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Prosecutors announce fresh charges against ‘Maga Caravan’ leader, others in January 6 insurrection

The self-proclaimed leader of the “Maga Caravan,” which led dozens of vehicles to Washington, DC, to a rally held by former President Donald Trump, was charged with allegedly being one of the first insurrectionists to assault law enforcement at the US Capitol, the Justice Department announced. Kenneth Joseph Owen Thomas, 38, of East Liverpool, Ohio,

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Jewish House Democrats reference Greene and some progressives in concerns over uptick in anti-Semitism incidents

A group of Democratic House members who are Jewish are calling on President Joe Biden to address a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the US amid a divide within congressional Democrats, especially between moderate and progressives, on how to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Four Democrats, led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, sent a

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Top Biden adviser attacks GOP infrastructure opposition and seeks to rally Democratic support in internal memo

One of President Joe Biden’s closest advisers is rallying allies to embrace White House proposals that have come under sharp criticism from Republicans as the President moves to put the spotlight back on his sweeping economic agenda Thursday. With a group of Senate Republicans set to unveil their latest infrastructure counter-proposal Thursday morning, Mike Donilon,

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Civil rights groups sue West Virginia over new anti-trans sports bill

Civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging West Virginia’s new anti-trans sports law, arguing that the measure banning transgender girls and women from participating in school sports unconstitutionally “discriminates on the basis of sex and transgender status.” The lawsuit challenges a measure that prohibits transgender girls and women in the state from competing

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‘They think we’re like servants’: Inside the fractured relationship between the Capitol Police and members of Congress

In the weeks after the January 6 riot, Capitol Police officers were shell-shocked and wounded, both physically and psychologically. They’d been through hell, they’d sacrificed their bodies, they’d lost colleagues who died as a result of the attack. But in the end they had safeguarded democracy and upheld their primary directive: Secure and protect the

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New DHS directive will require critical pipelines to comply with federal cybersecurity measures

The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday will mandate that critical pipeline operators comply with several cybersecurity measures, including reporting cybersecurity incidents to the department within 12 hours, according to DHS officials. In the wake of the debilitating ransomware attack earlier this month on Colonial Pipeline, which operates a major fuel pipeline, department officials rushed

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Democratic congressman stresses risk of not investigating Capitol attack: ‘We have a domestic terror movement in America’

Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat and veteran who helped comfort other lawmakers during the US Capitol insurrection, said Wednesday evening there’s a “domestic terror movement” in the US as he sought to highlight the risk of not investigating the January 6 riot. “We have a domestic terror movement in America. It has been enabled,

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Judge says Trump’s ‘steady drumbeat’ of the Big Lie could continue to inspire his supporters to take up arms

A federal judge on Wednesday wrote that Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen from him could still inspire some of the former President’s supporters to take up arms, as they did in January during the deadly US Capitol insurrection. The judge’s blunt assessment of the current, charged political climate came in

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Obama says ‘institutional role’ constrained his comments on Ferguson and Trayvon Martin cases while President

Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday reflected on the frustration he had felt in office when his “institutional role” limited his ability to comment on federal investigations into the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. “I went as far as I could just commenting on cases like Trayvon Martin or what was happening

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Biden and Congress face increasing pressure from some Black leaders to enact police reform

President Joe Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress are facing increasing pressure this week from Black civil rights leaders who say federal lawmakers have made little progress with police reform one year after George Floyd’s death. Activists say they are demanding that the Senate pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which remains stalled amid

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