Capitol attack hearings: if Republicans did nothing wrong, why were pardons sought?
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One of the most striking all-purpose, preemptive pardon requests that the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack has revealed came from Alabama’s Mo Brooks. In an email obtained by the Guardian, Brook...
Trump feeling fallout of Capitol attack hearings as allies abandon ship
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Somewhere in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday afternoon, it seems quite possible that an elderly man was sitting in front of a television howling with rage. Donald Trump, who spends summers at his Bedminster golf c...
‘Medium level of paranoia’: security concerns still loom on Capitol Hill
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As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez placed personal items on a table before walking through metal detectors and stepping on to the floor of the US House last week the New York Democrat, who has been in Congress since 2019, sa...
‘I was worried I had been permanently mutilated’: what abortion was like before Roe v Wade
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When the doctor told me I was pregnant, he said most women were “extremely happy” with this news. ek het gesê: 'Wel, I’m not, and I would like to end this pregnancy.” He told me I would have to go before a committee at th...
Trump feeling fallout of Capitol attack hearings as allies abandon ship
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Somewhere in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday afternoon, it seems quite possible that an elderly man was sitting in front of a television howling with rage. Donald Trump, who spends summers at his Bedminster golf c...
Capitol attack panel details Trump’s pressure on DoJ to support fraud claims
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Donald Trump relentlessly pressured top officials at the justice department to pursue groundless claims of voter fraud in an extraordinary but ultimately unsuccessful effort to cling to power, according to testimony t...
Silver lining: Australian researchers given $45m to study alternative solar panel materials
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The Albanese government has extended funding for Australia’s world-leading solar energy scientists as they race to increase panel efficiency and shift to more abundant materials, before constraints on silver and other...
Eight convicted over theft of Banksy artwork from Paris attack site
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A French court has convicted eight men for the theft and handling of a Banksy painting paying homage to the victims of the 2015 attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. Three men in their 30s who admitted to the ...