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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/10/2026

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The pro-voting group is asking the court to force ICE to produce those records and block the agency from withholding any further requested documents. ICE acknowledged the receipt of all of these requests, according to the lawsuit, but has provided “no correspondence” since the FOIAs were filed.

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ICE sued for records of its plans for Election DayICE sued for records of its plans for Election Day

The lawsuit comes on the heels of a new report showing how the Department of Homeland Security has been laying the groundwork to exert control over voting.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The question for the Supreme Court next week will be whether the Blockbuster-era law can be retrofitted for the modern internet age. Digital privacy advocates say it can www.courthousenews.com/justices-con...

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Justices confront internet privacy with Blockbuster-era law

The Supreme Court is taking on digital marketing next week in a case asking how federal consumer privacy rights apply when companies sell data for targeted advertising.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Less than a month before the midterm elections, the gap between Mr. Trump's promises and the financial realities facing many Americans is fueling voter frustration over the economy. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...

Trump promised to lower prices for Americans. Here's what the data shows.

Just weeks before the midterm elections, 90% of Americans say prices in the U.S. are the main factor shaping their view of the economy. These charts show why.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Communities on the U.S. Gulf Coast are preparing for Hurricane Isaias, now a Category 3 hurricane, to make landfall Friday between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. abcnews.com/US/live-upda...

Hurricane Isaias updates: Isaias strengthens to Category 3

Hurricane Isaias is in the Gulf as it heads toward the Florida Panhandle, where several counties have evacuation orders.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A total of 4,080 cases have been confirmed, with most reported by 45 states and Washington, D.C. Eighteen of this year's total have been among international visitors to the U.S., according to the CDC. #Measles abcnews.com/Health/us-su...

US surpasses 4,000 measles cases with infections confirmed in 45 states: CDC

Measles cases in the United States have surpassed 4,000 this year, according to data updated Friday from the CDC.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/10/2026

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A 28-year-old man was shot and wounded by a federal immigration agent in New York City on Thursday. Here is what to know about the shooting.

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ICE Shooting in New York: What We Know

A 28-year-old man was shot by a federal immigration agent in New York City on Thursday. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said agents were “terrorizing our city.”

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Paxton, a Republican who is now running for U.S. Senate, took at least 17 trips over three months, including to resort destinations Park City, Utah, and Vail, Colorado. He visited the Oklahoma town where he owns a vacation lodge ... www.propublica.org/article/ken-...

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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Trump administration took aim at the machinery of international justice Friday, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court after previously targeting its judges and prosecutors. www.courthousenews.com/trump-escala...

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Trump escalates war on International Criminal Court with deep sanctions

The administration's latest move could disrupt banking and software services the global war crimes tribunal needs to pay staff and pursue cases.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A number of early adopters of Meta’s Muse are deleting or restricting the AI agent after privacy scares and blunders. One executive told Business Insider that he deleted Muse after reading that it had accessed other users’ text messages without permission. www.fastcompany.com/91620148/met...

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Meta’s Muse is taking off. So are the privacy concerns

The AI agent has millions of users and can handle everything from refunds to insurance shopping. But its broad access to personal data is already producing some unnerving mistakes.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Arlington County Board in Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday opposing the construction of the Triumphal Arch, becoming the first governmental body to take legal action against President Donald Trump’s planned monument. www.fastcompany.com/91621416/tru...

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Trump’s D.C. arch is up against new legal action. What to know about the latest lawsuit

The lawsuit claims the construction project hasn't gone through the full review process.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A military judge threw out the last disputed confession in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay, ruling that defendant Walid bin Attash’s statements were inadmissible at trial ... www.justsecurity.org/160118/guant...

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All Four Defendants’ Confessions Are Now Suppressed in the 9/11 Case

A military judge on Wednesday threw out the last disputed confession in the case against the suspected 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo Bay.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A rule change that the SEC announced with little fanfare and that took effect on October 2. Under the new rule, the SEC, which effectively until now has required a quorum of three to conduct business, will now require a quorum of only one. #SEC #Fraud newrepublic.com/article/2164...

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The SEC Just Opened the Floodgates to Fraud

The Trump administration has transformed the Securities and Exchange Commission into an instrument of financial sector chicanery.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin blamed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Thursday shooting of an unarmed man on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s words rather than the agent’s actions. newrepublic.com/post/216456/...

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DHS Secretary Blames Mamdani—and the Man Shot With His 5-Year-Old

ICE shot a New York City man in his car Thursday, and Markwayne Mullin is defending it.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being “public.” #ICE #Execution apnews.com/article/fort...

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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE officers opened fire on a Dominican man in New York because he drove his car into officers’ vehicles and they believed their lives were in danger, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday. apnews.com/article/ice-...

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ICE officers shot a man in New York because they believed they were in danger, official says

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official says federal officers shot and wounded a Dominican man in New York because they believed their lives were in danger.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The FBI has arrested an accused co-conspirator of a criminal hacking group that said last month that it had breached the bureau’s jobs portal and obtained sensitive and personal data on nearly all employees of the law enforcement agency, Director Kash Patel said Friday. apnews.com/article/shin...

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FBI arrests suspect in ShinyHunters hack of the bureau's jobs portal

The FBI has arrested an accused co-conspirator of the hacking group ShinyHunters. The group claimed last month that it breached the FBI’s jobs portal, obtaining sensitive data on nearly all employees.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Christa Pike, who survived two doses of a lethal injection drug last week during a botched execution in Tennessee, is conscious and speaking, her lawyers said in a statement on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

Christa Pike Regains Consciousness After Failed Execution in Tennessee (Gift Article)

The death row inmate in Tennessee received two doses of a lethal injection drug last week, but lived. She was taken from the execution chamber in an ambulance.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A day after President Trump said his super PAC would pay for television ads promoting him that had been funded by taxpayers, White House officials said the group did not plan to reimburse the government for the more than $10 million it had already spent on the ads. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads (Gift Article)

A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In the weeks before the Iran-backed Houthi militia fanned out along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, sending their foes into a frenzied retreat, a Yemeni government commander called for help. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How the Houthis Triumphed on the Red Sea and Sparked a New War in Yemen (Gift Article)

In a single night, an Iran-allied militia trounced Saudi-backed forces to take control of Yemen’s Red Sea coast. No one was able, or willing, to stop them.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Muse, the popular new AI personal assistant from Meta, is building continuously updated dossiers on its 4 million users, focusing on who matters to you, what you desire, and what kind of nudges shape your behavior #Muse time.com/article/2026...

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Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You

Internal instructions reviewed by TIME show the AI assistant mapping users and their contacts—including people who don’t use Muse—and sharing anonymized insights across its system.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Forty foreign-born individuals may lose their U.S. citizenship after the Justice Department filed multiple lawsuits across the country seeking their denaturalization, in the latest instance of Trump’s Administration seeking to remake what it means to be a U.S. citizen. time.com/article/2026...

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Trump Administration Mounts ‘Largest Denaturalization Effort in Modern History’

The Justice Department filed denaturalization actions across multiple U.S. district courts against 40 individuals accused of “serious offenses.”

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom rebuked President Trump after he appeared to suggest letting Iran "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego if the country developed a nuclear weapon. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

Trump suggests allowing Iran to "take out" LA and San Diego during campaign rally

Gov. Gavin Newsom called President Trump "deranged and dangerous" after he suggested letting Iran "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Paramount Skydance on Tuesday completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, uniting the movie studios behind "The Godfather" and the "Harry Potter" films into a media colossus rebranded as Skydance. www.cbsnews.com/news/paramou...

Paramount closes $110 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, creating Skydance

The merger unites two major movie studios, news operations CBS News and CNN and cable networks including Comedy Central and TNT.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A woman who survived being shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago filed a federal civil lawsuit Monday against the U.S. government as her attorneys allege that new evidence shows the agent was not in danger for his life and should face criminal charges. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Chicago woman shot 5 times by CBP officer files federal lawsuit

Attorneys for Marimar Martinez alleged a new analysis of the bullets’ trajectories shows Border Patrol agent Charles Exum wasn’t in front of her vehicle and the last shot went through the rear passeng...

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A British Airways flight dropped about 27,000 feet in 10 minutes while en route from London en route to Chicago on Monday, according to flight data. www.cbsnews.com/news/british...

British Airways flight drops 27,000 feet en route to Chicago and returns to London

A spokesperson for British Airways said there was a technical issue and that the aircraft later landed safely.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🚨 In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities in the company’s viral AI agent product #Muse #Meta www.404media.co/meta-rushed-...

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Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch

The vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.

Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

😱 Tavus Introduces Griffin, the First Face-to-Face Human Interaction Model, Unlocking the Future of Conversational AI Introducing Griffin: The First Model to Pass the Video Turing Test youtu.be/VcQcRRHJTyc?...

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Tavus Introduces Griffin, the First Face-to-Face Human Interaction Model, Unlocking the Future...

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The symptoms of plague depend on how a person is infected, according to the CDC. The agency lists the most common forms of plague as bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. #Plague #PneumonicPlague www.newsweek.com/pneumonic-pl...

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Pneumonic plague symptoms explained after Russian scientist's death

The disease can be fatal but is treatable if detected early, according to health authorities.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The death of a worker at an anti-plague laboratory in Russia has prompted officials to put at least one hospital facility under quarantine and nearly 200 people reportedly under medical observation as of Monday. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

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Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation

The female staffer at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East died from a “pneumonia of undetermined” origin last week, according to a regional governor.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“We need to remember what happened a decade ago, where you had big tech companies, social media companies, similarly suggest that existing laws and regulations no longer apply to their new technologies, and that they were going to try instead to self-police,” Khan said abcnews.com/Politics/for...

Former FTC Chair Khan dismisses 'constitution' signed by AI leaders to self-police

On "This Week," former FTC Chair Lina Khan called on Congress to help regulate AI.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump has made a Republican senator’s cell phone number public during a Truth Social temper tantrum. The bizarre move to post Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton’s number comes as Trump rages that he is blocking legislation to make daylight saving time permanent. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-gives-...

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Trump Gives Out Republican Senator’s Cell Number in Fit of Rage

Trump called Cotton “a friend of mine” before urging people to blow up his personal phone.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a Gulfstream jet carrying six people that lost contact with flight controllers Saturday morning on its way to Boston from the island of Bermuda. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Coast Guard searching off Nantucket for medical evacuation jet carrying 6 people heading from Bermuda to Boston

The Gulfstream jet departed Bermuda Saturday morning.

CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026

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Filmmaker Alex Gibney told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that Elon Musk has "enormous power and no idea of what to do with it." His documentary "Musk" opens in New York and Los Angeles on October 9, then nationwide October 16.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨Election Day is Nov. 3, 2026, in the United States. Held midway through each four-year presidential term, midterm elections give voters a chance to choose local representatives, weigh in on state issues, and determine which party controls Congress. #VOTE time.com/article/2026...

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Your Questions About Voting in the 2026 Midterm Elections, Answered

From using mail-in ballots to finding your polling place, here’s everything you need to know.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"When I received almost identical pitches from four other companies within the next two weeks, I realized the first message was just the vanguard of a new type of spam email." www.fastcompany.com/91617320/thi...

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This anti-scam checklist can protect you against the latest AI-enhanced frauds

Con artists have always used psychological tricks to rip off their victims, but AI is making scams trickier than ever. Here’s how to stay diligent.

Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a 911 call about a large party at the mall near Cal State Northridge around 11 p.m. when officers heard gunshots #StopGunViolence abcnews.com/US/2-dead-af...

At least 2 dead after shooting during party at LA strip mall: Police

At least two people were killed Friday in a shooting at a strip mall near Cal State Northridge, police said.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A father and son who worked at a Mississippi smoke shop were charged by federal prosecutors in connection with one of the two Ole Miss student deaths that took place last week. #Kratom abcnews.com/US/father-so...

Father, son federally charged in connection to death of Ole Miss student

A father and son who worked at a Mississippi smoke shop were charged by federal prosecutors in connection with one of the two Ole Miss students deaths.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

😐 These teenagers are part of a growing network of American high school students and young adults that are helping to arm some of Mexico’s most powerful and violent cartels, according to U.S. officials and trafficking experts who are tracking the trend. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...

American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels (Gift Article)

Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mr. Strada is expected to leave later this month. His departure will come after he oversaw Tennessee’s second failed attempt at lethal injection this year and amid bipartisan calls for his resignation. All remaining executions have been paused. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

Tennessee Commissioner Resigns After Failed Execution of Christa Pike (Gift Article)

Frank Strada, who oversaw the process that left Christa Pike unconscious and hospitalized, quit as an independent review begins.

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Erics_Mom 💙🌊 @ericsmom2006.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...