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What are the Capitol riot hearings all about?
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What are the Capitol riot hearings all about?

The hearings aim to show that Donald Trump was central to a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 US election results. But how do they work?

  • by Farrah Tomazin

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Lawyers told Trump that pressuring Pence to overthrow election was illegal

Lawyers told Trump that pressuring Pence to overthrow election was illegal

Things got heated in the White House when lawyers and a former judge were arguing against Trump’s plan, witnesses told the third hearing into the US Capitol riots.

  • by Farrah Tomazin
Buffalo shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes as chilling details emerge

Buffalo shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes as chilling details emerge

Payton Gendron, the gunman at the centre of the Buffalo massacre in May, has been charged with 26 hate crimes that make him eligible for the death penalty.

  • by Farrah Tomazin
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers plea for trafficking sentence ‘well below’ 20 years

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers plea for trafficking sentence ‘well below’ 20 years

“Had Ghislaine Maxwell never had the profound misfortune of meeting Jeffrey Epstein over 30 years ago, she would not be here,” lawyers wrote in a court submission.

  • by Larry Neumeister
From the Archives, 1972: Watergate revisited

From the Archives, 1972: Watergate revisited

On this day in 1972, Washington police apprehended five burglars at the office of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex. The break-in led to an investigation that revealed multiple abuses of power by President Richard M. Nixon. His attempt to have the CIA tell the FBI to lay off the investigation was the smoking gun that led to his decision to resign. Nixon knew that if he did not quit he would be impeached. He announced his resignation on August 8,1974.

  • by Ben Barber
‘Deeply sorry’: Brazil apologises for telling journalist’s family bodies were found in Amazon

‘Deeply sorry’: Brazil apologises for telling journalist’s family bodies were found in Amazon

The confusion is the latest misstep by officials in the search for the British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous worker Bruno Pereira.

  • by Terrence McCoy
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‘Friendliest of wars’ ends: Canada and Denmark sign deal over island

‘Friendliest of wars’ ends: Canada and Denmark sign deal over island

It’s been a war of whisky, schnapps, flags and land boundaries - now everyone is happy.

  • by Ian Austen
Not actual legal advice: AI model tries to re-create mind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Not actual legal advice: AI model tries to re-create mind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“It’s really fun to play with, but we should not take it seriously as well as we shouldn’t pretend that that’s a lawyer,” said one professor of artificial intelligence.

  • by Pranshu Verma
Happy, the elephant, isn’t a person, a top New York court rules

Happy, the elephant, isn’t a person, a top New York court rules

New York’s highest court has ruled that Happy the elephant is not a person, in a legal sense, and therefore not entitled to a fundamental human right.

  • by Ed Shanahan
COVID is making flu and other common viruses act in unfamiliar ways

COVID is making flu and other common viruses act in unfamiliar ways

The much-anticipated twindemic of the coronavirus and other viruses, likely inhibited by remote work and masking in the winter of 2020 to 2021, never occurred. But many other things have.

  • by Frances Stead Sellers
Trump slams Congressional hearings as ‘a smoke and mirrors show for the American people’

Trump slams Congressional hearings as ‘a smoke and mirrors show for the American people’

On election night, Donald Trump followed the advice of an “intoxicated” Rudy Giuliani to “just claim he won”, a Congressional hearing has been told.

  • by Farrah Tomazin