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Cheney loses primary while vowing effort to keep Trump from White House

By Paul Kane and Hannah Knowles1 hour ago

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Takeaways: Cheney lost big, while Murkowski and Palin saw their careers hang in the balance

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Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers — but he keeps hearing ‘No’

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.

By Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, Carol D. Leonnig, Jacqueline Alemany and Rosalind S. Helderman

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Doyle, center, produces a podcast with sister Amanda Doyle, right, and wife, Abby Wambach. (Allison Schott)

Glennon Doyle chose honesty and hit the eject button on her life. Now fans are following her lead.

The Christian parenting writer turned feminist icon bares even more of herself on her podcast — inspiring listeners to do the same.

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Giuliani appears before Georgia grand jury in probe of efforts to overturn 2020 election

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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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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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Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers — but he keeps hearing ‘No’

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