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Today in History: December 18, Donald Trump impeached for the first time
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 18, the 353rd day of 2024. There are 13 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 18, 2019, the U.S. House impeached President Donald Trump on two charges, sending his case to the Senate for trial; the articles of impeachment accused him...
Today in History: December 14, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Today is Saturday, Dec. 14, the 349th day of 2024. There are 17 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 14, 2012, a gunman with a semiautomatic rifle killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, then took...
FACT FOCUS: Inspector general’s Jan. 6 report misrepresented as proof of FBI setup
Social media users are misrepresenting a report released Thursday by the Justice Department inspector general's office, falsely claiming that it's proof the FBI orchestrated the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The watchdog report examined a number of areas, including whether major...
Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It's the largest single-day act of clemency in modern...
Former Trump attorney lashes out at 'lawfare' after court appearance in Wisconsin fake electors case
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s former Wisconsin attorney lashed out Thursday at the state’s Democratic attorney general for filing felony charges against him and two others related to the 2020 fake electors scheme, saying after their initial court appearance that he was...
Today in History: December 11, King Edward VIII abdicates British throne
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 11, the 346th day of 2024. There are 20 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 11, 1936, Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson; his brother, Prince Albert, became...
Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year. ...
Trump names Massad Boulos, campaign liaison and family relative, as a senior adviser on Middle East
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman who is the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany, as a senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulos arranged Trump campaign efforts to engage...
Wisconsin regulators file complaint against former justice who led 2020 election probe
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Judicial regulators filed a complaint Tuesday against a former conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who spread election conspiracy theories and was hired by Republicans to lead an investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, accusing...
Wisconsin Supreme Court considers case affecting future of state's elections leader
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court grappled Monday with a case affecting whether the swing state's nonpartisan top elections official, who has been targeted by Republican lawmakers over the 2020 presidential election, can remain in her post despite not being reappointed and...
