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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Former US Rep. TJ Cox, a Democrat from California, has been indicted on federal money laundering and wire fraud charges related in part to campaign donations, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. Cox pleaded not guilty in federal court on Tuesday afternoon, following his arrest hours before at the Fresno County

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A man who is accused of bringing weapons to a Pennsylvania vote counting center after the 2020 presidential election was arrested Tuesday for allegedly illegally trespassing at the Capitol during the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Antonio LaMotta of Virginia is charged with four misdemeanors. He has not entered a formal plea,

By Annie Grayer, CNN Two top House Democrats are accusing the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General of obstructing their investigation into missing Secret Service text messages related to the January 6 Capitol attack, escalating tensions between Congress and the watchdog agency. In a letter on Tuesday, House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and House Homeland

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice The federal magistrate judge who approved the Mar-a-Lago search warrant will hold a hearing Thursday at the court in Florida to discuss requests to unseal investigators’ probable cause affidavit, which the Justice Department has opposed releasing. A federal judge on Friday unsealed the search warrant and property

By Betsy Klein and Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms, her spokesperson said Tuesday. “After testing negative for Covid-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening. She tested negative again on

By Eric Bradner, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s campaign to purge the Republican Party of his opponents could reach its most dramatic moment of the 2022 midterm election cycle on Tuesday in Wyoming. Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the House committee investigating January 6, 2021, who was booted from her House leadership position

By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden signed a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law at the White House on Tuesday — marking a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections. Biden said during a signing ceremony in the State

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump directed a data firm to copy information from local election systems in three battleground states, records obtained by The Washington Post show. The data firm, SullivanStrickler, copied sensitive information from a Dominion voting system in Coffee County, Georgia, and were directed by Trump-connected attorneys

By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen and Eric Bradner, CNN Voters in Alaska on Tuesday are voting in two separate elections for the same US House seat — the state’s at-large congressional district seat. That’s because there’s both a special general election to fill the remainder of the late Rep. Don Young’s term and a primary

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department unsealed charges on Monday against a Pennsylvania man who allegedly threatened to kill FBI agents after investigators searched Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida. Investigators said that Adam Bies of Mercer, Pennsylvania, has been threatening federal agents on the social media site Gab for months. Agents