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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Exclusive: Recordings describe 2020 Oval Office photo-op where Trump was briefed on fake electors and January 6 — Before a group of supportive lawyers entered the Oval Office for a photo-op with then-President Donald Trump in December 2020, they were given a clear instruction …
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Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Lawyer Fani Willis calls proposed pause on Trump's election case ‘silly notion’ — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis rejected the idea that her prosecution of Donald Trump could amount to election interference. Willis, who obtained a sweeping indictment against Trump and 18 others in August, is seeking an August trial date.
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Politico:
Supreme Court will review scope of obstruction law that Trump is charged with breaking — The case calls into question prosecutors' handling of an Enron-era obstruction law to punish those who stormed Congress. — The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case that could derail hundreds …
Liz Cheney / Wall Street Journal:
Checks and Balances Won't Stop Trump — The Constitution's protections won't be able to block his abuses of executive power. — As we approach the 2024 primaries, some Republicans have begun arguing that the checks and balances constructed by the framers of our Constitution …
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A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark:
Trump Said Too Much Too Soon — DONALD TRUMP HAS CHOSEN to make “dictator” his brand. No one made him do it. But the fact that he did, eleven months before the election, is a good thing. — Trump's plans to destroy our foundational checks and balances and rule as a king hadn't penetrated …
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Bloomberg:
Republican Senators Say They're Weighing Biden's Immigration Offer — President Joe Biden has offered changes to US border policy that raises the prospects of a bipartisan deal on immigration and aid to Ukraine, Republican senators said Wednesday. — Republicans met behind closed doors …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A revealing exchange on the GOP's speculative impeachment inquiry — It's perhaps a little too simplistic to cast the impeachment inquiry of President Biden, which the House will vote to formalize Wednesday, as a “Seinfeld”-ian impeachment “about nothing.” — Republicans have at the very …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
GOP Rep. Explains Impeachment Push: ‘Donald J. Trump 2024, Baby!’ — In video obtained by Rolling Stone, Troy Nehls touted Trump returning to the White House when asked what Republicans have to gain from a Biden impeachment inquiry … The party has struggled to gin up a legitimate rationale …
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Billy House / Bloomberg:
House Republicans Authorize Biden Impeachment Inquiry — Trump has pressed House Republicans to step up investigation — Speaker says formal approval will help enforce subpoenas — Republicans in the US House voted Wednesday to formally authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Fox Board Member Paul Ryan Slams Trump, Hails Cheney and Kinzinger: 'Trump's Not a Conservative, He's an Authoritarian Narcissist'
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CNN:
Hunter Biden flouts subpoena for closed-door testimony, demanding to testify publicly: ‘I am here’ — President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden defied Republican investigators' subpoena for closed-door testimony, demanding to testify publicly Wednesday. — In his first public statement since …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Hunter Biden, Defying Deposition Subpoena, Again Offers Public Testimony — The president's son appeared at a news conference at the Capitol as House investigators awaited him at a private session he declined to attend. — Hunter Biden, the president's son, appeared on Capitol Hill …
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
'He's worried': Hunter Biden's legal woes take a heavy toll on his father
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Stephen Neukam / The Messenger:
Jamie Raskin Rails Against Republicans at Hunter Biden-less Deposition (Exclusive)
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NBC News:
Federal appeals court denies Trump's presidential immunity defense in E. Jean Carroll case — The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Trump's lawyers waited too long - three years - to try to use the defense for his upcoming civil trial. — A federal appeals court on Wednesday shot …
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Tom Krisher / Associated Press:
Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot — Tesla is recalling nearly all vehicles sold in the U.S., more than 2 million, to update software and fix a defective system that's supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when using Autopilot.
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Supreme Court will decide access to key abortion drug mifepristone — The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide this term whether to limit access to a key abortion drug, returning the polarizing issue of reproductive rights to the high court for the first time since …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court agrees to hear showdown over abortion pill access
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James LaPorta / The Messenger:
One US Marine Dead, Dozen More Hospitalized After Training Accident in California — The Marines were traveling in an amphibious combat vehicle, designed to operate on the sea and on land, at the time of the accident — A United States Marine is dead while more than a dozen others were taken …
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Contraception is a winning issue, conservative strategists tell GOP — Former Trump confidante Kellyanne Conway and other strategists are citing poll data showing strong demand among GOP voters for birth control after the fall of Roe. — Kellyanne Conway is going to Capitol Hill on Wednesday …
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Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Inside the Troll Army Waging Trump's Online Campaign — A team of meme-makers has been flooding social media with pro-Trump posts riddled with sexist and racist tropes. Donald Trump is cheering them on. — The video, called “Let's Get Ready to Bumble,” is a slick mash …
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Andrew Atterbury / Politico:
Teachers sue Florida over pronoun restrictions in schools — The lawsuit is the latest legal pushback against several key polices created by state GOP leaders. — TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Three Florida teachers sued state and local officials in federal court Wednesday seeking to overturn …
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Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
White House turns focus to states in latest push to curb gun violence — The White House on Wednesday announced a new plan to assist states in curbing gun violence, turning the attention to the local level with the hope of further federal gun-control legislation fading.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. delaying sale of M16 rifles to Israel over settler violence — The Biden administration is again holding up the licenses for selling more than 20,000 U.S.-made rifles to Israel over concerns about attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, two U.S. officials told Axios.
US Department of Justice:
Former global diversity executive at Facebook pleads guilty to defrauding company out of more than $4 million — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia — ATLANTA - Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a former global diversity executive at Facebook …
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday reaffirmed its 2022 decision to deny SpaceX satellite internet unit Starlink $885.5 million in rural broadband subsidies. — The FCC said the decision impacting …
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Liz Goodwin / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders calls for Biden to cut Israel aid by $10 billion — The liberal senator says the Israeli military campaign in Gaza amounts to ‘mass atrocity’ — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for President Biden to cut proposed aid to Israel by $10.1 billion in a letter that called …
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