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Trump’s recent smears against rape accuser brought up as he tries to fend off White House-era defamation suit

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday was grilled about the former president’s recent inflammatory statements against a rape accuser during a court hearing in which Trump is trying to fend off a defamation lawsuit brought by the accuser for his earlier White House-era smears against her. Trump attorney Alina Habba

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders focuses on education reform as she’s sworn in as Arkansas’ first female governor

By Shania Shelton, CNN Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who gained national recognition as White House press secretary in the Trump administration, was sworn in Tuesday as Arkansas’ 47th governor. She becomes the state’s first female governor and assumes a seat her father, Mike Huckabee, once held. “I did not seek this office to be the first

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Biden’s classified documents issue adds to House Republicans’ growing list of investigations

By Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray, CNN As House Republicans officially take over Congress and clamor to investigate the Biden administration, a new line of attack fell squarely into their laps: classified documents recovered from one of President Joe Biden’s private offices when he served as vice president. “President Biden has been very

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Nearly 300 previously unheard recordings by Alexander Graham Bell to be restored by Smithsonian

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Nearly 300 never-before-heard recordings by inventor and scientist Alexander Graham Bell will be restored and made accessible later this year, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History announced Tuesday. The recovery work of hundreds of experimental recordings created by Bell and his colleagues between 1881 and 1892 at Volta Laboratory in

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Right-wing provocateur ‘Baked Alaska’ sentenced to 2 months in prison for involvement in Capitol riot

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A far-right internet personality who goes by the pseudonym “Baked Alaska” was sentenced on Tuesday to two months in prison for unlawfully protesting inside the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Anthime Gionet, who livestreamed his breach of the Capitol in a nearly 30-minute video to more than 16,000

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GOP leaders and McCarthy holdouts defend deals as some Republicans complain they’re in the dark

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Annie Grayer, CNN House GOP leaders and key negotiators won’t commit to publicly releasing details about the side deals Kevin McCarthy cut in order to secure the speakership, undercutting the Republican pledge to run their chamber openly and transparently and as some rank-and-file members call for more information about

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Exclusive: US intelligence materials related to Ukraine, Iran and UK found in Biden’s private office, source tells CNN

By Jamie Gangel, Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez and Paula Reid, CNN Among the items from Joe Biden‘s time as vice president discovered in a private office last fall are 10 classified documents including US intelligence memos and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, according to a source familiar with

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Exclusive: US intelligence materials related to Ukraine, Iran and UK found in Biden’s private office, source tells CNN

By Jamie Gangel, Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez and Paula Reid, CNN Among the items from Joe Biden‘s time as vice president discovered in a private office last fall are 10 classified documents including US intelligence memos and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, according to a source familiar with

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