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Voters arrive at Waddell Language Academy in Charlotte

Civil rights groups hail court ruling they say will allow tens of thousands of ex-felons to cast ballots in North Carolina

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A preliminary ruling by a three-judge panel in North Carolina is clearing the way for roughly 56,000 of the state’s residents who have been convicted of felonies — but who aren’t currently serving prison time — to register to vote, civil rights groups said. The action comes out of a lawsuit

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Arizona’s sham election ‘audit’ report delayed after Cyber Ninjas CEO and others test positive for Covid-19

By Eric Bradner and Stephanie Becker, CNN The report detailing the findings of contractors who conducted Arizona’s sham “audit” of last year’s election results — which had been expected Monday — will be late because three of the five members of the auditing team have tested positive for coronavirus, the state’s Republican Senate leader says.

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Police hold back rioters as they gather outside the US Capitol's rotunda on January 6

House committee plans to seek phone records in probe of January 6, including from members of Congress

By Zachary Cohen, Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Whitney Wild, CNN The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot is poised to send notices to various telecommunications companies requesting that they preserve the phone records of several people, including members of Congress, multiple sources tell CNN. Preserving communications records is the first step

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A Taliban fighter stands guard at a checkpoint in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul

US scrambles to fill intelligence vacuum in wake of rapid Taliban victory in Afghanistan

By Evan Perez, Geneva Sands and Natasha Bertrand, CNN The rapid Taliban victory in Afghanistan has provided a boost to extremist groups and terror networks and hastened an intelligence vacuum that US officials are now scrambling to fill. For months, US intelligence agencies had been preparing for what would inevitably be a reduced intelligence gathering

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