A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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In Trump’s final weeks in office, Mark Meadows, his chief of staff, repeatedly pushed the Justice Department to investigate unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to newly uncovered emails. https://t.co/0AxJTOHvle
"They called us traitors. They beat us. They dragged us." During intense hand-to-hand combat with rioters on the west front of the US Capitol on January 6, there were moments where US Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell thought he might die. https://t.co/hh1l8ZZuzs
BREAKING: The Justice Department will no longer secretly seize reporters' records in leak investigations, following revelations that the Trump administration obtained phone records of New York Times, Washington Post and CNN reporters.https://t.co/Lengfp2xsP
Protests erupt in Minneapolis early Saturday over the shooting death of Winston Boogie Smith Jr. by members of a U.S. Marshals task force. https://t.co/W1jWSNbYfZ
Leaders from the G7 nations agree to establish a 15% global minimum tax, backing the Biden administration's plan to overhaul the global tax systemhttps://t.co/wFWoqCw6cj
The head of an American Legion post in Ohio has stepped down amid criticism over a Memorial Day ceremony in which a veteran's microphone was cut off while he was speaking about how freed Black slaves honored fallen soldiers just after the Civil War. https://t.co/vDAe26qqsA
New local cases were reported in Australia's second-most populous state after authorities detected the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 virus variant for the first time in the country https://t.co/uHZEJtie8Opic.twitter.com/83OPeFJtUp
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