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20.10.2022 / 00:53

Pennsylvania prison escapee accused of sending threatening letter, powder

SCRANTON - Federal prosecutors have accused a Pennsylvania prison escapee of sending a letter with threats to kill President Biden and the chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, among others, and containing a white powder with an allusion to anthrax.Robert Maverick Vargo, 25, of Berwick is charged with making threats against the president and a federal official and with interstate communications with a threat.The U.S. attorney's office in Scranton said the Washington office of U.S.

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Biden to visit Mississippi town ravaged by deadly tornado

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Friday will visit a Mississippi town ravaged by a deadly tornado even as a new series of severe storms threatens to rip across the Midwest and the South.Last week's twister destroyed roughly 300 homes and businesses in Rolling Fork and the nearby town of Silver City, leaving mounds of wreckage full of lumber, bricks and twisted metal. Hundreds of additional structures were badly damaged. The death toll in Mississippi stood at 21, based on deaths confirmed by coroners.

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Jan. 6 committee votes to subpoena former president Donald Trump

The House Jan. 6 committee voted unanimously Thursday to subpoena Donald Trump, demanding the former president’s personal testimony as it unveiled startling new video from his closest aides describing his multi-part plan to overturn his 2020 election loss that resulted in the Jan assault on the U.S. Capitol.

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Jan. 6 panel to share 'surprising' details in likely last public hearing before midterms

WASHINGTON - The House Jan. 6 committee is set to unveil "surprising" details including evidence from Donald Trump’s Secret Service about the 2021 attack on the U.S.

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Jan. 6 panel: What to know in the closing months of the historic investigation

WASHINGTON (AP) - With only three months left in the year, the House Jan. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

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Jan. 6 panel to interview Pennsylvania governor nominee Doug Mastriano

WASHINGTON - Pennsylvania's Republican governor nominee Doug Mastriano is appearing Tuesday before the Jan. 6 committee investigating the U.S.

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January 6 hearing: Panel says Trump did 'everything' to overturn election

WASHINGTON - Chairman Bennie Thompson opened Thursday's prime-time hearing of the Jan. 6 investigating committee, saying Donald Trump as president did "everything in his power to overturn the election" he lost to Joe Biden, including before and during the deadly Capitol attack."He lied, he bullied, he betrayed his oath," charged Thompson, D-Miss.After months of work and weeks of hearings, committee co-chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming said "the dam has begun to break" on revealing what happened that day, at the White House as well as in the violence at the Capitol.This was probably the last hearing of the summer, but the panel said they will resume in September as more witnesses and information emerges."Our investigation goes forward," said Thompson testifying remotely as he isolates after testing positive for COVID-19.

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Jan. 6 hearing: Trump ‘detached from reality’ after election loss, witnesses say

Donald Trump‘s closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were dismantling his false claims of 2020 voting fraud on election night, but the defeated president was becoming “detached from reality,” clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power, several said.

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Jan. 6 hearing takeaways: 'Carnage' at the Capitol and a case against Trump

WASHINGTON - An injured officer who slipped in blood and spoke of "carnage." Video of a huge, violent mob pushing through the U.S. Capitol.

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Capitol riot hearing: Committee declares Jan. 6 riot an 'attempted coup'

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election declared at Thursday's prime-time hearing that the attack was an "attempted coup" that put "two and half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk."Rep.

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Ivanka Trump testifies before House panel investigating Jan. 6 attack

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ivanka Trump, former President Donald Trump's daughter and one of those closest to him during the insurrection at the Capitol, is testifying before the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.Mississippi Rep.

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Jan. 6 committee votes to hold Scavino, Navarro in contempt

Director of the National Trade Council Peter Navarro looks on as President Donald Trump meets with supply chain distributors in reference to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in the Cabinet Room in the West Wing at the White House on Sunday, March 2 (Photo by Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images)WASHINGTON - The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.

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January 6 panel requests interview with Ivanka Trump

WASHINGTON - The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection is asking Ivanka Trump, daughter of former President Donald Trump, to voluntarily cooperate with its probe.The committee sent a letter Thursday requesting a meeting with Ivanka Trump, who served as an adviser to her father, in early February.

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Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Rudy Giuliani, other Trump allies who challenged 2020 election

WASHINGTON - The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection issued a new batch of subpoenas Tuesday to some of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, including Rudy Giuliani, as the committee inches closer to the former president.The committee is continuing to widen its scope into Trump’s orbit, this time demanding information and testimony from Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Boris Epshteyn. All four publicly defended the president and his baseless voter fraud claims in the months after the 2020 election."The four individuals we’ve subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes," Mississippi Rep.

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Trump aide Mark Meadows recommended for contempt charges by Jan. 6 panel

Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff, listens as U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured, speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Oct.

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Jan. 6 panel issues more subpoenas to Trump aides in US Capitol riot

WASHINGTON - The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is subpoenaing six people who the panel says were involved in the organization and planning of rallies that aimed to overturn Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election.The committee chairman, Rep.

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Mark Meadows, former Trump aide, faces contempt charge from Jan. 6 committee

WASHINGTON - The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has "no choice" but to move forward with contempt charges against former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows now that he is no longer complying with a subpoena, the panel's chairman said Wednesday.In a letter to Meadows' attorney, Rep.

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House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Alex Jones, Roger Stone over rally planning

WASHINGTON - A committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S.

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House Jan. 6 panel threatens Mark Meadows with contempt if he doesn’t appear for deposition

Los Angeles - The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot upped the stakes for former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Thursday — one day before Meadows was scheduled to give a deposition to the committee on Capitol Hill. The select committee stated Meadows is expected to appear for deposition testimony on Friday, Nov.

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Jan. 6 House panel recommends contempt charges for Bannon for defying subpoena

WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee tasked with investigating the Jan.

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Jan. 6 panel sets vote on contempt charges against Steve Bannon

WASHINGTON - A congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has set a vote to recommend criminal contempt charges against former White House aide Steve Bannon after he defied the panel's subpoena.Rep.

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Jan. 6 House committee seeking records on Gen. Mark Milley's calls to China

WASHINGTON (AP) - The leaders of a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection said Thursday they have sought records related to calls from Gen.

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35 Republicans buck Trump, back study of Jan. 6 Capitol riot

WASHINGTON – Thirty-five House Republicans joined Democrats Wednesday in voting to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, risking the wrath of former President Donald Trump and flouting GOP leaders who condemned the proposal as unfairly partisan and unneeded.

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House impeachment manager sues Trump, allies over riot

WASHINGTON – Rep. Eric Swalwell, who served as a House manager in Donald Trump’s last impeachment, filed a lawsuit Friday against the former president, his son, lawyer and a Republican congressman whose actions he charges led to January’s insurrection.

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Riot lawsuit just part of Trump's post-impeachment problems

NEW YORK – Acquitted by the Senate of inciting the U.S. Capitol insurrection last month, former President Donald Trump faces more fallout from the unrest, including a lawsuit from a congressman Tuesday. But his biggest legal problems might be the ones that go much further back.

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Democratic congressman from Mississippi sues Trump over Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Democratic congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and of conspiring with his lawyer and extremist groups to try to prevent the Senate from certifying the results of the presidential election he lost to Joe Biden.The lawsuit from Mississippi’s Rep.

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Democratic congressman sues Trump over role in Capitol riot

WASHINGTON – A Democratic congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and of conspiring with his lawyer and extremist groups to try to prevent the Senate from certifying the results of the presidential election he lost to Joe Biden.

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Democrats proposing commission to study US pandemic response

WASHINGTON – House Democrats are drafting legislation that would create a bipartisan commission to study the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, modeled on one that examined the 9/11 attacks.

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