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Georgia GOP candidate's courtroom slip reveals lucrative stake in Trump's pet project

Georgia Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson quietly loaned $20 million at 12 percent interest to a Texas oil refinery that President Donald Trump has hailed as a crown jewel of his “energy dominance” agenda – and that deal is now becoming a liability in one of the country’s tightest govern...

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MAGA sheriff behind 'unlawful' ballot seizure demands taxpayers pay his lawyers: reportA California sheriff rebuked by the state's highest court over a sweeping election move now wants someone else to cover the fallout. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco , whose seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots was ruled "unlawful" by the California Supreme Court last month, is pushing the county to pick up the tab for his private legal defense, the…

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