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Covering campaigns at Roll Call. Proud member of @cqrollcallguild. Former Hartford Courant reporter. Daughter of immigrants, grew up in Weymouth, Mass. 🇳🇱
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In light of the Globe's brilliant lesbian bar story, putting out a call to all reporters, especially local ones: please share your quirky features! Weird characters, offbeat locales, bizarre grudges, idiosyncratic policies, cranky gadflies--we want to read about it!
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BREAKING: Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say. apnews.com/article/ilhan-oma…
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News -- Obama cuts ad for Mississippi Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom in his race against GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith: "it’s time for a change"
semafor.com/article/10/11/20…
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Darline Graham is not coming to the spin room, says spokesman TW Arrighi.
"Winners of debates don't usually come to the spin room."
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Representative James Talarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope.
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Rare instance of a man hearing this….from another man
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What is John Fetterman doing?
As Fetterman floats the possibility of running again, we take a deeper look at his record in office and how he conducts himself behind the scenes. Part one in today’s @PhillyInquirer.
inquirer.com/politics/pennsy…
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U. S. Sen. Roger Marshall charged 18% interest on medical bills — more than other Kansas doctors who sued
kansascity.com/news/politics…
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The trial of a former police officer accused of killing his young lover five years ago in her suburban Boston apartment opened Friday with two vastly different accounts of Sandra Birchmore's final days. cnn.it/4ySiE0Q
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Sandra Birchmore was not Farwell's "young lover." Federal prosecutors allege he groomed and sexually abused her starting at 15 after she joined the Stoughton Police Explorers youth program at 12, where he was an instructor.
justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/for…
cnn.com/2026/10/09/us/…
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🚨On Zelenskyy, Trump says "he'd better damn well stop" hitting refineries in Russia because it's affecting diesel and hurting US farmers. "I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president."
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Crazy WSJ data. Between 2022 and 2025, wealth increased 37% for Americans 75 and older, while **decreased** 23% for people under 35.
wsj.com/economy/affluent-and…
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In joint investigation with @MEPFuller, we obtained records from 2020 — when Roger Marshall first ran for Senate — that appear to show the senator and his top aide repeatedly using congressional staff and government resources in questionable ways #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2026/10/…
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Maryland's Jamie Raskin is poised to become Trump's No. 1 antagonist if Democrats win back control of the House. He's campaigned in 26 states and raised $3+ million to try to make it happen.
via @LeeOSanderlin @BaltimoreBanner
thebanner.com/politics-power…
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Vice President Vance on the Pentagon's announcement that the Fort Hood shooter's execution will be livestreamed:
"I've seen those announcements. I don't know if that's actually going to happen....if it's ultimately live streamed, I'm not going to be watching it."
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The last public execution in America was in 1936. A young black man in Kentucky was hanged by a drunk executioner; a news story said "They Ate Hotdogs While a Man Died." Was such an embarrassment that the governor outlawed it 18 months later washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.
Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.”
RT @JamesMartinSJ: The Catholic Church teaches that the death penalty is "inadmissible," primarily because every human being has God-given…
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Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics.
The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. nytimes.com/2026/10/09/us/ke… @nytimes
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Scoop: Ken Paxton privately complained John Cornyn “wants me to lose,” as their years-long feud boils over in a high-stakes Senate race
The latest leak from a Paxton fundraiser last month: cnn.com/2026/10/09/politics/… #TXSEN
