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Month: January 2025

They assaulted cops and tried to overturn an election. What to know about Trump’s mass pardons for January 6 rioters

CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — With the stroke of a pen on Monday, President Donald Trump completely upended the Justice Department’s four-year effort to arrest, prosecute and punish the people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was the largest criminal probe in American history, those who heeded Trump’s call

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Trump commutes sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders as he pardons over 1,000 January 6 US Capitol rioters

CNN By Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez, Paula Reid, Hannah Rabinowitz and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. “These are the hostages,” Trump

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Trump revokes security clearances of former officials who signed Hunter Biden laptop letter with executive action

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national

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ANÁLISIS | Panamá convirtió su canal en un negocio. La historia demuestra por qué preocupan las amenazas de Trump

Por Patrick Oppmann, CNN El canal de Panamá, nacido de la “diplomacia de barcos cañoneros”, vuelve a estar amenazado desde Estados Unidos. Más de 100 años después de la construcción de la maravilla de la ingeniería que unió los océanos Atlántico y Pacífico, y 25 años después de que Estados Unidos devolviera el canal a

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Oregon Dept. of Revenue volunteers to help taxpayers use Direct File to e-file their taxes at Crook County Library

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregonians looking for assistance in electronically filing their taxes for free, could find help as close as their local library this tax season. Volunteers from the Oregon Department of Revenue will be traveling to libraries in 17 communities across the state in February, March, and April to assist taxpayers in using

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Executive actions Trump has taken so far

By Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump has taken the first steps toward enacting his sweeping agenda with a series of executive actions that are expected to kickstart his promised transformation of the federal government. The actions, signed by Trump in the first week of his administration, are the culmination of multiple

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El decreto de Trump sobre dos géneros pondrá patas arriba la identidad ‘X’ en los pasaportes

Por Tami Luhby, CNN El gobierno federal solo reconocerá dos sexos, masculino y femenino, en virtud de un decreto que el presidente Donald Trump firmó este lunes. La orden revierte los esfuerzos de la administración Biden por ampliar las designaciones de identidad de género, incluso en los pasaportes. “A partir de hoy, la política oficial

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Rep. Cliff Bentz nominates 16 Oregon students, one from La Pine, for appointment to U.S. Service Academies

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., has nominated 16 Oregon students for consideration for appointment to one of the five prestigious United States Service Academies. Congressman Bentz’s Service Academy Nomination Board—retired and active-duty military officers who interview potential candidates for selection by the service academies— recommended each student based on academic performance, extracurricular involvement,

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Senate votes to confirm Marco Rubio as secretary of state, first Trump Cabinet official to be approved

By Clare Foran, CNN The Senate voted on Monday to confirm Marco Rubio as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, the first high-level Cabinet official for the new administration to be approved by the chamber. The confirmation vote took place just hours after Trump was sworn in as president. The overwhelmingly bipartisan vote was 99

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