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European investigators are asking how two cables were cut beneath the surface of the Baltic Sea.
A German official calls it sabotage, affecting the type of cable that carries 90% of the world's data traffic.
Who are the suspects?
I'm Steve Inskeeper, they Martinez.
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The president elect chose a loyalist as ambassador to NATO.
Matthew Whitaker has no foreign policy experience but served in the first Trump administration.
You can be a brilliant expert on European security, but if you have no access to the president, it's not going to do that much for you.
So how could the ambassador and his boss approach the war in Ukraine?
And with record high voter turnout helping Republicans win this election, will the GOP start to rethink their stance on policies that make voting easier?
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