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The editor of ‘Washington Post’ quit due to the new opinion of Jeff Bezos
The Washington Post Opinions Editor David Maraniss has resigned after being recruited by Jeff Bezos to oversee the paper’s new sections. Bezos had asked Maraniss to lead the reformed sections and said they’d be writing daily in support and defence of personal liberties and free markets. “It used to be that a local newspaper would…
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There are signs of respite from scrutiny at the Justice Department
US President Donald Trump’s administration has dropped cases against people who worked for him in Justice Department, according to a report by The Washington Post. Earlier, the government dropped cases against ex-US Congressman Tom Fort and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Trump’s allies have found signs of respite from scrutiny at the Justice Department,…
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It has often been overshadowed by self-made controversy
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said on the trail that the “problem isn’t that”. In an interview with The Washington Post, Vance added, “The problem isn’t that, it’s that we’ll never be successful and we’ll never be able to work together.” He further said that he had a “great time” when he was in…
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OpenAI is no longer a research lab
US-based AI startup OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has told employees that the startup will drop its non-profit status next year, The Washington Post reported. This comes after the startup recently released a new AI model, GPT-4o, which it claims can “reason”. Altman said the startup will be restructuring into a for-profit company next year.
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The sentencing of Trump is delayed until after the election
US President Donald Trump’s legal team has removed references to the Justice Department telling him about the 2020 election, in order to make the case that he should be a political candidate, The Washington Post reported. Trump was convicted in New York last month on charges of lying about a $130,000 hush money payment to…
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The harms of online misinformation can be understood
US President Donald Trump has banned The Washington Post from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The paper had reported in November last year that over 60 million of Trump’s supporters were affected by fake news articles on Facebook and Twitter during the US presidential elections. The social media platform said it was investigating the report, adding…
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The leaking of top-secret US Intel poses a new risk to the intelligence community
Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman, has been arrested for leaking classified documents to media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, the US Justice Department has said. Teixeira was taken into custody outside his home in Massachusetts’ North Dighton. He is accused of leaking a government document containing secrets about…
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Biden thinks the US government is close to figuring out a intel leaker
The person who leaked US military documents worked for a military base and posted national security secrets on the internet, The Washington Post reported. “OG claimed he spent at least some of his day inside a secure facility that prohibited cellphones and other electronic devices,” it added. “OG claimed he spent at least some of…
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There are some pieces of evidence that the special counsel nailed down about how Trump handled classified records
Former US President Donald Trump reportedly told others to lie to government officials about his time in the White House before they were subpoenaed. These texts and notes, which investigators have had for several months, detail what Trump was doing and who he was meeting with, The Washington Post reported. At least two dozen people…
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Biden and House Democrats have a track record of legislative success
The White House has begun preparations for a “bipartisan new reality in the US House of Representatives from 2020”, The Washington Post reported. White House officials reportedly are looking at moderate Republicans and the incoming class of freshmen Republicans who flipped districts President Joe Biden won two years earlier. White House officials acknowledged the sweeping…
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Hundreds of newspapers have stopped publishing the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after creator Scott Adams made racist comments
The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and other newspapers across the US have said they will no longer carry cartoonist Scott Adams’ syndicated ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after he urged white people to “get the hell away” from Black people. Adams last week called Black Americans a “hate group” and suggested that White people should…
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The email addresses of over 200 million people on the micro-blogging site have been leaked.
A database containing the email addresses and phone numbers of over 21 crore Twitter accounts has been hacked, The Washington Post reported. Troy Hunt, a security researcher, said that his analysis of the data “found 211,524,284 unique email addresses” that had been leaked. The vulnerability was found in Twitter’s security systems in 2021 and allowed…
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The Senate is attempting to head off another Jan. 6 election.
Former US President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign adviser Steve Bannon told Trump that he could appoint a special counsel with full subpoena power to make sure that those trying to “steal 2020 election through voter fraud” were charged and convicted, The Washington Post reported. Bannon added that he told Trump how he could appoint a special…
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The 9th of January the committee heard about its investigation.
Ex-US President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election results were not limited to lying and pressuring state officials and the Department of Justice officials, The Washington Post said. Trump was also trying to use the Department of Justice to change the election result. His efforts to unlawfully overturn the results were not limited to…
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Key Findings from the Jan. 6 Committee’s Report.
US President Donald Trump refused to tell his families to stand down and leave the Capitol on January 6, 2001, the day he got out of the presidential vehicle to go to the White House, according to a Secret Service email accessed by The Washington Post. Trump’s aides claimed he had no choice but to…
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The 9th January hearing on its investigation is here.
Former US President Donald Trump sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, even going as far as pressuring state officials and the Department of Justice, The Washington Post reported citing leaked emails. The emails also showed Trump’s advisers and White House staff were aware of his plans to overturn the election results, the…
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The 9th of January is when the committee hearing on its investigation happened.
US Secret Service Agents were aware of online threats against Vice President Mike Pence the day before he was due to appear before the joint session of US Congress, The Washington Post reported. “I saw several other alerts saying they’ll storm Capitol if he doesn’t do…right thing,” an agent was quoted as saying. The threat…