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By: Taryn Pire| Dec. 1, 2020 [I can personally vouch for most of these. If you want yummy eating, and not too complicated, these recipes are the way to go.] You may know Jocelyn Delk Adams, food blogger and author of the award-winning Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories, for her stunning desserts. But it turns out the baker extraordinaire…

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A Trump donor’s company got a 3 percent federal pandemic loan. It sells title loans at a 350 percent annual rate. Wellshire Financial Services got the money despite rules meant to prevent most lenders from qualifying for the Main Street program By Todd C. Frankel November 23, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST A company owned by a…

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From TheSkimm: America’s top US intel official has issued a warning: China is our No. 1 threat. Give me the briefing. In an unusual move, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe outlined Beijing’s threat to America in an opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal. Ratcliffe sees more intel than anyone else in the US gov. He lives it…

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Yesterday, Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced a lawsuit in the Supreme Court challenging the presidential election results in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Michigan. Reminder: President-elect Joe Biden won those battleground states. And the Trump campaign’s been challenging the results – baselessly claiming voter fraud – with no success. Now, Paxton’s added to the legal…

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The Treasury Secretary came to defend his decision to take away billions in relief funds from the American people. It didn’t go well for him. BY BESS LEVIN Referring to Mnuchin’s decision to make the Federal Reserve, against its will, return hundreds of billions of dollars that were designated for emergency COVID-19 lending programs, and place them in the…

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