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Trump 'detached from reality' over election, says Jan 6 riots witness

Trump's closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were dismantling his false claims of 2020 election fraud ahead of Jan 6, but he was becoming detached from reality

Tentative gun deal proposed by US Senate has surprises, and loose ends

The outline of a bipartisan Senate agreement to rein in gun violence has no game-changing steps banning the deadliest firearms

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Jan 6 riots panel to hear Trump campaign manager, probe election lie

The House committee investigating the Jan 6 riot is delving deeper into what it calls the big lie, Trump's false claims of voter fraud that led a mob of his supporters to lay siege to the US Capitol

US Senate negotiators announce a deal on gun curbs, breaking logjam

Senate bargainers announced a noteworthy but limited breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and stepped-up efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs

Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump: Jan 6 violence panelists

Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said they have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against Donald Trump

US: Senate Dems, GOP announce outline of gun deal with modest curbs

If the accord leads to the enactment of legislation, it would signal a turn from years of gun massacres that have yielded little but stalemate in Congress

Former US prez Trump endorses Katie Britt in Alabama Senate race

US Donald Trump endorsed Katie Britt in an Alabama US Senate race, doubling down on the former president's decision to spurn his previous choice in the Republican primary

US House approves 'red flag' gun bill unlikely to pass through Senate

The House approved a red flag bill that would allow families, police and others to ask federal courts to order the removal of firearms from people at extreme risk of harming themselves or others.

Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy in Jan 2021 Capitol riot

The former top leader of the Proud Boys and other members were charged with seditious conspiracy for what federal prosecutors say was a coordinated attack on the US Capitol last year in January

Puerto Ricans hold public hearing to discuss island's political status

Congress would have to accept Puerto Rico as the 51st state if voters so choose it, but the proposal is not expected to survive in the Senate, where Republicans have long opposed statehood

A new bill introduced in the US Senate aims to break up Google's ad biz

If the introduced Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act passed, the legislation would force Sundar Pichai-led Google to divest its digital ads business within a year

23-year-old California man pleads guilty to US Capitol riot charge

A California man who stormed the U.S. Capitol, opened the doors to other rioters and sat in the Senate chair of then-Vice President Mike Pence pleaded guilty to a federal charge Thursday.

Senate confirms Brink as new US ambassador to Ukraine as embassy reopens

The veteran foreign service officer, Bridget Brink, who has spent most of her career in the shadow of the former Soviet Union, was nominated to the position last month by President Joe Biden

US Senate confirms Jerome Powell to second term as Fed chair amid inflation

Biden in a statement issued following Powell's confirmation said that he is pleased by the Senate's actions and that it will help move forward the administration's agenda to fight inflation

Bill to codify abortion rights fails to advance in US Senate amid protests

The Women's Health Protection Act, which had passed the House of Representatives, was voted down 49-51 in the upper chamber

US senator Angus King questions intel for misjudging Afghanistan, Ukraine

U.S. intelligence believed the U.S.-backed Kabul government would hold out for months against the Taliban and thought Russian forces would overrun Ukraine in a few weeks, both assessments were wrong

US Senator lifts hold on ambassadorial nominee confirmation to India

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley had put a hold on Garcetti's nomination, saying that his staffers are conducting an investigation into the allegations of sexual assault against one of his employees

Senate passes bill to boost security for US Supreme Court justices

Sens. John Cornyn said threats to Supreme Court justices and their families are disgraceful and attempts to intimidate the independence of the judiciary branch shouldn't be tolerated

Russian oligarchs to be targeted in aid package for Ukraine: US lawmaker

"Ukraine needs all the help it can get and, at the same time, we need all the assets we can put together to give Ukraine the aid it needs," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said