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Dueling election interference cases targeting Donald Trump's efforts to stay in office after losing the 2020 contest are creating complexities both for prosecutors and five other defendants accused of aiding the former president. Special counsel Jack Smith detailed six co-conspirators in his federal case against Trump, five of whom are now also among the 18 people charged with Trump in Georgia by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D). |
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A Florida lawyer is challenging former President Trump's ability to run for president in 2024 under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, citing the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Lawrence Caplan, a tax attorney in Palm Beach County, filed the challenge in federal court Thursday, pointing to a clause in the amendment that says those who "have engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the government cannot hold office. |
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President Biden on Friday chimed in on former President Trump's mug shot, saying his top political rival is a "handsome guy" after he was booked in Fulton County, Ga. When asked about the mug shot, Biden told reporters, "I did see it on television. Handsome guy." |
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Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Friday commented on former President Trump's historic mug shot, saying he looks like "a Batman villain." "This is the first time that a former president and his colleagues have been charged with a heinous crime like this, this is the first presidential former presidential mugshot, you know we've ever seen," Cobb told CNN on Friday. "And while he looks like a Batman villain in his mugshot, he's still entitled to all the rights and privileges of a criminal defendant." |
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BY ZACH SCHONFELD AND ELLA LEE |
Every one of the 19 defendants in the sweeping Georgia election interference case centered on former President Trump have surrendered at the Fulton County Jail, where they were booked and released on bonds agreed to with District Attorney Fani Willis (D). All but one of the defendants paid between $10,000 and $200,000 to be released from custody ahead of a future trial over charges that they joined a criminal enterprise to overturn Georgia's 2020 election and keep Trump in office. |
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) expressed her solidarity with former President Trump by posting a photoshopped MAGA mug shot shortly after he was booked and released at the Fulton County Jail, a trend that has now gone viral. Greene shared an image Thursday night of her face on the background of mug shots taken at the Fulton County Jail. On X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, she called Trump's arrest in the Georgia election case "persecution, not prosecution." |
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Kari Lake's announcement that she'll decide by the end of the year whether she's running for Senate in Arizona adds to growing signals that the Grand Canyon State is headed toward a contentious, high-stakes race for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's (I) seat. Sinema's seat is a top 2024 target for Republicans looking to seize control of the upper chamber, where Democrats hold a tenuous 51-49 lead that includes Sinema — who dropped her affiliation as a Democrat after last year's midterm elections. |
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BY CHEYANNE M. DANIELS, LEXI LONAS AND OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN |
Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) taking part in this week's celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington hope to use the event to highlight the threats to teaching Black history that are percolating across the nation. The threats take different forms, including new state laws attacking critical race theory, the academic theory that laws and movements are shaped by race and systemic racism, to increasing books bans. |
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BY VERONICA ROSEBOROUGH AND CALEIGH KELLY |
If lawmakers have their way, change is afoot in college sports. After the Supreme Court in 2021 opened the floodgates for money into college sports, Congress appears ready to impose guardrails on universities and force transparency around deals that are making some student-athletes rich. |
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OPINION | Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner Group mercenaries who staged a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin exactly two months ago, is dead, along with Dmitry Utkin, the actual Wagner military commander. Their plane fell from sky some 30 miles from Putin's Valdai residence, protected by four S-300 divisions, the obvious inference being that the plane was shot down (although some in Western intelligence think a bomb may have exploded onboard). This is the same residence that Putin fled to during the coup. |
OPINION | Joe Biden was the real winner of this week's GOP debate. While most of the post-debate commentary has focused on which Republicans outperformed expectations and who fell short, there has been little notice of the glaring omission in the two-hour confrontation: a tough critique of Joe Biden's presidency. |
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Gina Raimondo, the secretary of commerce, is heading to China on Saturday with two seemingly contradictory responsibilities: a mandate to strengthen U.S. business relations with Beijing while also imposing some of the toughest Chinese trade restrictions in years. The head of the Commerce Department is traditionally the government's biggest champion for the business community both at home and abroad, promoting the kind of extensive ties U.S. firms have with China, the world's second-largest economy. |
BY BENOIT FAUCON, DREW HINSHAW, JOE PARKINSON AND NICHOLAS BARIYO |
Yevgeny Prigozhin spent his final days planning for the future. Last Friday, the warlord's private jet touched down in the capital of the Central African Republic, on a mission to salvage one of the first client states of his Wagner mercenary company. His African empire had come to include some 5,000 men deployed across the continent. |
BY COREY WILLIAMS AND MIKE HOUSEHOLDER |
CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — At least seven tornadoes touched down in Michigan as part of severe storms powered by strong winds that killed five people, while downing trees, tearing roofs off buildings and leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power, officials said. The National Weather Service on Friday said an EF-2 tornado with a maximum wind speed of 125 mph (201 kilometers per hour) struck Lansing, the state capital, killing one person Thursday night and injuring three others. |
BY CLARENCE WILLIAMS AND THE WASHINGTON POST STAFF |
Sixty years ago, they converged on the National Mall from across the country, to demand their nation fulfill the promise of the American Dream for all. Some arrived with intent, others by happenstance. They were college students and college dropouts, activists who organized in city offices and in sharecropping shacks, workers on Capitol Hill and at the post office. |
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