Facebook Rejects Its Own Supreme Court's Order to Ban Cambodia's Ex-Prime Minister

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Meta has rejected its own Oversight Board’s recommendation to immediately suspend the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Cambodia’s former Prime Minister Hun Sen, an authoritarian dictator who

Why Mark Meadows wants an Obama-appointed judge to oversee his Georgia indictment

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Mark Meadows and former President Donald Trump.

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A former Obama aide who advised Succession writers on their chaotic presidential election outcome hopes 'that ultimately, life does not imitate art'

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Former Obama aide Eric Schultz consulted with HBO's Succession on crafting the chaotic outcome to their fictional presidential election.

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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he has multiple myeloma. The rare blood cancer is treatable but often returns after going into remission.

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US House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise.

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California's attorney general is suing a school district that's forcing teachers to tell parents if transgender and nonbinary students want to change their pronouns

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Attendees hold up signs at the Chino Valley Unified School District's meeting discussing the policy on July 20, 2023.

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Abbott's Texas National Guard set up a secret spy operation and treated the border like it was the war in Iraq: whistleblowers

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Left: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott; right: A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper supporting Operation Lone Star looks over the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico Border on March 23, 2021 in McAllen, Texas.

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A diplomat who was pressed into leading the Afghanistan withdrawal was so flummoxed by his last-minute assignment that he had to run to REI for gear: book

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Then-US Ambassador to Afghanistan John Bass attends a press conference in Geneva in 2018.

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett arranged for someone to sing songs from 'Hamilton' at Ketanji Brown Jackson's welcome party

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US Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, left, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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How 'consent farms' turn one click on a website into an open invitation for spammers to blow up your phone with robocalls

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China is doing everything it can to conceal the true extent of its economic turmoil

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government are making key economic data disappear — that should be a warning sign for the rest of the world.

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China's economy is turning into a big black blob.

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