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U.S. President Joe Biden gives the thumbs up while reacting to questions from the press about how h...
Associated Press

Biden’s COVID symptoms improve; WH says he’s staying busy

COVID symptoms left President Joe Biden with a deep, raspy voice and persistent cough as he met Friday via videoconference with his top economic team, but he tried to strike a reassuring tone, declaring, “I feel much better than I sound.”
2 years ago
Former White House senior strategist Steve Bannon arrives at the Federal District Court House for t...
ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press

Steve Bannon convicted of contempt charges in 1/6 case

Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon convicted of contempt charges after defying subpoenas from Jan. 6 House committee.
2 years ago
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28:  A photo of former US President Donald Trump talking to his Chief of Staf...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press

Jan. 6 takeaways: Frantic aides, allies couldn’t budge Trump

The House Jan. 6 committee is closing out its set of summer hearings with its most detailed focus yet on the investigation’s main target: former President Donald Trump.
2 years ago
Associated Press

GOP candidate for NY governor Lee Zeldin attacked, uninjured

U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was attacked by a man who tried to stab him at an upstate event.
2 years ago
Matthew Bledsoe in a Justice Department court filing. The rioter who asked "where those pieces of s...
Avery Lotz and Holmes Lybrand

Rioter found guilty after climbing US Capitol wall on January 6

A Jan 6 rioter was convicted by a Washington, DC jury in federal district court Thursday for his role in the January 6, 2021, attack.
2 years ago
People vote on Election Day in Atlanta on November 3, 2020. An Atlanta-area judge said July 21 he w...
Jason Morris and Paul LeBlanc, CNN

Georgia judge declines to quash subpoenas for fake Trump electors

An Atlanta-area judge said he will not quash subpoenas for 11 of the "fake electors" who participated in a plan to subvert the Electoral College and are now targets of an ongoing criminal investigation.
2 years ago
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon exits the Manhattan Federal Court on August 20, 20...
ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press

Steve Bannon’s defense seeks acquittal then rests case

Steve Bannon declined to testify, and his lawyers did not call any witnesses in his contempt of Congress trial on Thursday, instead arguing the judge should just acquit him.
2 years ago
President Joe Biden delivers brief remarks during the Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the...
ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated Press

Biden tests positive for COVID-19, has ‘mild symptoms’

President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, making him the second U.S. president to get the virus and underscoring the extent to which the virus has infiltrated American society.
2 years ago
The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its second hea...
CHRIS MEGERIAN and JILL COLVIN, Associated Press

White House insiders to talk about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6

A former national security official in the Trump White House and a former press aide will be the key witnesses at a prime-time hearing of the Jan. 6 committee.
2 years ago
Gov. Spencer Cox speaks with KSL TV's Dan Spindle. (KSL TV)...
KSL TV

Gov. Cox dives deep into Utah’s water challenges, future and shrinking GSL

Utah's Sen. Mitt Romney spoke with media Wednesday about his efforts to address the shrinking Great Salt Lake.
2 years ago
A West High School employee holds a Pride flag and an updated Pride flag that includes colors for t...
Michael Houck

All four Utah reps voted for marriage equality bill, senators’ votes unknown

Utah's four Republican representatives joined House Democrats in passing a bill Tuesday that would write same-sex marriage into federal law.
2 years ago
Intermountain Power Agency spokesperson John Ward walks through a coal power plant on Wednesday, Ju...
SAM METZ Associated Press

Can green hydrogen save a Utah coal town and slow climate change?

Developers in rural Utah who want to create big underground caverns to store hydrogen fuel won approval for a $504 million federal loan this spring.
2 years ago
FILE: President Donald Trump's lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani talks to journal...
Associated Press

Giuliani ordered to testify in Georgia 2020 election probe

A judge in New York has ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear next month before a special grand jury in Atlanta that’s looking into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia.
2 years ago
handcuffs in front of a gavel...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press

Georgia fake electors may face charges in election probe

The Georgia prosecutor who’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally interfered in the 2020 election in the state has informed 16 Republicans who served as fake electors that they could face criminal charges.
2 years ago
President Joe Biden delivers brief remarks during the Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the...
SEUNG MIN KIM, CHRIS MEGERIAN and MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press

Biden holds off — for now — on climate emergency declaration

President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to promote new efforts to combat climate change.
2 years ago
Veronica Stracqualursi and Tierney Sneed, CNN

Where state abortion bans stand amid legal challenges

In more than a dozen states, legal fights are underway over abortion bans and other laws that greatly limit the procedure - so what are their current statuses?
2 years ago
SLAT LAKE CITY, UT - JANUARY 28: Supporters hold a pro-gay marriage rally outside the Utah State Ca...
LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent

House passes same-sex marriage bill in retort to high court

The House has overwhelmingly approved a bill tp protect same-sex and interracial marriages. Tuesday's vote stands as a direct confrontation with the Supreme Court, whose conservative majority in overturning Roe v. Wade abortion access signaled that other rights may be in jeopardy.
2 years ago
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6t...
FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press

Jan. 6 panel chairman has COVID, prime-time hearing still on

The chairman of the House Jan. 6 committee has tested positive for COVID-19, but the panel will still hold its prime-time hearing on Thursday.
2 years ago
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ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America

Doctor signals she’ll sue Indiana AG after abortion for 10 year old

An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio took the first step Tuesday toward suing Indiana's attorney general for defamation.
2 years ago
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Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN

Over a dozen Democratic lawmakers arrested in abortion rights protest at Supreme Court

Over a dozen Democratic members of Congress were among those arrested by Capitol Police during an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court.
2 years ago
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 16: Actor and comedian Robert Smigel performs as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog...
MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press

No charges for ‘Late Show’ crew arrested on Capitol Hill

Federal prosecutors are not charging the production crew of CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert" who were arrested in a U.S. Capitol complex building last month.
2 years ago
Steve Bannon, advisor to former President Donald Trump, arrives to the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Co...
GARY FIELDS and ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press

Jury selection underway for ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon

Jury selection has begun in the trial of former Trump presidential adviser Steve Bannon.
2 years ago
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA - JUNE 19: An ultrasound machine sits next to an exam table in an examination r...
SARA CLINE, Associated Press

Louisiana abortion ban still blocked; judge wants more info

A court order that keeps Louisiana authorities from enforcing a ban on most abortions remains in effect.
2 years ago
Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a...
Jeremy Diamond and Maegan Vazquez, CNN

Fauci says he plans to retire by end of Biden’s current term

Dr. Anthony Fauci plans to retire by the end of President Joe Biden's current term in office.
2 years ago

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