Employees of the far-right website Gateway Pundit, which has played a key role in spreading lies about the 2020 election, were worried contributors were not credible and expressed concerns about plagiarism, a court filing last month revealed.

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“The question is whether Rubio on the ticket is too much of a headache and turnoff for Trump, or whether the legal chaos is perversely attractive.”

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He name-checked Kojo and Diane Rehm.

“He’d grown up in Somalia, learning English while listening to Voice of America broadcasts. He emigrated in 1996 and fell in love with American politics, listening the midday talk programs on WAMU. He remains enamored of American politics.”

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Coming in for a landing as we finish a reporting trip that called on us to circle the world in just over eight days.

DC ==> Frankfurt ==> Beijing ==> Shanghai ==> San Francisco ==> DC.

An economic indicator in the South China Morning Post.

What a powerful interview, reflecting on South African democracy 30 years later (indeed a good convo on democracy everywhere).

'You are special because you come from South Africa, but you are not absolved of your responsibility to build a just world.'
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Antony Blinken to Steve Inskeep in Beijing: 'You've already seen us take action against more than 100 Chinese entities with sanctions, applying export controls. There are other measures that we're fully prepared to take…If China won't act, we will.'
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Thanks for the heads-up on this

In Beijing, Blinken told Chinese leaders that it would be in their interest to stop helping Russia.

China called the suggestion “hypocritical” and rejected it—leaving the US warning of further action. From the NPR interview:

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At 8:07 ET we are face to face with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on NPR.

It was a pleasure to talk with Steve Inskeep about U.S. China policy.

'The way I think of the Biden administration's policy on China is it really presumes that there is no war in this decade.' 1/

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A lot fewer foreigners have had a look at China lately. Here are some of my impressions.

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