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The federal prosecutors pursuing election interference charges against former US President Donald Trump asked a Washington, DC district judge Monday to deny Trump’s motions to dismiss the case. The DC case concerns allegations that Trump engaged in conspiracy to defraud the US government’s election process, as well as conspiracy to obstruct official proceedings and actual [...]

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Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Monday for unlawful disclosure of his tax information and for related violations of the Privacy Act. Biden’s complaint mentioned two IRS agents by name: Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler. In June, the House Committee on Ways and Means voted to release transcripts of interviews with Shapley [...]

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton resumed office Saturday after being acquitted on all 16 charges in his impeachment trial. Paxton was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives in May 2023 after allegations that he had made legal decisions specifically to benefit a real-estate developer, Nate Paul, with whom he had personal connections and had [...]

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US Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel David Weiss revealed on Thursday that a federal grand jury indicted President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden on three firearms charges. The charges come almost two months after a federal district judge rejected a plea deal in which Hunter Biden would have avoided federal gun charges in exchange [...]

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US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that he has directed House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. “Over the past several months, House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct — a culture of corruption,” McCarthy said in a statement released via his professional Twitter/X [...]

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Georgia’s governing party Georgian Dream announced Friday that it is starting impeachment procedures against Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili in response to what it calls a violation of the country’s constitution, according to a news report by Interpress news. Zourabichvili defied the the ruling party by meeting with the European Council president in Brussels seeking support [...]

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A political activist for the Revolución Ciudadana (RC5) party in Ecuador’s Esmeraldas province was assassinated on Monday, as confirmed by RC5’s presidential candidate Luisa González. Few details about the death activist Pedro Briones are public, other than the fact that it occurred in the northern part of Esmeraldas. This comes less than one week after [...]

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The Constitutional Court of South Korea on Tuesday rejected the National Assembly’s request to impeach Interior and Safety Minister Lee Sang-min, who some say failed to prevent and botched the response to a deadly crush in Seoul last year that killed 159 people. In South Korea, the Constitutional Court ultimately decides whether to remove an [...]

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A census released Monday revealed almost one sixth of inmates in Ecuador’s prisons are yet to be sentenced. President Guillermo Lasso announced that the census would be used to help government form new public policy to tackle overcrowding and enforce human rights in Ecuadorian prisons. The 2023 Prison Census—the first of its kind in Ecuador—collected [...]

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