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• Liz Cheney doesn’t care what the pro-Trump GOP thinks of her

  10-06-2022 23:44 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) didn't make any new friends in the GOP with her star turn bashing former President Trump in prime-time on Thursday night. It doesn't bother her a bit.Cheney, a dynastic figure who sits in the House seat once held by her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, used her high perch on the Jan. 6 select committee to accuse Trump of abusing the powers of the presidency to orchestrate nothing short of an attempted coup — explosive charges that have reinforced her stat
  
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• Biden at Summit of the Americas: 'We’re transforming the approach to managing migration'

  10-06-2022 23:41 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden said Friday that the declaration to address migration signed at the Summit of the Americans aims to transform the approach to managing migration.“With this declaration, we’re transforming the approach to managing migration in the Americas,” Biden said, flanked by other leaders. “It’s going to take all of our nations working together in partnership to address this migration issue.”Twenty countries signed onto the Los Angeles Declaratio
  
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• Biden at Summit of the Americas: 'We’re transforming approach to managing migration'

  10-06-2022 23:41 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden said Friday that the declaration to address migration signed at the Summit of the Americans aims to transform the management of migration.“With this declaration, we’re transforming the approach to managing migration in the Americas,” Biden said, flanked by other leaders. “It’s going to take all of our nations working together in partnership to address this migration issue.”Twenty countries signed onto the Los Angeles Declaration on Mi
  
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• Democrat gaveled out as he tries to read names of children killed by guns this year

  10-06-2022 22:39 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) took to the House floor on Thursday to read the names of young children killed by guns this year, but was forced to conclude his remarks due to time constraints after getting through only a fraction of the 600 names.Casten's comments came minutes after the House passed a bill to nationalize red flag laws, which aim to keep guns out of the hands of individuals deemed a risk to themselves and others. The legislation was brought up in the wake of last month’s mass sh
  
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• Travel industry cheers CDC's removal of testing requirement

  10-06-2022 21:55 via thehill.com
  
  Airlines and travel groups cheered the Biden administration’s decision to lift its COVID-19 testing requirement for air travelers entering the U.S., a long-sought victory for the industry. The Biden administration on Friday announced that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will no longer require U.S.-bound travelers to show a negative COVID-19 test as of Sunday. The CDC said that the requirement is no longer necessary at this time thanks to the widespread availability of vaccines a
  
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• Biden bashes big oil: 'Exxon made more money than God this year'

  10-06-2022 20:44 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday called out Exxon for raking in large profits while addressing high inflation and calling on Congress to act to tackle it.“Why don’t you tell them what Exxon’s profits were this year? This quarter? Exxon made more money than God this year,” he said in remarks at the Port of Los Angeles. “Exxon, start investing. Start paying your taxes.”Biden has called on Congress to pass tax reform to make the wealthiest Americans and big corporations
  
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• Biden nixes Trump design for Air Force One over cost, delay

  10-06-2022 20:33 via thehill.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Biden's administration has scrapped former President Trump's red, white and blue design for the new generation of presidential aircraft after an Air Force review suggested it would raise costs and delay the delivery of the new jets.Boeing is currently modifying two Boeing 747-800 aircraft that will bear the Air Force One callsign when the president is onboard to replace the existing fleet of two aging Boeing 747-200 aircraft. Trump, in 2018, directed that the&nb
  
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• Biden: Jan. 6 hearings important so 'American people understand what truly happened'

  10-06-2022 20:16 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday emphasized the importance of the House committee hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, warning the same forces that led to the riot are still a threat to U.S. democracy. Biden, speaking at the Port of Los Angeles, opened his planned remarks about inflation by addressing the first public hearing from the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, which had taken place the night before.“The insurrection on Jan. 6 was one of the darke
  
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• Trump DOJ officials to testify before Jan. 6 panel

  10-06-2022 19:15 via thehill.com
  
  Three former Justice Department leaders at the center of former President Trump’s pressure campaign to put the might of the department behind his baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election will appear before the Jan. 6 panel on Wednesday.Former acting Attorney Jeffrey Rosen will testify before the committee alongside his deputy Richard Donoghue and Steven Engle, then the head of the Office of Legal Counsel, according to a letter first obtained by The New York Times.The commit
  
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• Jan. 6 panel expresses satisfaction with first day of public hearings

  10-06-2022 18:35 via thehill.com
  
  Members of the Jan. 6 select committee expressed satisfaction after its first public hearing, a two-hour primetime event that laid out the case that former President Trump was at the center of a scheme to keep himself in power. “From a forensic point of view, and from a legalistic standpoint, the evening was a very powerful success for the committee because what we laid out was the clarity of the narrative that Donald Trump absolutely refused to accept the results of the 2020 presiden
  
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• Democrats offer roll call of who 'didn’t ask' Trump for a pardon

  10-06-2022 17:23 via thehill.com
  
  Congressional Democrats are needling their GOP colleagues after the Jan. 6 House select committee said some Republicans had asked former President Trump for a pardon following the 2021 Capitol riot.
  A series of Democratic lawmakers posted to Twitter following the panel's first prime-time hearing Thursday saying they "didn't ask" for a pardon after the committee revealed that "multiple" GOP lawmakers allegedly requested a pardon from Trump after the riot."Ok I will start. I didn’t ask for a
  
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• Thompson indicates connection between extremist groups and those around Trump

  10-06-2022 16:46 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Jan. 6 panel, said there was a connection between far-right extremists groups and those around former President Trump leading up to and during the Capitol riot. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper after the committee’s first prime-time hearing on Thursday, the journalist asked Thompson if future hearings will have witnesses who can attest to conversations between extremist groups and those close to Trump.“Yes,” T
  
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• Trump says Ivanka was 'checked out' following Jan. 6 public hearing

  10-06-2022 16:11 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump slammed his daughter and former advisor, Ivanka Trump, after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot played testimony at its first public hearing Thursday night.
  A short clip of Ivanka Trump was shown during the committee's first prime time hearing Thursday, during which she was asked about former Attorney General William Barr's assessment that the election wasn't stolen.Trump himself has long claimed that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged
  
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• Biden officials ending international travel testing requirement

  10-06-2022 15:57 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration announced Friday that it is ending a requirement that international travelers test negative for the coronavirus before coming to the United States.  “CDC has determined based on the science and data that this requirement is no longer necessary at this time,” a senior administration official said.  The requirement ends startingat 12:01 AM Sunday. Some experts had noted that the requirement did not seem to be serving much purpose, given
  
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• Biden officials ending international travel COVID testing requirement

  10-06-2022 15:57 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration announced Friday that it is ending a requirement that international travelers test negative for the coronavirus before coming to the United States.  “CDC has determined based on the science and data that this requirement is no longer necessary at this time,” a senior administration official said, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  The requirement ends starting at 12:01 AM Sunday. Some experts had noted that
  
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• Rep. Ted Lieu recites ‘what Jesus Christ said about homosexuality’: Remains silent

  10-06-2022 15:43 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) this week argued Jesus did not say anything about homosexuality during his lifetime in response to a series of bills states have proposed or passed impacting LGBTQ individuals. Lieu spoke on the House floor Wednesday, noting two stories from The Washington Post in March and April about GOP lawmakers pushing for bills that target LGBTQ rights and that some Republicans are concerned about “party overreach” on the issue. “I just thought I would k
  
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• Five takeaways on the Jan. 6 panel’s public case against Trump

  10-06-2022 15:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Jan. 6 committee’s prime-time hearing was its opening argument in making its public case that former President Trump was at the center of a plot to remain in power.The two-hour hearing offered a mix of visceral video showing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol paired with footage from some of those closest to Trump outlining their pushback to multiple efforts aimed at keeping him in office.“All Americans should keep this fact in mind: On the morning of Jan. 6, President Trum
  
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• Hurdles remain as Biden’s EV push comes to life

  10-06-2022 14:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden’s push for more electric vehicles (EVs) on the road and more charging stations around the U.S. is gaining fresh traction while Americans continue to face historically high gas prices at the pump.The president has been focused on an ambitious climate agenda, which has largely stalled in the Senate, but federal funding for electric vehicle infrastructure manufacturing was passed in the bipartisan infrastructure law, which the president signed in November.The law included $7.5
  
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• Trump takes to Truth Social to fire back at Jan. 6 committee

  10-06-2022 13:51 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump late on Thursday took to his Truth Social platform to condemn the prime-time Jan. 6 committee public hearing."So the Unselect Committee of political HACKS refuses to play any of the many positive witnesses and statements, refuses to talk of the Election Fraud and Irregularities that took place on a massive scale," Trump wrote in a post. "Our Country is in such trouble!"Trump had also publicly denounced the hearing earlier in the day, before the event began, through a stat
  
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• Biden to sign declaration aimed at addressing migrant flows

  10-06-2022 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday will sign a declaration on migration alongside other leaders from the Western Hemisphere laying out a framework officials said will aim to manage flows of migrants and refugees in the region.The Los Angeles Declaration, to be signed at the Summit of the Americas being held this week in the city, will have four main pillars: Ensuring stability, promoting legal pathways of migration, having humane border management and coordinating emergency response efforts.The declarati
  
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• Jan. 6 panel launches public case against Trump

  10-06-2022 06:58 via thehill.com
  
  The House committee investigating last year’s attack on the Capitol launched the opening salvo Thursday in its public case against Donald Trump, accusing the former president of masterminding an unprecedented scheme to retain power that was not only illegal, but also led directly to the deadly violence in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.In a prime-time hearing aimed directly at television viewers, the select committee presented never-before seen video testimony from some of the most powerful fi
  
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• The five most dramatic moments from the Jan. 6 hearing 

  10-06-2022 05:20 via thehill.com
  
  The first televised hearing of the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 took place Thursday evening. The event, carried live on most broadcast networks and cable news channels, lasted almost two hours. The testimony was powerful and often raw. Here are five of the most dramatic moments. Liz Cheney’s remarks Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has become the GOP’s leading Trump critic since the insurrection.  Her willingness to take on the former preside
  
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• Former Trump spokesman says clip Jan. 6 committee aired is incomplete

  10-06-2022 04:57 via thehill.com
  
  Former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said a clip played by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol during its public hearing Thursday was incomplete. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) introduced a clip of Miller testifying to the committee at a prior time in which Miller described a call that took place a few days after the election between former President Trump and Matt Oczkowski, a campaign data expert. Oczkowski told Trump on the call he was going
  
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• Caroline Edwards testifies Jan. 6 chaos was like 'a war scene'

  10-06-2022 04:08 via thehill.com
  
  Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards on Thursday equated the riots on Jan. 6, 2021, to a "war scene," describing slipping in other people's blood and being in hand-to-hand combat for hours during testimony to the House select committee investigating the insurrection."I remember my breath catching in my throat because what I saw was just a war scene. It was something like I'd seen out of the movies," she added.
  "I couldn't believe my eyes. There were officers on the ground. They were bleeding,
  
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• Jan 6. panel says Scott Perry among multiple GOP lawmakers who wanted Trump pardon

  10-06-2022 03:17 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Scott Perry (R-Penn) was one of “multiple” GOP lawmakers who asked President Trump for pardons given their roles in seeking to unwind the 2020 election results, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said in its first hearing Thursday night.Perry’s office forcefully denied the allegation.Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Rep. Scott Perry (R-Penn.), who helped introduce former President Trump to a mid-level Justice Department attorney willing
  
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• Kushner dismisses Trump legal counsel threat to quit as 'whining'

  10-06-2022 03:06 via thehill.com
  
  Former Trump White House senior adviser Jared Kushner dismissed threats from then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his team to resign ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, riots as “whining,” according to testimony aired during Thursday night’s committee hearing. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), a member of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riots, asked Kushner during a recorded deposition whether he was aware of instances where Cipollone threatened to resign leadin
  
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• Latin American leaders criticize Biden over summit invite list

  10-06-2022 01:07 via thehill.com
  
  Two Latin American leaders expressed frustration that the Biden administration excluded Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week, arguing all countries in the hemisphere should have been included.John Briceño, the prime minister of Belize, was also critical of excluding Cuba and Venezuela, calling it "inexcusable" that some countries were not present."It is incomprehensible that we would isolate countries of the Americas that have provided str
  
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• Live coverage: Jan. 6 panel to hold prime-time hearing

  10-06-2022 00:09 via thehill.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol will hold its first prime-time hearing on Thursday.The panel will share recorded depositions from former Trump officials and members of former President Trump's family, as well as new footage and other materials documenting Jan. 6 that have not previously been released.The event, set to begin at 8 p.m., will kick off a series of public hearings held by the committee.Follow The Hill's live coverage below:
  
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• Live coverage: Jan. 6 panel holds prime-time hearing

  10-06-2022 00:09 via thehill.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol will hold its first prime-time hearing on Thursday.The panel will share recorded depositions from former Trump officials and members of former President Trump's family, as well as new footage and other materials documenting Jan. 6 that have not previously been released.The event, set to begin at 8 p.m., will kick off a series of public hearings held by the committee.Follow The Hill's live coverage below:Panel plays
  
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