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With the far-right party ahead in the polls, I discovered that a novel set during the rise of the Nazis provides a timely warning, says journalist Tania Roettger

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State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation

Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening

One of 16 documents missing from the release includes two photos of the president; one of him with women in swimsuits and the other of him and his wife with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.