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US Justice Department charges Iranian with trying to assassinate John Bolton

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Marshall Cohen, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The US Justice Department announced criminal charges Wednesday against a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for allegedly trying to orchestrate the assassination of John Bolton, who served in senior national security positions during the Trump and Bush administrations. The alleged plot was

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Republican Brad Finstad will win special election in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, CNN projects

By Ethan Cohen and Gregory Krieg, CNN Republican Brad Finstad will win the special election in Minnesota’s 1st congressional district, holding the seat for the GOP, CNN projects. Voters in the current version of southern Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District were voting on a replacement to fill the seat of the late Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a

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Omar survives surprising nail-biter to win Democratic nomination for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, CNN projects

By Eric Bradner, CNN Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar survived a primary challenge Tuesday, CNN projected — but barely, and the narrow result could encourage critics of the progressive “squad” member to try again in two years. Omar, who is running for a third term in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, held off a primary challenge from

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Timeline: The Justice Department criminal inquiry into Trump taking classified documents to Mar-a-Lago

By Marshall Cohen, Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The federal criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s potential mishandling of classified documents ramped up this week in significant and unprecedented fashion, with the FBI executing a search warrant at Trump’s home at his Mar-a-Lago resort. The Justice Department inquiry is about documents that Trump

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