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Just in time to sign off again for maternity leave. Back at the end of August. 👋🏻
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"We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg tells reporters at his first press conference after Trump's arraignment.
Trump emerged briefly before walking into the courtroom. He was stone-faced, looked toward the pool camera, but did not say anything.
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Donald Trump, on his way to surrender to New York authorities, posts on Truth Social: "Seems so SURREAL – WOW, they are going to ARREST ME. Can’t believe this is happening in America. MAGA!"
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Today the FL senate passed a 6-week abortion ban. told me it was a “horrible day” for the state but that she was “heartened” by the activists in Tallahassee who are “not going quietly into the night.”
Tonight she was arrested alongside them outside of city hall.
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Senator @LeaderBookFL and FDP Chair @NikkiFriedFL have both been arrested while peacefully protesting near the capitol at Tallahassee city hall. The legislature and governor are attacking us directly, stripping away our rights and bodily autonomy. We will not back down! 
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NEW: ABC News exclusive: Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson tells he is running for president in 2024
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Breaking News: A grand jury in New York has voted to indict Donald Trump over his role in a hush money payment to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. nyti.ms/3ZzQXrb
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Biden on #TransDayOfVisibility denounces “discriminatory” state laws “targeting transgender youth, terrifying families and hurting kids who are not hurting anyone.”
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BREAKING NEWS: The Senate has voted to the repeal the Iraq Authorizations for the Use of Military Force.
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By a vote of 66-30, the #Senate passed S. 316, Repealing the AUMF Against Iraq.
GOP voting in favor: Senators Braun, Budd, Cassidy, Collins, Cramer, Daines, Grassley, Hawley, Hoeven, Lee, Lummis, Marshall, Moran, Murkowski, Paul, Schmitt, Vance and Young.
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Scott Trust chair: “The Scott Trust is deeply sorry for the role John Edward Taylor and his backers played in the cotton trade. We recognise that apologising and sharing these facts transparently is only the first step in addressing the Guardian’s historical links to slavery."
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Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery
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I just vetoed my first bill.
This bill would risk your retirement savings by making it illegal to consider risk factors MAGA House Republicans don't like.
Your plan manager should be able to protect your hard-earned savings — whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene likes it or not.
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Greetings from Baltimore, where House Dems have gathered for their annual issues conference.
Biden spoke to the caucus last night, offering a glimpse of his potential 2024 message: "As much as we’ve done, we have a lot of unfinished business."
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A little housekeeping: Rep. Gallagher says he will politely enforce the five minute rule for members to ask questions. And if there are any takers, he says he'll entertain a second round.
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Witness Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, began his remarks by noting that the protesters have a right to free speech in the US that they would not enjoy in China.
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Matthew Pottinger, a China expert who served in the Trump admin, said the CCP's success at presenting itself as "normal was one of the great magic tricks of the modern era."
It is the "Criss Angel of autocracy. But the magic is fading."
The second protestor is holding a sign that says " Stop Asian Hate." But it's upside down, which chair Gallagher notes dryly.
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A protester interrupts Gen. HR McMaster as he delivers his opening remarks. She shouts "we need cooperation, not competition." She is promptly removed. Another protester stands up and is also promptly removed (and booed)
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Questioning the loyalty of a Chinese-American member of Congress is "completely unacceptable and must be rejected," said, referencing the attack on Rep. Judy Chu by a Republican lawmaker.
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"We do NOT want a war within the PRC," said . "Not a cold war, not a hot war. We don't want a clash of civilizations. :"
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In his opening remarks, said the committee's work will be bipartisan and at its best will offer a roadmap to “up our game as a people.” He vowed the committee would avoid anti-Chinese and anti-Asian stereotypes "at all costs."
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said the West's strategy of economic engagement failed to usher in democratic reforms in China. “We were wrong. The CCP laughed at our naïveté while they took advantage of our good faith. But that era of wishful thinking is over.”
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in his opening remarks, says: "We may call this a “strategic competition,” but this is not a polite tennis match. This is an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century — and the most fundamental freedoms are at stake."
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The first, prime-time hearing of the House select committee on China gaveled in.
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At an event honoring the Hong Kong 47, Rep. Mike Gallagher, chair of the select committee on China, holds up the final edition of the Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper. He said panel will hang the paper on the wall of their office.
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“The challenge is treat the delegations properly because,like Biden, they spend more time on the train than they do in Kyiv. He spent 20hrs on the train and 4hrs in Kyiv. Everyone knows Ukrainians are brave. We also want them to know that we are welcoming”
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This from Boris Johnson: “It’s Joe [Biden] who is really determinative. I do my shtick. I make my arguments that Putin must fail and Ukraine must succeed. … Joe picks that up and uses the phrase or something like it. He genuinely saw it very, very clearly.“
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“We realized that this would change Europe, that this was one of the darkest days in Europe’s modern history and would cause a lot of suffering and death,” JENS STOLTENBERG
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The House select committee on China officially announced its first hearing – a primetime event on Tuesday titled "The Chinese Communist Party's Threat to America."
Witnesses include: HR McMaster + Matthew Pottinger
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Kamala Harris, on the lawsuit attempting threatening access to medication abortion: "This is not just an attack on women’s fundamental freedoms. It is an attack on the very foundation of our public health system."
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Biden to on China: “I think the last thing Xi wants is to fundamentally rip the relationship with the United States and with me.”
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Read 's beautiful essay on journalism and motherhood and what it's like to be thrust into a news cycle of tragedy after parental leave.
"In my new world, I see every photo or video and think: someone worked so hard to keep this person alive."
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To loud cheers, Haley says: "May the best woman win."
She follows up: "This is not about identity politics. I don't believe in that. And I don't believe in glass ceilings, either."
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Haley just vowed that in her America she would make voter ID the law of the land, institute term limits for Congress and implement "mental competency tests" for politicians over 75
Another example: "Let me be clear, we won't win the fight for the 21st Century if we keep trusting politicians from the 20th Century."
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"America is on a path of doubt, division and self-destruction, a path of fading patriotism and weakening power. The stakes are nothing less than our survival," Haley says, announcing her candidacy.
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Lots of digs at older pols (read Biden + Trump)
"America is not past our prime. It’s just that our politicians are past theirs," she said in what has been the biggest applause line so far.
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