He also called former President Donald Trump “totally irresponsible“ in his handling of classified documents, and hedged on whether he was fully committed to seeking reelection. | Continue reading


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CFTC considering deregulation of election prediction markets

Officials at the CFTC, the regulator in charge of overseeing U.S. derivatives markets, have long been reluctant to open up trading in elections. | Continue reading


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Why weed companies can't make any moneT

High taxes, siloed state markets and lack of access to capital make it very difficult to turn a profit. | Continue reading


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The Not-So-Bitter Rivalry of Dean Baquet and Marty Baron (2017)

They’re pals who once vied for the same jobs. Now, as editors of The New York Times and The Washington Post, they’re locked in a daily battle for Trump scoops. | Continue reading


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California proposes to extend life of last nuclear plant at cost of $1.4B

Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said the nuclear plant is an important part of a clean energy transition. | Continue reading


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Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till lynching

Carolyn Bryant Donham's accusation set off the horrific events in 1955. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

POLITICO Playbook: After the search: GOP torches FBI, hugs Trump

The news of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, the most aggressive law enforcement action ever taken against a former American president, broke last night in the most understated way imaginable. Peter Schorsch of FlordiaPolitics.com just tweeted it out : "Scoop - The Federal Bureau of … | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

Secret Service may disable iMessages to avoid repeat of Jan. 6 controversy

Missing text messages have become a recent flashpoint in investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. On July 13, the DHS inspector general informed Congress that the Secret Service lost texts related to the attack while erasing its employees' phones as part of a change to how it … | Continue reading


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The ban, which takes effect Sept. 12, includes some exceptions. | Continue reading


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PhRMA CEO Steve Ubl says the group is still fighting hard against the drug pricing provisions, but is making contingency plans — and promises — should reconciliation become law. | Continue reading


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Five lessons from Apollo for the new space age (2019)

We learned things about space travel the first time that we’d be wise to remember. | Continue reading


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The Dobbs decision is clearing the political ground for a resolution in favor of abortion rights. | Continue reading


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Data brokers shrug off pressure to stop collecting info on pregnant people

With concerns around data surveillance and abortion bans, lawmakers want these datasets to be off-limits. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

Immigration reform is essential for the industrial and idea economy

Intel’s planned microchip plant outside Columbus, Ohio, is the administration’s poster child for reviving high-tech manufacturing. But failure to allow a small number of foreign-born doctorates to stay in the U.S. could cause the effort to fizzle. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

US Justice Department investigating data breach of federal court system

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) told fellow lawmakers that there had been a "system security failure" of the U.S. Courts' document management system. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

The climate VC who gave up on politics

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China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down

Bipartisan pressure is building to stop foreign nationals from purchasing American farm operations and receiving taxpayer subsidies. | Continue reading


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Why expensive gasoline is here to stay

"Future presidents and administrations are going to be absolutely bedeviled by high gasoline prices." | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

RNC is promoting Trump and his business, raising fresh concerns about neutrality

These are uncharted waters for the committee. And some in the party don’t think it’s charting them well so far. | Continue reading


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State Republicans are coalescing behind Doug Mastriano, despite his perceived shortcomings as a candidate in the pivotal swing state. | Continue reading


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A nuclear launch expert plays out the various scenarios (2016)

A nuclear launch expert plays out the various scenarios. | Continue reading


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‘A uniquely dangerous tool’: How Google's data can help states track abortions

Ten states where ending a pregnancy is now illegal have sent the search giant more than 5,700 demands for location tracking data since 2018 — showing the data's potential usefulness to authorities enforcing abortion bans. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

Homeland Security records show 'shocking' use of phone data, ACLU says

The civil liberties group released documents showing new details about how agencies had purchased information on people's movements throughout North America. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

A Man at the Center of the New Cyber World War

Yurii Shchyhol’s job is to protect Ukraine against ongoing Russia cyberattacks. But the war he’s fighting is global, he says — and he has some advice for the rest of us. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

Indiana AG eyes criminal prosecution of 10-yea

“Certainly, it’s an intimidation tactic,” said Fabiola Carrión, the director of reproductive and sexual health at the National Health Law Program. | Continue reading


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The story has sparked a national conversation over the consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and how far some states are willing to go to prohibit abortions. | Continue reading


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Novavax Covid-19 vaccine wins FDA authorization

Executives have said they hope the shot will see uptake in individuals who have expressed hesitancy toward other Covid-19 vaccines or are allergic to components of the others' ingredients. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

The (Fairly Serious) Case for Jon Stewart in 2024

Jon Stewart is a better fit than most politicians for what modern politics has become. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

Biden administration ramps up monkeypox vaccination

Cities say demand for vaccines is still outstripping supply. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

Supreme Court to hear case on GOP ‘independent legislature’ theory

The case stems from the North Carolina Supreme Court's decision this year to throw out the Republican-drawn congressional map for gerrymandering. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

Microsoft Learned ABCs of D.C

Opinion: It took a while for the software giant to realize that Washington is a vast protection racket. | Continue reading


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The lonely chief: How John Roberts lost control of the court

The chief justice had zero support for his middle of the road effort on Roe v. Wade. | Continue reading


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‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’ (2019)

What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House, to the fighter pilots prepared to ram the cockpit and to the passengers. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

The Supreme Court’s Faux ‘Originalism’

The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess. | Continue reading


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The Supreme Court Could Foster a New Kind of Civil War

With three decisions this month, the Court could break the back of Washington’s authority over regulation. Then, the battles over some of America’s biggest issues shift to the states. | Continue reading


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Streaming news is going to change the way everything — including politics — gets covered. Why aren’t people more excited? | Continue reading


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What changed from Justice Alito’s draft opinion to final ruling on Roe

Justice Samuel Alito used his rewrite to take shots at Chief Justice John Roberts and liberal dissenters. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

Justice or overreach?: As crucial test looms, Big Greens are under fire

The environmental movement embraces a broad array of progressive causes while its own agenda hangs in the balance. | Continue reading


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D.C. Power Players Are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Find Dates

Inside the expensive, awkward, and sometimes even romantic world of matchmaking DC’s elite. | Continue reading


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Democrats warned that the court would seek to undo other constitutional rights if it overturned Roe v. Wade, as it did on Friday. | Continue reading


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Not all trigger bans immediately kick in, but abortion will soon be illegal in more than a dozen states. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

NASA tell-all recounts turmoil over private space race

An unfiltered memoir by the agency’s former No. 2 rips NASA’s administrator and a “male-dominated” culture for wasting billions on a government-owned moon rocket. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

Unintended Consequences of Giving Black Marijuana Entrepreneurs a Head Start

The city’s effort to create a cannabis industry that mirrors — and benefits — its majority Black population has led to lawsuits and a collapsing marketplace. Meanwhile, the rest of the state thrives. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

How Elites Misread Public Opinion

Political scientists are using experiments to get inside the heads of political power-players — and their findings have major implications for the future of American democracy. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

DOJ took the malware fight into your computer

Reaching into people’s computers and removing malware, once controversial inside the government, has gained more acceptance as a tool to thwart hackers. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

Lawmakers push new compromise for screening American investments in China

Business groups, along with the Treasury, have been skeptical of awarding new powers to the government to review American investments in the world’s second largest economy. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

A Chewing Gum Heir Fell into a Sticky Situation with Weed

Beau Wrigley’s cannabis company is beset by lawsuits filed by angry investors alleging fraud. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 1 year ago

As a Roe Reversal Looms, RBG Admirers Wrestle with Her Legacy

Among some women’s rights supporters, Ginsburg’s longtime peers and admirers, a season of frustration features an unlikely target: the justice herself. | Continue reading


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