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A Nevada state court judge dismissed a criminal indictment Friday against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring former President Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election, a spokesperson for the Nevada attorney general confirmed to CBS News. “We disagree with the judge’s decision and will be appealing immediately,”
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that prohibits people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms, ruling that the measure does not violate the Second Amendment. The court ruled 8-1 that a person who has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to
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Major elements of a gag order preventing Donald Trump from commenting publicly about certain people involved with his New York criminal trial, including jurors, should remain in place, prosecutors said, perhaps even after Trump is sentenced on July 11. Prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told Justice Juan Merchan in a filing released Friday
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Former President Donald Trump’s campaign and the RNC raised over $141 million in May, outpacing President Joe Biden’s campaign and Democrats, who said they raised a combined $85 million. The Biden campaign said it entered June with over $212 million cash on hand, as the month wrapped up with a flood of donations after the
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Former President Donald Trump plans to return to Virginia for a campaign event on June 28, the day after the first presidential debate, CBS News has learned. Sources tell CBS News the campaign hasn’t confirmed a location yet, but is looking in the Virginia Beach-Hampton Roads area. The area is home to a significant military
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House investigates misconduct allegations against Matt Gaetz, and other top headlines – CBS News Watch CBS News Here are some of the top headlines Wednesday, including the latest on the House Ethics Committee investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz, a house explosion and collapse in Syracuse that left at least 13 people
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Detroit — Four years after Detroit’s convention center was the center of conspiracy theories and unfounded allegations of voter fraud, thousands of Republicans were back in the building last weekend to prepare for November’s rematch between former President Donald Trump and President Biden. So-called election integrity efforts and disproven allegations of voter fraud were repeatedly invoked,
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Washington — The House Ethics Committee revealed in an unusual statement on Tuesday the status of its investigation of GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida on allegations ranging from sexual misconduct, drug use and obstruction. The statement noted there has been a “significant and unusual amount of public reporting on the Committee’s activities this Congress,” and
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With less than five months until the general election, President Biden announced sweeping federal action that will give undocumented spouses of American citizens who have lived in the United States at least 10 years a new path to permanent residency and, in time, legal citizenship. The plan could not only bring citizenship to some 500,000
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A Texas doctor who calls himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors is accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients from the nation’s largest pediatric hospital who were not under his care. Federal prosecutors said Dr. Eithan Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, snatched the information and shared it with a conservative activist with “intent
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