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DOJ officials were alarmed by surveillance footage of the Mar-a-Lago room where classified info was being stored, report says
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- USA TODAY
Fact check: Altered image of Donald Trump at golf tournament adds fat, wrinkles
A photo of Donald Trump at a golf tournament has been digitally altered to add extra fat and wrinkles to his face.
- Esquire
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- NY Daily News
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Donald Trump Jr. got so worked up speaking about the FBI’s search to recover confidential documents from his father’s home last week that it even caused critics of the former president’s namesake to wonder about his well-being. The Atlantic writer Molly Jong-Fast posted the 44-year-old scion’s rapid-fire rant, which included a nonstop stream of loosely connected grievances running the gamut ...
- Business Insider
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- INSIDER
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- Bloomberg
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- INSIDER
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Matt Gaetz's Republican primary opponent suggests he is the possible FBI Mar-a-Lago informant in new attack ad
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- Ukrayinska Pravda
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- The New Voice of Ukraine
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- The Hill
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- Reuters
Taliban test repaired helicopters, planes in flyover of capital
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- Ukrayinska Pravda
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