Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson on Wednesday ordered former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to cover about $33,000 in costs for some of the fees related to her failed lawsuit against Democratic Governor-elect Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County officials. But the judge denied the defendants’ request to sanction Lake …
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Washington — The House approved a short-term measure Wednesday night that extends funding for federal agencies for one week, giving Congress additional time to finish crafting a massive longer-term spending package. The vote was 224-201, with nine Republicans joining Democrats. House Democrats unveiled the text of the bill, known as a …
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Police in San Francisco responded to State Sen. Scott Wiener’s home early Tuesday morning to search for potential bombs amid a new wave of threats against the senator, CBS News Bay Area reports. A police spokesperson told the station they were called around 6 a.m. about reports of a bomb …
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William “Bill” Plante, one of the longest-serving White House broadcast journalists in history, died of respiratory failure on Wednesday, according to his family. The award-winning CBS correspondent was 84 years old and lived in Washington, D.C. Plante retired from CBS News as senior White House correspondent in 2016 after 52 …
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Presidents can declassify documents “even by thinking about it,” former President Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired Wednesday night. The ex-president has insisted the scores of documents with classification markers the FBI discovered at Mar-a-Lago were actually declassified. But Trump’s attorneys have resisted a …
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Nearly a year after the Biden administration’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal crossed the finish line, states may begin applying for the $1 billion pot of cybersecurity funds written into law and designed to tackle increasing vulnerabilities across U.S. critical infrastructure. Friday’s official rollout of the “State and Local Cybersecurity Grant …
Read More »Lawyer Kenneth Feinberg estimates he’s taken on about “half a dozen” of the nation’s most difficult tasks as special master over the years. He oversaw the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund during former President George W. Bush’s administration. He administered a similar fund for victims of the Deepwater Horizon spill …
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Wilkes-Barre, PA — In a speech that lasted nearly two hours on Saturday night in northeastern Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump decried the FBI search at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as “one of the most shocking abuses of power by any administration,” and compared his treatment to that in a …
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National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall sent a memo last week to all NARA employees to update them on the status of former President Donald Trump’s presidential records and clarified the Archives’ role in the probe so far. She also sought to encourage the staff …
Read More »For the third time, a candidate backed by former president Donald Trump squares off against one backed by former Vice President Mike Pence, this time, in Wisconsin. And Vermont may be on its way to a history-making moment, as four states hold primaries Tuesday: Wisconsin, Connecticut, Vermont and Minnesota. Here …
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