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Emails released through a public inquiry suggest federal Liberal political aides were scrambling earlier this year to figure out the extent to which members of the Canadian Armed Forces were supporting "Freedom Convoy" protests that had gridlocked downtown Ottawa.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's newly tabled Sovereignty Act immediately prompted accusations that it was undemocratic and constitutionally unsound. CBC News contacted a former supreme court justice and experts in constitutional law to get their take on the proposed legislation.
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Closing arguments ended Friday in the criminal trial of the Trump Organization with New York prosecutors urging the jury to put aside politics and the company's namesake and focus simply on the fraud allegations against it -- despite accusing Donald Trump of knowing about the schemes in real time.
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An inspector general for the Internal Revenue Service said this week that significant tax audits conducted for 2017 and 2019 -- years where former FBI Director James Comey and then-deputy Andrew McCabe have said they were audited -- were randomly selected and did not show misconduct by the IRS.
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The rule-making arm of the Democratic National Committee on Friday voted to approve a proposal to drastically reshape the 2024 presidential nominating calendar and make South Carolina the first state to hold a primary, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on the same day a few days later, and then Georgia and Michigan before Super Tuesday.
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Friday is the final day of early voting in Georgia for the state's razor-thin Senate runoff race. Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker will make their final pleas to voters this weekend ahead of Tuesday's runoff. Nikole Killion reports from Sandy Springs, Georgia.
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After 300 hours of testimony, 9,000 exhibits and a few major revelations, the public portion of an investigation into the first-ever use of the Emergencies Act ended Friday with a deep dive into questions about government accountability and transparency.
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The Republican Cochise County supervisors who refused to certify the election results should be investigated and criminally prosecuted, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said in a letter to state and county attorneys. Without repercussions, Hobbs wrote to Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Cochise County Attorney Brian McIntyre, the decision of...
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Two New York teenagers have been charged with a hate crime after they assaulted a bus passenger and hurled anti-Asian slurs at him after he refused to give him his seat, the New York Post reports. Dream Commisso, 19, was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment, assault, menacing and harassment. Police say...
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A West Virginia judge who once pulled a gun on lawyers in his courtroom resigned last week after investigators discovered he diverted money meant for a drug program into a slush fund he oversaw and later tapped for "improper purposes," The Daily Beast reports. The report also details how David W. Hummel, Jr. violated judicial ethics rules when made...
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On MSNBC Friday, reporter Brandy Zadrozny discussed the consequences of billionaire Elon Musk taking over Twitter, and giving the green light for people previously suspended over hate and harassment to return to the platform.This comes amid an NBC News report that the platform is seeing a rise in hate speech — and people promoting it."New data...
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On Friday, Rolling Stone reported that a Manhattan prosecutor told the jury in the Trump Organization criminal case that former President Donald Trump was "explicitly sanctioning tax fraud" and directly in on the scheme to keep two sets of books, defrauding state tax agencies by undervaluing his assets."Joshua Steinglass made the accusation during...
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A Mississippi man bit another man's nose off over an argument during a round of golf, the New York Post reports. Mark Wells, 51, fled the scene after he bit into the man's nose in a casino parking lot on Monday night. He turned himself into police two days later. Police say that the two continued to argue about the game throughout the day until...
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On Friday, Rolling Stone reported that under Elon Musk's new Twitter policies, one of the world's most notorious neo-Nazi activists has had his account restored to the platform: Andrew Anglin, the founder of the infamous website Stormfront."Anglin has publicly indicated that the goal of his operation and adherence to white nationalist ideology is...
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Despite winning reelection by just 550 votes in a race that's now undergoing a recount, Rep. Lauren Boebert this week won a vote of confidence from her fellow Republican members of the U.S. House as she was elected to join the party's policy committee.The office of Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Thursday announced Boebert's...
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On Friday, The Daily Beast explored the reactions of Fox News hosts and commentators who praised far-right rapper Kanye "Ye" West after his interview with Tucker Carlson — but before he appeared on InfoWars and professed admiration for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.Most of them are either avoid people trying to ask about it, or simply not saying...
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Pennsylvania Republicans are reconsidering their opposition to mail-in voting after two statewide election losses in a row.The battleground state's Republican officials have followed Donald Trump's lead in challenging mail voting through lawsuits and the legislature, but their efforts helped cost the former president re-election and led to a...
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Finally, The New York Times figured out something skeezy was going on in Georgia. From their article yesterday titled Turnout Was Strong in Georgia, but Mail Voting Plummets After New Law"Data released by the Georgia secretary of state showed that mail voting in the state's November general election plunged by 81 percent from the level of the 2020...
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Republican Adam Hinojosa requested a recount Wednesday in his hard-fought race for a state Senate seat in South Texas.Hinojosa lost the race for Senate District 27 after finishing 659 votes behind Democrat Morgan LaMantia, according to official results that were released Monday. There were 175,415 total votes in the election."In any election with...
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Speaking to PBS Newshour this Thursday, former Vice President Mike Pence said soon after the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, he approached then-President Donald Trump to suggest that "he ought to be prepared to accept the outcome of the election and move forward.” Pence defended the more than 60 legal challenges brought by Trump to...
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A 15-year old boy campaigning door-to-door for U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) was shot by a 42-year old man through the front door, according to Savannah Police who claim "there is no indication the shooting was politically motivated."The man was arrested after police responded to the shooting on Thursday around 5:35 PM, "and discovered a...
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Florida lawmakers are reviewing a piece of legislation that would open the door for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R) to run for president in 2024, according to a new report. Although the Republican governor has remained mum about his political intentions, there is speculation that he will throw his hat in the presidential race for 2024. A change in...
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Infowars host Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy following the verdict handed down in the defamation lawsuit filed against him by the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims. According to HuffPost, court documents indicate that Jones' legal team filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas' Southern District. Jones' filing...
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According to a new report from The New York Times, hate speech has increased on Twitter after Elon Musk's purchase of the platform. "...slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter's owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day. Slurs against gay men appeared on...
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Alzheimer's disease can remain undetected until it is too late to treat. Large-scale screening programs could help to detect early-stage disease, but current diagnostic methods are too cumbersome and expensive. A new study published to Frontiers is the first to identify formic acid as a sensitive urinary biomarker that can reveal early-stage...
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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - The EU on Friday joined the G7 in agreeing a cap on the price of Russian oil to starve the Kremlin of resources for its Ukraine war, as Vladimir Putin said strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure were "inevitable".The price cap of $60 per barrel, previously agreed on a political level with the United States and the G7 group of...
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Detroit-bred rocker Jack White is firing back at Elon Musk after the Twitter owner's overnight suspension of Ye's account on the social media platform. "So Elon, how's that 'free speech' thing working out?" White wrote in an Instagram post Friday morning. To quickly catch up: White pulled his record label, Third Man Records, off Twitter last month...
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White nationalist Nick Fuentes publicly broke with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she disavowed him.The neo-Nazi podcaster plunged Donald Trump into a days-long scandal after showing up with Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago, but Greene and other Republicans have participated in events with Fuentes and his "America First" political action group,...
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U.S. Supreme Court watchdogs on Thursday applauded the House Judiciary Committee for announcing it will hold a hearing next week regarding allegations that Justice Samuel Alito leaked at least one of the court's rulings to right-wing activists—and called on the Senate to follow suit in the next Congress."The people of the country deserve real...
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Hand-count audits of the November election results in 12 Arizona counties found no problems with electronic ballot tabulators, but three counties didn't conduct the post-election audits required by law. State law calls for counties to perform a partial hand count of ballots after each election. Representatives of each recognized political party in...
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As Oregonians scramble to purchase firearms before the state's new gun regulations go into effect, some gun shops are using a loophole to potentially bypass background checks and sell firearms to anyone, including to people who might not qualify to legally own them. Measure 114, which was narrowly approved by voters last month, will tighten...
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Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone was seen entering the grand jury area at the US District Courthouse in Washington Friday morning, indicating the Justice Department has compelled him to answer more questions in the January 6 criminal investigation despite challenges from Donald Trump's legal team.
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Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin has used a speech in Sydney to warn that democracies must build "common lifelines" to wean themselves off critical technologies and energy from authoritarian states like Russia and China.
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WASHINGTON — Democrats won. Donald Trump lost. But, when it comes to the former president's tax returns, it's still unclear if this epic, nearly four-year-long battle will end in a draw, fines, or someone going to prison.Of late, Trump and his lawyers have been on defense—battling allegations of felony tax fraud and, separately, defamation,...
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Lachlan Murdoch, the executive chairman and CEO of Fox News' parent company, Fox Corporation, is set to be deposed next week in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. Dominion Voting Systems, which manufactures voting machines, claims the eldest Murdoch son and his father, Rupert Murdoch, have responsibility in Fox News promoting pro-Trump false...
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President Joe Biden on Friday slapped down Hitler-praising rapper Kanye West while at the same time taking a subtle shot at former President Donald Trump for hosting him at his Mar-a-Lago resort.In a post on Twitter, Biden directly addressed the multiple false and offensive statements made by West during his anti-Semitic tirade during his...
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A string of legal defeats has complicated Donald Trump's efforts to delay or avoid accountability over his storing of classified materials at Mar-a-Lago, argues CNN reporter Stephen Collinson. "Taken together, this pattern of futility is reinforcing a principle that cuts to the core of the American legal and political systems – that Trump, even...
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House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and his critics are gearing up for a potential floor fight over the speakership in January, raising the possibility of a messy intraparty showdown that could bring uncertainty and chaos just as Republicans prepare to enter their new majority.
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President Joe Biden has asked Democratic National Committee leaders to drastically reshape the 2024 presidential nominating calendar and make South Carolina the first state to host a primary, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on the same day a week later, Georgia the following week and then Michigan, a source confirms to CNN.
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The judge overseeing the Trump Organization trial lost his patience at the company's defense lawyers.Justice Juan Merchan scolded the company's attorneys for repeatedly bringing up Donald Trump's name, although the former president isn't charged in the case, reported to The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery."Much of the discussion during jury selection...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tommy Frederick Allan says he knows he's going to prison, that after scaling the walls of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on a rope, stealing an American flag and some documents from the Senate chamber and later declaring on social media that it was the "best day ever” he faces some sort of punishment. He just doesn't...
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Martha Menefield, an 82-year-old Black woman in Valley, Alabama, had police officers show up to her home on Sunday and arrest her for failing to pay a $77 trash bill, CBS42 reports. Menefield told CBS42 that she thought the bill had already been paid, "but they said it hadn't.”"And the cuffs,” she said, her eyes swelling with tears. "They're so...
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France marks next week the 80th anniversary of a daring World War II raid by British Royal Marines, who slipped past German patrols up the Gironde estuary to mine crucial supply ships.Dubbed "The Cockleshell Heroes" in a 1950s book and film after their tiny canvas-and-plywood boats, the 10-man infiltration team set off on "Operation Frankton" on...
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Failed California gubernatorial candidate and current Fox News contributor Caitlyn Jenner said on Friday that she didn't blame anyone for being offended by Kanye West's overt praise of Adolf Hitler, but she nonetheless wished him well.During an appearance on Fox News, Jenner, who is an adoptive parent of West's ex-wife Kim Kardashian, emphasized...
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U.S. Senator-elect John Fetterman on Friday announced two key staff hires for his office on Friday, including tapping the author of a book calling for the abolishment of the arcane Senate filibuster to be his next chief of staff.The Pennsylvania Democrat said in a statement that he has hired Adam Jentleson to oversee his D.C. office as chief of...
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The Biden White House had hoped to see continued moderation in US jobs growth in the November jobs report to bolster what it sees as growing evidence that inflation is starting to slow -- but newly released data Friday morning defied the Federal Reserve's aggressive efforts to cool down the economy.
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The Senate voted to block a railroad strike, forcing rail companies and union workers to accept the proposed settlement the White House helped negotiate in September. The bill's passage averts a nationwide disruption of rail service ahead of the holiday season. Scott MacFarlane has the latest.
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