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‘Trump is fine’: McCarthy quietly moves to tamp down fallout after damaging audio reveals January 6 views

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has been maneuvering behind the scenes to contain the fallout over damning and contradictory conversations he had with other GOP lawmakers about then-President Donald Trump in the immediate aftermath of January 6. The California Republican dialed up key GOP members throughout

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New audio reveals Kevin McCarthy said Donald Trump admitted bearing some responsibility for the Capitol attack. McCarthy here speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington

New audio reveals McCarthy said Trump admitted bearing some responsibility for Capitol attack

By Melanie Zanona, CNN In the days following the January 6 insurrection, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Republican lawmakers on a private conference call that then-President Donald Trump had admitted bearing some responsibility for the deadly attack, according to new audio — a significant admission that sheds light on Trump’s mindset in the immediate

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‘We don’t realize how strong we actually are’: How Alexey Navalny became Russia’s opposition leader

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade against the Kremlin has brought many labels. And with the eyes of the world now trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine, Navalny’s message of resistance is finding new weight inside and outside of

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‘We don’t realize how strong we actually are’: How Alexey Navalny became Russia’s opposition leader

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade against the Kremlin has brought many labels. And with the eyes of the world now trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine, Navalny’s message of resistance is finding new weight inside and outside of

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Alexey Navalny is Russia's opposition leader.

‘We don’t realize how strong we actually are’: How Alexey Navalny became Russia’s opposition leader

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade against the Kremlin has brought many labels. And with the eyes of the world now trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine, Navalny’s message of resistance is finding new weight inside and outside of

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is appearing at a hearing

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene testifies for more than 3 hours in hearing about whether to disqualify her from seeking reelection

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia testified under oath for three hours Friday at an unprecedented disqualification hearing that focused on whether she is constitutionally barred from holding office because of her role in the January 6 insurrection. On the witness stand, Greene repeated debunked claims that former President Donald

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Montana must pause its enforcement of a law requiring transgender residents to provide proof that they underwent a "surgical procedure" to change their sex in order to modify the sex designations on their birth certificates

Judge pauses Montana’s enforcement of law that makes it harder for transgender residents to modify their birth certificates

By Devan Cole, CNN Montana must pause its enforcement of a law requiring transgender residents to provide proof that they underwent a “surgical procedure” to change their sex in order to modify the sex designations on their birth certificates, a state judge ruled Thursday. The preliminary injunction issued by Judge Michael G. Moses means that,

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