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Donald Trump indicted for 2nd time, in classified documents investigation: Sources

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for a second time, this time on federal charges in relation to his handling of classified information while out of office, sources familiar confirm to ABC News. He is set to be arraigned in federal court in Miami on Tuesday at 3 p.m. ET, sources said. "We're learning from our sources that there appear to be at least seven counts here. This ranges from everything from the willful retention of national defense information to conspiracy to a sc ...

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Newt Gingrich testified before January 6 grand jury

CNN -- Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich testified Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating January 6, 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter. Gingrich allegedly communicated with senior advisers to former President Donald Trump about television advertisements that relied on false claims of election fraud, according to documents obtained by the House select committee that investigated January 6. The panel also claimed Gingrich played a role in the effort to ...

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Saudi crown prince threatened 'major' economic pain on U.S. amid oil feud

Last fall, President Biden vowed to impose “consequences” on Saudi Arabia for its decision to slash oil production amid high energy prices and fast-approaching elections in the United States. In public, the Saudi government defended its actions politely via diplomatic statements. But in private, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman threatened to fundamentally alter the decades-old U.S.-Saudi relationship and impose significant economic costs on the United States if it retaliated against the oil cut ...

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Gov. Greg Abbott Announces Texas Will Secure Its Border With Buoys

Gov. Greg Abbott announced a water-based barrier of buoys will be used to secure Texas' border. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that Texas will immediately begin the process of securing its border with Mexico with a “water-based barrier” of buoys in the Rio Grande. “We’re securing the border at the border,” the Republican governor said at a news conference Thursday. “What these buoys will allow us to do is to prevent people from even getting to the border.” Abbott said that the Texa ...

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FBI agent who testified for Republicans was suspended over leaked sensitive information

WASHINGTON — Garret O’Boyle, an FBI agent who was presented in a public hearing by House Republicans as a whistleblower, was suspended by the bureau because internal investigators had concluded that he leaked sensitive investigative information to the right-wing group Project Veritas, according to a bureau official. House Democrats are now accusing O'Boyle of lying to the committee and are referring the matter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. Law ...

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House Is Paralyzed as Far-Right Rebels Continue Mutiny Against McCarthy

(New York Times) Hard-right Republicans pressed their mutiny against Speaker Kevin McCarthy into a second day on Wednesday, keeping control of the House floor in a raw display of their power that raised questions about whether the speaker could continue to govern his slim and fractious majority. The rebellion has left him, at least for now, as speaker in name only, deprived of a governing majority. “House Leadership couldn’t Hold the Line,” Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a leader of the rebellion, tweeted on Wednesday. “Now we Hold the Floor.”

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The House Goes Home Early

(Political Wire) “House Republican leaders canceled votes Wednesday and Thursday, sending lawmakers home after having wasted a week on Republican infighting that’s called into question the viability of the GOP leadership,” Punchbowl News reports. “Conservative hardliners have been warring with Speaker Kevin McCarthy after the chamber passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act last week, which raised the debt limit until 2025.

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Student loans: Biden vetoes bill to claw back student loan relief

(Yahoo Finance) President Joe Biden on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have repealed months of student loan payment forbearance and banned his up to $20,000 in debt forgiveness — regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the program this month. If Biden had not vetoed the measure, borrower advocates worried that 40 million student loan borrowers could have faced backpay for those paused payments and had new interest charges added to their debt. They also raised concerns that debt cancellation borrowers recently received would be reversed.

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Republican primary field struggles with personality shortage

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Trump learns he's a special counsel 'target,' turns to GOP allies

(MSNBC) For reasons unknown, Trump genuinely seems to believe that congressional Republicans have a role to play in his intensifying legal troubles. Indeed, he and his team have been unsubtle about this for weeks: In late April, the Republican’s lawyers sent a strange, 10-page letter to the House Intelligence Committee, insisting that a “legislative solution,” to be approved by Congress, is “required” to prevent federal prosecutors from pursuing the case further. The letter proposed that the Justice Department “should be ordered to stand down” — as if members of the legislative branch have the authority to direct federal prosecutors to drop a case. (They have no such authority.)