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US and G7 allies moving forward with $50 billion loan package to Ukraine, including $20 billion from the US backed by frozen Russian assets

By Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — The US and Western allies are moving forward with a $50 billion loan package to Ukraine backed by the profits of frozen Russian assets, which includes a US contribution of $20 billion, the White House announced Wednesday. “As part of the G7 package, the United States is announcing today

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23 Nobel Prize-winning economists call Harris’ economic plan ‘vastly superior’ to Trump’s

By Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — More than half of the living US recipients of the Nobel Prize for economics signed a letter that called Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic agenda “vastly superior” to the plans laid out by former President Donald Trump. Twenty-three Nobel Prize-winning economists signed onto the letter, including two of the

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‘Election integrity’ groups have built digital infrastructure to collect examples of supposed voter fraud

By Curt Devine and Daniel Medina, CNN (CNN) — As some key battleground states celebrated record early voter turnout last week, a rash of misinformation began to spread through new digital tools launched by election conspiracy theorists. In one case, a self-described relief worker in hurricane-battered North Carolina posted a dire warning on VoteAlert.org: Federal Emergency Management

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Boone County voters say voting process went smoothly, despite long lines during first day of early in-person voting

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There were 1,500 people who voted in Boone County on Tuesday, when in-person, no-excuse absentee voting opened in Missouri, according to Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon. Lennon said the 1,500 voters exceeds the votes cast on the first day of early in-person voting in 2022. She said she also expects the amount

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Trump’s former chief of staff says he fits ‘fascist’ definition and prefers ‘dictator approach’

By Eric Bradner and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, entered the 2024 fray in stunning fashion in a series of interviews published Tuesday, saying the former president fits “into the general definition of fascist” and that he spoke of the loyalty of

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Rudy Giuliani must give control of luxury items and Manhattan apartment to Georgia election workers he defamed, judge rules

CNN By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former Donald Trump attorney and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to turn over all his valuable possessions and his Manhattan penthouse apartment to the control of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Georgia election workers he defamed and to whom he now owes $150 million.

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Virginia city’s preelection fight over certification shows how local procedures have become a flashpoint

By Rene Marsh and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A lawsuit from two Republican officials in Waynesboro, Virginia, that threatened not to certify the 2024 election results attracted a counter lawsuit Monday from voters in the Shenandoah Valley city who are seeking a court order that would force the board to formalize the results. The dispute — in which

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Missouri officials say progress being made on childcare payment backlog

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) After months of delays in getting payments to childcare providers, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education says it’s turning a corner with subsidy program payments. The delayed payments have been an ongoing issue for months. In December, technological issues delayed state reimbursement payments for months, putting daycare centers at

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