Washington — The Biden administration has begun to give top leaders in Congress access to documents marked classified that were found at the homes of former President Donald Trump, President Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The move means the so-called …
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Attorneys representing Fox News and its corporate parent on Wednesday argued that the company’s executives had no direct participation in the post-election broadcasts in which an array of former President Donald Trump’s supporters leveled false claims about election fraud centered on the company that manufactured voting machines. Combating what Fox …
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Washington — President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met Friday to try to complete a plan that the White House hopes will turn the page on a spat between the U.S. and European Union over electric vehicle tax credits. In a joint statement after the meeting, …
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Washington — Biden administration officials urged Congress on Tuesday to renew a surveillance program that the U.S. government has long seen as vital in countering overseas terrorism, cyberattacks and espionage operations. The program, which is under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), grants American spy agencies sweeping powers to surveil …
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They are now among the most powerful women in Congress. But when they were first elected in the 1990s, they were often overlooked, or even talked down to. Rep. Kay Granger, a Republican from Texas, remembers that men would avoid asking her questions, addressing other men in the room instead. …
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Washington — Former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur will serve as special counsel overseeing an inquiry related to the discovery of documents with classification markings at President Biden’s Wilmington home and former private office, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday. Hur is the second special counsel appointed to oversee an investigation …
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Omaha, Neb. — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett broke with his practice of staying out of local politics to urge his hometown of Omaha to abandon its planned streetcar project because, he says, it’s too expensive and not as flexible as buses. Buffett wrote a letter to the editor of the …
Read More »Tallahassee — The Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has been indicted on charges of defrauding a federal coronavirus loan program for small businesses, officials said Wednesday. Federal prosecutors said Rep. Joe Harding, 35, illegally obtained or tried to obtain more than $150,000 from …
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First lady Jill Biden says she knows Hunter Biden “is innocent.” The first lady made that assertion in an interview with NBC News posted Friday. The U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware has been investigating the younger Biden since at least 2019. And a federal subpoena from that year, obtained by CBS …
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Washington — Properties owned by the Trump Organization charged the U.S. Secret Service rates that far exceeded the government rates during former President Donald Trump’s presidency, Secret Service documents obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee show. In a letter to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, …
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