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White House ups offer to ‘almost $1.9 trillion’ ahead of Pelosi’s Tuesday deadline

The Daily Beast QAnon’s Fave Website Lost Its Host—but Found a New Russian One QAnon—an unhinged conspiracy theory falsely accusing President Donald Trump’s foes of Satanic pedophilia and cannibalism—has become so enmeshed in the GOP that at least one Q-loving Republican is expected to win a congressional seat this year.But in more level-headed industries, the theory is so toxic that few U.S. companies want anything to do with it. That includes an Oregon-based web services company… Source link

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Melania Trump’s “aggrieved and self-pitying” White House blog post blows up in her face

Melania Trump US First Lady Melania Trump addresses the B’More Youth Summit in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 26, 2019. – The purpose of the summit is to promote healthy choices and educate students about the dangers of opioid use. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images First lady Melania Trump is airing her personal grievances on the White House website to the astonishment of readers. President Donald Trump’s wife bashed her former friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who recently published a… Source link

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Google for business is topic of free, virtual open house: Community Voices

BEREA, Ohio — A virtual open house on Oct. 29 will introduce owners of small businesses to Grow with Google, an online resource for entrepreneurs. The free Zoom session is the latest in a series of Berea Biz Talks. The Biz Talks are hosted by the City of Berea, the Ohio Small Business Development Center and the Digital Marketing Clinic at Baldwin Wallace University. Grow with Google will discuss free resources and services to help businesses launch new enterprises, expand, and create… Source link

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Mueller ‘let Trump get away with lying,’ former House special counsel says

Former special counsel Robert Mueller. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s decision not to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice was an “unconscionable” lapse that “let Trump get away with lying,” Norm Eisen, former special counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, said in a Wednesday interview on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.” Eisen’s sharp comments about Mueller, for whom he said he has always had great respect, came… Source link

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Jared Kushner has reportedly refused to aid the House GOP’s election wing

The House GOP is on the outside looking in, and it doesn’t look like the Trump re-election campaign or the Republican National Committee are planning to help out despite their deep pockets, The Washington Post reports. Some Trump officials reportedly consider donating to the House a wasteful investment since it seems unlikely the party will be able to regain the majority in the lower chamber of Congress. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has apparently specifically asked… Source link

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Trump’s White House moves Bush, Clinton portraits to disused room

Washington (AFP) – In a break with tradition, the White House of President Donald Trump has removed the portraits of two recent presidents, Bill Clinton and George W Bush, from the building’s entrance hall, CNN reported Friday. The two paintings were moved from the Grand Foyer, where the portraits of recent presidents usually hang, to the Old Family Dining Room, which CNN described as “a small, rarely used room that is not seen by most visitors.” It said the room was mainly used to store… Source link

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White House skewered for strange stunt

Eager to arrest his sliding poll numbers, US president Donald Trump is pulling out all the stops – but his latest stunt on the lawn in front of the White House has left some observers rather perplexed. In a speech Friday morning, AEST, Mr Trump made some soaring promises and extolled his administration’s cutting of regulations. However it was the not-so-subtle display in the background that had people talking. On South Lawn, WH seeks to make a political point by setting up a crane lifting… Source link

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House Oversight Lawmaker Wants Apple, Google to Step Up Security on Apps With Foreign Ties

Lawmakers on the House Oversight and Reform Committee continue applying pressure to Google and Apple, seeking—at a minimum—commitments from the tech giants to be more transparent with users about the applications in their app stores. In separate letters to Google and Apple Tuesday, Rep. Stephen Lynch, chairman of the subcommittee on national security, sought assurances that the companies would warn users about applications that are developed, operated or owned by foreign entities and… Source link

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At least 43 test positive for coronavirus after Michigan house party, 66 more exposed

At least 43 people have tested positive for coronavirus after attending a large house party in Michigan, health officials said Monday. The majority of the cases are among people between the ages of 15 and 25 years who went to or came in contact with someone who went to a house party between July 2 and 3 in the area of Saline, about 10 miles south of Ann Arbor, the Washtenaw County Health Department said in a statement. Another 66 people, not including family members who live with the 44 who… Source link

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