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Dawn Bancroft

January 6 rioter who said she looked for Pelosi ‘to shoot her in the friggin’ brain’ pleads guilty to misdemeanor for illegally protesting

By Marshall Cohen, CNN A Pennsylvania woman who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 and said she had been looking for Nancy Pelosi “to shoot her in the friggin’ brain” pleaded guilty Tuesday to a low-level misdemeanor for unlawfully protesting on restricted grounds. Doylestown gym owner Dawn Bancroft entered the guilty plea in DC

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Omarosa Manigault

Trump campaign loses NDA case it brought in arbitration against Omarosa Manigault Newman for tell-all book

By Tierney Sneed, Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Former Trump campaign and White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has defeated an arbitration case brought against her by the Trump campaign, which alleged that she had violated a non-disclosure agreement with public comments and a book critical of former President Donald Trump. In a summary

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Man installing software in laptop in dark at night.

Senators introduce cyber bill to mandate reporting on ransomware and critical infrastructure attacks

By Geneva Sands, CNN The top senators on the Homeland Security Committee introduced legislation on Tuesday to require critical infrastructure companies to report cyberattacks to the federal government and to mandate that most organizations tell the federal government if they make ransomware payments. If enacted, the bill will create the first national requirement for critical

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Trump's former press secretary details his mysterious 2019 hospital visit in her book. Stephanie Grisham here listens to former President Donald Trump talking to reporters outside the White House November 08

Trump’s former press secretary details his mysterious 2019 hospital visit in behind-the-scenes look at his White House

By Kate Bennett, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s secret visit to Walter Reed in 2019 appeared to be for a routine colonoscopy, according to Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s former press secretary and first lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff. Grisham served as White House press secretary, chief of staff to Melania Trump and East Wing communications

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A leading Democratic group is launching this week a $1.7 million ad blitz to push early voting in Virginia and Pennsylvania. Voters here cast their ballots in Virginia on September 18

Leading Democratic group to launch $1.7 million ad blitz to push early voting in Virginia and Pennsylvania

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A leading Democratic advocacy group is launching a $1.7 million digital advertising campaign this week to mobilize voters to turn out in this fall’s elections in two key states. The advertising blitz by Priorities USA, shared first with CNN, is aimed at encouraging voters to cast early ballots in person in

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A shadow of a man wearing a cowboy hat falls on a pillar as he enters the polling place at Wickenburg Community Center on February 28

‘A constitutional amendment and a time machine’: Fact-checking calls to decertify the 2020 election

By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN A partisan report reviewing millions of ballots cast in Arizona’s Maricopa County during the 2020 presidential election is being used by a number of Republicans to call for decertifying the results of last year’s election in the state. Even though the results of Arizona’s sham audit reaffirmed Biden’s

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A shadow of a man wearing a cowboy hat falls on a pillar as he enters the polling place at Wickenburg Community Center on February 28

‘A constitutional amendment and a time machine’: Fact-checking calls to decertify the 2020 election

By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN A partisan report reviewing millions of ballots cast in Arizona’s Maricopa County during the 2020 presidential election is being used by a number of Republicans to call for decertifying the results of last year’s election in the state. Even though the results of Arizona’s sham audit reaffirmed Biden’s

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Lucas Saez

‘Every day there’s irreparable harm’: Civic organizations sound alarms about impact of GOP-backed voting bills on registering new voters

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN As voting rights groups look to register new voters on National Voter Registration Day, some organizers are sounding alarms about how new voting laws in Florida and Kansas are affecting voter registration efforts. In Florida, part of the state’s new voting law requires any third-party organization that conducts voter registration work

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Republicans' enthusiasm for prosecuting Capitol rioters has fallen

GOP enthusiasm for prosecuting Capitol rioters has fallen, Pew poll finds

By Marshall Cohen and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Republicans’ appetite for seeing January 6 rioters prosecuted has fallen sharply over the course of the year, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Tuesday. A sizable majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 57%, still say it’s at least somewhat important that federal law enforcement agencies find

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Republicans' enthusiasm for prosecuting Capitol rioters has fallen

GOP enthusiasm for prosecuting Capitol rioters has fallen, Pew poll finds

By Marshall Cohen and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Republicans’ appetite for seeing January 6 rioters prosecuted has fallen sharply over the course of the year, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Tuesday. A sizable majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 57%, still say it’s at least somewhat important that federal law enforcement agencies find

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Liberals recoil at Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to hold the infrastructure vote without the social safety net bill. Pelosi is seen here on July 21

Liberals revolt at Pelosi’s plan to hold infrastructure vote without social safety net bill

By Alex Rogers, Manu Raju and Annie Grayer, CNN Liberals in the House Democratic Caucus revolted over Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to hold a vote Thursday on a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill before striking a deal on a multi-trillion-dollar spending package expanding the social safety net. Pelosi previously said the House would not

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Trump's former press secretary details his mysterious 2019 hospital visit in her book. Stephanie Grisham here listens to former President Donald Trump talking to reporters outside the White House November 08

Trump’s former press secretary details his mysterious 2019 hospital visit in behind-the-scenes look at his White House

By Kate Bennett, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s secret visit to Walter Reed in 2019 appeared to be for a routine colonoscopy, according to Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s former press secretary and first lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff. Grisham served as White House press secretary, chief of staff to Melania Trump and East Wing communications

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Two American siblings allowed to return from China after three years following lifting of exit ban

By Jennifer Hansler and Chandelis Duster, CNN Two American siblings prevented from leaving China since 2018 have now been allowed to travel back to the United States. In June 2018, Chinese authorities imposed an “exit ban” on Victor and Cynthia Liu, both American citizens, as they were visiting family in China. A State Department spokesperson

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley testify publicly before Senate lawmakers on Afghanistan for first time since withdrawal.

Milley defends Trump-era calls to Chinese counterpart in congressional Afghanistan hearing

By Zachary Cohen, Oren Liebermann and Ellie Kaufman, CNN Top US General Mark Milley offered a full-throated defense of his behavior during the last days of the Trump administration, including a phone conversation with his Chinese counterpart, as he and other senior military officials appeared before lawmakers on Tuesday for a hearing about the withdrawal

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