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Obama pushes Virginia voters to approve partisan redistricting that could hand Democrats four House seats

Four days before a statewide referendum that could reshape the battle for the U.S. House, former President Barack Obama released a new video urging Virginians to vote "yes" on a measure that would let the Democratic-controlled legislature redraw the state's…
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Hennepin County charges ICE agent over highway gun incident while Savanah Hernandez assault cases sit in review

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty moved swiftly to file felony charges against an ICE agent over a February traffic confrontation in Minneapolis, but weeks after a Turning Point USA reporter was shoved, pushed into a fence, and knocked to the…
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Trump rejects NATO offer of help after Strait of Hormuz reopens and oil prices drop sharply

President Trump dismissed NATO as "useless" and told the alliance to "stay away" from the Strait of Hormuz after Iran declared the critical waterway open to commercial shipping, a move that sent crude prices tumbling 10 percent within minutes. The…
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Sen. Chuck Grassley signals he may seek a ninth term — and he'd be 101 when it ends

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving member of the United States Senate, is not ruling out another run. The Iowa Republican told the Daily Iowan he would decide on a ninth term in roughly a year to eighteen months, and he…
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Trump rebuffs NATO's belated offer on Strait of Hormuz, calls alliance a 'paper tiger'

President Donald Trump told NATO to "stay away" after the alliance contacted him to offer help in the Strait of Hormuz, help that arrived, in Trump's view, only after the crisis had already passed and the United States had handled…
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Afghan migrant arrested in France after farmers catch suspected sexual abuse of livestock on camera

French police arrested a 19-year-old Afghan migrant after shepherds near Marseille set up motion-activated cameras that captured images of a suspect they say had been sexually assaulting their sheep and goats for months. The anti-crime brigade of France's national police,…
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Former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps pleads guilty to 13 felony sex crimes, sentenced to 11 years

Former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps, 69, pleaded guilty Tuesday to 13 felony counts of sexual abuse and was immediately sentenced to 11 years in prison, the same term he had already been serving before an appeals court threw out his…
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Justice Jackson lectures on 'judicial restraint' while the court she sits on cleans up lower-court overreach

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used a Yale Law School lecture this week to warn that the high court's emergency rulings are having a "potentially corrosive" effect on the judiciary, a claim that lands differently when you consider which…
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Georgia state senator launches probe into $2 million Biden DOJ grant awarded to Fani Willis during Trump investigation

A Republican Georgia state senator is opening a new front in the scrutiny of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, announcing plans to investigate a $2 million federal grant her office received from the Biden Justice Department while she was…
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Gabbard sends criminal referrals to DOJ over ex-intel watchdog and whistleblower tied to 2019 Trump impeachment

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's office has referred at least two former Intelligence Community officials to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, targeting the former inspector general and the whistleblower whose actions set the first impeachment of President Trump…
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