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The social media company says a limited group of people in the US will see the advertisements.

Twitter is going to start adding full-screen ads to Fleets, its disappearing tweets introduced last November. The Fleet format, which is similar to Instagram and Snap Stories, is now successful enough that Twitter wants to try to monetize it.

Twitters ad revenue grew 32% year over year in the first quarter to $899 million with total ad engagement increasing 11% over the same period. The company is making a broad effort to build more features at a faster clip as it seeks to grow to 315 million daily active users by the end of 2023. The social media platform rolled out Fleets to all users in November after testing the feature in select markets. The posts show up at the top of users apps above their feed and allow users to post text, r...

WASHINGTON — State Department employees were asked to prepare then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for political events in Kansas as he was flirting with a run for a U.S. Senate seat there in 2019, rankling government staff who saw the requests as ethics violations, according to a previously unreported whistleblower complaint and emails obtained by McClatchy. The documents provide fresh insight ...

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Exclusive: Trump Created an Office That Highlighted Immigrant Crime. Bidens DHS Plans to Keep It Time 3 hrs ago Vera Bergengruen © Evan Vucci—AP Former President Donald Trump stands alongside "angel families" at the White House complex on June 22, 2018. In January 2017, one of Donald Trump’s first moves as President was to create a new office that highlighted crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. For four years, the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement office,...

Lawsuit Seeks to Know Whether Trump ICE Director Threatened to Prosecute Sanctuary City Judges who Let Wanted Immigrants Escape Jerry Lambe © Provided by Law & Crime Image of Tom Homan. An open records lawsuit filed Monday seeks to determine whether the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under former President Donald Trump leveraged federal criminal charges against a state judge in Massachusetts in an effort to compel them to assist ICE in federal imm...

Taxpayers Paid Thousands For Eric Trump’s Trips To Scotland Reprinted with permission from Alternet Former President Donald Trump is at the center of controversy as a new report details how he and members of his family benefited financially from his time in the White House. According to a new report published by The Scotsman, U.S. taxpayers were left to foot the bill for Trump and his family members trips to his foreign luxury golf resorts in Turnberry and Doonbeg. The publicati...

10 Things in Politics: Mike Pence plots his return Heres what were talking about: President Joe Bidens first joint address to Congress is set for 9 p.m. ET. Then-Vice President Mike Pence and Karen Pence arriving before Joe Bidens presidential inauguration on January 20. Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images 1. MIKE PENCE PLOTS HIS RETURN: Former Vice President Mike Pence and his team arent winding down. Instead, theyre gearing up to...

New report exposes thousands of dollars of taxpayer funds that the Trump family sent to their company Former President Donald Trump is at the center of controversy as a new report details how he and members of his family benefited financially from his time in the White House. According to a new report published by The Scotsman, U.S. taxpayers were left to foot the bill for Trump and his family members trips to his foreign luxury golf resorts in Turnberry and Doonbeg. The publication re...