster -- the 60-vote threshold in the Senate needed to pass most legislation -- in order to codify abortion rights and the right to privacy through legislation passed by Congress.
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Jun 30, 2022
The vast majority of Americans across party lines are unhappy with the state of the US, a new set of polling finds.
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Jun 30, 2022
On Wednesday night, Liz Cheney made it clear: Republicans can't have it both ways.
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Jun 30, 2022
As Republicans across the country move swiftly to restrict abortion access in their states after last week's US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has so far shown little desire to match their urgency.
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Jun 30, 2022
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the Supreme Court on Thursday, making history as the first female African-American justice and beginning what could be a decades-long tenure.
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Jun 30, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in Thursday as an associate justice to the United States Supreme Court, making history as the first Black woman on the highest court in the nation.
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Jun 30, 2022
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
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