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A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot was sentenced on Wednesday to more than seven years in prison. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said videos captured Taylor James Johnatakis playing a leadership role during the Jan.
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A lone electoral vote in Nebraska could have a decisive impact on the 2024 presidential election. And that reality is now being seized upon by prominent Republicans. Nebraska is a reliably red state in presidential races. The last Democratic presidential candidate to win statewide was Lyndon B. Johnson over half a century ago. Donald Trump
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Washington — The Justice Department is set to invest nearly $80 million in additional funding to support community violence intervention programs across the country as part of the federal government’s multifaceted strategy to continue stemming what had been rising crime rates, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday. At the same time, Garland said federal law
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Biden and Trump win primaries, but some results show some voters still prefer another candidate – CBS News Watch CBS News President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won their respective primaries in four states Tuesday, but the results showed some voters still preferred another candidate. The political protest vote against Biden’s handling of
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Biden joined forces Wednesday at the White House, championing the progress they’ve made on lowering the cost of inhalers and other expenses for Americans with asthma. Mr. Biden and Sanders also called on Congress and pharmaceutical companies to do more to curb prices. “Bernie, you and I have been fighting
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How the abortion rulings in Florida could impact the general election – CBS News Watch CBS News Chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa breaks down how the abortion rulings in Florida could impact the general election in November in the Sunshine State and others. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get
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Florida Supreme Court clears the way for abortion access to be on November ballot – CBS News Watch CBS News The Florida Supreme Court made two decisions on abortion rights Monday. One of them clears the way for a new six-week abortion ban to take effect. This would replace the state’s current 15-week ban. The
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A day after the Florida Supreme Court cleared the way for the state’s six-week abortion ban to go into effect, President Biden’s reelection campaign is launching an ad reminding voters of former President Donald Trump’s role in ending the federal right to an abortion. “For 54 years, they were trying to get Roe v. Wade
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FBI’s Biden informant accused of lying before FBI’s Biden informant accused of lying as far back as 2016 03:56 U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi on Monday denied all eight of Hunter Biden’s motions to dismiss the nine federal tax charges he faces in California. At a hearing last week, Hunter Biden’s attorney primarily argued that
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A New York judge barred former President Donald Trump Monday from making public comments about the judge’s family. The order by Judge Juan Merchan came after prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked Merchan to expand a previously issued gag order in the case, “making clear that the court’s family is off-limits.” Merchan ultimately
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