News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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House impeachment managers will rely on the hours of video footage available from January 6 to try to make their case that Capitol rioters were incited by Trump and his months of lies that the election was stolen from him https://t.co/3XCKeXOL6t pic.twitter.com/KfThDS8GGT
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 8, 2021
Trump's attorneys said that the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol was perpetrated by people “of their own accord and for their own reasons,” and not because of Trump’s call to march on Congress and “fight like hell” https://t.co/V6kKmWBpgD
— POLITICO (@politico) February 8, 2021
LATEST: US federal prosecutors have now filed charges against more than 200 people accused of taking part in the assault on the U.S. Capitol last month, alleging a wide range of motives and behavior. https://t.co/QoVX1nMUqy
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 8, 2021
NEW: 10% of the U.S. population has received one or more vaccine doses: https://t.co/QR6qrGQQMV pic.twitter.com/X5MQ059onj
— ABC News (@ABC) February 8, 2021
COVID-19 variants raise concerns that people can get infected again https://t.co/nzlrptTbzv
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 8, 2021
Two-thirds of Americans approve of Pres. Biden's response to the coronavirus pandemic, a new @ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. https://t.co/LhWBTvQFYy
— ABC News (@ABC) February 8, 2021
New York court rules Manafort can't be prosecuted by Manhattan DA https://t.co/Dfusu5rxuv pic.twitter.com/bSsVUR57zQ
— The Hill (@thehill) February 8, 2021
Arkansas Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin has left the 2022 governor's race, opting instead to run for attorney general, in a move that signals former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' strength just two weeks after she announced her campaign https://t.co/pfucdAHVEU pic.twitter.com/DRHOefWdzD
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 8, 2021
BREAKING: Myanmar’s military government imposes a curfew on the country's two biggest cities as protests against last week's coup show no sign of abating. In addition to the curfew in Yangon and Mandalay, gatherings of more than five people are banned. https://t.co/y7lvHNohWe
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 8, 2021
Germany, Sweden and Poland have each expelled a member of Russian embassy staff — a tit-for-tat move after Russia expelled their diplomats, accusing them of attending “unlawful” rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. https://t.co/IBHfCMfs1o
— Axios (@axios) February 8, 2021
A Florida businessman was sentenced to just over a year in prison for swindling investors out of $2.3 million and obscuring the source of political donations in a case closely tied to Rudy Giuliani https://t.co/PuCPFZNwyn
— POLITICO (@politico) February 8, 2021
