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Dual revelations about Jack Smith's probe into the mishandling of records at Mar-a-Lago suggest the special counsel's probe into former President Trump is advancing on several fronts, bolstering the case against him. Reporting from CNN this week indicates authorities have a recording of Trump discussing his inability to share the contents of a classified document he retained — undercutting his long-standing claim he declassified the records in his possession. |
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is winning the trust of Republican senators who were skeptical about his ability to lead his caucus and avoid a crisis over the debt ceiling. Many GOP senators expected President Biden and the Speaker to hit an implacable stalemate that would force Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to step in and broker a deal, as he has in the past. |
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President Biden on Friday commended Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for his role in reaching an agreement on the debt ceiling, highlighting a rare moment of bipartisanship between the White House and the GOP-controlled House. "I want to commend Speaker McCarthy. You know, he and I and our teams, we were able to get along and get things done," Biden said in prime time remarks from the Oval Office. "We were straightforward with one another, completely honest with one another, respectful of one another. Both sides operated in good faith, both sides kept their word." |
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CNN commentator Van Jones said President Biden's approach to politics "seems kind of corny" but claims the president has been largely successful in the aftermath of the White House and Republicans reaching a deal to raise the debt ceiling. Jones said after Biden delivered an address from the Oval Office praising House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for his role in securing the deal that Biden has stuck to his approach and continued to be triumphant. |
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BY EMILY BROOKS, MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND MIKE LILLIS |
Congress has sent legislation to raise the debt ceiling to President Biden, ending a months-long saga that brought the U.S. days away from a possible default. The legislation was the product of months of gamesmanship between Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), culminated by furious negotiations and an aggressive effort by leaders in both parties to sell the agreement to their caucuses — which included a number of reluctant lawmakers. |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is seeking to peel away evangelical Christian support from former President Trump as the group is set to play a pivotal role in the 2024 Republican primary. The competition for the voting bloc was on full display this week in Iowa, where DeSantis held his campaign launch at Eternity Church in Clive. The Florida governor's moves come as as some evangelicals have criticized Trump's stance on abortion. |
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The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday detailed the criteria candidates will need to satisfy to qualify for the first presidential primary debate in August, including polling requirements and a pledge to support the eventual nominee. The first primary debate will take place Aug. 23 in Milwaukee, the party said, and a second debate will be Aug. 24 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, if enough candidates qualify to make it necessary. The first debate is scheduled to be broadcast by Fox News, while the broadcaster for the second hasn't been announced. |
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Former President Trump is calling for the New York judge overseeing his hush money criminal case to recuse himself, arguing the judge cannot be impartial. Trump's lawyers noted in a new filing apparent political donations Judge Juan Merchan made to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and liberal-leaning groups. They also referenced the judge's participation in a previous case related to Trump and reports that Merchan's daughter works at a progressive digital agency. |
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has changed her position on the public release of the tapes documenting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, warning Friday that their release could "put the security of the Capitol at risk." Greene said in an interview on the right-wing channel Real America's Voice that releasing the video footage publicly would jeopardize the Capitol's security and endanger those who were present at the Capitol grounds but did not enter the Capitol nor commit crimes. |
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OPINION | Like many people in our country, I watch the differing coverage of the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border and want to make sense of it all. And, if you're like me (and more than 80 percent of Americans), you know that our current border situation is intrinsically connected to the need to update our immigration system. We need Congress to work together and enact solutions. So, what is the current situation at the border? |
BY MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF |
OPINION | At a historic NASA briefing on UFOs — "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP) in government parlance — a key Defense Department official made a striking disclosure. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of a new UAP analysis office, stated that U.S. military personnel are observing "metallic orbs" "all over the world." An image, along with two brief videos of such objects, are now publicly available. |
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BY THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF AND ANATOLY KURMANAEV |
A car bomb killed at least one person on Friday night in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian and Russian officials, highlighting the war's reach far beyond the front lines as Ukrainian partisans aim to undermine their occupiers. |
BALASORE, India (AP) — Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday. |
BY JAMES OLIPHANT AND NATHAN LAYNE |
GILBERT, South Carolina, June 3 (Reuters) - In the first full week of his 2024 presidential campaign, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis worked hard to define himself as a candidate to voters — and just as hard to define the man who stands in his way for the Republican nomination. |
D.C.'s election laws will be next to enter the crosshairs in the GOP's oversight of the District in Congress, with a hearing next week set to delve into D.C. "election integrity." |
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