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Trump Group Pays for Jan. 6 Lawyers, Raising Concerns of Witness Pressure — The former president's political organization and allies have paid for or promised to cover legal fees for witnesses, as the House inquiry suggests he is trying to influence testimony. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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New details of Jan. 6 panel's mystery messages emerge — The Jan. 6 select committee publicly pointed to two communications this week as potential evidence of Trump-world's efforts to influence witness testimony — without revealing their origin. Both were detailed to the panel by Cassidy Hutchinson …
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A Potential Criminal Prosecution of Donald Trump Is Growing Closer — As evidence mounts, a rift has opened between the congressional committee investigating January 6th and the Department of Justice. — Attorney General Merrick Garland receives a briefing each week from senior Justice Department officials …
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How Trump World pressures witnesses to deny his possible wrongdoing — Trump and his allies shower potential witnesses with flattery privately while publicly blasting those who dare cross him — As rumors flew in the spring of 2018 that Donald Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen …

Hutchinson's testimony raises fresh questions about Secret Service's handling of Jan. 6 — The testimony “raises highly disconcerting questions,” says an ex-DHS official. — 7:4 — A video of President Trump's motorcade leaving the January 6th rally on the Ellipse is displayed as Cassidy Hutchinson …
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Mark Meadows' associate threatened ex-White House aide before her testimony — It was the second warning Cassidy Hutchinson had received before her deposition, cautioning her against cooperating with the panel — Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson received at least …
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Is Biden Handling Putin Better Than He's Handling Trump? — Facing down the threats that the two men pose to democracy has become the defining challenge of Biden's Presidency. — Like most prickly would-be tyrants, neither Donald Trump nor Vladimir Putin likes to be mocked publicly—and a lot of that was directed at them this week.
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Put a Fork in Donald Trump—the Ex-President Is Done
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WATCH: Megyn Kelly says ‘law student’ could see ‘holes’ in Hutchinson's testimony
WATCH: Megyn Kelly says ‘law student’ could see ‘holes’ in Hutchinson's testimony
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The Courage of Jan. 6 Witness Cassidy Hutchinson20 minutes ago
The Courage of Jan. 6 Witness Cassidy Hutchinson20 minutes ago
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Cassidy Hutchinson testimony set audience record for a daytime Jan. 6 hearing25 minutes ago
Cassidy Hutchinson testimony set audience record for a daytime Jan. 6 hearing25 minutes ago
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Congress has let the Supreme Court run amok — Biden accuses Supreme Court of ‘outrageous behavior’ following Roe v. Wade reversal — The Supreme Court ended its term Thursday having produced a string of decisions that with casual brutality threatened Americans' privacy, health and well-being.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as Supreme Court justice — With Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement at noon on Thursday, Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Real Target of the Supreme Court's EPA Decision
The Real Target of the Supreme Court's EPA Decision
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Texas educator group proposes referring to slavery as “involuntary relocation” in second grade curriculum — The Texas State Board of Education is fielding proposals to update the state's public school social studies curriculum this summer. — Copy link — A group of Texas educators …
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Abortion, women's rights grow as priorities: AP-NORC poll — WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds a growing percentage of Americans calling out abortion or women's rights as priorities for the government in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, especially among Democrats and those who support abortion access.
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An analysis claiming one million voters switched to the GOP last year was fatally flawed
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Democrats must expose the right's new antiabortion radicalism14 minutes ago
Democrats must expose the right's new antiabortion radicalism14 minutes ago
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Neo-Nazi publisher Andrew Anglin gives ‘forceful endorsement’ of Blake Masters' Senate bid — The move by The Daily Stormer publisher is a play to try to exert influence in a GOP moving to the right, experts in extremism contend — Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi publisher of The Daily Stormer …

Is Biden a Man Out of Time? — The White House's response to last week's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which in 1973 established a constitutional right to abortion, once again has exposed the tension between the conciliatory instincts President Joe Biden developed during …
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What Happens If Democrats Start Creating Exceptions to the Filibuster?20 minutes ago
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Biden repeats false claim that US has lower inflation than rest of world
Biden repeats false claim that US has lower inflation than rest of world
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In Russia's Biggest Cities, Ukraine War Fades to Background Noise — Bars are packed out, film and jazz festivals are sold out and Moscow's police officers are busier handing out fines for public drinking than putting down dissent — MOSCOW—Dima Karmanovsky had just finished his second DJ set …
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School's out forever: Arizona moves “to kill public education” with new universal voucher law — Families who bail on public school will get $7,000 per kid in GOP's new scheme: “Every red state” urged to follow — Last Friday, while the country reeled from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade …
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“Nobody's giving us any answers”: Uvalde families demand details of shooting investigation at City Council meeting — Uvalde's mayor said city officials could be prosecuted for releasing details of the investigation. Pete Arredondo, the City Council member and school district police chief, was absent for the second straight meeting.
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The Sleeper ‘Wire Fraud’ Scheme That Could Nail Trumpworld — The Jan. 6 committee has already laid out a convincing case of wire fraud against the Trump campaign. — the day television networks called the election for Joe Biden—then-President Donald Trump's campaign manager was trying …
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White House press corps demands end to Biden event restrictions — A group of 66 journalists sent a rare protest letter to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Thursday asking that President Biden's staff abandon a mysterious pre-screening process for reporters and reopen large events to all journalists.
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Dr. Vladimir ‘Zev’ Zelenko passes away — Dr Simone Gold: ‘We stand on his shoulders’ … It is with immense sorrow that we announce the passing of our founder Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko. Dr. Zelenko was a physician, scientist, and activist for medical rights who touched the lives of millions of people.
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Arizona Senate president gets FBI subpoena for Trump-related records — Karen Fann initiated the Republican review of Maricopa County's election results. Feds are investigating the Trump White House role's in pressuring states. — PHOENIX — The FBI has subpoenaed records …
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Who's In Charge? — “Which way am I going?” asked President Biden when he ended Thursday's press conference at the NATO summit in Madrid. He began to exit stage right, before someone redirected him toward stage left. This combination of ignorance and indecision was not new.
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Tory whip RESIGNS after ‘groping 2 men’ & claims he ‘drank too much’ — THE Tory deputy chief whip sensationally quit last night after allegedly groping two men while drunk. — In a bombshell resignation letter, Chris Pincher admitted he had “embarrassed myself and other people” after a boozy session on Wednesday night.
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