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Pardon Request, Pressure on Pence: Top Video From the 3rd Hearing of the Jan. 6 Panel
The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot said Thursday that Vice President Mike Pence was in danger after he rebuffed President Donald Trump’s scheme to stop the election of Joe Biden. The committee also revealed that the lawyer who devised the scheme, John Eastman, asked for a pardon before Trump left office. Pence turned back entreaties by Trump...
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White House Lawyer Demands Focus on “Orderly Transition”
A White House lawyer said he responded to efforts to overturn the election by telling an attorney for the president, “Are you out of your effing mind?” Eric Herschmann said that was how he responded to John Eastman, the lawyer who developed the strategy to overturn President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden. “I said I only want to...
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‘An Attempted Coup': House Committee Makes Case Against Donald Trump
The House committee investigating the riot that swept over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, began presenting a case Thursday that Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 presidential election but continued to falsely claim that it had been stolen from him while he worked to change the results.
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Ivanka Trump Says She Accepts Barr's Position: No Fraud
Ivanka Trump acknowledged that she had been persuaded by statements by the former attorney general, William Barr, that talk of election fraud was false.
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Trump Supporters: ‘Hang Mike Pence'
Republican Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, said former President Donald Trump refused to call off his supporters, even when they began chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”
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Trump Dangles Prospect of Pardons for Jan. 6 Defendants
Former President Donald Trump is dangling the prospect of pardons for supporters who participated in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol if he returns to the White House
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New District Attorney in New York Takes Over Trump Case
Alvin Bragg has already notched one historic first, being sworn in Saturday as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney
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Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Jones, Stone
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol issued subpoenas on Monday to Roger Stone and Alex Jones, among other high-profile allies of former President Donald Trump, for their possible connection to the riot.
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After Brief Run in '80s, Defunct Spring Football League to Return in 2022
The United States Football League is relaunching four decades after the spring league shook up professional football in the mid-1980s
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to Speak at NH Fundraiser for ‘Right-of-Center Activists'
Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and a prominent defender of former President Donald Trump, will be a featured speaker at a conservative organization’s fundraiser in New Hampshire this summer, the group announced. The fundraising dinner, hosted by 603 Alliance, will conclude a full-day conference for “right-of-center activists,” the group said in a save the date announcement Sunday. Lindell, who…
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Inauguration Day Also Is Move In/Out Day at the White House
Inauguration Day is also moving day at the White House. It’s typically a precision operation carried out in about five hours as the residence staff labors to move out one leader and settle in another. The clock normally starts ticking when the outgoing and incoming presidents leave the White House together to head to the Capitol for the swearing-in ceremony....
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Trump Trial Pending, McConnell Calls It ‘Vote of Conscience'
President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is likely to begin after Joe Biden’s inauguration next week
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Hawley, Facing Fallout, Blames Media, DC ‘Establishment'
Facing waning support from longtime backers and donors in the wake of the attack at the U_S_ Capitol last week, Republican Missouri Sen_ Josh Hawley has defended himself in a newspaper column, accusing the media and the “Washington establishment” of deceiving Americans into calling him an “insurrectionist.”
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Authorities Say Man in ‘Camp Auschwitz' Shirt at Riot Arrested
Authorities say a man who was photographed wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt during the U.S. Capitol riot last week has been arrested in Virginia.
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Belichick Won't Accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom From Trump
Amid mounting speculation, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick announced that he would not accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom this week in the aftermath of the deadly pro-Trump riot at the Capitol. White House officials said Sunday Trump was set to award Belichick with the medal this week in the waning days of his administration. The two have had…
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Trump to Award Bill Belichick the Medal of Freedom
With just days left in his presidency, Donald Trump will award New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick the Medal of Freedom later this week, according to a White House official. The award, established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, is America’s highest civilian honor. It is awarded to people “who have made exceptional contributions to the security or…
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Pardons in Killings of Iraqi Civilians Stir Angry Response
The pardons of four Blackwater contractors convicted in the shooting deaths of more than a dozen Iraqi civilians has prompted outrage from some human rights activists and Iraqis.
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FBI Says White Supremacists Plotted Attack on US Power Grid
The FBI alleges in an affidavit that white supremacists schemed to attack power stations in the southeastern U.S. and one Ohio teenager wanted the group to be “operational” on a faster timeline if President Donald Trump lost his re-election bid
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Defense Bill in Danger Over Confederate-Named Military Bases
A defense bill that has passed every year since the Kennedy administration is in danger of failing
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Trump Looks for Another Electoral Vote in Maine With Recent Visit
President Donald Trump made a campaign visit to Maine on Sunday aiming to lock up a swing electoral vote as he did four years ago. After a rally in New Hampshire, Trump made the surprise stop at the Treworgy Family Orchard in Levant where supporters lined the streets along the route from Bangor International Airport, where he landed. Voters in…