Supervising Editor @CNN Washington Bureau. Former @WSJ, @nationaljournal, @washingtonpost & @rollcall. @UCBerkeley alum. L.A. native. Vin Scully forever.
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Japan’s theme parks have banned screaming on roller coasters because it spreads coronavirus. “Please scream inside your heart.” wsj.com/articles/reopened-th…
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Will be interesting to see how frequently this happens tomorrow: “The agents were rejected by people at the residences because they didn’t have warrants” wsj.com/articles/immigration…
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I knew there was some reason why it was getting harder to hear the dialogue on TV, but hadn’t seen it explained so clearly before. apple.news/AeUIfgXixRg6OqPc7…
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NEWS: Democrat Henry Cuellar Rejected Request From Allies of GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to Switch Parties wsj.com/livecoverage/midterm…
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The U.S. Army is monitoring Vindman’s security and is prepared to move him and his family to a local military base if necessary following his impeachment testimony. wsj.com/articles/impeachment…
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NEWS: Kodak Loan Disclosure and Stock Surge Under SEC Investigation wsj.com/articles/kodak-loan-…
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EXCLUSIVE Rating agencies say Biden's spending plans will not add to inflationary pressure reuters.com/world/us/exclusi…
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The fact that the House impeachment was completely partisan was a vital WH talking point. Romney removing Trump's ability to say the same in the Senate is huge, and now very eager to see/read Trump's reaction.
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NEWS: The Biden administration is preparing to sue Texas over its new law banning most abortions, an action that would set off a federal-state clash wsj.com/articles/biden-admin…
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Roche says its test has proven 100% accurate at detecting Covid-19 antibodies in the blood, and 99.8% accurate at ruling out the presence of those antibodies. wsj.com/articles/roche-coron…
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“Eight former students who attended the prestigious school during Mr. Epstein’s short tenure there said that his conduct with teenage girls had left an impression that had lingered for decades.” nytimes.com/2019/07/12/nyreg…
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A lot of the "Beto lost because he did X wrong" stories seem predicated on the notion that a generic D might've done better, or that the race was close more because of Cruz's weakness than O'Rourke's strength. I don't agree. Generic Dems have a terrible recent track record in TX.
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Fascinating long-term trends on what Americans value, per the latest WSJ-NORC poll:
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"A newly uncovered video shows Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg in 2019 describing transgender people as an 'he, she, or it' and 'some guy in a dress' who enters girls’ locker rooms" buzzfeednews.com/article/dom…
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The White House just sent out the text of the executive order. It creates a task force to recommend how and where to create this new garden. And it specifies the statues that should be in the park (including Antonin Scalia):
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President Trump would need sweeping legal victories for any chance at contesting Joe Biden’s election victory. Many of the lawsuits they have filed so far are limited in scope, making them unlikely to produce large vote swings even if successful. wsj.com/articles/election-20…
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NEWS: Tesla board members investigated whether company resources were misused in a secret project to build a glass house for Elon Musk wsj.com/articles/a-glass-hou…
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Inbox: Donald Trump and Bill O'Reilly will hold a series of live events in Florida and Texas in December, dubbed "The History Tour," where Trump will "provide a never before heard inside view of his administration."
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Off-camera, Steve Kornacki is pedaling a stationary bike that powers the entire studio.
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America may well be hopelessly divided. But I think the vast majority of us can agree ...
It's great the Astros lost.
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NEWS: Pompeo was on the Trump-Zelensky call at the center of impeachment inquiry. Details coming soon here: wsj.com/articles/mcconnell-e…
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NEW: Some officials at the Pentagon said they would be willing to meet off site with members of the Biden team should the standoff extend into December. “January is too late,” one defense official said.
wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-n…
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Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner once called himself a “communist,” dismissed “all” police as bastards, and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts reviewed by CNN’s KFile. cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/…
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At WaPo event, John Bolton says Trump “may well have withdrawn from NATO” in a second term, and that Putin “was waiting for that.” Bolton says he, Pompeo and Esper were “appalled” by Trump’s policies in Ukraine. piped.video/watch?v=8yn1esLd…
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What’s happening between India and Pakistan right now seems more important than anything happening at the Vietnam summit. washingtonpost.com/world/asi…
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Geoffrey S. Berman, who headed the Manhattan office, says in a book the Justice Department pushed cases, against John Kerry and others, to help Mr. Trump. nytimes.com/2022/09/08/nyreg…
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A-Rod just said on the Yankees-Nats broadcast: “Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former point guard from New York, a hero to so many, he’s been playing point guard for the nation.”
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NEW: Collins faces a tough reelection race, new poll from Colby shows wsj.com/articles/susan-colli…
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“It’s like Covid-19 theater,” one scientist says. The plexiglass barriers installed at the vice-presidential debate to reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus probably won’t help, according to experts. wsj.com/articles/to-prevent-…
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NEWS: Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Rudy Giuliani stood to personally profit from a Ukrainian natural-gas business pushed by two associates wsj.com/articles/federal-pro…
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NEWS: President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ’s son, urging Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani. wsj.com/articles/trump-defen…
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This week, a group of policy experts assigned to every major government agency will begin laying plans to implement Mr. Biden’s agenda, according to a Biden transition official. wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-b…
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An agency decides to put on hold a $765 million loan to Kodak as the SEC investigates its disclosure of a loan and stock options granted to executives wsj.com/articles/u-s-agency-…
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The Texas electricity regulator declined to reverse $16 billion in power overcharges, saying there is no way to “unscramble this sort of egg” wsj.com/articles/texas-opts-…
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Gov. Kristi Noem Suggests Ronna McDaniel Shouldn't Remain as RNC Chair: “Who loses this much and gets to keep their job?” wsj.com/livecoverage/midterm…
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Kyrsten Sinema tells @elizacollins1 why she won't budge on scrapping or even changing the filibuster rule: “When you have a place that’s broken and not working, and many would say that’s the Senate today, I don’t think the solution is to erode the rules.” wsj.com/articles/kyrsten-sin…
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Seems fair to say that if Dems moved an election date because their candidate was losing, GOP would not take it well politico.com/story/2017/11/1…
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NEWS from the @WSJ WH team: President Trump has repeatedly talked to advisers about the possibility of the U.S. buying Greenland. wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-…
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Time for some **personal news**:
After 5 wonderful years at @nationaljournal I'm very excited to be joining @WSJ as Politics Editor in the Washington Bureau. dowjones.com/press-room/ben-…
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Whether you're for or against calling witnesses, it's worth noting that this principle described by Rubio was not followed during the Clinton impeachment. The Senate took videotaped testimony from Lewinsky, Jordan and Blumenthal, none of whom testified to the House.
Just asked Sen Rubio if he‘d vote to subpoena Bolton. “I wouldn’t because..I believe you should be constrained by the information that those articles are based on..if the House wants to start a new impeachment inquiry or..add additional elements to it that’s their choice to make”
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a rare Democrat in the Deep South, wins re-election wsj.com/articles/louisiana-g…
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“Those who have had at least one shot of a coronavirus vaccine, a significant majority of likely voters, support McAuliffe by 14 points. Those who have not received even one vaccine dose back Youngkin by 77 points.” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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YouTube suspended President Trump’s channel, joining a growing list of tech companies that are ejecting him from their platforms wsj.com/articles/youtube-sus…
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Goes without saying: I've never seen a House or Senate Intel Committee chair do anything quite like this publicly.
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NEW: Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her husband, New York Stock Exchange Chairman Jeffrey Sprecher, purchased and sold about $1.4 million in stocks in the midst of the coronavirus market panic. wsj.com/articles/senator-rep…
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‘I cannot understand Putin’s hold on Trump’: In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, H.R. McMaster details the clashes over Russia that led President Trump to fire him as national security adviser. wsj.com/politics/i-cannot-un…
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Mulvaney on Trump: "At the end of the day, he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business."
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In Missouri, Georgia, Ohio and now Nebraska, Republican men running for high office face significant allegations of domestic violence, stalking, even sexual assault — accusations that once would have derailed any run for office. nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/po…
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“Well, somebody is lying." A Michigan Republican spent eight months searching for evidence of election fraud, but all he found was lies, @TimAlberta reports. theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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I expect liberal Twitter will handle this news calmly.
Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders inflicted ‘lasting damage’ on her campaign yhoo.it/2eBmG7v by @stableford
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GOP election lawyer Ben Ginsberg says on CNN that there's no way for Trump to do what he just claimed he would do — go to the Supreme Court and ask for it to stop the counting of ballots.
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A private security company is recruiting a “large contingent” of former U.S. military Special Operations personnel to guard polling sites in Minn. on Election Day as part of an effort “to make sure that the Antifas don’t try to destroy the election sites” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Prosecutors use grand jury as investigation of Andrew McCabe intensifies wapo.st/2QaQdq3?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Just to recap, this person allegedly: 1) Plagiarized in her novel; 2) Plagiarized in her confessional essay about plagiarizing her novel; and 3) Specifically plagiarized a guy who writes about plagiarism (the author of the website Plagiarism Today)
An online essay in which the writer Jumi Bello explained copying others’ work for her novel was itself removed after further plagiarism was found. nytimes.com/2022/05/10/books…
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Have to assume @BarbaraComstock is moving up the list of most vulnerable House Republicans tonight. Results in her district are sobering for GOP.
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Ronan Farrow should win some awards for his reporting on this. Relentless. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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“Mr. Trump’s behavior led to such mistrust within intelligence agencies that officials who gave him classified briefings occasionally erred on the side of withholding some sensitive details from him.” nytimes.com/2022/08/11/us/po…
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"Hours before she was set to speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, Mary Ann Mendoza took to Twitter and urged her followers to investigate a supposed Jewish plot to enslave the world." thedailybeast.com/rnc-speake…
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The former Michigan governor pushed her state to increase use of renewable energy while in office wsj.com/articles/biden-to-ta…
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Russ Vought bills CFPB $5M for his security detail - Government Executive govexec.com/management/2025/…
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Crackdowns on leaks always leak. Always. politico.com/story/2017/02/s…
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People who know/cover Ryan always thought he’d win re-election back home and then resign in November or December. What changed? Maybe the fact that he faced an expensive, possibly tough race in Wisconsin. Not worth that effort if he’s quitting anyway. nitter.app/jonathanvswan/status/9…
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Kodak "shared information about an agreement between the company and the Trump administration with media outlets before the public announcement. Some media companies then published that information before deleting it after a request from the company."
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NEWS from @KThomasDC and @kristinapet: No Labels Will Abandon 2024 Presidential Campaign Effort wsj.com/politics/elections/n…
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Teachers Union Reverses Stance on Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates wsj.com/livecoverage/covid-1…
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Lindsey Graham Calls for Putin to Be Assassinated wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-…
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Both things can be true:
1) The idea of the summit has merit and everyone should root for its success.
2) If Obama were having this meeting (particularly w/ these photos) Republicans would be flipping out about it.
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Kansas primary result is seen boosting Republicans’ prospects of keeping their Senate majority in November wsj.com/articles/roger-marsh…
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'I'm the President of the United States!': Trump flips out on reporter - CNN Video cnn.com/videos/politics/2020…
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Montana's out-of-action Gov. Greg Gianforte is on vacation in TUSCANY as historic floods devastate | Daily Mail Online dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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NEWS from @tparti and @AndrewRestuccia: Kamala Harris will call for the construction of 3 million new housing units in her first four years in office, as well as a new tax incentive for builders that construct properties for first-time home buyers wsj.com/politics/elections/h…
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This is one of the best stories I've ever read, and I can't bring myself to read it again. Can't get past the start. washingtonpost.com/national/…
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Since “Sound of Music” is on, I’m obligated to share this. So good. mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-re…
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Colby College poll shows Sara Gideon essentially tied with Susan Collins (43-42), and Gideon leads among women (49-36). And 39% of independents said they're less likely to voter for Collins because of her Trump acquittal vote, compared to 13% who are more likely to vote for her.
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Just surrender now, two-space people. Your time has passed. wsj.com/articles/people-who-…
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When Mr. Giuliani went to the bathroom at one point, one of his confidants turned to Mr. Kiriakou and suggested Mr. Giuliani could help. But “it’s going to cost $2 million — he’s going to want two million bucks” nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/po…
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Some GOP strategists fret that the president’s focus on the Confederacy and racial strife could have long-term negative consequences for the party wsj.com/articles/trumps-emph…
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The thrust of the Fox host's question here is fascinating: Don't you want to clarify your remarks given that Trump said something different?
Watch: @FoxNews host asks @marcorubio if he wants to “clarify” his remarks calling Kim Jong Un a weirdo who starved his own people, Rubio: There is nothing to clarify.
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NEWS: The rally in Washington’s Ellipse that preceded the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was arranged and funded by a small group, including a top Trump campaign fundraiser and donor, and facilitated by far-right show host Alex Jones. wsj.com/articles/jan-6-rally…
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The irony here is that France isn’t supposed to “pay for NATO” (that’s not how NATO works)—it’s supposed to spend more of its own $$ on defense. Which is basically what Macron is saying Europe should do. And that’s making Trump mad.
Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two - How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!
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NEWS: Two foreign-born men who helped Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine arrested on campaign-finance charges wsj.com/articles/two-foreign…
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Facebook said Thursday that it was the first time the company removed a Trump campaign ad for violating its census interference policy. wsj.com/articles/facebook-re…
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Not clear why Biden used the 90% number to refer to Americans evacuated, when he's providing stats suggesting it's more like 96-98%
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NEW WSJ Poll:
Trump 49-Harris 47 in head to head
Harris 45-Trump 44 in multicandidate field
Big jump in Democratic enthusiasm.
More from @McCormickJohn and @aaronzitner:
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In 20 years in DC, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so many sources apparently eager to embarrass one prominent official as with Scott Pruitt. It’s impossible to keep up. nitter.app/noahshachtman/status/1…
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Yawn. Like I haven't read that before.
Olive Yang, who died last week at 90, rejected royal birthright to become a cross-dressing opium warlord nyti.ms/2tPnkmS
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90-year-old man spends $10,000 on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T CEO about his slow internet service ktvu.com/news/90-year-old-ma…
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NEW: Americans by a 2-to-1 margin are more troubled by the actions of police in the killing of George Floyd than by violence at some protests, poll finds wsj.com/articles/americans-a…
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A reminder of what Trump said to an adviser who tested positive during the previous outbreak: “Don’t tell anyone.” wsj.com/articles/trump-didnt…
More on @maggieNYT’s scoop from last night on Meadows wanting to keep the Covid diagnosis in the VP’s office under wraps.
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An unusual sight for DC: A guy on Metro at 9 am in dress shirt and tie, clearly headed to work ... drinking a can of Corona.
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You can tell this was dictated by Trump because of the electoral college point and the reference to NYT's supposed apology for its election coverage.
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Sidney Powell Has Secretly Been Funding The Legal Defense Of The Oath Keepers buzzfeednews.com/article/ken…
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