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In the summer of 2017, Lenka Perron was spending hours every day after work online, poring over fevered theories about shadowy people in power. She had mostly stopped cooking and no longer took her daily walk. She was less attentive to her children, 11, 15 and 19, who were seeing a lot of the side of her face, staring down into her phone. It would all be worth it, she told herself. She was saving the country and they would benefit.
But one day while she was scrolling, something caught her eye. People claiming to be sources inside the government had posted on Facebook that John Podesta, a former White House chief of staff, was about to be indicted. And yet on her phone she was watching a video that showed him chatting casually in front of an audience. Around the same time she saw Hillary Clinton, another supposed target for an indictment, walking in Hawaii, looking relaxed and holding a coffee cup.
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US senator from Alaska
With the US Senate split evenly between Republicans and Democrats, any legislation from the Biden administration will have to sway the centre. Republican Murkowski, 63, has made a career there, carving out a profile as an independent-minded senator willing to deal.
While most Republicans swallowed their frustration with Donald Trump, Murkowski often criticised him and should also be willing to buck party sentiment and cut deals with the Biden White House. She has less to fear from her party’s right flank than most: Beaten in her 2010 primary by a Tea Party challenger, Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate in the general election – and won.