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Trump’s Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants

WASHINGTON | The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda.” The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically […]

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Trump’s Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants

WASHINGTON | The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda.” The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically […]

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Facing intense internal pressure, DNC releases pos-telection autopsy that criticizes Kamala Harris

NEW YORK | Kamala Harris “wrote off rural America” during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient “negative firepower,” according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released Thursday by the Democratic National Committee that did little to quell Democrats’ concerns about the direction of their party. The committee’s chair, Ken Martin, […]

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Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election are casting a shadow over Georgia’s GOP runoffs

ATLANTA | For Donald Trump, it seems the 2020 presidential election is never over. That’s especially true in Georgia. The Republican president’s years of false claims that his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden was due to widespread fraud have shadowed many elections since in the presidential battleground. The issue is almost certain to play a […]

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Powell’s tenure as Fed chair marked by fight for independence while trying to tame inflation

WASHINGTON | When Jerome Powell was sworn in as chair of the Federal Reserve eight years ago, economists worried that inflation and interest rates were too low and that too few Americans had jobs. Now, as Powell steps down from the post after eight tumultuous years, the U.S. economy is transformed: Inflation soared after the […]