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PEPFAR, credited with saving millions of lives, has been abruptly bogged down in a domestic political fight.

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Trump’s Save America PAC spent more than $40 million on legal costs in the first half of 2023 to defend him, his advisers and others.

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His Hollywood star was finally rising. Now he cleans apartments.

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