Opinion | Can the Justice Department Survive a Trump Wrecking Ball?
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Opinion | Can the Justice Department Survive a Trump Wrecking Ball?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday delivered remarks for a grim anniversary: the fourth year since the assault on the Capitol. “The public servants of the Justice Department have sought to hold accountable those criminally responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on our…

Opinion | What This New Era of Power Looks Like in Washington
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Opinion | What This New Era of Power Looks Like in Washington

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The second Trump administration isn’t starting with a whisper, exactly. But as Washington gears up for Donald Trump’s encore inauguration on Jan. 20, the vibe around town has been far less twitchy and traumatized than in the run-up to Joe Biden’s swearing-in four…

Fani Willis Asks Georgia Supreme Court to Review Decision Kicking Her Off Trump Case
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Fani Willis Asks Georgia Supreme Court to Review Decision Kicking Her Off Trump Case

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Fani T. Willis asked the Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday to put her back on the Trump election interference case. Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., petitioned the state’s high court to review a recent decision disqualifying her from prosecuting…

Presidential Odd Couple: After a Tough Race, Carter and Ford Became Friends
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Presidential Odd Couple: After a Tough Race, Carter and Ford Became Friends

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines They did not think much of each other at first. They crisscrossed the country for months, warning voters that the other one should not be trusted with power. Their campaign was as bitter as any of the era and ended in one of…

Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing
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Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. spoke with President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday, not long before Mr. Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to delay his sentencing following his conviction in New York in a case arising from hush money payments. “William Levi,…

Mourners Defy Subfreezing Temperatures to Honor Jimmy Carter at the Capitol
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Mourners Defy Subfreezing Temperatures to Honor Jimmy Carter at the Capitol

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines They came amid the ice and snow, bundled in parkas and long johns, expecting an hourslong wait in the subfreezing temperatures and whipping winds. Instead, the mourners who journeyed through the maze of barricades around the Capitol early Wednesday morning to pay their…

Greenland, Panama and Faucets: Trump Conference Shows Hints of Chaos to Come
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Greenland, Panama and Faucets: Trump Conference Shows Hints of Chaos to Come

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Nonetheless, it seemed at times like Mr. Trump was already president, in large part because Mr. Biden has faded from the scene so quickly. This was Mr. Trump’s second full news conference at Mar-a-Lago since he began forming his government, and in that…

Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal
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Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President-elect Donald J. Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal that America built more than a century ago and to push Denmark to sell Greenland to…

Democrats Prevail in Virginia Races, the First Elections Since Trump’s Win
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Democrats Prevail in Virginia Races, the First Elections Since Trump’s Win

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Democrats on Tuesday held two key state legislative seats in Virginia, retaining their majorities in the General Assembly in the first special elections since President-elect Donald J. Trump won back the White House. The results were expected in overlapping House of Delegates and…

Jimmy Carter to Lie in State in Capitol Starting Tuesday
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Jimmy Carter to Lie in State in Capitol Starting Tuesday

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The nation’s leaders on Tuesday kicked off three days of tributes to Jimmy Carter, staging an elaborate pageant of Washington fanfare for a politician who disavowed the trappings of the imperial presidency and never gave up his humble Georgia roots. Mr. Carter, who…