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The former president’s current legal team includes a Florida insurance lawyer who’s never had a federal case, a past general counsel for a parking garage company and a former host at far-right One America News.

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The fabulously wealthy are fueling a booming luxury ranch market out West

Moguls are lavishing ever-larger fortunes on ranches out West, prompted in part by the pandemic.

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Giuliani arrives at Atlanta courthouse to testify before Georgia grand jury

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She was the only one to survive the Lafayette Square lightning strike. She wonders why.

Amber Escudero-Kontostathis was among four people hospitalized when lightning struck the park north of the White House this month. The other three died.

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Inside America’s rapidly unfolding monkeypox crisis — and the mistakes that made it worse

Early mistakes by the Biden administration left hundreds of thousands of gay men facing the threat of an agonizing illness and the potential for broader circulation of monkeypox.

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Ask Jules: I want to post on TikTok but I’m too self-conscious

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U.S. struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion

This account, in previously unreported detail, shines new light on the road to war and the military campaign in Ukraine, drawn from in-depth interviews with dozens of senior U.S., Ukrainian, European and NATO officials.

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Syria denies holding U.S. journalist Austin Tice, who was abducted there a decade ago

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A Capitol rioter tried to bond with a Reagan judge, then got a lecture

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Plea deals upended for couple accused of trying to sell nuclear secrets to foreign country

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Cheney went against the ‘clear’ path. Now she leads an anti-Trump movement.

Cheney used her concession speech, after losing a GOP primary to Donald Trump’s handpicked candidate, to promise a sustained campaign against him and his allies.

By Paul Kane