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Proud Boys Leader Arrested, Accused of Burning Church Banner
Police in the nation’s capital have arrested the leader of the Proud Boys for burning a Black Lives Matter sign that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtown Washington last month.
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Trump Decries FBI Probe of Supporters Surrounding Biden Bus
President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested the FBI should stop investigating an incident in which his supporters were seen surrounding a Biden campaign bus in Texas, which led Democrats to cancel an event there.
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Feds to Seek Death Sentence for Boston Bomber Tsarnaev
The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said the Justice Department would appeal the court’s ruling last month that tossed Tsarnaev’s death sentence and ordered a...
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In Recording Trump Asks How Long Ukraine Can Resist Russians
President Donald Trump inquired how long Ukraine would be able to resist Russian aggression without U.S. assistance during a 2018 meeting with donors that included the indicted associates of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. “How long would they last in a fight with Russia?” Trump is heard asking in the audio portion of a video recording, moments before he calls…
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3 More Linked to Neo-Nazi Group Arrested in Georgia
Three men linked to a violent white supremacist group known as The Base were charged with conspiring to kill members of a militant anti-fascist group, police in Georgia announced Friday, a day after three other members were arrested on federal charges in Maryland and Delaware....
...The Base, a collective of hardcore neo-Nazis that operate as a paramilitary organization, has proclaimed war...
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US Sends Home Nearly Two Dozen Saudi Cadets After Fla. Shooting
The United States is preparing to remove more than a dozen Saudi military students from a training program and return them to their home country after an investigation into a deadly shooting by a Saudi aviation student at a Florida navy base last month, a U.S. official told The Associated Press.
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Hurricane Great Portis Among 10 Ex-NFLers Charged With Defrauding Health Care Program
Ten former NFL players including Miami Hurricane great Clinton Portis have been charged with defrauding the league’s health care benefit program, the Justice Department said Thursday. They include five former players on the Washington Redskins, including Portis and Carlos Rogers. Prosecutors allege the players targeted the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan, which was established as part...
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2 Russians Charged in Multimillion-Dollar Malware Scheme
The Justice Department has unsealed charges against two Russian men in what authorities say is one of the worst computer hacking and bank fraud schemes of the past decade. The men are charged in a 10-count indictment filed in federal court in Pittsburgh. The charges relate to the creation of malware made to automate the theft of personal and banking...
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Trump Says Michael Cohen Lied About Not Requesting a Pardon
President Donald Trump declared Friday that he rejected a personal appeal from his former lawyer Michael Cohen for a pardon, the strongest assertion yet that Cohen may have lied under oath. Trump tweeted his claim after days of swirling questions about Cohen over the issue of pardons. It has emerged as a key line of inquiry for Democrats launching a...
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Oversight Chair: Trump Lawyers Gave False Info on Hush Money
Federal ethics officials believe President Donald Trump’s lawyers provided false information about the $130,000 payment to buy the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels after she alleged she had sex with Trump, the chairman of the House oversight committee said Friday. Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, said internal documents from the Office of Government Ethics described that Trump’s personal...
