
DeSantis is under immediate pressure to bounce back after embarrassing campaign launch
Ron DeSantis' campaign launch fizzled like one of Elon Musk's early rocket prototypes.
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Simmering tensions erupt between top Texas state Republicans
The day after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the state House speaker of presiding over the chamber while drunk and called on him to resign, a House ethics panel on Wednesday heard explosive testimony from investigators detailing what they described as years of misconduct by the attorney general.
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FBI director to meet with House Oversight chair in coming days about internal document
FBI Director Christopher Wray and House Oversight Chairman James Comer are scheduled to meet in the coming days as the Kentucky Republican continues to escalate his investigation into President Joe Biden's business dealings, a spokesperson for the FBI told CNN.
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IRS veteran goes public as whistleblower in Hunter Biden criminal probe
A 14-year veteran of the Internal Revenue Service went public for the first time Wednesday as the whistleblower claiming to have information about alleged mishandling and political interference in an ongoing criminal probe into Hunter Biden.
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Biden set to nominate Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
President Joe Biden is set to announce on Thursday that he will nominate Air Force chief of staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to a defense official familiar with the plans.
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Social Security payments could be delayed due to debt ceiling impasse
If the US is not able to pay all its bills for the first time ever, senior citizens could quickly feel the pain.
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Trump's legal team hopes to appeal directly to Attorney General Garland to close criminal probes into former president
Donald Trump's legal team is arguing that the Justice Department should close the federal probes into the former president and allow the 2024 presidential campaign season, which is already in full swing, to continue "without interference" -- the former president's latest attempt to politicize investigations against him.
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US intelligence indicates Ukrainians may have launched drone attack on Kremlin
US officials have picked up chatter amongst Ukrainian officials blaming each other for a drone attack on the Kremlin earlier this month, contributing to a US assessment that a Ukrainian group may have been responsible, sources familiar with the intelligence told CNN.
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Chinese hackers seeking to disrupt communications between US and Asia in event of crisis, Microsoft says
Chinese government-backed hackers are likely pursuing cyber capabilities that could be used to "disrupt critical communications" between the US and the Asia Pacific region in the event of a future US-China crisis, Microsoft warned on Wednesday.
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Man who rested feet on Pelosi office desk on Jan. 6 sentenced to over four years in prison
The man who was infamously photographed with his feet on a desk in Rep. Nancy Pelosi's office during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was sentenced Wednesday to four and a half years in prison.
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House fails to override Biden veto on solar panel tariff measure
The House on Wednesday failed to override President Joe Biden's veto of a measure related to solar panel import tariffs. A successful veto override would have required a two-thirds vote in the House and the Senate -- a high threshold that was not expected to be reached.
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US remains in 'heightened threat environment' with recent racist and ethnically motivated attacks, DHS says
The US remains in a "heightened threat environment" for terrorism driven by a series of racially and ethnically motivated attacks or plots in recent months, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday in a public advisory.
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