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Meet the Biden war budget, same as the Trump war budget
Jan 03, 2022 12:40Organizations representing both progressive interests and more fiscally conservative perspectives had urged President Joe Biden earlier this year to pull back on the huge defense budget increases that occurred during former President Donald Trump’s four years in office.
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Jan. 6 committee looking at issuing subpoenas to Republican lawmakers: Chairman
Jan 03, 2022 04:39The congressional committee investigating the Capitol attack is studying whether it can issue subpoenas to Republican members of Congress to force their cooperation, according to the panel's chairman.
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Legal experts say Trump could face charges for trying to obstruct certification of election
Dec 30, 2021 10:48Former US prosecutors say if the 6 January panel finds new evidence about former President Donald Trump’s role interfering with Congress’ job to certify Joe Biden’s election, that could help buttress a potential case by the Department of Justice.
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Most Republicans still consider Biden’s victory as illegitimate: poll
Dec 30, 2021 05:59A new US poll finds that 71% of Republicans still believe Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 presidential election was illegitimate, and 22% of Republicans opined that the election result was “definitely not legitimate.”
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Cori Bush calls for Congress to expel members who incited the Jan. 6 attack
Dec 29, 2021 07:05U.S. Rep. Cori Bush declared Monday (Dec. 27) that lawmakers should commemorate the upcoming one-year anniversary of the deadly January 6 attack by passing her resolution to "investigate and expel the members of Congress who helped incite the violent insurrection at our Capitol."
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Donald Trump's lawsuit against New York AG Letitia James sets him up for another loss
Dec 27, 2021 12:38The familiar maxim “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” that we pass along to our children encourages resilience and perseverance in the face of failure. We have reason to think someone encouraged former President Donald Trump to take the expression to heart, and, unfortunately, he did.
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Texas governor using millions in taxpayer funds for Trump-like border wall project
Dec 26, 2021 05:06The governor of Texas is using millions in taxpayer funds for projects pertaining to his desire to finish former President Donald Trump’s aborted wall along the US-Mexico border.
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Biden says a Trump candidacy would motivate second term run
Dec 23, 2021 10:17Though he isn't even a year into his first term, US President Joe Biden says one factor could help convince him to run again in 2024: a rematch against 2020 rival Donald Trump.
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Iran, Iraq issue statement on probe into the assassination of top commanders
Dec 23, 2021 10:14A senior Iranian Judiciary official says Iran and Iraq have issued a joint statement on an investigation into the “criminal and terrorist” assassination by the United States of top anti-terror commanders of the two countries in Baghdad early last year.
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US Republicans are shamelessly working to subvert democracy. Are Democrats paying attention?
Dec 23, 2021 07:04As former US President Donald Trump's loyalists lay siege to democracy with voting restrictions and attempts to take over the running of elections, there are fears that Democrats in Washington have not fully woken up to the threat.