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Senate committee moves to let intel agencies hire people who have used marijuana

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN The Senate Intelligence Committee has advanced legislation that would allow US intelligence agencies to hire applicants who have used marijuana in the past, according to committee aides. Language included in the committee’s annual authorization bill for the intelligence community — which passed unanimously on Wednesday — would prohibit intelligence agencies

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Biden proposes strengthening Title IX protections for transgender students

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday proposed strengthening protections for transgender students under Title IX and overhauling controversial Trump-era guidance on how schools should handle sexual assault cases. The new rules would clarify that Title IX’s protections against discrimination apply to sexual orientation and gender identity and that preventing someone from participating

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Feds search home of Jeffrey Clark, former DOJ official who pushed Trump’s false election fraud claims

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Federal investigators on Wednesday conducted a search of the home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, people briefed on the matter tell CNN. Clark is the former DOJ lawyer who former President Donald Trump sought to install as attorney general in the days before the January 6 Capitol

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Newly elected GOP congresswoman spread Capitol riot conspiracies and QAnon hashtags in now-deleted tweets

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Newly elected Republican Congresswoman Mayra Flores spread conspiracies on social media that the January 6 riot at the US Capitol was caused by members of the far-left group Antifa and repeatedly used a hashtag of the QAnon conspiracy theory in tweets that have since been removed. CNN’s KFile reviewed deleted tweets

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Russia is gaining advantage in eastern Ukraine as forces learn from earlier mistakes, US officials say

By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent Russian forces are gaining an advantage in eastern Ukraine as they learn from mistakes made during the earlier stages of their invasion of the country, including better coordinating air and ground attacks and improving logistics and supply lines, two US officials with direct knowledge of US intelligence assessments

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Russia is gaining advantage in eastern Ukraine as forces learn from earlier mistakes, US officials say

By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent Russian forces are gaining an advantage in eastern Ukraine as they learn from mistakes made during the earlier stages of their invasion of the country, including better coordinating air and ground attacks and improving logistics and supply lines, two US officials with direct knowledge of US intelligence assessments

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Watchdog says State Department and USAID are withholding information on Afghanistan withdrawal

By Kylie Atwood, CNN The State Department and United States Agency for International Development have not provided information to a government watchdog about the fall of the Afghan government during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, according to a letter from the watchdog’s director. The information has been required by multiple congressionally mandated audits,

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What Americans are saying about the Jan. 6 hearings

By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent Before the congressional hearings this month, Franzetta Ivy offered private prayers for the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, hopeful that all Americans would watch the historic proceedings with open minds. “I prayed for the best outcome — that God’s will,

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