Oct 12 Jury selection begins in trial of Giuliani associate By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Jury selection began Tuesday for the trial of Lev Parnas, a onetime associate of Rudy Giuliani who is accused along with a co-defendant of making illegal campaign contributions. Continue reading
Oct 10 No. 2 House Republican refuses to say election wasn’t stolen By Hope Yen, Associated Press The House’s second-ranking Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise, repeatedly refused to say on Sunday that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, standing by Donald Trump’s lie that Democrat Joe Biden won the White House because of mass voter fraud. Continue reading
Oct 08 Watch 5:24 News Wrap: Biden rejects Trump request to withhold WH records from Jan. 6 committee In our news wrap Friday, President Joe Biden has rejected former President Donald Trump's request to withhold White House records from a congressional probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Biden also restored to protected status three national monuments cut… Continue watching
Oct 08 White House blocks Donald Trump from withholding documents on Jan. 6 attack By Yamiche Alcindor and Associated Press President Biden and White House officials on Friday formally blocked an attempt by former President Donald Trump to withhold documents from the House committee investigating the January 6th Capitol attack. Continue reading
Oct 07 Biden to expand 2 Utah national monuments cut by Trump By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press Environmental and tribal groups had sued to reverse the cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. But the reductions were applauded by conservative state leaders who considered the size of both monuments U.S. government overreach. Continue reading
Oct 07 Senate report details Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost By Mary Clare Jalonick, Eric Tucker, Colleen Long, Associated Press The report released Thursday offers new insight about how the Republican incumbent tried to undo the vote and exert his will on the Justice Department, asking leaders to declare the election "corrupt" and disparaging its top official for not doing… Continue reading
Sep 24 Watch 5:16 How Arizona’s election review is providing a national playbook for disgruntled politicians By PBS NewsHour Republicans in the Arizona State Senate had commissioned a review of 2020 ballots in Maricopa County even though election officials found no large-scale fraud. But a partisan group called Cyber Ninjas undertook a controversial review of the vote and affirmed… Continue watching
Sep 24 Iran foreign minister says country will return to nuclear talks ‘very soon’ By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Former President Donald Trump denounced the nuclear accord and withdrew the U.S. from the agreement in 2018. Biden and his team have made a U.S. return to the deal one of their top foreign policy priorities. Continue reading
Sep 24 WATCH: GOP review finds no proof Arizona election was stolen from Trump By Bob Christie, Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press A Republican-backed review of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona’s largest county ended Friday without producing proof to support former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election. Continue reading
Sep 23 House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Trump advisers, associates By Colleen Long, Zeke Miller, Associated Press The subpoenas are for former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino, former Defense Department official Kashyap Patel and former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon. Continue reading