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Yahoo NewsWho is Larry Ellison, the billionaire backing Sen. Tim Scott’s presidential run?
Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, ranked by Forbes as fourth-wealthiest person in the world, is preparing to spend up to $60 million to help Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., run for president, CNBC reported last week.
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Why top Trump allies like Roger Stone are using apocalyptic religious rhetoric
Why top Trump allies like Roger Stone are using apocalyptic religious rhetoric
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Where the GOP's investigations into President Biden's family members stand
The report says that James and Hunter Biden were paid over $10 million by companies associated with foreign countries or governments when Joe Biden was vice president. It does not provide proof of decisions made by then-Vice President Biden that were influenced by his relatives.
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Why is Florida the only state to pass a full-on ‘curricula ban’?
“Of all the states that have considered curricular bans in the last few years, just one state enacted it,” John Coleman, legislative counsel for FIRE, told Yahoo News.
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I was a teenage evangelical missionary
In this excerpt from his new memoir, “Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation,” Yahoo News reporter Jon Ward recounts his involvement with a Christian youth organization that sent him abroad.
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Does Tim Scott have a path to the presidency?
Why should anyone care if South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is thinking about formally running for president? The answer is that he's a formidable politician with obvious potential as a national candidate.
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Roberts's goal of boosting trust in Supreme Court takes another hit with Clarence Thomas revelations
Chief Justice John Roberts’s stated mission to preserve the integrity of the Supreme Court suffered another setback this week when it was revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas had, for years, failed to disclose the acceptance of lavish gifts from wealthy conservative donors.
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'A mockery and a disgrace': Key takeaways from House GOP hearing on social media censorship
House Republicans held their third hearing Thursday regarding what they claim is the “weaponization” of the federal government by Democrats. The hearing featured three Republican witnesses who alleged that the Biden administration has “coerced” social media companies to remove information it does not like, but Democrats protested when two of the witnesses left the hearing before taking any questions from committee members.
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How a judge's visit to Stanford has changed the debate over free speech on campus
A confrontation this month between a conservative judge and left-wing students at Stanford Law School may mark a turning point in the free speech debate, according to a prominent legal writer and analyst who has covered the controversy closely.
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Key takeaways from contentious House hearing on crime in D.C.
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee questioned members of the Washington, D.C., city government in a tense, sharply partisan hearing that focused on concerns about violent crime in the nation’s capital.
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Republicans and Democrats team up to grill TikTok CEO
The CEO of TikTok came in for a bipartisan bashing during a congressional hearing Thursday, as both Republicans and Democrats denounced the company as an arm of the communist Chinese government.
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Censorship? Disinformation? Defining some key terms in the social media debate
While it may not always dominate the headlines, the debate over free speech in the U.S. remains at the forefront of our political conversation.
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Ukraine flap is DeSantis’s first major test as an alternative to Trump
Foreign policy is usually dismissed by political analysts as a second-tier campaign issue, especially in primaries, but the war in Ukraine has taken center stage as the 2024 Republican contest heats up.
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The Yahoo News Interview: Mike Pence
Mike Pence still insists he hasn’t made his mind up about a 2024 campaign. But an interview with Yahoo News shows that he’s certainly started talking like a contender for the Republican nomination. The former vice president has ready-made critiques of his potential rivals, comparing Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida to California's liberal Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, while also taking direct aim at Donald Trump.
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Mike Pence seems to know where he's going
Former Vice President Mike Pence does not seem to lack clarity about or determination about running for president in 2024, even though he insisted to Yahoo News in a lengthy interview that he has “made no decision” about doing so.
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Senators propose a plan to do something about TikTok, but it's not clear what
Amid an increasingly contested debate over whether to ban TikTok, a group of bipartisan senators proposed on Tuesday to create a process by which the U.S. government can decide whether to stop the Chinese social media app from operating in this country.
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Radical beliefs in 'spiritual warfare' played a major role in Jan. 6, an expert argues
Two weeks after President Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election, a group of Christian pastors stood on stage inside a nondenominational church in a suburb of Phoenix, whipping the congregation into a frenzy of prayer mixed with violent and bloody imagery.
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Twitter hearing a test of new House GOP majority's seriousness
Three former Twitter executives called to testify on Capitol Hill this week are already infamous to those who believe that social media companies have censored conservatives.
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A powerful Democratic-leaning group throws its weight behind election reform
A new paper released Monday by an influential liberal group argues that changing how elections are held in the U.S. should be a top-tier issue.
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Dems bet GOP will walk away with nothing from debt ceiling fight
The debt ceiling is nothing more than a Washington problem at the moment, so there is lots of chatter on the topic inside the Beltway and — with the exception of Wall Street — mostly indifference outside it.