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Please pass the popcornJared Kushner is pushing back on a report involving a hacked iPhone, international spies and billion-dollar transfers from foreign governments.
An upcoming book by journalist Matthew Cole claims Kushner, who is President Trump's son-in-law, had access to more than $2 billion in "slush money funds" from Middle Eastern leaders in an attempt to influence U.S. foreign policy.
An excerpt of the book released Thursday details allegations encompassing Kushner's time as a senior White House adviser during the first Trump administration, which included a lead role in U.S. policy in the Middle East. Kushner had a major hand in negotiating key foreign policy deals that involved Israel, the Gulf states, China and Russia during that period.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/kushner-pushes-back-report-involving-133251393.html
Here's the Vanity Fair excerpt from the book. Subscription required.
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-secret-negotiations
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Election integrityI expect the fight to begin November 4.
Maybe earlier.
President Donald Trump on Friday said he personally directed the Department of Justice to file a lawsuit seeking to prevent Alaska from certifying its Senate election results if Republicans lose.
“I’m the one that said do it,” the president told reporters shortly after landing in Florida.
The president’s admission comes a day after DOJ sued Alaska election officials, arguing that the presence of an independent candidate named Dan Sullivan in addition to the incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan on the ballot could confuse voters and cost the party the race against Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. It’s one of a handful of races seen as key to maintaining GOP control of the Senate.
The lawsuit marks an extraordinary intervention by the federal government in a state election, with the administration seeking to delay certification of results if the incumbent loses by a margin small enough that votes cast for the independent Sullivan could have changed the outcome.
“Given the substantial likelihood that the inclusion of Daniel J. Sullivan will confuse or mislead voters looking to cast a vote for Senator Sullivan, and thus distort the will of Alaskan voters, there is a substantial likelihood that a certification of the election will reflect an electoral process that lacked integrity,” DOJ wrote in its complaint.
The Alaska Supreme Court in June ruled that the independent Sullivan could remain on the ballot, but Trump continued to rail against his candidacy and the state’s election rules.
No wonder he referred to them as "my DOJ" a couple of days ago....
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Agrotourism.Sweet!
Better hurry, @steve-miller ... says it's almost sold out....
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Iceland StopoverOh, wow! Stunning! Gorgeous! Magnificent!
I bet you bought some yarn....
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Governor's race in OhioDeWine has always been a decent guy.
Sadly, Vance and Trump are piling up the disgusting points....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/ramaswamy-attack-ad-ohio-dewine
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Gas clothes dryerAnd the diagnoses are in....the freezer is a seized compressor, so it's a goner.
Dryer is suffering from arthritis of the rollers and an ancient belt. Worth repairing; he has those parts on the truck. We don't want one of those newfangled electronic wifi dryers....
edit: He didn't charge for diagnosing the dead freezer; it only took him five minutes.
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What is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber-security scramble?For more than a decade, serious flaws had gone undetected in the technology underpinning much of the internet.
It took AI to bring them to light and caused a global cyber-security alert.
The vulnerabilities lie within a programming language called PHP, which has been used internationally since the 2000s to build websites.
Governments and cyber-security agencies around the world are scrambling to contain the fallout of the discovery on Wednesday, and have urged website operators to install a new emergency fix or consider taking their platforms offline.
Cyber-security firm Wiz - one of the companies whose researchers uncovered the vulnerabilities - described the flaws as the "most severe" ever detected by AI.
OpenAI, whose technology was used to find the flaws, called the discovery "one of the most impactful security issues in recent memory".
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When do you turn on your heatI find the same thing. I used to love going on cold winter hikes. Janet was always cold and I was always hot. We've completely reversed.
Same here. In his much younger youth Mr wtg wore a t-shirt and shorts in the middle of winter and I was bundled in wool sweaters. As reverse puberty hit me I shed the sweaters and he switched to sweat pants. There was a point when we were in our late 40s/early 50s when a single thermostat setting met both our needs. Our winter setting is 70; summer setting is 76. We used to let the nighttime setting for the furnace drop to 68, but since his stroke Mr wtg tends to get cold at night so we just leave it at 70.