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WATCH: Senate Republicans defeat Venezuela war powers resolution, bowing to Trump pressure

By Stephen Groves, Associated Press

Senate Republicans voted to dismiss a war powers resolution Wednesday that would have limited President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela after two GOP senators reversed course on supporting the legislation.

Supreme Court revives GOP congressman's challenge to late-arriving mail ballot law

By Associated Press

The high court ruled 7-2 that Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill. has the legal right to challenge the law, even though the ballots likely had little effect on a race he won handily.

GOP senators break with Trump on these 2 points

By Lisa Desjardins

There's been important pushback from some Republicans in Congress. Their numbers are not large, but the GOP lawmakers who are breaking with the president are doing so, unmistakably, in two key areas.

WATCH: Comer says contempt charges are coming after Clintons skipped Epstein probe depositions

By Associated Press

Hillary Rodham Clinton defied a House subpoena for testimony about Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday.

FBI searched home of Washington Post reporter, newspaper says

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press

While classified documents investigations aren't unusual, the search of a reporter's home marks an escalation in the government's efforts to crack down on leaks.

Trump administration is investigating Sen. Slotkin for Democrats' video urging troops to resist 'illegal orders'

By Joey Cappelletti, Associated Press

Slotkin, who organized the 90-second video and first posted it on her X account in November, learned this month of the inquiry from the office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the Justice Department's chief prosecutor in the nation's capital.

Danish official says there's a 'fundamental disagreement' with Trump over Greenland

By Emma Burrows, Claudia Ciobanu, Ben Finley, Associated Press

The two sides, however, agreed to create a working group to discuss ways to work through differences as Trump continues to call for a U.S. takeover of the semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark.

DOJ prosecutors resign in protest over handling of ICE shooting investigation

By Amna Nawaz, Doug Adams

Across the Justice Department, there was a wave of resignations from top prosecutors. At least four senior leaders of the division that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the handling of the fatal shooting of a woman in…

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Claudette Colvin, who helped spark civil rights movement by refusing to move bus seats, dies at 86

By Associated Press

Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.

Stop attacking the Fed and credit card industry, Wall Street executives warn Trump

By Ken Sweet, Associated Press

Wall Street has generally benefited from the Trump administration’s policies and has been supportive of the president. That relationship has suddenly soured.