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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.
over 2 years ago
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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.
about 2 years ago
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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.”
about 2 years ago
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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.
about 2 years ago
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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…
almost 2 years ago
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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.
almost 2 years ago
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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…
almost 2 years ago
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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…
almost 2 years ago
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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.”
almost 2 years ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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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…
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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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…
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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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…
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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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
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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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.
about 1 year ago