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Groups perpetuating Trump’s 2020 election lie face scrutiny and lawsuits
May 11, 2022 09:02Colorado lawsuit charges group with questioning residents about voting status while former US President Donald Trump loyalists work to sustain falsehoods about his loss.
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America faces greater division as parties draw safe seats for congressional districts
Feb 13, 2022 07:56The US is poised to have a staggeringly low number of competitive House seats, an alarming trend that makes it harder to govern and exacerbates political polarization.
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UN report calls for reparations for victims of systemic racist police violence in US
Jul 06, 2021 15:25After the killing of George Floyd and subsequent mass protests, the USHRN and the ACLU organized an international coalition that urged the HRC to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate systemic racism and police violence against people of African descent in the United States of America.
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Landmark voting rights bill defeated in US Senate despite Democratic unity
Jun 24, 2021 14:07US Democrats accuse Republicans of seeking to reduce polling hours and locations and drop boxes, and tightening voter ID laws, as a direct response to former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen by voter fraud.
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Texas Republicans finalize one of the nation’s strictest voting bills
May 30, 2021 15:22Texas lawmakers on Saturday (29 May) finished drafting a bill that would impose a raft of new voting restrictions, setting up the likely passage of what would be among the most far-reaching laws in Republicans’ nationwide drive to overhaul elections systems and limit voting.
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How Trump steered supporters into unwitting donations
Apr 04, 2021 12:21Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Donald J. Trump’s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could: $500.
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Fending off antitrust push, tech giants now biggest spenders on DC lobbying
Mar 31, 2021 11:23According to a new report released recently by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, Facebook and Amazon spent more money on federal lobbying than any other U.S. corporations during the 2020 election cycle, with Comcast not far behind in third place.
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Pro-Trump lawyer says ‘no reasonable person’ would believe her election lies
Mar 26, 2021 12:00A key member of the legal team that sought to steal the 2020 election for Donald Trump is defending herself against a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit by arguing that “no reasonable person” could have mistaken her wild claims about election fraud last November as statements of fact.
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FBI chief calls Capitol attack 'domestic terrorism' and defends US intelligence
Mar 05, 2021 16:49The FBI director, Christopher Wray, has condemned the 6 January riot at the US Capitol as an instance of “domestic terrorism”, while defending the bureau’s handling of intelligence indicating that violence was likely.
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US Capitol rioters ‘came prepared for war’, Senate hears in testimony
Mar 02, 2021 14:27Testifying on Tuesday (23 Feb 2021) in the first congressional hearing on the US Capitol attack, the chief of Capitol police who resigned over the riot said the pro-Trump mob which stormed the building “came prepared for war”.