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Jim Risch, the Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned that Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is also the Ugandan president’s son, “crossed a red lineâ€� with the posts and called for the US to reevaluate military ties with and sanctions against Uganda.—
Adrian Elimian,
semafor.com,
13 Feb. 2026 -
In 2023, the crypto exchange Binance pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering and know-your-customer laws as well as sanctions violations.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Tencent have been granted conditional approvals by Beijing to purchase a certain amount of H200s, Reuters reported last month, citing anonymous sources.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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In her role as Department of Children and Families secretary, Harris usually oversaw the charity’s grant approvals, but may not have known about these transactions, Hay said.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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Candidates Richard Lamondin and Robin Peguero have been campaigning for months, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars and earning endorsements.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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On Monday, nine of Raman’s City Council colleagues reiterated their endorsements of Bass’ reelection.—
Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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This latest iteration, which builds on the 2024 version by adding a voter ID provision, must get 60 votes to pass.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
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For more than five years, Republicans who question the results of the 2020 election demanded to inspect the original ballots from Fulton County to validate their suspicions of miscounts, missing votes and fraud.—
Mark Niesse for the AJC,
AJC.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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University governing boards are also appropriately imposing rules governing behavior and becoming less rubber stamps for administrative wishes.—
Richard K. Vedder,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2026
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Americans' primary oversight entities—rather than rooting out waste and misconduct—now are poised to be rubber stamps for whatever administration is in power.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025
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