Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant

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Peter Thiel became an FBI informant in the summer of 2021, Insider has learned.

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Peter Thiel has worn many hats over the years: Silicon Valley founder, Trump megadonor, cryptocurrency booster, democracy skeptic.

Biden's campaign team just joined Truth Social, and it already has more followers than Trump's campaign team

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Joe Biden (left) and Donald Trump (right).
Joe Biden (left) and Donald Trump (right).

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Harlan Crow, the GOP megadonor and pal to Clarence Thomas, maxed out his campaign donation to a self-described 'non-Marxist socialist' trying to defeat Joe Biden

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Cornel West speaks to the media outside U.S. Courthouse on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, in Los Angeles, CA.
Cornel West.

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Scholastic says state book bans are causing an 'impossible dilemma' for its iconic book fairs

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Scholastic Book Fair banner outside Catholic school, Queens, New York.
A Scholastic Book Fair banner outside a Catholic school in Queens, New York.

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Woman arrested after trying to speak to Donald Trump during his NY civil fraud trial

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Donald Trump at his New York fraud trial on Wednesday.
Donald Trump at his civil fraud trial in Manhattan on Wednesday.

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Biden warns Israel: Don't make the same mistakes the US did after 9/11

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US President Joe Biden joins Israel's Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023
President Joe Biden — seen here joining Israel's war cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023 — warned Israel not to be "consumed" by rage.

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22 House Republicans voted to sink Jim Jordan's speakership bid for the second time — even more than the first time

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Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio on the House floor on October 17, 2023.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio on the House floor on October 17, 2023.

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Trump fraud trial fireworks: 'You lied yesterday!' defense lawyer shouts while grilling an AG witness

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Donald Trump attends week three of his New York civil fraud trial.
Donald Trump attends week three of his New York civil fraud trial.

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Trump and Ivanka's relationship was 'severely damaged' after he found out she was friends with Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent says

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Ivanka Trump speaks at a campaign event with her father, then-President Donald Trump, in Kenosha, Wis., on Nov. 2, 2020.
Ivanka Trump speaks at a campaign event with her father, then-President Donald Trump, in Kenosha, Wis., on November 2, 2020.

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Anonymous numbers texted the wife of a GOP congressman, pressuring him to vote for Jim Jordan as speaker

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Rep. Jim Jordan

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