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Trump team, special counsel return to court as 2020 election case resumes

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Washington — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and special counsel Jack Smith returned to federal court in Washington on Thursday for the first time since U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan regained control of the 2020 election-related case following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on presidential immunity.  The attorneys sparred over their proposed paths for

Judge in Trump 2020 case says setting trial date would be “exercise in futility”

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Washington — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and special counsel Jack Smith returned to federal court in Washington on Thursday for the first time since U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan regained control of the 2020 election-related case following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on presidential immunity.  The attorneys sparred over their proposed paths for

Jury selection for Hunter Biden’s tax evasion trial to begin in Los Angeles

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Jury selection is expected to begin Thursday in the tax trial of Hunter Biden, who is charged with failing to pay at least $1.4 million in federal taxes while living an “extravagant lifestyle.”  In December, a federal grand jury charged the president’s son with three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor offenses, including failure to

‘He Did Not Complete the Degree Program’: Tim Walz Repeatedly Claimed He Was ‘Nearly Finished’ With PhD Years After He Disappeared from University

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As recently as 2011, Tim Walz claimed in official biographies for his campaign and congressional office that he was on the verge of completing a doctorate in education, a decade after he enrolled in a Ph.D. program at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota in the small town of Winona. The university, however, told the Washington