The Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether the Florida congressman had sex with an underage girl. He’s responded with strange, self-contradictory claims.
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For a country still struggling to vaccinate its people, vaccine passports solve the wrong problem. Private industry, desperate to reopen the economy, is pushing for them anyway.
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The press was willing to call out Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. It’s letting Republicans off the hook as they restrict voting across the country.
