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  White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her role at the end of the month, President Trump said. He said that she was stepping away to spend more time with her family. Leavitt recently returned from maternity leave after having her second child in May. Leavitt is

  

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  Fauci pleaded the Fifth. Now what? We broke down the full story here.

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  @meganphelps

  was 26 when she left the Westboro Baptist Church. Now — years later — she has found herself coming back to the Bible, but with a new perspective. She wrote about her experience in Tangle on Friday. Check it out here:

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  On Tuesday, July 14, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed an executive order pausing construction of new large-scale data centers in the state for up to one year. But is that the right decision?

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  CNN’s

  @AaronBlake

  citing Tangle’s reporting on Trump conflicts of interest: “…Favors for foreign countries have repeatedly overlapped with doing business with Trump’s family… And that doesn’t even get to the more than $1 billion Trump made on cryptocurrency last year.” ↓