Cassidy Hutchinson testimony tests Trump’s political strength

President Trump is taking a beating from the Jan. 6 panel, with ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson this week offering particularly damaging testimony about the former president's temperament and knowledge of what was happening in the attack on the Capitol.  The hearing underscored the panel's effort to build a public case that Trump is unfit to serve as president again as he moves toward launching a possible new bid for the White House.  Yet it's unclear how much the testimony of Hutchinson and others is breaking though.  A poll published Fri

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Black man shot at least 60 times by Ohio police as he ran away: lawyer

A Black man in Akron, Ohio, was killed on Monday when police shot him at least 60 times as he was running away following a traffic stop, according to his family’s lawyer, who cited police body-camera video that he viewed. Akron Police Department officers attempted to stop 25-year-old Jayland Walker at 12:30 a.m. for a traffic violation and conducted a pursuit after he refused to stop, the police department

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Zelensky: 2,610 Ukrainian cities, towns remain under Russian occupation

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address to his country on Saturday that more than 2,600 cities and towns remain under Russian occupation as the war carries on.  Zelensky said Ukrainian forces have liberated more than 1,000 cities and towns, but they still need to free 2,610. He said most of those locations impacted by the conflict need to be reconstructed, and hundreds of them were “completely destroy

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Officer injured on Jan. 6: ‘We’ve seen ample probable cause’ suggesting Trump committed crimes

A former Washington, D.C., police officer said that the public has seen “ample probable cause” indicating former President Trump committed crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.  Michael Fanone, who was beaten by rioters and suffered a heart attack during the insurrection while working for the city's Metropolitan Police Department, told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Saturday that in order to "restore the credibility of the Department of

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How SCOTUS's latest decision could hinder Democrats’ effort to reinstate net neutrality rules

The Supreme Court’s ruling to curb the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could hurt Democrats' long-fought battle to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules.  If the same principle is applied from the majority opinion in Thursday’s case, arguing that Congress must grant clear authorization for certain regulations, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may not be able to restore rules banning service providers from blocking or throttling websites. “There is a large shift of power from the agencies to the courts,” said Blair Levin, a policy adv

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