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Trump Condemns 'Act of Terror' in D.C. as Suspect Identified
- The shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members deployed to D.C., for which an Afghan national is being held as the sole suspect, has swiftly become a touchstone in the Trump Administration's wider immigration crackdown argument. Trump called the shooting that killed Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and left Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, in critical condition an "act of terror" and promised to "make America ...

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Trump No Longer Held Criminally Accountable for Trying To Overturn Election
- Five years after Donald Trump sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential race, the final criminal related to those efforts has been dismissed, meaning the president will face no criminal trial over actions prosecutors once said were supported by strong evidence. and federal election-interference charges abandoned due to presidential immunity, Trump faces no remaining criminal exposure for actions that ...

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Putin doubles down on demands for Ukrainian territory ahead of talks with US
- President Vladimir Putin has doubled down on his core demands for ending the war in Ukraine, saying Russia will lay down arms only if Kyiv's troops withdraw from territory claimed by Moscow. Putin has long pushed for legal recognition of the Ukrainian territories Russia has seized by force. They include the southern Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014, and the eastern Donbas region, which Moscow now occupies for the ...

Source: bbc.com
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Judge in Epstein case demands more protections of victim privacy
- Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A federal judge who oversaw the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday demanded prosecutors explain how they are protecting victims' privacy after the release of unredacted documents. New York-based Judge Richard Berman issued the order in response to a letter raising alarm about how the names of some of Epstein's victims were included in a trove of documents released by Congress ...

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