When then-President Trump signed the First Step Act into law in December 2018, he hailed it as "an incredible success for our country." But in an interview with Fox News this week, Trump struggled to reconcile his support for that criminal justice reform law with his call for the death penalty to be imposed against drug dealers, appearing caught off guard when anchor Bret Baier noted the punishment would apply to Alice Johnson, a woman whose sentence he commuted. |
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Former President Trump during a speech on Saturday depicted the U.S. as a "beloved nation" that is "teetering on the edge of tyranny" and painted his 2024 presidential campaign as a "righteous crusade." "For seven years, you and I have been fighting side-by-side to rescue our country from evil and from the sinister forces who hate it," Trump said during the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to the Majority Police Conference. "I believe they hate it, and I believe they actually want to destroy it." |
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Former President Trump called two indictments he's received in two separate probes a "great badge of courage" on Saturday during a Faith & Freedom Coalition event. "Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxist, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it a great badge of courage," said Trump, who spoke to a crowd at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to the Majority Police Conference. |
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Former President Trump said internal strife in Russia between the country's military and mercenaries is "a big mess." Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin announced his intentions Friday to use his mercenary forces to overthrow the Russian military leadership, accusing them of lying to the Russian people and firing on his troops. |
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Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin will move to Belarus and the criminal case against him will be dropped, as part of a deal to defuse his private mercenary group's rebellion, a Kremlin spokesperson said on Saturday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained that Prigozhin's troops will also not face prosecution for their participation in the "armed mutiny," according to Russian state-owned news agency TASS. |
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The Wagner Group, a private Russian military contractor organization, turned against the Russian Defense Ministry on Friday, launching an armed rebellion intended to remove Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu from power. Here's how we got to the point where an armed rebellion was launched, before the Wagner chief ultimately halted his troops and made a deal. |
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The Supreme Court case that eliminated the federal right to obtain an abortion was preceded by years of legislative attempts by congressional Republicans to chip away at those protections. But a year after the high court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, there is little appetite among Republicans in the House — the only chamber where they control the majority — to take steps to restrict abortion at the national level. |
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President Biden slammed the "devastating consequences" of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. on Saturday — the one-year anniversary Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, which struck down a constitutional right to abortion. Biden said in a statement that the court's ruling has allowed states to implement "extreme and dangerous" abortion bans that have jeopardized the life and health of women, forced them to potentially travel hundreds of miles to receive health care and threatened to declare doctors as criminals for providing care that their patients need. |
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President Biden's long shot primary rivals increasingly want to debate him in 2024, but those demands are being ignored by the White House and haven't picked up steam with progressives in Congress. Biden's two Democratic opponents, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson, have talked openly about the benefits of debating. Third-party candidate Cornel West also said he would "welcome" the chance to go head-to-head with the president, in a text message to The Hill. |
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OPINION | In politics today "woke" is a popular though often misunderstood slogan. Many Republicans use it disparagingly to label what they consider progressive or leftist ideas. While its origin, and core, have to do with racial justice, it is now widely used to criticize anything that promotes tolerance, fairness, compassion and due regard for the well-being of others. Being woke means waking up our sensitivities to injustice and inequality. It means recognizing and claiming the moral values that guide us in deciding what's right and wrong. Understood as a moral imperative, "woke" is exactly what's needed in a climate emergency. |
BY REPS. BARBARA LEE (D-CALIF.) AND DIANA DEGETTE (D-COLO.) |
OPINION | As first anniversaries go, this is a day we wish we did not remember. Nobody in America should have to remember where they were when a basic freedom was taken from them. Never before has our nation mourned the first anniversary of a fundamental right lost. But today, as we reflect on the lives forever altered in the year since the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health — a decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, upended half a century of precedent,and eliminated the right to choose in states across the nation — the House GOP majority wants nothing more than to hide from this day and this issue entirely. |
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The greatest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his more than two decades in power fizzled out after the rebellious mercenary commander who ordered his troops to march on Moscow abruptly reached a deal with the Kremlin to go into exile and sounded the retreat. |
BY ELLEN NAKASHIMA AND SHANE HARRIS |
The intelligence fed concerns about whether Vladimir Putin would remain in power and what any instability could mean for control of Russia's nuclear arsenal. |
BY LAURENCE NORMAN, DREW HINSHAW AND WILLIAM MAULDIN | Western states intend to avoid moves that suggest involvement in the dispute. |
BY ANATOLY KURMANAEV AND KYLE CHRICHTON |
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the mercenary leader of the Wagner Group, had earned the trust of Vladimir V. Putin. Then he staged a mutiny that rattled the Kremlin. |
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