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Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker getting tax break in 2022 on Texas home intended for primary residence

Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker getting tax break in 2022 on Texas home intended for primary residence

CNN — Republican Herschel Walker is getting a tax break intended only for a primary residence this year on his home in the Dallas, Texas, area, despite running for Senate in Georgia. Publicly available tax records reviewed by CNN’s KFile show Walker is listed to get a homestead tax exemption in Texas in 2022, saving …

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Harris dives into Asian diplomacy amid questions back home about her political future

Harris dives into Asian diplomacy amid questions back home about her political future

Palawan, Philippines CNN — Vice President Kamala Harris is sticking close to her script when responding to what Democrats hope will once again be their greatest electoral mobilizer: Donald Trump and his third White House bid. “The president said he intends to run and if he does, I will be running with him,” she told …

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Mary Peltola seeks to thwart Sarah Palin as Alaska tabulates ranked choice voting results

Mary Peltola seeks to thwart Sarah Palin as Alaska tabulates ranked choice voting results

CNN — Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, the Democrat who won a special election that sent her to Congress this summer, could once again thwart form Gov. Sarah Palin’s bid for a political comeback on Wednesday. State elections officials are set to tabulate the results of its ranked choice ballots at 8 p.m. ET. Those results …

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Prosecutors unseal charges against Michigan man for threatening FBI director and California congressman

Prosecutors unseal charges against Michigan man for threatening FBI director and California congressman

CNN — Prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint against a Michigan man on Tuesday accused of threatening to kill a California congressman and FBI Director Christopher Wray, adding to the spate of recent alleged criminal threats against lawmakers. According to court documents, Neil Matthew Walter made several threatening statements online and in a voice message to …

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Katie Hobbs says White House isn't "doing enough" about the border

Katie Hobbs says White House isn’t “doing enough” about the border

Washington CNN — Democratic Arizona governor-elect Katie Hobbs said on Tuesday she doesn’t think the Biden administration is “doing enough” to address the situation at the southern border. Hobbs told “CNN This Morning” that her state bore “the brunt of decades of inaction from both parties in Washington.” “We need real action on immigration reform. …

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GOP states seek to defend Covid-19 migrant expulsion policy in case where court struck policy down

GOP states seek to defend Covid-19 migrant expulsion policy in case where court struck policy down

CNN — Several Republican-led states asked a court to let them intervene in a case striking down Title 42 rule, so that the states could defend the Trump-era policy, which has allowed for the expulsion of more than 1 million migrants at the US-Mexico border. The 15 GOP states filed the request to intervene on …

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With strike looming, railroad unions and management head back to negotiating table

With strike looming, railroad unions and management head back to negotiating table

New York CNN Business — With a crippling freight rail strike looming in two weeks, leaders of four railroad unions and management of the major US freight railroads are due back at the negotiating table Tuesday afternoon. It will be the first joint negotiating session for the four unions, whose rank-and-file members rejected the five-year …

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