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Trump Jan. 6 case gets its first hearing since the Supreme Court's immunity ruling
Lawyers for the government's special counsel and former President Donald Trump are set to clash in court in Washington over how the election interference case against him will proceed.
Tim Walz's NRA rating went from A to F. It's part of a shift from Democrats on guns
Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz went from being endorsed by the NRA to a fierce advocate for gun control. That evolution reflects a larger shift that has been happening within the Democratic Party over the last decade.
JD Vance’s Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers
Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism. 
U.S. accuses Russia of using state media to spread disinformation before the November election
The Biden administration announced wide-ranging actions Wednesday meant to call out Russian influence in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, unsealing criminal charges against two employees of a Russian state-run media company and seizing internet domains used by the Kremlin to spread disinformation.
Lottery-related ballot measure awaits Minnesota voters
A group of 130 environment, conservation and business groups is working to raise awareness about the measure, which seeks to extend the distribution framework for proceeds first authorized decades ago.