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Ohio Senate candidate Vance asking donors to help pay debts

Tribune News Service · Jul 19, 2022

17 House Democrats arrested at abortion rights rally

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Carolyn Maloney were among those detained.

Axios · Jul 19, 2022

Modernization panel: Congress needs to take disaster planning seriously

When a mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, it renewed fears about how quickly Congress could recover from an attack.

Roll Call · Jul 19, 2022

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The National Archives is looking into reports that the Secret Service deleted texts

Reports that the Secret Service deleted text messages related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection have caught the attention of the chief records officer at the National Archives.

WEKU · Jul 19, 2022

Commentary: Why are lawmakers luring tech lobbyists to wine country before social media, crypto votes?

California lawmakers will soon end their summer recess and return to Sacramento for the final, most consequential month of the legislative year. August is when the Legislature determines the fate of hundreds of bills that have been snaking through the Capitol all year, making decisions that may affect millions of…

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2022

Bannon contempt-of-Congress trial to begin in earnest

Lawyers for Steve Bannon, the longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, have unsuccessfully requested a one-month delay on the second day of his trial for contempt of Congress

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2022

House Jan. 6 panel chair tests positive for COVID-19

The chairman of the House Jan. 6 committee has tested positive for COVID-19, but the panel will still hold its prime-time hearing on Thursday

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2022

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Julianna Goldman: Good news for Democrats: Even Republicans are tiring of Trump

Democrats are worried that President Joe Biden is old, but the Jan. 6 hearings are showing that former president Donald Trump is stale.

Tribune News Service · Jul 19, 2022

Trespassing charges against Colbert team dropped following Capitol incident

Show’s production team included Robert Smigel, the voice behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2022

Former Trump national security official to testify at Jan. 6 hearing

Matthew Pottinger will testify in-person during Thursday's primetime Jan. 6 hearing.

Axios · Jul 19, 2022

Former White House aides to testify at next Jan. 6 hearing

Two former White House aides are expected to testify at the House Jan. 6 committee’s hearing Thursday as the panel examines what Donald Trump was doing as his supporters broke into the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the plans

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2022

No charges for ‘Late Show’ crew arrested on Capitol Hill

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said it was not probable a conviction could be obtained and sustained given that the nine arrested had been invited and that their escorts had never asked them to leave the building.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 18, 2022

No charges for 'Late Show' crew arrested on Capitol Hill

Federal prosecutors have declined to bring charges against nine people associated with CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert" who were arrested in a U.S. Capitol complex building last month

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2022

‘Relishing prospect of martyrdom’: Steve Bannon accused of treating trial as theatre arriving for court in three shirts

One Twitter user suggested the shirts are part of Bannon’s ‘summer look’

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2022

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The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2022

AOC, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush’s offices among the first to unionise on Capitol Hill

Notably, Congress voted to allow unionisation in May.

Tribune News Service · Jul 18, 2022

Steve Bannon’s ‘misdemeanor from hell’ on Jan. 6 charges goes to trial

Steve Bannon’s trial on contempt charges for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 panel got underway in federal court with jury selection, and a new defense effort to bar evidence unless committee Chair Bennie Thompson testifies.

Tribune News Service · Jul 18, 2022

Steve Bannon’s ‘misdemeanor from hell’ on Jan. 6 charges goes to trial

Steve Bannon stood outside of a Washington courthouse eight months ago and declared that charging him for failing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 committee would be “the misdemeanor from hell” for top Democrats.

Axios · Jul 18, 2022

Jan. 6 committee to make case for Trump crimes

The committee is focusing on Trump and anything he may have done to encourage or prolong the attack on the Capitol.

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WEKU · Jul 18, 2022

Steve Bannon goes on trial for defying Jan. 6 panel subpoena

The former Trump adviser faces two counts of contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 18, 2022

Reps. Kinzinger, Luria: Vets to lead Jan. 6 hearing accusing Trump of ‘dereliction of duty’

The Thursday session highlighting how Trump did nothing to stop the Capitol attack will be led by Air Force vet Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Navy vet Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va.

The Guardian - US · Jul 16, 2022

Secret Service’s January 6 text messages story has shifted several times, panel told

Explanation for how the messages from 5 and 6 January 2021 were deleted has gone from software upgrades to device replacements

The Guardian - US · Jul 16, 2022

New book claims Steve Bannon admitted Trump ‘would lie about anything’

Bannon, according to sources in Jonathan Lemire’s Big Lie, said Trump lies ‘to win whatever exchange he [is] having at that moment’

The Guardian - US · Jul 16, 2022

Trump, battered by January 6 testimony, mulls 2024 run – and not all Republicans are happy

Republicans are odds-on to take back the House and Senate in November, and the last thing the party needs, experts say, is a Trump distraction

Salon · Jul 15, 2022

Cop confirms Hutchinson's testimony

A Washington police officer who was in Trump's motorcade on Jan. 6 has corroborated details of Trump's Jan. 6

The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2022

Jan 6 panel weighs seeking testimony from Donald Trump and Mike Pence

The committee may request a written interview from the former vice president

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