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2022 had plenty of political drama: the midterm elections, the congressional investigation into Jan. 6, record numbers of migrants at the southern border, big pieces of legislation and former President Trump's declaration of his 2024 White House candidacy. |
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The House Ways and Means Committee released six years of former President Trump's business and individual tax returns on Friday, totaling 46 documents with hundreds of pages and more than a gigabyte's worth of data. |
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Former President Trump ripped Democratic lawmakers Friday for releasing several years of his tax returns, warning of dire consequences for the nation while touting his ability to avoid paying income taxes. |
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House Republicans will focus on IRS funding, energy production, immigration, crime and abortion with their first items of legislative business after they take control of the House next week. |
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The omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 has rapidly spread to become the dominant COVID-19 mutation in the U.S., now accounting for 40.5 percent of all cases. |
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Southwest Airlines restored its flight schedule on Friday, ending a weeklong stretch of mass cancellations that disrupted millions of travelers' holiday plans. |
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Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) resigned from Congress on Friday, days before the end of his term, ahead of starting a new lobbying position on Saturday. |
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President Biden on Friday pardoned six individuals who have served sentences for drug or alcohol related crimes, as well as a woman who had been convicted of second-degree murder while she was in an abusive relationship. |
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The Biden administration has issued new regulations for the country's wetlands and waterways that are seen as a middle ground between previous actions by the Trump and Obama administrations. |
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Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, shared in her interview with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that the Thomases have an "ironclad" rule not to talk about pending cases in the court. |
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OPINION | The election of Republican George Santos from the 3rd Congressional District of New York is another body blow to a political system that is already reeling under the weight of the Jan. 6, 2021, capitol insurrection. |
BY MORGAN VIÑA AND GABRIEL NORONHA |
OPINION | It's a common tactic in Washington for administrations to bury news on a Friday or before a holiday, when presumably few are paying attention. Such is the case with the State Department's announcement last week of Jamie Rubin as special envoy and coordinator for the Global Engagement Center and Joe Kennedy III as special envoy to Northern Ireland. |
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BY JIM RUTENBERG, KEN BENSINGER AND STEVE EDER |
Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat, had consistently won re-election by healthy margins in her three decades representing Washington State. This year seemed no different: By midsummer, polls showed her cruising to victory over a Republican newcomer, Tiffany Smiley, by as much as 20 percentage points. |
BY SIOBHÁN O'GRADY AND KOSTIANTYN KHUDOV |
KYIV, Ukraine — For at least one night, they thought, they would use the basement of the university building not as a bomb shelter but as a place to twirl and hop and stomp — to celebrate their Ukrainian heritage, to again relish being young. |
BY REBECCA BOONE, MARC LEVY AND MIKE BALSAMO |
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The fatal stabbings of four students at the University of Idaho shook the college town of Moscow, a small community nestled in the rolling agricultural hills of the Palouse region that hadn't seen a murder for five years. |
VATICAN CITY, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, died on Saturday aged 95 in a secluded monastery in the Vatican where he had lived since stepping down, a spokesman for the Holy See said. |
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