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Editor and chief writer of The Washington Post's Fact Checker since 2011. Glenn.Kessler@washpost.com
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Old friends Michael Caine, Sean Connery and Roger Moore having some fun at the 1989 Oscars.
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DR. STRANGELOVE was released 59 years ago today. Considered one of the best comedy films ever, it was nominated for 4 Academy Awards and picked up 4 BAFTAs.
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A large new study showed that American parents are finding the job much harder than they expected. But it's not just how they feel —a variety of research has found that parenting is more demanding than it used to be.
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Trump still leads nationally – but in the states that matter, DeSantis is climbing and climbing.
Within the next 90 days, DeSantis will be winning polls like this in Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida.
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University of NEW HAMPSHIRE state poll on the GOP side still shows DeSantis leading Trump -- by a healthy 12-pt margin (42-30%).
Trump's first 2024 campaign stop... in Salem, NH this Saturday.
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McCarthy keeps suggesting he wants a replay of 2011, when Obama negotiated an end to the standoff. He should read this article—Biden seems to have taken different lessons from that experience.
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"You ask how I’m doing. At the moment I’m — I’ve got one leg. I’ve got no feet. I see through one eye. Got one workable hand. I was burnt all over. And I feel stronger, I feel more confident than I ever have, said."
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The endorsements list for Trump 2024 is a trip. Kodak Black; Diamond (deceased), Don. Jr, Eric, Lara, and Melania but not Ivanka; Former Member of the Municipality of Ashfield Council Nick Adams; Reagan's under secretary of education Gary Bauer?
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You're not using the Notes app on your iPhone to its full potential.
8 features you might not know about:
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Journalism majors: you WILL need math. Don't believe the lies.
This has been a public service announcement.
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GOLDMAN SACHS (Hatzius): All major economies (except the UK) now look likely to avoid recession this year.
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Honor the Challenger crew, who perished today 1986:
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People often forget that after a year of shutdowns and confrontations, the House GOP cut a series of big deals with Bill Clinton in 1996 that allowed them to keep their majority—even though it also ensured his re-election
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What do independent voters want? Results. But they are wary of House GOP investigations. From @pkcapitol washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/
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What do independent voters want? Results. But they are wary of House GOP investigations. From
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To be Black in America. I’ve spent 2 years learning all I could about race, racism, police brutality & community while writing George Floyd’s biography. It was important, but draining. Yesterday I left my job and decided to take a month off before my next one because I needed it
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since this will come up a lot in media coverage of Tyre Nichols in Memphis: while I get that it seems narratively significant that the officers are black. Statistically, it is unsurprising. In tracking police violence, we never found that race of the officer made much difference
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1/4 Not sure who this may help or bring comfort to, but I wanted to share this: In July 2018 outside a Sacramento, California, DMV office, I met Tyré Nichols. He had been waiting 6+ hours in miserable 98-degree heat...
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It just never ends: some of the top donors to George Santos campaign don’t exist. Their addresses don’t even exist. And at least one who does exist, a friend of Santos’, said he didn’t give the $2,800 attributed to him
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A unicorn! A politician admits error and takes responsibility.
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Volodymyr Androshchuk, Ukrainian track and field athlete, member of the national team, died in combat near Bakhmut.
RIP, Volodymyr.
We keep losing our best people.
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A county GOP meeting turned into a chaotic shouting match. Republicans refusing to recognize the governor as legitimately elected. A new partisan statehouse seating arrangement. on the deepening division and chaos in Arizona:
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Terrific reporting by and --> Trump’s Killing Spree: The Inside Story of His Race to Execute Every Prisoner He Could rollingstone.com/politics/polit via
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Ron Klain's resignation letter repeats a lot of these claims, with a notable adjustment on the line about JFK and judges as I showed it was no longer correct. (He now says in "the first year")
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SCOOP: Japan and the Netherlands will join US semiconductor export controls in a big foreign policy win for the Biden administration. Negotiations on track to be done tomorrow. Japanese and Dutch officials are in Washington to finalize details tonight.
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Today was the memorial service for Blake Hounshell, who I still can't fathom is gone. It was a tremendous celebration of a wonderful, creative, generous man. I wish he could have seen how much he is loved. Please consider donating to his gofundme
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California seeks to disbar Trump election adviser John Eastman for his role in planning and assisting the attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Via
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NEWS:
The California bar wants to disbar Trump lawyer John Eastman, filing nearly a dozen disciplinary charges related to "false and misleading" statements about the 2020 election.
DEVELOPING story,
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Remember Apollo 1's Grissom, White, Chaffee, who perished tomorrow 1967:
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A devastating account by and of the Durham fiasco and the malign influence of the Barr Justice Department.
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ICYMI --> Peter was already robbed. He can’t pay Paul.
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I started with GDP grew at a 2.9% annual rate in Q4. But that is the government's first estimate. As it gets more data it will revise that many times in the coming years. Based on historical revisions this is a probability distribution for the last estimate.
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Strong headline GDP: 2.9% (ar) in Q4. Led by consumption (+2.1%) but also more volatile factors like inventory investment, net exports and government spending. Residential investment continued its plunge.
Overall GDP basically at CBO's pre-pandemic forecast.
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Learning new details about the Pence documents : Pence's aides did not begin packing his files until AFTER Jan. 6, 2021 due to Trump's insistence post-Nov. 2020 that everyone in admin. act like they'd be there for another term, per 2 people familiar with the process...
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US designates the Wagner paramilitary group as a significant transnational criminal organization.
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Sometimes you need to look at the big picture: It's been an incredible rebound from the 2020 pandemic recession.
The US has recovered all output lost in the crisis and gotten back on trend.
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2022: +2.1%
2021: +5.9%
2020: -2.8%
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The debt ceiling and potential budget cuts -- a guide to why Congress avoids the hard choices. (free link)
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