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Three big takeaways from the explosive new Trump-DOJ revelations — On Thursday night, the New York Times reported that the Justice Department took the highly unusual step in 2017 and 2018 of subpoenaing the account data of two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee …
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Barr distances himself from Trump-era subpoenas of Democratic lawmakers — Former Attorney General William Barr on Friday distanced himself from reports that the Trump Justice Department seized communications records belonging to two prominent Democratic lawmakers who were spearheading investigations into then-President Donald Trump.
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Senate Democrats threaten to subpoena Barr, Sessions for testimony over Justice Dept.'s secret pursuit of two House Democrats' data — Senate Democratic leaders on Friday demanded that former attorneys general in the Trump administration testify over secret subpoenas of two House Democrats.
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Hunting Leaks, Trump Officials Focused on Democrats in Congress — The Justice Department seized records from Apple for metadata of House Intelligence Committee members, their aides and family members. — WASHINGTON — As the Justice Department investigated who was behind leaks …
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Garland declares voting rights expansion ‘central’ to democracy — The attorney general's speech comes as voting rights legislation faces dire odds in Congress. — Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a Senate Appropriations hearing. — Attorney General Merrick Garland affirmed Friday …
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DOJ internal watchdog to investigate Trump-era leak hunt targeting lawmakers, journalists
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Garland announces expansion of Justice Department's voting rights unit, vowing to scrutinize GOP-backed voting restrictions and ballot reviews
Garland announces expansion of Justice Department's voting rights unit, vowing to scrutinize GOP-backed voting restrictions and ballot reviews
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Merrick Garland: DOJ Will ‘Never Stop Working’ To Protect Voting Rights
Merrick Garland: DOJ Will ‘Never Stop Working’ To Protect Voting Rights
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
‘William Barr was truly out of control’: Legal experts stunned by Trump's DOJ spying on Democrats
‘William Barr was truly out of control’: Legal experts stunned by Trump's DOJ spying on Democrats
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Merrick Garland announces Justice Dept. plans to protect voting access.
Merrick Garland announces Justice Dept. plans to protect voting access.
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Trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers — Election officials and their families are living with threats of hanging, firing squads, torture and bomb blasts, interviews and documents reveal. The campaign of fear, sparked by Trump's voter-fraud falsehoods, threatens the U.S. electoral system.
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Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats — FEC investigation failed to uncover link to Rally Forge, a firm with close ties to Turning Point USA — digital marketing firm closely linked to the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA was responsible …
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Here are the winners of the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes — The Pulitzers, regarded as one of the highest honors in journalism, were announced later than usual this year due to the pandemic. — The Pulitzer Prizes, usually announced at a ceremony at Columbia University, were announced remotely again …
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Maeve Sheehey / Politico:
Teen who recorded George Floyd's murder awarded Pulitzer special citation
Teen who recorded George Floyd's murder awarded Pulitzer special citation
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Nevada schools reckon with race, triggering polarization — RENO, Nev. (AP) — One year after protests over racial injustices and police violence swept the country, clashes over how to teach students about racism and its role in U.S. history are raging in school districts across Nevada and elsewhere …
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Chicago cop charged in US Capitol breach, accused of entering a senator's office — A Chicago police officer was arrested Friday on federal charges of breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and entering a Democratic senator's office with the violent mob, later texting to a friend that he'd “knocked out a commie.”
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Chicago police officer charged in connection with US Capitol breach — Karol J. Chwiesiuk is at least the 10th individual from Illinois charged in connection with the U.S. Capitol breach, and he is the fourth on that list from the Chicago area. — Federal authorities have arrested …
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Oregon legislators expel Rep. Mike Nearman, who helped armed protesters enter Capitol — The Oregon House voted 59-1 Thursday to expel Rep. Mike Nearman, the first time it has ejected a sitting representative. — Lawmakers removed Nearman because he let far-right demonstrators …
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What Does “From the River to the Sea” Really Mean? — IN RECENT WEEKS, as Palestinians rose up in their homeland, in the wider Middle East, and around the world, you probably heard the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” In cities across the globe …
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EXPLAINER: What will change under Israel's new government?
EXPLAINER: What will change under Israel's new government?
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“I'm not finished”: Harris' border-czar tour flop continues — Something tells me this won't assuage fears from Democrats that Kamala Harris is out of her depth in dealing with the border crisis. The Biden administration can't ask for a friendlier venue than Univision for its immigration policies …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
How Joe Biden Is Hanging Kamala Harris Out to Dry
How Joe Biden Is Hanging Kamala Harris Out to Dry
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FDA Takes Steps to Increase Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine — For Immediate Release: — Following careful review and deliberation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking important steps that will allow a critically needed supply of the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine to be made available.
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‘People of Praise leaders failed me’: Christian group tied to Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces reckoning over sexual misconduct — EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — In December, Katie Logan called the police in this Minneapolis suburb to unearth a buried secret: Her high school physics teacher …
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BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize — BuzzFeed News won a Pulitzer Prize on Friday for a series of innovative articles that used satellite images, 3D architectural models, and daring in-person interviews to expose China's vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its Xinjiang region.
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“New Yorkers will be sick of me” — After getting slammed for fleeing the city for his country home in New Paltz during the pandemic, Andrew Yang warned New Yorkers that they would see him in the city around the clock - at least during his first term - if he's elected mayor.
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The Geophysicist Who Stormed the Capitol — KITTREDGE, Colo.— The text message showed up on John Bergman's phone in late January. Sent to him by a former work colleague, it came with the question “Have you seen this??” and linked to an article and video from a news channel. Bergman pressed play.
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Racism didn't exist in the military before Biden, US Senator says with straight face — ‘Growing mistrust between the races and sexes where none existed just six months ago’ — A White senator from the South told America's first Black defense secretary on Thursday that President Joe Biden's …
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Coronavirus restrictions spark mutiny against GOP governor — BOISE, Idaho — Gov. Brad Little had only briefly traveled out of state to attend a Republican governors' conference when his own lieutenant governor made him regret it. — Without warning, GOP Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin took advantage …
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Inside the palace intrigue in Jordan and a thwarted ‘deal of the century’ — President Donald Trump had a dizzying dream for a diplomatic “deal of the century” for Arab-Israeli peace that would unite his allies Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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Democracy Is Already Dying in the States — While Senator Joe Manchin is demanding that both parties agree on any further federal voting-rights legislation, a new study quantifies how completely Republicans have excluded Democrats from the passage of the restrictive voting laws proliferating in red states.
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YouTube Bans Sen. Ron Johnson For Discussing Early Treatment Of COVID-19 — YouTube's position is that content on the site must parrot whatever comes from its narrow set of authorities, even though their positions change frequently and dramatically.
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Vaccinate the World — Wealthy countries are pledging to donate a billion doses. Will it be enough? — Roughly 20 percent of the world's people have received at least one shot of a Covid-19 vaccine. The speed with which the remaining 80 percent are vaccinated will mean the difference between life …
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Trumpists Are America's Jacobites — “He loved authority and business. He had a high sense of his own personal dignity,” one commentator observed. “He was not altogether destitute of a sentiment which bore some affinity to patriotism ... His second wish was to be feared and respected abroad.
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Op-eds in a Chinese state tabloid slammed U.S. policy. The author works at the Pentagon. — The headline hardly stood out on the website of the hyper-nationalistic Chinese newspaper. — “Why US will lose a war with China over Taiwan island,” announced the April 27 op-ed in the Global Times …
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Trump's false Lafayette Square exoneration — Don't be fooled by the media's credulous acceptance of a new report — One of the most notorious events of the Trump presidency was the attack at Lafayette Square on June 1 last year. Cops from numerous law enforcement agencies suddenly charged …
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