Washington CNN — Criminal charges have been dropped against an Afghan national who served with the US military in Afghanistan and was apprehended after fleeing to the US by crossing the southern border with Mexico. Abdul Wasi Safi, called Wasi, served alongside US special operations forces in Afghanistan as an Afghan special forces soldier and
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CNN — The campaign of embattled Rep. George Santos on Tuesday filed updated reports with federal regulators that appear to raise fresh questions about the source of the substantial personal loans he said he made to his campaign. The New York Republican, the subject of multiple inquiries into his finances and fabrications about his biography
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CNN — About a week after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, former Vice President Mike Pence asked an attorney to review four boxes of documents stored in his Indiana home, according to an attorney for Pence. The lawyer discovered about a dozen classified
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CNN — First lady Jill Biden will present both her Inauguration Day ensembles at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on Wednesday, the White House announced, as part of the museum’s First Ladies Collection exhibition. Biden wore two separate outfits on Inauguration Day 2021, CNN Style reported at the time. For the inauguration ceremony
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McCarthy explains why he booted Schiff and Swalwell from committee 02:10 – Source: CNN Politics of the Day 16 videos McCarthy explains why he booted Schiff and Swalwell from committee 02:10 Now playing – Source: CNN A New York mugging and bad checks: Podcaster reveals Santos’ latest wild claims 02:54 Now playing – Source: CNN
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New York CNN — Music superstars are cashing in on a red-hot market. Justin Bieber on Tuesday joined a growing list of iconic singers who have struck mammoth deals to sell their music catalogs — or, in some cases, their masters — for hundreds of millions of dollars. The song management company Hipgnosis said that
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New York CNN — Closing arguments concluded Tuesday in the trial of Sayfullo Saipov, the man prosecutors say was radicalized by ISIS propaganda before he allegedly drove a rented truck down a bike path in New York, killing eight pedestrians in 2017. The judge is expected to charge the jury with the case Wednesday morning.
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CNN — The first Proud Boy to take the stand in the seditious conspiracy trial against five fellow members of the far-right group told the jury Tuesday how leaders of the organization celebrated when their members acted violently, and how that informed the way the group fought together during the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Matthew
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Manchin calls for spending cuts amid debt ceiling fight 04:27 – Source: CNN CNN — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is taking another step to temporarily delay the US defaulting on its debt. Less than a week after announcing that the nation hit its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling set by Congress, Yellen wrote to House Speaker
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He is one of the highest-ranking former FBI officials to ever be charged with a crime He is one of the highest-ranking former FBI officials to ever be charged with a crime Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office, was charged in two separate indictments for allegedly working
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