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Gov. Gavin Newsom and leaders of the California Legislature have agreed to provide more than $9 billion in refunds to taxpayers to offset high gas prices and inflation. The deal comes after months of slow negotiations at the state Capitol and disagreement between Democrats over how much relief to offer.

Prosecutors allege the reservist made "chilling statements" against government officials and people of Jewish descent to an undercover FBI agent.

The rightwing activist said he was told by investigators that he was not the target, but a "fact witness" in the investigation.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted the Supreme Court's abortion ruling Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, calling it "an evisceration of Americans' rights" and warning that "Republicans are plotting a nationwide abortion ban." (June 24)

Former Trump administration officials at the Jan. 6 committee hearing Thursday said that Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona inquired about presidential pardons, while Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio talked about pardons, during the waning days of the administration.

About a week before the Jan. 6 attack, there was an "escalation" of then-President Donald Trump's demands about election fraud allegations, a former acting deputy attorney general testified.

Donald Trump was the trigger for the effort to block Joe Biden's presidency. But he had an enormous amount of help.

Youngkin, who was endorsed by Trump but did not campaign with him, called the attack on the Capitol "a real blight on our democracy."

Thursday's roll call ending the blockade by conservative GOP senators was 65-34, five more than the 60-vote threshold needed. Final passage of the $13 billion measure was expected by week's end with a House vote to follow, though timing was uncertain. “This is not a cure-all for the all the ways gun violence affects our nation,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., whose party has made gun restrictions a goal for years. “They want both of those things at once, and that is just what the bill before the Senate will have accomplished.”Yet while the Senate measure was a clear breakthrough, the outlook for continued congressional movement on gun curbs is dim. The measure expands the use of background checks by rewriting the definition of the federally licensed gun dealers required to conduct them.

The newly elected state delegate, and antiabortion activist, was quickly identified after he live-streamed himself going into the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Republican legislators in Wisconsin were poised Wednesday, June 22, to meet in a special session Evers called to repeal the battleground state's dormant abortion ban and quickly adjourn without taking any action. Tony Evers’ bid to repeal the battleground state’s dormant abortion ban was headed toward defeat Wednesday, as Republican senators convened and immediately adjourned a special session without taking any action. Wisconsin adopted a ban on abortion except to save the mother's life in 1849, a year after the territory became a state. GOP leaders in the Assembly also planned to gavel in to start the special session and then end it by gaveling out immediately. The special session came six weeks after the Madison office of the anti-abortion group Wisconsin Family Action was vandalized.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is pressing pause on its hearings for next week and picking them up again in July. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the committee, told reporters Wednesday that the committee would hold off on the two final hearings it had planned for…

IRS Tax Season FILE - Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig prepares to testify before the Senate Finance Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, April 7, 2022. Scott Applewhite, File) (J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON — (AP) — It’s Groundhog Day at the IRS. The National Taxpayer Advocate, an independent watchdog within the IRS, also said taxpayers are experiencing longer wait times on the telephone, and delays in processing paper returns have been running six months to one year. The agency fell short on its goal to bring on 5,473 new employees to process returns, with just 2,056 employees hired. Additionally, phone wait times increased to 29 minutes on average, compared with last year's 20-minute average wait time.

Republican legislators in Wisconsin were poised Wednesday, June 22, to meet in a special session Evers called to repeal the battleground state's dormant abortion ban and quickly adjourn without taking any action. Tony Evers called to repeal the battleground state's dormant abortion ban and quickly adjourn without taking any action. The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that essentially legalized abortion nationwide in 1973 nullified the ban. GOP leaders in the Assembly and Senate planned to gavel in to start the special session around noon Wednesday and then end it by gaveling out immediately. The state ban will likely be challenged in court should Roe v. Wade be overturned.

The Fox News anchor pointed out the failure of Trump and his team to show any proof of ballot-rigging during the latest Jan. 6 hearing.

(AP Photo/Andy Manis, File) (Andy Manis)MADISON, Wis. — (AP) — Republican legislators in Wisconsin were poised Wednesday to meet in a special session Democratic Gov. The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that essentially legalized abortion nationwide in 1973 nullified the ban. The court is expected to overturn Roe v. Wade this month, which would allow Wisconsin's ban to go back into effect. GOP leaders in the Assembly and Senate planned to gavel in to start the special session around noon Wednesday and then end it by gaveling out immediately. The state ban will likely be challenged in court should Roe v. Wade be overturned.

Republican legislators in Wisconsin have quickly adjourned a special session that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called to repeal the state's dormant abortion ban without taking any action.

The Jan. 6 hearings, which had been scheduled to wrap up Thursday, may stretch well into the summer, a committee member says.

Election 2022 Missouri Senate FILE—John Wood, committee investigative staff counsel, at the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol hearing at the Capitol in Washington, June 16, 2022. An effort is underway in Missouri to get Wood to run as an independent for U.S. Senate. Supporters on Monday, June 20, launched a website, and former U.S. Sen. John Danforth said he also supports a run by Wood. A committee on Monday launched a website encouraging John F. Wood to run for retiring GOP Sen. Roy Blunt's seat. Danforth, 85, said in an interview that he had nothing to do with the website but also wants Wood to run.

After being targeted by President Donald Trump, former Georgia election worker Wandrea ArShaye Moss testified to the violation of privacy that she endured.

State officials from Arizona and Georgia are scheduled to testify in today's Jan. 6 hearing about the post-election actions of Trump and his allies.

Kinzinger said he received a mailed threat to "execute me, as well as my wife and 5-month-old child. We've never seen or had anything like that."

She acknowledged she attended the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally but left before Trump spoke and his supporters later stormed the Capitol.

She acknowledged she attended the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally but left before Trump spoke and his supporters later stormed the Capitol.

From marble to masterpiece, the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune statue exhibit the Lakeshore Center in Ocoee takes visitors on a journey of the educator’s life and how she’s being honored at the Capitol.

Former President Trump, furious with the testimony of his former aides at the Jan. 6 hearings, defended the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, saying he may pardon them if he returns to the White House. Scott MacFarlane reports.

The Otero County, N.M., commissioner said he merely went to the Capitol to pray with protesters

Former President Trump said on Friday that he would look “very, very seriously” at pardoning those charged in connection with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, if he ran for and became president again. Speaking during a Faith and Freedom event in Nashville, Tenn., Trump said the defendants charged in the Capitol riot were…

The panel focused on John Eastman, a lawyer advising Trump who pushed the theory that Pence could take decisive action that could overturn Biden's election win.

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Rioters came within 40 feet of the place at the Capitol where Pence and others had been evacuated. “Pence betrayed us,” says another rioter, wearing a Make America Great Again hat in a selfie video inside the Capitol. By refusing Trump's demands, Pence "did his duty," said the panel's vice-chair, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. The panel played video showing Eastman repeatedly invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination while being interviewed by the committee. The panel is considering whether to send a referral for criminal charges against Trump to the Justice Department.

Cell Phone Tracking Court FILE - Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. listens to arguments before the Kentucky Supreme Court at the state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. on June 10, 2021. Kentucky's Supreme Court has dove into using cell phones as tracking devices by police Thursday, June 16, 2022. In the 4-3 decision, the court’s majority said the robbery suspect was subjected to a warrantless search when police obtained his real-time cellphone location information. On appeal, the state Court of Appeals said the obtaining of Reed's real-time cellphone location information amounted to a warrantless, unreasonable search. Minton noted “the ease with which technology allows police to obtain warrants and the invasive nature" of searching a person's cell location information.

The Kentucky's Supreme Court has issued a sharply divided ruling against the warrantless use of cellphones as tracking devices by police.

The violent mob that spilled into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was at times dangerously close to then-Vice President Mike Pence, posing an immediate threat to his life, according to testimony during Thursday's Jan. 6 hearing.

Thomas McKinless/CQ Roll Call; Drew Angerer/GettyApparently lacking a fundamental understanding of how television works, Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) on Thursday confidently blared on Twitter that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed CNN to broadcast its Jan. 6 committee hearings coverage from the floor of the Capitol.“In case you forgot the sham #January6thcommitteehearings are purely for TV ratings,” Steube wrote in a since-deleted tweet, “Pelosi let The Communist News Network build a full TV set whe

The pressure Trump put on Pence, including at a Jan. 6 rally, led directly to the insurrection at the Capitol, the panel said. By refusing Trump’s demands, Pence “did his duty,” said the panel’s vice-chair, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Short said Pence didn't want the world seeing the vice president leaving the Capitol when "a hallmark of democracy” was under siege. With competing slates for Trump or Biden, Pence would be forced to reject them, returning them to the states to sort it out, under the plan. Unlike other national traumas that have pulled the country together, the Jan. 6 Capitol attack appears to have left many Americans divided.

The committee tried to show how that pressure incited an angry mob to lay siege to the Capitol. But in the coming weeks, the committee laid out, Pence would come under pressure to invalidate Biden’s win and find a way to keep Trump in power. The committee showed video from that rally in which Trump said that if Pence doesn’t come through, “I won't like him as much." During and after the speech, Trump’s supporters – hundreds of whom were now marching to the Capitol – focused on Pence. The panel showed video of the rioters threatening violence toward the vice president if and when he declined to stop Biden’s victory.

In its third public hearing, the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection has focused on former President Donald Trump’s pressure on his vice president to delay or reject the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.

In a video clip shown by the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday, an unidentified Trump supporter is seen threatening to drag politicians "through the streets" if Vice President Mike Pence "caved."

WASHINGTON — (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol will ask Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for an interview, the panel's chairman said Thursday. Eastman was advising Trump in the weeks and days ahead of the attack as the president pushed Vice President Mike Pence to try to object or delay Biden’s certification on Jan. 6. He said her name could also come up at some point in the panel's hearings that are being held throughout June. The emails between Eastman and Thomas were first reported by The Washington Post. It is not the first time members of the panel have said they want to talk to Thomas.

A candidate arrested and accused of participating in the Capitol riot leads in Michigan. In the first primaries after the Jan. 6 hearings geared up, Trump boosters fared well.

Former senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Margaret Chase Smith were honored last week at a dedication ceremony.

The Jan. 6 committee has plunged deeper into Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to overturn the 2020 election.

The House Jan. 6 committee will be exploring Eastman's role in trying to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally reject electors.

3 Central Florida residents arrested in connection with Capitol breach (WFTV)ORLANDO, Fla. — A St. Cloud couple and another person were arrested in connection with the Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021. Federal authorities arrested Leslie Gray, 56, Traci Isaacs, 52, and her husband, Luis Hallon, 67, all of St. To date, investigators have arrested more than 800 people since that attack in Washington last year. Of those arrests, 87 have been Florida residents.

Important new evidence hints at plans to infiltrate the Capitol. But that evidence shouldn't detract from the most obvious factor.

The goal was to "maintain control over as select few, but crucial buildings in the DC area for a set period of time, presenting our demands in unity," the memo said.

The goal was to "maintain control over as select few, but crucial buildings in the DC area for a set period of time, presenting our demands in unity," the memo said.

There remains no proof that Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) led a “reconnaissance” tour for insurrectionists. But that allegation looks less speculative now -- and Loudermilk clearly hadn’t shared the whole story.

Chaos at the Capitol: A timeline of the Jan. 6 riot (NCD)The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack has postponed Wednesday’s hearing. >> Read more trending newsThe committee announced Tuesday that it was dealing with technical issues and that the hearing would be rescheduled. Jeffrey Rosen, who was acting attorney general on Jan. 6, 2021, was set to testify before the committee in Wednesday’s hearing, as was former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and Steve Engel, former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel. That hearing will focus on former President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence “to refuse to count certain electoral votes on Jan. 6,” according to Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming. The committee also announced the dates and times for two more hearings: June 21 and June 23, both at 1 p.m.

Its first two sessions have already made a powerful case for why this investigation matters.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren said the delay was meant to give staffers more time to prepare the committee's extensive video presentations.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren said the delay was meant to give staffers more time to prepare the committee's extensive video presentations.

As the January 6th hearings unfold, a former U.S. Attorney discusses the possibility of criminally prosecuting the former President.

Capitol Riot Bench Trial FILE - U.S. Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman watches never-before-seen security footage of rioters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, during the second day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 in the Capitol in Washington. McFadden, whom Trump nominated in 2017, is the only judge to a hold a bench trial for a Capitol riot case so far. McFadden has criticized prosecutors' handling of Capitol riot cases. At least four other Capitol riot defendants have bench trials scheduled for this year. Juries have unanimously convicted five Capitol riot defendants of all charges, a perfect record for prosecutors so far.

A police officer lauded for his bravery during the U.S. Capitol riot has publicly testified for the first time about his confrontation with a mob that chased him up a staircase.

The National Governors Association says it's forming a working group of governors to come up with recommendations to stop mass shootings following the Texas school massacre.

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender confirming care.

The former Florida leader of the Proud Boys pleaded not guilty to seditious conspiracy charge in the Capitol Riot in the Washington, D.C. courtroom Thursday.

More than 800 people across the U.S. have been charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Taddeo will instead challenge Rep. María Elvira Salazar, a Republican who represents the 27th U.S. House district in Florida, which encompasses part of Miami.

The former Florida leader of the Proud Boys, alongside other leaders of the far-right group, is charged with conspiracy charges in the Capitol Riot as of Monday, court documents show.

A three-judge panel has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force all 100 members of Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates to face an unscheduled election this year.

New York’s legislature passed legislation Thursday banning anyone under age 21 from buying or possessing a semi-automatic rifle.

Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is making it clear that he will likely defy a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

Florida will require statewide recertification of condominiums over three stories tall under new legislation Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law.

Less than a day after a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, a Wednesday Senate hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reflected the deep political divisions over guns.

The House’s top law enforcement official says members of Congress should be barred from carrying firearms anywhere in the Capitol or its surrounding office buildings and grounds.

California could soon hold social media companies responsible for harming children who have become addicted to their products.

A group of mostly Democratic congress members is proposing a binding plebiscite to decide whether Puerto Rico should become a state or gain some sort of independence.

Prosecutors in a western Colorado county say they found no evidence of tampering in the 2020 presidential election as alleged by a clerk who has become a prominent voice among those promoting former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election.

The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

The Jan. 6 committee’s stunning decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

The Texas Supreme Court is allowing the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse.

Elected officials in Brevard County held a townhall meeting to speak with homeowners and discuss possible solutions for ongoing insurance issues.

Fairfax County officials have rebuffed a request from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish a security perimeter around the neighborhoods of Supreme Court justices living in the county who have faced protests outside their homes.

Republican Lt. Gov. and gubernatorial candidate Janice McGeachin wants Republican Gov. Brad Little to call a special session to eliminate rape and incest as exceptions to Idaho's abortion law.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is doubling the size of its eviction protection program, designed to fund legal assistance for tenants seeking to stay in their homes.

News organizations are using sophisticated new technologies to transform the way they conduct investigations.

For the first time in decades, this year’s race for Wisconsin secretary of state means something.

Children who begin identifying as transgender at a young age tend to retain that identity for several years.

Months into a complex trial over their role in flooding Washington with highly addictive painkillers, the nation’s three largest opioid distributors have agreed to pay the state $518 million.

A federal jury has convicted a New York Police Department veteran of assaulting an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot, rejecting his claim he was defending himself when he tackled the officer and grabbed his gas mask.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was banned from Twitter for a second time after attempting to use a new account to access the social media platform.

Add one more group of contests to the white-hot races for Congress and governor that will dominate this year’s midterm elections: secretaries of state.

In Nebraska, the winner of a crowded Republican primary race for governor will be the overwhelming favorite to win in November.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol is redoubling its efforts to have GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy appear for an interview.

A Central Florida man was arrested in connection with the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

A jury has heard attorneys' opening statements in the trial of a retired New York City police officer charged with attacking a police officer during the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is downplaying secretly recorded remarks he made about Donald Trump shortly after last year’s attack on the Capitol.

North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator says he'll resign following a report that he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges.

Juries have heard an array of defenses at the first trials for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is slamming Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a “liar and a traitor” over recordings that show the House Republican leader, despite his denials, placing responsibility on Donald Trump for the Capitol riot and suggesting Trump should resign.

Voting rights groups have sued Florida over a congressional map drawn by Gov. Ron DeSantis and passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection he'd urge then-President Donald Trump to resign.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy had a “positive” call with Donald Trump, despite the release of an audio recording critical of the former president shortly after the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

The staff member who prepared a congressional redistricting map said race and party politics in now way factored into the final product being considered by the Legislature.

Newly filed court documents in a deadly downtown Sacramento shooting reveal that three of the six who died were involved in the gang dispute that led to the massive shootout.

A milestone Supreme Court confirmation that endured a flawed process.

Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who is up for reelection in November, has vetoed a package of bills passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have made a series of changes to the battleground state’s election laws.