Trump authorized the CIA to smear the Chinese government with fake social media accounts: Reuters

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping (left) and former President Donald Trump (right).
Then-President Donald Trump (right) authorized the CIA to discredit Chinese leader Xi Jinping (left) and his government with fake social media accounts, per Reuters.

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McDonald's outlets across Australia, New Zealand, and Japan have been hit by a technical outage

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A McDonald's Australia spokesperson told Business Insider that a "technology outage" was affecting its restaurants nationwide.

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Trump would win the 2024 election if it were to be held now, GOP mega-donor Ken Griffin says

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"Right here? Right now? The election is tomorrow? He wins it," Citadel CEO Ken Griffin said of former President Donald Trump's bid for the White House.

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Putin said Trump wasn't happy with him in 2020 because he thought the Russian leader wanted 'Sleepy Joe to win'

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President Joe Biden (left), Russian leader Vladimir Putin (center), and former President Donald Trump (right).
Russian leader Vladimir Putin (center) said last month that he'd prefer President Joe Biden (left) to win the 2024 presidential race instead of former President Donald Trump (right).

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I had the opportunity to move from Chicago to Texas on Facebook's dime. I got nervous and backed out — a decision I now regret.

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A.W. has lived in Chicago, Illinois for nine years. She told Business Insider she regrets not moving to Texas when she had the chance.

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There's a point to this terrifying fox costume — it helps save fox kits' lives

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Richmond Wildlife Center staff wearing a fox mask and feeding an orphaned kit.
The Richmond Wildlife Center said in a Facebook post that their staff had to don a fox mask so that the orphaned kit doesn't "become imprinted upon or habituated to humans."

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Russian defectors fighting for Ukraine are attacking their motherland and rolling across the border in tanks: reports

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Representatives of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps holding a briefing near the border in northern Ukraine last year.
Representatives of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps holding a briefing near the border in northern Ukraine last year.

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Transcript of Biden's interview with Robert Hur shows the president cracked jokes about his wife and mimicked car sounds

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A transcript of Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur was released Tuesday, revealing that critiques of his memory may be overblown and offering a glimpse at Biden's sense of humor.

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TikTok execs believed Biden joining the app meant a ban was no longer an imminent threat: WSJ

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President Joe Biden uses a White House guest's phone to take a selfie.

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China's propaganda actors may go rogue and try to influence the 2024 election, US intelligence says

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping (left) and President Joe Biden (right).
Chinese leader Xi Jinping (left) and President Joe Biden (right).

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