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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    Gov. Gretchen Whitmer calls special election for state Senate seat that could split Michigan chamber

    Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called a special election Friday for a state Senate seat that has been vacant for nearly nine months, setting up a contest that could let Republicans hobble Whitmer’s agenda in the Democrat’s final year in office. The 35th Senate District has been unrepresented in the Legislature all year after its former lawmaker, Democrat Kristen McDonald Rivet, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November. Democrats now hold a slim 19-18 majority in the chamber

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  • USThe Wrap

    Mike Johnson Has Awkward Response When Newsom Points Out Louisiana Murder Rate Is Worse Than California

    Mike Johnson got a bit awkward when asked about the crime rates in his home state of Louisiana after Gov. Gavin Newsom called him out

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    Bones found during FBI's Travis Decker search in WA forest

    The FBI reportedly found bones while searching for Travis Decker in a large area of the Leavenworth forest.

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  • BusinessReuters

    Southwest Airlines begins flying first plane with secondary cockpit barrier

    (Reuters) -Southwest Airlines began Friday flying its first jet with a secondary barrier to the flight deck designed to prevent intrusions. The plane - a Boeing 737 MAX 8 which was delivered in recent days - took off Friday afternoon from Phoenix to Denver, the airline said. Secondary barriers -- long sought after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that exposed the risks of inadequate flight detect protection -- are crucial to aviation safety, pilots unions have argued.

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  • USThe Daily Beast

    Hegseth Puts Up Painting of Confederate General With a Chilling Detail at West Point

    Defense chief Pete Hegseth is restoring to West Point Military Academy a giant painting of rebel Gen. Robert E. Lee that shows him wearing his gray Confederate uniform and accompanied by a slave guiding his horse. The painting was originally hung in the storied academy’s library in 1952—at the height of racial segregation, voter suppression, and Jim Crow laws in the South—as part of an effort to rehabilitate the disgraced general’s image, The New York Times reported. Its return is part of a broa

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  • BusinessFortune

    Forget the golden age of fraud, the billionaire investor who shorted Enron warns we might be in the ‘diamond or platinum level’ amid the AI boom

    “When it comes to financial fraud specifically, there’s no question we’re seeing more of it—especially riding the wave of the current AI-driven market boom,” short-seller Jim Chanos said.

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  • USReuters

    Bondi fires Justice Department employee for gesturing at National Guard

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi fired a Department of Justice official on Friday for making a vulgar gesture to members of the National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., on her way to work. "Today, I took action to terminate a DOJ employee for inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members in DC," Bondi posted on X, responding to a New York Post story about the firing.

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