January 6th / 2020 Election Interference
Julia Jester
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United States
January 6th / 2020 Election Interference
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will testify publicly before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol at a hearing this month, a source familiar with the planning confirmed. Raffensperger deputy Gabriel Sterling, the office's chief operating officer and voting system implementation manager, will also appear, the source said.
Jason Van Tatenhove, who hasn't been actively involved with the Oath Keepers since about 2017, is expected to speak about the far-right militia's propaganda efforts and radicalization.
President Donald Trump begged Georgia's secretary of state to overturn the election results in an astounding hourlong phone call obtained Sunday by NBC News in which the president offered a smorgasbord of false claims about voter fraud and repeatedly berated state officials. "So look," Trump told Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Misc. Coverage
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury acquitted Russian analyst Igor Danchenko on Tuesdayon four counts of lying to the FBI in what is expected to be the final case stemming from special counsel John Durham's three-year probe into the origins of the agency's investigation into allegations of ties between former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia.
BALTIMORE - A judge on Monday vacated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, years after the hit podcast "Serial" chronicled his case and cast doubt on his role in the 1999 slaying of former girlfriend Hae Min Lee. City Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn said prosecutors made a compelling argument that Syed's conviction was flawed and that he should immediately go free.
The Peace Corps will begin redeploying its volunteers later this month after suspending all operations and evacuating its 7,000 member force from more than 60 countries at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic - a first in the organization's history.
Landon Nelson knew he wanted to play college football since the eighth grade. So when officials in California announced that the state would not be allowing fall sports because of COVID-19, he and his family uprooted their lives so he could stay in the game.
BALTIMORE - As cities across America burned in recent days, there was a notable omission from those facing curfews, mass arrests, arson and police brutality: Baltimore. The Maryland city is no stranger to racial tensions, having experienced civil unrest after the 2015 police custody death of Freddie Gray.
Evelyn Yang, wife of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, said that in 2012, she was sexually assaulted by a New York gynecologist accused of abusing more than two dozen other patients. "I knew it was wrong," she told CNN's Dana Bash during an interview Thursday. "I knew I was being assaulted."
2020 Election
ATLANTA - Rev. Raphael Warnock delivered his first sermon as a senator-elect on Sunday at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, a backdrop underscoring the pastor's deep dies within Georgia's Black faith community that helped secure his victory. "I want to talk to you about God's victory over violence," Warnock began his sermon, a clear reference to Wednesday's riots in Washington, D.C.
DETROIT - Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is sounding the alarm on his re-election bid. "Pummeled," reads the subject line of the freshman Michigan senator's latest fundraising email to Democratic National Committee members, warning of a "dead heat" and millions in GOP Super PAC spending pouring into his race.
Former New York Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has raised $16 million to help pay the outstanding fines and fees of felons in Florida, allowing them to regain their voting rights ahead of Election Day.
As Joe Biden appears set to begin holding final one-on-one conversations with potential running mates, sources close to the process tell NBC News that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is among those still under serious consideration. In recent weeks, public speculation about Biden's narrowing short list had centered largely on a quartet of African American women - Sen.
Andrew Yang, a New York businessman whose unusual presidential campaign rose to prominence with a plan to give Americans $1,000 a month, is dropping out of the Democratic race. Initially seen as a long-shot candidate, Yang used a savvy social media strategy to garner legions of devoted followers who referred to themselves as the "Yang Gang."
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire - For presidential candidates, maintaining a steady presence in the critical early voting states can be challenging. But voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina see Rep. Tulsi Gabbard all the time - in the form of billboards and lawn signs.
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Ann Ackerman recalled her excitement at snapping a photo with Joe Biden at his "first real, big appearance" in the first-in-the-nation primary state. "We both had dark hair at the time," Ackerman, 73, joked of meeting him at an annual state Democratic fundraiser in 1986, when Biden, then a senator from Delaware, was preparing for his first presidential campaign.