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Department of Justice asks federal court to limit scope of baseball's antitrust exemption

LOS ANGELES — The Department of Justice on Wednesday formally asked a federal court to limit the scope of baseball's antitrust exemption, the latest challenge to a century-old Supreme Court decision cherished by major league owners but increasingly criticized beyond the commissioner's office.

Los Angeles Times

Oregon's prison chief in lead for top federal prisons job

Colette Peters, who runs Oregon’s prison system, has emerged as the leading contender to run the federal prison system

The Independent UK

Grand jury indicts California man for attempted murder of Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh

If convicted, the suspect faces a maximum sentence of life in federal prison.

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Buffalo shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes over massacre of 10 Black people

Justice Department announced the charges against the 18-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist and racist on Wednesday

The Independent UK

Ted Cruz still peddling baseless conspiracy theory that FBI incited Jan. 6 riot

WASHINGTON – With House hearings underway on the Jan. 6 riot, Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday dusted off an ominous but unfounded conspiracy theory suggesting that the FBI incited the attack aimed at keeping Donald Trump in power.

Tribune News Service

Jan. 6 panel postpones hearing with ex-Justice officials

A spokesman for the panel attributed the postponement to “a number of scheduling factors, including production timeline and availability of members and witnesses.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Commentary: Even if the DOJ prosecutes Trump, it's the American people who need to repudiate the 'big lie'

As the Jan. 6 committee continues to roll out an overwhelming case of corrupt conduct by Donald Trump, the calls grow louder for the Department of Justice to bring criminal charges against the former president.

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Jonathan Bernstein: Why Trump’s own appointees are setting the record straight

How do presidents get in trouble? Monday’s Jan. 6 committee’s hearing on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election didn’t focus on that general question, but it did demonstrate something familiar to students of the presidency.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Jan. 6 committee is just getting started

Like prosecutors priming a jury, the House Select Committee made a powerful case to the nation Thursday night and Monday that Donald Trump ginned up the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. He meant it to consummate a coup that he had been plotting even before the presidential election that he…

Orlando Sentinel

Jan. 6 hearings: What we've learned, and what's next

House investigators are trying to make a methodical case that President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election led directly to the insurrection by his supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

The Independent UK

What would happen if the Jan 6 committee issues a criminal referral for Trump?

Committee members have disagreed whether to formally request charges against ex-president

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 committee delays Wednesday hearing, citing need to compile video evidence

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 select committee postponed its Wednesday hearing, which was scheduled to examine the way in which Donald Trump used the waning days of his presidency to install Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general to perpetuate his voter fraud claims when others in the Justice Department…

Tribune News Service

Don Jr seems to goad Jan 6 committee into recommending charges against his father in odd tweet

Twitter user blast Trump Jr after he says Jan 6 panel is ‘just political theater’

The Independent UK

1/6 panel postpones hearing with ex-Justice Dept. officials

The committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol has postponed a hearing that was to feature Trump-era Justice Department officials

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The Independent UK

Jan 6 committee: What to watch for during Thursday’s hearing focused on pressure campaign against Pence

Panel’s third hearing will focus on efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence into unilaterally rejecting electoral votes from swing states won by Joe Biden

Axios

"The Big Ripoff": Jan. 6 committee zeros in Trump fundraising emails tied to fraud claims

It's the committee's clearest attempt yet to establish potential criminal liability by Trump associates.

The Guardian - US

Garland says he is watching January 6 hearings amid pressure to investigate Trump

US attorney general says official guidelines do not prevent him from investigating ex-president

WEKU

Treasure hunters allege the FBI made off with Civil War-era gold and covered it up

The FBI says it recovered nothing of value at the site in Pennsylvania. But treasure hunters who led agents there think the FBI found tons of gold and cut them out of a finder's fee.

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Los Angeles Times

Trump ignored repeated warnings from Barr, advisers that election fraud claims were ‘bogus’

WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien and former Attorney General Bill Barr recounted in video depositions their repeated admonitions to former President Donald Trump that his election fraud claims were groundless, in the second hearing this month by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection…

WEKU

Jan. 6 panel says Trump fleeced his base and 5 other takeaways from the 2nd hearing

It wasn't in prime time this time, but the Jan. 6 committee held an eyebrow-raising hearing Monday. Here are six takeaways from what we learned during this second of seven hearings.

The Independent UK

Hugo Chavez, dead voters, ‘2,000 Mules’: Discredited Trump theories resurface at Jan 6 hearing

Panel investigates how ex-president pushed wild claims his own advisers knew were false

Al Jazeera

5 key takeaways from second January 6 US Capitol riot hearing

Second public hearing this month focuses on how Donald Trump’s advisers told him that election fraud claims were false.

The Independent UK

Too big to jail: The story of HSBC and the Mexican drug cartel

If you sell a gram of cocaine on the street you’re going to jail. If you’re complicit in laundering billions of dollars for a drug cartel, your organisation may just pay a fine. Chris Blackhurst recounts the greatest banking scandal in history

The Independent UK

Merrick Garland says he’s ‘watching’ Jan 6 hearings amid calls for Trump to face criminal charges

‘I would like to see the justice department investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump,’ California Democrat says

Los Angeles Times

Trump became ‘detached from reality’ over voter fraud claims, Barr tells Jan. 6 panel

WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General Bill Barr told the Jan. 6 House select committee that former President Donald Trump became “detached from reality” amid his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and that allegations of voter fraud were “bogus.”

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