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USA TODAYTrump says he invoked 5th Amendment in deposition for New York investigation
Donald Trump's deposition comes days after his Mar-a-Lago home was searched by the FBI, related to an investigation into presidential records.
ReutersTrump refuses to answer questions in N.Y. attorney general probe
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he refused to answer questions during an appearance before New York state's attorney general in a civil investigation into his family's business practices, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination. Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and daughter Ivanka Trump, had fought unsuccessfully to avoid appearing for testimony in state Attorney General Letitia James's probe into whether the Trump Organization inflated real estate values to obtain favorable loans and understated asset values to get tax breaks. "I declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution," Trump said in a statement issued roughly an hour after he arrived in a motorcade to the attorney general's office in lower Manhattan.
Associated PressAbrams tests positive for COVID-19, has mild symptoms
Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has COVID-19, her campaign said Wednesday. Abrams campaign spokesperson Alex Floyd said Abrams tested positive for the respiratory illness Wednesday morning after giving a public speech on the economy Tuesday night in Atlanta. Abrams tests daily for COVID-19, Floyd said, and had tested negative on Monday and Tuesday.
Yahoo NewsBiden signs bill to help war veterans exposed to toxic burn pits
The president on Wednesday signed into law long-awaited legislation that will expand health care access for military veterans suffering from exposure to burn pits.
Yahoo NewsAbsent details, Republicans flock to Trump’s side after FBI search at Mar-a-Lago
For 24 hours after the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and residence in South Florida, Republicans of almost every stripe flocked to Trump’s defense.
The New York TimesRepublicans Rally Behind Trump, Who Reprises Favored Role: Victim
WASHINGTON — Republicans sought Tuesday to turn the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Florida home into a rallying point, positioning the former president in his political comfort zone as a partisan target and victim, while effectively suspending the party’s efforts to focus on other issues heading into the midterm elections. The immediacy with which Republicans closed ranks and focused on the political ramifications of the search of Mar-a-Lago — without a full understanding of the direction of the
USA TODAYPrimary takeaways: Dems eye WI Sen. Johnson; Vt looks to break ceiling; Omar survives MN squeaker
Wisconsin Democrats united behind Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, nominating him to face two-term GOP incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson in the November election.
PoliticoRepublicans who blast FBI's Trump search are prepping to snag Joe in a Hunter Biden probe
It's a long way from Benghazi: The House GOP is openly readying a 2023 inquiry into the First Son that will touch on his father.
USA TODAYGOP, long the law and order party, slams FBI, Justice Department over search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago
House Republican leaders and some senators are defending former President Trump and rebuking the nation's top law enforcement agencies.
ReutersU.S. Republicans prepare consumer watchdog, SEC probes as mid-term elections loom
U.S. Republican lawmakers are preparing a crackdown on the U.S. consumer and securities watchdogs in the expectation they will gain control of a key congressional committee following the November mid-term elections, according to a dozen financial lobbyists, congressional staffers and lawmakers. With an 80% chance of the House of Representatives flipping to Republican control, according to poll-tracking website FiveThirtyEight.com, Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee are planning probes into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the sources said. They allege that the agencies, which have operated under Democratic leadership since January 2021, have overstepped their authority, flouted the legal process for writing rules, and adopted a hostile stance toward the industries they regulate.
NBC NewsAnother Republican who backed Trump's impeachment concedes defeat
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Washington Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump, lost her primary to Joe Kent a challenger backed by the former president.
USA TODAYTrump huddles with House Republicans after FBI search; McConnell says country needs 'immediate explanation': Updates
Meanwhile, the FBI Agents Association defended the agency's work against GOP claims that its search of Donald Trump's home was politically motivated.
HuffPostProgressive Becca Balint Wins Vermont House Primary
The Bernie Sanders-backed state senator will likely be Vermont’s first female member of Congress.
PoliticoMaloney, Nadler change tune on Biden reelection in latest debate
Unlike their last appearance, Manhattan Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney both heaped praise on the prospect of a second Biden term.
Associated PressRep. Scott Perry says FBI agents seized his cellphone
U.S. Rep. Scott Perry said his cellphone was seized Tuesday morning by FBI agents carrying a search warrant. Perry, though, has been a figure in the congressional investigation into President Donald Trump’s actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Former senior Justice Department officials have testified that Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, had “an important role” in Trump’s effort to try to install Jeffrey Clark — a top Justice official who was pushing Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud — as the acting attorney general.
NBC NewsTrump supporters outnumbered by media at Mar-a-Lago after FBI search
The online response to the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property has been swift and ominous, with predictions of a resurgence
Yahoo NewsUnderstanding the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
Never in U.S. history have federal agents come knocking at a former chief executive’s private residence looking for state secrets. GOP politicians and conservative pundits have called the unprecedented search Monday of former President Donald Trump's residence Mar-a-Lago a “deep state” Democratic stitch-up, but the agents left armed with what have been described as "many pages of classified documents."
Yahoo NewsFBI warrant for search of Trump home may involve suspected violations of Espionage Act, former chief of DOJ national security says
The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the FBI warrant for the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests prosecutors believe they have probable cause that there may have been violations of the World War I-era Espionage Act.
USA TODAYQuestions about Mar-a-Lago search? Here's how warrants, subpoenas and grand juries work
The FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home raises questions about search warrants, subpoenas and grand juries. We have answers.
ReutersBiden approval rises to 40%, highest in two months, Reuters/Ipsos shows
U.S. President Joe Biden's public approval rose this week to its highest level since early June following a string of legislative victories, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday. The two-day national poll found that 40% of Americans approve of Biden's job performance, a level of support that is historically low for a U.S. president. But the recent upward turn in Biden's approval rating - including gains in each of the last three weeks - could temper the concern among his Democrats that the party is poised to take a drubbing in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, when Republicans hope to seize control of the U.S. Congress.
Associated PressBiden formalizes US support for Finland, Sweden joining NATO
President Joe Biden formally welcomed Finland and Sweden joining the NATO alliance Tuesday as he signed the instruments of ratification that delivered the U.S.'s formal backing of the Nordic nations entering the mutual defense pact, part of a reshaping of the European security posture after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. “In seeking to join NATO, Finland and Sweden are making a sacred commitment that an attack against one is an attack against all," Biden said at the signing as he called the partnership the “indispensable alliance.”
USA TODAYRecap: Trump-backed Michels wins WI gov primary; Johnson, Barnes to face off in Senate race
Wisconsin provides another window into Trump's influence on the GOP a day after the FBI searched for classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home.
Business InsiderTrump's handling of classified records could test Attorney General Merrick Garland's vow to treat no one as 'above the law'
Murky legal questions and delicate politics await the Justice Department after the FBI's raid of Donald Trump's South Florida club, Mar-a-Lago.
HuffPostGOP Suddenly Not OK With Using Power Of The State To Go After Political Opponents
Republicans were fine with Donald Trump using the power of the presidency to extort Ukraine into smearing Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Yahoo NewsTrump takes the 5th, refuses to answer questions in probe of his business dealings
Former President Donald Trump did not answer questions from the New York attorney general’s office about his business dealings during a deposition Wednesday, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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