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Washington — President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on Friday to 19 recipients, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Vice President Al Gore and Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky. Mr. Biden spoke briefly about each honoree, praising their “relentless curiosity, inventiveness, ingenuity and hope.” Nodding to the criticism of
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Rep. Henry Cuellar, wife federally charged in bribery scheme – CBS News Watch CBS News Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were federally indicted Friday on more than a dozen charges alleging they accepted at least $598,000 in bribes from both an oil company owned by the Azerbaijan government and a Mexican
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Bipartisan coalition forming to protect IVF Bipartisan coalition forming to federally protect IVF 04:12 The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday declined to reconsider a controversial ruling that said frozen embryos are considered children under a state law. Justices in a 7-2 decision without comment rejected a request to revisit the ruling that drew international attention
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CIA Director William Burns arrived in Cairo, Egypt, Friday for the latest round of high-stakes negotiations over a hostage and cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel, two U.S. officials and a source familiar with the matter told CBS News. The visit follows a stretch of technical talks and a fresh proposal from Israel that U.S.
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Washington — Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted on more than a dozen federal charges alleging they took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from an oil company owned by the government of Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank, the Justice Department said Friday. The 54-page indictment filed in federal district court
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Washington — A former government employee with ties to federal intelligence agencies was arrested in Virginia Thursday and accused of sending fake tips to the FBI in which he falsely accused multiple coworkers of taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, newly unsealed court documents revealed. Investigators alleged in court records that Miguel
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Washington — Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance next year under a new directive the Biden administration released Friday. The move took longer than promised to finalize and fell short of President Biden’s initial proposal to allow those migrants
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Nervous, and at one point in tears, Donald Trump’s former communications director Hope Hicks on Friday told the jury in his criminal trial about how he reacted in 2016 and 2018 when news reports surfaced about allegations of extramarital sexual encounters and his attempts to suppress them. Hicks was Trump’s top press aide during his
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During his time in office and amid his inaugural 2020 run for Texas’ 22nd District congressional seat, Republican Rep. Troy Nehls has repeatedly claimed to be the recipient of two Bronze Star medals and a Combat Infantryman Badge from his time in the U.S. Army serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no question that
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An attorney who represented two women seeking payments in 2016 for their silence about alleged sexual encounters with Donald Trump continued his testimony in the former president’s criminal trial on Thursday, detailing the aftermath of the “hush money” payment at the center of the case. Keith Davidson, a Los Angeles-based lawyer, told jurors about how
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