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Month: June 2022

Aide testifies she was told Trump lunged at Secret Service and steering wheel when told he couldn’t go to Capitol

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Clare Foran and Josh Campbell, CNN Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified during a congressional hearing Tuesday that she was told that former President Donald Trump became “irate” when informed by security that he would not be going to the Capitol on January 6,

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Philippines orders news site Rappler to shut down, founder Maria Ressa says

By Philip Wang and Helen Regan, CNN Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa said Tuesday the Philippine government has ordered her news organization Rappler to shut down. Ressa, CEO and founder of Rappler, released a statement during the East-West Center’s International Media Conference in Honolulu saying the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (PSEC)

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Los Angeles County votes to return beach property taken from Black owners in Jim Crow era

KCAL, KCBS, LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, BRUCE FAMILY, MANHATTAN BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MIRIAM MATTHEWS COLLECTION, UCLA, HANDOUT PHOTO, CNN, Miriam Matthews Collection/UCLA By Meron Moges-Gerbi and Cheri Mossburg, CNN A stretch of prime Southern California beachfront real estate was returned to the descendants of its Black owners Tuesday, nearly a century after the

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Los Angeles County votes to return beach property taken from Black owners in Jim Crow era

KCAL, KCBS, LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, BRUCE FAMILY, MANHATTAN BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MIRIAM MATTHEWS COLLECTION, UCLA, HANDOUT PHOTO, CNN, Miriam Matthews Collection/UCLA By Meron Moges-Gerbi and Cheri Mossburg, CNN A stretch of prime Southern California beachfront real estate was returned to the descendants of its Black owners Tuesday, nearly a century after the

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California budget won’t cover out-of-state abortion travel

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — While Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged to make California a sanctuary for women seeking abortions, his administration won’t spend public money to help people from other states travel to California for the procedure. Newsom’s decision, included in a budget agreement reached over the weekend, surprised abortion

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Federal judge won’t shut down case seeking to remove New Mexico county official from office over January 6 conviction

By Marshall Cohen, CNN A federal judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by a New Mexico county commissioner to shut down state proceedings against him that seek to remove him from office because of his conviction for trespassing on US Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021. Couy Griffin, an Otero County commissioner and a prominent

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