“The FBI and European law enforcement agencies dismantled a massive network of hacked computers that had been used to defraud victims of hundreds of millions of dollars,” CNN reports.


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“The entire staff of the federal government’s Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off,” CBS News reports. “The moves are part of a broader…
An unnamed Republican senator told Jewish Insider that President Trump might have remorse over picking J.D. Vance as his vice president. Said the senator: “I’ve gotta wonder if Trump’s looking…
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Steve Bannon predicte that President Trump will go to prison if a Democrat wins back the White House in 2028, The Hill reports. He added: “And people are sitting around…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said President Trump’s desire to take Greenland has nothing to do with the Kremlin, The Hill reports. Putin also claimed that the United States’s plan to…
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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