Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the 2020 election results, five Republican lawmakers who allegedly sought pardon — suggesting not just their own fear of criminal exposure, but a belief that the outgoing president would preemptively protect them from the investigations that followed the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress.

Gov. Brian Kemp will deliver testimony next month to Fulton County prosecutors investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 elections, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned. Kemp’s sworn examination will take place on July 25.

Police in Ecuador’s capital fired tear gas Thursday to disperse Indigenous protesters who tried to storm congress on the 11th day day of crippling demonstrations over fuel prices and living costs.Protesters had earlier won a concession from the Ecuadoran government

The Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at stanching acts of mass gun violence, with 15 Republicans joining Democrats to advance a bill combining modest new firearms restrictions with $15 billion in mental health and school security funding.

An American Airlines pilot who serves as the spokesman for his pilots’ union, is calling on the Federal Aviation Administration to monitor airlinesthat are scheduling flights that they can’t follow through on due to a pilot shortage.

Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of files relating to Jewish people from the recently opened Pope Pius XII archivesamid renewed debate about the legacy of the second world war-era pope.The archive of 2,700 cases

Tech titan Larry Ellison is reportedly the buyer of a record breaking $173 million Florida property.The Oracle founder picked up the estate from fellow tech billionaire Jim Clark, who snatched the 63,000-square-foot compound for a relative song at $94 million just last year,

Surfside condo collapse in Florida – Judge has approved a $1.2 billion settlement for unit owners and families of those who died in the collapse of a condo tower in Surfside last year. It was finalized one day before the anniversary of the disaster in which 98 people died.

Ex-members of Ricky Martin’s former – boyband Menudo have opened up about the horrific abuse they claim their manager subjected them to- alleging that they were given drugs and alcohol, exposed to ‘predators,’ and ‘raped’ numerous times.

The documentary film crew subpoenaed by the January 6 committee interviewed Mike Pence on January 12, 2021. a day before the House of Representatives voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump for inciting the Capitol riot.

Federal agents conducted a search at the home of former Justice Department Jeffrey Clark, who played a key role in Donald Trump’s effortsto get law enforcement officials to challenge Joe Biden’s election victory.

The recruitment of blue-chip quarterback Arch Manning, a rare collision of talent, pedigree and possibility, captivated college football for years.Manning ended the intrigue Thursday afternoon, committing to Texas over suitors that included Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Clemson and Virginia.

Billionaire Ken Griffin is relocating his big hedge-fund firm Citadel from Chicago to Miami, the third major employer to announce the move of a corporate headquarters from Illinois in the past two months.

Sean Hannity vowed to defy the law and proudly vape his e-cig live on air in a segment discussing a possible FDA ban on Juul products.The FDA ban does not mention all e-cigarettes just Juul products

The Supreme Court said that Americans generally have a right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense and that a New York law requiring special need for such a permit is too restrictive.

European Council President Charles Michel said he is confident EU leaders will vote Thursday in favor of granting candidate status to Ukraine. EU leaders gathered in Brussels were also set to discuss the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine on global food security

The German government moved closer to rationing natural gas on Thursday after Russia cut deliveries to the country last week.Berlin triggered the second of its three-step plan to deal with gas shortages after the Kremlin-controlled energy giant Gazprom, the country’s biggest gas exporter,

Amazon is devising a way for users to speak to their family members through its Alexa voice assistant, even after they’ve died.At Amazon’s Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist for the Alexa team, detailed a feature that allows the voice assistant to replicate a specific human voice.

For the first time in nearly 40 years, health officials in the U.K. have identified a likely outbreak of polio in London.So far, there have been no cases of polio detected directly in the U.K. But instead, scientists have discovered the outbreak through an indirect route. They’ve found multiple versions of the virus in sewage water, the U.K.

Today’s hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will focus on Donald Trump’s pressure on the Department of Justice to help him overturn the 2020 election. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the committee, will lead Thursday’s hearing, set for 3 p.m. It is expected to last roughly two hours like previous hearings.

FedEx will soon take photos of packages at your doorstep to provide proof of delivery when they don’t require a signature.“This is something e-commerce merchants and customers have been asking for, and we are proud to be the first to announce this service will be available to residential customers,

Eight medical staffers will face a homicide trial after being accused of criminal negligence in the death of Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradona.Maradona — deemed by many as one of the greatest soccer players of all time — died of a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home in November 2020 at the age of 60.

Sen. Ron Johnson held a hearing on election fraud in an attempt to legitimize Donald Trump’s false allegations of voting irregularities. Four days before the attack on the Capitol, Johnson signed a statement with nine other Republican senators that they intended to object to certifying Joe Biden’s electors

Federal agents investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday dropped subpoenas on people in multiple locations,widening the probe of how political activists supporting President Donald Trump tried to use invalid electors to thwart Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.

The US Food and Drug Administration is preparing to order Juul Labs to take its e-cigarettes off the market in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Juul has faced heightened scrutiny from regulators, lawmakers and state attorneys general

The police chief for the Texas elementary school where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers has been placed on administrative leave amid outrage that officers did not intervene sooner to stop the shooter. Under the command of Pete Arredondo, the police chief for the Uvalde school district, officers held back

Tony Siragusa dies ‘in his sleep’ aged 55: 360-pound NFL sideline reporter and Sopranos actor. Siragusa went on to act in several episodes of HBO’s Sopranos and became a sideline reporter for Fox’s NFL broadcasts. He also hosted shows on the Discovery Channel and DIY Network.

The trial for five Proud Boys leaders — facing seditious conspiracy charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — will be postponed until at least December, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, citing the ongoing publicity and uncertainty surrounding the Jan. 6 select committee.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says he has no authority to remove Daniel Snyder as owner of the Washington Commanders. amid ongoing scrutiny into the organization’s workplace culture and accusations from women employees of pervasive sexual harassment by team executives.

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently gave the closest thing to a confirmation that Apple’s building a headset.Cook was asked in a recent interview with China Daily USA what he thinks the key factors are for augmented reality, or AR, to succeed in the consumer market.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank’s battle against inflation could lead it to raise interest rates high enough to cause an economic downturn“It’s certainly a possibility,” Mr. Powell said Wednesday during the first of two days of congressional hearings. “We are not trying to provoke and do not think we will need to provoke a recession,

Andrew Gillum, the once-rising Florida Democratic star who narrowly lost the 2018 governor’s race to Ron DeSantis, was hit with a 21-count federal indictmentWednesday for wire fraud, related conspiracy charges and making false statements. Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor, was charged along with his mentor, Sharon Lettman-Hicks,

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Jaylon Ferguson has died at the age of 26, the team said in a statement Wednesday. Officers with the city’s police department said they found Ferguson unresponsive at a Baltimore residence at around 11:25 PM Tuesday

Australian newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch is divorcing Jerry Hall after just six years of marriage,This will be 91-year-old Murdoch’s fourth divorce, however Hall, 65, had never previously been married before tying the knot with the media titan in March 2016.

The death toll continues to rise following a powerful earthquake in Afghanistan.Taliban authorities said Wednesday quake had killed more than 900 people and injured at least 600 others in the country’s southeast.

The Jan. 6 committee revealed on Tuesday that Donald Trump was “directly” involved in the- illegal campaign to fabricate phony slates of electors in key swing states So too was Rudy Giuliani. So too was John Eastman, who wrote the “coup memo”

President Biden is set to announce on Wednesday that he wants Congress to give consumers a break on the federal gas tax for the summer months. That would mean the government would stop collecting the tax — 18 cents per gallon on gas and 24 cents per gallon on diesel — until the end of September

Amazon’s Audible and the Obamas’ production company Higher Ground announced a multi-year first-look deal on Tuesday, ending the speculation of where the former first couple would take their podcasts after their deal with Spotify ends in several months.

Amazon has announced its “first fully autonomous mobile robot,” meant to move large carts throughout its warehouses. The robot is called Proteus, and Amazon says it can safely navigate around human employees, unlike some of its past robots that it kept separated in a caged area.

Jan. 6 committee hearings The Washington Post will have anchored coverage and analysis before the hearings on YouTube and Washingtonpost.com. C-SPAN will air all hearings in full. After 11 months and more than 1,000 interviews

Dominican airline plane carrying more than 100 passengers crash-landed at Miami Airport after its landing gear failed upon touchdown.Three people were rushed to the hospital after the accident. The plane was carrying 126 passengers and 11 crew members.

Details of sexual assault allegations made against Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder in 2009 were reported Tuesday by the Washington Post, which obtained a letter by an attorney working for the team.

A jury on Tuesday found that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted Judy Huth in 1975, when as a 16-year-old girl she accepted his invitation to join him at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. The decision by the jury once again tarnished the reputation of a man whose standing as one of America’s most beloved entertainers

The Senate advanced a bill Tuesday night that would toughen federal gun laws and provide billions of dollars in new money to prevent future mass shootings after negotiators settled key disagreements, putting the legislation on course to be passed into law later this month.

A strong earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing at least 255 people, authorities said.An additional 250 people were injured, according to the Reuters news agency. Information remained scarce on the magnitude 6 temblor that hit Paktika province

A judge in Brazil has banned an 11-year-old girl who became pregnant after being raped from having an abortion, prompting widespread outrageJoana Ribeiro Zimmer is now being investigated after it came to light yesterday that she refused to help the unnamed girl who was raped in her family home

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has settled all but four of the lawsuits filed against him, attorney Tony Buzbee said in a statement Tuesday. 25 lawsuits have been filed against Watson, alleging sexual assault and other inappropriate behavior during massage sessions.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski is again calling it a career”I want to thank the whole entire first class Buccaneers organization for an amazing ride, trusting me to come back to play and help build a championship team.

Two elderly Jesuit priests have been killed inside a church after a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico

A white Miami-Dade police officer was assigned to desk duty after pulling over a black driver for not wearing his seatbelt and telling him ‘This is how you guys get killed out here, man.’

Uvalde cops had enough officers on the scene of last month’s mass shooting to stop the gunman in his tracks,Texas’ top law enforcement official has revealed.

Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election depended on one key thing that he never received: the blessing of Republican-controlled state legislatures But it wasn’t for a lack of trying.

Elon Musk says there are three main hurdles to overcome before he can complete his purchase of Twitter.Musk is seeking to buy Twitter for $44 billion, a mega acquisition with huge implications for the social media world

The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended a recent streak of victories for religious interests, striking down a Maine tuition program that does not allow public funds to go to schools that promote religious instruction.