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Sanjana Karanth
Sanjana is a HuffPost reporter based in Washington, D.C. She currently covers breaking news and politics, and previously wrote for the AP in her native city Chicago. You can reach her at sanjana.karanth@huffpost.com or on Twitter at @sanjanakaranth.
HuffPostPelosi Says Trump DOJ’s Secret Data Seizures Go ‘Beyond Richard Nixon’
The House speaker insisted that former Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr testify before Congress about the subpoenas and gag orders.
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Trump DOJ Seized Records Of House Intelligence Dems In Search For Leaks: NYT
Prosecutors sought records on a dozen people connected to two lawmakers, including Rep. Adam Schiff, to hunt those who leaked classified information.
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G-7 Nations Plan To Share At Least 1 Billion Vaccine Doses With The World
The announcement comes hours after President Joe Biden committed to donating 500 million COVID-19 shots to help speed the global pandemic's end.
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Palestinian Activist Criticizes Attempts To Sanitize Forced Displacement In Sheikh Jarrah
"Just because you can legalize an evil act doesn’t make it any less evil," Mohammed el-Kurd, who was recently detained, told journalist Mehdi Hasan.
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Biden's Justice Department Is Still Working To Defend Trump In Rape Case Defamation Suit
The new administration argued in a brief that the former president is allowed immunity in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit against him.
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Driver In Canada Hits Muslim Family With Truck, Killing 4 In Suspected Hate Attack
Police in London, Ontario, have charged a 20-year-old Canadian with first-degree murder in what they say was a planned attack motivated by Islamophobia.
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Mondaire Jones: Manchin ‘Would Rather Preserve Jim Crow’ For Bipartisanship
The freshman congressman ripped into the West Virginia senator's op-ed, in which he said he would vote against Democrats' elections reform bill.
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Famed Criminal Lawyer F. Lee Bailey Dies At 87
The attorney was known for representing some of the country's most notorious defendants in court, most famously O.J. Simpson.
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Police Investigate Threats At Palestinian Center In New Jersey
The all-female staff at Clifton's Palestinian American Community Center received about 30 calls including slurs, death threats and threats of sexual abuse.
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Democrats Prepare To Investigate Capitol Riot After GOP Blocked Bipartisan Commission
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proposed to her colleagues four options to launch an investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection, despite Republican resistance.
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Texas Gov Threatens To Defund Legislature After Dems Block Voter Suppression Bill
"No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities," Republican Greg Abbott tweeted after a late-night walkout by Democratic state lawmakers blocked the bill.
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Biden Commemorates Fallen Soldiers On Memorial Day
In his first Memorial Day address as president, Biden both honored those who fight for democracy and highlighted issues currently threatening it.
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Major Donor Lobbied Against UNC Hiring Nikole Hannah-Jones Over ‘1619 Project’: Report
Walter Hussman, whose $25 million donation resulted in his name on the school, said the journalist didn't meet his standards of objectivity, The Assembly reported.
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Disability Rights Groups Join Lawsuit Over Georgia Voter Suppression Law
The Georgia-based groups state in an amended complaint that the law violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against disabled voters.
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Biden Campaign Staffers Criticize Approval Of $735 Million Arms Sale To Israel
The sale after attacks on Gaza is "undemocratic," according to former staffers who a day earlier joined 500 others in calling for Biden to better protect Palestinians.
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Biden Calls Ryanair Flight Diversion And Journalist Arrest By Belarus ‘Outrageous’
His administration said it's developing a plan to hold the Lukashenko regime accountable for the plane hijacking and arrest of Raman Pratasevich.
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Bernie Sanders: Progressives Should ‘Tone Down' Calling Israel An ‘Apartheid’ State
The senator responded to a question on 'Face the Nation' of whether labeling the Israeli government as so is contributing to the rise in anti-Semitic attacks.
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138 House Democrats Demand Biden Call For A Cease-Fire In Israel
The lawmakers join a growing list of diplomats, human rights groups and members of Congress asking him to pressure the Israelis and Palestinians to halt attacks.
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Rashida Tlaib Confronts Biden On Continued Israeli Support Amid Gaza Bloodshed
The Palestinian American congresswoman said the president must do more to protect civilians. At least 218 Palestinians have died so far in Israeli attacks.
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Oversight, Homeland Security Committees 'Extremely Concerned' After Pipeline Attack
Committee chairs said they were "disappointed" the operator of the nation's largest gas pipeline refused to give details about its ransomware attack.