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Michael Isikoff

Michael Isikoff

Chief Investigative Correspondent at Yahoo News

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Michael Isikoff
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British court rules Julian Assange can be extradited to U.S.

A British appeals court has handed the United States a major victory in its efforts to bring WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to trial, overturning a lower court ruling that had blocked his extradition out of fear he would commit suicide while he was in custody in a U.S. prison.
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Jan. 6 panel: Lawyer behind Trump election memos invoked 5th Amendm...

John Eastman, the conservative law professor who authored memos outlining how President Trump could overturn the results of the 2020 election, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights 146 times when he was questioned by the Jan. 6 committee last month, a lawyer for the panel revealed late Monday.
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Key witness in Georgia’s Trump investigation: I’m ‘emotionally torn...

A critical witness in a Georgia criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election said he is “emotionally torn” about the case, fearing that a potential prosecution could end up reinforcing the former president’s status as a “martyr.”
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Aide to jailed Russian leader Alexei Navalny: I’m ‘very concerned’ ...

A top aide to Alexei Navalny said Tuesday he is “very concerned” that the jailed Russian opposition leader will be assassinated after being sentenced in a Russian courtroom to nine more years in a maximum-security prison.
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Woodward pushes 25th Amendment, says a ‘crazy’ president could trig...

The U.S. government faced a potential nuclear crisis in the fall of 2020, when Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, fearing that then President Donald Trump would order the U.S. military to strike China, plotted to thwart such a directive with a scheme that one prominent Republican lawyer likened…
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Roberts may face roadblocks in probe of Roe leak, reporter who publ...

One of the two Politico reporters who obtained the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade questions whether Chief Justice John Roberts has the legal authority to order his fellow justices and their clerks to cooperate in an internal investigation into who leaked the document.
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Georgia DA Fani Willis is confident as her Trump probe takes shape

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is taking an unusually aggressive, hands-on approach to her office’s investigation into Donald Trump, personally selecting members of a special grand jury and sitting in on questioning while preparing to wage legal war against all-but-certain challenges fr…

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Former U.S. attorney to Jan. 6 committee: FBI debunked allegations ...

B.J. Pak, who served as President Donald Trump’s U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, said the FBI debunked allegations of voter fraud in Atlanta on the night of the 2020 election, after discovering that a supposed suitcase improperly stuffed with ballots for Joe Biden was actually an…
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Filmmaker who gave footage to Jan. 6 committee: Trump is ‘dangerous...

A British documentary filmmaker who recently testified behind closed doors to the House Jan. 6 select committee said that former president Donald Trump is living in “cloud cuckoo land,” and is incapable of ever acknowledging that his claims about voter fraud are “delusional.”
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Exclusive: Trump allies launch effort to recall Fulton County DA Fa...

Donald Trump’s allies in Georgia are mounting a campaign to recall Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her investigation into his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and are seeking to recruit high-dollar donors to fund the effort, according to sources.
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FBI warrant for search of Trump home may involve suspected violatio...

The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the FBI warrant for the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests prosecutors believe they have probable cause that there may have been violations of the World War I-era Espionage A…
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Former top Obama aide accuses Biden of 'gaslighting' Cuba: 'Disappo...

The former Obama White House official who negotiated the reopening of relations with Cuba is sharply criticizing President Biden’s policies toward that country, saying his administration is “gaslighting” Havana by maintaining and even expanding harsh sanctions imposed by former President Trump.
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Expert: If Putin uses nukes, U.S. could wipe out Russian forces in ...

If Vladimir Putin makes good on his threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the United States would likely respond with a sweeping economic embargo combined with massive conventional attack on Russian military positions that could quickly wipe out the the Russian president’s invading military forc…
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Trump political action committee paid more than $120,000 to law fir...

Donald Trump’s political action committee has paid more than $120,000 to a law firm representing multiple witnesses before the Jan. 6 committee as well as the Justice Department investigation into documents found at Mar-a-Lago, according to a Yahoo News review of campaign finance reports.
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Appointment of special counsel to investigate Trump won’t satisfy M...

Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of a special counsel to oversee investigations into Donald Trump “was not legally necessary” and is unlikely to satisfy critics given that he maintains the ultimate power to approve or reject any prosecutorial decisions, according to a former independen…
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Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize winner calls for war crimes tribunal fo...

A Ukrainian human rights activist set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize next week says world leaders must create a special international tribunal to place Russian President Vladimir Putin and large numbers of his military on trial for war crimes.
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Newly released JFK documents point to what the CIA was hiding - Yah...

Like much of the newly disclosed JFK papers, the memo didn’t contain any secret bombshells that prove an elaborate conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Instead, it was the CIA trying to hide how it does its business
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Former federal appeals court judge: Trump could be sentenced to pri...

J. Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative attorney, thinks the crimes Trump may have committed in trying to overturn the election would require any judge to give him prison time.
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Rep. Raskin: Trump could spend ‘the remaining days of his misanthro...

A leading member of the Jan. 6 select committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said Friday he “really would be surprised” if Attorney General Merrick Garland doesn’t act on the panel’s criminal referrals and indict former President Donald Trump for his conduct relating to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Biden awards Presidential Citizens Medal to ‘heroes of January 6’ -...

President Biden on Friday honored “the heroes of January 6” at an emotional White House ceremony, in which he awarded presidential medals to 14 people, including police officers who fought the pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol two years ago and election workers who refused former President Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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Delicate negotiations underway over potential Trump arrest next wee...

New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office is engaged in delicate negotiations with the Secret Service over how to handle the potential arrest of former President Donald Trump next week on charges he made an illegal payoff to a porn star to keep her silent about an alleged sexual affair, according to a source familiar with the talks.