John Bowden
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Trump uses AI to come up with stinging new name for the press (opens the original)
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. President Donald Trump swung at the media once again on Tuesday as it appeared that his administration was backing down on efforts to exclude CNN from the press pool, at least for the time being. The president hosted an event in Washington, D.C., to roll out a new U.S. government AI chatbot aimed at streamlining Americans’ interactions with federal agencies on Tuesday, and du
FBI was looking at key Republican senator in bribery probe — then Trump took office - AOL (opens the original)
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The former CEO of a defense contractor told the FBI that he attempted to bribe Maine Sen. Susan Collins using shell companies and straw donors to hide nearly $200,000 in gifts, an article from ProPublica revealed on Tuesday. Martin Kao told the agency that the donation was part of a nearly $1m effort to influence lawmakers of both parties in states around the country, which ProPublica first reported was backed up with receipts of his donations in FEC filings. The money to Collins’s campaign, Kao
JD Vance tried to get Hillary Clinton elected in 2016, insiders claim - AOL (opens the original)
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Vice President JD Vance’s political evolution on MAGA and Donald Trump is well known, but a new report claims he went out of his way to try and stop the man who would later make him his running mate. Several people with knowledge of the conversations described toVanity Fairhow Vance sought to get in contact with top-ranking members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for president to offer his aid or advice as she sought to win the general election that year. Vance, according to someone who wound
Mitch McConnell back in Senate for first time since disappearing in June (opens the original)
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Former Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell returned to Capitol Hill on Monday, his first return to work – and the first time he has been seen in public – since the Kentucky senator was hospitalized in June after suffering a fall. The senator said in a statement that he would cast a vote Monday evening, when the chamber was set to vote on a nomination to fill an opening on a district court bench in Ohio, shortly before he spoke to reporters on the Hill. “Today, I’ll cast my first Senate vote since
Mitch McConnell back in Senate to cast first vote since disappearing from public life in June - AOL (opens the original)
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Former Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell returned to Capitol Hill on Monday, his first return to work – and the first time he has been seen in public – since the Kentucky senator was hospitalized in June after suffering a fall. The senator said in a statement that he would cast a vote Monday evening, when the chamber was set to vote on a nomination to fill an opening on a district court bench in Ohio, shortly before he spoke to reporters on the Hill. “Today, I’ll cast my first Senate vote since
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