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Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob

Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican congressional leader and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol, instead by aggressively twe… → Read More

Aide: Trump dismissed Jan. 6 threats, wanted to join crowd

Former President Donald Trump dismissed the presence of armed protesters headed to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and even endorsed their calls to “hang Mike Pence,” a key former White House aide tol… → Read More

US terrorism alert warns of politically motivated violence

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning of the potential for lingering violence from people motivated by anti-government sentiment after President Joe → Read More

Trump pardons ex-strategist Steve Bannon, dozens of others

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of his White House term that → Read More

FBI says it warned about prospect of violence ahead of riot

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI warned law enforcement agencies ahead of last week's breach of the U.S. Capitol about the potential for extremist-driven violence, U.S. officials said, contradicting earlier statements → Read More

Congress votes to certify Biden election as Trump pledges 'orderly transition'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner early Thursday after a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a → Read More

Does Trump have power to pardon himself? It's complicated

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has declared that he has the "absolute right" to issue a pardon to himself. Yet the law is much murkier than his confidence suggests. → Read More

Trump campaign legal team distances itself from lawyer Sidney Powell

WASHINGTON (AP) — Perhaps Sidney Powell has gone too far for even Rudy Giuliani this time. → Read More

Fact check: Trump, GOP distortion on Flynn; virus fiction

WASHINGTON>> President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are misrepresenting the facts behind the legal case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn as they seek to allege improper behavior → Read More

Trump challenges authority, independence of agency watchdogs

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving aggressively to challenge the authority and independence of agency watchdogs overseeing his administration, including removing the inspector general tasked with overseeing the → Read More

Trump's defense shifts to not 'impeachable' even if true

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a striking shift from President Donald Trump's claim of "perfect" dealings with Ukraine, his defense asserted at his Senate trial that a trade of U.S. military → Read More

GOP lacks votes to block trial witnesses, Mitch McConnell concedes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans lack the votes to block witnesses at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conceded late Tuesday, a potentially major hurdle for Trump's → Read More

Crime required for impeachment? Not so, say legal experts

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's defense hinges largely on arguments made in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson more than 150 years ago: that impeachment requires a crime. → Read More

Giuliani associate: Trump had knowledge of Ukraine pressure

WASHINGTON (AP) — A close associate of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer says he delivered an ultimatum in May to the incoming president of Ukraine that no senior U.S. officials → Read More

Trump didn't coordinate with Russia in 2016, report declares

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that President Donald Trump's campaign "conspired or coordinated" with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no → Read More

Mueller concludes Russia probe, delivers report to AG Barr

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump's presidency, → Read More

Michael Cohen's damning testimony about Trump alleges lie after lie

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a damning depiction of Donald Trump, the president's former lawyer cast him as a racist and a con man who used his inner circle to cover → Read More

Ex-FBI official: 'Crime may have been committed' by Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said in an interview that aired Sunday that a "crime may have been committed" when President Donald Trump fired the head → Read More

In Trump ally Stone's case, Mueller finds crime in cover-up

WASHINGTON>> Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone may be accused of lying and tampering with witnesses, but it's equally notable what he's not charged with: colluding with the Kremlin in a → Read More

William Barr, attorney general nominee, asserts his independence

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general asserted independence from the White House on Tuesday, saying he believed that Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 → Read More