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For months, a small, little-known polling outfit called Wedgewood Polls appeared to be doing everything right. Founded quietly and operating on the fringes of the political data world, it nonetheless managed to get its surveys picked up by some of the most respected polling aggregators in American politics: The New…
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The news lands like a stone in still water: two former FBI officials, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, have been charged with lying to Congress about their involvement in investigations connected to Hunter Biden. It is a story that has all the ingredients of a Washington thriller—dark corridors of power, a contested election, a laptop with a murky past, and two intelligence veterans now facing the consequences of their own words. On a quiet Friday morning, Floris, 46, and Benavides, 56, surrendered on arrest warrants, turning themselves in not as spies or saboteurs, but as defendants in a case that…
Paragraph 1 Two days before New York’s early voting period was set to begin, a group of elected officials and voting rights advocates gathered on the steps of the Brooklyn Museum, a majestic building along Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights, to deliver a message that felt equal parts urgent and reassuring: your voice matters, your vote is protected, and do not let anyone convince you otherwise. It was October 22, 2020, and the country was on edge. The national conversation about mail-in ballots had become tangled in lawsuits, accusations, and confusion. Federal efforts to restrict voting by mail had seeded…
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