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The Justice Department's new focus in the Jan. 6 investigation on the "Stop the Steal" rally will present prosecutors with new legal challenges. Nearly all of the defendants who have been charged in connection to the Capitol riot so far entered the building or otherwise participated in the mayhem that day. Targeting those who organized the Stop the Steal rally would shift prosecutors' scrutiny to figures who had little or no direct involvement with the violence that was carried out at the Capitol but may nonetheless have been working to prevent Congress from certifying President Biden's election win. |
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BY RAFAEL BERNAL AND BRETT SAMUELS |
President Biden has been mired in a stretch of disappointing polls, but recent surveys suggest he's having particular trouble keeping the support of Hispanic voters. |
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Democrats fear a Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade would seriously endanger women's health and disintegrate one of their most sacrosanct political rights. |
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| Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is stepping up her appeals to voters as an energized GOP works to oust her in November. |
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A narrow majority of justices on Ohio's Supreme Court voted this week to reject a new redistricting plan that they said would unduly favor Republican candidates in the decade ahead, the fourth time the high court has rejected maps drawn by Republicans who control the redistricting process. |
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Washington took one more step toward factionalism this week with the announcement from the Republican National Committee (RNC) that it was withdrawing from the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). |
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Finland and Sweden appear to be edging closer to joining NATO, a move that leaders and experts see as the best way to confront Russia as it escalates its rhetoric on nuclear weapons. |
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OPINION | Eighty years ago this Monday, in the early months of World War II when Japan was gobbling up much of Asia after sinking America's battleship fleet at Pearl Harbor, 16 B-25 bombers under the command of Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet to strike Tokyo in a daring, one-way raid. Little physical damage was done. But the psychological effect was massive. The invulnerability of Japan promised by the senior military was shattered. |
OPINION | Twitter's board of directors gathered this week to sign what sounds like a suicide pact. It unanimously voted to swallow a "poison pill" to tank the value of the social media giant's shares rather than allow billionaire Elon Musk to buy the company. |
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The Biden administration and its European allies have begun planning for a different world, in which they no longer try to coexist and cooperate with Russia, but actively seek to isolate and weaken it. |
In the dusty California desert, U.S. Army trainers are already using lessons learned from Russia's war against Ukraine as they prepare soldiers for future fights against a major adversary such as Russia or China. |
BY ALESSANDRA PRENTICE AND NATALIA ZINETS |
Russia gave holdout Ukrainian soldiers an ultimatum on Sunday to lay down arms in the pulverized southeastern port of Mariupol which Moscow said its forces nearly completely controlled in what would be its biggest capture of the nearly two-month war. |
BY JAZMINE ULLOA AND NICK CORASANITI |
The former president is trying to reshape the battleground state in his image. But his false claims about the 2020 election are driving a wedge between loyalists and those who are eager to move on. |
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