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In our news wrap Wednesday, the FBI says it’s investigating a claim by a criminal hacking group that it stole “very sensitive data” from the bureau’s job website, Hurricane Polo off Mexico’s western coast has strengthened into one of the most powerful storms in decades and a federal court temporarily blocked the deportation of a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by an ICE agent in Austin. 

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With voting for the midterm elections already underway, President Trump is asking voters to pretend he’s on the ballot. A new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds that people are, but that could be bad news for the president. We found Democratic congressional candidates hold a significant lead over Republicans. Lisa Desjardins has the insights from that poll. 

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Watch: Dolly Parton’s Estate Fires Nephew Bryan Seaver From Security Role It looks like this drama could last longer than 9 to 5. Bryan Seaver, the nephew of the late Dolly Parton, was hit with a lawsuit and restraining order on Sept. 22 after he was fired from his longtime role as head of security for the legendary musician and her properties. In a statement to ABC News the following day, he said “the restraining order is spurious and simply a publicity stunt.” Both the lawsuit and restraining order were filed in Nashville by She’s Alive LLC (SAL), a company run…

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​ New Jersey officials said that the natural gas-powered generators, each the size of a tractor-trailer, were operating without permits. When state inspectors visited a dusty construction site amid the farmland of southern New Jersey in late July, it was impossible to miss the 62 tractor-trailer-size generators powering one of the largest planned data centers on the Eastern Seaboard. None of the 2,000-killowatt natural gas-powered generators had the required permits to be installed or to operate at the site. On Tuesday, New Jersey fined the data center’s operator, DataOne, $1.07 million for violating the state’s Air Pollution Control Act. The…

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Former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves, a Republican, crossed party lines to endorse Democrat Adam Hamilton in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Roger Marshall. Graves said the country is facing “increasing partisan gridlock and division” and that it’s “time Kansas does something different.” He joined Geoff Bennett to discuss that decision and what it says about his view of the Republican Party today. 

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Skip to content. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.. As the scandal over Susan Collins’ relationship with Hawaii defense contractor Navatek became the central issue in her hotly contested senate campaign, she and her top aides mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.. On Tuesday, ProPublica published an investigation into the senior senator from Maine’s relationship with Martin Kao, the former Navatek CEO and a major donor who told law enforcement he exchanged campaign cash for government contracts. His confession…

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