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Apr 15 2022
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First bus of illegal immigrants from Texas arrives in DC
A bus from Texas carrying dozens of illegal immigrants arrived in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning, allowing passengers to disembark just blocks away from the U.S. Capitol, according to a Fox News report.
Governor Greg Abbott (R-Texas) announced last week that he directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to "charter buses and flights to transport migrants who have
The BlazeJun 29 2013
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Snowden's Options Dwindling in Effort to Evade Arrest
Nearly a month after Edward Snowden exposed top secret U.S. surveillance programs, the former spy agency contractor looks no closer to winning asylum to evade prosecution at home - and his options appear to be narrowing.
Stuck in legal limbo in a Moscow airport transit area and facing uncertainty over whether any of the destinations he is said to be contemplating - Ecuador, Venezuela
Newsmax (News)Jan 26 2023
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California, Nation Grieve After Mass Shootings
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A pair of mass shootings stunned communities across the state of California and reignited the national debate on gun violence. The Details: On January 21, an armed man opened fire inside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in
AllSides StaffNov 10 2020
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Why Trump decision to block Biden transition matters
Until now, smooth transitions of power had been a hallmark of U.S. democracy. The pandemic, economic recession, and national racial reckoning make the threat of a contested election – and rocky transition – all the more consequential.
The Trump White House’s decision to block routine actions that would facilitate a transition to a Biden administration has added a new layer of turmoil to
Christian Science MonitorApr 12 2022
Background
Voter ID Laws
A total of 35 states have laws requesting or requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls. Scroll over the map below for state-by-state details.
Notes: On March 18, 2022, Act 249, which passed in 2021 and made changes to Arkansas's voter ID law, was deemed unconstitutional. On April 6, 2022, Montana SB 169, enacted in 2021, was deemed unconstitutional. Appeals in
National Conference of State LegislaturesNov 10 2021
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Federal judge rejects Trump effort to block Jan. 6 docs
A federal judge has denied former President Trump’s lawsuit that seeks to block the National Archives from handing over documents to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, prompting the former president to quickly appeal the ruling.
Trump sued the committee last month in an effort to block the National Archives from giving the investigative panel
The HillSep 09 2019
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Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
Washington (CNN)In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.
A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that
CNN DigitalAug 25 2021
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U.S. House committee demands records over Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol
The congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol demanded a range of documents on Wednesday from American agencies, including communications records from former President Donald Trump's White House.
The House of Representatives Select Committee asked for White House communications records on and leading up to Jan. 6. The panel also requested
ReutersJan 05 2022
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Election fraud occurs, but rarely and without impacting results
The Covid-19 pandemic kicked off a partisan debate over methods of voting, with people on the right arguing that tighter controls are needed to prevent voter fraud while the left argued that the priority must be making it easier for people to vote.
Last year, legislatures in red states passed more than 30 bills that the liberal-leaning Brennan Center for Justice referred to as “
The FulcrumJul 27 2022
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Chris Cuomo Will Join NewsNation in Return to TV News
After a long and much-publicized interruption, Chris Cuomo wants to get after it again.
Cuomo, who made that phrase the mission statement for his 9 p.m. program on CNN, is taking his bulldog demeanor and lean-in anchoring style to NewsNation, the still-nascent news outlet backed by large station owner Nexstar Media, which has in recent months made a series of acquisitions aimed at
Variety