House lawmakers approved an $840 billion plan to direct Pentagon policy and spending in the year ahead.
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Bruce Poliquin and Jared Golden in dead heat in fundraising race in Maine’s 2nd
Independent Tiffany Bond has spent $1,100 so far while the major party candidates each have $2.3 million in their coffers
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Italian Premier Draghi says he will resign after losing support of key ally
The president could accept or reject the resignation, or he could ask the premier to go before Parliament to seek a formal vote on the government itself, to see if the squabbling allies would rally around him.
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Witness tampering at Jan. 6 hearing? Cheney raises prospect
In her closing remarks, Rep. Liz Cheney, co-chair of the House investigating committee said the panel had learned that former President Donald Trump had recently tried to contact a witness.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, trying to quash subpoena, denies election meddling
His attorneys deny that it was meddling for him to call election officials in Georgia asking them to reexamine absentee ballots after the 2020 election.
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Here’s a thumbnail history of the rise, fall of Sri Lanka’s president
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa vowed to bring back the muscular nationalism that had made his family popular with the Buddhist majority, but instead, he made a series of fatal mistakes that ushered in an unprecedented crisis.
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Biden delivers tough talk on Iran as he opens Mideast visit
One larger goal of the president’s Mideast visit is assuring uneasy Israeli and Saudi Arabian officials that he is committed to preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
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Maine man who allegedly breached U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 pleads not guilty
Joshua Colgan, 35, of Jefferson, pleads not guilty via videoconference on Tuesday.
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Jan. 6 takeaways: Extremists and ‘screaming’ in Trump meeting
House investigators lay out how the former president turned to the widest possible audience on Twitter, calling his supporters, some of them violent, to Washington to ‘be wild’ as Congress certified President Biden’s victory.
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Jan. 6 panel set to highlight Trump’s ‘siren call’ to far-right extremists
The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol siege convenes Tuesday for a public hearing probing what it calls the final phase of Trump’s multi-pronged effort to halt Joe Biden’s victory.