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VOL. 46 | NO. 25 | Friday, June 24, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump learned his attorney general had publicly rejected his election fraud claims, he heaved his lunch at the wall with such force that the porcelain plate shattered and ketchup streamed down. On the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, consumed… Continue reading Trump painted in testimony as volatile, angry president

VOL. 46 | NO. 25 | Friday, June 24, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — During Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, then-California Sen. Kamala Harris asked the judge if he thought women’s privacy rights extended to choosing to have an abortion. Kavanaugh declined to answer. With Justice Kavanaugh now part of the court majority that… Continue reading Harris emerges as top abortion voice, warns of more fallout

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 25 | Friday, June 24, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided Monday with a high school football coach from Washington state who sought to kneel and pray on the field after games, a decision that could strengthen the acceptability of some religious practices in other public… Continue reading Supreme Court sides with coach who sought to pray after game

VOL. 46 | NO. 25 | Friday, June 24, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump hounded the Justice Department to pursue his false election fraud claims, contacting the agency’s leader “virtually every day” and striving in vain to enlist top law enforcement officials in a desperate bid to stay in power, according to testimony Thursday… Continue reading 1/6 panel hears of Trump’s pressure on Justice Department

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 25 | Friday, June 24, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court gave Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win Thursday in an ongoing fight over the state’s latest photo identification voting law. The 8-1 decision doesn’t end the more than three-year dispute over the voter ID… Continue reading Supreme Court rules for GOP lawmakers in voter ID case

VOL. 46 | NO. 24 | Friday, June 17, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection is turning to former President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on state and local officials to overturn his 2020 election loss. In its fourth hearing this month, the panel examined how Trump… Continue reading Jan. 6 takeaways: Trump’s state playbook; ‘hateful’ threats

VOL. 46 | NO. 24 | Friday, June 17, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House 1/6 committee is set to hear from the caretakers of American democracy — elections workers and local officials — who fended off Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election, at times despite frightening personal attacks. The hearings investigating… Continue reading 1/6 panel to hear from Raffensperger, others Trump pushed