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Jan. 6 panel plans to detail Trump pressure to alter 2020 election results

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is set Tuesday to outline aggressive efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to pressure state officials to help overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election.

Tribune News Service · Jun 21, 2022

Commentary: The insurrection won’t end until Trump is prosecuted and disqualified from future office

In a powerful warning Thursday, the patron saint of the conservative legal movement, former federal appellate Judge J. Michael Luttig, testified before the Jan. 6 Committee and pronounced former President Donald Trump and his allies a “clear and present danger” to American constitutional democracy. As Luttig knows better than most,…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 21, 2022

No Biden move on Chinese tariffs likely before G7 meeting -sources

U.S. President Joe Biden is considering scrapping tariffs on a range of Chinese goods to curb inflation, but no decision is likely before next week's Group of Seven summit, people familiar with the matter said.

Reuters · Jun 21, 2022

Texas’s Greg Abbott has spent more than $3m busing migrants out of the state

Texas governor’s plan has been criticised as expensive publicity stunt by Democrats

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2022

The Defense Production Act Has Become a License for Central Planning

If home insulation is a "critical technology item essential to the national defense," then what isn't?

Reason · Jun 20, 2022

Commentary: Mark Meadows wasn’t there, but he had a really bad Jan. 6 hearing

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was not at Thursday’s latest hearing by the Jan. 6 committee hearing. But his presence loomed as witnesses reconstructed the events leading up to and on the day that supporters of then-President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol.

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2022

Martin Schram: How a Watergate punishment might have averted our Jan. 6 hell

On June 17, Americans found ourselves at the convergence of two crises of shattering assaults on our democracy.

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2022

Republicans exude confidence at Nashville event as midterms loom

Party officials, prominent supporters, lawmakers and Trump took the stage at the ‘Road to Majority’ conference, but were vague on how they would ‘rescue America’

The Guardian - US · Jun 20, 2022

Jen Psaki highlights fake Twitter account after it posts joke about Trump wearing kneepads to the Kremlin

Former White House press secretary flags tweet as from parody account

The Independent UK · Jun 19, 2022

Jan. 6 committee setting its sights on Pence, Ginni Thomas

Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot say they may subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence

The Independent UK · Jun 19, 2022